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Topic: Is Bitcoin a religion? Satoshi is our God? - page 2. (Read 3283 times)

sr. member
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November 23, 2013, 10:45:49 PM
#40
this thread cannot be serious. if by religion, you mean myopic fanboy who sees everything in BTC, then maybe. then again i can't say everybody on this site is like that, but there sure are lots of them.
legendary
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Gresham's Lawyer
November 23, 2013, 10:44:19 PM
#39
Capitalist, industrialised society is kind of a religion replacement: the priesthood alone know how and why the machine keeps ticking over, and everyone else just believes it when they say so, as the results are demonstrative that it's all working (operative word in the last sentence: "believes"). Not so different from religion IMO, except that I suspect we have a much lower rate of non-believers (the heretics!) than religious society would have.

I guess this worldwide economic malaise is kind of like when Martin Luther came back from Rome, complaining that the priesthood are all corrupt, and with all the rational non-believers/heretics that were saying the same after all that renaissance stuff. So, Satoshi is more of a modern day Da Vinci than cyber-prophet, and I guess we're in a renaissance replay. And we're the neo-heretics.

Is it a coincidence that the whitepaper was published on REFORMATION DAY?
Also Halloween, the night of costumes and hidden identities?
hero member
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November 23, 2013, 09:56:06 PM
#38
Satoshi is my sugar daddy...
legendary
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November 23, 2013, 09:04:15 PM
#37
Why does everything has to be about religion...if something is good then just accept it that way  Smiley
It has to be about religion because a large segment of bitcoin supporters are complete bat**** fanatics that have made it into a religion. How you view it is up to you.  Smiley
LOL good comment but maybe not.  Suppose bitcoin was just a really strong meme, of which yeah, religion is another thing that forms that.  But other things do, too.  The Beatles did it.  The Rolling Stones.  Hate to say it, but Obama had a strong meme.   No, let's forget that last one - it wasn't so strong, or it would have lasted.

What causes a set of ideas to form a strong meme involves the (believer, follower, convert, whatever) to have to discover or root out some fair part of the theory on their own, since they will believe fervently if they figured it out themself instead of someone just telling them about it.

Bitcoin is not a religion and I dont really care about Satoshi.
I want to know and be able to prove I possess the whole coin not the one hundred millionth.

Although bitcoin is not a religion it certainly has it bitcoin athiests who fervently pursue their religion of bitcoin atheism.

"There is no coin" they say.  "The money is the money backed by governments" they say.  "We must have faith in the almighty dollar not the lowly bitcoin" they say.  These heretics and these infidels may be disregarded, yet we know that the Day of Revelations draws nigh, when they learn their dollars have no hamburger and fries buying power, and when those with the bitcoin wallet have full stomachs and cases of the finest beer.
full member
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November 23, 2013, 05:10:55 PM
#36
Bitcoin is not a religion and I dont really care about Satoshi.
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November 23, 2013, 09:37:56 AM
#35
bitcoin IS a religion, but satoshi is NOT my god, he is my PROPHET (you know, like Jesus)  Cheesy

shut your heathen mouth or the almighty will take revenge!
we don't want the bitcoin to drop Cheesy



legendary
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Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform
November 22, 2013, 01:02:45 AM
#34
Behold the Angel

hero member
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October 21, 2013, 05:32:36 PM
#33
bitcoin IS a religion, but satoshi is NOT my god, he is my PROPHET (you know, like Jesus)  Cheesy
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October 21, 2013, 04:35:11 PM
#32
Our Satoshi, who art in blockchain,
Encrypted be thy name
Thy transactions come
Thy will be done on ASICS
As it is on Github.
Give us this day our daily mining reward,
And forgive our zero-conf double-spends
As we forgive them that double-spend against us.
And lead us not into alt-chains
But deliver us from Ripple
For thine is the mining rig,
The hashing power, and the block reward,
For ever and ever
Amen.

This is awesome.

It is quite accurate too ha-ha so yah awesome XD
It is. I laughed quite a bit.
Love it, and managed to slag off ripple too!
legendary
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October 21, 2013, 04:29:12 PM
#31
Why does everything has to be about religion...if something is good then just accept it that way  Smiley
It has to be about religion because a large segment of bitcoin supporters are complete bat**** fanatics that have made it into a religion. How you view it is up to you.  Smiley

Because were growing to big to just remain a cult XD
hero member
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October 21, 2013, 12:22:40 PM
#30
Why does everything has to be about religion...if something is good then just accept it that way  Smiley
It has to be about religion because a large segment of bitcoin supporters are complete bat**** fanatics that have made it into a religion. How you view it is up to you.  Smiley
legendary
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October 21, 2013, 03:38:07 AM
#29
Why does everything has to be about religion...

See, if people could get over this one simple thing, we would actually have the energy to move forward and do something productive.  Religion (and politics) has proven to be the greatest black hole of human thought thus far, where nobody is ever wrong but nobody is ever right.
sr. member
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October 21, 2013, 03:17:32 AM
#28
Why does everything has to be about religion...if something is good then just accept it that way  Smiley
legendary
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Merit: 1115
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October 21, 2013, 02:14:51 AM
#27
Found that old thread if you want a few more laughs

Gavin is The Pope
Satoshi is God
Then the matryr must be Laszlo  Grin


https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-church-of-satoshi-and-latter-day-coins-122239

But this one XD

In Crypto We Trust


This weeks hymn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1qooBzE2w


Gotta love getting Zhou Tonged
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di5NSU5yuKE
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Verified awesomeness ✔
October 18, 2013, 04:49:14 PM
#26
Our Satoshi, who art in blockchain,
Encrypted be thy name
Thy transactions come
Thy will be done on ASICS
As it is on Github.
Give us this day our daily mining reward,
And forgive our zero-conf double-spends
As we forgive them that double-spend against us.
And lead us not into alt-chains
But deliver us from Ripple
For thine is the mining rig,
The hashing power, and the block reward,
For ever and ever
Amen.

This is awesome.

It is quite accurate too ha-ha so yah awesome XD
It is. I laughed quite a bit.
legendary
Activity: 2884
Merit: 1115
Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform
October 18, 2013, 04:34:39 PM
#25
Our Satoshi, who art in blockchain,
Encrypted be thy name
Thy transactions come
Thy will be done on ASICS
As it is on Github.
Give us this day our daily mining reward,
And forgive our zero-conf double-spends
As we forgive them that double-spend against us.
And lead us not into alt-chains
But deliver us from Ripple
For thine is the mining rig,
The hashing power, and the block reward,
For ever and ever
Amen.

This is awesome.

It is quite accurate too ha-ha so yah awesome XD
sr. member
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Merit: 250
October 18, 2013, 04:32:26 PM
#24
Is math, then, a religion, because it's founded on a belief(s) (i.e, the postulates)?

Aren't religions founded on postulates?


I think we have here an amazing example of an "if but not only if" situation.
BCB
vip
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BCJ
October 18, 2013, 04:29:28 PM
#23
Other companies have software "evangelists"

so the metaphor is biblical, not religious.
legendary
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Hamster ate my bitcoin
October 18, 2013, 04:27:31 PM
#22
Is math, then, a religion, because it's founded on a belief(s) (i.e, the postulates)?

Aren't religions founded on postulates?
sr. member
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Merit: 250
October 18, 2013, 04:13:03 PM
#21
Yes, bitcoin is a religion because it's founded on a belief. The belief that an individual attacker will never have more than fifty percent of the networks processing power.


Is math, then, a religion, because it's founded on a belief(s) (i.e, the postulates)?
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