@compostablespork

We are basically just giant spaceships for bacteria that can't handle oxygen.

@sean You're welcome!

Yeah, what better way to control people than to convince them they aren't divine, to lock that divinity away in the sky, and set your group up as the sole arbiters of it?

What better way to get people to die for you than to convince them real life only begins after death, but only if they die for your cause?

@sean

Maybe you'd enjoy reading some Charles Eisenstein. I suggest the introduction to his book, "Sacred Economics". [Pay what you want - free to download]

https://sacred-economics.com/

You can ignore the bits about money if it distracts too much. He has some interesting insights though.

@sean Here's a teaser:

"Three or four thousand years ago the gods began a migration from the lakes, forests, rivers, and mountains into the sky, becoming the imperial overlords of nature rather than its essence. As divinity separated from nature, so also it became unholy to involve oneself too deeply in the affairs of the world. The human being changed from a living embodied soul into its profane envelope, a mere receptacle of spirit,"

@siina And that's just when it isn't being spelled กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตนราชธานีบูรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์.

@siina

20 characters huh?

I bet nobody of their team lives in Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit.

@bill
I would go one further and require that they immediately and continuously share all knowledge, including source code, schematics and documentation, with a government agency which holds it in escrow until the company goes bankrupt or otherwise fails to support its users.

An organization at the threshold of falling over may no longer be able to gather and transfer the required knowledge, insofar as it hasn't already been lost.

@deutrino