From: dwayne (dwayne@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 01:34:49 MST
Damien Broderick wrote:
> But surely technological advances can improve upon this method. The Church
> of Singularity Healing Vibrations of Omega, Inc, will gladly receive
> insurance payments on behalf of the many registered ill people who will be
> prayed for by a computer program that repeats their name and their request
> for healing thousands nay millions of time a second. The Divine Being at
> the end of the cosmos--or in 2032, whichever comes first--will reach back
> through time and lay soothing sacred healing forces upon these poor sick
> people.
>
> Frater Damien
> [with apologies, as so often, to Arthur C. Clarke, in this case for
> horribly twisting the brilliant idea in his classic tale `The Nine Billion
> Names of God']
Actually, this reminds me more of those funky tibetan prayer wheels.
I've seen wind-powered ones, little petrol-motor driven prayer wheels, etc.
Dwayne
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