h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Greetings,

I really liked your poem and have linked to it in an upcoming issue of the CAC-Continuum.
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~jwf~

thank you! i'm glad you liked it. i'd like to be part of the CAC, but sadly, graduate school is killing me with work. but let's keep in touch.

db

oops. my alter ego spoke, instead of me. dancingbuddha *is* avenkat, or more accurately, the other way round

db

Interesting.

I mean it's interesting that even here in cyberspace my true spirit of truth, honesty and reality protects me from false prophets and false identities.

It's a classic example of ancient truths like 'what goes round comes round' or 'as ye sew so shall ye reap'. And it works even in the faceless, breathless, silent, inert realms of humming dusty silicon where the only communication is with written words from persons and/or machines unknown.

But you have seen for yourself that the spirit is with me and it is sometimes simply impossible for people to lie or misrepresent themselves when they are talking to me. The force is with me even online.

Half of this lie is for your benefit, half for anyone lurking, and yet all of it is true for me.

Oh and I have answered you email elsewhere and now I'm looking forward to working with you on your research into the cyberspatial phenom. You may have noticed I am already trying to suggest some insights into how it really works. But just as in real life, experience is the only teacher and usage is the only authority, so its hard to see the other end of the telescope when all of your expectations are linear and limited to only looking thru the small end of it.


jwf

Sir, you attribute too much to the cosmic (in this case, that is).

Sadly, my correcting myself had little to do with false identities. I have two different browsers that keep me signed into h2g2 with two different identities - one as me (or as close as is possible: dancingbuddha), and the other as my temporary student researcher id (this one). All that happened that I forgot I was in the wrong browser.

The reason I did go back and correct my post is because I want to keep my two identities separate, as an ethical research practice.

But we will meet elsewhere.

sincerely,
arvind

as you can see, I have forgotten that I was in the wrong browser again. read the prev posting as having been made by avenkat

sincerely,
db

>> as you can see...I was in the wrong again...posting as avenkat...<<


And as you can see, when it comes to cosmic realities, some people have to be told twice. And even then some will never get it.



~jwf~