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mojowork_n

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2. There's a lot to be said for the L o n g View.

Reply to benld74 (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 03:22 PM

Oct 2012

Thinking about things in units of time that extend further than a day, a week, or even a few years.

But even then -- it's the nature of humanity -- we seem to hit a wall at about a century and a half.

"I knew someone who knew someone who was... a former slave."

Can't go much further past than that. We're mayflies.

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Old Guy with a Story to Tell. (And suggestion, at the end.) [View all] mojowork_n Oct 2012 OP

VERY good read indeed! benld74 Oct 2012 #1

There's a lot to be said for the L o n g View. mojowork_n Oct 2012 #2

K & R nt abelenkpe Oct 2012 #3

one of the most truthful paragraphs I have read andrewtuggen Oct 2012 #4

Welcome to D.U. mojowork_n Oct 2012 #5