Today's Topics:
Godless Unrighteousness
Satan wrote my expert system
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 16:34:34 -0500
From: Mitch Silverman <mitch@novavax.nova.edu>
Message-Id: <9212192134.AA08008@novavax.nova.edu>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Godless Unrighteousness
Here, for more of your fundamentalist-derived reading pleasure, is a
letter that apeared in December 15, 1992 Ft. Lauderdale [Florida] Sun
Sentinel, my home-town newspaper, and generally pretty good.
I really don't think I need to editorialize--you'll get the point real
fast--save to say that this is what "Bob's" salesmen here in
Southeastern Florida have to deal with.
'Course, at least live farther from Aracdia than Sarasota--where
I go to school....
Rev. "I was bar-mitzvahed by a female Reconstructionist
rabbi-- in 1978" Mitch, KSC
mitch@cfraix.cfr.usf.edu (Ignore the address behind the curtain!)
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Bible tells us true role
of women in our society
I'd like to comment on your November 14 editorial, "Women cheered by
Anglican vote."
By "women" you must be referring to the godless [sic] feminists and
equally godless so-called "priests" and "revs" [sic] of the female
gender.
Since your editorial approves of this abomination by the Anglican
church, you are likewise to be numbered among the godless.
I refer to:
I Cor. 14:34 -- "Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it
is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be
under obedience, as also saith the Law."
I Cor. 14:35 -- "And if they will learn anything, let them ask their
husbands at home; for it is a shame for women to speak in church.
I Tim. 2:11 -- "Let the women learn in silence with all subjection."
I Tim. 2:12 -- "But suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp
authority over the ma, but to be in silence."
-- Jack Kelley,
Davie [Florida]
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To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Satan wrote my expert system
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 23:43:56 -0500
From: Michael Travers <mt@media.mit.edu>
The Gospel Truth
A Publication of Southwest Radio Church
Vol. 33 February 1992 No. 2
Search for a Messiah
by N.W. Hutchings
(reproduced without permission)
A New World Order now appears on the horizon to shine on a glorious
New Age of cooperation and enlightenment. Humanists from all walks of life,
economics, science, politics, religion, urge us to meet now on common ground
and unite as one so that the world's problems can be solved by working
together. These enlightened ones who wish to lead us into such a glorious
future ignore, however, that nations cannot get along with their neighbor
nations; political factions within countries cannot cooperate with each
other; neighborhoods within cities cannot agree on many things; families
are literally killing each other because of disputes among themselves and
people, individually, have such inner conflicts that they commit suicide.
But humanists will not accept the pathway required by God, rather they are
more determined than ever to resolve all of mankind's crushing ills. Humanism
seeks salvation for planet Earth, but rather than looking to Jesus Christ, who
is God, they intend to create the god of their own choosing, made in their own
image.
The humanistic anti-God obstinance is seen in their approach to the
AIDS pestilence about to consume mankind. Rather than lobbying governments to
put a stop to the gross perversion that perpetuates this always fatal disease,
they promote and demand legislation that would give legal status to it.
Homosex is at least as normal as heterosex, they say, and imply that in many
ways it is preferable because it helps with, for example, unwanted pregnancies
and the overpopulation of mother Earth. Such relationships, they proclaim
defiantly, are but an alternate lifestyle.
On May 20, 1991, the American Red Cross announced its latest approach
to the AIDS plague. Elizabeth Dole, American Red Cross president, announced
the organization is instituting a new computer system. Dole said, " The
first step is to install a computer network that will run within the entire
Red Cross system. . . . One national register of ineligible blood donors
will guarantee that only the healthiest blood donors will contribute to our
system."
Make no mistake, humanists see salvation in the computer. Computer
scientists contend that within less than a decade the computer will control
mankind's total being. This awesome power that is destined to guide the
destiny of the human race is causing many experts to wonder if man is not
now in the process of creating his own god. Amazingly, it is not primarily
the leaders and spokesmen for religion that are expressing concern, but rather
the computer makers themselves. Some are attempting to justify the neo-godly
aspects of the new computers by explaining that it really does not make any
difference, because God is in the computer. For example, I quote from page
94 of the book, The Fifth Generation, "As the philosopher and logician Alfred
North Whitehead observed, God is in the details."
On page 40 of the May, 1984 edition of Science appears a lengthy
article titled Computer Worship. This article begins with a full-page color
picture of a computer on the altar in a church with a beam of light from
heaven illuminating its presence for the worship service. The authors present
the claim by computer experts that in the future students will not need to
master reading, writing, or arithmetic. All that will be needed to equip young
people to meet life's challenges is to learn how to operate the new generation
of computers.
