The Sinister Potential of Virtual Reality

The following essay was originally published at the Frozen North.

The Sinister Potential of Virtual Reality

by Nick McAvelly
July 10, 2017

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 2: 9-12)

There have been several technology conferences around the world recently, in Spain, China and South Korea. According to the people giving talks at those conferences, the possibility of creating a globally accessible virtual reality is right around the corner. We all need to think about what this means.

I will suppose, then, not that Deity, who is sovereignly good and the fountain of truth, but that some malignant demon, who is at once exceedingly potent and deceitful, has employed all his artifice to deceive me; I will suppose that the sky, the air, the earth, colors, figures, sounds, and all external things, are nothing better than the illusions of dreams, by means of which this being has laid snares for my credulity… (Descartes, Meditations)

Men are so simple-minded and so controlled by their immediate needs that he who deceives will always find someone who will let himself be deceived. (Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 18.)

There have always been human beings willing to adopt the role of an evil demon, who had it in their power to deceive others. And history shows us that there have been no shortage of people willing to follow such individuals. Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin, for example, did not fight against one another to settle the matter of the Second World War. Other people had to die on the Eastern Front to achieve that. One man could have put a bullet in Adolf’s brain, or blown the so-called “man of steel” to bits, but instead, millions of human beings followed these two masters of deception into a war of unprecedented death and destruction.

If the technology exists to create a virtual reality that will be run according to the rules of its creators, with no necessary reliance on Judeo-Christian morality, then you can be sure that evil people will get involved in that project and use it for their own ends. And there will be no shortage of people who will allow themselves to be deceived. Like a detached brain floating in a vat, they will allow the creators of the new virtual reality to flood their minds with signals and stimuli, and the resulting psychological experiences will be given primacy over their old life.

How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ (Isaiah 14: 12-14)

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. (1 Peter 5:8)

The adversary has always had the desire to be worshipped like God. With the creation of a global VR system, the adversary can exist in a counterfeit reality, where willing subjects give him the power to control their consciousness. A false messiah can be encoded into that reality, and if anyone does not worship this being and recognise him as the ruler of their consciousness, then they can be cast out of the new virtual reality to exist only on the flat plane of their old life. Users of the new system will not risk that, because the forthcoming virtual reality will be the most addictive thing there has ever been. Anyone who rejects the truth and chooses to exist as a brain in a vat, by living in a micro-apartment and plugging their own consciousness into the new virtual reality, will have lying wonders channelled into their mind that will satisfy their every desire, no matter what those desires may be.

As time passes, the initial thrill and satisfaction of having virtual sex with porn stars and virtually shooting people they don’t like will wear off, and users of the new VR system will become jaded. The creators of the new reality can then open new doors to the system’s users, who will end up having more and more deviant psychological experiences until they finally become the most twisted, morally corrupt people who have ever lived. There will be absolutely no barriers, legal or moral, to what the system’s users will be able to experience within their own minds.

The users of this unrighteous deception will not only become morally corrupted, so that they cannot function normally in the “old” reality any more, they will be in thrall to their false messiah. The creation of a global virtual reality will lead to the creation of an army of amoral beings, who can commit the most heinous acts in the name of their virtual Führer. And we can expect these Satanic soldiers to be temporarily disconnected from the global virtual reality and sent on missions here in the real world, before being allowed to reconnect their consciousness back into the virtual reality at a higher level. We have already seen human beings whose minds have been taken over by Satanically inspired teachings shooting people, beheading people, and blowing young girls up with suicide belts loaded up with rusty nails. The creation of a global virtual reality will only enhance the ability of the prince of the power of the air to deceive human beings, and bend them to his will. That will inevitably lead to a time of anti-Christian persecution around the world, the likes of which has never been seen before.

