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The Fascinaterrfying World

I often struggle to determine whether the world is truly fascinating or simply terrifying, and whether the only difference between the two is simply my interpretation. After all, we can chose to treat everything and everyone in the world like an enemy, or a friend.

When you think about it... to computers, we are Gods. We are also the "gods" who created governments and corporations, and if we are wondering how the one will eventually grow up to treat us in the future, just look at how the other two have been treating us for centuries.

Our mind is like the internet, and our doubts are the trolls.

What if the internet is the spirit of evil incarnate? Or what if it is the doorway through which hell creeps ever more into the world, by stealing our minds and our time, with the promise of a cyber paradise, where all of our dreams and desires are forever fulfilled?

And we're all addicted to it more than any religion, and all religions combined.
 

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