message_to_the_future The Truth If you are wondering how I knew that you would recieve this, I don't. I am just guessing. Perhaps you are a university student, researching 21st century western societal structure, or maybe you are an old woman, and your are checking to see what kind of data is left on "that dusty old data storage device" whatever it will be called in the future, maybe a crysto-disk...whatever, we call them disks. Anyway, Since this website could prove to be a "rosetta stone" in the future for people trying to figure out what the hell was going on before we nearly wiped out all of Earth's life through oil-based warefare, I just wanted to fill you in on a couple of things. 1.) We do have the means, and solutions to fix the world, heal the sick, feed the hungry, house the poor, and love our neighbors...but we don't because we are lazy and greedy. Ok? 2.) The language we speak is English, and there are 26 letters in our alphabet, used to record and write the words that we speak. alphabet = ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (now you know your abc's, next time wont you sing with me? In case your language is swahili or something.) 3.) We all sit in different places, at different computers, all over the world, posting to this site in common, nothing lead us here, we all came voluntarily. We derive enjoyment and use this site for recreational purposes.(In case you are wondering why this site is here) (also note that I have no control over who posts after me, nor what they will write.) 4.) The machine's language is HTML, CGI script, and possibly javacript. (In case your futuristic languages can't display this site properly, and an average resolution is 800x600.) 5.) The day is Thurday, July 12th, 2001. Or 07.12.01, indicated over there - as 010712 ... 2001 years after the death of Jesus Christ (he was the Son of God, and we calculate the time that passes by His death.) 6.) The devices necessary to extract information from these data records are as follows: --Mouse-- --Keyboard-- --monitor-- ram, HD, processor, etc..(I'm sure you'll find plenty in the dump, or the museum) i recommend a pentium III. --no more than 220 volts of electric currant, AC-- --comfy chair--well..it helps but is not necessary. --an old 3-prong outlet, like you read about in books, before they could transmit power to appliances via microwaves, you'll need to plug the computer into the outlet. 7.) Most of us are very out of touch with our spiritual sides, and that is why we are so greedy and lazy. Plus, we are provided with a plethora of activities designed to waste our time. 8.) Please come back through time and destroy television, it is eating away all of my family and friends. 010712 ... florescent light Dear Sheryl, 7/12/01 Right now you are back living at home and you hate it. Please don't forget how much of an asshole your father really is, because I know that when you are away, and not in its presence you become more tolerable, understanding, and even sympathetic. He does not deserve your sympathy. Don't forget the way he treats your mother. Don't forget how he tried to break you and your brothers. Don't forget how he's long broken your mother. More importantly don't forget who you are. Don't lose touch with yourself. Please don't ever stop seeking magic and everything is beautiful. And you can feel it and you become it. You can do anything, still. I hope that you've found a healthy loving happy relationship. If not, remember that it's better not to be in one then to be in an unhealthy one. And you know how to be happy without a man. If you are in an unhealthy one, I don't know what to say. Get out? Like my words are going to make a difference. Please remember your past promises. And please don't have children if you are in an unhealthy relationship. I hope you have a nice car. I hope you've done lots of traveling I hope work finds you fulfilled. I hope you are HELPING and GIVING, not just taking. Don't forget your passions in life- don't forget how almost everything interests you. Don't drink too much. Don't be too conservative. Go sky diving or at least try going on a rollercoaster, for christsakes, you can let loose a little. Give your mom a hug. 010712 ... nocturnal future people, or whatever has evolved by your time: you can thank the charming and wise queen Elizabeth (no, not that english chick, and not the other one, either) for all that is right in the world. she had some shaky beginnings, but eventually pulled herself into full control of the universe. she did a great job and changed the world for the better. for all that is wrong, George W. Bush is more than likely to blame. 010712 ... birdmad dear birdmad how many times have they had to clone your liver so far? have another drink on me. 010712 ... dB Dear Future People, Over the course of my life, and many of the people on this site, we have learned many things and forgotten many things. On the equal ground here on this site, all of us preach, and learn, but mostly we simply communicate. Out of all the things I have learned here and throughout the rest of my existance, everything can be summed up in these three quotes: CONCERNING RELIGION: If I take a lamp, and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too often we assume that the light on the wall is god. But the light is not the goal of the search; it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall, the brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search, who does not bring a lantern with him, sees nothing. What we perceive as god, is the by-product of our SEARCH for god. It may simply be an appreciation of the light, pure and unblemished, not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the centre of the universe, god looks astonishingly like we do. Or we turn to look at our shadow, and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and all it's flaws. And in so doing better understand the world around us. CONCERNING LIFE: The flame of reminds