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- From: key@soda.berkeley.edu (peter li'ir key)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Who are we kidding?
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 15:34:53 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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- janis,
-
- what are you mourning? the end of humanity? the end of life? or the end
- of society?
-
- perhaps you mourn too soon? perhaps you should mourn not at all?
- or always? everything we have experienced has been and, as far as
- we know, is emphermal. it passes away. it may pass into oblivion
- or it may pass into some other world. but we don't know, in general.
-
- admittedly humanity's future looks bleak. but it is too soon to call it
- over. but then again it may truly be over. in either case that is the
- nature of things. but we don't know the future. we live in this
- moment, regard the past, and plan for the future. although not to well.
- don't live in the future. it is an unwritten place and can give birth
- to great hopes or bleak nightmares or something between, but it is not
- for us to live in.
-
- i seriously doubt humanity for all it's vaunted technology could
- completely sterilize the planet.
-
- society changes. and in changing it is not what it was, but it still is.
-
- we often mourn the passing of the familiar. but don't give in to the
- despair.
-
- i forget who wrote it, but here's a thought for you (badly paraphrased):
- sometimes the only fight worth fighting is a loosing one.
-
- peter li'ir key
- key@soda.berkeley.edu
-