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Pope: The Internet is a 'gift from God'
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article published on 23 January, 2014
Pope Francis has said today in a statement that the Internet is "a gift from God" and that the net offers "immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity."
As part of the 48th annual World Communications Day, the pontiff released a statement in which he discussed both the pros and cons of the digital age, the sharing of ideas and information, social media and the Internet in general.
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ddp
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23. January 2014 @ 15:59 |
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the internet is not a gift from god but a gift from man that most have to pay for.
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23. January 2014 @ 16:04 |
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God is going to be miffed when He hears that net neutrality is being auctioned off by the same politicians who passed a law making it legal to bribe them during election campaigns.
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23. January 2014 @ 16:41 |
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I have to say this is kinda kewl but will the rest of religion move forward as well :)
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ivymike
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23. January 2014 @ 16:47 |
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I thought the internet was a gift from Al Gore :-)
I actually like Pope Francis......He's not afraid to put the so-called "Christian Conservatives" in their evil place.
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23. January 2014 @ 23:18 |
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Thank you God... For instant sports scores, movie and music downloading, you tube, free email, amazon.com ( so we don't have to leave our homes) , and all the FREE PORN you can consume!!!
AMEN!!!!
So is " god gave us the internet" a good defense against the music and film industry when the torrent lawsuits come??
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24. January 2014 @ 04:31 |
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Originally posted by ivymike:
I thought the internet was a gift from Al Gore :-) .
I think in Al's mind he is god (simply a problem with any politician not just Al) and thus indirectly gave us the internet, so he wasn't lying too much, just stretching the truth a little :).
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24. January 2014 @ 11:16 |
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ah the old thank god.
i had mormans try and tell me my house was designed by god i stood there and told them no it was man that made the blue prints and build the house, they said the idea came from god again i told no the idea came from man.
god didn't create the internet,he didn't create anything.
people created the internet,people created religion,people created god.
the age old question what came first "people or god" , "god created people", "peoples were around before gods existant became known".which came first lol.
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24. January 2014 @ 14:19 |
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I respect this Pope far more than any of his predecessors (though still haven't forgotten or forgiven the Catholic autocracy for its persecution of Galileo or the Inquisition), but completely disagree with his assertion. At best, the human intelligence which enabled creation of the Internet might be considered a gift from God by the spark of life working through an exceedingly long and rather unforgivingly harsh sequence of natural trial-and-error selection processes (aka evolution), but definitely not something which could be posited as corresponding to the "Ten Commandments v2.0" or anything similar.
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24. January 2014 @ 15:27 |
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I always point to cave painting as, basically, the final nail in the coffin on the existence of gods.
If a god or gods created us, why is there no such evidence on cave walls painted by ancient human beings? Simple, the concepts of gods could not be created until human beings had evolved minds capable of creating them in the first place.
This comment from the Vatican reminds me of the Virtual Pope I created 20 years when I was in college, which was Catholic, of course. :) I came up with the idea of virtual confessions. You just log on to Virtual Pope 2.0 or whatever version it's at now and confess your sins. After all, it's as effective as if you had a human analog in there intervening with your confessed sins.
So, I have wonder 20 years on: is there a Virtual Pope online now? Can you confess by remote control, as was said in Short Circuit 2? Are there virtual confessions now?
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24. January 2014 @ 16:15 |
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Excellent. Looks like the Roman Catholic Church is looking to invest. Next they will offer free emails to God. Looks like another way to raise money has occurred to the church elders (sic)
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24. January 2014 @ 23:12 |
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Originally posted by SomeBozo:
Originally posted by ivymike:
I thought the internet was a gift from Al Gore :-) .
I think in Al's mind he is god (simply a problem with any politician not just Al) and thus indirectly gave us the internet, so he wasn't lying too much, just stretching the truth a little :).
Not even stretching the truth. Al Gore said he took the initiative in the creation of the Internet, which is true...he championed it's creation in Congress. It was the conservative pundits and media who twisted that to "invented the Internet."
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25. January 2014 @ 11:42 |
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And all this time I was under the foolish illusion that it was an invention by man... thanks Popey!
