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Jochen Fromm-5

The secret of religion

I wrote a new blog post about the secret of religion. The secret is of course some kind of code - the religious genes or cultural memes or whatever you call them. The cultural memes in holy books are used to build an entity in much the same way as their biological counterparts, by gene expression. During church service, the religious group or church community is regularly built by the speech of the priest. It is like an expression of genes were the gened are read, translated and then turned into proteins - here shared beliefs. The same applies to political parties and their gatherings, i.e. party conventions, where the party is built by the speech of the party high priest.

The code contained in holy books is used to built social groups. Did you know that Jihad is much the same as Christian mission - a mechanism to gain new members for the group? You see it is all about the group..

http://blog.cas-group.net/2014/10/god-and-the-group-the-secret-of-religion/

-J.

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Gillian Densmore

Re: The secret of religion

I thought the secret to religoun was acknowledging the old gods for the low low price of insanity. Azethoth and Yog will be pleased to know that it's all about code.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> wrote:

I wrote a new blog post about the secret of religion. The secret is of course some kind of code - the religious genes or cultural memes or whatever you call them. The cultural memes in holy books are used to build an entity in much the same way as their biological counterparts, by gene expression. During church service, the religious group or church community is regularly built by the speech of the priest. It is like an expression of genes were the gened are read, translated and then turned into proteins - here shared beliefs. The same applies to political parties and their gatherings, i.e. party conventions, where the party is built by the speech of the party high priest.

The code contained in holy books is used to built social groups. Did you know that Jihad is much the same as Christian mission - a mechanism to gain new members for the group? You see it is all about the group..
http://blog.cas-group.net/2014/10/god-and-the-group-the-secret-of-religion/

-J.

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Jochen Fromm-5

Re: The secret of religion

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Given the divine power of code, maybe that's why we feel as programmers sometimes as powerful as a god or superhero (if everything just works with a single keystroke). More often than not you feel like a powerless idiot, though, if nothing works at all despite a thousand keystrokes and you don't know why..

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Pamela McCorduck

Re: The secret of religion

Jochen, that sums it up. Works the same for writers, by the way.

On Oct 15, 2014, at 1:59 AM, Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> wrote:

Given the divine power of code, maybe that's why we feel as programmers sometimes as powerful as a god or superhero (if everything just works with a single keystroke). More often than not you feel like a powerless idiot, though, if nothing works at all despite a thousand keystrokes and you don't know why..

-J.

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Jochen Fromm-5

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Or in a picture:

http://devblog.avdi.org/2014/10/14/programmers-are-binary-systems/

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From: Pamela McCorduck

Date:15/10/2014 16:59 (GMT+01:00)

To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group

Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The secret of religion

Jochen, that sums it up. Works the same for writers, by the way.

On Oct 15, 2014, at 1:59 AM, Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> wrote:

Given the divine power of code, maybe that's why we feel as programmers sometimes as powerful as a god or superhero (if everything just works with a single keystroke). More often than not you feel like a powerless idiot, though, if nothing works at all despite a thousand keystrokes and you don't know why..

-J.

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Owen Densmore

Re: The secret of religion

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Poetry, Superb Prose, Elegant code, Music .. all devine.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Pamela McCorduck <[hidden email]> wrote:

Jochen, that sums it up. Works the same for writers, by the way.

On Oct 15, 2014, at 1:59 AM, Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> wrote:

Given the divine power of code, maybe that's why we feel as programmers sometimes as powerful as a god or superhero (if everything just works with a single keystroke). More often than not you feel like a powerless idiot, though, if nothing works at all despite a thousand keystrokes and you don't know why..

-J.

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