On the first day of X-Risk I suddenly could see:
The end of humanity
On the second day of X-Risk I suddenly could see
Nuclear War!
And the end of humanity
On the third day of X-Risk I suddenly could see
Pandemic Plagues
Nuclear War
And the end of humanity
On the fourth day of X-Risk I suddenly could see
Bioengineering
Pandemic Plagues
Nuclear War
And the end of humanity
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On the fifth day of X-Risk I suddenly could see
Non-aligned AI...
Bioengineering
Pandemic Plagues
Nuclear War
And the end of humanity
On the sixth day of X-Risk I suddenly could see
One nanite making
{2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768} nanites making...
Non-aligned AI...
Bioengineering
Pandemic Plagues
Nuclear War
And the end of humanity
Along the trail you'll find me lopin'
Where the spaces are wide open
In the land of the old A.E.C.
Where the scenery's attractive
And the air is radioactive
Oh, the Wild West is where I wanna be
'Mid the sagebrush and the cactus
I'll watch the fellows practice
Droppin' bombs through the clean desert breeze
I'll have on my sombrero
And of course I'll wear a pair o'
Levis over my lead B.V.D.'s
I will leave the city's rush
Leave the fancy and the plush
Leave the snow and leave the slush and the crowds
I will seek the desert's hush
Where the scenery is lush
How I long to see the mushroom clouds
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'Mid the yuccas and the thistles
I'll watch the guided missiles
While the old F.B.I. watches me
Yes, I'll soon make my appearance
(Soon as I can get my clearance)
'Cause the Wild West is where I wanna be
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The circle of the world shines bright and holy
The seasons tread their spiral path with grace
It is not the world's designer but the world itself we honor
And the stars shine out across our Lady's face
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But the world might end -- and the stars might fall
Yet Her light will be laughing at the heart of it all
She is in each force with strangeness and charm
And the holographic universe is enfolded in Her arms
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Our Lady is non-local; sing we Her praise
She is the hidden variable that lights our days
With book and with candle
With Gödel and Bell
With wave and with particle we worship Her well
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Our Lady is uncertain; sing we in prayer
We don't know how fast She may be moving or where
With koan and theorem
With Pauli and Bohr
We open Her mysteries and inside we find more
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Our Lady is acausal; work we Her math
Her field equations are a bitch and a half
With implicate order
And synchronous net
She weaves riddles so fine we can't unravel them yet
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Hands chip the flint, light the fire, skin the kill
Feet move the tribe track the herd with a will
Mankind struggles in the cellar of history
Time to settle down, time to grow, time to breed��3x: Em G D A� Em G D B
Plow tills the soil, plants the seed, pray for rain
Scythe reaps the wheat, to the mill, to grind the grain
Towns and cities spread to empire overnight
Hands keep building as we chant the ancient rite
Coal heats the steam, push the piston, turns the wheel
Cogs spin the wool, drives the horses made of steel
Lightning harnessed does our will and lights the dark
Keep rising higher, set our goal, hit the mark.
Crawl out of the mud,
Ongoing but slow,
For the path that is easy
Ain't the one that lets us grow!
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Light to push the sails, read the data, cities glow
Hands type the keys, click the mouse, out we go!
Our voices carry round the world and into space
Send us out to colonize another place�
Hands make the tools, build the fire, plant the grain.
Feet track the herd, build a world, begin again.
When you attend a funeral,
It is sad to think that sooner or l-
-ater those you love will do the same for you.
And you may have thought it tragic,
Not to mention other adjec-
-tives, to think of all the weeping they will do,
But don't you worry…�
No more ashes, no more sackcloth.
And an armband made of black cloth
Will someday never more adorn a sleeve,
For if the bomb that drops on you
Gets your friends and neighbors too,
There'll be nobody left behind to grieve.��And we will all go together when we go.
What a comforting fact that is to know.
Universal bereavement,
An inspiring achievement,
Yes, we all will go together when we go.
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Oh we will all char together when we char.
And let there be no moaning of the bar.
Just sing out a Te Deum
When you see that I. C. B. M.,
And the party will be "come as you are."
Oh we will all burn together when we burn.
There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn.
When it's time for the fallout
And Saint Peter calls us all out,
We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn.
And we will all go together when we go.
Every coffee shop and every Broadway show.
When the air becomes uranious,
We will all go simultaneous.
Yes we all will go together when we go
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Our new world is so close.
Mars has treasures we’re only just starting to find.
Frozen mountains and crimson dust waiting for
footprints that will not be mine.
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A hundred years to run the first tests
Another to raise the first dome.
The moon, then Mars, then Titan next,
A lifetime to touch each new home.
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And I want it so much.
Close my eyes, I can taste the Mars dust in the air.
In the darkness the space stations shimmer in orbits
that I will not share.
