Computer Program Fools God?

Correspondent:: Artemia Salina
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:38:45 -0500

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I just posted an OGG file on abs that is the output of
a program that synthesizes human voices chanting. It
sounds pretty realistic, and it got me wondering;
what if someone were to write a computer program
that synthesized a person praying? Not the squawky
Steven Hawking type of computer voice, but a realistic
sounding one that could read random phrases from a
database and assemble them into random prayers. If
enough people ran the program constantly I wonder
if it would fool God into thinking that people still
gave a shit.

I guess it depends on whether God actually
looks to see what's going on, or if he just
listens in now and then.

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Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:08:17 GMT

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Artemia Salina wrote:
>I just posted an OGG file on abs that is the output of
>a program that synthesizes human voices chanting. It
>sounds pretty realistic, and it got me wondering;
>what if someone were to write a computer program
>that synthesized a person praying? Not the squawky
>Steven Hawking type of computer voice, but a realistic
>sounding one that could read random phrases from a
>database and assemble them into random prayers. If
>enough people ran the program constantly I wonder
>if it would fool God into thinking that people still
>gave a shit.
>
>I guess it depends on whether God actually
>looks to see what's going on, or if he just
>listens in now and then.
>
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Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:46:22 -0800

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:38:45 -0500, Artemia Salina
wrote:

>I just posted an OGG file on abs that is the output of
>a program that synthesizes human voices chanting. It
>sounds pretty realistic, and it got me wondering;
>what if someone were to write a computer program
>that synthesized a person praying? Not the squawky
>Steven Hawking type of computer voice, but a realistic
>sounding one that could read random phrases from a
>database and assemble them into random prayers. If
>enough people ran the program constantly I wonder
>if it would fool God into thinking that people still
>gave a shit.
>
>I guess it depends on whether God actually
>looks to see what's going on, or if he just
>listens in now and then.

I think that could really backfire.

Let's say God really is up there, listening, and he handles what
prayers he does handle according to whatever bizarre logic

(ooh shit ... I just listened to "compuchanting", that's really cool)

according tor whatever bizarre logic He chooses, just like the
Goddites say, 'He works in mysterious ways', he kills a million
starving orphans and then he brings some fat fuck kid in the suburbs
8000 dollars worth of presents that he prayed for. But this makes
sense if you are God. OK?

So anyway the point is, He is up there routing all this shit according
to some weird card catalog system. And you set up your computer to
generate 8000 random prayers a second.

So God starts getting these prayers and he can't make heads or tails
of them, they make no sense. What's he going to do? Religion is a
business, I hope we aren't naive about that. He can't just ignore his
customers. So he's got to reply back for clarification. He's got to
set up an auto-responder. "Dear sir, we were not able to process your
request, could you attempt to clarify it?" That kind of thing.

So God uses burning bushes or angels or whatever to communicate back
to us. So all of a sudden, you have 8000 burning bushes or trumpeting
angels PER SECOND appearing miraculously and saying "Dear sir, ..."
etc.

I mean I just think it would just get really noisy, that's all.

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Correspondent:: Artemia Salina
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:14:24 -0500

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:46:22 -0800, Zapanaz wrote:

> So God starts getting these prayers and he can't make heads or tails
> of them, they make no sense. What's he going to do? Religion is a
> business, I hope we aren't naive about that. He can't just ignore his
> customers. So he's got to reply back for clarification. He's got to
> set up an auto-responder. "Dear sir, we were not able to process your
> request, could you attempt to clarify it?" That kind of thing.

Good point. What you're talking about sounds like a prayer/response feedback
loop. I guess what's needed is a handshake and arbitration protocol, like
ACK for "prayer acknowledged" and NAK for "not acknowledged, resend". Since
the prayers will be coming out pretty fast we might also want SOP, RDY, and
EOP for "start of prayer", "ready", and "end of prayer" respectively.

