-Caveat Lector-
No, he was predicting that his record sales would eventually be zero zero by 1999.
Stopforth, Jamie wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> I always wondered what "Prince" or "The Artist Formerly Known as
>Prince" meant in his song "1999" when he said... "Two-thousand, zero, zero
>party's over, it's out of time." I guess I know now... Wonder if he was
>knowingly referring to the Y2K computer glitch or if it's just a weird
>coincidence...
>
> Jamie
>
>
>
>> The usual breathtaking insights from Michael Hoffman.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael A. Hoffman II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
>> Date: Friday, January 01, 1999 12:32 PM
>> Subject: Michael A. Hoffman II on: Apocalypse 2000
>>
>>
>> Apocalypse 2000
>>
>> Copyright©1999 by Michael A. Hoffman II http://www.hoffman-info.com
>>
>> As we approach the Year 2000 and millennial madness begins to manifest in
>> all its amusing pagan frenzy, I am not so much interested in the claims
>> made for what shall or shall not transpire after the great chronological
>> divide has been crossed, but rather in what people believe about those
>> claims.
>>
>> There may be little of consequence in the claim of industrial and
>> technological collapse on Jan. 1, 2000 but if people believe a catastrophe
>> will occur, they will by their own volition and credulity, make it come to
>> pass.
>>
>> The widespread belief in and resulting panic associated with the Y2K doom
>> scenario indicates an enormous fatigue. The denizens of the technological
>> imperium are weary of their gadgets and believe they should be punished
>> for using them, so they conceive of a world reduced to the Neolithic.
>>
>> I do not believe that a population of superior people would have any
>> significant difficulties with ³Y2K² since the history of the West is the
>> history of surmounting technological difficulties.
>>
>> I have seen some hint that a technological remedy to the Y2K computer
>> glitch has been at hand since last summer but is being withheld.
>> But aside from that, I am fascinating by the emergence of the cult of
>> limitation which accompanies the mob reaction to Y2K.
>>
>> Suddenly man is paralyzed by two zeros.
>>
>> Two zeros in a Unix system will collapse western civilization.
>>
>> What a complete reversal of the spirit of OE69, which saw German
>> scientists
>> Arthur Rudolf and Werner Von Braun place men on the moon.
>>
>> Yet this new sense of limitation is not all bad. It signifies a profound
>> anxiety over the direction of our technological imperium as it grows
>> increasingly alien and artificial, particularly in the pharmaceutical
>> usurpation of agriculture and the growth of gene-manipulated modern
>> ³foods.²
>>
>> But these appropriate concerns are being manipulated and diverted into mob
>> panic. Monsanto and the other corporations who are at present the
>> equivalent of the city-states of Medici Italy--that is to say, nations
>> unto themselves on the British East India model--will emerge stronger
>> after the Y2K millennial panic is in full swing, as will FEMA and the
>> other departments of the Federal leviathan.
>>
>> The rulers of the age require chiefly one form of energy from the masses:
>> fear.
>> The chief agent of these rulers in our time is the American right wing,
>> the greatest repository of fear and fear-mongering rumors, which almost
>> always concern the alleged enormous power of our rulers and the dark fate
>> they have in store for us.
>>
>> Being cowans and dupes, these rightists have no ³knowledge of the
>> equilibrium,² no knowledge that fear is the glue that holds the Evil
>> Empire together.
>>
>> More than an adhesive, fear is a magnet, attracting precisely that which
>> is most feared and bringing it into materialization as reality.
>> It is for this reason that the Bible states, ³Fear God and you need fear
>> no other.²
>>
>> But the American right wing is a cesspool of fear--fear of the U.N., the
>> FBI, Bill Clinton, the ³Jews,² and the media. They have woven these
>> disparate forces into an invincible web of power over themselves and
>> constantly imagine impending doom and gloom.
>>
>> Without even knowing it, the Right is practicing pagan sorcery by just
>> such means. I have just described the mechanics of primitive witchcraft,
>> or perhaps we should call this self-fulfilling prophecy, ³wishcraft.²
>>
>> It has been used by harlequin hucksters at market stands of the Middle
>> Ages and in our day by Gallup pollsters, Madison Avenue advertisers and a
>> legion of agents planted deep in the right wing as well as in the pulpits
>> of Judeo-Churchianity, both Catholic and Protestant.
>>
>> To the historian this ³End Time² situation is so familiar as to be
>> humorous.
