Wednesday, July 16, 2008

The Modern Technology Information age-another definition of sin

   I get between 200 and 300 emails a day from sources that I have never, ever contacted. If you do any on-line transactions, they can get your address. There is no way to prevent it. Some transaction contacts even sell address lists. No more than one or two out of several hundred or more are of legitimate interest to me in these that my server has filtered out and placed in junk mail. What is interesting is the nature of the emails as advertisements, and as scams, porn and just crude attempts to sell their questionable wares. Some come in foreign languages, some are foreign-born based on crude and outlandish spelling errors and the lottery and Nigerian fraud attempts have become bold and unrelenting.
    I received a clever scam in the junk mail file today. This “woman” says that all such are frauds, and that she solved the problem by going to Nigeria and receiving her prize in person. I can do the same and receiving my “money” just by contacting her with required info. Now that is a lot of gall.
    The porn is rude, crude and socially objectionable. The use of the English language in many is rude, crude and would be poor for a first grader. But when they use a foreign language and transmit by email to my address without the proper font it comes out as large squares, asterisks, ampersands, and other notations that leave you speechless…literally.
    What does it all mean? In Christian circles, this output from the world-system is simply categorized as:
            SIN

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