3/12/2013 2:22:42 PM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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Apocalypse
The extinction of the human race took place, approximately, by the late XXXII century. It happened like this: The machines had reached such perfection that men did not need to eat or to sleep, to talk or to read, to write or to think... or to do anything. They only had to press a button and the machines did everything for them. Gradually, things started to disappear... tables, chairs, roses, disks with the nine symphonies of Beethoven, antique shops, the wines from Bordeaux, Flemish tapestries, all of Verdi's , chess, telescopes , Gothic cathedrals, football stadiums, the Pieta of Michelangelo, the ruins of Trajan's Forum, automobiles, rice, giant sequoias, the Parthenon. There were only machines. Then, in August, the men began to notice they too were gradually disappearing... while the machines were multiplying. It didn't take long for the number of men to become less than half while the machines' doubled. The machines eventually occupied all available spaces... no one could take a step or make a gesture without tripping over them. Finally, the men were eliminated. As they forgot to unplug the machines, we continue to operate.
Marco Denevi (Argentinean lawyer, journalist and short story writer)
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3/12/2013 2:31:40 PM |
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onnightwings
Raleigh, NC
52, joined Dec. 2009
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Apocalypse
Gradually, things started to disappear... the wines from Bordeaux,
Now you're starting to piss me off!
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3/12/2013 3:36:17 PM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
63, joined Aug. 2008
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Now you're starting to piss me off!
Not more than your lack of reading comprehension pisses me off...unless, of course, you are being sarcastically selective....Which I doubt.
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3/12/2013 4:12:18 PM |
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cubcougar
Lucerne, CA
63, joined Oct. 2010
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(this post has been flagged as inappropriate, sorry.)
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3/12/2013 4:22:26 PM |
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dwwcat
Orange, TX
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Bruce Willis, surrogates..
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3/12/2013 7:29:43 PM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
63, joined Aug. 2008
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bump
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3/12/2013 8:20:54 PM |
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bones01
Homeland, CA
67, joined Apr. 2008
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Sounds like a good story.
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3/12/2013 11:46:30 PM |
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xman7900
Richmond, VA
36, joined Apr. 2012
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The world just MIGHT be a better place.
[Edited 3/12/2013 11:46:54 PM ]
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3/13/2013 12:23:33 AM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
63, joined Aug. 2008
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Gee, guys...the OP is not that difficult to understand.
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3/13/2013 12:31:05 AM |
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xman7900
Richmond, VA
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I understood it, and I stand by my previous post.
The world just MIGHT be a better place.
Humans are such a waste of the creator's energy, if I was the creator I would have wiped this planet out 2000 years ago.
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3/13/2013 12:40:09 AM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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I understood it, and I stand by my previous post.
The world just MIGHT be a better place.
Humans are such a waste of the creator's energy, if I was the creator I would have wiped this planet out 2000 years ago.
The last part of your post tells me you didn't.
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3/13/2013 12:44:10 AM |
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xman7900
Richmond, VA
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Please explain.
In the OP, at the end man was wiped out.
I said, that would probably make the world a better place, and I also said if i was the creator, I'd have wiped man out LONG ago.
So why do you think I didn't read it?
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3/13/2013 2:48:05 PM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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Please explain.
In the OP, at the end man was wiped out.
I said, that would probably make the world a better place, and I also said if i was the creator, I'd have wiped man out LONG ago.
So why do you think I didn't read it?
Because Marco Denevi didn't mean anything about a creator but about how people are being taking over by technology and losing the skils to interact with e/o...about how mankind is becoming "robotized".
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3/13/2013 3:03:17 PM |
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61falcon
New Hope, PA
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duchessa you have a Pope!!
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3/13/2013 3:14:07 PM |
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xman7900
Richmond, VA
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Because Marco Denevi didn't mean anything about a creator but about how people are being taking over by technology and losing the skils to interact with e/o...about how mankind is becoming "robotized".
Ummm, I got that.
I ONLY mentioned the creator as a personal statement reflecting MY personal feelings towards man.
I THOUGHT that was obvious.
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3/13/2013 3:56:56 PM |
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jim_a49
Bellevue, WA
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The world was destroyed befor, there is no reason to doubt it will be destroyed again.
PS, And I don't mean by that stupid a** flood.
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3/13/2013 4:48:43 PM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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Ummm, I got that.
I ONLY mentioned the creator as a personal statement reflecting MY personal feelings towards man.
I THOUGHT that was obvious.
Don't even try to twist your own words....
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3/13/2013 4:52:20 PM |
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xman7900
Richmond, VA
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Don't even try to twist your own words....
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