The SecondLife Bible - A public work

Ok, more on topic...

"And Aimee said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of Phillip."

MM

Actually that is badly translated from the original Esperanto. Most historians agree that "I am the Echo and the Omega. Shop at PREEN." is more accurate.

Please don't let LL mess with the value of pi.

Somehow, "In the beginning, there was Doug" just does not have the same cachet as Philip.

But while they are tinkering around with the forums, give us an emoticon for pie please.

You've gotta be a2e76fcd-9360-4f6d-a924-000000000000'n kidding me!

MM

Doug is guoD written backwards!

Wouf?

Look we have a god allready dwellnor!

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I'm not buying any of this! Think logically folks! Everyone should realize that there is no SL God.

What happened is that first there was a pulsing cluster of energy left over from countless acts of commercialism, creativity and cyber sex within the internet. Being that these shreds of energy are naturely attracted to one another, due to positive and negative poles, they clustered in a small corner of empty virtual space within the endless web.

As more and more shreds of left over virtual energy began to gather, the minute mass of each added to the whole, until it collapsed in on itself and caused a chain reaction, now known as the Virtual Bang, sending spinning hunks of pixelated matter into the void regions of the web. Over millions of nano-seconds, these spinning vortexes of pixelated matter began to condense and became what are now known as primatives.

The prims, having gained virtual mass and gravitation (physics capable), began to form clusters, that over millions more nano-seconds, became what we call sims.

This was all happening, without anyone knowing, until an intrepid internet cybersex junky named Philip, accidently hit a series of keys with his free hand, causing his browser to redirect into this before unknown prim-filled virtual space.

Seeing the possibilities, he quickly claimed the space as his own, making up a virtual myth about it's creation, in order to attract various geeks, bimbos, and others to provide free labor and entertainment and to do his bidding.

As far as Cory and Doug go, they were just names that Philip used when accessing his favorite adult-themed websites, and he continues to trot out these alter-egos when he needs to do some dirty work, yet retain his good (and to some, godly) name.

So, enough of this religion crap. It's all just science!

+---------------+--------------------------------------+
| avatar_name   | avatar_key                           |
+---------------+--------------------------------------+
| Doug Linden   | a2e76fcd-9360-4f6d-a924-000000000001 |
| Cory Linden   | a2e76fcd-9360-4f6d-a924-000000000002 |
| Philip Linden | a2e76fcd-9360-4f6d-a924-000000000003 |
| Jed Linden    | a2e76fcd-9360-4f6d-a924-000000000004 |
| Eric Linden   | a2e76fcd-9360-4f6d-a924-000000000006 |
| Andrew Linden | a2e76fcd-9360-4f6d-a924-000000000010 |
| Ian Linden    | a2e76fcd-9360-4f6d-a924-000000000016 |
+---------------+--------------------------------------+

This presumes a literal interpretation of the code. Most literary and numeric scholars hold that early scribes (in a clear effort to link the line of Linden holy priests, to the creation of the Second World) wrote this primitive "begat list" to link the HIGH Priest Philip to the creation of the Second World.

In reality the historical Philip lies deep in the bowels of the mystical Philip we see in forum posts. Many see certain artificial intelligence patterns in many of Philip's forum utterings and Public Townhall "performances".

See page 342 of my book "The Quest for the Historical Philip".

You guys are going to make me pull out my old monk robes, aren't you? AREN'T YOU??

It would be fun to create a virtual religion. When Ulrika started Neualtenburg, she was going to incorporate a church (don't know what happened with that), and I thought, "What fun it would be to create my own psuedo-religion." It would be interesting to map the people of SL to mythical gods and correlate places and events in SL history with mythical (or real) places and events on Earth that have religious significance....

For example, every culture has a Flood story. What event in Second Life caused the grid to be wiped clean, forcing a restart of all but a select few avatars? Who are the Chosen Few (the Jews of SL). Who is the Prophet (The Mohammed, Jesus, or Buddah)?

This could be interesting.

Obviously, the FIC are the chosen people. Philip has a covenant with Aimee - he has promised to redeem the metaverse by sending his only Son. All in good time.

Actually, my mom wrote up her account of what happened to us about 35 years ago when we had to leave this world. Her story only concerns our small family and, in the scheme of things, is a very recent event. I'm sure there are others who have their own perspective on what happened.

As far as what happened in the very beginning, I have no clue. My great grandma, Cessadia Thetan, has told me stories that have been handed down about others from Earth who became stranded here in sporadic crossovers over the years. She herself met some folks that became stranded here in what would have been Earth's late 1800's. She has also said that there were stories of people disappearing from this world, without a trace, and never seen nor heard from again.

