From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@ricochet.net)
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 17:43:53 MDT
Samantha writes
>Lee Corbin wrote:
>> Have you not hear the Good Word? There is a chance that not
>> only death but all suffering will soon be extinguished!
>> There arises in the East (actually, to be specific, Atlanta)
>> Good Tidings of great joy. Our salvation may be at hand.
>>
>> So rejoice ye, it **could** be true!
>
>If it isn't Atlanta then it could be somewhere else. The above
>may have been written tongue in cheek
The style, of course, is tongue in cheek. But not the content.
That's what made it so fun to write, namely, that we can **sound**
exactly like the old-time millenarianists, yet still be meaning
every single word.
>but it is quite literally true that we have now and soon
>will have much more power to create what we most wish than
>has ever existed in this world. Whether it is literally or
>at least relatively our salvation or our damnation, our
>heaven or our hell is very much up to us. That is the
>Good News and the Scary News rolled into one.
Just so.
>> Even more recently, these highest beings have escaped the worst
>> clutches of poverty---not that life even in the City of Joy was
>> ever unworthy of living for most people---and have escaped war
>> (thanks to the divine Hydrogen Bomb, the actual Salvation of
>> the 1960's).
>
>The HB was not a blessing, divine or otherwise, except in that
>it showed us our power and what it could come to if we did not
>learn wisdom along with that power.
Perhaps. But if one lived in some of the worlds where
nuclear weapons were not invented, and World War III
killed a hundred million people, one might be
poetically sympathetic to The Bomb. "This" instance
of me wasn't there, but a number of other instances were,
I am so sure.
>> And to top it all off, it seems most wonderfully probable that
>> from the Earth will emerge a Life Burst, and at close to the
>> speed of light Life will soon convert the unbelieving dead
>> matter everywhere to eternal joy.
>This is very possible. Although I have the sneaking suspicion
>that we are not alone. The Others, are staying hidden to see
>how we will use our growing powers if we think it is only up
>to us. What they do in relation to us depends on what we do
>within ourselves and our creations.
Yes. But even if no one from space is watching (or
even exists), the eyes of our own future are upon
us, just as you say. The conventions we adopt now,
our behavior now, will strongly influence them.
Lee
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