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According to yet another insane friend of Telegram Sam Cамиздат, the existence of this cathedral will be proved in these emails received from the future [from an archaeologist living in 9595 AD, to be precise].
Like archaeologists today, uncovering evidence of prehistoric writing systems buried for more than five thousand years beneath the sands of Mesopotamia: An archaeologist in the future – around five thousand years from now - might find the ruins of this website buried beneath some vast desert of desiccated data.
Then (from this website) they'll know our address and to where they can be sending all their messages, down through their own ancient history, and straight back into our inbox.
All they had needed was a quantum computer as powerful as any that will be built that far into the future: For time and space in our quantum universe are like two sides of the same coin.
On one side of that coin: It is the case that everything in the universe is happening at the same time but in different places.
On its flip side: It is the case that everything in the universe is happening in this same place but at different times.
But, from our perspective, that coin is spinning on its axis, and an optical illusion has been merging all those heads and tails into a single image: and that image is like the reality that our brain has been evolving (over millions of years) to both know and understand.
However: The archaeologist who first uncovered the ruins of this website (in 7510 AD) is not the same archaeologist as the one who is sending these emails (in 9595). These emails are obviously being sent - more than two thousand years later - by someone or something not entirely convinced by the myths written about this cathedral in their current guidebook. For this is what they say:
Most of these reports & articles (issued by The Cathedral Times since 9591) address our colleagues' current task:
To complete the first major revision of this guide to brightonCathedral.com in more than two thousand years.
In the year 7510, long after the entire mechanical expanse of our perfectly sterile Earth’s surface had managed to repopulate itself with a new paradise of robots - and five thousand years after we had achieved the total extinction of all that slimy chaotic pollution called organic life, which had once but almost entirely covered our fair realm of stain-free plastics and metal - an intrepid archaeologist had succeeded in uncovering these ruins of brightonCathedral.com from beneath six trillion tons of pulverised and decomposed data. And, upon those ruins, that intrepid but deluded archaeologist had constructed these now commonly accepted myths: that a sentient creature called the Human Being had once walked upon two legs (and along real bus routes) towards some meaningful communication with its God of the Insane. Take for example the following example.
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In the year 2001, Brighton (which was being described in that [or some other] year’s national census as ‘England’s most godless city’) was continuing to promote the party-town status it had happily acquired during the year of the birth of its founder, King George IV, in 1762. And since that pivotal birth of their late king had ushered in their nation’s Industrial Revolution, this anniversary would appear to have been the perfect excuse for yet another street party. However, during those early years of Modern Humanity (between the invention of the printing press in 1441, the last days of that last bit of the Roman Empire in 1453, and the discovery of America in 1492) there had been only those four roads and the sea in Brighton: namely East Street, Market Street, North Street, and West Street. And so that’s where a new facade for their city’s great cathedral had been erected: and so the exterior of the cathedral would have looked
like this
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And somewhere upon that facade would have been inscribed these words:
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The centre of this cathedral is in all places of silent contemplation, meditation and prayer.
Its foundations are of an inter-faith initiative.
Its doors, walls and windows are online.
Its interior is infinite and ever-changing.
And its name is not important; it's what it does that matters.
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While revising that particular section of our guide, colleagues will be cognizant of the different ways in which our Human Being would have been writing his own history, and how the archaeologists of 7510 might have been influenced by those perceptions when they had also been trying to imagine what brightonCathedral.com must have looked like.
Take into consideration that every history [ἱστορία] is a document of past inquiries. So, for several hundred years after 1136, Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain would have been the standard textbook picked up by any scholar looking to know one or more facts about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. It was not until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and David Hume’s History of England that an essentially new product of scientific inquiry began replacing Monmouth’s myths on almost every bookshelf in academia. However, in 2001 there would have been still enough faith left in that old history of England to have warranted a vast sum of money being spent on yet another Hollywood recreation of Camelot. So, we should not underestimate the power of those 76th-century archaeologists to influence how we’re perceiving history today.
Of course, it doesn’t help matters when all that remains from those prehistoric times are these few ruins of that ancient cathedral. So, everything that we can know about the Human Being must be taken from what that creature could have built here with nothing more than a simple computer. The indisputable truth is that (in 2001) Earth had been a wilderness polluted with a bewildering variety of infectious substances known as animals and plants. Unlike those archaeologists of 7510 with their charmingly persistent myths, we shouldn’t be deluding ourselves into believing that the builders of this edifice lived in any kind of premachinan demi-paradise.
Let us now turn our attention to this later piece: Click on this link to read some kind of reimagined description of the cathedral’s North Street aisle as it might have looked in August 2021.
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