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originally posted by: Skorpy
a reply to: SaturnFX
The fastest way to uplift the world to the Advance world would be through conflict. The next generation would grow stronger, better maybe even redesigned. (Implant's and Exoskeletons. Re-moveable/Mobile Conscious. etc..)
Just have to make sure to to manage the aftermath. It could be done in the next 50 years. Of course, after the PLANET IS UNDER complete totalitarian control. , there would be pockets of resistance to pop up over the next 20 or 30 years. But that's when you start to build the World democracy. You slowly loosen the grip. Start allowing more and more Freedoms through. You just have to find the balance of how hard to squeeze and to un-squeeze to allow the most efficient working machine to march forward to the stars. That machine is the humans and their A.I. With that kind of advancement, we should be unstoppable in the Universe. We could shape the universe to be our own.
originally posted by: lonesomerimbaud
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: WatchingY0u
a reply to: intrptr
We all know what evil is, deceiving people, raping people, if you have alot of something and feel as if and you see that someone may need some of what you have, you are to greedy to share, that's evil.
One mans evil is another mans shining example.
Like, beheading one person with a knife is abhorrent but blowing them to bits with bombs is okay, that kind of thing.
That reminded me of something Marlon Brando playing the character of Kurtz in the "Apocalypse Now" movie spoke;
"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write ____ on their airplanes because it's obscene!".
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: rokkuman
Who are you suggesting amongst humanity that HAS such qualities and would forgo the usual massing of treasure?
NAME people who would have such character.
NAME even one.
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: rokkuman
Who are you suggesting amongst humanity that HAS such qualities and would forgo the usual massing of treasure?
NAME people who would have such character.
NAME even one.
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: rokkuman
Who are you suggesting amongst humanity that HAS such qualities and would forgo the usual massing of treasure?
NAME people who would have such character.
NAME even one.
Dude
He won the Nobel Prize and donated it to charity. He wouldn't accept such a position, for him it doesn't exist. in his mind all are equal.
As a matter of fact in America winners more often than not do the same thing, for various reasons. To appear more "noble" and to avoid the taxes levied on the cash.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: Punisher75
As a matter of fact in America winners more often than not do the same thing, for various reasons. To appear more "noble" and to avoid the taxes levied on the cash.
Then its for gain anyway… or a 'dodge' like you said.
Far from Nobel.
The Dalai Lama gave the Nobel Prize away. That was a noble thing to do.
His own words…
originally posted by: stosh64
originally posted by: rokkuman
a reply to: ATF1886
Do you know these people personally?? So then what proof do you have that they are or are not??
Of course I don't know them personally why would you even ask me such a thing.
We do know that these people are intellectual giants and visionaries capable of thinking on a global scale. They definitely aren't bozos.
Yep, that's what I see here, intellectual giant.
Please.....
originally posted by: tadaman
a reply to: intrptr
no it means that there will always be the will to defend your people and appose tyranny. Don Pelayo fought the moors in Spain and drove them into the ocean. They started with an army armed with rocks.
I am just not willing to say that him giving away a noble prize is evidence that he does not care about his own selfish wants and needs, and would give away all his cash on a whim just to be a nice guy.