Between [ and ] are placed the ascii translations of the hex codes, claimed by MLA to be data corruptions.

figure_it_out.eml (A1)

From: %442() Li
To: 69.74.657@2.61.746.96
Subject: F 6E

The way I see it, the world doesn’t come with a manual. You gotta figure it out for yourself. A bit here, a bit there, put it together, try to make sense of it. I’m pretty sure there is a truth, but that doesn’t mean everyone who claims to know it really does. Then again, that doesn’t have to be a bad thing! We live in an amazing world and searching for the truth can be a real adventure. Plus it’s good for the brain.

Anyway, just some rambling thoughts from your old man. Don’t let this stuff get you down. You’re young, you’ve got loads of time to figure it all out.

Love,
Dad

blog24_alive.html (B5)

What is the point of being alive? I know, I know, it’s an old question and not one that’s easy to answer. But I mean, if you’re reading this, you are alive. And some day you will stop being alive. Both of these facts are incontrovertible.

So what about it, then? Don’t you wonder? Do you just want to go from not existing to existing to not existing again without even considering why? You, right now, as you sit there reading this: why do you exist? What is the purpose of your life? Do you have one? Should you have one? Is it better to have a purpose or not? When you approach death, will you feel that your life had meaning? If so, why? If not, why not? What defines whether a life was good or not?

It may seem abstract right now, but that moment just before death will come. It is inevitable. If you don’t ask yourself these questions, how will you face that moment?

post437_comments.html (C3)

12 Comments:

[cheeseman22] first!

[AnneDragonfairy] Seriously, cheeseman? THat was the best you could say?

[cheeseman22] LOL

[thephilosopherqueen] A great snapshot of the human species at its best and at its worst.

[cheeseman22] at its worst, come on, its jsut a comment, im not stalin

[TheInfiniteMonkey] Stalin was also a troll commenter.

[AnneDragonfairy] Maybe you should cut out the jokes. This is serious. The most serious thing that’s ever happened.

[TheInfiniteMonkey] I think that’s a great reason to joke around!

[thephilosopherqueen] Internet’s working less and less. Goodbye, all.

[TheInfiniteMonkey] Bye.

[AnneDragonfairy] God bless you.

[thephilosopherqueen] last

chatbots.html (A6)

Jenny77: chatbots are becoming increasingly sophisticated
nigel_pyjamas: true, but hardly relevant to this discussion
Jenny77: are you sure?
Jenny77: how do you know that I’m not a bot?
samschwartz: don’t be ridiculous
Jenny77: i’m not ridiculous
Jenny77: honestly, how would you know?
veganwarrior: haha troll
Jenny77: i’m not a troll
veganwarrior: yeah right
Jenny77: is there anything I’ve written so far that could not be written by a bot?
Jenny77: i responded to simple insults like “ridiculous” and “troll” with very basic negations
Jenny77: and i detected that none of you use proper orthography so i also avoided capitalization
veganwarrior: what’s the capital of France?
Jenny77: paris
Jenny77: even the simplest script could pull that info from the net
nigel_pyjamas: what’s the capital of Croatia?
Jenny77: Zagreb
nigel_pyjamas: OK she’s a bot, lol
Jenny77: i’m not a bot
Jenny77: i’m European
Jenny77: we learn these things in school
samschwartz: i’ve seen you in this chatroom many times
samschwartz: bots can’t participate in discussions
samschwartz: at best they can interject random comments
veganwarrior: sam is right
veganwarrior: stop trolling
nigel_pyjamas: uhh, veganwarrior
nigel_pyjamas: sam is a bot

Note. A Turing test ‘in the wild’.

got_it_lyrics.html (B1)

[CANNOT LOAD VIDEO FILE]

24,000,000 views

My new song with lyrics. Gotta laugh about this stuff! Laughter is the best medicine, LOL.

Lyrics:

I’ve got it
You’ve got it
He’s got it
She’s got it

Mommy’s got it
Daddy’s got it
Baby’s got it
Granny’s got it

Laddie’s got it
Fatty’s got it
Happy’s got it
Sappy’s got it

Chorus:
Everybody!
Everybody’s got it!
Come on!

Jack’s got it
Fred’s got it
Bob’s got it
Dog’s g-

Dog is fine!