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But I’ll teach the student Who’ll manage the fact’ry
That tempers the steel that makes colonies strong.
And I’ll write the program that runs the computer
That charts out the stars where our rockets belong.��D / / / D / G A
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It will never get easy to wake from my dream
When the future I dream of is so far away.
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But I am willing to sacrifice
something I don’t have For something I won’t have
but somebody will someday.
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And it feels like a waste.
All this working and waiting and battling time,
And all for a kingdom that all of my efforts will never
make mine,
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But brick by brick the Pyramids rose,
With most hidden under the sand,
So life by life the project grows
In ways I might not understand.
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I am voyaging too,
We will need the foundation as much as the dome for
those worlds to come true
And I’ll clerk the office that handles the funding
That raises the tower that watches the sky.
And I’ll staff the bookstore that carries the journal
That sparks the idea that makes solar sails fly.��D / / / D / G A
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It takes so many sailors to conquer an ocean
And so many more when it’s light-years away,
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But I am willing to sacrifice
Something I don’t have for something I won’t have
But somebody will someday.
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It’s so easy to run.
Hide away in my books, games and fantasy plans,
Let them call me a coward who can’t face reality’s
grownup demands,
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But if I love my fantasy worlds
It’s not fantasy love that I feel.
And so much more I feel for this
The world that created them,
World we create with them,
One chance to make them all real.
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And I know we won’t stop.
We’ve planned too many wonders for one little star.
Though often the present may seem too complacent to take us that far.
But I’ll tell the story and I’ll draw the picture
And I’ll sing the anthem that banishes doubt,
And host the convention that summons the family
That carries the fire that never burns out�D / / / D / G A
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There are so many chances to give up the journey,
Especially when it’s so easy to stay,
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But I am willing to sacrifice
Something I don’t have for something I won’t have
And not only me,
But we are willing to sacrifice
Something we don’t have for s..thing we won’t have
So somebody will,
So somebody will someday.
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From desert cliff and mountaintop we trace the wide design,
Strikeslip fault and overthrust and syn and anticline. . .
We gaze upon creation where erosion makes it known,
And count the countless aeons in the banding of the stone.
Odd long vanished creatures & their tracks & shells are found
Where truth has left its sketches on the slate below the ground.
The patient stone can speak, if we but listen when it talks.
Humans wrote the book of earth...
Time wrote the rocks...
There are those who name the stars, who watch the sky by night,
Seeking out the darkest place, to better see the light.
Long ago, when isolation broke his weary will,
Galileo recanted, but the Earth is moving still.
High above the mountaintops, where only distance bars,
The truth has left its footprints in the dust between the stars
We may watch and study or may shudder and de-ny
Humans wrote the book of night…
Light wrote the sky
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By stem and root and branch we trace, by feather, fang and fur,
How the living things that are descend from things that were
The moss, the kelp, the zebrafish, the very mice and flies,
Tiny, humble, wordless things how shall they tell us lies?
We are kin to beasts, no other answer can we bring.
The truth has left its fingerprints on every living thing.
Winnowed by an aimless game of birth and blood and strife.
Humans wrote the book of names...
Death wrote life
And we who listen to the stars, or walk the dusty grade,
Or break the very atoms down to see how they are made,
Seek new stories, seek new song to better guide our hand,
The profoundest act of worship is to try to understand.
Deep in flower and in flesh, in star and soil and seed,
The truth has left its living word for anyone to read.
So turn and look where best you think the story is unfurled.
Humans write the book of truth...
Truth writes the world.
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The careful textbooks measure (Let all who build beware!)
The load, the shock, the pressure material can bear.
So, when the buckled girder lets down the grinding span,
The blame of loss, or murder, is laid upon the man.
Not on the steel - the Man!
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But, in our daily dealing with stone and steel, we find
The Gods have no such feeling of justice toward mankind.
To no set guage they make us, for no laid course prepare
And in time o'ertake us with loads we cannot bear:
Too merciless to bear.
The prudent textbooks give it in tables at the end
The stress that shears a rivet or makes a tie-bar bend
What traffic wrecks macadam, what concrete should endure
But we, poor Sons of Adam, have no such literature,
To warn us or make sure!
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We hold all Earth to plunder, all Time and Space as well
Too wonder-stale to wonder at each new miracle;
Till in the mid-illusion, of Godhood 'neath our hand,
Falls multiple confusion on all we did or planned
The mighty works we planned.
We only of Creation (Oh, luckier bridge and rail!)
Abide the twin-damnation, to fail and know we fail.
Yet we - by which sole token we know we once were Gods
Take shame in being broken however great the odds
The Burden or the Odds.
Oh, veiled and secret Power whose paths we seek in vain,
Be with us in our hour of overthrow and pain;
That we - by which sure token we know Thy ways are true -
In spite of being broken, or because of being broken,
May rise and build anew.
