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Jeff Wilson · 14 Mar 2012, 13:55 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:55:44 -0500
Subject: (urth) Lupiverse)s)
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On 3/14/2012 7:12 AM, entonio at gmail.com wrote:
> No dia 14/03/2012, ?s 09:03, Jeff Wilson<jwilson at clueland.com>  escreveu:
>
>> On 3/14/2012 3:33 AM, entonio at gmail.com wrote:
>>> No dia 14/03/2012, ?s 03:29, Jeff Wilson<jwilson at clueland.com>   escreveu:
>>>
>>>> Humanity is scattered beyond the ability of Urthlings to wipe them out, and there may not even be 8 figures of Urthlings left.
>>>
>>> Doesn't matter. The jury is out on Urth. Not so on Earth. I honestly don't get what's so difficult to understand about that. I'm far from an optimist, but the simple fact is that Earth is still in its infancy. You can't convict people on the likelihood of their future.
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>> That's exactly how any number of people are judged world wide every day, and we have every reason to think such moral judgments have been going on for almost 100,000 years.
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> We're not judging people, we're judging planetary histories. We can't pass verdict on one which hasn't happened yet. (How can we say how Earth will be improved by Christianity of Christianity has only recently spread worldwide?)

We can say that it needs to be considerably improved just to draw even 
after the Taiping rebellion.

>> If history ends in an era where the constellations are still recognizeable as those in the Incan era, that leaves Earthly mankind no younger than middle aged.
>
> Age isn't linear, it speeds on.

Duck season!


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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