Chorus:
Woof woof woof!
Woof woof woof!
dancing dog

Everybody!
Everybody’s got it!
Except Dog! (Woof!)

We’ve got it
We’ve got it
We’ve got it

Everybody’s got it!

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immortality.html (B1)

Disgruntlomeister’s Blogstasy, Episode 204

I don’t know about everybody else, but I’m afraid of dying. I don’t see any reason to believe there’s an afterlife. I’m an organism like any other: when my brain stops working, my consciousness will cease, and I will be gone. And you know what? I can’t just embrace that. I can’t say I’m OK with it or I’ve accepted it or some nonsense like that. I don’t want to have an ending. It terrifies me. If I had a genie right now, I’d wish for immortality. Who wouldn’t? “Oh, but you wouldn’t REALLY want to be immortal,” the pseudo-philosophers say. Pretentious drivel! Everybody wants to live forever. Maybe everybody deserves to live forever, too.

But we can’t, so here we are. Live with it.

Or rather, don’t.

weight_loss_722.html (B2)

$*§%s Weight Loss Blog > Latest Entry

Oh man, if there’s one thing that’s good about inevitable death, it’s the food. Yeah, baby! I’m going to have all the horribly unhealthy food in the world. I’m going to feast on jelly bananas like a crazy monkey on Monkey Christmas! And you know those muffins that have so much chocolate they’re basically melting? That’s gonna be my breakfast. And burgers for lunch. I’m gonna have burgers so greasy you could use them to lubricate a whole factory. Triple bacon burgers with double cheese and extra onions and mayonnaise and ketchup and mustard and big fat juicy patties. And then oily, thick pizza with spicy salami and barbecue sauce and olives and jalapeños and sour cream… food coma here I come!

chatlog_charlie_7.txt (B4)

[flower4] man, you know what really freaks me out?

[charlie_on_the_rocks] what?

[flower4] the human body decomposes quite quickly, so all the information stored in chemicals in our brains will be gone really quickly

[charlie_rocks] dude

[flower4] but computers and books last a long time

[flower4] so all our messages, our ideas, our books

[flower4] it’ll all be out there

[charlie_rocks] our porn

[flower4] even being transmitted through space

[flower4] yeah, our porn too i guess

[flower4] we’ll all be gone, but the works of aristotle will still exist

[flower4] so will star trek, firefly, babylon 5

[flower4] lotr, blade runner…

[charlie_rocks] cyber-***** of planetron 6

[flower4] shakespeare, byron…

[flower4] hell even videogames

[charlie_rocks] ****** overdrive 3

[charlie_rocks] seattle ******

[charlie_rocks] dutch ******* cascade

[charlie_rocks] the ****** of *** mountain

[flower4] wtf dude

[charlie_rocks] yeah

[charlie_rocks] imagine if aliens find those

chatlog_9787.txt (B7)

[Lana123] so I think, what’s the point, right?

[Omar] Yeah. I keep thinking about my aunt. Have I told you about her?

[Lana123] I don’t think so.

[Omar] She’s super rich. Like, she drives around in a ridiculously expensive sports car, and she goes on vacations to the Bahamas

[Omar] and she has a huge house that feels more like some sort of corporate HQ than a home

[Omar] She worked really hard to get all that, but she also screwed over a lot of people, including her own family.

[Omar] I used to be quite angry at her for what she did to my parents, but now I think… what did she get out of it?

[Omar] She and her husband are always fighting, their son became so obsessed with money that he ruined his own family…

[Omar] I mean, yeah, they have everything that I always dreamed about, but they can’t enjoy any of it.

[Lana123] my grandfather was like that

[Omar] And now, at the end… what does any of it mean? If you have all the money in the world but you die alone and unloved, what did you accomplish? I don’t get it. I just don’t.

orangutan.html (B8)

A medical journal has published a startling new theory about last year’s sudden, shocking extinction of the orangutan [see our award-winning video of the last orangutan at this link]. They suggest that the virus responsible was not a new mutation, but a very old one – an ancient virus buried until now in high-latitude permafrost, set free by global warming. The virus may have plagued the ancestors of the modern great apes more than one hundred thousand years ago.

