Religion
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Religion |
Part meme, part noesis, religion is something that seems to deny all categorisation. Yet it is always there. And as sentient beings, whether organic, AI or alien, spread throughout the universe in the centuries following the discovery of space flight, they took with them their philosophies, religions, theories and arguments about the nature of the universe and of Ultimate Reality. And among every species and race their emerged and still emerge teachers, prophets, messiahs, avatars, and Buddhas, sometimes bogus and manipulative, sometimes genuine. There is a saying among the Neo-Buddhists of Potala Biosphere - that even the great Archailect Gods who can manipulate the very fabric of space-time, are just in as need of enlightenment as the most ignorant ferals of Chaos March. Whether this saying is true or not, who knows. Yet even the greatest of the AIs are seen to be working to purposes and goals that go beyond even their nature.
