Good Morning All,
Okay, let's play a game! I'll start by proposing (whoa... almost chose a WAY more loaded word!)
the Next Big End of the World thing. So... here goes:
One of Arthur C Clarke's stories is 1957's 'The Nine Billion Names of God' -Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God .
To paraphrase, Tibetan monks contract w/some computer consultants who greatly speed up the monks ability to calculate the nine-billion names of God (in names of nine or fewer characters only). Once the contractors are finished, the 'Westerners', as the computer guys are called, ride off on horseback to civilization. The stars start going out. It made an impression on me as a child. Thinking about it, I of course started to think what will happen when nine billion human souls are on Earth. I make the illogical, and not-so, assumptions/extensions/projections and think, maybe this might be IT?
But this is just another game, another tidbit of history and culture; posing as something more than it is.
So. never mind. Carry-On My Loves!
RtTBt
Uggh, just thought of Herman Cain and '999' ! Maybe that's how it gets in the meme, hmmmm.
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