Eternal life in heaven was a metaphor for uploading your consciousness into the clouds.
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That might initially appear to be a joke, but it's more than that. It's the trajectory of Faustian civilization. Every significant innovation (technology or philosophy), since ~1000AD, has been about transforming the imaginary/metaphorical into the literal/physical.
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Tired: Debunking the Bible, mythologies, and magic as fake. Wired: Using the Bible and mythologies as inspirations for technological innovations. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C Clarke
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“This would be depressing but for one crucial fact: humans are distinguished from other species by our ability to work miracles. We call these miracles technology.” - @peterthiel
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