Zombie Cyborg Robot Clones

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03-20-2010, 11:55 PM
Dr. Cambridge

Zombie Cyborg Robot Clones

ZOMBIE CYBORG ROBOT CLONES

If we are forced by God to rigidly function without any decision-making role on our part we may as well sing this song:

We are robots, zombie robots,
We have no choice or will of our own.
Computers call the shots and join all the dots,
For each zombie cyborg robot clone.

We must be like puppets pulled into each position,
By commands and directions of many different kinds.
We never do anything of our own volition,
We are push-button androids with closed circuit minds.

Upload and download day after day,
Reboot and recycle, compelled to obey.
We are just machines if our wills are automatic,
Any love we have for God is literally synthetic.

Don't speak to us of choice, or freedom to believe,
With everything decided we are helpless to perceive.
If we really are just robots or puppets on a string,
This will be a song we are predestined to sing!

© 2008

http://www.ouroboros.org/iconos/reema.jpg
03-21-2010, 12:21 AM
qimissung

I really like the sound of "zombie cyborg robot clones" even if the theme of the poem is rabidly dismal!
03-21-2010, 02:10 AM
AimusSage

I like the theme! It rings so true in the mind of hapless hamburgers on a barbecue.

I myself am more of a steak loving man.
03-21-2010, 02:20 AM
billl

Let's not get too proud about our debasement, Aimus.

It is an apparently old poem, and I can imagine that there might be some triumph or vindication in the years subsequent.
03-21-2010, 02:31 AM
AimusSage

What debasement?

and I doubt it, why else would it be here now?
03-21-2010, 03:10 AM
billl

Oh, end of the world, is it? Never mind.
03-21-2010, 03:12 AM
Revolte

Quote:

Originally Posted by AimusSage

What debasement?

and I doubt it, why else would it be here now?

the copy right is 2008 :P

fun poem!
03-21-2010, 03:16 AM
AimusSage

2008 yes, and he posted it today so how much has changed, if he still desires to get it out there? We won't really know until the author sheds some light on it.
03-21-2010, 03:19 AM
billl

There's been plenty of light shed. And it needn't bother any fair-minded thinkers about our future potential paths, I think.
03-21-2010, 03:24 AM
AimusSage

yes, I too think that sometimes, but then i look up at the sky, see all those stars and think, gee willy them be lots of lights. ;)

There can never be enough light, it must blind us all!
03-21-2010, 03:26 AM
billl

OK, good point, Aimus! But that's reason enough to be careful when moving forward. We're important too, I think.
03-21-2010, 03:29 AM
AimusSage

Absolutely, to ourself we are the most important thing, and that does count for something, after all, we are about all we know. And we should never discount what we know.
03-21-2010, 03:34 AM
Buh4Bee

I really liked this poem myself. I think if God made all the decisions for us that humanity may be better and happier.
03-21-2010, 04:19 AM
AimusSage

Quote:

Originally Posted by jersea

I really liked this poem myself. I think if God made all the decisions for us that humanity may be better and happier.

But what would all the other gods think?
03-21-2010, 09:48 AM
paradoxical

That robot really creeps me out. Something about that claw-like hand.
03-22-2010, 02:43 AM
Dr. Cambridge

Quote:

Originally Posted by paradoxical

That robot really creeps me out. Something about that claw-like hand.

I think it might be a Calvinist 'bot...! :p
03-22-2010, 10:27 AM
PrinceMyshkin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr. Cambridge

I think it might be a Calvinist 'bot...! :p

Re a defense of Calvin the man and his teachings, you might want to take a look at The Death of Adam by the ineffable Marilynne Robinson, not to mention her two novels involving Congregationalist-inflected characters, Gilead and Home, the latter, to me, a supreme example of novelistic brilliance.