Is the computer God? Was it an act of divine malice or mercy that took my computer away? These are a few if the overriding questions that bedeviled me while I morned alone outside of the world of the blessed, in hell or more aptly, in non cybor-space. I remembered reading the theologian Paul Tillich years ago and marveling over his idea of sin as separation. He posited that sin was separation from the ground of ones being, i.e. God, from ones self and from ones people. Sin was not so much an act as a state of being. I felt this separation and reacted to it as any normal outcast would. I mourned, I cajoled, I bargained, I felt sick. We need another level in Dante's hell for the DISCONNECTED. For those who for whatever reason, do not have computers are in hell somewhere between those who believed in nothing and those who are in hell because they lived before the computer was invented. Another hard thing I learned from this was that God is a male. A female computer would never just betray you like that. She would never just be there one minute and then leave without so much as a, "So long Kid". She would want to talk it over before she left you. She would drop all sorts of hints that she was going to do something bad. I am afraid of my computer now and every time I turn it on I know that something bad can happen that I don't know how to fix. Is the computer satan?
posted by Anne Coe | 2:36 PM
8 Comments:
A woman would only have invented the horror of the computer to keep in touch with those she loved, not to do the main things computers do.
A technical type would simply look at the computer, any computer, as another tool like a hammer or a telephone. There are other computers that can take over the job, like the ones at the library. THe trick is to store your information outside your own computer, avoiding storing any personal information. Then the computer god becomes the web god, far more than just the thing in one's home.
Not good to anthropomorphise some electronic thing full of ones and zeroes.
Well, it is clear that demons took Anne, but not her computer. Where is she?
BORING! Let's hear it for not letting computers (inanimate objects) intimidate one.
Where is the talk of gnats, nails, and puppy dog tails, physics and art, and quirks, and string theory. By the way, if chaos theory is right, and god only knows if it is (how would you test the bugger?), what does it have to say about string theory--the theory of tangled string?
speaking of DISCONNECTED, where is our fearless leader....
Wo bist du?
Donde esta Anne? Se desaparacio.
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