The end of the world: I won't let it happen. Would you?, page 1
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reply posted on 13-1-2009 @ 09:33 AM by mlmijyd
reply to post by Spooky Fox Mulder



Well unless I can be proved otherwise your end of the world will happen on the day you die. May be too much is put into this 'fight' for something that you inhabit and not alone I might add so not sure where we get the right to impose any of our changes good or bad (if these terms actually exist?). As a Buddhist might say - Don't just do something, sit there!


reply posted on 14-1-2009 @ 03:10 AM by elysiumfire
Noble sentiments indeed, and as reason-faculted self-sentient beings, noble sentiments are what give us our 'causus belli' to both promote and create a better future, not only for ourselves, but for all the diversities of our species. Problem is, as a diverse species with variable cultures, it presents us with many 'fault-lines' for disagreement and fractious interface, and it is along these cultural and social fractures of difference, where most of our own self-created suffering and misery arise.

As for natural catastrophes, there is very little we can do about them, but to rally round with aid to the affected area after the event has passed. A truly global natural catastrophe is something our species has not yet had to face, although prophecies and predictions of imminent global extinction have always been around, and yet, we are still here on this planet, running riot upon it and doing our best to make it as inhospitable and uninhabitable for ourselves as possible. Given enough time, our presence on this planet will inevitably meet with a true global extinction event, and without a social infrastructure in place from which to receive aid, continued existence will be slim indeed.

With the right and agreeable noble sentiment, we could do so much for ourselves and for each other, but we must not perceive it as being fit only for any one particular culture or race, it has to be for all cultures, all races. We are a long long way away from achieving anything remotely resembling an agreement...politics and religions, being rare practicers of what they preach, always cater to their own self-identified group/s, and dismiss all the others as mere fodder to their dogmas and causes, even to the point of seeking to eradicate them off the face of the earth.

As an individual, each of us can only influence our immediate environment, and that has to be enough area in which to practice what noble sentiments we carry...everything else is lost to the wind.


reply posted on 16-1-2009 @ 08:10 PM by juveous
reply to post by Spooky Fox Mulder




Good thread

People think about it - if an inconceivable disaster was evident by say something like a large meteor that was set to hit us, and predicted after impact to wipe out our existence, would you really do anything about it?

That "we're all doomed" mentality doesn't solve anything. It doesn't even help cope with the fact that we're all doomed

people that hope and pray are IMO doing more than the people who sit back and live out their dying wishes.

One man/woman can do more than most think. one man/woman can produce the unthinkable among most, and possibly come up with solution to our demise.
I'm with you! although I'm not saying I won't let it happen, but I Will do what I can to see if our lives can continue.
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