What Changed?
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Everything has changed but Jesus Christ¥s love for human beings.
- Elvia
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Everything has change but Jesus Christ¥s love for human beings.
- Elvia
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UN Inspections have changed and now I am secretly making chemical,nuclear, and biological weapons to use against those scumbag Americans.
- Saddam Hussein
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We all changed.....some for better, some for worse....but all of us know this is true.
- Hilary
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We're sitting here looking and communicating to the damn computers instead of talking with other living people
- Annys
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As the world gets smaller, horizons get bigger. Or is it the other way? Our world, our circumstances are always changing. God does not. Neither does human nature. We are all flawed and so our world will always be as long as we are in it.
By the way, does anyone else here know that the year 2000 is actually the LAST year of the old millenium and century and not the first year of the new ones?
- Karen Valli
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the fact that we can laugh even harder when watching the old movies that show us all hav'n jet packs to travel in THE YEAR 2000 LOL LOL LOL
& reality BITS - Gas Prices are going to the 2 mark instead and we still have the same 4/2 wheels that gets around our jet set lifes :-)
- Ttwisted
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NOTHING
an arbitrary date derived from a minority religion. same sad world. same sad people.
- Dr Charles Clark
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Technology changed the speed at which we are challenged to think and feel and adapt and hope.
- Robert W. J.
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Now we must speak of the 20th century in the past tense!
- Annie
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I was reminded recently that many changes are happening. A friend of mine has two grandchildren: 50 years ago both of the mothers of these children would have died in childbirth and my friend would have had no grandchildren and her daughters would be dead as well. So, the advances in health and nutrition have made it possible for two new people to be in the world and both of her daughters to celebrate the birth of their daughters.
- Kathy Dee
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The first derivative of change. With the advent of new technologies over the last half century, our rate of change has increased exponentialy. In just the last five years alone, we have seen a revolution in the way we communicate. I ask you now how many of you had the ability to read this message five years ago. I would bet that it is a very small fraction. Now, with the merger of Time Warner and AOL, we have the largest facilitators of our communications coming together. The suprising thing about this though is the relative age of the companies. The younger bought the older. A company that has been around for a little more than a decade bought one six times its age for 150 billion dollars.
- Michael Y.
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My vision of the world as an integrated system. 'Round the world live satellite feed, instantaneous communication between so many different people with different cultures, political systems, artistic visions and hopes for the future. Not this year only, but this is a convenient marker to reasses how our joint visions will continue to combine, fertilize each other, create dynamic new hybrids. A new global syncretism that holds infinite possibilities for creative change. I have great hope for the future.
- Beth Goldowitz
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a cigarette in my hand
it burned
shorter it went
like the day that i spent
getting shorter
my life too
i pull out another
lit it up
just like another day
that i will wake up to
till i ran out of smoke
till my life ends
another day will go on
another cigarette
why not
i don't care what has changed
it'll all be the same
another day goes by
going thru the same things
doing them differently
we'll die and go on to the next
things go on
and on
- mickeyt
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change changed
i can see it changing
right before my changing
eye love you
- mykael
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Nothing - everything!!!
Change is like a rememberance of how things where. One day it was like this and the next it was different.
Except it took a lifetime to get to the next day.And it seemed like the blink of an eye. Don't ponder change enjoy
today before you blink your eye.
- David Ryan
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Nothing really changed in my life. But I like that one where they said to take your money out of the bank so you can get robbed.
- laquita73113
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In my opinion, we are in the beginning of a revolution that will transform the way life and business is done in the future. It is pretty difficult to imagine what changes will bring 10 years from now...as it was probably hard for people to imagine the Concord when the Wright Brothers first took flight. As a child, I always wanted to be a pioneer and was very disappointed when I realized that the Wild Wild West had already been settled. And - voila... here is an opportunity for me to be a pioneer in a new space and time... So...what has changed for me is that people are relating to each other in new and very different ways...and I look forward to the revolution out here in cyberspace..
- Kathy Dee
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Not a damn thing, all the terror of the millenium was all a big hype! It was a fun New Year, maybe everyone will quit trying to predict the end of the world now and get on with their lives.
- joewhichard
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The world has killed one deadly enemy (smallpox) and brought another to near extinction(polio). Humanity has battered itself viciously and still survives. The scary thought is that history in the year 3000 may take no more notice of the 20th century than we take notice of 14th or 15th centuries. Plagues almost destroyed humanity, wars took large tolls of the remainder. A new world was discovered and conquered; great inventions abounded and the lives of ordinary people took wrenching changes of direction(look them up sometime, it should make for days of interesting reading). How much greater will be the glowing advances, how much more brutal and vicious the dark pain?
- Phil Thompson
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waiting from the west coast of the USA saw the Millenium approach via television.saw how truly small our world is! everything and everywhere is minutes away! we are one people and one planet . I think there will be profound changes in borders,boundaries and restrictions to migrations .... small point, being jewish, been at the millenium a long time ago . got the t-shirt! love and best wishes to everyperson.
