From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 15:30:05 MDT
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:17:56PM +0200, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:
> Well I would prefer leaving out disease and agony. Contrary to Zeniumura, I
> am definitely interested in things getting better: I am sure one can have
> more good things and less bad ones by working at it hard enough.
I agree. I also don't think one need the evils as contrast to make the
good things good. But the joy of overcoming evils, that is something
that I think is one of the best things of being alive (so when somebody
from another ontological state asks you what makes it worth existing
here, you know what to answer :-)
> > quote from Zindell (who quotes "Jin Zeniumura" who may or may
> > not exist):
> >
> > "I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is
> > more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more
> > consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more
> > agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life."
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