So a typical prayer session would look like the following:

SOP
RDY
prayer
EOP
ACK
[Or in the case that God can't understand the prayer]
NAK
SOP [At which point the program will generate a new prayer]
etc. ad infinitum

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Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:30:55 -0800

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:14:24 -0500, Artemia Salina
wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:46:22 -0800, Zapanaz wrote:
>
>
>> So God starts getting these prayers and he can't make heads or tails
>> of them, they make no sense. What's he going to do? Religion is a
>> business, I hope we aren't naive about that. He can't just ignore his
>> customers. So he's got to reply back for clarification. He's got to
>> set up an auto-responder. "Dear sir, we were not able to process your
>> request, could you attempt to clarify it?" That kind of thing.
>
>Good point. What you're talking about sounds like a prayer/response feedback
>loop. I guess what's needed is a handshake and arbitration protocol, like
>ACK for "prayer acknowledged" and NAK for "not acknowledged, resend". Since
>the prayers will be coming out pretty fast we might also want SOP, RDY, and
>EOP for "start of prayer", "ready", and "end of prayer" respectively.
>
>So a typical prayer session would look like the following:
>
> SOP
> RDY
> prayer
> EOP
> ACK
>[Or in the case that God can't understand the prayer]
> NAK
> SOP [At which point the program will generate a new prayer]
>etc. ad infinitum

well the thing is, I don't think God has a telephone. So we would
have to tokenize those signals into angels, burning bushes, parting
waters, and so on. Like RDY might be signaled by the first singing
thrush of the morning, ACK by an Angel of Light Trumpeting, NAK by a
column of fire, so on and so on. So we would need some kind of USB
device that would handle the analog<->digital conversion, This could
get tricky really because God works in mysterious ways His wonders to
perform, so we would need a really substantial lookup index of
Portends->protocol and back again. Like, if it starts raining, does
that mean God needs a retransmission? Or is it just a ping?

I wonder how much it would take to DDOS God?

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Correspondent:: "Giles"
Date: 13 Dec 2004 18:40:11 -0800

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Artemia Salina wrote:
> I just posted an OGG file on abs that is the output of
> a program

May we ask what program was used? It is very cool.

Correspondent:: "iDRMRSR"
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:37:54 -0500

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Well, pretty much, prayer mostly consists of asking an entity which may or
may not exist to intercede in this reality in ways we can't directly
recognize. Now, of course, the best prayers are those in which you beseech
the entity to make its actions clear to you in such a manner that you
continuously act as agent for said entity without exactly knowing what it is
you do special that allows this entity to do its unrecognized intervening!
Or better yet, to thank this entity for things which you may interpret as
its intervention without there being any logical connection between events
and actions which you can discern physically.

Seems to me the Buddhists had this all sewed up with automatic prayer
wheels, kind of like here, goddy, amuse yourself with this spinning thing
here while I go off and do whatever the fuck else I can manage, in my brief
time here, to entertain myself with.

Then again, considering the matter of protocols and such. I'd have to
presume that each soul has like a MAC address so that the origin of each
prayer can be discerned. So a computer generated prayer would be kind of
like spoofing packets. The deity prolly uses a stateful firewall to shed
off the out of band packets.

What would be rilly cool is to stage a man-in-the-middle attack on prayers
in progress and screw them all up, interjecting your own requests and such.

But in the final analysis, all outbound prayer packets are in fact prolly
routed to your own loopback address.

Sorry.

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Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:50:17 -0800

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:37:54 -0500, "iDRMRSR"
wrote:

>Well, pretty much, prayer mostly consists of asking an entity which may or
>may not exist to intercede in this reality in ways we can't directly
>recognize. Now, of course, the best prayers are those in which you beseech
>the entity to make its actions clear to you in such a manner that you
>continuously act as agent for said entity without exactly knowing what it is
>you do special that allows this entity to do its unrecognized intervening!
>Or better yet, to thank this entity for things which you may interpret as
>its intervention without there being any logical connection between events
>and actions which you can discern physically.
>

well you have to look out for that one. Praying to Mr. Invisible to
help invisibly is OK, but praying to Mr. Invisible and having him
ANSWER is NOT.

When that happens they burn you at the stake.

>Seems to me the Buddhists had this all sewed up with automatic prayer
>wheels, kind of like here, goddy, amuse yourself with this spinning thing
>here while I go off and do whatever the fuck else I can manage, in my brief
>time here, to entertain myself with.
>
>Then again, considering the matter of protocols and such. I'd have to
>presume that each soul has like a MAC address so that the origin of each
>prayer can be discerned. So a computer generated prayer would be kind of
>like spoofing packets. The deity prolly uses a stateful firewall to shed
>off the out of band packets.
>

Like anything that originates from non-white IPs. That would explain
a lot.

>What would be rilly cool is to stage a man-in-the-middle attack on prayers
>in progress and screw them all up, interjecting your own requests and such.
>
>But in the final analysis, all outbound prayer packets are in fact prolly
>routed to your own loopback address.
>
>Sorry.
>

I think that's how we first discovered masturbation, actually, so
don't knock it.

