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All the Rage #33 As perhaps you've noticed, there are a lot of theories on the meaning of life. We wacky Catholics have one idea, the Jews have another and those Heaven's Gate kids had a completely different concept entirely.
But really, who's right? Who's wrong? Who's crazy? (I'm gonna go with those Heaven's Gate kids on that one, Reeg. And that is my final answer.) Most importanly of all, WHO KNOWS?!
There are a few truths we can cling to regardless of our creed. For example, there's a lot of little crap that we allow to get in the way of our destinies, but when the END DAYS finally arrive, I firmly believe that it will be how we've dealt with the big issues that will determine humanity's fate. God (or Allah, or Jehovah, or George Lucas) isn't going to care much that we were caught stealing a candy bar when we were eight by Sister Mary Francis at the local drugstore. No, he's gonna want to know how we handled the big stuff--love, hate, understanding and the rest.
With that in mind, I got a little curious. How is the Internet handling the big issues? What have they got to say about the seminal emotions and ideas of our species?
Take a look.
Good is under construction, but evil does exist...except it's pretty boring. Hate's still under construction too, which is a good thing, but love takes you to AOL, which seems like a pretty hateful thing for love to do. Anger and honesty don't seem to do much good on the web--all they'll get you is your own e-mail address, and who needs another one of those? Lust and sin are just what you'd expect--porn. As for peace, understanding and happiness, they're just hollow money-making schemes. You even need a password to get some joy.
Perhaps saddest of all is time's fate on the web--it's just a crappy magazine site. Somehow you'd expect it to be far more mercurial. Leave it to computers and the internet, I guess, to take the great ideas and devolve them into crap. For the Higher Being, time is the fire in which the universe burns; for us, it's 53 issues for the low low price of $49.95. And if He, in His infinite wisdom, decides to roast the entirety of our species and start fresh, that may very well be the reason why.
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