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The Singularity as a Technological Rapture?

I believe that the meek robots will someday inheret the Earth and that only the smartest humans will be able to adapt fast enough to survive in such a rapidly improving technological utopia. Take that dose of reality, religion!

Putting God to the Objective Test!

How about putting God to the test of a known absolute....here's some logic for you based on the following axiomatic premises:

(1) If: The Bible says it, Then: According to the believers, it must be true

(2) The Bible says in Matthew 7 in the King James Version:

Mind and the Order of Beaurocracies

Religion, Government, Business, Technology....each successive one wants to eliminate the prior one and each prior one wants to control the succesive one.

The Business Aspects of the Singularity

I just found a book called "It's Not The Big That Eat The Small...It's The Fast That Eat The Slow". This is a book about the business aspects of the currently rapidly changing pace of business trends, in such an event as the singuolarity I'm sure that the business competition will indeed be very fast.

Group Bandwagon Theory

Individualism is a ying meme. Altruism is a yang meme. Altruism leads to a collective sense of self, whereas individualism leads to divisional sense of self.

Is an atom an individual, or a molecule, or the collective of the molecules making up the grain, or the collection of grains making up the material an individual?

Abiotic Oil and Origins of Life on Earth?

According to the article "Scientists find more oil fissures in Lake Baikal's bedrock"

...several Russian scientists going back as far as Dmitry Mendeleyev have suggested an 'abiogenic hypothesis,' according to which petroleum was formed from carbon deposits originating deep in the Earth's mantle...

Scientists find more oil fissures in Lake Baikal's bedrock