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Originally posted by BlindBastards
I believe that absolutely no one has the right to command that the population be reduced. No one has the right to say that this particular group of people need to go and that group too. Nobody has the right to cap how many children a couple can have. For if someone does have the right to make such decisions, to cull the “useless eaters” (such a vile term) then why shouldn’t the decision maker be eliminated too? What gives them immunity? At the heart of it we’re all the same, we’re all human. I personally believe that over population is a complete and utter myth. I think it’s a control tool, nothing more. A scare tactic. With the way the corporate world works with such ridiculous wastage of everything, perhaps over population has its merits in a manufacturing sort of way. But if things were done for the benefit of mankind and not for profits (free energy and the like, better farming practises), over population is a false notion.
Old mate Charlie Chaplin once said, somewhat accurately I may say; "You need power only when you want to do something harmful. Otherwise love is enough to get everything done…"
Originally posted by SarnholeOntarable
Point taken,nice write up...Imagine if there were no wars in the past,what would we be at now?
Originally posted by HIWATT
sigh...........
TIME TO KILL THE MYTH
Don't trust the population numbers.
Originally posted by SarnholeOntarable
Point taken,nice write up...Imagine if there were no wars in the past,what would we be at now?
Its obvious to me now that our systems are decaying as fast as our moral and ethical capacities are. Yet they are the stranglehold that our fundalmentalists use to subjugate us into primal herds. I say let a revolution occur in our minds that we may surpass our ancestors. Things like greed, lust, power, entitlement, glutteny dont need to enslave your mind. You are as powerful as you want to be, but using your power to your on end is its own form of slavery. You have endless capabilities why do we waste them following old precepts that end violently, or without reason.
I think breathing new life into our psychological conscious will free us all from the purgatory of self-indulgence. But alas are we willing to sacrifice any aspect of ourselves for humanity and its prosperity? I feel like we've only touched the very tip of the human iceburg of what we can accomplish if only we were able to conquer ourselves.
So i ask: How many people and generations of blowing eachother up will it take to realize and apply this very basic and essential function?
Originally posted by BlindBastards
Old mate Charlie Chaplin once said, somewhat accurately I may say; "You need power only when you want to do something harmful. Otherwise love is enough to get everything done…"
Originally posted by maes2
Its obvious to me now that our systems are decaying as fast as our moral and ethical capacities are. Yet they are the stranglehold that our fundalmentalists use to subjugate us into primal herds. I say let a revolution occur in our minds that we may surpass our ancestors. Things like greed, lust, power, entitlement, glutteny dont need to enslave your mind. You are as powerful as you want to be, but using your power to your on end is its own form of slavery. You have endless capabilities why do we waste them following old precepts that end violently, or without reason.
I think breathing new life into our psychological conscious will free us all from the purgatory of self-indulgence. But alas are we willing to sacrifice any aspect of ourselves for humanity and its prosperity? I feel like we've only touched the very tip of the human iceburg of what we can accomplish if only we were able to conquer ourselves.
So i ask: How many people and generations of blowing eachother up will it take to realize and apply this very basic and essential function?
Yes let the revolution be ! so first nations should get awake and then they should correct their governments.
you know many religions are awaking a Messiah or Messiahs ! the main role of them is to use the full capacity of humanity. so believing in Messiahs shows implicitly that there is always a better choice. do not dismiss religions, especially monotheistic religions. however they are altered but they have a great capacity to unite humanity.
the way we live is our religion so secularism is a lie. humanity needs something common to use it's all capacity, that is nothing but the only God (the creator) or at least their humanity !
so we should implement our humanity.
what is the meaning of dismissing greed, lust, power, entitlement, glutteny, ! is not it the same as being pious !!!
wisdom is the base of all religions (idealogies) so we should just clean the garbage that they give us as a religion then even atheists can see the common truth !!!
Capitalism, feminism, atheism, Communism, ..... all are sort of religions !!!!!
Originally posted by Whatifitdidhappen
The only problem with religion is it is vastly confusing to the point of multiple religious sects based off the same ideology creating diversity and segregation. Concordantly, religion in of itself is not the problem. The problem lies within us all. Being pious does nothing unless your heart is truely free.
I'm not dismissing religion entirely only to say that as it is written, in christian faith, (as i haven't studied intimately other religions) within the subtext of the bible is the advocate of carnage, segregation, deviance, fear, and anger all associated with the God of Abraham, and thus, teaches that in its most literal of translations. Whether you overlook these passages or not, the written text is said to be infallible for it is the word of god. I understand the triumph of hardship is necessary but, perhaps there is another way.
If there were a way to rid ourselves of these human desires or at the very least control them, this would begin the shift in our actual humanity, rather than living masks under the guise of 'civilized society'
Only then would population be a non-issue