BigRedBuster Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 10 minutes ago, funhusker said: She's kinda pretty. I bet Trump plans to take full advantage of her commitment... Wonder where she draws the line? There are honestly way too many sick things going through my head. It literally makes me want to throw up right now. Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 1 hour ago, funhusker said: She's kinda pretty. I bet Trump plans to take full advantage of her commitment... Wonder where she draws the line? He likes his spiritual advisors on their knees. 2 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Weird time to be of any religion after reading this article https://qz.com/1723739/technology-oriented-religions-are-coming/ Quote Religious ideas and powerful radical theologies pepper our science fiction. From Klingon religions in Star Trek to the Bene Gesserit in the Dune series, Cylon in Battlestar Galactica to the pervasive Cavism in Kurt Vonnegut’s works, our society has little trouble imagining the concept of new religions. We just don’t implement them. Modern society has been unsuccessful in scaling new religions beyond the cults of personality or the niches of Scientology. But as the digital and virtual worlds evolve, this is set to change. The 21st century is setting the stage for a new type of widespread faith: technology-based religions. Technology today is pervasive and granulated. It encompasses our world view, and people are translating it into their spiritual views. The internet acts as an accelerant on these forces, enabling cross pollination and mutation at rapid rates. This slippery-slope of transmutation provides new guardrails for how technology itself can become a new cult or religion, or at least a component of them. Techno-oriented religious movements represent a big departure from the strategies of 20th-century-style cults, which could make them even more dangerous. The foundations for this growth are governed by three factors: the internet, which allows for rapid scale; quantified-self technologies, which promise self-betterment; and new surveillance methods, which ensure a whole new type of peer-pressured submission. Rapid ability to scale Today’s major religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, took hundreds of years to propagate. Their turning points from small factions to true movements happened when they addressed social injustices. The paganism of the Romans was one thing, but it was their injustices to the people of Judea that gave ground for the rise of Judaism, and later Christianity. In 1517, the sale of Roman Catholic indulgences sparked Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses on Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, kicking off the Protestant movement, and revolting against perceived corruption by the Church. Tech-backed movements like the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter, and #ClimateStrike scaled by tapping into a growing sense of social injustice. Right or left, economic inequality is becoming visible on a global scale, and technology is connecting all of those audiences into one digital network tasked to affect change. Instead of legal or economic changes, these movements rely on social agreement as their first outcome. Social agreement is powerful, and represents a type of group-think that can evolve quickly into action when it reaches a tipping point. Today we have the ability to scale audiences to extremes and have instant access to whatever Reddit or Facebook group will best serve a message. No more wandering the plains of medieval Europe seeking people to convert—social media has brought billions of people right to you from the safety of your couch. Link to comment
commando Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 next sunday is going to be interesting in pastor wilsons church. if you want to know why...check out whats trending. Link to comment
Ratt Mhule Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 11 hours ago, commando said: next sunday is going to be interesting in pastor wilsons church. if you want to know why...check out whats trending. At least give us some sort of a heads up lol Link to comment
Mike Mcdee Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Frott Scost said: At least give us some sort of a heads up lol 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 2 hours ago, QMany said: It's similar, but talked about more, to the transgender bathroom issue. The Republicans in North Carolina wanted to make a law so transgender people could only use the bathroom designated for their biological sex, and Republicans nationally turned it into transgender people pushing for uni-bathrooms where they could easily rape people. It's also similar to people who want to discriminate against gay people saying they're being persecuted by not being allowed to discriminate. The saddest thing is this stuff actually riles them up, so what their leaders are doing is working. 2 Link to comment
knapplc Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 This doesn't really belong in this thread and it's not *really* about religion, but I thought it was pretty funny. 3 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 2 hours ago, knapplc said: This doesn't really belong in this thread and it's not *really* about religion, but I thought it was pretty funny. that is funny Link to comment
schriznoeder Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 I used to joke that Chick-fil-A's slogan should be Good Chicken, Bad Politics. This is definitely a step in the right direction. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 6 minutes ago, TGHusker said: that is funny If you ever get a chance to see the full clip, right before that the player in white travels and then he slams the ball down when it gets called and it hits him int the face. It’s pretty funny. Link to comment
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