For those unaware of what this is about, a quick read here would suffice for your curiosity. You can write your message here when you've made up your mind.
Anyway, here's my message. (WARNING: Massive wall of text ahead.)
I'm curious as to what messages people here have for our great-great-great-...(a thousand or so iterations)...-great-grandchildren. ^^12 September 2007 AD
To You Living 500 Centuries Later,
First of all, if you are reading this, then I would like to extend my congratulations not just to you but to the whole human race as well (or to whatever sentient equivalent playing the role of the dominant species on Earth at your time). Congratulations, because by being able to translate and read this, you prove that a literate, technologically advanced civilization can indeed survive for millennia without totally destroying itself.
I might already be assuming too much at the onset, but I would like to believe that with fifty thousand years of experience behind you, you have already conquered (if not totally eliminated) all the petty disputes, hatreds, divisions, nonsensical trivialities (I am certain that at least one of my contemporaries writing here would regal you with some stories about the countless exploits of "/b/" and "Anonymous"), misunderstandings, and madnesses that characterize my day and age.
I am not a profound person by any measure, so what follows is simply my pathetic attempt at a compendium of discrete ideas culled from my day-to-day existence. Hardly anybody would find the list satisfying, but then I do not claim to map here the total landscape of early 21st-century human knowledge. There are others far more qualified for that endeavor, I am sure.
Send my love to the stars (which I believe some of you are already well on the way to), and take care of yourselves. Or is the idea of "multiple individuals" for you just another ontological chauvinism of intelligent Earth-dwellers fifty thousand years ago? What are your religions, if any? Have you already seen God? What fills you with awe and wonder? What is your concept of "the numinous"? Do you still have emotions, or are those really just adaptive mechanisms for behavior? The more that I write here, the more I realize that there is so much that I'll never get a chance to know and understand, and for that I envy you. ^_^
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"A circle traced by unities in a field of noughts." (Paraphrased from a book by a contemporary sage.)
Well, it's not a perfect circle. But then again, I suck at ASCII art. ;p
BTW, do you still have emoticons and Netspeak there? Is your power level already OVER 9,000? LOLOMGWTFBBQ?
Anyway, as for that circle, here's to hoping that you've already calculated to the end of pi. (On the other hand, calculating it to the Graham's number-th place would be pretty epic, too.) ^_^
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This is a random selection of music that I listen to. I really do hope that whatever disappears or gets destroyed between now and then, here and there, music is NOT among those.
- "The Best Is Yet To Come" by Rika Muranaka and Aoife NÃ Fhearraigh ("Metal Gear Solid" ending theme)
- "Kaze no Tadori Tsuku Basho" by Ayana ("Kanon" 2006 version ending theme)
- "Little Fugue" / "Fugue in G minor 'Little'" by Johann Sebastian Bach
- "Lux Aeterna" by Clint Mansell ("Requiem for a Dream" soundtrack album track)
- "Malagueña Salerosa" by Chingon ("Kill Bill Volume 2" ending theme)
- "Mamaw" by Michael V. (a Filipino comedian's hilarious spoof on a popular song by a local rock band)
- "Neodämmerung" by Don Davis ("The Matrix Revolutions: Music from the Motion Picture" track)
- "To All Tha Dreamers" by SOUL'd OUT ("Yakitate!! Japan" second ending theme)
- "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong
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Some of the books that I read. Reading will NEVER die! ^_^
- "The Art of Loving" by Erich Fromm
- The Holy Bible
- "Contact" by Carl Sagan
- The "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling
- "Hyperspace" by Michio Kaku
- "Il Principe" by Niccolo Machiavelli
- "Mere Christianity" and "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis
- "Sophie's World" by Jostein Gaarder
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Random movies and television series that I enjoyed. I bet your mode of entertainment there must be a full sensory interface or something like that. ;p
- "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968 AD)
- The "Back to the Future" trilogy (1985 AD to 1990 AD)
- "Citizen Kane" (1941 AD)
- "Heroes" (2006 AD)
- "Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu" (2005 AD)
- "Kung Fu Hustle" (2004 AD)
- The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy (2001 AD to 2003 AD)
- "After War Gundam X" (1996 AD)
- "Saving Private Ryan" (1998 AD)
- "Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann" (2007 AD)
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There you go. I hope you found my various meanderings somewhat useful in decoding at least a fragment of the mythology of your ancient history. Ah, there I go again, assuming that your processes run parallel to ours! For all I know your existence already lies beyond time and space as we 21st-century humans understand it, so the term "history" itself would be meaningless. ;p
Oh, and since meaning has already been brought up in the previous paragraph--I suspect that whatever foolishly human things I've said before, this tops them all--I really hope that you've already solved the puzzle of the ultimate meaning of life, the universe, and everything. ^_^
See you at Tipler's Omega Point (or so I hope)! ^_^
Yours truly,
[Real name censored]
Discuss.
At least that would make their day because I think what ShadowCell said would be more appropriate. Assuming there is anything to come back to.