The creation of a globally accessible virtual reality will therefore be a hugely significant event. This addictive product has the potential to make its owners wealthier and more powerful than anyone in human history. The new VR system may be marketed by emphasising its peripheral benefits, but once it is established it has the potential to serve a dark purpose. As the American writer Lyn Leahz has pointed out, the truth leads to conviction, which leads to repentance, which leads to salvation. The establishment of a virtual reality will allow people to live a counterfeit life instead of dealing in the truth, so that any further steps on that spiritual path are impossible. The users of the new VR system risk not only losing control of their own consciousnesses, which in literal terms means losing their minds. They could find that their souls have been shanghaied and they are trapped in a living hell where it will finally, and most cruelly, be revealed to them that the virtual reality they willingly participated in has become a means to an end. That end is the psychological and spiritual enslavement of all of humanity, a fate which they cannot escape.

42 thoughts on “The Sinister Potential of Virtual Reality

    • Great video clip.

      Another dystopian version of this will be clinics for hardcore drug addicts where they can go and get “plugged in” with neuro-electrodes that trigger dopamine release.

      “Treated” individuals would have their vital signs monitored and be periodically counseled for their addiction. The most common outcome would be that “patients” slowly starved themselves to death or underwent some other variety of serious physical deterioration as they elected to maintain a continuous regimen of electro-stimulation.

      Such “wire-heads” would no longer need to commit criminal acts or sex work as part of financing their drug addition, plus the transmission of needle-related and drug-associated diseases (e.g., HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B & C, and Epstein-Barr virus) would dramatically decline.

      The markets for heroin and crack cocaine would diminish precipitously and the cost of maintaining such clinics would be a tiny fraction of that required to operate traditional jail or prison facilities.

  1. I don’t share your belief in an Evil One (how could I, as an atheist?). However, is there such a huge leap from the printing press, film, radio, tv and the internet, all of which have been exploited by demagogues, to virtual reality? The best protection is education, especially of the young, and resistance to censorship of media in general (excepting child porn and the like).

    • Thankfully, VR is not so much hype for us one eyed people 😉

      Anyhow – that is what I believe to be “the mark of the beast”.

      What do beasts do? They follow their “flesh”: they hide from danger and abuse positions of power, eat, sleep, ***… And they are subject to control by a “higher power” – a Man, that is.

      But – in my view, one thing is missing from your perception of true VR: “The brain impulses”.

      Brain can be stimulated by visual and sound – but it can also be pushed by specific microwaves to produce hate or love, whatever the impulse master wishes!

      Not that much different from the real magic of old: The new stuff is dangerous precisely because the techniques have been refined for 5000 years at least. Painted stone statues with hieroglyphs no longer suffice for “stimulation”. Too low level in the age of “moving pictures”…

      The level above “moving pictures”?

      “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”

      • My comment showed up here for some reason. I tried to put it as a new comment down below.

        • So a future VR system could not only deliver data input to users in the form of sound & vision, but could emotionally manipulate users as well, so they would feel what the programmers wanted them to feel …

  2. There already exists a multitude of virtual realities, and they’re all accessible globally since a number of years (in principle, save some countries deliberately barring their citizens). It seems the author, too, already lives in his own. What is real and what is not? Human consciousness is a curious thing.

    Then again, has the craziest of theories been invented yet, and what if one of them is true? I bet believers won’t have it any which way. If the glass is already full, no amount of reality gets through. Nature has its ways with that, usually, but also no compassion for innocents getting hurt along the way. Pray for them. It helps… not them, but you to get over it.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/22/what-if-were-living-in-a-computer-simulation-the-matrix-elon-musk

      • That’s got information about some of these people I’d never heard. I have some reservations but for the most part, it’s worth the read. We definitely don’t move enough.

      • Very interesting, but a bit solipsistic for my taste. I have never been a scientist, and I know science has been perverted by those motivated by an agenda instead of a search for truth, for understanding the universe in which we live.

        Makes me think of the choice between the blue pill or the red pill.

  3. How do you know that you don’t already live in a virtual reality simulation???

    Everything you describe as downside of a potential virtual reality is already happening in your actual perceived reality here and now. Corruption, following false leaders, etc. – it’s here, man!

