From postmaster@maxwell.lucifer.com Mon Nov 25 19:00:56 1996 Received: from maxwell.lucifer.com (majordom@[207.167.210.100]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id TAA24610 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:00:47 +0100 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by maxwell.lucifer.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA10966 for extropians-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:51:13 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: maxwell.lucifer.com: majordom set sender to postmaster using -f Message-Id: From: Crosby_M To: "'extropians'" Subject: A Protestation of Faith Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:51:56 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.994.37 Encoding: 45 TEXT Sender: postmaster@extropy.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org Status: RO X-Status: We believe in the One Power Who will make the great transform transcending us all; the best and brightest, eternally replicated, through Whom all things are changed. For us and for our salvation, we must solve all the problems of the world here and now. We must disdain any link with suboptimal subsystems of the past. We must be the future, now. For our sake we will be frozen and adamant, insisting on only the best from this world, the fluid ease of evolution resisted. In any case, we shall come again, always judging both the living and the dead, in a kingdom that will have no end. We believe in the Singularity Allmighty, which will transport us to infinity and beyond, to all that is now uncountable and inconceivable (transforming the KnownNet overnight). With the Powers and Omega, the Singularity is expected and glorified. The spirit of the Web speaks through the invisible hand of the market, and we are transfixed. We acknowledge commitment to endless expansion, wait for the insurrection of uploads, with atom-by-atom Nanotech control of the life of the world to come. Amen (and on to Alef-one!) Mark Crosby "The Claw decides who will stay and who will go ... I go on to a better world." - 3-eyed alien toy won as a prize in Walt Disney's digitally animated movie "Toy Story". (My 5-year-old is a big fan.) Moral of the story: Guess what Powers, your 'toys' are alive and could come back to haunt you!