From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Wed Apr 08 1998 - 21:18:35 MDT
Hal Finney wrote:
> Arjen Kamphuis, <mountain@knoware.nl>, writes:
> > On this site some basics for those unfamiliar with the problem:
> > this is a wake-up call: http://www.garynorth.com
>
> As I wrote before, Gary North is a religious fundamentalist who
> is well known among Christian millennialists (believers in the
> near-term apocalyptic events foretold in the Book of Revelations).
>
> I believe North sees Y2K in religious terms, as an element of the "end
> times" which have long been foretold. His Y2K site is largely secular,
> until you read the bulletin boards where some of his long time followers
> retain their religious views.
You know this could be rather funny. You could look at it like those people whose
technology is outmoded such that they do not fix their Y2K problems will die a
horrible death economically as their livlihoods are destroyed. Thus those people
with non Y2K compliant software and hardware are marked with 'the number of the
beast' he he he..... thus the chosen people of GOD are the extropic digerati of
the world, and the old ignorant people and bureaucracies are the minions of the
devil... he he.... If things are bad with the US's IRS, how bad are they for
computer systems in countries like India, China, and Russia??? ....
Those that get the Y2K fix will experience 1000 years of computing Heaven on
Earth, those that don't will burn in the pits of ignorance....
Hmmmmm, sounds like a marketing campaign......
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