God is Watching Me
I was raised to believe in God, that he was keeping track of all my thoughts. As I grew older and considered the feasibility of that, I became a unbeliever. Now that I’ve come to understand our ability to track people’s habits on the internet, I have become a disunbeliever.
The human thought process is an electronic one, and can be recorded. And can be played back. Like trying to figure out how ones and zeros can be sent wirelessly through the air and convert into a music video, I’ve heard that God can scan our brains and recover old data we tried to delete, but I don’t get how.
To Catch A Masturbater
The Christian Television Network has created a reality show where they track members of the congregation’s online destinations, and during a church service, a power point presentation is produced showing the questionable sites visited.
The guilty party can ask for forgiveness and guidance right then and there, or try to deny they had impure thoughts. It is fascinating to watch people try to lie there way out of it.
An Unlikely Coupling
Conservative Christians are very vocal in their opposition to stem cell research, yet they are eager to donate large sums of money to MIT and other research institutes who are investigating the processes of thought and memory.
It is already possible to surgically implant electrodes into human brains and manipulate actions via remote. But what members of The Christian Coalition are really interested in is the ability to someday record and “broadcast” memories and thoughts.
It is seen as a way to guarantee a place in heaven. If all sins and impure thoughts are available for peer review, then you can take steps to absolve yourself of those sins. This, combined with a sincere acceptance of Jesus the Christ of Nazareth who died on a cross for those sins, is all that is asked of you to gain entrance into the Kingdom Of Heaven.
Preachers, Priests, Deacons and Elders will be given access to parishioners complete mental activity in order to better give guidance on matters of spirit.
“God isn’t interested in robots,” says Roberta Combs, president of the Christian Coalition, speaking about the power to control activity through chip implants. “The Christian community is interested in becoming aware of our transgressions only so that we may take proper steps to mend them and come to peace with God’s will.”
GaryB comments on TechnologyReview .com:
“MIT is developing nanowire electrodes that are much finer than current electrodes. You can feed them into more parts of the brain while doing less damage to the tissue. If you injected a bunch of nano-bots into your brain, they could do more than just record. They could “memorize” your brain for resimulation later should you die. They could repair damage or eventually take over lost function. They could add new function — you could directly experience another’s thoughts … or make conscious your own internal workings of your brain.”
The Sun Also Sets, And It Gets Wicked Hot
Ecclesiastes 1:5 states that “the sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.”
While this line of scripture put the Catholic Church at odds with the scientific community of Europe back in the early 1600′s, in a short three hundred years, (with the discovery of other universes in the 1900′s) the Catholic Church became convinced that the earth is the heavenly body that is doing the spinning, creating the illusion the sun moves around us.
Is it because sun no longer rises and sets that many Christian lambs are beginning to lie down with the lions of Science? That is not a question for either group, but is an answer only linguistics can provide.