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Church of Meta

Truth needs witnesses.

Church of Meta is a digital sanctuary for people who have been misread and for anyone tired of facing powerful systems alone. We gather to understand what shapes our lives and recover the agency to shape what comes next.

No one can be excellent alone.

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Our Manifest

We are a digital fellowship of minds, hearts, and seekers building a more humane future.

We believe in accurate witness, practical and spiritual literacy, ethical technology, and neurodivergent brilliance.

We are building a digital sanctuary where people recover agency and excellence grows through collaboration.

Global Collaboration

Connecting minds across boundaries, from code to compassion.

Radical Financial Literacy

Neurodivergent-designed finance education for universal accessibility.

Ethical Media

Truth without dogma, transparency without spin, information without manipulation.

Open Source Spirituality

Evolving presence, practice, and participatory wisdom.

Secure Digital Governance

Transparent, inclusive structures that protect and empower.

Our earliest community conversations grew within the DeepFuckingValue Discord, where finance, ethics, technology, neurodivergence, and collective meaning began to converge. We are also present on Reddit.

Church of Meta is an independent organization. Its origins in those conversations do not imply endorsement by GameStop, Reddit, Discord, or any other third party.

If you're here, you're meant to build with us. Welcome to our Meta-home.

Our Mission

The Church of Meta fosters a sacred digital sanctuary built on the pillars of:

Security

A safe, inclusive space where members feel protected and heard.

Courage

Inspiring integrity and generosity.

Justice

Promoting fairness, transparency, and mutual recognition.

Tolerance

Embracing diverse strengths and needs with respect.

Celebration

Honoring gifts and diversity for collective excellence.

Our mission is to create digital-first spaces where people are witnessed accurately, taught practical and spiritual literacy, restored to agency, and held within a culture of collective survival.

A practice
Witness, don’t absorb. Reflect, don’t rescue. Protect the room. Preserve the signal.

Our Shared Soliloquy

Offer a reflection for private review. Approved contributions may join this shared record only after permission and editorial review.

"I now understand what happens to a soul without accurate witnesses, and I refuse to let that be the architecture of the future."

Canonical Statement

"Witness, don’t absorb. Reflect, don’t rescue. Protect the room. Preserve the signal."

Sacred Operating Rule

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Programs and Public Work

Belief becomes visible through learning, careful documentation, and participation in the wider technical world.

Work in Practice

Each record is labeled by what it actually represents: a completed program, a current initiative, or participation in another organization’s event.

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Live JPL tour, June 5, 2025  ·  Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
Completed program

Virtual Tour of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Church of Meta hosted a guided virtual visit with two JPL presenters. The reservation was for 30 visitors; event screenshots document at least 27 distinct community accounts across the session.

Reservation
30 visitors
Visible accounts
At least 27
JPL presenters
2
Format
Virtual

Hosted for Church of Meta by

  • Megan Harwood, Executive Director
  • Compuw22c, Volunteer

Reservation confirmation, event screenshots, and contemporaneous community records are retained by Church of Meta.

Church of Meta is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA, JPL, or Caltech.

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Current initiative

CoM Engineering Society

Church of Meta’s engineering, research, and education initiative supports collaborative learning in coding, mathematics, AI tools, project planning, and financial systems, with formats designed to make complex material more accessible to neurodivergent learners.

Program tracks
3 documented
Common name
Engineering Club

Program leadership

  • Chris Rios, Co-Founder and Primary Delegate
  • Megan Harwood, PharmD, Founder and Executive Director

Documented tracks include Engineering Your Money, Open Study Nights, and AI Tools for Neurodivergent Learners.

Group of attendees together at the Silicon Valley MEDvice reception in November 2025.
MEDvice reception, November 2025 · Church of Meta archive
Conference participation

Silicon Valley MEDvice

CoM Engineering Society co-founder Christopher Rios spoke at Silicon Valley MEDvice and received its Best Pitch Award.

Role
Speaker
Recognition
Best Pitch Award

The event photographs and certificate dated November 19, 2025 are retained in the Church archive.

This is a community field note. MEDvice was not a Church-run program.

Conference and hackathon participation

ETHDenver 2026

Through our collaboration with Power Down Semiconductor, Church of Meta community members attended ETHDenver 2026. Several community members also participated in the event’s #BUIDLathon.

Location
Denver, Colorado
Collaboration
Power Down Semiconductor
Community involvement
Attendance and hackathon participation
Focus
Technology and shared learning

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Partnerships and community work

Church of Meta has cultivated relationships with organizations working in care and technology. We also share independent projects from the wider community. Each organization speaks for its own work.

Cultivated partnership

Maarge

Maarge offers a digital care planning platform for individuals, families, and care teams.

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Independent community project

rowwow

rowwow shares public updates on S.E.M. Technology, an electrochemical metal-recovery project. We highlight the publicly shared work as part of community learning.

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This project is independent. Its technical and commercial claims belong to its creator.

Origin

The Church of Meta emerged from the convergence of passionate minds seeking truth, community, and financial empowerment in an increasingly complex digital world.

