[kj] Genesis Fragment

Darth E. Vader crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk
Thu May 17 12:06:10 EDT 2007


Well I think its the best thing any of them have done
and Genesis agrees with that...

Definitely hear it!


--- Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:


>

> Fascinating stuff, Darth -- thanks for posting this.

>

>

> Who's gotten ahold of the new TG, anyway?? And how

> is it??

>

> Alex in NYC

>

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> >From: "Darth E. Vader" <crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk>

> >Sent: May 16, 2007 9:54 AM

> >To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the

> band!)" <gathering at misera.net>

> >Subject: [kj] Genesis Fragment

> >

> >Flux: Talking of quantum physics, have you heard

> about

> >this Large Hadron Collider that is supposed to be

> >activated in November on the French / Swiss border?

> It

> >seems these scientists want to make black holes and

> >they don't really know what hell might break loose!

> >

> >GPO: That's right, in the CERN scientific centre. I

> >think that's crazy.

> >

> >Flux: It does seem like the most ridiculously

> reckless

> >thing the human race has yet tried to do.

> >

> >GPO: I agree. I just read a science fiction book in

> >which the whole Earth disappears because a

> scientist

> >creates a black hole. I don't know if it was

> because

> >of that Horizon program. It seems ludicrous. I

> don't

> >know how they could possibly be that arrogant that

> >they could think they could control something like

> >that. The very nature of it is uncontrollable.

> They've

> >said so themselves, so the arrogance of it is

> >frightening. The result could be that last arrogant

> >human attempt to quantify and control the physical

> >world when in fact what we should be doing is

> >integrating all aspects of life and perception, not

> >separating them out and trying to control them. We

> >should be reabsorbing some of the things we used to

> >have in terms of our relationship with nature and

> each

> >other and community. Science is obsessed with

> >separation and um...

> >

> >Flux: Reduction.

> >

> >GPO: Yes. And according to the Native Americans,

> they

> >don't have a word for death. They use the word

> >"separation" so that implies that science is

> killing

> >various aspects of what we think of as consensus

> >reality, just to prove their own potence. It's like

> >this urge towards being a god, you know? It's just

> so

> >ridiculous! Pointless. Aah, Lady Jaye just said,

> >"Science is rife with knowledge and the absence of

> >wisdom." It's fascinating. We're living in very

> >interesting times. A very volatile time!

> >

> >Flux: Things seem to be accelerating very much. Too

> >much is happening too fast for any one person to

> keep

> >up.

> >

> >GPO: Yes, I know. Instead of really dealing with

> our

> >behavioural issues and our personalities and our

> >destruction of the ecosystem and our innate greed,

> >we're just distracting ourselves with more and more

> >gadgets and things that go faster and faster and

> >faster in this denial of our own mortality.

> Everyone

> >wants to go the fastest in an aeroplane, or run the

> >fastest. Everything's got to be faster, faster,

> faster

> >- faster computers, faster phones. Its just a

> >completely empty, vacuous way of dealing with life.

> >Its bound to become a disaster. If its true that

> >things are accelerating quicker and quicker on our

> >body of knowledge and our technology is doubling

> >quicker and quicker then at some point within the

> next

> >ten years it'll double before it happens and that

> >could be a black hole, right?

> >

> >

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> >

> >Look at grafitti scrawled on the wall:

> >Dubya can't catch family friend Bin Liner...

> >But what the HELL?

> >They talk to God!

> >

> >

> >

>

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Look at grafitti scrawled on the wall:
Dubya can't catch family friend Bin Liner...
But what the HELL?
They talk to God!


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