Re: Fw: Fw: Y2K (fwd)
ChesirJosh@aol.com
Mon, 09 Aug 1999 04:43:52 -0400 (EDT)
Hi, my name is Josh.
I'm umm.... I read this list, on occassion, or sometimes just scan it
for interesting sentences and such ("Life proved NASTY, BRUTISH, SHORT"), and
I don't really contribute because I am not at all as educated as the bulk of
the participants, and I'm only 15. I remember, once, when the list was in a
very long discussion on some such thing that had something to do with my age
(Columbine, surely) some kids 'round my age wrote in talking about how it was
so hard to be 15 and writing their first opus and lecturing at Harvard, et
cetera. I'm not that at all. I'm just a guy who gets A's because school is
so pathetically simple, and who on occassion gets suspended for one reason or
another, and this year I got a zero one grading period because I didn't turn
in any assignments in a class... but this is it, hm? Well, at least that's
how I see it. I'm in the 99th percentile of all my state tests and such, and
they still put me in honors classes and all. Hm. I'm sorry, it's 3:30 AM
and I have no idea what I'm talking about. But, anyway, this is what I wrote
tonight to my mom, who had recieved some kind of confused warning from her
friends that Windows 95 computers will crash. I thought it sounded somewhat
like something that might prompt discussion, which was very much in the "I
don't know, what do YOU want do do" stages tonight.
(... technical proddings)
But personally I think that every MAJOR one of these businesses that
we're going to have any relation to will probably have this thing pretty much
all cleaned out.
And if I wanted to get REALLY theoretical on the whole thing I would say
that the y2k computer programming mistake of clocks rolling back to 00 is...
well, first I was thinking that this seemed like a kind of government scape
goat based on this subject that no one really knew about or understood so
that the American people wouldn't be thinking about all this religious final
judgment madness and instead would be thinking about their computers
crashing, and wouldn't freak out, having worldwide riots on New Years (at
least not as much). But when I think about it more I think it's probably a
bit of the opposite, which the PRESS is behind- where they WANT us to think
about all we've heard about 2000 Armageddon, only they can't very well and
respectably report about scripture and such without it being a very obvious
"World's Greatest Car Crashes" kind of pornographic deal on a planetary scale
(especially so since Fox- the disrespectable network- HAS done specials on
Apocalypse). So they've found this thing, which operates in that same
"Experts say 'I don't know what's gonna happen, but it's pretty scary, huh'"
manner to most people about computers, and they've overblown it so that 2
years in advance every magazine and news show in the country could be doing
semi-respectable and scientifically obvious end of the world stories that we,
in our misplaced fear, could devour and discuss like huddled rabbits........
kind of perfect, actually. A final blow in the fight between religion and
science, where we're not really too worried about God stopping the world, but
now we're worried about COMPUTERS stopping the world (in their similarly
intangible yet omnipresent mystery). Or, maybe, even the melding of our
modern world, where, NOW, science and God have come together and given up
their solitary domains and now bleed over into each other's worlds, one
influencing the other. And I told you, before, too, which I'm just seeing so
perfectly, about all that that I heard with the World Wide Web being the next
evolution of god as worldwide conscious and one unifying indiscriminate
faceless raceless giant brain... and it's like all of this time we were
here, for millions of years, evolving feet to walk on land and then opposable
thumbs to use tools and then we MADE tools and all of this went on and on
again until here we are nearing the final stage where all of the evolution of
previous millennia will turn back on us, and we see all evolution of past as
tools towards tools towards tools towards this final stage where we are pure
energy and thought without even the use of our bodies (think of The Matrix,
but with less of an evil edge), and we're right here BEFORE that end, and
we're on the Internet, and we're worrying about science and god together as a
packet, and what a SIGN man!- that we're right on the fringe here, and, do
you see?, that maybe it's a kind of subconvious connection and change because
we're about to BECOME Gods, sort of, where everything we've been taught about
"God is in all of us" will become much simpler, because there will be nothing
to separate us, and we will be ONE ourselves- the final phase of evolution.
Perhaps, even, towards what God IS- and perhaps this was God's intention and
master plan from the beginning, because if we were pure thought we would be
pure electrons, and if we were pure electrons then I think that we could
manipulate ourselves, couldn't we?, and create our own big bang universe and
so on... and maybe you're wondering how this would work right now... but
we're not there yet... think, though, about all we know about the world,
with the ability to manipulate our thoughts into structures and the sheer
intelligence of a world-wide conciousness- injecting ourselves onto some void
out there and then just making it our new project for a few million years
then perhaps we could become the next generation of God, if only in the
Stephen Hawking way (isn't that what he said?- that God made the big bang and
all, and from there science took over)... I don't know, maybe that last bit
was a bit stetched and unlikely, but something to think about anyway, and I
was just thinking, for a minute.
So, I don't think we'll have too much of a problem if with the y2k
computer thing, but even if we do, then it's not that big of a deal, we don't
have much saved here- we could just start over and get a new one (which we
need anyway).
Josh