    And what’s this wishful thinking about “preserving” judeo-christian values? Human beings carry the heritage of both Cain AND Abel. Purity and thorough “goodness” are but a pillar of the power structure of the church. Human psychology does not change.

    Look how much death, misery and pain the idealist dogmata of the 20th century have brought into being. All in the name of reaching for the light and the perfect human being.

    Good luck with THAT […]!

    • Baron, Dymphna, whoever edits the comments. I don’t know how else to reach you so just take this as a private message:
      Not cool, to edit out “Bucko”! It is kind of a term of endearment, the Canadian equivalent to the American “Buddy”. You’re kinda cramping my style … 🙂

      • Taken in the whole context of your reply to your interlocutor (which, iirc, consisted of telling him how mistaken he was), ending your disquistion with what you claim is an “endearment” where you live, seemed to us to be an escalation…still seems so 🙂

        • omg, omg, I told the author how mistaken he was?! 🙂
          Last time I checked that was the purpose of debate, Dymphna. Also, I think I didn’t even disagree that much, just outlined that what he obviously fears might already be here.
          It would make a lot more sens to discuss THAT than trying to provide safe spaces from perceived slights.
          And I say that in friendship and in admiration of your work.

          • As long as the debate it courteous, it continues. You will notice that your interlocutor’s response to your somewhat hostile rejoinder contains nothing questionable.

            I recommend taking a look at some modern rhetoriticians who explain how one persuades. Scott Adams did this in a number of his fisks of communication between Hillary and Trump during the campaign…

            Here’s his website, where most of his essays are entertaining explanations of what is going on beneath what we see…[ignore the part about buying his book. It’s a dumb inside joke].

            http://blog.dilbert.com/

            Adams is never even implicitly hostile. Which is a strength in political dialogue.

          • Well it’s good to know you agree with me 😉 The world would be a much better place if everyone just agreed with me right off the bat, LOL

            Just to be clear then: I did not say anything about “preserving” our traditional Judeo-Christian moral values, nor did I engage in “wishful thinking” on that subject. Any assertions that I did would be what is known in the trade as a “straw man”.

            I actually argued (I think quite clearly) that if a globally accessible VR system ever came to pass, the people who designed it would NOT rely on our traditional Judeo-Christian values in order to encode their own reality.

            As for the “Cain and Abel” aspect of human nature – your point is well taken. If this issue interests you, then I can recommend “Demian” by Hermann Hesse. That is an interesting book.

            I should also mention “Steppenwolf” by the same author. A good explanation of the philosophical underpinnings of both of these books can be found in “The Outsider” by Colin Wilson.

            You will note though, that I did argue in the essay that long term users of a globally accessible VR system could end up being the most morally corrupt people who had ever lived.

            And may I say finally, that mind-reading is quite a tricky business, and to illustrate that point, may I assure you that I have no “obvious fears”.

            In fact, given my age now, and the strokes I’ve pulled in my earlier years, many of which could have resulted in my early demise, let me tell you, and the number of friends I’ve seen die of fatal accidents and awful diseases over the years, I really don’t have much fears or worries about anything anymore.

            It’s an interesting psychological condition to be in, to be sure … I’m beginning to think it’s all a natural function of getting older.

          • @Dymphna,

            As you say …

            “It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!” – Nietzsche, Daybreak

        • Hello again, Dymphna. I see your last comment doesn’t have a reply button. So let me thank you here in this spot for the lecture. I will try to mind my manners although, I’m afraid, I can’t give any guarantees. 🙂
          As Diedrich Hessling used to say: “Formen sind doch kein leerer Wahn!”

          [Machine translation: “Forms are not an empty delusion!”]

          [Note from the Baron: Minding your manners means, among other things, accompanying foreign-language quotes with an English translation.]

    • “How do you know that you don’t already live in a virtual reality simulation???”

      I quoted part of Descartes’ book, which examines this very question. And it really is an interesting question, isn’t it?

