In article ,
Steve wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:22:50 -0500, "cat daddy"
wrote:


"Billy Rose" wrote in message
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It is strange that while technology flourishes and grows, human spirit
seems to be returning to the "Middle Ages" and it's reptilian mind. That
period when Mediterranean culture lost a thousand years of development,
from the fall of Rome in 500 AD to the "Renaissance" in 1500 AD, and
only rediscovered it in Arab translations of the Roman and Greek
originals. Not that the Arabs didn't contribute with what is now our
numbering system, including the concept of zero, the distillation
process, troubadours, and the idea of romantic love, to name a few.
Reminds me of the Bob Zimmerman lyric about Manhattan where buildings go
up to the sky and people go down into the ground.

I'm sure countless civilizations and societies have come and gone, all
the while believing they are the epitome of what has gone before and will
last forever. Yet, they are gone, and we will go, and it will start all over
again. We are capable of much ingenuity, but are still barely out of the
caves as a species.
All I can hope is that in this time period, we won't damage the planet
irreparably so that it can continue.

As a civilization America is but teenaged, and we will on occasion act
the part.
What use in mourning a culture yet to develop into itself?

As to planet damage, when she's had enough of us she will dispose of
us. It is not the planet that has a tenuous grip on existence.

Since someone opened the Dylan door;
"And but for the sky there are no fences facing".

Pollyanna couldn't have said it better. The sky is the fence and we
can't run, and we can't hide from Dr. Strangelove.

The only door that is likely to open is marked "entropy".

FB - FFF
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Billy
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/