>[*]
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>

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Correspondent:: Artemia Salina
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:37:51 -0500

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:40:11 -0800, Giles wrote:

> Artemia Salina wrote:
>> I just posted an OGG file on abs that is the output of
>> a program
>
> May we ask what program was used? It is very cool.

Sure. The program is called Cecilia, which is a graphical
interface and high level scripting language (called Cybil)
for a program called Csound, which itself is a versatile
software synthesizer. What you heard was a short blast
from a "module" (i.e. a Cybil script) that comes with the
package as an example. I modified it a bit in an attempt
to make the singers sound more goofy.

The version I'm using is for Unix, but there are versions
for Mac and Win too.

You can check Cecilia out here:

http://music.ucdavis.edu/re4m/cecilia/

Makes all kinds of noises.

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Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:23:19 +1100

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> I just posted an OGG file on abs that is the output of
> a program that synthesizes human voices chanting.

tell us more about that. i can think of a couple of good uses for it.

> what if someone were to write a computer program
> that synthesized a person praying?

how many of you went to the computer section of a department store when
they had C-64s on display, and programmed them thusly:

10 PRINT "OM MANE PADME HM ";
20 GOTO 10

if that didn't impress god, nothing will.

Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:55:34 -0800

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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:23:19 +1100, nikolai kingsley
wrote:

>how many of you went to the computer section of a department store when
>they had C-64s on display, and programmed them thusly:
>
>
>10 PRINT "OM MANE PADME HM ";
>20 GOTO 10
>
>
>
>if that didn't impress god, nothing will.

I used to go into computer stores that stayed open late (like office
depot), turn the volume on the speakers and in windows as high as it
would go (which is usually very very loud) and set up a task in the
windows task scheduler to open windows media player and beethoven's
5th symphony and play it at the highest possible volume at like
quarter to 11, 15 minutes before closing.

I always kind of wish I could have been there once to see them jump.

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Correspondent:: nenslo
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:58:02 -0800

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Artemia Salina wrote:
>
> I just posted an OGG file on abs that is the output of
> a program that synthesizes human voices chanting. It
> sounds pretty realistic, and it got me wondering;
> what if someone were to write a computer program
> that synthesized a person praying? Not the squawky
> Steven Hawking type of computer voice, but a realistic
> sounding one that could read random phrases from a
> database and assemble them into random prayers. If
> enough people ran the program constantly I wonder
> if it would fool God into thinking that people still
> gave a shit.
>
> I guess it depends on whether God actually
> looks to see what's going on, or if he just
> listens in now and then.
>

I don't know if this actually applies since it is not about "God" per
se, but only about the universe or something. You may recall that in
the Himalayan cultures they write a prayer on slips of paper, and put
the slips of paper in a drum, and every time the drum is turned on its
axis it "says" that prayer as many times as there are slips of paper.
Worse yet, they write it on flags and every time the flag flaps it
"says" that prayer. Now, that isn't the same as christian prayer, which
tends to be either begging or sucking up to get "god" in the mood for
more begging, it is really more of a "praise the lord" sort of thing so
I don't know.

I don't know. Maybe. From what I heard, God is watching all the time,
not only your actions but your thoughts and all your righteousness is as
filthy rags which only the Blood of the Lamb can wash clean. Good luck
with that.

Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:32:59 GMT

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nenslo wrote:
>Artemia Salina wrote:
>>
>> I just posted an OGG file on abs that is the output of
>> a program that synthesizes human voices chanting. It
>> sounds pretty realistic, and it got me wondering;
>> what if someone were to write a computer program
>> that synthesized a person praying? Not the squawky
>> Steven Hawking type of computer voice, but a realistic
>> sounding one that could read random phrases from a
>> database and assemble them into random prayers. If
>> enough people ran the program constantly I wonder
>> if it would fool God into thinking that people still
>> gave a shit.
>>
>> I guess it depends on whether God actually
>> looks to see what's going on, or if he just
>> listens in now and then.
>>
>
>I don't know if this actually applies since it is not about "God" per
>se, but only about the universe or something. You may recall that in
>the Himalayan cultures they write a prayer on slips of paper, and put
>the slips of paper in a drum, and every time the drum is turned on its
>axis it "says" that prayer as many times as there are slips of paper.
>Worse yet, they write it on flags and every time the flag flaps it
>"says" that prayer. Now, that isn't the same as christian prayer, which
>tends to be either begging or sucking up to get "god" in the mood for
>more begging, it is really more of a "praise the lord" sort of thing so
>I don't know.
>
>I don't know. Maybe. From what I heard, God is watching all the time,
>not only your actions but your thoughts and all your righteousness is as
>filthy rags which only the Blood of the Lamb can wash clean. Good luck
>with that.