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26. January 2014 @ 19:31 |
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Originally posted by xnonsuchx:
Originally posted by SomeBozo:
Originally posted by ivymike:
I thought the internet was a gift from Al Gore :-) .
I think in Al's mind he is god (simply a problem with any politician not just Al) and thus indirectly gave us the internet, so he wasn't lying too much, just stretching the truth a little :).
Not even stretching the truth. Al Gore said he took the initiative in the creation of the Internet, which is true...he championed it's creation in Congress. It was the conservative pundits and media who twisted that to "invented the Internet."
I finally got off my lazy butt and decided to research and see if Gore did invent the internet.... First off i'm starting from the impression ARPANET is the first, be it rough design, of what turned into what is now the internet. I would be the first to agree Gore invented nothing as far as the technological side for the internet, what he did do was help pioneer legislation for funding work associated to make the net what it is today.
So i might be less critical if i heard Gore assisted the internet by pioneering/leading support for it on capitol hill and leave it at that... But to say he invented it is completely wrong.
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26. January 2014 @ 21:01 |
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What idiot would believe or even consider that Al Gore literally invented the internet... or would even think that he thought that? It's just part of a lameass ideologue putdown that their lockstep sheep fell into bleeting rather than focusing on reality.
It's like the wing-nut dolts that think the Nazis were pro-Communist.... astounding wilful ignorance.
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xnonsuchx
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27. January 2014 @ 07:01 |
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Originally posted by SomeBozo:
Originally posted by xnonsuchx:
Originally posted by SomeBozo:
Originally posted by ivymike:
I thought the internet was a gift from Al Gore :-) .
I think in Al's mind he is god (simply a problem with any politician not just Al) and thus indirectly gave us the internet, so he wasn't lying too much, just stretching the truth a little :).
Not even stretching the truth. Al Gore said he took the initiative in the creation of the Internet, which is true...he championed it's creation in Congress. It was the conservative pundits and media who twisted that to "invented the Internet."
I finally got off my lazy butt and decided to research and see if Gore did invent the internet.... First off i'm starting from the impression ARPANET is the first, be it rough design, of what turned into what is now the internet. I would be the first to agree Gore invented nothing as far as the technological side for the internet, what he did do was help pioneer legislation for funding work associated to make the net what it is today.
So i might be less critical if i heard Gore assisted the internet by pioneering/leading support for it on capitol hill and leave it at that... But to say he invented it is completely wrong.
Exactly! Conservatives CLAIMED he said that to make him look bad...and succeeded spreading that BS to other media outlets, making it as widely believed as it is.
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27. January 2014 @ 07:14 |
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without doing any research i know that programmers and tech minded people made the internet what it is today, Usa Government just made it easier to access and helped expand it.
from what i can recall from my past research is that networks were set up to send messages from 1 place to another (think military were first to use it) it expended into what is now known as the internet.I do recalled in 1997 m8s were checking bulletin boards to find cheats for streetfighter 2 on supernintendo.
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27. January 2014 @ 11:07 |
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No, a couple of universities set it up initially... sheesh.
It was meant to survive a nuclear attack (it doesn't).
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27. January 2014 @ 15:44 |
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LoL...while I don't believe that god made the internet (or anything else for that matter), it is nice to see the church updating to the 1990's in at least one area. However, the rest of his speech sounded like it was written by Karl Marx. The church really loves that it can spread it's own message, and really hates that anyone else can do the same...kinda like most governments.
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28. January 2014 @ 01:28 |
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Humph... it's said the Soviets modelled themselves after the structure of the Catholic Church.
What part of his speech sounded like it was written by Karl Marx? Was there a critique of capitalism? Marx surprisingly actually said f*** all about Communism... never gave any concrete ideas as to what it should be, or how.
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28. January 2014 @ 01:41 |
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I don't think he meant that gods invented the internet, rather that the ability to share and communicate so quickly and easily is a very good thing and worthy of being thankful for. It's like when people thank their god for a meal, they don't think there are gods and spirits mixing sauces in the kitchen, they're just being thankful for the ability to not go hungry. . . . or at least that's how I saw it.
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