Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 12:29:08 +600
From: Tom Willmon <twillmon@overland.net>
Subject: New Gospel


My daughter sent me this inspired writing, and I share it with you.  It must
be Truth (tm).


-------------Forwarded Message-----------------
| 
| This came to me, and I almost deleted it, then I remembered, was it your
| Dad who had such distain for Windows compared to DOS? Anyway, if that's
| correct, maybe he would like this.
| Rick
| 
| 
| CREATION OF THE COMPUTER:
| 
| 1.  In the beginning, GOD created the Bit and the Byte. And
| from those He created the Word.
| 
| 2.  And there were two Bytes in the Word; and nothing else
| existed. And GOD separated the One from the Zero; and He
| saw it was good.
| 
| 3.  And GOD said - Let the Data be; And so it happened.
| And GOD Let the Data go to their proper places.
| And He created floppy disks, hard disks and compact disks.
| 
| 4.  And GOD said - Let the computers be, so there would be
| a place to put floppy disks and hard disks and compact
| disks.  Thus, GOD created computers and called
| them hardware.
| 
| 5.  And there was no software yet.  But GOD created
| programs; small and big... And told them - go and
| multiply yourselves and fill all the memory.
| 
| 6.  And GOD said - I will create the Programmer;  And the
| Programmer will make new programs and govern over the
| computers and programs and Data.
| 
| 7.  And GOD created the Programmer; and put him at
| Data Center;    And GOD showed the Programmer
| the Catalog Tree and said You can use all the volumes and
| sub-volumes, but DO NOT USE Windows.
| 
| 8.  And GOD said - It is not good for the Programmer to be
| alone.  He took a bone from the Programmer's body and
| created a creature that would look at the Programmer; and
| admire the Programmer; and love the things the Programmer
| does; And GOD called the creature: the User.
| 
| 9.  And the Programmer and the User were left under the
| naked DOS, and it was Good.
| 
| 10.  But, Bill was smarter than all the other creatures of
| God.  And Bill said to the User - Did God really tell you
| not to run any programs?
| 
| 11.  And the User answered - God told us that we can use
| every program and every piece of Data but told us not to
| run Windows or we will die.
| 
| 12.  And Bill said to the User - How can you talk about
| something you did not even try?  The moment you run
| Windows you will become equal to GOD.
| You will be able to create anything you like by a
| simple click of your mouse.
| 
| 13.  And the User saw that the fruits of the Windows
| were nicer and easier to use.  And the User saw that any
| knowledge was useless since Windows could replace it.
| 
| 14.  So, the User installed the Windows on his
| computer; and said to the Programmer that it was good.
| 
| 15.  And the Programmer immediately started to look for
| new drivers.  And GOD asked him - What are you looking
| for?  And the Programmer answered - I am looking for new
| drivers because I cannot find them in the DOS.  And GOD
| said - Who told you you need drivers?  Did you run
| Windows?  And the Programmer said - It was Bill who told
| us to!
| 
| 16.  And GOD  said to Bill - Because of what you did, you
| will be hated by all the creatures.  And the User will
| always be unhappy with you. And you will always sell
| Windows.
| 
| 17.  And GOD said to the User - Because of what you did,
| the Windows will disappoint you and eat up all your
| Resources; and you will have to use lousy programs; and
| you will always rely on the Programmer's help.
| 
| 18.  And GOD said to the Programmer - Because you listened
| to the User, you will never be happy.  All your programs
| will have errors and you will have to fix them and fix
| them to the end of time.
| 
| 19.  And GOD threw them out of the Data Center and locked
| the door and secured it with a password.
| 
| 
| 
| Tom
| Alpine, W. TX.
| 
| Only the mediocre can always be at their very best.