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The whole reality thing has been kind of amazing. It first started
in 1998 one night when I was stoned and thinking about religion and
was thinking, "If there were such a thing as the one true religion,
what would that look like?" So I thought - "Well, it would be the
one that believed in what was real." And then the name "Church of
Reality" came to mind. At first I didn't think it was more than a
thought experiment. In fact it took me 5 years of working on the
idea before I started seeing it call come into place myself.<br>
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Now it's more like an emergent property of the universe. It's not
like I'm inventing a religion but discovering something. Humanity
has evolved and our technology has created the internet where a lot
of minds and ideas are interacting. We are figuring out who we are,
what we are, where we have been, and where we are going. <br>
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I see humanity as being at a transition point. Sort of like a
caterpillar turning into a butterfly. We are changing from
traditional evolution to a form of engineered evolution where
through genetic engineering and computer technology we are going to
design what we are going to evolve into. And in order to do that we
have to understand what we are and where we should be going from a
scientific context.<br>
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The Internet is part of that evolution. First we invent the
transistor, then logic circuits, then the microprocessor. Then we
network computers and create new layers of complexity. People all
over the world are freely interacting with each other in a global
neural network that is an external mind that we all share. And ICANN
is at the core of this evolution and when we think of governing the
internet we are writing the operating system for humanity.<br>
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Thus - the work we are doing here might be far far more important
that we realize. This might become a model for a central world
government that might become an inevitable consequence of the
internet continuing to grow and evolve.<br>
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There are at least two paradigms taking place. There's the liberty
and freedom model. And there's another model run by a plutocracy
where a small number of super rich take over the world and enslave
the rest of us. That is the world of NSA spying where there are two
classes of people, the watchers and the watched. It's the Orwellian
totalitarian society that science fiction has been warning us about.<br>
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I'm anticipating the "watchers" are going to try to make a move to
take over ICANN. It's our job to make sure that doesn't happen. We
need to collectively understand the importance of the internet to
the positive evolution of the human race and to create and protect
its infrastructure. Hyper evolution can lead to extinction if we
don't fully think this through - understand where we are - and what
we need to do to get to where we need to be.<br>
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Reality is tricky stuff. But we don't want to piss off Darwin.
Darwin wiped out the dinosaurs for failing to develop a space
program. :)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/7/2013 2:18 PM, avri doria wrote:<br>
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<div>But you know there is a box? Tricky thing reality.</div>
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<div>If there is an ICANN box, I am sure that I live in it. I
will be around, so let me know if I can help.</div>
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<div>avri</div>
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From: Marc Perkel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marc@churchofreality.org"><marc@churchofreality.org></a> <br>
Date: 07/07/2013 14:21 (GMT-05:00) <br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org">ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org</a> <br>
Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] I may need some guidance at Durban <br>
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I live <br>
so far outside the box that I don't even know what the box is.<br>
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So - let me know where I can best fit in.<br>
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