You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.Well, didnt you? You were there.No, I didntno well, maybe I did, but it didnt feel like it.Why should you expect it to? It was something totally new to your experience.But but Wilson took a deep breath and got control of himself. Then he reached back into his academic philosophical concepts and produced the notion he had been struggling to express. It denies all reasonable theories of causation. You would have me believe that causation can be completely circular. I went through because I came back from going through to persuade myself to go through. Thats silly.Well, didnt you?
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Robert A. Heinlein was a 20th-century American author and engineer. Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction. Read more on Wikipedia →

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