On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 19:57:38 +0100, Julian Bradley wrote:
>Cr8p. We are the most successful species on the planet.
Not really and, of course, it depends on what you mean by 'success'.
When we outlive, say, the crocodile or the dolphin, by having few more
million years under our belts, I may conisder us to be successful :-)
>we've solved every problem thrown at us for those 2 million years. We've
>colonised land and sea, and ventured into air and space. We live on this
>planet from Equator to Pole.
We also anhiliated each other at every step of the way, killed each
other and other species for fun, invented instruments of mass
destruction, devised terifying means of torture, allowed millions of
our own to die of hunger to this day. Can you imagine this? can you
imagine actually going hungry day after day after day until you die? I
can't.
>Don't you find any truth in the Gettysburg address?
Apparently, when Abe sat down after delivering it, he did not think it
went down very well. It wasn't until much later when the Address
gained its fame and symbolism.
>You are too wise to be that brainless and false innocence don't suit. Why
>bother communicating if you don't want to reach out to other people?
Because I exist on different 'planes', some of which are parallel, some
aren't.
>What a privilege to witness its unfolding, what an awesome responsibility
>to shape the destiny, however unwittingly, of a million unborn children.
I can't see anything unfolding. I just do what my cell (Karass) has
been programmed to do. I don't even know what the plot is. I don't
even know what the task is or when it will be completed. The unborn
children remain just that: unborn.
>Pessimistic but refusing to yield.
'Yielding' is a very oxidental thing to think. In the orient, we think
more of 'surrender' or 'submission' :-)
Besides, if you were to 'yield', that might spoil my fun, so, don't!
Ahmad
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