Here is Carl Sagan on where humans are in the cosmic calendar, i.e., compressing 14 billion years of the universe into one year. In that year we would be... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2qezQzfgIY Andy ________________________________ From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 9:31 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Pfaff on Fukuyama's Utopia There's no such thing as existence. There are only neurons firing and the void. This is what the Jesuits didn't want you to know. (Sorry.) Eddie Leibniz, MPhil. > PS -- did anyone see the Nova program called "My Life As a Turkey"? -- I'm > almost positive that was the name of it. It was fucking incredible. > Existence is so amazing and surprising and brutal. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html