The best way to know any future is to cause one. And that�s why, you see, when you start consulting the oracle at Delphi, you�ve taken a step downhill. You have assigned cause for the future elsewhere...
So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn�t a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happen to be combining.
You talk about virgin territory � the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it.


L. Ron Hubbard

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