GRGR(10) Control, and a Dostoevsky anecdote

Henry M gravity at nicom.com
Thu Feb 13 06:06:57 CST 1997


Control Happens, is unavoidable. I am not passed over.

On 13 Feb 97 at 11:29, andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk wrote:

<snip>

> No, the only real act of synthesis mankind has performed is the one
> he was preprogrammed for, multiplying, polluting and poisoning -
> `our mission is to promote death', by creating yet more human life?
> And maybe the only control man can (should) hope to attain is enough
> self-control to stop despoiling our world in the search for God-like
> powers. Maybe control lies not in making things happen but in not
> being tied to responding to what does happen. Maybe those Herero are
> God's chosen people after all.
> 
> 
> Andrew Dinn
> -----------
> And though Earthliness forget you,
> To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
> To the rushing water speak:  I am.
> 

AsB4

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