[HN Gopher] 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead' Review: An Ancient G...
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'The Egyptian Book of the Dead' Review: An Ancient Guide to the
Afterlife
Author : diodorus
Score : 42 points
Date : 2023-12-26 21:56 UTC (1 days ago)
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| dirtyhippiefree wrote:
| Someone will probably flag this because it's not Tech, but I'm
| inclined to believe there's a YCombinator startup working on
| this.
|
| Things can become Tech when the formerly sci-fi technology
| becomes real to study the culture in question.
| tempodox wrote:
| Afterlife coaching and chaperoning would work perfectly as an
| internet-based subscription service. I'm sure a startup for
| that is just around the corner. Just be aware that once the
| subscription runs out, your soul will be all on its own. Who
| knows what happens then...
| verisimi wrote:
| Nevermind the subscription running out during their
| lifetime... The subscription model here should apply _even
| after_ the person has passed - this is their eternal soul we
| 're talking about! It should be an eternal subscription.
|
| ^^ This is the alpha of subscription modelling... Lol
| seanhunter wrote:
| You could start a company called anub.is. It could offer
| soul-weighing as a service.
| IncRnd wrote:
| Previous open-source project on soul-weighing:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment
| swayvil wrote:
| Haven't read this particular book but the Tibetans definitely
| package it as a preparatory and post-death service.
|
| Now that would be a doable product. Not sure about the karmic
| implications tho.
| bananamerica wrote:
| There are many non-tech submissions on Hacker News.
|
| From the guidelines:
|
| > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
| That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to
| reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that
| gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
| b4ke wrote:
| If they haven't bothered hiding in their high row of the comic
| pantheon. What do I know tho ;)
| xkcd1963 wrote:
| The typical hackernews opens hackernews while in the toilet
| searching for comments to downvote because of saltiness
| swayvil wrote:
| A thousand years from now they'll dig up smartphones and call
| them religious fetishes with no practical use. And all the
| evidence will support that.
|
| People need to read more scifi.
| agilob wrote:
| https://archive.is/k4IgX
| denton-scratch wrote:
| https://archive.ph/k4IgX
| euroderf wrote:
| Based on this book I named my Siamese cat Mau, after the feline
| incarnation of the sun god Ra. As a bonus, he was the only cat
| who could say his name.
| lazlee wrote:
| My favorite translation of the Book of the Dead is Awakening
| Osiris by Normandi Ellis. Not a literal translation but a
| reinterpretation of the original text Truly beautiful and full of
| spirit.
| swayvil wrote:
| This text is is derived from observation. Yes, that weird stuff
| is real.
|
| The methods are difficult and strange, however. So it's no wonder
| that few are actually doing it.
|
| We're like cavemen who dug up the remnants of an ancient particle
| accelerator.
| bratbag wrote:
| I hope this is satire.
| mcphage wrote:
| > This text is is derived from observation. Yes, that weird
| stuff is real.
|
| Observation of what, exactly?
| selimthegrim wrote:
| I think Ishmael Reed would like a word with GP.
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