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When will the sky stop falling?

Really.

By DARCA1213 on September 1, 2015 7:52:04 AM from Galactic Civilizations III Forums Galactic Civilizations III Forums

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Everyday there is some bad news, scandal, or tragedy on a global level. How are we all not dead yet with so many nuclear, bio,  chemical, cyber, and mechanical weapons win the hands of maniacs as well? Worst of all; we are the cause of our own problems, and continue to have as many screw ups as successes at everything we do. So how long will it be until the sky actually does fall for real this time, I am tired of waiting?

 

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Jafo
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September 1, 2015 7:59:25 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

It got to 11.59 and 30 in the 60's.

Anyone alive then sees these days as a romp in the park....

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Heavenfall
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September 1, 2015 10:19:24 AM from Elemental Forums Elemental Forums

The environment will last a couple of hundred years, then the show's over.

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Ryat
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September 1, 2015 10:25:45 AM from Galactic Civilizations III Forums Galactic Civilizations III Forums

When the Sovereignty comes.  

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September 1, 2015 10:28:59 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums


So how long will it be until the sky actually does fall for real this time, I am tired of waiting?

If the worlds past history is a gauge we will be around for awhile, but we all should realize that nothing lasts forever.  Enjoy today for we never know what tomorrow brings.   

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September 1, 2015 11:14:40 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

I think the sky has already fallen... that's why we walk around with our heads in the clouds and are completely oblivious to the mounting issues all around us.

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DARCA1213
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September 2, 2015 12:37:19 AM from Galactic Civilizations III Forums Galactic Civilizations III Forums

Quoting starkers,
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I think the sky has already fallen... that's why we walk around with our heads in the clouds and are completely oblivious to the mounting issues all around us.


 

Sounds about right. If I had to guess though, it will be something really stupid like a solar flare or virus some as shat miss handles at the CDC. Though it has been a while since humanity had a good old world war. Haha

Either way I hope to be dead or rich before I have to really care. Though there is the small possibly that humanity will from a utopia were everyone has 10 acres and drones serve our every whim...all 7billion of us.

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ElanaAhova
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September 2, 2015 1:48:42 AM from Elemental Forums Elemental Forums

bad news: we will pollute the biosphere to the point that it will no longer sustain humans.  good news: life always finds a way, and will continue here on earth - and humans will be history. I think of it this way:  "42, game over, reset Terra."

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starkers
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September 2, 2015 2:45:33 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Quoting DARCA1213,
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Though there is the small possibly that humanity will from a utopia were everyone has 10 acres and drones serve our every whim...all 7billion of us.

That's got about as much probability as rocking horse shit..... NONE!!!!  If ever a utopia was created it'd cater only to the powerful and/or wealthy.  Ordinary folks would not be welcome... well maybe to perform menial chores the rich wouldn't dirty their hands on, but once done their arses 'd be kicked out.

 

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September 2, 2015 5:40:16 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

I wake up every morning, put on the news and hear of yet another shooting in Philly. This trend has been consistent for more than two months. Every single day! I give society not long before total anarchy ensues. When it does I'll sit on my bum and lmao. Society makes its own bed, now it gets to sleep in it. 

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September 2, 2015 9:21:20 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Quoting Uvah,
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I wake up every morning, put on the news and hear of yet another shooting in Philly. This trend has been consistent for more than two months. Every single day! I give society not long before total anarchy ensues. When it does I'll sit on my bum and lmao. Society makes its own bed, now it gets to sleep in it. 

That's a trend that won't go away until 'society' grows a brain... but I don't see that ever happening.

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September 2, 2015 1:19:54 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Quoting starkers,
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until 'society' grows a brain

Or the PTB's grow some big brass ones and stop catering to the money mongers. But I don't see that happening either.

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September 2, 2015 6:49:16 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

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ElanaAhova
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September 2, 2015 8:36:05 PM from Elemental Forums Elemental Forums

Quoting Uvah,
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Quoting starkers,
reply 10

until 'society' grows a brain



Or the PTB's grow some big brass ones and stop catering to the money mongers. But I don't see that happening either.

"I can hire one half of the working class the kill the other half"

It won't grow a brain.  Like one of the 'great industrialists' of the 19th century said:  (created the Pinkerton gang of thugs to terrorize and murder union organizers and sympathizers) said the above.  What did you think the militarization of the police is really about?  Go look at the FBI website:  All the protests against the uber -trade deals are listed as 'terrorist.'  Even the recent ones where the AFL-CIO participated.  Anyone who puts people rights above property rights is labeled a terrorist by the FBI web site.  And hungry people can be bought really cheaply. 

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September 3, 2015 12:18:00 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Quoting ElanaAhova,
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Like one of the 'great industrialists' of the 19th century said: (created the Pinkerton gang of thugs to terrorize and murder union organizers and sympathizers) said the above. What did you think the militarization of the police is really about? Go look at the FBI website: All the protests against the uber -trade deals are listed as 'terrorist.' Even the recent ones where the AFL-CIO participated. Anyone who puts people rights above property rights is labeled a terrorist by the FBI web site. And hungry people can be bought really cheaply.

So what you're saying, Elana, is that power and wealth is the nightmare?

Yup, when you look back on it honestly, most woes that have befallen the ordinary bloke and his family were created by those of power and wealth.

Heaven forbid I ever become rick and/or powerful.

I'd hate to become one of them.... though I wouldn't mind a few quid/$ for a rainy day.

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September 3, 2015 2:13:00 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Everyone always seems to blame the rich for all the worlds ills. And while yes they can be held responsible for some pretty horrible things not everything is "The Corporations" or "The Rich" fault. Some times we the ordinary folk have to take our share of the blame too. After all without US the rich would be poor, The Corporations would be weekend stalls. WE perpetuate the demand for everything quicker, easier etc. It's easy to just lay the blame elsewhere but much harder to take some of the responsibility ourselves. Until that happens the world will just keep on heading for ruin and we will blindly just keep on enjoying our so called ease of life technologies. So instead of occupy Wall Street or occupy some rich guys toilet how about we occupy or own consciences and maybe just maybe grow the fuck up a little  

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September 3, 2015 3:14:09 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Yes, it's much better to not have rich people.  If only we were all peasant farmers living to our mid 40's, free of such horrible things like modern transportation, medicine, supermarkets...

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September 3, 2015 6:01:58 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Quoting Uvah,
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Society makes its own bed, now it gets to sleep in it.

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September 4, 2015 11:44:34 AM from Elemental Forums Elemental Forums

Its not the rich, its the disconnectedness that isolating oneself (one selves) from 'neighbors' who are less well off, social stratification, gated communities, (etc.) that allows greed to go rampant.  Two aspects:  First, when one perceives others as '"its," objects to be used, and not cared for, greed gets unleashed.  two) as a recent article in Psychology pointed out, many CEOs, CFO, share a lot of traits with sociopaths (not Psychopaths - big difference). That trait is the inability to feel for others, (or, perhaps the ease with which one turns off empathy for those who don't interact with you on a daily basis.  The issue isn't uber richness status, but rather what it usually takes to achieve that status.  Therein lies our shared fault.

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