Re: virus:Logic

chardin (chardin@uabid.dom.uab.edu)
Sat, 11 Oct 1997 18:12:45 CST+6CDT


> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 07:37:25 -0400
> From: Sodom <sodom@ma.ultranet.com>
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus:Logic
> Reply-to: virus@lucifer.com

> Nathaniel Hall wrote:
> >
> > chardin wrote:
> > The prophets also say that in the last days God will make
> > Jerusalem a "burdensome stone for all nations". Picked up a
> > newspaper lately?
> >
> > Berlin was a "burdensome nation for awhile" so was
> > Moscow,Paris,Washington D.C., Peking , Johannesburg , Tokyo ,
> > London , Prague ,Warsaw and so on and so on. In the year 1000 A.D.
> > (The Dark Ages) widespread belief in the end of the world was the
> > norm. I predict the year 3000 shall also have the same effect. (If
> > I'm right do I get to be called a prophet and have my words clung
> > too no matter how much they disagree with what one actually sees
> > in the world or what is actually good and just?) The Nateman
> You have a pretty puny idea of burdonsome. How bout Mexico city, or
> NY
> City, or ANY major city. The murder rate there is no where near what
> it is here or in other troubled spots in the world. With the
> exception of the religious, and oil fans, the middle ease is a
> worthless chunk of land. There are no other valuable resources,
> culture or technology. The people kill each other becasuse they
> think their god told them too. If you saw your first pond of water
> and had never seen an ocean, you would be convinced that this was
> the ocean. I admire your attempts to see something where you want to
> see something, but you must realize that Isreal and the rest of the
> middle east is NOT a significant world player. If it was gone
> tomorrow, very few people would care for long and many would
> rejoice.
>
> Here is a line that might help you:
>
> "And when I squinted, the world seemed rose tinted and angels
> appeared to descend. To my suprise, with half closed eyes, things
> looked even better than when they were opened"
>
> Depeche Mode
> Violator
>
>
>
> Sodom

Sodom, can I hold you to it? Israel and Jerusalem are nothing but an
old chunk of nothing --not very significant in world events?
It may take a while but you may have to eat
your words. But eating words isn't so bad, I've
had to do it a few times myself. CHARDIN