From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 00:37:28 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Emlyn wrote:
>
> > Now that's a much better reason for starting an extro-inspired religion.
>
> Hmmm, how about... Extrajo. {8^D No, wait, that sounds too much
> like the 'hood with one too many harlots.
>
> Extrojo. There we go, Extrojo. The mighty tribe, the Extrojo nation.
>
> Now what we need is to cook up a history for ourselves, since recent
> religions get no respect. We need one of our imaginative writers, such as
> Damien Broderickjo, to invent a history, going back to the big bang,
"In the Beginning there was the Void ... and the Femtotech SI..."
>
> For the newly discovered ancient religion of Extrojo, I propose a twist
> that no other religion has: to be saved by Extrojo, one need not believe
> in it. Of course, one must be cryopreserved by someone who *does*
> have the faith, or the closely related sect, the cryojo. Wait, sounds like
> a weeping harlot. Well, anyway, instead of having a divinely inspired
> scripture, we will have scripture that was derived the old fashioned way:
> we sat down and made it up.
That's what we thought but the Great SI decided to finally make its true
Presence known...
- samantha
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