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To: Krowbar who wrote (28301)	1/17/1999 3:03:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

Del, Someday, when Mankind is truly a spacefaring race, people will think of themselves as citizens of Earth. Right now it is an alien concept to most people. FT

To: Krowbar who wrote (28301)	1/22/1999 12:33:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

<Christine, I guess that I am different in that I really don't care what my roots are. I am mildly interested, but just consider myself to be a citizen of Earth. I am fairly close to my immediate family however. Maybe that is because I am no clear nationality, just European I guess. I have no reason to be loyal to any group or state.> Hmmm, Del, I didn't exactly mean roots like tracing your family tree or anything. I meant roots in the sense of soothing and meaningful ritual, customs, a sense of successive generations of men and women walking the earth, a somewhat logical progression of art and science, the things you taught your child and the activities you did with him that your parents did with you. I don't think watching children dancing around a May pole implies loyalty to a group or state, for example. It just reminds me of the timelessness of that activity, of how many generations of hopeful children there have been, how it felt to be a child, and the passing of time. I just like to think about things like that and watch people, I guess. It seems to make the life experience richer for me.