<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I think you could hardly be a transhumanist if you didn't believe this silly race of ours could be improved. Quote from Robert Kennedy, isn't it? Yeah, I think a good bit of my love for scifi is dreaming of the future. Trouble is, mostly people are just the same as they are now. First marriage: puppy love and lust. Three kids and divorce. Second, to a student (that I married again ten years ago). Third (the student descended into alcoholism and didn't want to come out and I did), to a financial planner who had to wear the pants and eventually saw that she could not mold me into what she wanted- she asked for the divorce.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Fourth to the student again - Roz. Joined me in not drinking and smoking.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Quite a run, interspersed with eHarmony and Match.com - never did get over the 10 mark of women bedded - none of whom were any better than any other one. I just could not get Roz out of my mind, so we did it again. You would do it all over again - not me! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Forgiveness has to play some role in regrets. I am, of course, biased, but I look back and every decision I made seems to me now to be the right one at the time. And if any were wrong I have forgiven myself. So - no regrets to ruin my older age. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 12:52 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-8576638018394690474WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>.</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] good news for libertarians<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>>…<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Happy people do not write profoundly insightful truths. spike</span></span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…Dare I repeat a fact? Studies show that depressives have the most realistic view of the world bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Ja, but how depressing is that view. Happy people are dreamers and inventors. Realists view things as they are and ask why. Dreamers imagine things that never were and ask why not.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">I choose to be a dreamer, even if it means I often view the world as it isn’t, then work to make it match my dream.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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