[ExI] Beautiful

[Damien Broderick]

>Gustaf Mahler, Second Symphony, The Resurection:
>
>  God in all His glory comes into sight. A wondrous light strikes us 
> to the heart. All is quiet and blissful. Behold: there is no 
> judgement, no sinners, no just men, no great and no small; there is 
> no punishment and no reward. A feeling of overwhelming love fills 
> us with blissful knowledge and illuminates our existence.
>(90 % of this is Transhumanism in its most ideal form, change die 
>with trascend my biological form, change God with the Laws of the Universe)
>
>
>Rise again, yes, you shall rise again,
>my dust, after brief rest!
>Immortal life
>will be given by Him who called you!
>You are sown to bloom again.
>The Lord of the harvest goes
>and gathers sheaves of us,
>who have died.
>O believe, my heart, believe:
>Nothing is lost to you!
>All you have desired is yours, yes, yours!
>Yours, what you have loved and fought for!
>O believe, you were not born in vain!
>You have not lived or suffered in vain!
>All that is created must perish.
>All that has perished rises again.
>Cease trembling!
>Prepare to live!
>O Pain, all-pervading,
>I have escaped from you!
>O Death, all-conquering,
>now you are conquered!
>With wings which I have won
>In love's ardent striving,
>I shall soar upwards
>to the light which no eye has penetrated!
>I shall die in order to live!
>Rise again, yes, you shall rise again,
>my heart, in an instant!
>Your beating
>shall lead you to God!
>--- On Tue, 2/24/09, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>From: Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>
>Subject: Re: [ExI] kindle 2
>To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 5:38 PM
>
>
>At 04:23 AM 2/24/2009 -0500, Dan wrote:
>
>
> > by the way, I've used both the Kindle and the Kindle 2.  :)
>
>
>What's the text-to-voice like?

Wow. And a Kindle 2 can do this from text? Who'da thunk it.