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You can't take money with you when you die.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
You can't take money with you when you die.
Roger that. The only thing we take with us is what we've done.
TomLawless:
I don't know if we're on the brink of extinction or not, but it's become chic to glibly and ironically proclaim "humans are a plague", and "humans are killing the earth" over and over and over.
TomLawless: These Gaia worshippers and doom porners should all get together and have a mass suicide. If you love your mother. I mean, REALLY love your mother, become a part of the solution, as opposed to a part of the problem. Gather at the Georgia Guidestones. Make Ted Turner pround.
originally posted by: Jonjonj
a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
Perhaps it is time we stopped punishing ourselves for our nature and started to look at what we really want to be then?
originally posted by: Jonjonj
a reply to: vethumanbeing
Sorry but I refuse to let an entity that has, by its very absence, refused to help me, take control of MY life.
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
As I have said many times, humans are the only species that does not quite fit into the "natural to planet earth" environment.
For instance, we create artificial structures to protect us from the planets natural climate and can get sunburned in an instant and die within a few minutes in cold temperatures - unless we cloth ourselves accordingly - something no other species needs to do.
We did not come from this planet - we were introduced to it - and we are doing a mighty job of destroying it.
Now, I must run, I've got to get to the mall because the TV told me there is a sale on - 50% off - bargain.
But the first children, in a cave of the earth, were unfinished. The cave was of sooty blackness, black as a chimney at night time, and foul. Loud became their murmurings and lamentations, until many sought to escape, growing wiser and more man-like.
But the earth was not then as we now see it. Then Sun-father sent down two sons (sons also of the Foam-cap), the Beloved Twain, Twin Brothers of Light, yet Elder and Younger, the Right and the Left, like to question and answer in deciding and doing. To them the Sun-father imparted his own wisdom. He gave them the great cloud-bow, and for arrows the thunderbolts of the four quarters. For buckler, they had the fog-making shield, spun and woven of the floating clouds and spray. The shield supports its bearer, as clouds are supported by the wind, yet hides its bearer also. And he gave to them the fathership and control of men and of all creatures. Then the Beloved Twain, with their great cloud-bow lifted the Sky-father into the vault of the skies, that the earth might become warm and fitter for men and creatures. Then along the sun-seeking trail, they sped to the mountains westward. With magic knives they spread open the depths of the mountain and uncovered the cave in which dwelt the unfinished men and creatures. So they dwelt with men, learning to know them, and seeking to lead them out.
"Humans face extinction by the end of this century," warns Peter Barrett, Director of Victoria University's Antarctic Research Centre, top climate researcher and winner of the Marsden Medal. ....David Brackett, Species Survival Commission Chair, says, "We are in the midst of the sixth great extinction wave on the planet Earth, caused by the intervention of humans."
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
As I have said many times, humans are the only species that does not quite fit into the "natural to planet earth" environment.
For instance, we create artificial structures to protect us from the planets natural climate and can get sunburned in an instant and die within a few minutes in cold temperatures - unless we cloth ourselves accordingly - something no other species needs to do.
We did not come from this planet - we were introduced to it - and we are doing a mighty job of destroying it.
Now, I must run, I've got to get to the mall because the TV told me there is a sale on - 50% off - bargain.
originally posted by: Parthin96
I would not predict 75%. World population is expected to top out pretty soon. Some not-so-tough species aren't going to make it. We should concentrate on species that are really different, and let minor local variants go. Preserve the most biodiversity we can.
a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
I believe the Earth's on a cycle...
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
As I have said many times, humans are the only species that does not quite fit into the "natural to planet earth" environment.
For instance, we create artificial structures to protect us from the planets natural climate and can get sunburned in an instant and die within a few minutes in cold temperatures - unless we cloth ourselves accordingly - something no other species needs to do.
We did not come from this planet - we were introduced to it - and we are doing a mighty job of destroying it.
Now, I must run, I've got to get to the mall because the TV told me there is a sale on - 50% off - bargain.
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
As I have said many times, humans are the only species that does not quite fit into the "natural to planet earth" environment.
For instance, we create artificial structures to protect us from the planets natural climate and can get sunburned in an instant and die within a few minutes in cold temperatures - unless we cloth ourselves accordingly - something no other species needs to do.
We did not come from this planet - we were introduced to it - and we are doing a mighty job of destroying it.
Now, I must run, I've got to get to the mall because the TV told me there is a sale on - 50% off - bargain.
originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
a reply to: Sublimecraft
You may be right.
Wouldn't it be fascinating if we were some genetic experiment gone bad? Aliens show up to Earth with the intent of making a self-aware and sentient race so they genetically modify chimpanzees and out come us. If we pass the test we are introduced to galactic society, if not we are left here. Seems as though we are failing the test as of the moment. Maybe that's why they haven't come back for us.
This is all speculation of course, but still interesting.