The Psalmist said that though he ascended into heaven, or descended
into hell, God was there. The Apostle Paul said that in God we move and have
our being. Today, the same can be said of the computer. A computer controls
the traffic lights through which we must pass on our way to work. It is
a computer that tells us when we can go and when we must stop. A computer
controls our banking, our working, our buying and selling. Modern man fears
a computer failure more than God's wrath against sin. Even in Christian
organizations the computer controls communications. At one of the National
Religious Broadcasters' conventions I attended a computer workshop. A
spokesman for one of the larger organizations stated that their mailing list
was computerized into 36 categories. A computer determines the type of letter
the donor receives, the kind of envelope, the gift asked for, the design on
the stationery, and how often each person is to be contacted.
A vision of the perfect computerized man of the Fifth Generation is
described in an article titled "What Next? A World of Communications Wonders"
in U.S. News and World Report: "A phone in every pocket, a computer in every
home: That and more awaits consumers as astonishing Information Age techniques
start to pay off: A global telecommunications revolution is poised to bring
astonishing changes to virtually every American - especially anyone who
picks up a telephone, switches on a television set, or logs on to a computer.
Growing out of the marriage of communications links with modern computers,
the new technologies are spreading lightning fast. Experts say that the
upheaval won't end until anyone, anywhere can reach out and touch anyone else
- - instantly and effortlessly - through electronics. Among the extraordinary
possibilities in store for consumers by the end of this century, electronic
information technology will have transformed American business, manufacturing,
school, family, political, and home life. "
That was a U.S. News and World Report article dated April 9,1984.
The statement was way off base. Most of the technology described is already
implemented! - Not only in America, but such technology now links most of the
industrialized world.
At Babel man became too intelligent and resourceful for his own good,
so God disrupted communications - He changed the common language into many so
that if a man asked for a brick he was given mortar. Today, man's new god, the
computer, is reversing the communications breakdown. Your computer will soon
be able to translate instantly what anyone speaking in a foreign language is
saying. It is clearly prophesied in Revelation 13 that everyone in the world
will fall down and worship the image of Antichrist, and now computerized
communications will transmit images of the world's political leaders, or
leader, in three dimensions, into your own living room. We read in Daniel
12:4 that in the last days knowledge, travel, and communications will greatly
increase. Again we look to the computer for the fulfillment of this prophecy.
In the future, all commerce and banking will be done via the computer
terminal, and every man will have to have his own computer terminal, computer
code mark, and number, as we read in Revelation 13:7: "And that no man might
buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the
number of his name. "
The Fifth Generation computer has been on the drawing boards since
1978. The American computer industry, which has led the world in computer
technology, was reticent to bring in the Fifth Generation Age because it was
uncertain what it would do to human society in economics, education, military
defense, politics, and religion. However, Japan has now forced computer
scientists in the United States into a decision. They must now produce these
new machines, which some contend will not be machines at all, but organic,
thinking entities. If the United States computer industry fails to produce
the Fifth Generation computer, then Japan will conquer the world market. This
amounts to a computer Pearl Harbor.
The authors of The Fifth Generation quoted Japanese sources which
claim that the new biocomputers will solve the world's unemployment, energy
shortages, medical costs, problems that come with old age, industrial
insufficiencies, food shortages, and money crises. It has been estimated by
one computer expert that all the memory and data that is in all the present
computers in all the world could be stored in a space no bigger than a sugar
cube in a Fifth Generation computer.
Major credit card companies and commercials are already bringing
us, they say, into "a new age . . . an age in which computers make miracles
happen.... " Inviting us "... to step over that threshold and accept the
credit card for a new age in shopping."
More than nineteen hundred-years ago the Apostle John wrote in
Revelation 13 that the day would come when all the world would worship the
image of the Beast that would command all to work, buy, and sell through a
system of marks and numbers. According to Fifth Generation computer experts,
that day may be less than a decade away.
Governments are among the biggest users of computers today, and
computers are rapidly taking over jobs once performed by bureaucrats. On
an international basis, the computer is merging all nations into a single
economic system. The computer is also making its presence known in outer
space. New computer technology and laser breakthroughs have influenced our
government to make plans for war in the heavens. We saw much of this forging
ahead in these technologies during the spectacularly effective attacks on
Saddam Hussein's war machinery and factories of destruction. Those in Congress
and the media who had formerly called the Strategic Defense Initiative
(Star Wars) planning the pipedreams of warmongering rightwingers, for a
time could but stand in amazement and praise of what they witnessed. Much
of the technology used in that campaign in the Persian Gulf were byproducts,
off-shoots of, or precursors to SDI planning.
The fourth generation computer age was made possible by the discovery
and/or invention of the silicon computer chip which is made from quartz or
sand. However, the silicon chip has no defense against outside power sources.