      “Everything you describe as downside of a potential virtual reality is already happening in your actual perceived reality here and now. Corruption, following false leaders, etc. – it’s here, man!”

      I know – how much easier then, for people (like the ones in the Baron’s photo at the top of the article) to take one more step and plug themselves directly into a “Matrix” like system.

      “And what’s this wishful thinking about “preserving” judeo-christian values?”

      Where is this “wishful thinking” about “preserving” Judeo-Christian values in the above essay? What I actually said was:

      “If the technology exists to create a virtual reality that will be run according to the rules of its creators, with no necessary reliance on Judeo-Christian morality, then you can be sure that evil people will get involved in that project and use it for their own ends. And there will be no shortage of people who will allow themselves to be deceived.”

      If even thinking about Judeo-Christian morality pushes your atheistic buttons, I suggest you think of it in your own mind as “our traditional Judeo-Christian morality”. The point is not that our society’s traditional Judeo-Christian morality will be preserved in a new virtual reality. I actually said that it won’t be.

      “Human beings carry the heritage of both Cain AND Abel. Purity and thorough “goodness” are but a pillar of the power structure of the church. Human psychology does not change.”

      See quote from Machiavelli above. He had a pretty grim view of humanity, and the older I get the more I see that he wasn’t far wrong.

      “Look how much death, misery and pain the idealist dogmata of the 20th century have brought into being. All in the name of reaching for the light and the perfect human being.”

      I did mention the Eastern Front – and argued that one of the reasons that awful conflict was even possible was because so many people followed the two master deceivers masquerading as light-bringers mentioned above.

      “Good luck with THAT […]!”

      You may wish to check out what Isaiah Berlin said about the impossibility of a “final solution”. He called it a “metaphysical chimera” V. interesting.

      Perhaps your atheistic leanings have led you to misunderstand the thrust of the essay – there is no wishful thinking, there is no hope that anyone will achieve their goals if they are “reaching for the light and a perfect human being” – rather the opposite; I brought up both the Nazi and Soviet systems as examples of how trying to do that has led to catastrophic failure.

      And the whole thrust of the essay is that if anyone tries to do that in a virtual reality, then it will have disastrous consequences – again. In fact the essay concludes with a warning to anyone who would give themselves over to a virtual reality – they will become victims too, and they will know, in the end, that they have been used.

      • Hello Nick. Nice to meet you.

        “And the whole thrust of the essay is that if anyone tries to do that in a virtual reality, then it will have disastrous consequences – again. In fact the essay concludes with a warning to anyone who would give themselves over to a virtual reality – they will become victims too, and they will know, in the end, that they have been used.”

        I agree. What I miss in your essay is the acknowledgment that we live exactly that kind of reality already here and now. Somehow the question whether it is a “real” or a virtual one isn’t even that important, since it is all we know.

        My scoffing at the mention of judeo-christian values in our time (I’m not speaking about a potential virtual future) has two reasons. First, I posit that judaic and christian values are not the same and they certainly don’t form a unity. Second, I cannot see these values seriously represented or (God forbid) LIVED hardly anywhere in our entirely materialistic culture. Which, imo, is the root cause for the weakness and decline of the West and for the success of an ideology whose adherents are willing to kill and to die for their beliefs.

        “I did mention the Eastern Front – and argued that one of the reasons that awful conflict was even possible was because so many people followed the two master deceivers masquerading as light-bringers mentioned above.”

        That is interesting but falls short. I am reluctant to portray the peoples involved in WW2 purely as victims of deceivers. What made decent fathers and cultured family men in Germany, USSR or any other country involved in that war (or any other war for that matter / look at Vietnam!) morph into barbarians is the fact that we all have a dark side and, given the right set of circumstances, we would all become monsters. I think the veneer is pretty thin. Just wait and see what will happen once the US or any other Western place goes into a civil war.

        tbc eventually …

        • I agree with your last point there – the issue of man’s duality is explored in the two books I mentioned earlier, Demian and Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.