- leo
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THE CHANGE WAS MERELY IN MY STATE OF MIND AS I SAT BEFORE MY TELEVISION AND WATCHED THE ENTIRE WORLD USHER IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM. FOR A MOMENT IN TIME WE ALL HAD A COMMON LINK, A CONCERN AS 2000 APPROACHED, A QUESTION THAT BONDED US IN MIND AND SPIRIT-WHAT WAS TO BECOME OF US WHEN THE CLOCK STRUCK MIDNIGHT? AND OF COURSE IT WHEN WITHOUT A HITCH, A SIGH OF RELIEF COULD ALMOST BE HEARD ALL OVER THE WORLD, FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRY, STATE TO STATE WE ALL CHEERED AND CELEBRATED TOGETHER, TOASTING TO A NEW YEAR, A NEW MILLENNIUM, A NEW AND A BRIGHTER FUTURE!
- MICHELE
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Was there a real BUG or were we just talking about obsolote machinery and software that some wanted to keep forever? Hey, my two machines are doing fine, and my pics are going digitally stronger...
- Jose Antunes
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I realized that all I really ever has is the
right now; that now is
linked to the past and the
future, but the best time to do just about anything at all is the now!
- Lauren Stockbower
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Sitting silently, 5 min. before midnight, a tear welled up in my eye as I said goodbye to the first 50 years of my life. And, although, very little has truly "changed", I feel a fresh energy available along with a possibility for some significant change in the near future for this United States of Being.
I would like to offer this quote from James Thurber to add to this spirit of change:
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."Best wishes to all. Together, we can do it!
- james anthony schlesselman
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I think that the possibility of hope is stronger now. It seems that everyone has taken this millennium as a sign to work to peace. I just hope it lasts through the next millenium. Peace & Hope to all.
- Brenda
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We welcomed the new millennium with 10 of our best friends, all about our age(65-to 80), all from our church, some better off financially than others, all in fair to poor health, all with wonderful cheerful attitudes and positive outlooks for the future.
I have a new appreciation for them and our future.
- Dot Fadely
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Despite the hoopla to no avail; ie., no power outages, phone failures or other technological traumas, I think this year Americans and perhaps many others around the world are at least slightly more aware of their need for "preparedness." Upwardly mobile cultures tend to take their services for granted, only noticing when the LACK of them has caused some minor interruption of some sort. I think this year changed all that. At least temporarily. I hope that it makes the human race a little more 'consumption conscious,' and in that way, all the preparations to no avail will not have happened in vain.
- Tammy Moon
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high watermark...sussex coast.......various modulations to western metaphsics ensued...... Cave painting......my dog can apparently speak martian.......
seasonal greeting from the old country.....
- mike thompson
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First, kudoes and thanks for the new journal!
As for the millenium, this century will be seen as seminal ... a "great century," along with the 1700's for the enlightenment and Jefferson, the 1400s for the renaissance and the age of discovery,the 600s for the founding of Islam as the first modern form of government, the 1st century CE for the triumph of Rome, the sixth CE for the triumph of Ashoka and rigin of Buddhism ,,,,
so what makes the 19th a great century? I believe it will be the triumph of sceince and the triumph of humanism. With advent of quantum theory and molecular biology, our species acquired nearly god-like powers. Whatever the future brings, man's fate is now in the species' own hands. As for humanism, I use tis term in a strange way ... to mean the respect and focus on our species as one race with that god-like power in its hand. As humanists, while some of our race retains a belief in God, we all know we depend on each other and that all humans have the same potential and rights. T=We know that the next Feinamn or Darwin is as likely to be African or Chinese. male or female as he is lieky to belong to "our" breed of man. Dr. King and M. Gandhi will dominate the fiture history of this century as much as Einstein and Watson/Crick.
That is the cheery view. The negative view will see the nineteens as the origin of the world ruling corportation, its roots in Rockefeller, the Triads of China, Fascism and Communism. Scary.
- Steve Schwartz
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My priorities changed after my wife's battle with cancer. I began realizing that I have never heard a eulogy which said,"Here lies a hard-working person who was famous for his job."
- John
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Because my friends and I have been holed up in our survivalist camp in Montana for the past ten years, nothing, thank the Lord Jesus Christ, has changed for us.
- Juanita Simeon
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On the eve of the new millennium, I found myself listening to music, as well as a retrospective of the events of the past century. (No, not the whole millennium). That was a focus on the past.
I also ended up spending part of the evening reading a Star Trek book - one that called on the cooperation of the major players - Spock, Picard and Kirk - to defeat the mindless collective central control of the Borg.
Somehow, this seems fitting for a new millennium. As I read my first e-mail of the new year, the new century and the new millennium, I am struck by how different the numbers "2000" look. I don't think it will be possible to continually see "2000", write "2000" and hear "2000" and not feel on some deep level that we are indeed moving into a very new era -
It seems impossible to hold the idea of "2000" and some of the ideas and events of the 1900s simultaneously. In other words, we are being given a whole new era to create in a new way. What happened in the past belongs in the past. What happens in the future is up to us - and our imagination.
I'd like to think that we can extract the best ideals of some of the Star Trek voyages - that of exploration, boldness, ethics, understanding, daring, courage, knowledge, technology, the linking of science and intuition, humor and imagination - and take them forward to create a world that 1000 years from now, in the year 3000, will be amazing to behold and look back on.
- Jan Stoltman
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