Even lightning will burn a silicon chip to a crisp, and it is theorized that
a single 50-megaton air blast over Chicago would knock out every computer
in the United States and Canada. However, the next generation of computers
will have biochips, and these will actually repel outside interference and
would be destroyed only by a close atomic blast. According to authorities
on the subject, biochips are made from antibodies that are prevalent in the
human body and that fight disease germs. These antibodies have only a short
lifespan, but through an induced fusion between them and cancer cells,
the result is ". . . a wildly reproducing cancer cell [which] results in a
unique inheritance: an immortal hybrid cell, or hybridoma that externally
manufactures antibodies, one after another, each identical. "
The Fifth Generation computer will, in effect, be a living entity.
It will reproduce itself and program itself, and theoretically, one super
computer could indeed control the total activity of every human being on
planet Earth.
We who hold the conviction that the Bible is God's inspired Word and
the literality of the Genesis account of creation, believe that the Theory
of Evolution is the Devil's lie to keep men from worshipping the Lord as
Creator. With the Theory of Evolution having done as much damage as it can
in accomplishing demonic chaos in public school systems, there is now an
even more sinister type of evolution being proposed. This new evolution
is so secretive and mysterious that it is usually referred to with implied
terminology or hidden phrases. Only a few scientists, like humanist Dr.
Robert Jastrow, are bold enough to explain in simple and understandable
words just what kind of ultimate being the synthetic computer evolution will
produce.
In the field of scientific writing, teaching, and research, Dr.
Jastrow, founder of NASA's Goddard Institute, has few peers, if any. In his
book on the subject of the emerging super-human intelligence, Dr. Jastrow
writes: "In 1975, the Goddard Institute installed the first fourth-generation
computer. . . . I stood there, looking at that giant third generation machine
purring through its sums, and then at the little fourth-generation computer
off in the corner. Suddenly I became aware that powerful forces were at work.
. . . Computer designers are already under pressure to turn out more compact
models. If these trends in computer evolution continued, a machine that
occupied a floor in our Institute would soon fit into a thimble, and its
circuits would be as densely packed as the electrical circuits of the human
brain. If it became possible to wire those circuits so that they worked
in the same way as the circuits in the brain, man would be able to create a
thinking organism of quasi-human power-a new form of intelligent life."
That was an earlier assessment by Jastrow. He now says that biochip
breakthroughs "change all that "(limitations by intricate wiring problems).
Jastrow said: ". . . In these chips there are no wires; the connections are
microscopically small. This development .. . is a breakthrough in computer
evolution, because it makes it possible to build a computer with gates that
work like gates in the human brain. Such computers will come.into existence
in the 1990s.... They will match the human mind in many respects, and will
possess attributes of intelligent life- responsiveness to the world around
them, the ability to learn by experience, and a quick grasp of new ideas. Will
they be living organism? Most people would say that a computer can never be
a living organism, because it has no feeling or emotion; it does not eat, or
move, orgrow.... Most of these attributes could easily be built into computers
if they were desired.... if its batteries run low, it can be programmed
to move over to an electrical outlet and plug itself in for a snack....
Feelings and emotions also can be built into the computer.... I believe that
in a larger cosmic perspective, going beyond the earth and its biological
creatures, the true attributes of intelligent life will be seen to be those
that are shared by man and the computer-a response to stimuli, absorption of
information around the world, and flexible behavior under changing conditions.
The brain that possesses these attributes may be made of water and
carbon-chain molecules, and housed in fragile shell of bone, as our brain is;
or it may be made of metallic silicon, and housed in plastic; but if it reacts
to the world around it, and grows through experience, it is alive. "
The era of carbon chemistry based life-indestructible,
immortal, infinitely expandable-is beginning. By the turn of the century,
ultra-intelligent machines will be working in partnership with our best minds
on all the serious problems of the day, in an unbeatable combination of brute
reasoning power and human intuition.... One sees a vision of mammoth brains
that have soaked up the wisdom of the human race and gone on from there....
Perhaps man can join forces with the computer to create a brain that combines
the accumulated wisdom of the human mind with the power of the machine. . .
This hybrid intelligence would be the progenitor of a new race . . . a bold
scientist will be able to tap the contents of his mind and transfer them into
the lattices of a computer. Because the mind is the essence of being, it can
be said that this scientist has entered the computer, and that he now dwells
in it. At last the human brain, ensconced in a computer, has been liberated
from the weaknesses of the mortal flesh.... Man need not wait a thousand years
to reach the stars; the stars will come to him. "
In Genesis 11:6, Moses recorded that when man first reached the stars,
God said, ". . . and this they began to do and now nothing will be restrained
from them which they have imagined to do."