>> On December 31 of the year 999, at the steps of the old basilica of St.
>> Peter¹s in Rome, a throng of weeping, cowering and trembling peasants
>> awaited the end of the world. They fought with one another and tore at
>> each others garments. Some had purchased various amulets and ³relics² at
>> great cost to ward off the impending ³doom.²
>>
>> Others had abandoned their homes in the towns and joined strange sects
>> preaching the end of civilization as it was known.
>>
>> When Apocalypse 1000 dawned on Jan. 1, it entered history with a whimper,
>> rather than a bang and certain crypto-political forces centered deep
>> within the Vatican and the royal houses benefited handsomely.
>>
>> In 999 Europe experienced war, corruption, immense political instability
>> and a frenzied vision of Apocalypse hurtling toward the abyss. The masses
>> were drunk on elemental fears which the chess masters of the early Middle
>> Ages were able to harness to their own ends.
>>
>> The soothsayers and sorcerers and hucksters of our own terminal 1990s,
>> clothed in the raiment of Christian wise men, brilliant secular scientists
>> and insightful pundits have begun to stampede the herd into running over
>> the Apocalypse 2000 cliff by way of the Y2K road to ruin, which they have
>> been taught to believe is inevitable.
>>
>> Laugh, one must, at this spectacle, for just over the shoulders of that
>> vast herd, is a sylvan road strewn with the flowers of spring and the
>> eternal love of God¹s creation where men and women sow joyous seeds of a
>> fertile future.
>>
>> The choice is always ours. To see man choose hell over heaven must be a
>> source of mirth rather than sorrow, for in the final analysis, we must
>> affirm that which the greatest heroes of our western heritage taught and
>> more importantly practiced. It is a history we have forgotten because real
>> history is difficult to hear over the din of prancing hooves.
>>
>> The lost history is this: the future is what we make it and what we decide
>> it will be. This was the ³Iron Will² philosophy that made the West and
>> built Western Civilization against all odds.
>>
>> If we concede our will and the vision of the future to others, then we
>> are slaves and must not scruple to be amazed or forlorn when those to whom
>> we have cast the precious pearls of our own destiny use their
>> psychological warfare expertise to toss our future on a dung heap of
>> darkness, dread and destruction.
>>
>> What millions of so-called ³Christians² seem to forget, is the fact that
>> as Christ lay impaled upon the Cross, he said, ³It is finished.²
>>
>> The ultimate battle is finished, The victory is ours.
>>
>> Apparently the tallest order for some people, is to live joyfully in the
>> knowledge of this love and this victory.
>>
>> Rest assured you will get what you expect to get and for having desired as
>> you do, what you get will also be what you deserve.
>>
>> There are no alibis, for contrary to the fantasies of slaves, the universe
>> is just.
>>
>> When enough of you know this we will have the world we claim that we want.
>> 1,000 AD, 2000 AD, the rigged numerological wheel spins apparently random
>> efflorescences of the quotidian and the masses are snared in error instead
>> of Truth.
>>
>> The huckster witch (declaiming from the book):
>>
>> See, thus it¹s done!
>> Make ten of one, And two let be, Make even three,
>> And rich thou¹lt be.
>> Cast o¹er the four!
>> From five and six
>> (The witch¹s tricks)
>> Make seven and eight,
>> OET is finished straight!
>> And nine is one,
>> And ten is none
>> This is the witch¹s once-one¹s-one
>>
>> Faust:
>> She talks like one who raves in fever.
>>
>> Mephistopheles:
>> Thou¹lt hear much more before we leave her.
>> T¹is all the same; the book I can repeat,
>> Such time I¹ve squandered o¹er the history:
>> A contradiction is thus complete,
>> Is always for the wise, no less than fools,
>> a mystery.
>> The art is old and new, for verily
>> All ages have been taught the matter--
>> By Three and One, and One and Three,
>> Error instead of Truth to scatter...
>>
>> [Goethe, ³Faust,² Scene six].
>>
>> In 1999, let us pray that humanity will awaken from its dream, cast off
>> the pagan numerology of the huckster witch, face the future with
>> confidence and forge the Jubilee of truth, liberty and prosperity which
>> God intends for His people.
>>
>> Michael A. Hoffman II ©1999
>>
>>
>> Hoffman is the author of Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare, a 127
>> pp. paperback book available for $15 in the US and $20 overseas, from
>> Independent History, Box 849, Coeur d¹Alene, Idaho 83816
>>
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