God's Packet Sniffer...
My wife sent me a forward-- one of those chain emails that data miners release in order to collect email addresses and match them to names. Similar to other chain emails, they begin with an insightful little quote. Most of the time they end with a superstitious threat of suffering if you don't pass it to X number of people in you address book, and if you do then you'll be rewarded by Karmaic fortune for your mouse clicks.
This one was odd in that it didn't warn of suffering, yet did tout rewards... this time for faith. It seems as though chain emails have abandoned the punishing God, so well described in the Old Testament, in favor of the New Testament's loving God. The email offered nothing new since, 2000 years ago an out-of-work carpenter proclaimed the same opinion of a diety. I did derrive one insightful relationship when comparing this to previous chain emails: faith is superstition.
Based on the assumption in the email, God monitors network traffic, sniffing packets to mark the faithful from the porn perusing perverts. Has Cisco Systems given God administrative rights to their routers? Is God limited to the TCP/IP protocol? If we use IPX/SPX can we get away with lying over the office network? What about NetBUI? God represents a major threat to internet sins and I suggest to everyone to use encryption technology when performing any cardinal sin online (based upon the internet's network load, God would ignore venial sins for fear of overloading his holy buffer).
Instead of forwarding this to 8 of my contacts, I display this message here for blog readers that accidentally visit:
This one was odd in that it didn't warn of suffering, yet did tout rewards... this time for faith. It seems as though chain emails have abandoned the punishing God, so well described in the Old Testament, in favor of the New Testament's loving God. The email offered nothing new since, 2000 years ago an out-of-work carpenter proclaimed the same opinion of a diety. I did derrive one insightful relationship when comparing this to previous chain emails: faith is superstition.
Based on the assumption in the email, God monitors network traffic, sniffing packets to mark the faithful from the porn perusing perverts. Has Cisco Systems given God administrative rights to their routers? Is God limited to the TCP/IP protocol? If we use IPX/SPX can we get away with lying over the office network? What about NetBUI? God represents a major threat to internet sins and I suggest to everyone to use encryption technology when performing any cardinal sin online (based upon the internet's network load, God would ignore venial sins for fear of overloading his holy buffer).
Instead of forwarding this to 8 of my contacts, I display this message here for blog readers that accidentally visit:
"Worry looks around, sorry looks back, Faith looks up."
3 angels are sent to you.
You must send them to 8 people including me.
In 8 minutes you will receive something you have long awaited for.
Have faith
Labels: chain email, faith, God, packet sniffing, superstition