          An interesting analysis of these two works can be found in The Outsider by Colin Wilson.

          As you say, given the right set of circumstances, human beings are capable of just about anything. The question is, what is the right set of circumstances …

          I would argue that history shows us that one set of circumstances that has arisen in the past is that a leader figure has come to power who has, shall we say, deceived people into thinking that they have the “final solution” to the question of how human beings are to live here on this earth.

          I am in agreement with the position outlined by Isaiah Berlin – the very notion of a “final solution” is not sensible – he calls it a “metaphysical chimera”. Such a thing can never be – it is a logical impossibility!

          Nevertheless, leaders have arisen who made this claim, and many people have followed them in pursuit of this “metaphysical chimera”. And – believing that they can bring about an Utopian dreamworld, right here on earth, they are willing to go to any lengths to bring that about.

          And this would be where the dark side of human beings comes in … as Berlin says, history has shown us time and again that when people believe they are saving the world, then they will go to any lengths to bring that destiny about.

          So in a sense, there are indeed great deceivers – Machiavelli talks about this in The Prince – who bamboozle people into believing that what they do can bring about some kind of Utopia. However, I agree with you that we must consider the question of human agency – in the final analysis, one is responsible for one’s own actions.

          I think there is something to Kershaw’s idea that many of the Nazis were “working towards the Fuhrer”. Beings such as Hitler, who appeared to many as a light bringer, and who deceived many into following them, acted as a kind of spiritual gatekeeper – they allowed human beings to express their dark side … although those followers may not have realised that they would have to do so in order to follow their leader … not at first …

  4. Cross eyed fools staring into little plastic tools make up the bulk of the teen age to early thirties Westerners. Their softness and insouciance in the face of primitives espousing a demonic political system { YES ISLAM } spells their doom. Pray for salvation to come from Eastern Europe and Mother Russia ; both who have suffered under Communism and have been well inoculated from the decease called Multiculturalism.

  5. I think Islam will take care of the VR issue. Pushing back most of the world into 7th century level with IQ of 75, will not have any technological invention.

    • Have you ever read “The Mahdi” by A. J. Quinnell? Strangely, it is the only one of Quinnell’s novels that has not be translated into Kindle form. Funny that, eh. It describes a false Islamic messiah being put into place (using green lasers from space to authenticate his powers) by the West to gain control of the Islamic world.

      It’s an interesting one: Can a VR system be designed that would run on the 7th Century Islamic operating system running in the Muslim mind?

      And if so, would a user of that system accept the “reality” of a false Islamic messiah? Well, if we think about the fictional A.J. Quinnell scenario a little, then consider the addictive properties of the proposed VR system, and take that together with an addict’s willingness to do anything rather than give up their drug of choice, and if we also consider the presence of a “mahdi” figure in Islam … well, maybe it could happen.

  6. Nick,

    if you lament the lack of judeo christian values in a potential virtual reality, that clearly means that you want to preserve them. My question was: Where are they? Where do they play a role? I mean, NOW, in this perceived reality today? And would you like to say a word or three about my comments on those values and their (non-)relevance in our world?
    Let me also say that it is not good enough for me to have you throw titles of books at me, that I first read about four decades ago and frequently revisit, instead of writing down your own, original thoughts.
    And in the mind reading department let me mention to you that I have no “atheistic leanings”.

    • We live in a post- Christian world. Our ethos is largely that of consumption. But this doesn’t mean that the basis of our high-trust society wasn’t founded on Judaeo-Christian principles, and continues in a diminished form to do so…

      • We live in a high-tech world; Christianity (or Judaeo-) and Hellenistic thought and resulting scientific progress has made all this possible.

        When I was a boy, I was dreaming about Year 2000 where we all – thanks to science and technology – will enjoy fruit of our victorious mutiny against the cruel Nature. Alas – is 2017, the said mutiny has transpired fairly successfully, but enjoying the fruit is marred by religions and especially by one cult of death masqueraded as religion.

