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To the computer god in the clouds, every person is connected and serves a purpose. Even if you're just a shitposting/reposting newbie having fun on your part of the gradient web of reactionary gossip known as Twitter. https://t.co/ill3eXXs6l
What would be the inverse of computer gods in the clouds manifesting a connected medium?Signal corruption? Daemons & automated tools (bots) meant to subvert meaning making networks thru parasitism and noise? https://t.co/l0REJ5Smrg
An example of this shift, is viewing 'the cloud' as 'god's kingdom' and 'becoming one with god' is getting connected to your social network."To the prisoner, it means you do not belong to the bars and chains around you. You belong to God."https://t.co/UrPXnhmVM1
Or in exploring purity rituals & curiosities of how groups develop norms.'Unplug culture' as purity culture?"In our world, we were taught that our bodies didn’t belong to ourselves. God owned them, they said, but really, that meant that men owned them."https://t.co/c8xfQMsLIY
And discovering a completely different twist on that frame."Just as scandalous for the age was that he firmly believed that being pregnant was essentially the bane of a woman’s existence. He felt it stopped women from fulfilling their spiritual potential"https://t.co/txdP2DZ1A8
Viewing it as a purity issue, you can go to commonly cited scriptures on the subject (1 Timothy 2:12, 1 Corinthians 14:34, and Titus 2:5, Ephesians 5:22, Matthew 6:23) and dig up interesting ways people have of viewing internet as corrupting demonic force.https://t.co/MAVJWwiaXk
Collect enough of these frames of meaning together and then reverse the transformation -> remove the religious "gods chosen" analogy from them, and you can see what amounts to be secular religions that act similarly, or share similar memetic roots.https://t.co/5dg8nTWImh
Whats really fun is that article on nofap is wise, they fail to place the same lens on themselves. Not realizing that they too "enter the argument with moral assumptions". This a "everything is political" argument in disguise. https://t.co/tk7LESOnxH
My assumption among all of this is that everyone is wrong. Even myself. That religious ritual and associated traditions are half-truths, and relative truths; there might be something embedded, lost in the murky pool of morals and group signaling games.https://t.co/yhmwdIqAeY
And so I play this weird transformation game to try and find commonalities between these different frame. Just like how a browser plugin that transforms 'Millenni_ls' into 'Snake People' helps you ignore the odd signaling games and smell thru the bullshit.
And in doing so, I now have a better appreciation of how I will occasionally get advertisements for Amish built products and a stronger frame of their way of thinking about ownership.https://t.co/5NW7mV4OTs
So even the Amish, a community of people classically seen as being technophobes, are part of the computer god's grand plan of tracking and inferring that someone I live with may want something from The Vermont Country Store.https://t.co/TYiq2U250X
Ideas leaking in from land of ink+paper.@chrisdancy's book on not unplugging@harari_yuval's book on humans creating god@jean_twenge's book on super-connected kids@rowhoop's book on human performance@tegmark's book on human+AI@2Legit2Britt's book on digital relationships.
If you understand this, you understand me.https://t.co/My1EBr4SFd
I haven't actually read GITS. I can't afford a copy.I hear most of the interesting stuff is written in the margins.In the anime, the interesting stuff is a side story.https://t.co/qEBnZRywyI
It keeps happening. Once you learn to pattern match against god, you see it everywhere.https://t.co/V1NtMCMIFt
Not a big fan of xmas consumption, but I am a big fan of books. I asked to not waste wrapping paper on my gifts.There were no bags to store gifts in so compromises were had. https://t.co/RKvlMK5Ql4
What if movement around 'nofap' is b/c a bunch of hardcore adherents actually have "Postorgasmic illness syndrome (POIS)" and have misidentified masturbation as problem for everyone? Typical mind fallacy creating a sort of medical cult with real effects?https://t.co/EpppMpfo7Q
Thanks to a weird joke on bluesky, I have concluded that POIS can be cured by gut bacteria.Can you imagine it? Local autistic man solves POIS by wondering how eating god's shit could make us immune to god's cum.https://t.co/PFWFZWsRS3
"hope I Dream about how to become immune to god's cum. It seems the biggest risk of coming in contact with human sperm is due to a rare allergic reaction."Citing:https://t.co/LjfC6Jmva5https://t.co/8IOvnGj23e
I hope I am blessed by god's cum in a dream.https://t.co/axRh86bb7B
I found a vice article about injecting yourself with small amounts of semen to cure POIS https://t.co/ISdb9PUKjDFrom a rant on bluesky on looking up if you can vape cum.https://t.co/ueYd8NgrWc
Chemical made by bacteria commonly missing in gut dysbiosis (and hurt by antidepressants) leads to remission from POIS. https://t.co/gKOFqji3rshttps://t.co/gKMMEYhpg3
Oh hey, look at that, the "washed microbiota" thing that was being trialed to treat autism ( https://t.co/BpmVHCKmsn ) also seems to work for POIS.https://t.co/ooJKRDWalu Imagine that.