Re: Technical and Spiritual Development

From: Pat Flannery (flanner_at_daktel.com)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:18:20 -0600

Scott Lowther wrote:

> Yeah, yeah... when the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter
> aligns with Mars...

Min... is that you? ;-)

>
>> Person's Puppeteers are are fictional extraterrestrial species created
>> by Larry Niven in his Ringworld novels. They do not exist except as a
>> fiction.
>>
>>
> But as with much fiction, there is some valuable truth in them. Tell
> us what you think the Puppeteers can tell us about this particualr
> topic...

Particularly vegetarianism.

>
>> Your responses, like those of Pat, are borne of your limited
>> imagination, informed by looking backwards, not ahead.
>>
>>
>>
> What's that line about those who do not remember the past?

And that remark on William Mook's part also has an echo of Rand Simberg
in it, doesn't it?
Space migration, lifespan extension, obviously superior intelligence
that we, The Great Unwashed, can't comprehend..........
Are we running into the fractured remnants of the Timothy Leary wing of
the L-5 society?

Pat

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