Re: Threats -- Who is this jerk?

From: Geo Incog (incog_at_incogxyz.com)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:16:31 -0700

> > > Does anyone know who this jerk is who sent me threatening emails?
> > > I have forwarded his messages to the FBI.
> >
> > Small world. I am pretty sure I used to work with him. He is a nuclear
> > physicist, worked on a military nuclear submarine and in power plants,
> > went into programming, and he is a very entertaining, party animal and
> > a likable guy. He is in his low 40's now, he has a beard, he developed
> > severe back and shoulder pains in his mid 30's, he used to call himself
> > Wild E. Coyote. The newsgroups fucked him up mentally. Its two
> > personalities. He is the coolest happiest smartest guy out of
newsgroups,
> > and in my opinion he is disturbed from the Internet, simply because he
> > cannot relate to this macho environment. He is normal. He is. Its just
> > anger from his inability to express himself.
>
> He raises his son alone. He submitted himself to a secret online character
> that... went out of the ordinary. Why does the Internet create secret
> characters? I know him. He is really cool. I don't get it.

This really interests me! I think this is what its all about:

 The internet can easily turn into a giant holodeck. The "holodeck
rooms of pain". One expects it to be miraculously the holodeck of
love, but instead it turns into a giant holodeck of pains and torture.
And once perceived like that, then, that's the only way one continues
to sees it. Unreal. Just unreal.