Google v. God, a competitive analysis
After my previous post, I started thinking a little more about the comparisons between Google and the perception many people have of God. In closer examination, I have to conclude that Google comes out on top in at least five significant ways:
1. If you ask God for enlightenment, you may never get an answer. Google gives you one in just a few seconds.
2. God may or may not help those who help themselves. But Google helps those who blog and blog often. Posting three times a day is likely to give you more quantifiable results than praying three times a day.
3. People seem to get into trouble when they start thinking their god is better or more powerful than other people's gods. Google is even-handed. it gives equally to all people who asks it the right question.
4. For an allegedly all-knowing being, some people seem to think it is important to flatter God all the time. Perhaps they think he/she/it is insecure. Google needs none of that. Like your mom and her homemade food, Google only requires that you visit now and then and you will be rewarded.
5. So far as I know, not a single person has ever been killed, or even assaulted, in Google's name.
Amen to #5
Posted by: Niti Bhan | June 04, 2007 at 12:43 AM
So lets unite in frequent blogging...
My son's comment after I read him your posts: "God - Google is going to take over." His girlfriend looked alarmed as well. That made it even funnier - great posts.
Google is on God's heals, and so is the English language's most beloved and versatile word. Check this famous discourse - http://youtube.com:80/watch?v=6D7rWLzloOI
This word, as well as Google, gives people power. Some people think, and hope, that God will give them power as well - and have been disappointed, or have misinterpreted events - when "their prayers have been answered".
A genuine experience of God usually has more to do with being able to be at peace and being able to continue to love in the face of absolute powerlessness, when for example a child is cruelly murdered, or in times of war and great injustice.
Our power is a big illusion, and God's power is an even bigger illusion. Until we discover powerlessness.
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Posted by: Foundation | July 02, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Why can't you Google this ? LOL It's the honest to GODDESS
long and the short of it. No, Google isn't God. Google has no
blood, sweat, tears and cannot lay down it's life to save your
soul guaranteeing an all time place in heaven. Google needs
to step up to the plate and "pin the name on the winner" The
video in question comes up in the number one position on
You Tube and is unheard of in Google search "GOD" image of
" A WAKE UP CALL"
Posted by: | September 17, 2007 at 03:26 AM