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Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really?
#14561153 - 06/04/11 06:03 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: skatealex2]
#14561156 - 06/04/11 06:03 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nope.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: SpiritualSnorkel]
#14561162 - 06/04/11 06:05 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Word ya i think were all fucked, i cant stand when people think some messiahs gonna save them.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: skatealex2]
#14561164 - 06/04/11 06:05 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nothing lasts. We'll reach a peak and then it'll be a long descent into annihilation. Whether that takes 10 years or 10000.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14561172 - 06/04/11 06:07 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think eventually we're going to turn into a different species, and judging from the last 10,000 years or so it's going to be an agonizing transition.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14561197 - 06/04/11 06:14 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Humanity as we know it, not a chance. I agree with Tchan that we're gonna be a different species; just think about all the genes were keeping alive in the gene pool.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: skatealex2]
#14561202 - 06/04/11 06:16 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nope. We are rendering this planet inhospitable for ourselves, much like we rendered our last planet.
We are the virus.
Global warming = fever. MRSA, E. coli, Hepatitis, etc. = antibodies. (Temporary) Depletion of non-renewables = rest for the host.
Earth was around long before us and will be around long after we are gone.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: skatealex2]
#14561209 - 06/04/11 06:17 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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not unless we make big changes we're not willing to make
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Scarab74]
#14561210 - 06/04/11 06:17 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Scarab74 said: Nope. We are rendering this planet inhospitable for ourselves, much like we rendered our last planet.
wut
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14561240 - 06/04/11 06:25 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Scarab74 said: Nope. We are rendering this planet inhospitable for ourselves, much like we rendered our last planet.
wut
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How could you know we destroyed our last planet (or that humans as a species have ever been on another planet)? Yeah, you don't.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14561252 - 06/04/11 06:28 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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With a wide enough scope, nothing lasts, including humans. Something will come along and fuck our species in the ass. Just a matter of time.
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Tchan909 said: I think eventually we're going to turn into a different species, and judging from the last 10,000 years or so it's going to be an agonizing transition.
Speciation is exceptionally rare. It's very very very very very very unlikely that we will "turn into" another species and it certainly would take magnitudes of time longer than 10,000 years. If anything we will genetically "divert" down different phylogenic paths which COULD result in speciation but I doubt it. Hey, it happened with the great apes and humans at some point.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: abltsandwich]
#14561257 - 06/04/11 06:30 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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On the long, long, looooongcat term, nope. But as others have said, humanity as it exists today will not survive. Either we shape up on our own, or nature will force us to.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: skatealex2]
#14561309 - 06/04/11 06:44 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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i think man kinds aspiration of addiction to violence is ultimately going to set us apart in ways of segregation.
making a evolved species that will ultimately deceive its violently perverse. By manipulation of greed to killing themselves like it has been done throughout history of man.
when the duality of man through fear ceases, then there will be hope for the meek to prosper against tyrannical oppression.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: DarkMatterOfFact]
#14561322 - 06/04/11 06:50 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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hope in what sense?
that our species will survive? yes
that we'll stop acting like assholes to each other? no
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: DarkMatterOfFact]
#14561332 - 06/04/11 06:52 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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no because one day the sun will expand to such a degree that it will encompass the earth and our planet will be no more
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: CarnivalBarker]
#14561338 - 06/04/11 06:53 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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CarnivalBarker said: no because one day the sun will expand to such a degree that it will encompass the earth and our planet will be no more
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: The Ecstatic]
#14561367 - 06/04/11 06:59 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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hope as in not buying into fallacies of hate. we are a communal species. hate doesnt result in positive growth, so therefore sides will be drawn and death will follow.
scary shit but its just a matter of time. that is unless a asteriod or mother nature doesnt destroy man first.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: The Ecstatic]
#14561402 - 06/04/11 07:04 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Ecstatic said:
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CarnivalBarker said: no because one day the sun will expand to such a degree that it will encompass the earth and our planet will be no more

it will be the end of the world as we know it
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: CarnivalBarker]
#14561430 - 06/04/11 07:08 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: The Ecstatic]
#14561444 - 06/04/11 07:09 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't think we need to worry about it too much. Your own end of the world will come a lot sooner than the collective end of the world.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: The Ecstatic]
#14561447 - 06/04/11 07:10 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think humanity has a pretty good chance of surviving. I mean look how far we've come in just the past 100 years. Imagine 300 years from now. Shit son we'll have some crazy ass technology.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14561459 - 06/04/11 07:12 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Humanity as it is, is already dying out.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
#14561465 - 06/04/11 07:12 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Be optimist people! We are gonna make it.
Technology is getting better every day.
Space travel will be possible eventually, we'll find other planets to fuck up. Its all cool
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
#14561487 - 06/04/11 07:16 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think our species is damn near ineradicable.
Could something happen that would kill 50% of us? Yes. 99%? ... Maybe. 100%? ... No fucking way.
