[MD] God as Internet Activity

[David M]

Hi Arlo

yeah but computer sex can lack that great dynamic reality
kick like falling out of the tree.

DM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arlo J. Bensinger" <ajb102 at psu.edu>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 2:13 PM
Subject: [MD] God as Internet Activity


> (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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