From the “Strange Things and Black Helicopters” Dept.

matrix_icon.jpgSo, I open my e-mail this morning. Expecting to find the usual 40-50 spams, 11-15 e-mails from lists I subscribe to, and the 2-5 e-mails from people that I know. Then this morning, I got a strange one. Not spam, probably not from a mass mailer (as it’s from Yahoo’s servers, which is notoriously useless to send spam) yet, definitely not addressed to me in particular.

The e-mail goes on about how the citizens of earth are living in a “Matrix” like existence, they have formed a resistance and they invite me to search for them. They have given me a puzzle to solve using 22 keywords and a search engine. Purportedly, if I get the correct set of keywords, they will be listed as the top result.

Have you seen it? Do you know what this is about? Is it a promotion game for an upcoming movie? (much like happened before A.I.’s release) Read on below and let me know what you think of it.

Sat
Jun 29 10:11:14 2002

From: Eucosmidae Slavophobist <alkalize2no2@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fakes…
To: dean@paxtonland.com

There is something extremely wrong with
every single person in this world. They seem to be part of a pointless
simulation.

"The Matrix" has portrayed this
idea somewhat, yet we watch it and go back to our daily lives. Yet in
this very life, underneath the seeming diversity in people’s opinions,
values, talents, and interests, there is something that makes everyone
the same. It is as though this planet is populated only by mindless fakes,
objects that provide the appearance of intellect on the surface but are
based on only mechanical reflexes and primitive thought patterns.

I don’t really care if anything I say
has been said before, if it was portrayed in movies, in books, or in the
lyrics of some useless song. With 6 billion people covering the globe
at any given time, thousands and thousands of years of written literature,
probability dictates almost any combination of words has occurred numerous
times. Yet there is clear evidence there was no action, so those words,
just like the people who spoke them, must have been just more fakes. I
am forced to use this language (also created by the fakes) because there
is no alternative, so everything I write here could be misunderstood to
make me sound like one of them, but it will be the action that I take
and the dedication that will separate me from them.

In my estimation the fakes that occupy
this planet don’t make up 99%, but more like 99.9999999% of the population.
I know this because I’ve searched, and in my search have so far only found
one true ally (I have found him via the internet as well). But even with
those numbers we would not give up because there is no logic in giving
up.

The people on this planet are all fakes
because the societies have made them this way. Ideas that populate people’s
minds have no logic or purpose. Concepts such as religion, god, morality,
individualism, freedom, identity, happiness, love and billions of others
are all just memes. Like parasites they infect the minds and spread from
one person to the next. They have no point or purpose; they exist without
any logical basis or foundation. The fakes are completely controlled by
them, and they will never see beyond them. To not be controlled by them
one must do more then just realize that they exist. One must resist any
ideas that have no point, endlessly question, and never accept imperfection
or compromise in any answer.

We (myself and my ally) are different
though. While we have had the limitation of existing only in these societies,
something has made it possible for us to resist being indoctrinated into
becoming one of those fakes. We have no arbitrary wants, needs, desires,
or preferences.

If this world continues to exist the way
it is then nothing in it will ever have a point. It will always be just
a product of random evolution, one with no importance or relevance. The
only logical goal is to dedicate our lives to increasing our numbers,
those that aren’t fakes, so that in thousands of years our numbers may
be such that the fakes would no longer be a threat to progress.

Those that join us must see every other
person occupying this planet as the enemy, and us as their only allies.
Like us they must have dedication only to taking the most logical action,
and to nothing else.

To tell you more about us, we’ve posted some personal
information about ourselves on a website. You’ll also find past responses
to us on that webpage.

Obviously anyone reading this email is most likely just
another fake. Do not simply reply to this email, if you do your message
will almost certainly be ignored. If you do wish to communicate, first
demonstrate your interest by taking the effort to find us online, one
of the ways to do that is described below.

Use a major search engine to search for every combination
of any two words from the list below. The order of the words shouldn’t
matter as long as you do not search for them in quotes. Also when you
pick the right combination you shouldn’t need to look at more then the
first matches.

There is no trick to this and this isn’t meant to be quick,
it should, however, be fairly clear if/when you find the right site. The
following search engines were verified by us, please use any of them as
other search engines may simply not list us correctly: MSN, Lycos, InfoSeek,
LookSmart, HotBot, InfoSpace, Google, Ask.com, AllTheWeb, Teoma, WebCrawler,
AltaVista, AOL Search, Netscape Search.

perfect
theory
endless
desire
eternal
logic
driving
perpetual
vision
logical
infinite
dream
final
best
escape
objective
thought
only
ambition
clue
perfection

If this can’t be solved, or if you never reach us, there
should be no reason for you to give up as we will never give up and thus
there will always be some way to find us.