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To: TobagoJack who wrote (19479)	6/5/2002 4:35:26 AM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay, I am only taunting Maurice Uh-oh... Now you've gone and done it. Maurice will surely unleash a taniwha upon your portfolio... KJC

To: TobagoJack who wrote (19479)	6/5/2002 5:16:31 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Jay, these existential questions you pose are imponderable. < Why does our friend Mq want to always pass up the obvious trade and forever reach for the unlikely bargain?> We only know the answer when we arrive at our respective destinations. It's quantum variation. All possible existences are created and the observers not yet born who will observe the results in the future will create the then reality from what we do today. With a bit of luck, we will play the part we imagine in the early days of that future. Why reach for the unlikely bargain? If we don't want to end up like everyone else, we have to do something different from everyone else. Everyone can reach for the obvious trade. Insects merely replay the past and play out their DNA destiny. We, with the new-fangled minds are able to imagine things which never were and create them. Insects and Aztecs without or with limited minds depend on the eons old random DNA mutations for 'progress'. Which is a very, very slow process. Aztecs are better than insects in that they prepare for doom and hide in their caves or mud huts and maybe come up with a few simple ideas. But they don't come up with much in the way of solutions other than incantations to supernatural entities with the odd [and weird, not to mention insane] sexually-driven live human sacrifices of virgin girls. Okay, maybe it was the Incas - who cares? My job is to arrange a quantum leap into the future, leaving all the old muck behind. I can't do that by buying gold and hiding in a cave. The future is the cybermind, now under construction. So, I'm leaping bare-chested onto the battlefield, in a duel to the death with the atavistic Aztecs. Armed with my cdma2000 light-sabres and the Lord of the Rings, I figure I'm more than a match for the barbarians. I bet that makes you drool more than the thought of me going to view Au ingots made you dribble. But even as you sight an apparently easy target down your sniper-scope, you'll be nervous about pulling the trigger because reflections and karma and being wrong will loom large in your mind. How can somebody be so stupid as to do that you will wonder? You KNOW that the truly successful are not those who cower in the crowd. Yes, the ignorant maniacs also stand exposed to danger and rapidly turn to mere amino acid dinner for some carnivore. One minute he's ready to buy Au, the next he's waving an Au light sword around and issuing challenges. What the heck? You did help save my soul and I appreciate that. <Is there no hope for us in our work to save souls? Perhaps we need to soak objective in water salted with, well, salt> I spent the last couple of days within metres of the Pacific Ocean [apart from roaming a beautiful golf course, soaking in a fern-tree ringed naturally-heated starlit hot pool, zizzing on the rocks overlooking the ocean, strolling around the mountain] and I've spent a lot of my life soaking up salty oceanic wave-functions. But as you know, saving a soul doesn't mean you own it, just as creating souls in the time-honoured fashion doesn't mean parents own them. The joy is in setting them free to fill a quantum niche in the rich pastiche of life. Religious jihadists want to take possession of souls, not set them free. I know you are not a jihadist. On a more prosaic plane, a lower golf score is more easily attained by a sensible iron shot down the centre. But the fun and larger gains are made by letting rip with a dog-leg fade under the tree, over the fence, across the out of bounds, onto the green and maybe even into the hole.* Okay, there's a mindful balance between the two, but watching Tiger Woods, you see that the true champions are going for broke and winding up and letting rip with Gengki Dama, not clutching gold on the sidelines. Mqurice * True, it did take me 5 balls to succeed... but it was only golf and it WAS a lot of fun...