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The cult of Asherah lives.
glossolalia cult
They do a lot of talking about Jesus, but like many self-described Christian churches, it has nothing to do with Christianity except that they use his name. It’s a postrational religion.
has taken xenoglossia and perfected it, turned it into a science.
people have no resistance to it because no one is used to thinking about religion, people aren’t rational enough to argue about this kind of thing.
who understand that information is power, and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.
“I don’t have time for this fucking adolescent banter. I grew up and got old ’pecifically to get away from this.”
“Look. Your brain has an immune system, just like your body. The more you use it—the more viruses you get exposed to—the better your immune system becomes.
in time, it begins to simplify itself and narrow into a single bright column of light. By this point, it is the music that is carrying the show: a pounding bass beat and a deep, threatening ostinato that tells everyone to keep watching, the best is yet to come. And everyone does watch. Religiously.
The words “avatar” (in the sense used here) and “Metaverse” are my inventions, which I came up with when I decided that existing words (such as “virtual reality”) were simply too awkward to use.
Finally, after the first publication of Snow Crash I learned that the term “avatar” has actually been in use for a number of years as part of a virtual reality system called Habitat,
It’s magical. It’s like…being a gargoyle. BALABAN Gargoyle? LAGOS You know, like on an old cathedral. Perched high above, peering down at everything. An omniscient perspective. In the future, when all the feeds from all the drones and the cameras are combined into one…it’s gonna be amazing.
