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Burning Man just released their 2018 theme and you won’t guess what it is
Christian Journal ^
| 12/28/17
| Emma
Posted on 12/29/2017 10:34:41 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Recently we reported that the Google founders chose their CEO by taking him to burning man, a ritualistic new age event of desolation. Burning Man released their plans for 2018, appropriately theming the Black Rock based event I, Robot. Heres what they say about the event, originally posted on burningman.org:
This years art theme will focus on the many forms of artificial intelligence that permeate our lives; from the humble algorithm and its subroutines that sift us, sort us and surveil us, to automated forms of labor that supplant us. Are we entering a Golden Age that frees us all from mindless labor? Everything, it seems, depends on HMI, the Human-Machine Interface. In a world increasingly controlled by smart machines, who will be master and who will be the slave?
And yet, if we turn the telescope around and regard the capacity of robots to process information and draw conclusions from almost unlimited databases, it becomes possible to imagine a solipsistic world in which most of our friends or even all of our friends will be robots: we would be surrounded by a slave labor force. Having out-sourced our minds, we might choose to out-source our selves. Who doesnt want a friend who mirrors ones own opinion of ones self? Already it appears we may be moving in this direction. Consumerism makes us crave convenience and seek instant gratification, pointing toward an automated future shorn of human contact.
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TOPICS: Current Events; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics; Religion & Science
KEYWORDS: ai; markofthebeast; technology; transhumanism
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This article is putting yet another piece of the End Times puzzle together. You won't have a choice to accept this technology or not when it becomes official. The real prepper has Jesus in mind as the centerpiece.
To: SaveFerris; SkyPilot; Lera; metmom; jonno; Rushmore Rocks; LucyT
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posted on
12/29/2017 10:35:15 AM PST
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(21st Century American Culture = Not worth preserving)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Sounds as if the silycon valley types have completely taken over Burning Man. It was once a wild, wacky, DIY free-for-all but now it’s all corporate. Well, maybe they’ll be neater about the aftermath at least? Nah, who am I kidding, they’re leftists. Messes are for the little people to clean up. Consuela!
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Free drugs and sex culture worried about robots. I am sure there will be an introduction of the newest sexbots.
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posted on
12/29/2017 10:38:37 AM PST
by
BushCountry
(thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
To: BushCountry
Some feminist will demand that the sexbots be freed from servitude and ‘rape culture’.
But don’t take away her rabbit vibrator.
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posted on
12/29/2017 10:41:09 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Wouldn’t a more appropriate web address be burningman.orgy?
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posted on
12/29/2017 10:43:22 AM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Everyone in their own little bubbles deprived of contact with others means everyone having to pay endlessly for services and everyone easily exterminated when they become unprofitable, a rent-seekers paradise. No thank you, there is safety (and sanity) in numbers.
To: Roman_War_Criminal
....a solipsistic world in which most of our friends or even all of our friends will be robots... The dreary end result of rampant narcissism.
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posted on
12/29/2017 10:53:12 AM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Isn’t it interesting how black rock city (note: Muslims worship a black rock) is in the shape of a Pentagram (note: satanic symbol)?
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posted on
12/29/2017 11:00:15 AM PST
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
"...Burning Man just released their 2018 theme and you wont guess what it is..." Oooh! Oooh! Let me guess!
Nudity, Drugs, and Alcohol!
Well, probably better than Rum, Buggery, and The Lash.
Now, let me go read the article...
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posted on
12/29/2017 11:07:31 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
The pagan sub-culture continues.
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posted on
12/29/2017 11:10:06 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: rlmorel
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posted on
12/29/2017 11:20:54 AM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
To: rlmorel
Oh yeah. You're on the list. Gonna keep my eye on you.
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posted on
12/29/2017 11:25:14 AM PST
by
Delta 21
(Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
To: Delta 21
LOL, definitely on the list!
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posted on
12/29/2017 11:26:58 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Burning Man is so Reno...
...visit Coachella 2018
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posted on
12/29/2017 11:27:25 AM PST
by
ptsal
( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
To: WayneS
I am going to sic my personal robot terminator (with prejudice) on any human who I hear use the word
solipsistic again.
Capital Offense.
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posted on
12/29/2017 11:29:36 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
To: ptsal
I don’t know, ptsal...how can you go home afterwards and resume your normal-appearing (to your friends and neighbors, at least) life if you catch a case of coachella?
And what if you gave it to your spouse?
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posted on
12/29/2017 11:31:51 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
To: Big Red Badger
What was his actual quote? I have never heard it. I have never listened to or read him, but after you said that, it made me wonder...
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posted on
12/29/2017 11:34:27 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
To: rlmorel
With AI interface as theme....might be "Rum, bum, and the hum of servos."

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posted on
12/29/2017 11:36:19 AM PST
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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