us that we are all born as molecules in the hearts of a billion stars. Molecules that do not understand politics or policies or differences. Over a billion years we foolish molecules forget where we came from. In desperate acts of ego, we give ourselves names, fight over lines and maps and pretend our light is better than everyone elses. The flame reminds us of the spark, that says "you should know better". And when that light goes out that there will never be another quite like it. CONCERNING MEANING: That there is no meaning. We only muddle through. Sometimes you will make mistakes and sometimes those mistakes will be huge. What matters is that you learn from them. There is nothing wrong with falling down, as long as you stand just that little bit taller when you pick yourself up from the fall. At times you will find yourself far away from home, you may not be sure of where you belong anymore. But home is always there, because home is not a place, it's wherever your passion takes you. As you continue on your path, you will lose some friends and gain new ones. The process is painful but often necessary. They will change and you will change, because that is what we do. We all have hard times, we suffer, we lose loved ones. The road is never easy. And that's it. Everything I know amounts to that load of dibble. But if the future is not better than now, I will personally destroy this planet. Don't fuck it up. 010712 ... sabbie i imagine that these words have apeared on a post-apocalyptic wall somewhere and you have all gathered around to read them. i would just like to tell you that i am really sorry, for all the things that people of my generation and before did, and for all the things they didn't think were important enough to do and all the things that happened. we all share the blame, even the luddites like me. it was crap, it is crap and now you guys have to deal with it more than we ever did. im really, really sorry. 010712 ... black-dyed gel product wear pants in public, trust me on this 010712 ... kx21 Begin & end, Come & go... Nothing the future? 010713 ... The Truth My work here will soon be finished. When I leave, I will leave the door open. As I exit, the [+1] multiplier will ignite a revolution. The revolution will be slow and subtle. But just as a gently flowing stream can alter the face of a mountain over time, so too will the revolution change the face of society after a while. As the positve changes we desire continually provoke resistance from the people, we will need to slip in underneath the people quietly, and then grow up among them and surround them. But, as the Gaurdians of Corruption strike down all of their large, righteous opponents with swords of injustice, they will not notice that we blanket the ground that they stand upon, and like a swarm of tiny ants in the night we will rise up suddenly and disarm the Gaurdians and destroy their Gate, releasing Justice and Peace back into the world again, shifting the Balance of Power back into the hands of Godly men and Godly women. As thier wicked establishment crumbles to the ground, and their precious oil is what now burns down the house around them, we will carry our flag to a new mountain, and proclaim from the highest peak that "GOD ALMIGHTY RULES THIS TOWER NOW" And the first United Intergalactic Federation will be founded on Earth as a Monument towards Faith in the Everlasting God of Love. 010827 ... kx21 Faith in the Everlasting God... Or more precisely, Faith in The_power_of_Creativity and The_manifestation of Ten_Supreme_Hearts, namely she1, she2, she3, she4, she5, she6, she7, she8, she9 & she10... 010828 ... sabbie um... sorry about the mess... 011116 ... sabbie mymy... look at that. same page, same post, 5 months apart. guess i really believed in what i had to say 011116 ... Dafremen Ditto what sabbie said, sorry I didn't fight hard enough. I could have bored more people into thinking about what they were doing to you, but I needed at least a few people to play Q2 with and besides, you don't really mind THAT much do you? P.S. Is the water really bad in your time? Just wondering. Thanx 011116 ... paste! allow them never, never ever again, for the sake of all of humanity, to forget to feed the bitchy, desperate virus-shrimp coming through my window, right now, as we speak. 011117 ... Sonya Dear people of the future, If you're reading this scrawled somewhere then it probably means humankind managed to survive somehow. I have yet to believe we will survive as I am writing this, so please understand the confusion. I should probably say that you're reading the writing of a somewhat disillusioned college student. I can try and issue some sort of apology for the chaos you are now enduring because of the mistakes that the people of the past have made over and over and OVER. I realize that it may be extremely difficult for you to grow any crops right now because of the people of previous eras destroying a lot of land. Please know that there are some of us who are trying to find ways to preserve as much as possible. I know it would be no use to apologize for the loss of resources and loss of life, and it pains me to think that those of you who are reading these messages now are the potential grand children and great grand children of people of my generation. I guess I should try and explain what exactly happened to the people of my time. It would appear that the vast majority of us have lost our sense of meaning in the world. It's not so much having to do with finding the right career or maybe even the right person, but just our general purpose on this planet. A lot of it has to do with greed on all levels. It's personal, corporate, and national greed. We plunder where we should probably preserve (obviously for your sakes.) As a result of these forms of greed we have managed to cause a lot of suffering and alienation among various groups of people. The same groups of people are now in desperation and are now willing to kill in order