> Maybe it was the smell of her perfume
> The violins that played long in the night
> Maybe it was her love of the sound of falling rain
> "Go away" she would say to the clouds
> "I am doing my washing today" and she would shake her fist at the sky.
>
> As each day passes
> And we travel towards the night
> The comfort and warmth of darkness
> The roar in the sky of plasma jets in our homeworld
> We leave our memories where they belong
> In the past
>
> The distance grows each day
> As Earth that once we knew
> Fades
> And passes
> With stars we passed before
> And home lights and welcome ...

> hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Ah. We begin to understand.
> We write nice poem - we have nice words.
> So to take classic example - now would not be the time to say "fuckwit" or
> "plonk"
> Is this correct?

> Would now be the time to say I love you?

> We understand you say "fucking commie cunt" to someone you like.
> This you call "teasing" is this correct?

> "BORG" homeworld.com> wrote in message
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>
> Shit is not so bad although I did actually say this once in real life and
> the early warning system (air raid siren) went off.

> You have totally misinterpreted me.
> NEVER did I accuse you personally of what you have stated.
> These were general remarks about general circumstances.
> In other words you have taken totally innocent remarks as personal insults.

> I agree with your philosophy very much.
> Yes - it SHOULD be taken as a truism and fact that we all love each other.
> I am very sorry to have been the cause of this.
> Let us say that whatever you thought the implications were of what we said -
> they are not.

> What kind of emotional pain have YOU been through in your life?

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>>
>> I guess. Who knows? All this will only come about after I'm dust,
>> right? (But - paradigm shifts go really quickly) So I shouldn't care.
>>
>> But I do.
>>

>
> It is people like you and your faith that will change and shape the future.
> And if you do believe in reincarnation then you will come back and benefit.
> The only problem with eternal life is of course the brain or unique
> intrinsic identity.
> Say for instance you had a substance which could give you skin that never
> aged, a heart that would never stop beating, liver, kidneys, lungs - all
> made out of a material that either does not decompose or that you could
> easily replace if it did.
> Hey presto! Eternal life!
> Logically this would be possible. ...

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>> If you had a Global Brain - then would you still be individuals?
>>
>> Yes. This is a cybernetic effect, a system theory result, that when
>> individuals group into a
>> system they do lose some identity but not all of it. Ie, the group
>> which is formed has capabilities over the separate individuals and the
>> individuals can still split off and operate by themselves. A good
>> example of this is a football team.
>>
>> I would imagine that an individual human under the GB could always
>> operate alone, say on a hiking trip or whatnot.
>>
>> Ms. Borg - I'm beginning to realize, I think anyway, what's going on.
>> You may holler and scream at this but I think the Borg is really just a
>> framing device for you to write some rather pretty poetry and prose.
>> There. I said it. I shall reap the Wrath of Borg, no doubt, but I ...

> "BORG" homeworld.com> wrote in message
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> We do come from the future.
> We do live in the future.
> If it was not for us your world would have ended.
> The snow was weeping.
> The planet was dying.
> A planet IS an entity.
> If you want to see God in visible form.
> He is everywhere.
> God is litter.

> BORG wrote:

>> "BORG" homeworld.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> We do come from the future.
>> We do live in the future.
>> If it was not for us your world would have ended.
>> The snow was weeping.
>> The planet was dying.
>> A planet IS an entity.
>> If you want to see God in visible form.
>> He is everywhere.
>> God is litter.

>
> I put my faith in us solving our own problems.
>
> Positive self-fulfilling prophecy goes a long way to doing it.
>
> "Johnny, you're going to grow up to be such a wonderful, smart man" ...

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>

>> Of course it is?
>>
>> A framing device?
>>
>> I'm flabbergasted.
>>
>> I was expecting another argument.
>>
>> Oh, well.

>
> I am not prepared to argue with you that's all. Life out in space? The
> fact that they have made contact? That is not such a ludicrous claim. I
> just think it's really funny that it's The Borg that's all.
> And as for their precision engineering of circumstances on Earth - so? Many
> people believe in determinism.
> ...