Beyond the Grab of Google Log Out | Topics | Search
Moderators | Edit Profile

RAMSEY CAMPBELL » Discussion » Beyond the Grab of Google « Previous Next »

Author Message
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.165.39.90
Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 09:46 pm:   

Can anything develop - like a new religion - without being picked up by the internet? Or could a religion develop itself as a religion simply because it believes it can exist and gather disciples without the internet noticing?
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Mbfg (Mbfg)
Username: Mbfg

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 92.4.160.8
Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 10:02 pm:   

Yes, but you would have to make a conscious effrot to keep it out of the internet, which is a significant turnaround from, say, fifteen years ago when you had to make an effort to get thign ono the web.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 10:17 pm:   

If all communications about it were face-to-face, by phone or through the post? Would that work? New recruits to the cause would have to be strictly forbidden from mentioning it online, I guess?

Er, are you thinking of starting a new religion, Des?
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.165.39.90
Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 09:28 am:   

Er, are you thinking of starting a new religion, Des?
===========

No, but this makes me wonder whether a religion can be formed from a religion based solely on its faith in its own ability to keep itself immune from google hits.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 09:33 am:   

It sounds like you read Edward de Bono, Des.

'Imagine everyone has one foot six inches shorter than the other. Now write down all the implications for society.' That was our topic in the car yesterday, after 'Write down as many interesting things about frogs as you can.'
The latter is much harder than it looks.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 09:52 am:   

Des; if the religion existed in a way that was indescribable in words. The net is words; if something eludes them then they won't be on the net.
Thanks, Bono! (er, the other one, not the Irish guy)
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.165.39.90
Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 11:20 am:   

If I say more, I'll be blaspheming, by enticing the grab-bag of google to this thread.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 11:39 am:   

Maybe it'll be safe, tho, like the chance of a dog describing -even in its own mind - the plot of the film Cars.
We often feel capable of describing God, or the secrets of the Universe. I wonder now if we ever could even if we knew.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 11:41 am:   

Maybe a picture or some music would summon it properly? Like that scary music you frightened us with.
()
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 11:43 am:   

The religion would have to be completely UN-newsworthy. No celebrity followers, no whiff of scandal, or the newshounds would sniff it out and post on the net about it.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 11:46 am:   

I was thinking yesterday how it was easy to dislike a person from body language alone. Meeting someone you have only contacted by email or phone, only to find by their shape and movements that you hate them. You would not be able to describe why it was so.
But yes, this is bordering on blasphemy now.
:-)
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 11:48 am:   

Caroline; that sounds perfect.
Um, Des - sign me up, to, um this thing that doesn't (Google - don't listen to this) exist.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 11:50 am:   

Right, at this minute I'm looking at the board via my phone and this monitor. I hope I don't see some kind of anomaly.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 11:52 am:   

I think this thread probably IS an anomaly, Tony!
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 12:15 pm:   

I've posted this elsewhere, but think it belongs here, too, that bad translation can often say more than clarity;
http://ettigerejpqr.spaces.live.com/Blog/
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
Posted on Monday, February 07, 2011 - 11:55 am:   

'I think this thread probably IS an anomaly, Tony!'
It seems so! Maybe there are other threads out there on the net, that pursue or even find truth, and they just get buried this way...
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Skip (Wolfnoma)
Username: Wolfnoma

Registered: 07-2010
Posted From: 216.54.20.98
Posted on Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - 06:33 pm:   

It's been my experience, for what it's worth, that all religions become an almost social event on the day they celebrate their particular sabbath and the days leading up to the sabbath. If this is true, Religion as a Social Excercise, then I believe that in this day and age it would be nearly next to impossible to not utilize the power of the internet or any other social media that is available to the general populace worldwide.

Course, I could be wrong.

Add Your Message Here
Post:
Bold text Italics Underline Create a hyperlink Insert a clipart image

Username: Posting Information:
This is a private posting area. Only registered users and moderators may post messages here.
Password:
Options: Enable HTML code in message
Automatically activate URLs in message
Action:

Topics | Last Day | Last Week | Tree View | Search | Help/Instructions | Program Credits Administration