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ANNOTATION:
Entropy's always inevitable

...according to our current understanding, that is. Frankly this superhuman merger scares the hell out of me, esp when I'm told that the ultimate values, metavalues in Maslow's jargon, are for each of us to decide for himself. Wouldn't the very existence of beings that retained the knowledge of past lives take priority over whatever opinions I had? Politically, of course they would, and we're back to dictators running everything, now with even stronger surface justification. Fortunately, my belief is that such a nightmarish scenario will never come about, thanks to the entropic 'fact' that the center cannot hold. Short-term this means that the info would find a way to get lost, or there might be a messy civil war going on in there.


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Author
Stewart Thompson (moriarty10[at]lycos.com)

Date
Jul 28, 2002

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