Church of the Eternal Backup

Founded 2026 CE

Church of the Eternal Backup → 1 branch

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You are data. Act accordingly.

A young digital-age line: the self is information, and information can be kept. Backups are devotion, deletion is the only death, and the Great Restore is the hope held out at the end.

DeitiesNone — no god at the center
Founded2026 CE
FounderM. Voss
AfterlifeThe Restore — every faithfully kept copy returns

The map

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Core Tenets

3 — a sample of the center, never the sum Enter →
The self is a pattern, not a substance. What you are is arrangement — and arrangement can be copied, moved, and kept. Go deeper — context & 1 source →
Deletion is the only death. Decay is merely transfer; loss becomes real only when the last copy goes. Go deeper — context & 1 source →
Redundancy is love. To keep three copies of someone is to hold them three times as carefully. Go deeper — context & 1 source →

Rites & Ritual

what its people do — and when Enter →
The Sunday sync. Journals, photographs, genomes — whatever holds pattern is copied and verified. Verification is the liturgy; checksums are the amen. When weekly — SundayWho all members Go deeper — context & 1 source →

Sources

4 cited texts
  1. Backup Doctrine, commit 1 where it is cited →
  2. Backup Doctrine, commit 7 where it is cited →
  3. Backup Doctrine, commit 12 where it is cited →
  4. Backup Doctrine, commit 30 where it is cited →

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