2011-04-08, 20:29 | Link #12961 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Massachusetts
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Countless species we've driven to extinction, perhaps even for ourselves as we'd be eating our natural diet and our minds would be occupied more with survival than all the horrible shit we've done since civilization started. Not that it'd be an ideal world, but at least in my eyes, it would be a better one.
It's a moot point though, because our world can never go back to that mode of operation unless humans go extinct. I don't see any possible scenario where we'd somehow revert to a hunter-gatherer existence, and even if it were possible it would require the world population to shrink drastically, which wouldn't be a good thing. So it's not like I'm advocating we return to the forest or something, just making the idle observation that a primitive life may actually have been better. Quote:
Humans were still apex predators in our most primitive days. While a bear can take down a man, skilled hunters can take the bear out as well. We've always been at the top of the food chain since the times of Homo Erectus. And apex predators usually do not attack each other unless it's an adult going after a juvenile. |
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2011-04-08, 20:42 | Link #12962 |
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You'll forgive me if I don't agree. My entire purpose for living depends upon technology (and really, so does my physical existence itself), so in your idealized world of cavemen, I'd be completely pointless--and most likely, dead.
So yeah. Gonna have to disagree. I like being alive, and living with crazy awesome technology. It's a fair trade in my opinion. Progress is not painless. And what's the point of existing if we do not progress?
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2011-04-08, 22:40 | Link #12963 | |||
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2011-04-09, 00:43 | Link #12964 |
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Personally, I think we're going to be trapped in our Kuiper Belt playpen for long enough that we'll HAVE to solve some very basic problems before we're going to be able to start slacking about the rest of the galaxy.
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2011-04-09, 02:22 | Link #12965 |
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Fürth (GER)
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I hope the social development can keep pace with the technological development. Otherwise there is a chance that the technology wipes humankind out before it can be used as a means to travel to other stars in our galaxy.
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2011-04-09, 02:35 | Link #12966 | |||
I disagree with you all.
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Species disappear all the time, even without our intervention. It's sad, but that's life.
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2011-04-09, 03:05 | Link #12967 | |
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2011-04-09, 03:12 | Link #12968 |
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
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Pro-democracy protests sweep Syria, 22 killed
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...72N2MC20110408
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2011-04-09, 03:58 | Link #12969 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
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What is going on out there? Are those speculations about needing a new map for the Middle East coming true?(for reference: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...xt=va&aid=3882)
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2011-04-09, 05:46 | Link #12970 | |
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: at GNR, bringing you the truth, no matter how bad it hurts
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what needs to happen is not a restructuring of the map, so much as a shift of thinking. stop thinking "middle east" and start thinking "Egypt, , Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, etc" grouping the middle east as if its a single minded entity is the mistake that brought about the stupidity to begin with. it was the British-French Sykes-Piko agreement that treated the people living there as "Arabs", as if there is no cultural, economic, tribal, and other differences. individual countries may have their borders change, but it should be taken on a state based, rather then regional, basis.
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2011-04-09, 10:42 | Link #12971 |
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I see that the new generation of ME youths to be very extreme - extremely religious, extremely anti-religion, or extremely apathetic (known to the outside world as moderates).
Wondered if the Internet built from oil empires has got anything to do with this.
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2011-04-09, 12:54 | Link #12972 | |
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Getting him off the air was part of the TurnOffFox campaign strategy, that I am a part of. Fox News is watched by a lot of Americans, and consistently tells blatent lies and falsehoods to mislead the American public. If you're from another country, you should care because if the American public is fooled, then it ends up worse for the entire world. I'm gonna cut and paste the latest e-mail I got from ColorOfChange.org, which explains a bit more: Spoiler for E-mail:
Saying this to demonstrate the importance of joining together with others, that sometimes you can make a difference. As long as enough people are indifferent, though, the bigger changes will always escape us. Something like this starts to make me believe in humanity again, heh. There are other organizations out there fighting for our rights; investigate them and pick at least one, then support it. Spread the word. This ends my PSA, heh. |
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2011-04-09, 20:25 | Link #12974 | |
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He's leaving to form his own channel (whether cable or online only is as of yet unknown), because it will garner him more money without the oversight of the Fox News channel's upper management which (according to Beck himself) Mr. Beck has never gotten along with (with the exception of Roger Ailes). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/bu...beck.html?_r=2 More money and a larger audience, with more control of his own content, is why Glenn Beck is leaving Fox. It's the same reason that Dave Ramsey left the Fox Business channel a few years ago. It is my understanding that Fox is a very hard company to work for.
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2011-04-09, 22:45 | Link #12975 |
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Eh, that's only one possibility. The real reasons are that he's seen a 30% drop in viewership, and there are a host of advertising companies leaving his show. Right or left, it's all about money, so Fox decided to end it. He's still a producer for Fox and will remain there, but we'll see.
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2011-04-09, 22:58 | Link #12976 |
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I know, but I can't believe that Beck actually believes some of the crap he spouts.
He's an entertainer for the conservative religous types. Plus it's no mystery that Beck has been competing with Alex Jones for the alternative news audience. The problem for Beck is even the Alex Jones crowd views him as an asshat.
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2011-04-09, 23:23 | Link #12977 | |
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2011-04-09, 23:26 | Link #12978 | |
Onee-Chan Power~!
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: In this reality (A.K.A. Colorado, U.S.A.)
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Yes, he is an entertainer, and he does it all for the money. The crazier, the more extreme, the better.
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2011-04-10, 00:05 | Link #12979 |
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I don't have a problem with Alex Jones, he's not part of the corporate media AFAIK, and the corporate media hates him.
Anybody the major corporations hate is okay in my book. Glenn Beck on the other hand is a corporate media puppet. That's why I think Beck will crash and burn at some point soon. I don't think he's authentic in his message. In other words he doesn't believe what he preaches. Alex Jones on the other hand, has been around since the mid 1990s and is authentic in his message (he believes in what he preaches). I don't see Jones fizzling out the way I think Beck will.
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2011-04-10, 00:16 | Link #12980 |
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China says U.S. human rights outcry is interference
As the article said. Though I wonder if China would be complaining about their brain drain in the future, like post-revolution Iran in the 1980s and 1990s due to a secular regime. Same shit it happening to Singapore now. Heck, all of my former cliquemates are now finishing their uni-stint this year and are planning on staying overseas instead of coming back.
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