XPost: alt.magick   
   From: glass@panix.com   
      
   >eternal-september   
      
   In article <4ca0d936$0$12430$e4fe514c@dreader32.news.xs4all.nl>,   
   Bassos   wrote:   
      
   >In ye olde days, trolling was an artform.   
   >Enticing people to fight even though not the enticing troll.   
   >Nowadays it seems the trolls want attention themselves.   
      
   This nicely describes the trajectory of many gnostic technologies. Sic   
   transit gloria monday, or something.   
      
   >Now; what was my intent in this particular bit of trolling ?   
      
   What do I look like, Kreskin? But the result:   
      
   It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to   
   which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to   
   the world's coming to an end. In the same way, a single year does not have   
   just spring or summer. A single day, too, is the same. For this reason,   
   although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one   
   hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make   
   the best out of every generation.   
   - "from Hagakure, the book of the Samurai"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)