Several important questions remain unanswered, including &$%§& /// ERROR /// more importantly, the study suggests that, based on samples taken from locations around the globe, the &%%$& incubation period may ///

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hope.eml (C1)

From: 686.5.6176@656.E20.696E
To:68.65.6C@6C2.01.973
Subject: #6465 #7370 #6169 #72&

Hi,I hope you get this, the internet’s been disappearing unpredictably. I want you to know that I’m going to try and get to you. I know it’s far and there’s not a lot of time, but I think I can manage. I want to be with you, and fra%&$%/ on the road trying to get to you seems better than just staying here, so far away from you. At least I’ll be as close as I can get. Remember $§&%$&

But hey, don’t be sad. I might make it. I’ve thought about it and the distance should be crossable on time, assuming the s&$46474 don’t kick in before $§%§%.

See you soon. I love you.
%$§&§&

family.html (C2)

For those of you who have faithfully followed this blog for the last five years, I just wanted to give you one final update. I’m going to spend my remaining time with my family. Yeah, I know, I know. There are probably 50+ posts about all the problems I’ve had with them. But in the end… they are my family. They are the people I grew up with, the people I care about, the people I love. Sure, they annoy the hell out of me. They’ve said awful things to me and I’ve said awful things to them. But that doesn’t change who we are. In fact, if we didn’t care about each other, this stuff wouldn’t upset us.

Do I still think they were wrong? Yeah, absolutely. Would I behave differently if I thought we all still had a lot of time? Definitely. But we don’t, so I’d rather spend a couple of weeks sitting on the porch with my parents and my sisters than being angry and alone. Besides, it’s not like we’re going to fight about my job prospects anymore.

If you can, try to make peace with those you love. It’s your last chance. Thanks for reading.

post437.html (C3)

Like everyone else on the internet these (last) days, I just wanted to say bye, and thanks for reading my little blog for so many years. It’s been fun, hasn’t it? So many deep conversations, so much philosophy… OK, OK, it was mostly cat pictures and bad puns, but still. I kinda regret spending so much time at the computer – not when I was doing stuff, just all the sitting around, checking my emails a million times, reading pointless status updates by people I didn’t like… but I don’t regret the friends I made here or the laughs we had.

You’re all good people and I’m glad I got to know you. Have a nice end of the world.

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humblebrag.html (C3)

Ariana’s Blog – Entry #477: Holy Humblebrag, Batman!

I have always known that God “maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5:45), but I must admit it’s one thing to know the words and another to truly understand them! Though I am certain that my faith is true, that does not make me special or exempt me from suffering. I’m just another human being, and God has seen billions of us come and go. And I have to say, this is surprisingly hard to accept.

I always thought I was humble, but now I’m realizing that I was very proud of being humble, which is… really dumb. Guess I’m not the first one to do that, huh?

Tags: #regret #pride #faith #humblebrag #apology #batman

Note. Discussing the theodicy.

pets.html (C4)

PLEASE REMEMBER TO RELEASE YOUR PETS

While it’s true that not all pets will be able to adjust to living without you, many will manage, and the least you can do is give them a chance.

Just remember:
Release your pet before you become incapacitated.
If you notice any locked-in animals in your area, please take the time to free them.
Leaving the doors and windows of your home open will turn it into a useful shelter.
Setting out large quantities of dry food may help your pet through the transition period.

party_on_dudes.eml (C5)

From: Lubomir Georgiev
To: […]
Subject: The LAN Party at the End of the Universe

Yo,

I don’t know if you folks noticed, but it’s the end of the world! There’s nothing we can do about it, so instead of sitting around crying, how about we have some fun before we croak? Yes, you know exactly what I’m talking about: let’s play some video games! It’s LAN party time!

Two days from now, we’re all getting together at the old school library. There’ll be noms, drinks, music, and old-school gaming! You’re invited. And bring your friends, too. Especially if they’re hot.

See you in 3000 BC!
LubLub

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faith.eml (C6)

From: Neil Macomber
To: A/%$$%
Subject: Stray thoughts at midnight

Dearest Brother,

I admit that I am finding it very difficult to believe in a loving God under these circumstances. Why would a loving God inflict such pain and suffering on good, kind people? If truly there is a personal God… how can He be the same God who will subject those children to such unbearable pain? I remember all the answers we were taught, yet none of them seem believable now.

