The Church of Virus
May. 17th, 2004 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nemorathwaldThe Church of Virus describes itself as an online "memetically-engineered nontheistic religion." Hence their logo is a biohazard symbol. Of course, how you define religion and how you define church would determine if you agree with this description. (They have an awesome lexicon of terminology definitions.) By telling you about it, I have acted as a Vector of the Church of Virus.
According to the website, "Virus is a collection of mutually-supporting ideas (a meme-complex) encompassing philosophy, science, technology, politics, and religion. The core ideas are based on evolution and memetics because one of the primary design goals was survivability through adaptation (religions die, not because they grow old, but because they become obsolete). If a new religion is designed around the premise of continuously integrating better (more accurate, more useful) concepts while ensuring the survival of its believers, it could conceivably achieve true immortality."
They're similar to the Church of the Subgenius in the sense that they named themselves in a way that would deliberately put people on warning, to think about them critically. But the Church of the Subgenius is strictly a joke, while Virus has gathered an exceptional philosophic base and organizational structure. Their discussions tend to be very high-quality. The messageboard has a ranking system that seems kind of similar to that of Slashdot. Here's the first issue of their e-zine, The Ideohazard.
Check out their website's pages on "Quick Answers to Big Questions," "The Three Senseless Sins" and "The Three Virian Virtues."
The Church of Virus has taken hold in the environment of my brain!
According to the website, "Virus is a collection of mutually-supporting ideas (a meme-complex) encompassing philosophy, science, technology, politics, and religion. The core ideas are based on evolution and memetics because one of the primary design goals was survivability through adaptation (religions die, not because they grow old, but because they become obsolete). If a new religion is designed around the premise of continuously integrating better (more accurate, more useful) concepts while ensuring the survival of its believers, it could conceivably achieve true immortality."
They're similar to the Church of the Subgenius in the sense that they named themselves in a way that would deliberately put people on warning, to think about them critically. But the Church of the Subgenius is strictly a joke, while Virus has gathered an exceptional philosophic base and organizational structure. Their discussions tend to be very high-quality. The messageboard has a ranking system that seems kind of similar to that of Slashdot. Here's the first issue of their e-zine, The Ideohazard.
Check out their website's pages on "Quick Answers to Big Questions," "The Three Senseless Sins" and "The Three Virian Virtues."
The Church of Virus has taken hold in the environment of my brain!