Of the Beast that will take control of the earth before Christ
returns, we read: "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast,
that the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would
not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both
small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their
right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he
that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name" (Rev.
I 3: 1 5-1 7).
Humanist computer scientists and experts themselves have given
veiled warnings. The author of The Organic Computer, for instance, warns that
inasmuch as computers are already deified, the Fifth Generation computers may
become man's god. Dr. Robert Jastrow, author of The Enchanted Loom, addressed
himself to this danger: "As these nonbiological intelligences increase in
size and capacity, there will be people around to teach them everything they
know.... If this forecast is accurate, man is doomed to a subordinate status
on his own planet.... What can be done? The answer is obvious: Pull the plug.
That may not be so easy. Computers enhance the productivity of human labor;
they create wealth and the leisure to enjoy it; they have ushered in the
Golden Age. In 15 or 20 years, computer brains will be indispensible....
If someone pulled the plug, chaos would result. There is no turning back."
Even today if all computers were to be silenced, traffic lights would
not work, airplanes would not fly, banks would not open, and there would be
unmanageable lines of people at the supermarkets. The present generation has
passed the point of no return.
In order to soften the attitude of the masses toward computer danger,
major computer companies have through advertising made it man's companion,
friend, counselor, and playmate. In the movie Star Wars, the two computerized
robots took on distinct personalities and audiences identified with the two
machines more than the actors. A few years ago, Xerox produced a television
commercial in which a chubby, loveable little monk finds his personal computer
greater than God in solving problems. The term personal implies that the
individual has his own personal slave to do his every bidding. It takes on an
omniscient and omnipresent connotation.
But as always, the illusion of godlike power is in fact a delusion
from Satan. His tactics have not changed. He told Eve in the Garden of Eden
that when she and Adam ate of the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil they would be "as God." The computer appeals to man's pride,
seemingly offers him a way out of his problems. Humanism, the belief that
man can solve all of man's problems, grasps at what seems the infinite
possibilities promised by the computer. But the power of the computer will
not serve man, ultimately. In the hands of the man of sin, the computer will
control man almost totally, will cause man not only to serve but to worship
the god it will satanically create.
In The Iliad, Homer wrote that the god Hephaestus made splendid robots
to relieve the gods and goddesses of mundane chores in looking after the
human race. We know from Genesis 6 that much of mythology is based on the true
accounts of Satan's effort to subvert God's creation, man, and claim the earth
for himself. Perhaps the Fifth Generation computer will be another attempt.
Humanism is demanding answers to the problems exploding on every
front. Scientists are working feverishly to fulfill man's demand for bigger,
better, and more intelligent computers, and God has said, what man has
imagined, that he can do. But there is one thing no computer can do for man.
I quote from the article "Computer Worship," which appeared in the
May 1984 edition of Science magazine: "Massachusetts Institute of Technology
computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum suggests, ' Take the great many people
who've dealt with computers now for a long time . . . and ask whether they're
in any better position to solve life's problems. And I think the answer is
clearly no. They're just as confused and mixed up about the world and their
personal relations and so on as anyone else. ' "
Computers will be used to confuse, to delude mankind, because Satan is
the author of confusion. Satan's evil, super genius linked to human technology
will be a marriage truly made in hell.
The new money about which we have heard so much is finally ready
for circulation. I have a one-hundred dollar bill in my wallet that has been
released for circulation, and it is my understanding that fifty dollar bills
will soon follow. According to the October 1991 edition of a publication
titled The Financial Advisor: "While all ink has some traces of iron
particles-the new $100 bills have a half-inch area along the bottom of the
face of the bill that has far heavier concentrations of magnetic ink than
is normal. . . . The magnetic ink hidden with the design exhibits 23 bars of
different heights- and of different densities-which serves the same purpose
as a product bar code. "
While we have not as yet had time to document this claim, if true
it would make easier the tracking of cash transactions by computers. As we
see all these things and consider them in the light of Bible prophecy, it
is reasonable to ask if perhaps the day when everyone in the world will
be commanded to receive the mark of the Beast or be killed is now nearer
than most Christians dare to believe. The instruction of Paul as that day
approaches is written for our instruction: "And the Lord make you to increase
and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do
toward you: To the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness
before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all
his saints " ( I Thess. 3:12).
Only Jesus Christ can give you peace of soul and peace of mind. Only
Jesus Christ can provide forgiveness of sin and remove the agony of sin that
is manifested in a guilty conscience. If you are not now a Christian, receive
Jesus Christ as your Savior and your Lord today. "For God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish but have everlasting life"(John 3:16).
Reprints of this publication may be obtained from:
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Oklahoma City, OK 73101
(405) 235-5396
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