September 28th, 2007
Signal Hill
If you could send a signal and it would keep transmitting forever, what would you send? Would its content even matter?
Transcriptorial: That no one understood the signal / mattered little; he knew / it would persist long after them.
“Spontaneity and impulse made me come up with such pointless message. Now future generations must hear this over and over again. Sorry.”
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”
“Wake up. You’re dreaming again. And there are dragons in the mist.”
“tap..tap….is this thing on?”
“Don’t give up. Someone needs you.”
“As bad as it gets, know that far better than yourself have endured far worse. Take comfort in their strength and let it inspire you to persevere.”
“If you can hear this, you’re still alive.”
The first one is still out there, gorram Hitler’s speech. Mine would just be ‘Danger: Humans!’
“i love you.”
It wouldn’t be the most important thing I have to say, or the next most important, or the next.
Eventually people would stop listening.
[...] to prompting and [...]
when you feel alone, here this and know you’re not.
Soon these words will be as the wind in your ears.