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roseembolism) wrote2010-11-17 09:06 pm
roseembolism) wrote2010-11-17 09:06 pm
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the real question is, how could you tell the difference?
Your computer may be possessed by a demon!,
...so warns the Reverend Jim Peasboro, a leading minister (leading exactly who or what, I have to wonder).
While Even I have to admit that at first glance this may explain some of the more bizarre aspects of one's least favorite computer or software manufacturer (go ahead, pick one), I have to wonder if things such as:
"Decent, happily married family men were drawn irresistibly to pornographic websites and forced to witness unspeakable abominations. "Housewives who had never expressed an impure thought were entering Internet chat rooms and found themselves spewing foul, debasing language they would never use normally. "
Or:
" Then the device went haywire and started printing out what looked like gobbledygook. "I later had an expert in dead languages examine the text," the minister said. "It turned out to be a stream of obscenities writt5 aen in a 2,800-year-old Mesopotamian dialect!"
...might have different explanations. Like say, accidentally logging onto Usenet groups, or reading Youtube comments. Somebody even more cynical may say that pornography and foul language may be the sort of thing that christians regularly indulge in when behind closed doors, and that demons is just a handy excuse.
However, I should bring up one potentially important thing that the the Reverend seems to have missed. If any computer made after 1985 has the memory capacity to hold a demon, wouldn't that mean that your average Blackberry, iPhone or Droid would have enough memory to do the same? So why don't we have swarms of possessed phones, texting blasphemy, making their screens rotate, or the like? Why are we stuck with the mundane annoyances of smart phones?
Could it be that phone carriers are too evil even for El Diablo? Hmm.
...so warns the Reverend Jim Peasboro, a leading minister (leading exactly who or what, I have to wonder).
While Even I have to admit that at first glance this may explain some of the more bizarre aspects of one's least favorite computer or software manufacturer (go ahead, pick one), I have to wonder if things such as:
"Decent, happily married family men were drawn irresistibly to pornographic websites and forced to witness unspeakable abominations. "Housewives who had never expressed an impure thought were entering Internet chat rooms and found themselves spewing foul, debasing language they would never use normally. "
Or:
" Then the device went haywire and started printing out what looked like gobbledygook. "I later had an expert in dead languages examine the text," the minister said. "It turned out to be a stream of obscenities writt5 aen in a 2,800-year-old Mesopotamian dialect!"
...might have different explanations. Like say, accidentally logging onto Usenet groups, or reading Youtube comments. Somebody even more cynical may say that pornography and foul language may be the sort of thing that christians regularly indulge in when behind closed doors, and that demons is just a handy excuse.
However, I should bring up one potentially important thing that the the Reverend seems to have missed. If any computer made after 1985 has the memory capacity to hold a demon, wouldn't that mean that your average Blackberry, iPhone or Droid would have enough memory to do the same? So why don't we have swarms of possessed phones, texting blasphemy, making their screens rotate, or the like? Why are we stuck with the mundane annoyances of smart phones?
Could it be that phone carriers are too evil even for El Diablo? Hmm.