Merle,
Who's "we"?
But I'd say William's got a handle on it. I am learning.
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> joe ..can we have all of this in plain english...please..merle
>
> William,
>
> It sounds good. I "get" the function of holocaust now: the example of MRSA
> is a particularly good one, and resonates gratingly with me (a colleague lost
> his wife to it when she was in for a "routine and minor" surgery).
>
> OK, but I can't (this instant) imagine a catastrophe that would selectively
> eliminate all but specially spiritually or mentally mutated humans. And I
> don't think that that is what Merle had in mind. I think her shift goes more
> along the lines of some sort of miracle that takes place in less than 500
> generations. "The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius": like that.
>
> I used to think that only Spelunkers and hard-rock miners would survive
> nuclear holocaust during the Cold War, provided they were caving when the
> bombs dropped. But of course that too was wrong, because it's the Nuclear
> Winter and radiation that would get everybody, just coming out of a burrow.
>
> I'll give some thought to your final two sentences. Going out, to walk
> around. A rare, cool cloudy day in the desert, after a rain 12 hours ago:
> VERY rare.
>
> Thank you!!
>
> --Joe
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