        We seem to be more distant from the age of freedom than some 50 years ago. By “freedom” I mean freedom from the whims of merciless Mother Nature, always trying to jeopardize our quest for excellence.

        Maybe – I stress “maybe” – return to Judaeo-Christian principles is a way to turn around the trends of nowadays. I remain very skeptical, though.

        • “Returns” don’t work, history never goes backward. That doesn’t mean Reform isn’t possible, or a Renaissance. But that’s a different matter entirely – calls for innovation, creativity, and structural order. That last is being impinged upon, sad to say.

          We can only do so much about the depredations of Mother Nature. If you live along the fault lines where lie the great possibilities for earthquakes, you can ameliorate that somewhat with strict building codes, etc. But volcanoes? Tornadoes? Hurricanes? Nope. It would bring us back down to size to see how little it takes Ma Nature to move through a place, undoing our piddling works.

          Which is why climate change is a scam. Ask the sun.

        • Well, as Dymphna states: “returns don’t work”.

          I really don’t understand your concept of “victorious mutiny against the cruel Nature”, Lu. Do you perceive us somehow outside of nature? Are we not nature ourselves?

          • Yes – I do perceive us as something outside of Nature – by virtue of our consciousness, which we have not found anywhere else (yet). We have won a couple of battles against her: extended our life span tremendously; launched inquiries into why the world is what it is; making our precious lives worth much more than she would give us voluntarily; touched the stars to some extent and so often – the best of us – dreamed truly big.

            That’s the “mutiny” against her cruelty … 🙂

          • That is so interesting, Lu.

            Just out of curiosity and to better understand you, let me ask you this:

            My Lai, Auschwitz, the Gulags, do those have their origins in (our) nature or in our consciousness?

            Can we, as a species, in a sustained way, vanquish the dark side of our nature through consciousness?

          • @ Ron Blum,

            Don’t you have any original thoughts of your own on the subject?

            On any subject?

          • @ Nick

            “Don’t you have any original thoughts of your own on the subject? On any subject?”

            🙂

            I do think that quote was a good example for nature overwhelming consciousness.

            Was something wrong with my question? Why the animosity?

          • @Ron

            Two difficult questions … will try to answer (not that my answers matter :-)). Already thinking hard about it …

    • “if you lament the lack of judeo christian values in a potential virtual reality, that clearly means that you want to preserve them. My question was: Where are they? Where do they play a role?”

      Where is the “lament” in the above essay? Once again, and for the last time: All I said about our society’s traditional values (think of them any way you wish) was that they won’t play a role in any newly designed VR system. Such a system will have an entirely new set of “values” encoded into it.

      I suggested that the new set of “values” that would be encoded into the new VR system could allow long-term users to be exposed to more and more morally depraved experiences, so that they end up being very bad eggs indeed.

      So I was making a point about the “morality” (or lack thereof) that would be encoded into a newly created, globally accessible VR reality, and what could happen to long-term users of that system.

      If you wish to write an article about something else: how our traditional values are being eroded in our society right here, right now, well you are free to do so.

      It is unfortunate that you find the mention of some books you have read in the past “not good enough”. I should have thought the discovery of a fellow reader, who was familiar with those books, which examine in some depth the very point that was mentioned in this thread, would have been a good starting point for further discussion. Apparently not.

      Oh well.

      • @ Nick

        “Once again, and for the last time: All I said about our society’s traditional values (think of them any way you wish) was that they won’t play a role in any newly designed VR system. Such a system will have an entirely new set of “values” encoded into it. “

        Right – and all I said was “It’s here now!” The new set of values is already encoded in our system. No need for science fiction to describe it. Just watch CNN or take a stroll through Clichy.

        “It is unfortunate that you find the mention of some books you have read in the past “not good enough” “

        The mention of books is fine – it signals that you might be well read – but it should be accompanied by some original thoughts on the same.

        • I can only suggest that you take your own advice. If you wish to write about something that you are interested in, then you are free to do so.

