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Droz
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How long?
#7546887 - 10/22/07 01:21 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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How long until nature takes it's course and start whiping out the human race?
How much do we have before we go extinct? Can we prevent this from happening? Should we be preparing for a theoretical ending?
We are still at the beginning of this human existance here on earth. Some may say we've been here for a long time others may say we haven't been here that long.
I say we start changing things.
Prepare for the end at all times... If you want to survive this hypothetical destruction of nature so to speak. We better start preparing.
Like say we knew that a huge comet was coming to earth and there were no way to stop it, if we were prepared for this we'd be building space ships and heading to outserspace.
What do you guys think?
Peace, Droz
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MushroomTrip
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Re: How long? [Re: Droz]
#7546926 - 10/22/07 01:36 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I prefer to think about something else than the end of times, because it's not in my power to change and I don't really feel concerned about that. Also, the end of Earth or humanity doesn't have to be linked to how long we've been around here. How do you establish if we've been around for too long or not? If it were for a huge comet to hit our planet, I don't think it would care about stuff like this.  It is highly possible that we could extinct for other reasons like a lethal virus, mass suicide, sterility... to many to think about really. However, if we're really smart, we could decide to simply make the best of the time we have here.
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Grok
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Human extinction is a long way off. A huge dieoff is probably in order as we will exhaust our damn near free energy that keeps everything stumbling along as it is. Petroleum is like collective meth. We get blinded by the 'rush' and productivity and all the seemingly great shit that in reality is nothing but a facade that keeps us from seeing what's really going down. And just like meth it systematically destroys the better aspects of human nature, excpet it's done so on a wide scale. So long as the oil flows through our veins and the high continues we will remain in denial about what we're doing. The crash from our oil binge will be tremendous. Humans are dang resilient though and some will survive pretty much any event that doesn't wipe all life off the slate.
May as well just enjoy the zenith we've reached. We know the easiest lives humans have lived and it may last far past our expiration dates. I don't really care what happens to future generations. Each soul is responsible for the circumstances it brings itself into. Nothing drastic is going to change in the way we relate to each other or nature until something forces us to anyway. The crash is inevitable.
"We're fucked let's party" or something like that.
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Re: How long? [Re: Grok]
#7546970 - 10/22/07 01:45 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Great post!
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Re: How long? [Re: Grok]
#7547050 - 10/22/07 02:05 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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nice symbolsim but really pesimistic view for future, we could only have like half us die from oil/market/government crash clash we could all be living in spaceships if we werent 99% ignorant drones.
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Kinematics
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Re: How long? [Re: nub]
#7547085 - 10/22/07 02:13 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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This seems to be an ever increasingly discussed topic. What evidence do you (or anyone that believes in the end of the world/2012 scenario) see would point to this coming true? I have read a bit about it and it is an interesting topic to me, however you can never really know for certain until it happens, I suppose. The things I have read indicate it is a quickly transforming process, and not just something that happens on one specific day. The end date of 2012 I suppose points towards something, but what it could really be is yet to be determined...
That being said, just for speculation and assuming all this becomes true somehow, as in masses of people start to realize "it" is happening, what would be the point of events where all of you would seriously drop everything you own, everything that is a part of who "you" are (possessions, job, status, etc..) to go into survival mode and take shelter or defend yourself in a life or death environment, whatever that would be?
Quote:
MushroomTrip said:
However, if we're really smart, we could decide to simply make the best of the time we have here.
Very powerful statement.
Edited by Kinematics (10/22/07 02:15 PM)
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Lion
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Re: How long? [Re: nub]
#7547089 - 10/22/07 02:14 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Here's something interesting. Why do we discuss death so much? Most of the people on this board are in their 20s, I think it's safe to say. There are some who are up in their 50s, but even that is still a few decades off from the average lifespan in America, and I'd wager most of the 50+'s here live way healthier lifestyles than most Americans. So why is death the #1 subject of debate here? (I think it even trumps "Enlightenment".)
Are we all just caught up in this collective human grid of negative thoughts about the future? I think what Terence McKenna says about the apocalypse chatter just being a large-scale projection of people's fear of death is pretty accurate. After all, ever day millions experience THE END OF THE WORLD.
Now I'm as afraid of death as anyone else, though I might be more afraid of the deaths of people I'm close to than my own. Not sure, though, as I have only come face to face with my own mortality a few times and my level of fright has always varied.
Anyway, if we're all sitting here 60 years from now, I bet we will still be talking about death. Maybe we'll be kicking ourselves for spending so much of our younger years worrying about some imaginary apocalypse, or maybe we'll be chuckling about it; maybe we'll be thankful that we used that fear to catalyze the expansion of our consciousnesses, instead of running from it.
Just a few thoughts from a spacious mind.
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Re: How long? [Re: Lion]
#7547291 - 10/22/07 03:04 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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You assume death is negative!?
I don't know what death is, so I cannot give it a positive/negative attachment. These attachments are simply a result of human dualistic thinking.
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MushroomTrip
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I don't think he assumes that death is negative, but the context in which people usually refer to it, in these kinds of threads, is definitely negative. THAT was what he was talking about.
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I agree, I also notice a great concern from a vast majority, of what happens after you die. Too me I think this is just as important to consider what happened before you were born. I prefer to think they both are directly related symmetrically sound.
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Re: How long? [Re: Droz]
#7549024 - 10/22/07 09:05 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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How long until nature takes it's course and start whiping out the human race?
2012 to be exact.
And as I have said before I have my fiddle ready.
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Edited by Icelander (10/22/07 09:07 PM)
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Icelander
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Re: How long? [Re: Lion]
#7549050 - 10/22/07 09:08 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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So why is death the #1 subject of debate here?
It's my fault.
And damn proud of it.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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To Droz, I am absolutely not afraid of death  Somewhen we'll have to climb those spaceships. There's no way round, if we manage to build them in time  So my proposal ever was, the earlier, the better.
(and to joke out Islander: No, it's my fault, because it is in my sig since I registered here )
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