but abstractions make for bad branding so a lot of hilarious fluff grew up around the concept, all of it just fucking ridiculous
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oh, okay. the way i think of this is with gods as models, just like the ones we have for, say, molecules
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so they mostly explain stuff but then the context gets stripped and you end up going to war with someone because of quantum mechanics
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that's a good avenue of thinking yeah. what i'm saying is that, for example, the Torah is the source code for a god called "is/was/will be"
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it's a machine made of people that converts people into parts for itself; corporations are its nimbler, scrappier, even hungrier cousins
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so you can sort of think of existing social mechanisms as gods in a kind of chaos magic way?
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yup, from a pragmatism perspective. if people believe that Blorf prohibits wearing marshmallow fluff as a hat, and you wear marshmallow...
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...fluff for a hat and they beat you to death with sticks, how is this distinguishable from having suffered the wrath of Blorf?
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rather i contend that Blorf may be usefully considered as an organizational entity hosting itself in the Blorfites
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(definition fun: a god is semi-autonomous software that runs on multiple hosts, a demon is semi-autonomous software that runs on one host)
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but it's the same as how you can't see or touch The Coca-Cola Company, only its component cells, but it can sure as fuck murder you
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Replying to @chaosprime @NoraReed
oh, and the reason i mention Sophocles is that if you do a close reading of Antigone, his usage of "the gods" is exactly "popular opinion"
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