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There was a line in a TV show last night - "The only thing worse than no hope is false hope".
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The past is a cancelled check. The future is unknowable.
Worrying about either one is futile, a waste of time.
All you can do is deal with what is happening right now.
Can't get my wife to believe this. She makes herself miserable worrying about both.
Que Sera, Sera.
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Quote: Can't get my wife to believe this
Same here.
Most don't get it. Worth it to "preach the gospel" though. The "aha" moment can be liberating.
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Aliens 
You boast about things that didn't happen. Also, we persist for a little time, if you know your history.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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honey the codewitch wrote: they've been wrong
But they are less and less wrong. We have been damn lucky a few times already, and while the time goes, we have more deadly/effective way to end it all, which all require lesser people to initiate them, and since there are more and more people on the planet, it makes it even more probable to happen.
I won't lie to you : the odds are not in our favour.
Anyway, if termination of any sort comes, there is no reason to worry anymore. If it does not come, there is no reason to worry either. So overall, there is no reason to worry
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The only certainty is death and that applies to our world, not just our bodies. I know of nothing in this universe which is in stasis - everything is either growing or dying. Just as we will die, so will our countries, our civilisations, our cultures, even our species and our world.
The fact that everything is as ephemeral as a sunset only adds to its beauty.
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I agree with you. We persist. Until we don't...
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I read an article recently (pretty sure it was linked in the CP Daily News) about rethinking our premise that human civilization has taken a mostly linear progression toward our current civilization. There is just too much evidence of lost technologies to continue with that premise.
But of course, you are right: we survived, the human race. And who's to know where the former upward paths would have led? Would we have been better off if there'd been no cataclysm to wipe out those ancient, advanced civilizations?
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Ah, lets be realistic.
Lets use astrological type timeframes.
1) We don't matter to the cosmos
2) We weren't here for the big bang
3) We won't be here for the big collapse
4) 99.9% of all humans that ever existed... Nobody knows about, not even us!
5) If we are lucky, we will evolve and survive over time, reptiles survived
Heck, recent research is showing that even what we think of as "real" is an illusion to keep us eating/procreating. Because WHEN we collectively stop doing EITHER or BOTH of those things as a species, it's pretty much over... (Hence we gain pleasure from both activities)
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It's 42.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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We did by accident hire a youngster that didn't even know that. We have tightened up the process since - If you show up to the interview without a towel it's a no-go!
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lmoelleb wrote: If you show up to the interview without a towel it's a no-go!
I assume that the position requires lots of travel, which is not reimbursed. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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They will certainly go on a very long travel if they try to outperform Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings when there are team events.
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That's just the answer! The important thing is the question!
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"What is 6 by 9?"
*hides* 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Certainly not 42 ...
But if you go to the source, you will see that they are still working on finding the question, and they expect it to take some time.
I suspect that at least half of those referring to '42' never knew the source. (Just like people refer to Big Brother and Newspeak without really knowing what it is about.)
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"What is 6 by 9?" was the question to the ultimate answer. It was broken, because the earth (a giant organic computer, commissioned, built and operated by mice) was broken.
It's from the book(s)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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In base 13, 6 x 9 = 42. Perhaps Douglas Adams was trying to tell the triskaidekaphobiacs something...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: triskaidekaphobiacs
I hope your health insurance is good. You've got to break something when you say/type a word like that...
Software Zen: delete this;
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this is awesome!
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Lends strange credence to the notion that our universe is just a program running on someone's hardware, when we build a universe running on our hardware.
Software Zen: delete this;
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... and their hardware is buggy. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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wonderful wizards a wee warm (7)
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