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[Nathan T.]

On 4/1/06, doc <edoc7 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >>         Well, it may be true that there is nothing new under the Sun, as the
> >> Preacher in Ecclesiastes says, but we're Linux users -- not Solaris
> >> users, right? Good, because there is something new: ChristianSource
> >> has been purchased by Google for a tidy sum that I'll use only for
> >> good causes.
> >> ...snip...
>
> Another April Fool's joke ...  one still has to
> experience an involuntary 1984/Last Days of the
> End Times shudder.
>
> The day is coming and not too soon when we will
> be a refugee remnant for a time.

I just read that book recently, it's intersting but without a happy
ending it just seems like some depressing nihilistic anti-bible to me.
In the bible we win, in 1984 we lose :-p . I'm not sure I know what
the connection is unless you're talking about "Google is watching
you".