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[edit] Alpha Centauri

I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld.
When I die, they will put my body in a box and
dispose of it in the cold ground.
And in all the million ages to come, I will never
breathe or laugh or twitch again.
So won't you run and play with me here among the
teeming mass of humanity?
The universe has spared us this moment.

-- Anonymous
Habatation Dome,
Sid Miere's Alpha Centauri

No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright
children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out
of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until
the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn
again to the beginning.

-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"Conversations with Planet", The Final Project: Ascent to Transcendence
Sid Miere's Alpha Centauri

We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled.
But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any
particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in
a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events
of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose
meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?

-- Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
Activity Recorded M.Y. 2302.22467
TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED
Bioenhancement Center
Sid Miere's Alpha Centauri

[edit] New Yorker

For only death annihilates all sense, all becoming, to replace them with non-sense and absolute cessation.

-- F. Gonzalez-Cruzzi, "Days of the Dead" in The New Yorker, November 1993