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Pondering this whole livejournal concept makes me think about a book I read a couple years back called "God's Debris" by Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame). Why do people keep journals? Why do we have a need for other anonymous random people to read our journals?

There is a theory posited in "God's Debris", whereby life, the universe, and everything (no, not 42) exists because there was once an entity AKA "God" who decided to do a little experiment. God, being omniscient and omnipotent, knew everything and could do anything. But there was one thing he wasn't sure if he could do. Destroy himself. So this really bugged him, and he decided to attempt his own destruction. The result of this experiment was the Big Bang. We, as humans, are God's debris, resulting from God's destruction, and in some grand cosmic way, we are trying to come back together again to make ourselves whole.

This "coming back together" manifests itself by our evolving system of communications. As a race, we have progressed from non verbal, to verbal, to written, to electronic communications. Nowadays, we can pick up a phone and speak with anyone around the world. Computers are networked and people are more interconnected than ever. But we still lack communication at the mental level. So here, with livejournal, is a way to share our innermost thoughts with many people, and thus further connect ourselves into the fabric of life.

Yawn! So....my apologies to Scott Adams if I have totally butchered the theory put forth in his lovely work of fiction.

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