From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 05:27:37 MST
Emlyn wrote:
>
> > I mean, really, haven't you ever freaked a mundane? You know what I'm
> > talking about, don't you?
>
> I remember convincing a girl at a uni party that I really, truly, wanted to
> replace all my bodily biological goop with "robotic" parts, no matter how
> freaky, as long as they confered excellent advantages. Basically, becoming a
> cyberman (for all Doctor Who fans out there, although I would remove the
> weird vulnerability to gold dust). When she realised that I really meant it,
> she bugged right out - she was a jingly jangly, bells on the ankles anthro
> student.
>
> Let's here 'em; the freaking-the-mundanes story
>
>
Well, there was the time some Southern Baptist relative asked me if I
believed in God. I said that I believe that an intelligence and
technology more than powerful enough to do everything (not utterly
contradictory) in the Bible not only can but will come to be eventually
somewhere. And that if that intelligence manages to transcend time and
if time-travel does not imply creating alternate universes, then such a
being could in fact meaningfully be said to exist right now and to
meaningfully claim to be "Alpha" and "Omega". I was not very nice. I
made it worse by explaining exactly how most of the miracles of Christ
could be performed with nanotech. :-) Around that point they started
looking for the number of the Beast.
- samantha
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