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we do not really know what to expect of times to come those who dare say they do are more or less intelligently speculating and their assumptions usually don‘t exceed foggy predictions read from crystal ***** so what? the problem is not really new all our ancestors      some more desperate than others were longing for the certainty they thought would go with knowledge of all things as yet to come      fact is we have survived without it      for some million years even if our digitized society      obsessed with quantifying everything      from time to work to *** to pleasure seems mortally in fear of lack of data      about the future the one thing we can say for sure is that life will be different because the only constant in our world is change      know it      and get on
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Apr 17, 2019
Apr 17, 2019 at 4:48 PM UTC
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we do not really know what to expect of times to come those who dare say they do are more or less intelligently speculating and their assumptions usually don‘t exceed foggy predictions read from crystal ***** so what? the problem is not really new all our ancestors      some more desperate than others were longing for the certainty they thought would go with knowledge of all things as yet to come      fact is we have survived without it      for some million years even if our digitized society      obsessed with quantifying everything      from time to work to *** to pleasure seems mortally in fear of lack of data      about the future the one thing we can say for sure is that life will be different because the only constant in our world is change      know it      and get on
The last two lines are borrowed from U.S. author and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison in her reply to a question of what to do about unpleasant news/experience.--
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Apr 17, 2019
Apr 17, 2019 at 4:48 PM UTC
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