Thursday, July 8, 2010

Cosmic Golem



And the followers of the gospel-shouter on the west coast were now cropping up all over the mainland, and on the continent of Acaire to the north, and another cult, non-religious, was convinced that Merlin was a living machine, with conscious intelligence of its own and awesome psi-powers, a sort of super-Golem, which, if found and awakened, would enslave the whole Galaxy. Fortunately, these two hated each other as venomously as both did the Cybernarchists, and spent most of their energies attacking each other's meetings. The news-services were beginning to publish casualty lists, some heavy enough for outpost fighting between a couple of regular armies.

Extract from : The Cosmic Computer, by Henry Beam Piper

Monday, July 5, 2010

How Do You Know What You Really Want To Do In Life?

In a previous post, I was writing about the challenge of finding "What do you want in life" and on this particular quest, I'm glad that a bit of Google search (and a bit of luck) direct me to this article "How Do You Know What You Really Want To Do In Life?" written by Jocelyn Soriano (Thanks):
What is it that you won't ever get tired of doing? What is it that even if others attempt to stop you, you would still be doing just for the sake of doing it? Something you could never stop yourself from doing, because stopping yourself would mean stopping the very flow of life in you?