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     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.165.39.90 |
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? | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 92.4.160.8 |
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. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
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? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.165.39.90 |
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. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
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. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
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) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.165.39.90 |
If I say more, I'll be blaspheming, by enticing the grab-bag of google to this thread. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
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. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
Maybe a picture or some music would summon it properly? Like that scary music you frightened us with. (  ) | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
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.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
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.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
Caroline; that sounds perfect. Um, Des - sign me up, to, um this thing that doesn't (Google - don't listen to this) exist. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
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. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
I think this thread probably IS an anomaly, Tony! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
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/ | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
'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... | ||
| Skip (Wolfnoma) Username: Wolfnoma Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 216.54.20.98 |
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. |