This is one weird ass paper - http://www.gospelcom.net/iccm/us/1996/1-0940-1.html
Its from '96 so i dunno if anyone else came across this in the past. Salient QUote: "Stephenson wrote a very good science fiction novel(Snowcrash). It is not intended to be taken seriously, even though, as I have said, the concepts behind it are being taken very seriously indeed. For I believe that Stephenson has unwittingly given us an entire new way to think about God's strategy in human history and the history of salvation. Note: God is person, but he is also Word, ordered articulated reason. This word creates hardware physical reality in which something goes disastrously wrong. So God has to introduce a written code, in which the culture and ultimately life transforming memes would be transmitted. But God was not content to have these memes float freely through human society. This was not a robust enough medium. These memes needed to be incubated and transmitted through human flesh, so the Word, became flesh, and created a community of people who would literally embody righteousness and in the transmission of truth through generation after generations of the Church truth memes would be transmitted. But like a kind of reverse AIDS would be a redemptive virus that creates eternal life instead of eternal torment. Now. If God is indeed the ultimate memetic engineer, but he is not the only memetic engineer. His greatest student is also his arch enemy. Satan. And Satan has a major edge on God. God has to introduce his memes as viruses. Satan is the spiritual Microsoft of reality. He controls the operating system of our world, and he bundles a set of demonic memes with every human life unit." fsck!!! -thor -- _________________________________________ |::: tsktskrecords.com :::::::::::::::::::| |::::: 8bitrecs.com ::::::::::::::::::::::| |:: highpointlowlife.com :::::::::::| _________________________::::| _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
