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realfuzzhead



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Cuban Missile Crisis
#14476158 - 05/18/11 11:21 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I hate thinking about this. It makes me fucking cringe.. think of all the time up until now ~14 billions years. Think of the time since earth formed, ~4.5 billion years, think of the time since life formed ~3.8 billion years, think of the time since humans as we know it came out of the tree's ~1 millions years i think.
Think of how in less than70 years(from the development of radio waves to the Crisis), a fucking instant, a blink of the eye in cosmic time, we came so fucking close to ending it. Ending it all possibly, utter devastation of both the US and Russia, Nuclear Winter, famine, war. Imagine ever aspect of good, every time life has beat the odd's in the past, billions of years of evolution working it magic, and in the blink of the eye we almost end it all.
How fucking selfish, how stupid, it fucking kills me inside to think of how utterly selfish it would be to end the possibilities of ALL those unborn over some stupid fucking ideological differences.
From the Civil war to the development of the H bomb, our most lethal killing device got a billion times stronger. We have gotten no where near a billion times smarter.. we have taken a fools bargain by hardwiring our planet to explode. Are we really that confident thatno Hitler, no other Stalin or other tyrannous dictator will get ahold of this power? we really trust so much in human discipline to deal with this power?
We as humans have almost limitless possibilities in the future.. but the odds are high we will eventually destroy ourselves.
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The_Ghost
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Micawber
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is it not sad to know that almost all of our greatest advances(propulsion,steel,the sharpened tool,the battle field medic,etc) are due to lust for killing and taking
-------------------- (mik-kaw'-bur) n. one who is poor but lives in optimistic expectation of better fortune
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masterharf
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prez truman is a champ for dropping that a-bomb on those people that never get over 5 foot 7. maybe obama will step up and drop an hblock on dem hos in the middle east.
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Mad_Larkin

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Re: Cuban Missile Crisis [Re: masterharf]
#14476199 - 05/18/11 11:36 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
masterharf said: prez truman is a champ for dropping that a-bomb on those people that never get over 5 foot 7.

Organisms exist on a much smaller timescale than planets and universes. I don't think its that surprising that we came so close to destruction so quickly.
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Re: Cuban Missile Crisis [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14476213 - 05/18/11 11:41 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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i really dont think the species is getting off this rock in time
-------------------- (mik-kaw'-bur) n. one who is poor but lives in optimistic expectation of better fortune
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