(This selection was originally published in Heroes And Hierophants, available for sale wherever awesome things are sold.)
There’s something I want to talk to all of you about today, and it’s the future. When you chart the progress of humanity, the highs and the lows, when you chart the direction life has been moving in this whole time, it becomes clear that we stand today at the precipice of two paths, if I may mix metaphors: total death or eternal life. Total death would mean the extinction of all humans and the devastation of the biosphere to the point where intelligent life cannot redevelop in the time left before the sun blows up. Eternal life would entail humanity transcending their physical location and physical selves, to grow and to become gods.
If this sounds to you like rehashed rhetoric from the Old-Time Religions, you are not far off – this conflict, this crisis of choice, has been standing before us since before we were even humans. But it is only now, as humans, that we have the knowledge, the numbers, the technology, to bring about total death or eternal life. Today I’d like to talk more about the latter. READ MORE »
Of all the religious concepts I have created and toyed with in the years — and it is strange to realize how many I have created, from the Book Of Spoons to the Church Of The Auto-Deity to Nasirology to Crypto-Solipsism — out of all of them, probably my proudest moment was the creation of Gluurg. Gluurg is just like God, you see. Except he’s not God, he’s Gluurg. Later on I ret-conned that Gluurg stood for something. Galactic Lifeform Universal Something Something Something. I believe the proper term is “backronym.” But really there was no meaning. I liked the sound of Gluurg. I liked spelling it with the double u. The point of Gluurg is that Gluurg means nothing. Because Gluurg is just like God. Except he’s not God, he’s Gluurg. 
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