Subj : Back again
To   : FRANK MASINGILL
From : RICHARD M. MEIC
Date : Sat Jul 14 2001 06:09 am

->> Til then I hold steadfast to my view that we understand reality better
->> than we did.  Without bringing in metaphysics or god into the topic,
->> without breathing in more complexity than is needed to explain
->> processes, without using bigger words than is needed, without quoting 
->> dead people from a time where knowledge was in its infancy... without 
->> all the fat.
-> 
->     Not a bad idea, though, to keep in mind that 5,000 years from now, 
Richard,
-> we'll be just as dead as the Egyptians of the Middle Kingdom who 
wondered why
-> the mediation of the gods through the Pharoah had broken down.   What 
will
-> those who live THEN think of our PRESENT and our response to it?

Why 5000 years?  Why not say... 4000 or even 2000?  The sun will heat up 
and fry our little blue ball, but not for another 1 million years.  So why 
have you settled on 5000 years, a mere blink of the eye in comparisson?
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