Stand up and build anew!
My name is Francis Tolliver, I come from Liverpool.
Two years ago the war was waiting for me after school.
To Belgium and to Flanders, to Germany to here
I fought for King and country I love dear.
'Twas Christmas in the trenches, where the frost so bitter hung,
The frozen fields of France were still, no Christmas song was sung
Our families back in England were toasting us that day
Their brave and glorious lads so far away.
I was lying with my messmate on the cold and rocky ground
When across the lines of battle came a most peculiar sound
Says I, "Now listen up, me boys!" each soldier strained to hear
As one young German voice sang out so clear.
"He's singing bloody well, you know!" my partner says to me
Soon, one by one, each German voice joined in harmony
The cannons rested silent, the gas clouds rolled no more
As Christmas brought us respite from the war
As soon as they were finished and a reverent pause was spent
"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" struck up some lads from Kent
The next they sang was "Stille Nacht." "Tis 'Silent Night'," says I
And in two tongues one song filled up that sky
"There's someone coming toward us!" the front line sentry cried
All sights were fixed on one long figure trudging from their side
His truce flag, like a Christmas star, shown on that plain so bright
As he, bravely, strode unarmed into the night
Soon one by one on either side walked into No Man's Land
With neither gun nor bayonet we met there hand to hand
We shared some secret brandy and we wished each other well
And in a flare-lit soccer game we gave 'em hell
We traded chocolates, cigarettes, and photographs from home
These sons and fathers far away from families of their own
Young Sanders played his squeezebox and they had a violin
This curious and unlikely band of men
Soon daylight stole upon us and France was France once more
With sad farewells we each prepared to settle back to war
But the question haunted every heart that lived that wonderous night
"Whose family have I fixed within my sights?"
'Twas Christmas in the trenches where the frost, so bitter hung
The frozen fields of France were warmed as songs of peace were sung
For the walls they'd kept between us to exact the work of war
Had been crumbled and were gone forevermore
My name is Francis Tolliver, in Liverpool I dwell
Each Christmas come since World War I, I've learned its lessons well
That the ones who call the shots won't be among the dead and lame
And on each end of the rifle we're the same
Countless winter nights ago,
A woman shivered in the cold,
Cursed the sky and wondered why,
The gods invented pain.
Aching angry flesh and bone,
Bitterly she struck the stones,
Until… she saw that spark of
Light and flame.
And though
The others cried out heresy,
She defied them, proud
And set afire history
Tomorrow can be brighter than today
Although the night is cold
The stars may seem so very far away
But courage, hope, and reason burn
In every mind, each lesson learned,
Shining light to guide our way.
Make tomorrow brighter than today!
Oh, oh,
Brighter than today.
Ages long forgotten now,
We built the wheel, and then the plow
Tilled the Earth and proved our worth
Against the drought and snow.
Soon, we had the time to fathom,
Mountain peaks and tiny atoms,
Beating hearts, electric sparks,
And so much more to know.
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The universe may seem unfair
The laws of nature may not care
The storms and quakes, our own mistakes,
All nearly doused our flame.
But all these trials we’ve endured,
Moral progress, ailments cured,
Against our Herculean task,
We’ve risen to proclaim.
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Soaring skywards, leaping sideways,
Do or die words cleave the air.
Joy and laughter, mornings after,
Raise the rafters we don’t care,
If the roof’s beyond repair.
Raise the rafters, raise the rafters,
Raise the rafters we don’t care,
If the roof’s beyond repair.
Sisters brothers, to all others,
Let this be our guiding star.
Hearts on fire but no Messiah,
Hear the music from afar.
What we sing is what we are.
Hear the music, hear the music,
Hear the music from afar.
What we sing is what we are.
Over hills and over valleys,
Over mountains, over seas.
Nations shouting unto nations
Until nations cease to be.
Unison in harmony.
Until nations, until nations
Until nations cease to be.
Unison in harmony.
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Old devil time, I'm gonna fool you now
Old devil time, you'd like to bring me down
But when I’m feeling low, my lovers gather round
And help me rise to fight you one more time
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Old devil pain, you've often pinned me down
You thought I'd cry and beg you for the end
At that very time my lovers gathered round
And helped me rise to fight you one more time
Old devil fear, you with your icy hands
Old devil fear, you'd like to freeze me cold
But when I'm sore afraid, my lovers gather round
And help me rise to fight you one more time piano
Old devil hate, I knew you long ago
Before I learned the poison in your breath
Now when we hear your lies my lovers gather round
And help me rise to fight you one more time
No storm nor fire can ever beat us down
No wind that blows but carries us further on
And you who fear, oh lovers gather round
And we can rise to sing it more time
And we can rise to sing it one more time