[MD] God as Internet Activity

[MarshaV]

Wow!!!  I love to laugh, and this was truly funny!!!!!!!

Marsha



At 09:13 AM 4/10/2006, you wrote:
>(For those who came in late, this began when i suggested that an 
>emergent layer
>arising out of collective activity on the intellectual level may be along the
>lines of what Dogbert suggests in a Dilbert strip, namely that simple things
>combine to create complex things, so a supreme being must be our future, not
>our origin, then Dogbert speculates, "What if 'God' is the conciousness that
>results when enough of us are connected by the Internet?" it's just fun stuff,
>but i thought it deserved its own subject heading...)
>
>[DM]
>maybe, do you think the internet god is fed on inexhaustible porn 
>and blogging?
>
>[Arlo]
>i forget the comedian who said, "someday we'll be sitting in front of our
>holographic, 3D, pure-res virtual computing machine, and we'll look 
>over at our
>dusty, old desktop in the corner and we'll think... i used to masturbate the
>THAT?!"
>
>another dilbert reference... scott adams wrote about why life will 
>never imitate
>star trek. among the many devices he mentions, it is the holodeck which gets
>the main nod. we'll never have a holodeck, he speculates, because 
>"man" invents
>one, the species will immediately die off. Why go through the trouble of
>arranging and handling a "date", when you can simply power up the Apple
>iFantasy Holographic Suite, and spend your nights with four Cindy Crawford
>clones?
>
>(Arlo is aware the above paragraph constitutes an example of 
>heteronormalizing,
>misogynistic dialogue)
>
>One wonders, as you suggest, that if the true use of the Internet revolves
>around lust and egocentric authorship, if the "God" we create will 
>be some sort
>of Dionysius-Narcissus hybrid. This could make for interesting Sunday School
>stories...
>
>Arlo
>
>PS: Speaking of this holodeck stuff, I have to say, one of the 
>FUNNIEST moments
>in cinema (for me) was in The Sleeper. Woody Allen (from the past), while
>trying to evade the police, unknowingly hides inside what turns out to be  a
>common device in the future, the Orgasmatron. The police linger, while the box
>bounces and blinks. When they finally leave, the door opens and seeing Woody
>walk out is cinema classic.
>
>Now, do I have to mention the Barbarella scene where she is inside an orgasm
>inducing piano? (another apparently common device in future worlds)
>
>
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