Our Scientific Technology is our Spiritual Cosmology

Drone4four · Last edited by Drone4four on Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:18 pm; edited 2 times in total

I was having a conversation with one of my friends, weyasey, on irc the other day about privacy in the age of the internet. Google and Fbook are market titans and they are both open source which is a big win on the part of the open source movement. Google seems free at first glimse; but how much is your information worth? I suppose that my information is worth a lot. But I see that as a good thing. I like to expose all my personal information on the internet. I want to put my medical records up on my Fbook profile but the hospitals won't let me. And I'm the one with Schizophrenia. There is a video of me in a holding cell being strapped down by a half dozen security guards at Sunnybrook Hospital because I wouldn't take my medication and because I was channeling Raphael the arch-angel and Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtle. I would love to put that video up on YouTube but my social worker tells me that I have to keep my mental health condition a secret and I hate it but it's necessary because people don't understand mental illness. According to my social worker, I have to manage the stigma of mental illness by keeping my mental health legacy a secret.

There is this prophecy that says within the next 40 years, starting in 2012, everything will be instantly transparent because of our open source techonologies. More here: http://mycivilsociety.blogspot.com/2010/03/ndw-on-instaparency.html

Our scientific technology is our spiritual cosmology. Open source is a paradigm shattering revolution. Check out this music video by Red Hat that I remixed with Britney Spears and The Spice Girls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVFyxaE2HOs
With respect to Red Hat's message in that video, I think that what is true for Linux as a bottom up, user generated project is true for Wikipedia and social network sites that appeal to the iPod "generation." It is today's young people – "Generation Next" according to the Pepsi commercial featuring the Spice Girls – who will revolutionize commerce, governance, intellectual property, education, privacy, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, love, family, and ourselves. More here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

The point that I want to make based on the media I've presented here which is influenced by my exposure to NDW is that our scientific technology is our spirtual cosmology.

God is open source. Or in other word's God – the source from which all rivers coalesce – is open.

Imagine this. God comes down to Earth for one minute - one blessed 60-second moment - and announces to the world the solution to all of its problems and the way for every soul to experience heaven-on-earth and eternal salvation. God reveals this solution and this way with one sentence. What do you suppose that sentence would be? "Believe in Me"? No. "Believe in My Son"? No. "Love everyone"? No."Stop the killing"? No. Okay then, what? Whaaat? Here it is. Are you ready? "Tell the truth." That's it. That's all there is to it. Just tell the truth, and everything is solved. Not overnight. Not in the next instant. But fast. Very fast. Because very soon after everyone starts telling the truth, the cause of the problems goes away. More here: http://mycivilsociety.blogspot.com/2009/12/god-tell-truth.html

So what is open source's marvelous answer to these old farts who call themselves politicians? Oh we'll figure something out.

Junichirô · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:16 pm Post subject:

God is a human invention; so maybe he 's copyleft. I'll ask rms if he is GPL 3 compatible.

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RTF · Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 5:07 pm Post subject: tap the breaks

This sounds a little to "matrix" to me. I'm always fascinated how people try to invent spirituality every 50 years as new ideas are brought to the fore. This has been happening for thousands of years, but has recently picked up a head of steam in the last 30 years.

New religous groups seem to pop up all over the place nowadays, each saying they have the inside track. They all seem to be selling the same idealism which is..."the power is within, they just need to do something", be it tell the truth, give money, etc. I don't think it works that way. But that's just me.

With each new invented form of spirituality, I'm forced to ask the question, "what happened to all those millions of people who lived before the most recent spiritual revolution?" I guess they're just left out since they didn't live in today's day and age?

I'm just saying... ;)

billygiann · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 7:52 am Post subject:

nice post about god and open source!