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To: mr.mark who wrote (9914)12/7/2002 11:45:48 AM
From: X Y Zebra  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13018
 
140. Trust
@30 June 2002

That state of mind which gives us freedom to act is governed by trust. Trust is the first pillar of civilized living. It is fairly easy to maintain trust in a village society, difficult in a city, and extremely difficult in a complex modern economy. Religion is a wishful super solution to the trust problem. I for one trust in no god. The best mortal answer I can find is to seek in others that honesty which I expect of myself. Without trust in our environment, in human relationships, and in the institutions of our cultures, we are reduced to a savage horde. It follows that those who counterfeit frust for short term gain are the enemies of civilization.

~ Thor May



To: mr.mark who wrote (9914)12/19/2002 10:03:34 PM
From: X Y Zebra  Respond to of 13018
 
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...

- Douglas Adams, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy