Are we in the last days..?
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I have a jew friend who lives in the year 5765 and told me the world isnt finished yet
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QUOTE(deepdiver32073)I personally don't think it will come any time soon, but that's just my opinion for what it's worth.
What's soon? We can't really accomplish discussing anything unless we're all working on the same time frame. We've been here thousands upon thousands of years... so is soon in another thousand or twenty?
Personally, I give us about another hundred years before we damn ourselves. Not to say that we're not halfway there already. We're self-absorbed, for one. You can't honestly believe that in the entire universe there's not one single other living organism out there. That a tiny magic spore suddenly flew through light-years and light-years of space and time, landed on Earth, and "Poof!" we have humans! There has to have been something that caused our creation, and if it happened to us, whose to say it couldn't have happened elsewhere? We have yet to make even the tiniest mark on the canvas of our universe. To an ant who has been from one end of the block to the other, he's traveled the world twice. To mankind who has seen the moon and sent cameras to mars, we've gone the distance. It's not only amazingly stupid of us to put such little stock in the possibility of other life-forms, but it's also dangerous. While they may not come in the form of attacking martians or look anything like the space monkies we televise, even the most remote amoeba could develop into something which alters our universal balance. But regaurdless of whether something out there (intentionally or not) kills us, I'm sure we can suceed in doing that ourselves.
We have the power to create so much more than the atomic bomb, and there's little stopping us from doing so. Once we do, attempts to control its usage will be futile. Man is arrogant and will go the ultimate distance to have others agree with his views, no matter the sacrifice. We fight endless wars with eachother, whether it's to belittle another race or culture or to enfore what we consider to be "morally right". Man is his own worst enemy and the list of human faults is immeasureable. Even if the world magically righted itself and each person had only the best intrests of all others in mind- there would still be that one person who had just enough articulation in his speeches and just enough favor in the votes to take his people by the throats and turn them into whatever machines he pleased. We are a corrupt society which divides itself into the leaders and the masses- and as long as man thirsts for power, those two will be a deadly combination.
And if all that isn't enough to kill us off soon, there's still the stastics. We are a difficult species to satisfy, and it won't be long until we've exhausted our resources. Some ecologists say that the ecosystem's carrying capacity for human life has already been exceeded. Once added to the knowledge that our population will only continue to grow as our natureal resources shrink, it's only a matter of time before we are in a state of dire crisis. Some say that we'll move to another planet by then, but until we learn how to create synthetic water and air, we had better start conserving. Mass extinctions of frogs have already occured. It may seem irrelevant, but the frog acts as the "miner's canary" for our environment. One of the things that helps them survive is the permeability of their skin and it's ability to soak up air and water. This survival mechanism is the very cause of their death, though. Our earth is now so polluted that their skin can no longer handle the toxins it absorbs while taking in air and water. If they're dying of the filth we've created, how far behind are we?
Case in point: We have always been hurtling towards extinction. No matter how much one man likes to think he can change the world, it simply doesn't matter. I'm sure the caveman who invented fire must have been mighty proud, just as Thomas Edison was with his handy-dandy lightbulb. But no matter how many history books you get in, and how many ways you try to improve man's quality of life, ultimately your birth is only contributing to the extinction of mankind. Eventually, it will be one more person's pride or lust for power or breath of air that will bring us crashing down. We're running a race we simply can't win. Besides, if we aren't the cause of our own death, rest assured something else out there much bigger and brighter will be.
The end.
What's soon? We can't really accomplish discussing anything unless we're all working on the same time frame. We've been here thousands upon thousands of years... so is soon in another thousand or twenty?
Personally, I give us about another hundred years before we damn ourselves. Not to say that we're not halfway there already. We're self-absorbed, for one. You can't honestly believe that in the entire universe there's not one single other living organism out there. That a tiny magic spore suddenly flew through light-years and light-years of space and time, landed on Earth, and "Poof!" we have humans! There has to have been something that caused our creation, and if it happened to us, whose to say it couldn't have happened elsewhere? We have yet to make even the tiniest mark on the canvas of our universe. To an ant who has been from one end of the block to the other, he's traveled the world twice. To mankind who has seen the moon and sent cameras to mars, we've gone the distance. It's not only amazingly stupid of us to put such little stock in the possibility of other life-forms, but it's also dangerous. While they may not come in the form of attacking martians or look anything like the space monkies we televise, even the most remote amoeba could develop into something which alters our universal balance. But regaurdless of whether something out there (intentionally or not) kills us, I'm sure we can suceed in doing that ourselves.
We have the power to create so much more than the atomic bomb, and there's little stopping us from doing so. Once we do, attempts to control its usage will be futile. Man is arrogant and will go the ultimate distance to have others agree with his views, no matter the sacrifice. We fight endless wars with eachother, whether it's to belittle another race or culture or to enfore what we consider to be "morally right". Man is his own worst enemy and the list of human faults is immeasureable. Even if the world magically righted itself and each person had only the best intrests of all others in mind- there would still be that one person who had just enough articulation in his speeches and just enough favor in the votes to take his people by the throats and turn them into whatever machines he pleased. We are a corrupt society which divides itself into the leaders and the masses- and as long as man thirsts for power, those two will be a deadly combination.
And if all that isn't enough to kill us off soon, there's still the stastics. We are a difficult species to satisfy, and it won't be long until we've exhausted our resources. Some ecologists say that the ecosystem's carrying capacity for human life has already been exceeded. Once added to the knowledge that our population will only continue to grow as our natureal resources shrink, it's only a matter of time before we are in a state of dire crisis. Some say that we'll move to another planet by then, but until we learn how to create synthetic water and air, we had better start conserving. Mass extinctions of frogs have already occured. It may seem irrelevant, but the frog acts as the "miner's canary" for our environment. One of the things that helps them survive is the permeability of their skin and it's ability to soak up air and water. This survival mechanism is the very cause of their death, though. Our earth is now so polluted that their skin can no longer handle the toxins it absorbs while taking in air and water. If they're dying of the filth we've created, how far behind are we?
Case in point: We have always been hurtling towards extinction. No matter how much one man likes to think he can change the world, it simply doesn't matter. I'm sure the caveman who invented fire must have been mighty proud, just as Thomas Edison was with his handy-dandy lightbulb. But no matter how many history books you get in, and how many ways you try to improve man's quality of life, ultimately your birth is only contributing to the extinction of mankind. Eventually, it will be one more person's pride or lust for power or breath of air that will bring us crashing down. We're running a race we simply can't win. Besides, if we aren't the cause of our own death, rest assured something else out there much bigger and brighter will be.
The end.
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Why thank you. =)
But now that I look at it, it's a bit legnthy, eh? Oops... :oops: lol.
But now that I look at it, it's a bit legnthy, eh? Oops... :oops: lol.
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Lengthy is the norm for VU, so don't be embarrassed by the length of your treatise. Deep stuff there; lots to think about. I agree that it's arrogant of us to think that we're the only ones in the universe, but I guess I hope that whatever is out there is A: less advanced than we are, or
B: more advanced than we are but more benign and willing to show us a better way.
Of course "B" assumes we don't make the ultimate arrogant blunder and try to enforce our point-of-view on our superiors.
If this makes no sense at all, blame the migraine.
B: more advanced than we are but more benign and willing to show us a better way.
Of course "B" assumes we don't make the ultimate arrogant blunder and try to enforce our point-of-view on our superiors.
If this makes no sense at all, blame the migraine.
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Don't worry, it makes sense, and I agree. But even if whatever's out there is less advanced than we are, the consequences of dicsovering it could still be disasterous. It makes me wonder if we should continue exploring space as our technology gets more advanced or if we should mind our own goddamn business. I can see how both could be great or terrible.
And I'm sorry you have a migrane. They suck like monkey balls. /sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />
And I'm sorry you have a migrane. They suck like monkey balls. /sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />
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Monkey Balls..?!!??!
Now that's a VU topic if I've ever heard one..!
** My troll for the day, LMAO..! **
Now that's a VU topic if I've ever heard one..!
** My troll for the day, LMAO..! **
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