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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (40307)6/14/1999 3:16:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
It's quite all right for Del to live two hundred years. If he creates more value than he consumes, leaves something good he built behind (a house, a poem, a scientific fact, a good strong child) to justify his presence here. The problem is that too many of us simply degrade energy and don't create net human or physical capital. Some day we're going to the stars. We need more knowledge than we have, and everyone should strive to add to the knowledge. We need more wealth to finance the trip and to educate ourselves. Men like Carnegie and Rockfeller have piled up wealth which has advanced knowledge and fed the poor and converted the world into a more productive more long-lived place. I can't think of anything John D. Rockefellar said worth remembering, but Andrew Carnegie said it was a shame for a man to die rich, and gave libraries, scientific foundations, and peace institutes away.
Mr. and Mrs. Gates just gave another $5 million to their foundation. Now that eventually may justify a crime as wide open as Windows.
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