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The Internet Is My Religion

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The video that the article is written around is very moving and touching. The man presenting is very articulate about his beliefs and does not appear to be preaching.

However the article written around the video isn't nearly as interesting or coherent.

I stopped reading at Planetary soul! :)

The video's backdrop is a real heartwarming story on how people have and can help people through the internet, and how we can be linked together in a positive way.

But the purpose of the video is something different and I guess it can be summed up with these words from the end of the video: "Each one of us is a creator, but together we are The Creator."

If that is the case, where were we "The Creator", when the earth’s foundation was laid? (paraphrasing Job 38:4)

(I didn't see the video yet.)

> "Each one of us is a creator, but together we are The Creator."

Taken out of contest, it looks like it comes from an atheist. I like the way it recognize the power of our cognition[1]. But now I wonder if Mr Gilliam really[2] believes in something like God. Now I'm curious.

[1]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ve/mundane_magic/

[2]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/

I have seen the video. He clearly is atheist. His "I believe in God" at the end doesn't really mean anything, since he said that God basically is the united Human specie.

What thrills me most about this video is that he quite eloquently demonstrated that we can relinquish our belief in the supernatural without losing faith.

Jim Gilliam is jgilliam here on Hacker News

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgilliam

Is there any word that has been rendered more useless than the word god? That word belongs to the fundamentalists and the hucksters, and instead of trying to salvage it, it seems like time to let it go. Yes, the internet can be very good and very bad, just like everything else. What's god got to do with it? Couching things in the "language of religion" never clarified anything.

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