RE: Yehuda Yudkowsky, 1985-2004

From: gabriel C (drachyneyes@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 21 2004 - 20:50:30 MST


I wonder if there was ever an atheist who accepted the full
>horror, making no excuses, offering no consolations, who did not also hope
>for some future dawn. What must it be like to live in this world, seeing
>it just the way it is, and think that it will never change, never get any
>better?
>

That would describe me, before I stumbled upon this list in 1999. Facing
certain extinction, I was alternately terrified and depressed. I still am,
but now with a tiny thread of hope. Otherwise I think I would be insane by
now.



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