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- From: smorine@nyx.cs.du.edu (Suzanne Morine)
- Subject: Re: thought for the picosecond
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.060310.13670@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1993Jan21.121022.21010@acme.gen.nz>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 06:03:10 GMT
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- kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
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- >Mankind's ability to hope lies at the heart of our sentience. The antelope
- >looks at what is, while humanity ponders what might be. It is the
- >fundamental irony that much of human suffering is caused by the sharpened
- >blade of reality cutting away this web of possibility.
-
- Another spin:
-
- Mankind can imagine (and dream) of what cannot be, but is otherwise stuck in
- reality mud. We can sometimes discern which dreams are possible and which
- ones are not.
-
- --
- --Suzanne Morine smorine@nyx.cs.du.edu
- --"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If
- --they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men,
- --the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui." Helen Keller
-