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Who are the four horsemen?
The predictors and facilitators of our doom.
Can they be defeated?
How can you stop a jet plane out of control? It must crash.
123
When you made the blind to see, for the first time they saw trees and flowers and other human beings. But yet you said they were still blind. What did you mean?
Their vision was not yet perfected. Clear things they saw blurry and the blurry they saw clear.
How do we bring the blurry into focus?
We ask for mercy.
124
Why were we created?
To harmonize the universe.
But our world is so chaotic.
The creator brings order out of chaos.
125
How do you distinguish the living from the dead?
The dead have a sense of humor.
126
Why don’t you participate in the free market?
I can’t afford to.
127
They say the Dark Ages weren’t so dark.
I heard that too. Say, do you know where my flashlight is?
128
Do we believe in the rule of the people?
We say we do.
Do we believe in freedom of speech?
We say we do.
Do we believe in self-protection?
We don’t even say we do.
129
I was wondering…
Yes?
Why begin something we can’t finish?
Everyone is impatient. Everyone is expectant. No one is prepared.
What if that which we prepare for never happens?
It didn’t.
130
How does one compare the known with the unknown?
The unknown is smaller.
How much smaller?
Almost as if it didn’t exist.
131
Those who seek wisdom seek foolish gain.
Why is that?
They equate knowledge with wisdom. Wisdom is inherited not acquired. Born a fool, die a fool.
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Why the confusion?
There is no confusion. What we call confusion is in reality a higher form of order.
133
When we walk away, are we forever parted?
When two roads diverge, there is every reason to believe that one day they will again converge. The earth is a sphere, is not so the universe?
134
What etiquette do you follow?
I follow no prescribed set of unwritten rules.
Do you follow a written set?
Only the one written internally.
135
Is humanity suicidal?
On the contrary, they cling to life.
But there’s diversity in conduct.
As youth we worship anarchy, but only because there is something solid to rebel against. Few welcome the void.
136
Are there cults of assassins?
Since the Middle Ages, religious fanatics have sought to disrupt legitimate governments by murdering their designated rulers.
In democracies, rulers are disposed of through the ballot box.
Neither way is too kind, but at least the dead rulers have the solace of not living with defeat.
137
Technology rules.
Not technology, but the technological elite.
What of their domain?
As the size of their domain increases, its value goes down.
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How does one do the impossible?
You recruit temporary help.
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