The notion of a God that has created me is terrifying to me. It seems to imply that The Church did not just implant their exoself next to my self into the reality generated by my brain, but that this exoself replaced the native self of the host with a new self of its own creation
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Replying to @Plinz
Mmmm... the personification of God to me is a simple side-effect of human arrogance during the dunning-kruger phase of our collective intelligence. I like to think that "God created me" is more an assignment of the idea of a hypothetical "source" of existence to a symbol "God".
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Replying to @nhnt11
Yes, I thought so too, but now the idea of unifying creator and intentional-structure-I-am-serving appears to be an entirely deliberate plant with a clear functional purpose.
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Replying to @Plinz
What's that purpose do you think? If you asked me, I'd probably say it's a virus-like replication strategy, for survival and dominance.
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Replying to @nhnt11
The synchronization of normative behavior via the implantation of religious cult software is the primary way in which our present civilization was built. It is really hard to say where we would be without it.
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Replying to @Plinz
Here, the "religious cult software" applies a common set of attractors to all infected individuals, hence achieving a consistent direction of evolution over time, no? Seems meta to me, and the religions that have actually emerged are the emergent "successful" implementations.
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Replying to @nhnt11
The most successful religions have evolved their own intelligent design. They are aware of their own nature, the space in which they operate, they have carefully tested infection and debugging protocols, and they have designed strategies to run circles around the competition.
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Replying to @Plinz
How can one define and demonstrate the self-awareness of a religion?
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Replying to @nhnt11
Ideally by looking into its secret libraries, but also by observing its behavior, figuring out how, by whom and when their curriculum was designed, and by discussing with a few theologicians.
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Replying to @Plinz
I see. The existence of a few individuals with that awareness is sufficient, if those individuals have the power to influence large-scale changes.
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It is also possible for the top to get high on their own supply, especially after a few generations of recruiting top level management from the ranks. But I think that makes the cult more fragile, because it is harder to steer when you cannot see what you are doing.
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