Well, I didn't get Washed in the Blood of the Lamb,
but I got drenched with the juice of a clam!

Correspondent:: Reverend Kenny
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:20:54 -0500

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König wrote:
> nenslo wrote:
>
>>Artemia Salina wrote:
>>
>>>I just posted an OGG file on abs that is the output of
>>>a program that synthesizes human voices chanting. It
>>>sounds pretty realistic, and it got me wondering;
>>>what if someone were to write a computer program
>>>that synthesized a person praying? Not the squawky
>>>Steven Hawking type of computer voice, but a realistic
>>>sounding one that could read random phrases from a
>>>database and assemble them into random prayers. If
>>>enough people ran the program constantly I wonder
>>>if it would fool God into thinking that people still
>>>gave a shit.

How about this one?(small .wav file attached) I keep hearing it in my
dreams...
I can make these all day long... maybe Stang can use them for a CD.
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Reverend Kenny

For every extremist, there is an equal and opposite extremist...
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Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:40:51 GMT

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Reverend Kenny wrote:

>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>
>
>König wrote:
>> nenslo wrote:
>>
>>>Artemia Salina wrote:
>>>
>>>>I just posted an OGG file on abs that is the output of
>>>>a program that synthesizes human voices chanting. It
>>>>sounds pretty realistic, and it got me wondering;
>>>>what if someone were to write a computer program
>>>>that synthesized a person praying? Not the squawky
>>>>Steven Hawking type of computer voice, but a realistic
>>>>sounding one that could read random phrases from a
>>>>database and assemble them into random prayers. If
>>>>enough people ran the program constantly I wonder
>>>>if it would fool God into thinking that people still
>>>>gave a shit.
>
>How about this one?(small .wav file attached) I keep hearing it in my
>dreams...
>I can make these all day long... maybe Stang can use them for a CD.
>--
>Illuminations,
>Reverend Kenny
>
>For every extremist, there is an equal and opposite extremist...
>
>[ ooombob.wav ] (Attachment)

Oooooo! That;s fun! I put it in the sound sample on my keyoard, and it
chants in multi-voices, with echos, pentatonically, hermaphroditically,
and now! with more cowbell!

Correspondent:: Reverend Kenny
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:14:03 -0500

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König wrote:

>
> Oooooo! That;s fun! I put it in the sound sample on my keyoard, and it
> chants in multi-voices, with echos, pentatonically, hermaphroditically,
> and now! with more cowbell!
>
>

It loops well with an Enya type background tune!
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Reverend Kenny

For every extremist, there is an equal and opposite extremist...

Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:50:13 -0800

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:58:02 -0800, nenslo wrote:

>From what I heard, God is watching all the time,
>not only your actions but your thoughts and all your righteousness is as
>filthy rags which only the Blood of the Lamb can wash clean. Good luck
>with that.

God is on the rag and only Jesus can fix it.

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Correspondent:: cmiller@stellarphotos.com (Lamus)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:58:27 -0600

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God is an overwhelming responsibility.

Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:09:06 -0800

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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:58:27 -0600, cmiller@stellarphotos.com (Lamus)
wrote:

>God is an overwhelming responsibility.

Damn right, and if you don't remember to feed Him we're going to take
him to the pound.

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Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:02:11 +1100

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> God is an overwhelming responsibility.

i'd hit you with a brick if i could find you.

Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:53:17 GMT

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In article <32a5qgF3gosiaU2@individual.net>,
nikolai kingsley wrote:

> > God is an overwhelming responsibility.
>
> i'd hit you with a brick if i could find you.

If we could all do that, Usenet would become a silent wasteland within
a month. I know I'd do MY part.

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In The Privacy Of Your Own Home; by the hour.

I have no need of your God-damned sympathy.
I only wish to be entertained
by some of your grosser reminiscences.
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- "The Simpsons"

Correspondent:: SubGenius Spice
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 06:56:30 GMT

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In alt.slack, HellPope Huey was all like...