to get some sort of respect. For the most part many of us in the industrialized nations still live under the "every man for himself" mentality and this has been responsible for a lot of the destruction you may all be facing. The only thing I can say to you, people of the future, is that I sincerely hope you find some way to survive the results of our selfishness and our hatred. Please be aware that with every generation there are those who feel compassion and try to make some sort of radical changes, but right now these people are in the minority. This consciousness that we should try to protect as much as possible for those of you in the future has been gradually increasing over time but I still fear it will never gain enough momentum to reverse the negative effects of industrialization and overpopulation. At the time I am writing this, the global situation looks bleak. Nations fight under cloaks of supposed justice in order to secure natural resources for their greedy appetites, young idealism is on the verge of becoming extinct, plenty of possible cures for diseases are being knowingly destroyed, and the masses try to escape all of this through various mediums of addictive entertainment. I know this message is not very reassuring, but if you're reading this now it means that humanity still exists in the future. It would mean that somehow some humans came together in a survival effort and I sincerely hope you find some way to continue to embrace that effort. Please learn from mankind's history and try not to take the same greed ridden path the people of my time continue to knowingly tread. Remember your current plight and think about your own grand children and great grand children. 011117 ... ClairE I_love_you. Don't forget. 020117 ... distorted tendencies We'll all just keep reproducing. Settling new places. Maybe we'll destroy each other, but there will always be survivors. With all this anticipation of some apocalypse, it's never really going to happen now is it? And if it does, it'll be our own doing out of greed and hate and anger, whatever it may be. So don't blame someone else for your problems, because the truth is, you probably are the cause of it, or you contributed to it. 020721 ... littleidiot "lock all the doors and kill the light. no one's coming home tonight." 021119 ... yummychuckle is it safe? 021119 ... p2 who won world war 3? 021120 ... Rhin heads up! 021120 ... SuicidalAngel For futer humans/beings/robots/aliens and whatnot, Most of us here have much better and much more important things to be doing. People are dying as we speak, others are just finding out they have a termanil illness. Yet we choose to sit here and write a message to a futer of people who we really don't think is going to read this anyway. We sit our hypocritical asses in front of the computer and ramble on about useless shit, just to amuse ourselves and waste time because most of us find there is nothing more interesting to do. 021120 ... you here, here!! 031120 ... fetal musings don't hate. love. understand and accept that others do not think like you do and do not fight amongst yourselves. check your anger and wait for each other to finish speaking your viewpoints. 031121 ... Death of a Rose yes, we were crazy apes with minds underused. we could have collected together and sang in harmony, but we probably didn't. because it isn't in our collective nature to be peaceful and nice to our fellow humans, oh there are souls out there who are nothing but joy and smiley faces :-) but they are in the minority when we don't have to will power to kill the rich. so if you've managed to actually find this in the chaos of your present, savour this blatherworld deeply, passionately and defensively. stand up for yourself, become better then us, hopefully you've evovled enough to dance on our graves and curse us for our selfishness. and we haven't forgotten how to spell or punctuate, we were just lazy. 031122 ... getsomecheese chuck norris was secretly our overlord, ruling us with an iron fist and sometimes a kick in the face. 060612 ... birdmad Dear Future: If you are reading this, than not much has changed oh well, 060612 ... Sarsaparilla Paddock It will come up again. The same points will be made in favor and against. Childish gestures. Sides will be taken, nonsensical delight will be referenced. Feelings will be hurt. Some will expect the experimental nature to be overlooked in favor of consensual regulation. Childish gestures. The same points will be made for and against. It will come up again. 060612 ... on the road lots of problem coming your way. remember tonight. remember we'll make it. remember we're loved. remember we will. 060612 ... Risen Dear Me, You will wonder why. You will ache. You will listen to a song or a smell or a taste will catch you unawares. Memories will jump out of the alleyways of your mind and try to mug you of your resolve. It will hurt. You will wonder why. In those quiet moments you will ask how it all ended. How it tapered off. How something so wonderful could end. The answer is slowly. As the quotation goes, of a thousand small tarnishings. The poetry went first. Then the honesty died out. It wasn't wanted. The flourishing faltered and it was then that I began to notice the small things. The little ways in which I took on her bad habits. I watched her make herself smaller. I was disappointed in her. But there were times when I did the same. On nowhere near the same scale, but it happened. She stopped making me better than I had been. I enabled her. Gave her shiny daydreams and some fun times. I was escapism. It was never going to be anything more than an exercise in her imagination. A last fling before settling down. So it died slowly. As slowly as my realisation. The last straw was tiny. A conversational priority in which I saw it all so clearly. Do not go back. Not to that situation. And don't fool yourself into thinking it will ever change. 140909 what's it to you? who go blather from