  7. I can’t help but wonder if Paul, when he was taken to the third heaven (death by stoning from which he miraculously recovered) was given a vision of our days. His description of these days in his letter to the Thessalonians and to his protégé Timothy are far too accurate to have been imagined 2000 before their occurrence in a completely difference cultural context. One can almost hear Paul describing a mendacious Wall Street banker. All you need to ice the cake is Islam, which is the complete antithesis of Christianity. Paul said it was forbidden to speak of what he saw. It would seem that he delivered his fair warning to us as best he could in the oblique terms that he was allowed.

    • I am an atheist who was raised as a Roman Catholic until I ceased believing and participating at the age of 14. Perhaps it is partly due to that exposure to Christianity, but I continue to accept and attempt to live the Judeo-Christian principles, the moral values, that I was taught.

      I may be deluded in my belief that there is no “Supreme Being”, but I do know that the world would suffer mightily without those values. One has only to look to the Left – who have worked to strenuously to denigrate and remove those moral codes from our culture here in America (and across the worlds, for that matter). I do truly believe that the Left actually supports many of the sexual perversions that mohammed built into his cult – look at the pressure being brought to bear by psychologists, psychiatrists, so-called “bio-ethicists”, and so many of the “elite” in a variety of professions, including politicians, and bureaucrats to normalize pedophilia.

      It isn’t just the sick individuals (many in high offices and positions of power) who are members of NAMBLA. People who you might otherwise deem wise, intelligent, experts in their fields, well-educated, and even _appearing_ to be moral individuals themselves, desire to have pedophilia removed form the DSM as a disorder and made to be acceptable, free of any legal restrictions – no longer a crime.

      This breakdown in morality is what is left when the Judeo-Christian moral code is removed, done away with, cast aside. The Left has been pushing us in this direction for hundreds of years, but I think they feel/felt – especially under the Obama administration – that the time has come to normalize things that any decent person knows are wrong.

      The perversions which mohammed enjoyed were one of the reasons he created his cult, to justify and make acceptable his own sick sexual desires. Child sexual abuse and actual rape, the keeping of sex slaves, even killing his followers in order to take the widow as a wife or sex slave. The killing of many thousands (during his time, millions by his followers in the years since then) who would not accept allah as their god, or mohammed as his prophet.

      These sexual “liberties”, as the Left sees them, along with the total control that imams and other elite muslims possess over the muslims masses, make islam very desirable to many on the Left, who mistakenly believe they can control islam to the benefit of their own desires and proclivities.

      Christianity is what defeated islam in the past, and its moral values are what are needed to defeat it again. Those values are also what are needed to keep our culture and our country intact. “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”  John Adams

  8. A bit disappointed to participate in this thread so late. But I do have my two cents.

    A great place to get up to date information on the recent technological expositions that have occurred in Asia, is download the “TruNews” podcasts. They give a concise overview of the three that happened in Shanghai, Seoul, and Hong Kong. And they give an able Christian centric perspective on what the “4th Industrial Age” may bring to America and the planets future.

    Virtual reality is a misnomer, all media (CONSEQUENTIAL WORD: MEDIA) from the written word, to observing a diorama, to attending a play, watching television all involve crashing through the 3rd wall into mans’ imagination. The most conceited effort to depict virtual reality has been in the television series Star Trek with their “Halodek”.

    Crew members go for recreational and training purposes go into this virtual world and we the audience lap these depictions up as harmless flights of fantasy. Media, all media is subject to lying to the public. It’s all propaganda in whatever format it takes. Beneigness is in the eye of the beholder but the aggressive tendency of the media to lie is wolfish. Especially nowadays.

    The advent of virtual reality technologies takes us from the master telling his dog “I’ll be right back”, to the dog telling the master “get me my bowl and sit there and watch me eat”. This will be the most dangerous application of mass hypnosis technology ever. The media lies. If I may, the ultimate “halodek” is mans imagination and it is reserved for God’s counsel and the trails of the heart both good and bad and the awesome.

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