At 09:49 AM 2/1/01 +0100, you wrote:
>It's not a hoax, Marjorie, but a website created to attract public
>attention to a new book. In my current profession, it's called
>online-marketing. In the publishing and bookselling business, there are no
>hoaxes, just successful and unsuccessful customer contacts. The publisher
>in question should certainly be grateful to you for spreading the URL in
>interested circles, such as our list :-)
one of the main psychological forces behind millennialism is ADD type II:
can't get enuf attention. nothing like imagining that the forces of the
universe chose to give you a front row seat (or a starring role) in the
final resolution of the great cosmic drama to give one a sense of importance.
>Yet this is not to say that we are totally uninterested. The 'cloning
>Jesus' idea ("shall we wait passively for the second coming, or shall we
>use our brains and technologies to make it happen?") should be a piece of
>(fruit-) cake for rlandes! On the aftermath of Y2K millenialism, somebody
>is collecting the scattered forces and setting up a new, post-apocalyptic
>business. Richard, isn't that what your recent call for papers was all
>about (the one with the chronologically amusing subject line "CMS call for
>papers Fall 2000", apparently invented by a somnolent rooster):
that wd be me... apologies. like people who study ethics, i study
chronology because i am chronologically challenged.
>"Unbinding
>Prometheus to Build the New Jerusalem: Millennialism, Power and Technology"?
precisely. check out the piece on cloning in todays NYTimes Sunday Magazine.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20010204mag-cloning.html
r
>Best,
>
> Otfried
>
>At 21:50 03.02.01 -0800, you wrote:
>>If you have time-on a Sunday perhaps-go to
>>www.clonejesus.com. You won't believe your eyes.
>>Another list is discussing this and someone suggested
>>the whole thing is a hoax. One thing for sure is that
>>it's a hoot.
>>MG
>>
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