grgr(10) backwards

Cjhurtt6 at aol.com Cjhurtt6 at aol.com
Wed Sep 22 14:51:51 CDT 1999


In a message dated 9/22/99 12:27:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
fqmorris at hotmail.com writes:

<< 1. De-conditioning involves reversal of learning, sort of.  It's really 
just 
 more conditioning.  So regression would be just more training by Them.  To 
 what end?  THAT's a good question!  What IS/WAS Pointy's plan for Slothrop?
 
 2. Slothrop's "mechanism," if it exists, was instilled in his infancy.  They 
 may be trying to explore his consciousness in terms of his original 
 conditioning experience.  Are they in a sense dissecting him?
  >> 
Granted, neither of the points below explain why They would want Slothrop to 
regress to before his birth, to his ancestry in England...


Regression testing is the process of testing changes to computer programs to 
make sure that the older programming still works with the new changes.
                                                                              
          -from some web site

perhaps pointy and pals are just checking up on humankinds progress....or 
trying to just see how stuff works...or trying to create a race of supermen 
to rule the earth!!! bhuhahaha!!....obviously i need to put some more thought 
into this.




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