On 6/29/06, <a href="mailto:nvitamore@austin.rr.com">nvitamore@austin.rr.com</a><div><span class="gmail_quote"><b class="gmail_sendername"></b> <<a href="mailto:nvitamore@austin.rr.com">nvitamore@austin.rr.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Survival = the pursuit of staying alive. This would include the ability to<br>design solutions to overcome conflicts that threaten existence.
<br><br>Survivalist: "A person who anticipates potential disruption in the<br>continuity of society and takes steps to survive in the resulting<br>unpredictable situation. Some survivalists approach historical incidents
<br>and actively prepare themselves with tools and information needed to handle<br>repeats of those same events." [Wikipedia]<br>
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Hey, then by that definition we're not all that far from survivalists.
The one big difference is that while people usually referred to by that
term worry about muggers and looters (against which one man with a
rifle may reasonably hope to defend himself), we concern ourselves with
the greater threats of Time and Entropy, against which only a concerted
effort by millions may hope to prevail.<br>