It's good to know these guys are on the watchtower:
bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/the-li
The money that Google and Sun Microsystems are giving show they are troubled, too: Google gave $450 to the organization.
And I take the point that chairman Eric Klein makes:
“I also realized that there is no sign of intelligent life out there in the universe. You wonder what happened to all those intelligent civilizations, and one of my potential theories is they all self-destruct. I think it is a data point that is hard to skip over.”
I myself do not skip over that data point. I have always thought that the enemy is not out there but right here. And ib that connection I can suggest that aluminum, in triangular or pyramidal form, might be considered when designing the Personality Preserver. Mine has protected me for years.
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We're currently down to the last handful of people who fought in World War 1 and it's depressing to think that one day we will be down to the last few people who saw the moon landings. Eventually it will no doubt be discounted as a myth :( .
The nice tall ones.
The three cornered ones are far too gaudy.
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What did these people do with the JW's?
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As many have observed through the ages of Christianity, death is the release from living in hell.
Love, C.
I still like the theory (and it isn't mine, nor the occultists') that we don't see intelligent life in the universe because we don't know where or how to look for anything that didn't follow the same course of evolution that we did.
Eric Klein, of course, overlooks the fact that he isn't any more likely than anybody else to discern the real hazards that will inevitably come.
The statistically improbable gets us every time, though sometimes the statistically probable is enough. I've been re-reading Czeslaw Milosz's account of how everybody with any common sense in Poland between the wars knew that Europe was fated for complete catastrophe within their lifetimes...and responded by burrowing ever more deeply into their meaningless jobs at Polish Radio, polishing further the practice of the avant-garde theatre, or spending 1939 looking for the perfect apartment.
Maybe they should have been devising Personality Protectors.
Edited at 2010-07-21 05:12 pm (UTC)
Well that certainly tells me all I need to know. To whom shall I address my check?
walkingscarlet wrote: "We'll be lucky if there's even a moon-landing myth!"
How sadly likely. Already the marvelous feats of yore are losing meaning when millions seldom leave their houses. What's so impressive about the Hoover Dam? I can build whole civilizations in my computer. Who's Neil Armstrong? He's certainly no Leroy Jenkins.
joculum wrote: "Czeslaw Milosz's account of how everybody with any common sense in Poland between the wars knew that Europe was fated for complete catastrophe within their lifetimes...and responded by burrowing ever more deeply into their meaningless jobs at Polish Radio, polishing further the practice of the avant-garde theatre, or spending 1939 looking for the perfect apartment."
And maybe this explains all those shut-ins playing video games, and watching reality tv about swapping houses and spouses. Not that we feel fated for catastrophe in our lifetimes, of course.