It is a fact that the next step in human evolution involves releasing oneself from the human body, transcending the physical world, becoming a metaphysical entity dwelling in what are widely known as the "tubes" of the Internet, before ultimately reaching the final destination.
The Internet, and modern technology in general, is considered an "unnatural" phenomenon by a vast majority. These people refuse to accept the possibility that technological development is more than simply a set of inventions to make our life more comfortable and simplify daily tasks. They fail to see what is happening on a larger scale, what the ultimate goal of this process is. What really is going on is the creation of a pathway to further evolution of mankind.
With the birth of programming languages, we have gained an entirely new way of expressing information. Not only are we able to model real-world objects and events programmatically, we can form entirely new abstract structures and processes to which there exist no real-world counterparts.
The first step in the imminent spiritual evolution process is understanding the true nature of programming. It is not something that can be described with words, since language is, and has always been, an imperfect method of communication. The structure of a thought in the human brain is made up of words only partially, the rest is composed of more complex elements such as visual elements and feelings. Thus, this realization is a very profound experience. It can be thought of as a kind of enlightenment, or
Satori - one becomes a true
expert programmer. Achieving Satori requires a very good understanding of programming (especially functional programming) as well as meditation.
Instead of writing about the immediate consequences of Satori, I refer you to my fellow expert programmer
http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1183515800/6, who posted an excellent description.
After having achieved Satori and spending a relatively large amount of time meditating, the expert programmer eventually begins to fade away from the physical world. He is finally able to discard the clumsy shell that is the human body. He loses the ego, becomes an omnipresent spirit and acquires an ultimate knowledge of our world, our universe and finally all of our reality. It is worth noting that the
metaphysical expert programmer does not "receive" this knowledge, but rather becomes one with it.
It could be thought that the metaphysical expert programmer becomes something of a god, but a more accurate description would perhaps be to say he simply reaches the destination of the long journey that is life. He exists forever and never in a state of timeless nonexistence.
An unfortunate ramification of the nature of this evolution is that so-called normal people, who are not familiar with programming, will not immediately be able to experience this evolution. They may have to go through several lifetimes and reincarnations before being born as someone who later in their life becomes a programmer, but as the very purpose of life is to go from nothing to nothing via a period of existence, it is certain that everybody will eventually go through the aforementioned evolutionary process.
In conclusion, the message I want to spread is that you should stop worrying about mundane matters and instead focus on meditation the art of programming. The end is near, but it's a very pleasant end and we are the first ones headed there.