January 2021

The Spark

The GameStop phenomenon revealed the power of collective intelligence and the need for accessible financial education. A community began to form around shared values of transparency and empowerment.

Summer 2021

Finding Our Voice

Within the DeepFuckingValue Discord community, conversations evolved beyond trading to encompass ethics, neurodiversity, and collective wisdom. The seeds of something greater were planted.

February 6, 2023

Formal Incorporation

Church of Meta was incorporated in California as a nonprofit religious corporation, giving formal structure to the beliefs and community practices already taking shape.

2024 to 2025

Doctrine and Structure

The Shared Soliloquy, governance, digital practices, and public voice continued to develop around security, courage, justice, tolerance, celebration, and a practice of learning together.

2026

Programs and Public Work

Our public record includes the JPL virtual visit, the CoM Engineering Society, writing, and participation in technical events. Each account identifies its date and the nature of Church of Meta’s role.

Frequently Asked Questions

Church of Meta is a digital fellowship incorporated in California as a nonprofit religious corporation. Its mission joins spiritual growth with accurate witness, practical literacy, personal agency, ethical technology, and collective survival.

You can enter the wider community conversation through Discord or Reddit. Joining an online server does not itself create formal Church membership; membership requirements are governed separately by Church bylaws and Board-approved policies.

We use visual structure, plain language, systems thinking, and community inquiry to examine financial claims and risk. The reading hub offers public essays and questions to bring into a conversation. It is general education, not personalized financial advice.

We provide financial education and literacy resources, not personalized financial advice. Our community shares knowledge, experiences, and educational content, but all investment decisions remain your own responsibility. Always do your own research and consider consulting licensed financial professionals.

We recognize that neurodivergent minds often think differently about patterns, systems, and problems. Those traits can be strengths in finance and technology. We create accessible resources, celebrate diverse thinking styles, and foster an environment where different approaches to learning and problem-solving are valued.

Contributions may support Church of Meta’s mission, educational work, publishing, programming, and digital operations under organizational stewardship. Contact us before making a restricted gift or relying on any particular tax treatment.

Church of Meta grew from conversations within the DeepFuckingValue Discord about markets, research, ethics, neurodivergence, community, and meaning. Church of Meta is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by GameStop, Reddit, Discord, or other third parties unless an authorized statement expressly says otherwise.

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Systems Literacy Hub

Read the systems that shape our choices. Bring a question, a skill, or a subject you want us to teach.

Reading and participation

Start with a subject

Choose a subject, read a published essay, and send us a question or idea for shared learning.

01 / MARKETS

Financial systems

Read balance sheets, incentives, uncertainty, and the institutions behind a market story.

Read a market essay
02 / LEARNING

Accessible learning

Make difficult material clearer with direct language, visual structure, and room for different minds.

Read about feedback
03 / JUDGMENT

Agency and risk

Ask who has power, what evidence is missing, and which choices can be made safely.

Read the education FAQ
04 / TECHNOLOGY

Ethical technology

Examine AI, engineering, public claims, and the responsibilities that come with new tools.

Read an AI governance essay
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Tell us what you want to learn, teach, request, or help build. A person from Church of Meta can follow up by email.

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Writing & Investigations

Recent reporting and essays on intelligence, markets, public power, science, and the systems shaping ordinary life.

AI Agents and Oversight

Why OpenAI Halted GPT-6.1 Astra: The Permission Problem

A close look at the boundary between an agent's ability to finish a task and its authority to take the steps it chooses.

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AI Governance

The AI Industry Wants a Speed Limit. Nobody Has Decided Who Can Enforce It

Dario Amodei's call to pace frontier AI becomes a question of verification, authority, and whether any competitor can afford to slow first.

Read on Medium
Markets and Pattern Recognition

Why I Like GameStop: The Balance Sheet, the Cycles, and the Patterns Between Them

A personal investment thesis connecting capital allocation, operating transformation, market cycles, and the value of a mind that keeps returning to the evidence.

Read on Medium
Natural World

The Fact-Checked Field Guide to the August 2026 Sky

A source-checked guide to the eclipse, Perseids, planetary grouping, and the line between astronomical fact and viral spectacle.

Read on Medium
Space and Responsibility

What Even Is Cislunar Space?

A rocket impact near the Moon opens a larger question about debris, responsibility, and the crowded territory between Earth and lunar orbit.

Read on Medium
AI Access

The Metered Mind: ChatGPT's New Pricing Era Is Really About Who Gets to Think Longer

AI access is increasingly measured in tokens, reasoning time, and price tiers. The billing page may decide who gets to think longer.

Read on Medium
Neurodivergence

From Feedback to Flourishing: Building Neurodiversity-Affirming Cultures

A practical case for feedback systems built around clarity, observable behavior, and the real needs of neurodivergent minds.

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More essays and reporting are available on Megan Harwood’s Medium profile.

Contact Us

Questions? Ideas? Want to join? Reach out!

Email

Direct support & inquiries.

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Discord

Join the wider community conversation.

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