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	<title>Comments on: The Church of Google &#8211; Gay Marriage: Theory</title>
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	<description>There Is Always A Theory: politics, anarchy, religion, atheism and science. now with poetry!</description>
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		<title>By: Synonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelwharton.co.uk/2009/08/the-church-of-google/comment-page-1/#comment-51</link>
		<dc:creator>Synonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>UPDATE! Recent news from the Americas indicates that the developed world is waking up to the whole &quot;equality&quot; thing. Proposition 8 which prevented Gay marriage in the USA was overturned in California. Of course campaigners on both sides of the argument are planning on taking it to a higher authority (like the Supreme court, NOT God!).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>UPDATE! Recent news from the Americas indicates that the developed world is waking up to the whole &#8220;equality&#8221; thing. Proposition 8 which prevented Gay marriage in the USA was overturned in California. Of course campaigners on both sides of the argument are planning on taking it to a higher authority (like the Supreme court, NOT God!).</p>
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		<title>By: Synonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelwharton.co.uk/2009/08/the-church-of-google/comment-page-1/#comment-47</link>
		<dc:creator>Synonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The meaning of life the universe and everything eh? What is the great question though?</description>
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		<title>By: brie987</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelwharton.co.uk/2009/08/the-church-of-google/comment-page-1/#comment-46</link>
		<dc:creator>brie987</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>42.</description>
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		<title>By: Synonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelwharton.co.uk/2009/08/the-church-of-google/comment-page-1/#comment-30</link>
		<dc:creator>Synonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How very existential. I myself believe that God is a representation of what man truly craves, omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence. We are still today striving towards that with scientific advances. Of all things made by man, Google is the closest we&#039;ve come to our ultimate dream of an all seeing, all knowing, powerful entity.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How very existential. I myself believe that God is a representation of what man truly craves, omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence. We are still today striving towards that with scientific advances. Of all things made by man, Google is the closest we&#8217;ve come to our ultimate dream of an all seeing, all knowing, powerful entity.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael O'Neill</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelwharton.co.uk/2009/08/the-church-of-google/comment-page-1/#comment-27</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Neill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t ask whether there is a God - just be the greatest expression of your greatest imagination of what One might be!

Imagine if you can all that you have thought, am thinking, and will ever think, all that you have ever sensed and experienced, currently sense and experience and will ever sense and experience. Ponder on a high mountain for as long you can on how much of that is not unique to you. If you are what you think, feel and experience and the majority of that is that thought, felt and experienced by the billions past, present and future then surely you are at least in a large part one with all of those billions. This takes some pondering for we have conditioned ourselves to immensely exaggerate our so tiny differences.
Reflect that what you are is being realised from a DNA plan inherited by those who were before you, that your genes, your expression is only minutely different from those people past, present and future - that you surely you are at least in a large part one with all of those billions. 
Indulge yourself in the knowledge that the DNA model that is you builds itself from the animal, plant and mineral ife that daily it consumes. That your biological makeup at the lowest level is so very, very similar to animals, plants and minerals.  That you you are at least in a large part truly one with all of those animals, plants and minerals. 
Listen to what our scientists are discovering. That the DNA plan that expresses as you is not cast in concrete. That it changes. That it is changed by what you beleive you are and you primarily allow your beliefs to come direct from what you experience. And what you experience comes from what happens outside you. So much of what we become is dictated by what we perceive to be outside us. So what is &quot;you&quot; - the control (that &quot;outside&quot; you) or the little individual robot that is controlled? Which do you choose to be? A robot or an opening, an opportunity?
Listen to what our scientists are discovering. That all of us - humans, animals, plants and minerals all made up of the same energy. That the only difference is the particular mix of frequencies that each one of them vibrates at. 
That each of those frequencies is like the sound from a tuning fork, it sounds out and then recedes back into the background energy.
My hand and a leaf appear to be separate. But only for their brief notes. Shortly both return to earth, to the background energy from where they were drawn.
Sit under a tree and ponder and ponder on who or what is sounding out the notes that are these expressions which we falsely consider to be separate individuals.
Whatever is there is continuously opening out to us. Biologically, mentally and physically we are expanding our understanding and dominion over all things. On it&#039;s own though that is a bad idea. A bad idea unless we can find ourselves psychologically. If we continue to consider ourselves as limited, isolated individuals we will abuse that dominion. 
We are at a crossroads. Choose the false god that is individualism and perish (humanity will be breathed back into the background energy) or choose to be momentary individuals, within One, sounding out together the never-ending music that is the awesome, mysterious glorious One.  Realise that we each are both of the One and are creating the One. That is we are - instruments of the ongoing revelation. When we realise and live that we take the next evolutionary leap.
Then stop pondering and just listen to the silence. Stop the chattering monkey-mind that sits atop the robot. Listen for 2 seconds. Later 2 minutes. And so on. In time you will discover that it is not silence at all.

