god(s) and the machine

[Richard Fiero]

At 07:16 PM 12/22/00, jbor wrote:
>H. Adams, Wm. Gibson, H.G. Wells, the 'net, god(s) etc:
>
>http://www.smh.com.au/news/0012/23/spectrum/spectrum1.html
>
>best

 From the article:
"The attraction of virtual realities and imaginary parallel 
universes on the Internet encourages people to opt out of the 
kind of flesh-and-blood relationships that are the 
indispensable condition of shared religious meanings."

In a similar vein:
" . . . chaos theory presents us with the possibility of 'a 
metaphysically attractive option of openness, a causal grid 
from below which delineates an envelope of possibility (it is 
not the case that anything can happen but many things can), 
within which there remains room for manoeuvre.'"
This last from a URL offered by Terrance and quoted.
http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti98/carroll.htm

Pomo is very fun. I fail to see the usefulness when applied to 
Thomas Pynchon. Pomo is also not needed for the above quotes 
which deconstruct themselves. I'm sure pomo must be enormously 
useful somewhere.