Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!umich!umeecs!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!sialis!orbit!pnet51!schaper From: schaper@pnet51.orb.mn.org (S Schaper) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: A philosophical question Message-ID: <3450@orbit.cts.com> Date: 12 Nov 90 18:45:03 GMT Sender: root@orbit.cts.com Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN. Lines: 17 Because it might produce success. You can fish or cut bait. You can eat all your seed during the hard winter and starve the next, or you can tighten your belt and save seed for next year's crop. Human Beings are creative in nature, and it is part of our mandate to use such creativity to make a better world/universe. "It is the glory of God to hide a matter, it is the Glory of Kings to search it out" Prbs 16. We could all still be living on the Anatolain plateau, but our distant ancestors took a risk and moved out to settle new, unknown lands. (Anatolian, that is). Zeitgeist Busters! UUCP: {amdahl!bungia, uunet!rosevax, chinet, killer}!orbit!pnet51!schaper ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!schaper@nosc.mil INET: schaper@pnet51.cts.com