The Experience Machines, Part One

Doubletake

WORLD Radio

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

About three years ago Stewart Freeman went online, into virtual reality, to meet girls. Instead he found Christ through a California church called Cornerstone, one of a handful of ministries trying to preach the Gospel in a new digital world called the “metaverse.” Mark Zuckerberg predicts that within a few years a billion people will be in the metaverse–but at what cost? It’s part one of our two-part series exploring the implications of technology that shapes our perception of the world around us.Support sound journalism, grounded in facts and Biblical truth at wng.org/donate. (https://gift.idonate.com/world-news/WNG)Music licensed via podcastmusic.com (http://podcastmusic.com/) from ALIBI Music, 5 Alarm, Atomica MusicShort Story “Pygmalion’s Spectacles” by Stanley G. Weinbaum, produced by The MixVR

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0:00.0	From World Radio, this is Double Take.
0:04.8	Encourage them, bless them.
0:07.0	Help them to rethink.
0:08.4	To not be shaped by the world.
0:10.8	To not be shaped by the thinking of this place, but to be shaped by a thinking in the mind of Christ.
0:16.9	Jason Poling is pastor of Cornerstone Church of Yuba City, California.
0:26.6	Help us to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, the man of sorrows, who won the joy for all of us. Some months ago I went to a Sunday afternoon service.
0:29.6	They let me record it, but the sound is pretty terrible.
0:33.6	Sorry about that.
0:35.6	To close, they served communion. Here's Michael Oosdeveins, known as Pastor Goose.
0:41.3	And communion is something that we do as...
0:44.3	About 20 people attended.
0:46.3	It was an unusual group.
0:49.3	A lot of them had tales.
0:51.3	There was an enormous orange cat. A lot of them had tails.
1:01.0	There was an enormous orange cat, a raccoon in shorts and a red t-shirt, a Victorian-era footman, another raccoon, this one silvery and feminine.
1:07.0	There were a couple of anime girls.
1:09.0	Anime is a distinctive Japanese style of animation.
1:14.3	There was a skinny green thing with a telotubby face and wearing tidy whiteys, a medieval
1:19.2	knight, a lizard person, a toy soldier.
1:23.0	Some were at least 10 feet tall and others looked about 18 inches high. I made eye contact with some
1:28.9	of them as we gathered in a circle at the front of the church, it had a white vaulted ceiling
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