People would survive by sheer luck and force of will. They would breed. Humanity would continue. Might our progress be delayed a bit? Absolutely. But we're gonna give the cockroaches a goddamn run for their money.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: laserpig]
#14561503 - 06/04/11 07:19 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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laserpig said: I think our species is damn near ineradicable.
Could something happen that would kill 50% of us? Yes. 99%? ... Maybe. 100%? ... No fucking way.
People would survive by sheer luck and force of will. They would breed. Humanity would continue. Might our progress be delayed a bit? Absolutely. But we're gonna give the cockroaches a goddamn run for their money.
This. Nothing, barring the sudden and unpredicted explosion of the entire planet Earth, could possibly ensure the complete eradication of the human race. Our intelligence makes us like cockroaches, I'm pretty sure.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: laserpig]
#14561505 - 06/04/11 07:19 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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laserpig said: I think our species is damn near ineradicable.
Could something happen that would kill 50% of us? Yes. 99%? ... Maybe. 100%? ... No fucking way.
People would survive by sheer luck and force of will. They would breed. Humanity would continue. Might our progress be delayed a bit? Absolutely. But we're gonna give the cockroaches a goddamn run for their money.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: laserpig]
#14561615 - 06/04/11 07:47 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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laserpig said: I think our species is damn near ineradicable.
Could something happen that would kill 50% of us? Yes. 99%? ... Maybe. 100%? ... No fucking way.
People would survive by sheer luck and force of will. They would breed. Humanity would continue. Might our progress be delayed a bit? Absolutely. But we're gonna give the cockroaches a goddamn run for their money.
When I say humanity I mean the way we humans live as a whole, which right now is pretty much all about satisfying personal desires with reckless abandon.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
#14561625 - 06/04/11 07:50 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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We humans as a whole don't live any certain way. My friend has an iPad and a $5000 coffee maker. His main concern in life is his credit score. People in Libya eat the hearts of children to gain courage when they attack each other with machetes. It's already a hodgepodge of non-overlapping lifestyles.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
#14561630 - 06/04/11 07:51 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Bodhi of Ankou said: When I say humanity I mean the way we humans live as a whole, which right now is pretty much all about satisfying personal desires with reckless abandon.
Most of humanity does not live this way. It's actually a pretty small proportion of living humans who are able to take such luxury as we have for granted. The vast majority of people in the world are dirt farmers and peasants. The USA is honestly like an entire nation of royalty.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: laserpig]
#14561648 - 06/04/11 07:55 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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laserpig said: People in Libya eat the hearts of children to gain courage when they attack each other with machetes.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14561652 - 06/04/11 07:56 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Oops, I meant Liberia. Saw it on Vice Guide to Travel. Check that shit out if you want to be made overwhelmingly appreciative of where you live.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: laserpig]
#14561658 - 06/04/11 07:57 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Vice Guide videos are always a good watch.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: laserpig]
#14561660 - 06/04/11 07:57 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah, Liberia is one fucked up war torn shithole.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14561668 - 06/04/11 07:59 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Libya's not great right now either though lol.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14561674 - 06/04/11 08:01 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Depends on what you mean by hope
If we can keep on long enough to get technology that would allow us to spread throughout the universe then we would be around for a while
Who knows what will happen, its not like life depends on the success of earth
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Wise Toad]
#14562165 - 06/04/11 09:53 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Humans will survive. There are so many of us at this point that even apocalyptic scenarios (thermonuclear or biological war, depletion of resources etc.) are unlikely to lead to the destruction of the human race. People are like rats, they breed and they fight but it's nearly immpossible to get rid pf them all. The will to survive is strong in humans, it's what keeps people fighting even in the face of certain death. Even when a person has no cards to play, no hope of survival many will still fight to the last breath.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: crazyboy25]
#14562259 - 06/04/11 10:15 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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As far as biological warfare goes it really depends on the organism
It would probably have to be viral, have a long incubation period, extreamly lethal, quickly mutating, and travel through other species
I have no doubt that nanomachines could wipe out humanity
Atomic warfare could definitely destroy us, it is capable of destroying the atmosphere. Without an atmosphere we would be fucked by both the sun, space debris, lack of oxygen, water leaking into space, and of course the radiation from the bombs themselves
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Wise Toad]
#14562311 - 06/04/11 10:25 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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We are here to stay.
One way or the other.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: 4runner]
#14562376 - 06/04/11 10:39 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14562385 - 06/04/11 10:41 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mad_Larkin said: I don't think we need to worry about it too much. Your own end of the world will come a lot sooner than the collective end of the world.
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perspective, i dont see enough of it.
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Re: Do you think theres any hope for humanitys longterm or not really? [Re: Patlal]
#14562500 - 06/04/11 11:04 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Patlal said: Be optimist people! We are gonna make it.
Technology is getting better every day.
Space travel will be possible eventually, we'll find other planets to fuck up. Its all cool
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