evildrneil Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Excuse the biblical title, but it's time for amateur eschatology hour! Do you think the human race is on the way out? If so when and how? What do YOU think is gonna happen? Are we going to make the planet a barren inhospitable place with our rubish and greenhouse gasses? Are the various groups around the world who have contented themselves with car bombs and guns going to go nuclear/biological? Are the American religious right deliberately provoking the states into catastrophic action to fulfill their own end of the world prophecies? Are emergant antibiotic resistant diseases going to sweep the world wiping out all in their path? Will the cracks and disparaties in society become too much causing it to reach a critical mess and implode? Or are we going to follow the route of history and muddle through by a mix of luck and sheer bloody-mindedness? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy78 Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 I thought we were already a few million years overdue for extinction. I suppose that because we're the first species capable of causing it's own extinction, I'll have a bet on a self inflicted demise. Not sure who'll be in charge of bringing the end though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann_a Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 1..Probably 2 America..most likely 3 Are the American religious right deliberately provoking the states into catastrophic action ?... yes 4 Donald Rumsfeld's contacts will probably have a fix,(a company he has ties with came up with the Tamiflu vaccine.) 5..Yes..Then we get martial law. Yes,yes,yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxon51 Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 It's already started here in Longley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GabbleRatcht Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Yes it is coming. And when we are gone, another life form will evolve, maybe the insects, that will also f*** it up too. What makes me dispair is how advances in technology are always driven by war Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 What makes me dispair is how advances in technology are always driven by war How true, - but if we put half the amountof time, effort and money into preserving life that we do into destroying life the world would have probably hit it's peak population capacity long ago. I suspect the calamity when it arrives will be a series of natural disasters, some of which may be our fault, but the worst of them will be nature's own way of reminding us of just how unimportant we are in the scheme of things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarSparkle Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 If the American right-wing barmpots get their way, yes StarSparkle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datal Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Yepp......evildrneil, I think we're gonna's, with all you quote & more, sorry to say, the difference with now & the past is we've evolved too technically & too quickly I'm affraid & there's no stopping it now. If you look at the american indian way of life, whatever they took from nature, they replaced in some way, are we doing that... no!!! & what happened to them..... wiped out!!! Most other species evolve & die, so will we. The sad thing is it may be sooner than we think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Come on you lot. What happened to the human spirit! It saddens me to see such defeatism. Get up off your bums and do something to improve your life, then use the extra to improve somebody elses life!!! But please... stop blaming everything and everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisan Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Come on you lot. What happened to the human spirit! It saddens me to see such defeatism. Get up off your bums and do something to improve your life, then use the extra to improve somebody elses life!!! But please... stop blaming everything and everyone else. Exactly The human race will never die out. For a start we can breed quite easily. More important than this though is the human spirit. We are never defeated. The number of times life has knocked me on my arse in the last fiftyfive years I cannot count. For a while after each set back I have thought 'well thats it'. Then your human brain comes to the fore and you think 'no bugger it, Im going forward' While ever the instinct is in us to push forwards we can never lose. If any one is feeling a little down, read the poem by Kipling 'If'. That will make you feel and know that there are no limitations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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