A Conversation for The Building - Chapter 29: A Place of Their Own

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Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking.


Can we all move there? It seems like a great place to live.


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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

'One's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?' - Robert Browning. smiley - winkeye

And yet it would be so easy for humans to have this kind of world. Just stop acting like caring for each other costs extra...


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Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking.


There must be some degree of bad in order to recognise good, sort of thing?


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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

In stories? Maybe. In RL? I don't think so.


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Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking.


I was thinking along the lines of: If Earth / RL is all sorted out and good, why would you have he need for a separate concept of 'heaven'?


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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Oh. smiley - eureka I see what you meant now!

I was thinking more along the lines of we should be able to imagine something better than what we have already experienced.

But it's a good point! If life on earth didn't fail, we wouldn't need the concept of a better world.


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