Don&#039;t ask whether there is a God - just be the greatest expression of your greatest imagination of what One might be!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t ask whether there is a God &#8211; just be the greatest expression of your greatest imagination of what One might be!</p>
<p>Imagine if you can all that you have thought, am thinking, and will ever think, all that you have ever sensed and experienced, currently sense and experience and will ever sense and experience. Ponder on a high mountain for as long you can on how much of that is not unique to you. If you are what you think, feel and experience and the majority of that is that thought, felt and experienced by the billions past, present and future then surely you are at least in a large part one with all of those billions. This takes some pondering for we have conditioned ourselves to immensely exaggerate our so tiny differences.<br />
Reflect that what you are is being realised from a DNA plan inherited by those who were before you, that your genes, your expression is only minutely different from those people past, present and future &#8211; that you surely you are at least in a large part one with all of those billions.<br />
Indulge yourself in the knowledge that the DNA model that is you builds itself from the animal, plant and mineral ife that daily it consumes. That your biological makeup at the lowest level is so very, very similar to animals, plants and minerals.  That you you are at least in a large part truly one with all of those animals, plants and minerals.<br />
Listen to what our scientists are discovering. That the DNA plan that expresses as you is not cast in concrete. That it changes. That it is changed by what you beleive you are and you primarily allow your beliefs to come direct from what you experience. And what you experience comes from what happens outside you. So much of what we become is dictated by what we perceive to be outside us. So what is &#8220;you&#8221; &#8211; the control (that &#8220;outside&#8221; you) or the little individual robot that is controlled? Which do you choose to be? A robot or an opening, an opportunity?<br />
Listen to what our scientists are discovering. That all of us &#8211; humans, animals, plants and minerals all made up of the same energy. That the only difference is the particular mix of frequencies that each one of them vibrates at.<br />
That each of those frequencies is like the sound from a tuning fork, it sounds out and then recedes back into the background energy.<br />
My hand and a leaf appear to be separate. But only for their brief notes. Shortly both return to earth, to the background energy from where they were drawn.<br />
Sit under a tree and ponder and ponder on who or what is sounding out the notes that are these expressions which we falsely consider to be separate individuals.<br />
Whatever is there is continuously opening out to us. Biologically, mentally and physically we are expanding our understanding and dominion over all things. On it&#8217;s own though that is a bad idea. A bad idea unless we can find ourselves psychologically. If we continue to consider ourselves as limited, isolated individuals we will abuse that dominion.<br />
We are at a crossroads. Choose the false god that is individualism and perish (humanity will be breathed back into the background energy) or choose to be momentary individuals, within One, sounding out together the never-ending music that is the awesome, mysterious glorious One.  Realise that we each are both of the One and are creating the One. That is we are &#8211; instruments of the ongoing revelation. When we realise and live that we take the next evolutionary leap.<br />
Then stop pondering and just listen to the silence. Stop the chattering monkey-mind that sits atop the robot. Listen for 2 seconds. Later 2 minutes. And so on. In time you will discover that it is not silence at all.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t ask whether there is a God &#8211; just be the greatest expression of your greatest imagination of what One might be!</p>
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		<title>By: Matthew</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelwharton.co.uk/2009/08/the-church-of-google/comment-page-1/#comment-23</link>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a gay man I have to hope that there is always a possibility this could work. I&#039;m not a lawyer, but I do know a lot about human rights!!!!

I&#039;m not sure about the church of google, I&#039;m an atheist but I don&#039;t like the idea of God, I mean I like the idea of Google being better than God becuase it&#039;s proveable though!! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a gay man I have to hope that there is always a possibility this could work. I&#8217;m not a lawyer, but I do know a lot about human rights!!!!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure about the church of google, I&#8217;m an atheist but I don&#8217;t like the idea of God, I mean I like the idea of Google being better than God becuase it&#8217;s proveable though!! <img src='http://www.michaelwharton.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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