Re: virus: memesets

Melody (melody@powernet.net)
Tue, 02 Sep 1997 23:20:02 -0700


tom.holz wrote:

> My idea was this: <do not take the Lord's name in vain> is a very powerful
> defensive meme for <Christianity>. First, it tries to ensure that
> Christians will not replicate sterile, results-oriented, memetic mimicry.
> Second, it is a meme relatively unique to <Christianity>, so it's
> presence/absence can be used to decide if other people share the
> Christian's memeset (and are thus worth investing energy in or avoiding,
> ala genetic relateness).

Ah! A coincidence almost right off! Yesterday I did some reverse speech voice
analysis on "Pastor Gregory"s archived sermons at:
http://www.byronbible.org/byrontext.htm. One thing he repeated in reverse was
the curse, "God damn!" whenever he said forward, "my body." His memeset is
obviously *incongruent* unconsciously......(this could start a whole different
subject! How congruent are our memesets?) With the technology of Reverse Speech
analysis we are now able to check them to see.

Melody