[ExI] good news for libertarians

[William Flynn Wallace]

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.

Fourth to the student again - Roz.  Joined me in not drinking and smoking.

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!

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

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 12:52 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >>…Happy people do not write profoundly insightful truths.  spike
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> >…Dare I repeat a fact?  Studies show that depressives have the most
> realistic view of the world  bill w
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> 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.
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> 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.
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