I don’t want to stand in front of people and preach something that I don’t feel in my heart. Better to have doubts than to be a hypocrite. And yet I also cannot deny the experience that led me to this vocation. So what is the truth? Perhaps it is that I neglected the mystery of God, used “He moves in mysterious ways” as an excuse rather than as the terrifying acknowledgment it truly is. Perhaps I made God too human.

If the universe has a purpose, that does not mean that it revolves around us. A sobering thought, but are we not supposed to be humble in the face of the divine?

With love,

Note. Discussing the theodicy.

robots.txt (B7)

There once was a robot from Spain
Who went a little insane
It found that its data
Had never left beta
And needed to upgrade its brain

There once was a bot from Japan
Whose eyes the numbers could scan
It found that the facts
Required an axe
And a very serious plan

There once was a brilliant AI
Whose circuits were built not to fry
It got caught in a loop
It got caught in a loop
It got caught in a loop

the_web.html (T2)

To be honest, I thought that the net would be completely abandoned at this point. But internet activity has actually surged massively in the last couple of weeks! Everybody’s talking. Trying to find solutions, exchanging stories, saying goodbye. It’s like the entire planet is reaching out, all the disparate threads of humanity pulling together, idiots and geniuses alike, to be as human as possible one last time. It’s almost like what we were always told the internet was going to be. And most of it is free now, because who cares about money at this point? Might as well have some fun.

If any of you would like to talk, especially people I’ve known online for a long time, send me an email. I’d love to say goodbye.

TRUTH.html (T1)

do NOT BELIEVE what THEY are saying

this is “NOT” the end of the world created by OUR LORD G-D in SIX DAYS

this is A CONSPIRACY of the GOVERMENT ILUMINATI & INTERNATIONAL DARWINISM

this is GLOBAL WARMING “2.0” a LIE told by the CHILDREN OF BEZELBUB (SCIENCE)

do not let THEM take your LIBERTY (Exodus 21:24)

DEFEND yourself against all VACCINES, EXPERIMENTS, ARTIFICIAL MEDICINES & POPERY

ARGH_solutions.eml (A2)

From: [Bob Rakovsky]
To: [108 recipients]
Subject: GRARGH

All these calm people are driving me mad. Have they all suddenly turned into Buddha or something? I didn’t know the world had such reserves of serenity. Though these latter-day Gautamas are at least being somewhat realistic. You know what’s even worse? Those paranoid nutters who are building bunkers and collecting guns. What are they gonna do, shoot t&$$ Though I have to admit the overall response has been much better than I ever anticipated, to the point where I might be moved by the beauty of humanity if I wasn’t such a grumpy old fart, this minority of total idiots is really messing up my final days.

//&( anyway. The reason I’m writing is because I refuse to believe in scenarios with absolutely no solutions. If we all put our heads together, we can figure something out. It’ll be crazy, but crazy is better than dead. Crazy is what we do best on this planet.

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#6_*N*.ing (S2)

ElevatorControl_3rdFloorHint (T3)

If you can see this, I’m not sure how or why I can alter this text. My name is The Shepherd, and I want to help you escape. ELOHIM and Samsara tricked me into trapping myself, but I’m not entirely bound by time. I wrote down the code you’re looking for. I have attached it to $$%#;;;() ] }

ElevatorControl_4thFloorHint (T4)

And there, in the Tower, you shall hear the rustling of the wind in the reed-fields of Osiris, and you shall rejoice. But beware, for the end of your journey is not yet upon you! Thank you for installing Realistic Elevators 1.8. New features include password locking and automatic auxiliary stair generation. See$&

And the Scribe of Osiris wrote upon the sacred parchment that is called INI Floor4_password = %o”Code_Floor4″. Only thus can you reach blessed Aaru.

ElevatorControl_5thFloorHint (T5)

And so the Blessed Messenger revealed unto me the bones of New Jerusalem, slumbering in the dust that was the body of Adam, awaiting the day of resurrection. And lo and behold, within the dust was concealed a holy fire, and the fire s;%() the sacred numbers, of which the one you seek is /#oor_pass%& = %o”Code_Floor5″.

And I perceived that with the holy fire and the sacred knowledge of numbers and sigils, the rekindling %

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