:: In article <32a5qgF3gosiaU2@individual.net>,
:: nikolai kingsley wrote:
::
:: > > God is an overwhelming responsibility.
:: >
:: > i'd hit you with a brick if i could find you.
::
:: If we could all do that, Usenet would become a silent wasteland within
:: a month. I know I'd do MY part.

you can start with bill palmer.

Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:48:37 GMT

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In article ,
SubGenius Spice wrote:
> In alt.slack, HellPope Huey was all like...
> :: In article <32a5qgF3gosiaU2@individual.net>,
> :: nikolai kingsley wrote:
> ::
> :: > > God is an overwhelming responsibility.
> :: >
> :: > i'd hit you with a brick if i could find you.
> ::
> :: If we could all do that, Usenet would become a silent wasteland within
> :: a month. I know I'd do MY part.
>
> you can start with bill palmer.

Oh, he'd be way down the list, maybe like twelfth by now. Yessir, I'd
kill about 20 and majorly HARM about 20 more. 'Tis the season to be
BRICKIN', heave 'em or seal 'em up, your choice. Double points if you
can find a way to seal them up in a wall at Wal-Mart. That would be a
really marvelous achievement.

"What IS that smell, Mr. Flatus?"
"I can't say... they did close down the snack bar, right?"

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Correspondent:: cmiller@mozuna.com (Lamus)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:36:08 -0600

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On December 15 2004, nikolai kingsley
wrote:
> i'd hit you with a brick if i could find you.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addto
istory=&searchtab=home&address=6920+Greenhaven+L
ane&city=Monroe&state=NC&zipcode=28110

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Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:41:10 -0800

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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:36:08 -0600, cmiller@mozuna.com (Lamus) wrote:

>On December 15 2004, nikolai kingsley
> wrote:
>> i'd hit you with a brick if i could find you.
>
>http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addto
>istory=&searchtab=home&address=6920+Greenhaven+L
>ane&city=Monroe&state=NC&zipcode=28110

Might need this too:

http://www.airvolblock.com/clasbrk_mfs.htm

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A lot of us are looking for fathers. Mine was physically
not there. Most people's are not there mentally and physically,
like always at the office or busy with other things. So all these
leaders, parking meters, are all substitute fathers, whether they
be religious or political... All this bit about electing a President.
We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies. This is
the daddy that looks like the daddy in the commercials. He's
got the nice gray hair and the right teeth and the parting's on the
right side. OK? This is the daddy we choose. The dog pound of
daddies, which is the political arena, gives us a President, then
we put him on a platform and start punishing him and screaming
at him because Daddy can't do miracles. Daddy doesn't heal us

- John Lennon

Correspondent:: "Revi Shankar"
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:41:59 -0500

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"Lamus" wrote ...

> God is an overwhelming responsibility.

... babies wearning nylons...

Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:19:46 GMT

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In article <41BE9D09.AF25F81D@yahoox.com>, nenslo
wrote:

> From what I heard, God is watching all the time,
> not only your actions but your thoughts and all your righteousness is as
> filthy rags which only the Blood of the Lamb can wash clean. Good luck
> with that.

He also saw you pour the wet cement on that sleeping cat. You'll get
yours, smartass.

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or the kid here GETS it

I was brought up in that other service;
but I knew from the first that the Devil
was my natural master and captain and friend.
I saw that he was in the right
and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear.
- George Bernard Shaw, "The Devil's Disciple"

God does not play dice with the universe;
He plays an ineffable game of his own devising,
which might be compared,
from the perspective of any of the other players,
to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker
in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes,
with a dealer who won't tell you the rules
and who smiles all the time.
- Gaiman and Pratchett's "Good Omens"

Correspondent:: "K.O.N."
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:14:41 -0500

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what program are you talking about???
The delay lama?? or something else.

Yamaha has released the Vocaloid which successfully synthesizes the human
voice- It comes in male and female.

"Artemia Salina" wrote in message
news:pan.2004.12.13.16.38.42.106681@sheayright.com...
> I just posted an OGG file on abs that is the output of
> a program that synthesizes human voices chanting. It
> sounds pretty realistic, and it got me wondering;
> what if someone were to write a computer program
> that synthesized a person praying? Not the squawky
> Steven Hawking type of computer voice, but a realistic
> sounding one that could read random phrases from a
> database and assemble them into random prayers. If
> enough people ran the program constantly I wonder
> if it would fool God into thinking that people still
> gave a shit.
>
> I guess it depends on whether God actually
> looks to see what's going on, or if he just
> listens in now and then.
>
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Correspondent:: Mike Playle
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:03:33 GMT