I Hope That I Can Keep Them From Destroying The Earth
I’ll probably be some kind of scientist
Building inventions in my space lab in space
I’ll end world hunger I’ll make dolphins speak
Work through the daytime, spend my nights and weekends
Perfecting my warrior robot race
Building them one laser gun at a time
I will do my best to teach them
About life and what it’s worth
I just hope that I can keep them from destroying the Earth
“The Future Soon” by Jonathan Coulton
It is not my intention to start every new post with a JoCo quote, but there is no other way to start this one.
Backstory- We attend a Unitarian Universalist church. We don’t talk a lot about hell there, especially in regards to the kids’ religious education. The other day, the Pink Tornado made a comment about bad people going to hell, and Jim and I assumed she’d gotten it from her friends at school. So last night I asked her, “Where did you hear about hell?” She looked scared and I had to reassure her she wasn’t in trouble, but I was honestly just curious. Turns out she’d learned about the cartoony-type hell for bad people from TinTin books she’s been reading. I laughed and asked her if she had any questions about hell, and told her I didn’t believe it existed. She asked if I thought she’d go to heaven, and I said of course. She was worried about the things we get mad at her for (normal parent/kid interactions, not paying attention, slow on homework, etc), and I told her that if hell existed, it was for serious offenses like murder.
“Well,” she said. “I’m definitely not going to do anything like THAT when I grow up.” Then she paused. Then she frowned. And then she said, “My robots might get out of my control and cause some damage. But I’ll pay for that with my money.”
I nearly had a stroke trying not to burst out laughing. I did smile, and she glared at me. “There are going to be a lot more robots in the future, you know.” I nodded and said I know. Then she went to bed, secure in her future of perfecting her warrior robot race, hoping she can keep them from destroying the earth.
Category: Personal
I need to stop reading posts about the PT. It makes my biological clock start screaming at me like Marisa Tomei’s in My Cousin Vinny.
This is great! I love these stories of the Pink Tornado. She is an intelligent, insightful person.
Of course the robots are there to protect her castle, right?
She needs to open up her own T-shirt line because this is the second I’d like to buy.
I hope I live long enough to work for the PT.
That’s adorable!
This observation made my day. That is too funny!
When PT rules the world, such proclamations will be used as examples of her greatness during early development.
All Hail PT!
Your kid is so cool!
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if she does invent cool robots, but I know they’ll behave.
Wow, that is hilarious Mur, thanks for sharing with the hoards of the internets.
Hmmm. Zombinc and VampiricSoft had their day, and couldn’t quite get traction in the dot.com market scramble. Companies like that just got eaten alive. Obviously, their corporate business models were all wrong for this decade. After all, everyone is undead these days; well, except for marketing. (Maybe that was their problem…)
Perhaps the time is right for RoboPT.com?
I mean, it _is_ better to have your brain transferred into an enormous battle robot that crushes cities, than to have said brain eaten by your supervisor, right?
Right?
My kids never had that kind of imagination at that age. I guess you are raising the kids who is going to write the movie, while mine write the musical score (I’ve got a house full of band geeks).