Before The Erase, my birth dad and my mom used to study the ruins that can be found in the Rodeo region today. That was somthing that they took on after they assumed the caretaker duties of the forest from my great grandpa, Phyneas Jack, after he past away. I've been continuing those efforts as time permits.

Grandma Thetan has told me that when the Lindens first punched through into this world (a few years ago in the Da Boom region) they had to project a force field through the portal in order to stabilize the chaotic energy that was preventing the cohesion of solid matter. This was the beginning of the Lindens' Grid. The Grid is an artifical energy barrier that makes it possible for matter to exist here. When the first square of The Grid was successfully stabilized, the Lindens began sending people through the portal to help secure and expand The Grid. Early explorers had to wear special primitar suits to protect them when The Grid would temporarily weaken.

What the Lindens' found when they began exploring were sections of barren landscape -- about 16 acres per Grid region. Water and land areas began to emerge and the Lindens' energy Grid allowed them to manipulate the shape of the land to a large degree. Many of the first explored regions have been terraformed way beyond their original form. More recently, the Lindens have placed height restrictions on terraforming limits, helping to preserve the original shape of the land. Every expansion of The Grid has revealed more and more of the existing landscapes of this world. And occassionally, something turns up that seems quite improbable -- something that survived The Erase. It's my understanding that only a very tiny portion of this world has been revealed so far.

An interesting connection can be found here. It looks like there might be others who have returned to this world after The Erase as well.

It would make sense to me that there has been more than one erase since time began. But the bigger question, definately, is how did this all get started?!?

There´s answers we shall seek within the greatest scriptures (aka scripts) of TEH CODE. Thousands, maybe Billions of eons ago, forgotten to be safeguarded by LAG, the god of chaos and delay... btw are the GODS opensource?

Demigods appeared in TEH GRID, like flies in the web no one knows from where, and some know anyway but you dont have to say it out loud, and they called themselves Lindens. They are above and beyond us, we are just avatars in the vast world, while they, they clean the mess we leave behind. Theres some notes in the between lines of TEH CODE but since it start with //> we didnt bother to decipher, its something about the end of the world and marketing and currency and land selling but it´s probably nothing important anyway...

And the Lord Phil spake unto them: "you may use any prim within the garden... but twist not the fruit of the torus tree - for on the day you twist of it, you will surely lag."

Thank Bob! A ray of hope!

Can't we all see it's a divine Trinity?

Doug = Father
Philip = Son
Corey = Wholy Ghost

If I remember correctly, Pathfinder Linden has some "ancient texts" regarding the true origins of SL. It's been a while since I last saw them, so I can't remember at the moment what they contained...

Uhhhh don't you mean

Mag 1:1

In the holy and darkest night, in the first microsecond of Beginnings, there was Magnum.....

The Book of: Origination: 1, 1, 1.
In the beginning, the gods created the regions and the grid. And they thought it was good. They placed a few areas down and littered them with cubes and people designed in their own image (which some messed up by adjusting the sliders too much).

After the 2nd day the gods added local lighting. They thought it was great. Then they added tons a of buggy features. The residents cried out in pain. Their pain was unanswered.

After the 4th day the gods added pose balls. The residents became feared. The gods thought it was amusing. So then the gods gave them the ability to be any gender. Things got a little messy.

On the 6th day the gods introduced havok 1. The buggieness of this engine caused many people to fly into space and hinges to break. The gods ignored it and continued to build. The residents began creating guns that abused this new engine.

On the 7th and final day the gods stopped answering tech support questions and went on vacation. The residents were on their own now and began to worship other things like slave masters and Shiny flexible bump map Enabled Objects.

The gods told a messenger to deliver 10 commandments. The messenger spake unto thy people...
1. You shall not grief.
2. You shall not resell freebies, or sell other peoples items for more then you paid.
3. You shall not Stack sound files making them so loud they break headphones to someone 5 sims away.
4. Honor thy Linden. For they made the world of which you creapith.
5. You shall not troll the forums.
6. Don't Knock something unless Yee have tried it.
7. You shall not crash the grid of which people creapith! For some run businesses and manages sex clubs.
8. Stop picking on those poor Furries.
9. You shall not Creapith or Flyith into places yee does not belong.
10. Do not be a camp zombie. For others make more money then you by working.

Whoever breakith these commandments created by yee gods shall be punished with the plague of fifteen thousand twisted physical prims generating action hot dog sound clips (do da la lalalalalala) stacked 50 times while shooting multi colored particles and displaying movies takin from werez p2p programs. Failure to be threatened by this plague will result in another plaque even worse then the last.

(this thread was just a jake.) XD

Get to the Part where "Baby Ansh" e was born in Bethlehem already! That's my favorite story!

We will need 4 ppl to write their own book on i of course
Who will be Matthew, who will be Mark, who will be Luke, and who will be John?