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Originally posted by Trublbrwing
Three things that need to be fully understood heading into "halftime" of the 2012 Year of Confusion festival.
1. The universe is a giant clock, just as the big hand on your watch makes the same predictable sweep past 12 twice per day, our past repeats itself over and over again in very predictable patterns.
2. Ancient civilizations are confusing because we look at them from our own limited and skewed perspective. We assume they made giant precise monuments with primitive tools, monuments we can't duplicate with modern technology. Truth is they made them out of stone so they would survive. Truth is ALL THAT SURVIVED was the stone, the tools and technology, with few exceptions, were destroyed by disaster.
3. We just surpassed the seven billion mark in world population, it's getting harder to feed all these people and the morons we call scientists are genetically modifying crops to solve the problem. If you remove the biblical flood from the equation and just look at Darwin we should have passed the 7 billion mark a LONG time ago, many times over. Truth is every once in a while the etch a sketch gets a big old shake.
The only people who are going to survive the coming process are those who abandon their preconceived notions of reality and realize the only thing we know, is we know nothing.
The only people who are going to survive the coming process are those who abandon their preconceived notions of reality and realize the only thing we know, is we know nothing.
we'd need another four Earths. this may well be a possibility who knows its worth a thought..
Originally posted by bjscribz
Agreed. If our population keeps growing like this, we will have some major problems down the road. Hate to say it, but there should be a law restricting people to a maximum of 6kids.If 6 kids isnt enough then they can always go adopt one of the million of abandoned/homeless kids in the system. I know two people personally that have 10 kids from several different "baby mamas" (ridiculous!) Now if those kids grow up and have 3 kids per person and they keep going like that for 5 generations.
That one family will contribute 7290 people to earths population. Now I know everyone doesnt have 3 kids each, but it really makes you think about what the future may hold.....
Originally posted by Druscilla
19th century crazies: The end is Nigh!
20th century crazies: The is Nigh/Near!
21st century crazies: same song, different century, still no personal jet packs or flying cars.
Originally posted by Trublbrwing
Three things that need to be fully understood heading into "halftime" of the 2012 Year of Confusion festival.
1. The universe is a giant clock, just as the big hand on your watch makes the same predictable sweep past 12 twice per day, our past repeats itself over and over again in very predictable patterns.
2. Ancient civilizations are confusing because we look at them from our own limited and skewed perspective. We assume they made giant precise monuments with primitive tools, monuments we can't duplicate with modern technology. Truth is they made them out of stone so they would survive. Truth is ALL THAT SURVIVED was the stone, the tools and technology, with few exceptions, were destroyed by disaster.
3. We just surpassed the seven billion mark in world population, it's getting harder to feed all these people and the morons we call scientists are genetically modifying crops to solve the problem. If you remove the biblical flood from the equation and just look at Darwin we should have passed the 7 billion mark a LONG time ago, many times over. Truth is every once in a while the etch a sketch gets a big old shake.
The only people who are going to survive the coming process are those who abandon their preconceived notions of reality and realize the only thing we know, is we know nothing.
Originally posted by denver22
We reached the first billion mark by about 1850. By 1950, it was about 2.5 billion. In less than one short lifetime, this figure doubled. It passed six billion in the late 1990s. Note that: humans took 150,000 years to get to the first billion. The most recent billion arrived in just 12 years.
It takes 900 tonnes of water to grow a tonne of wheat, and there is only so much water, so much land and so much sunshine. Human action has its own "ecological footprint"; there has to be so much land to provide food, clothing, shelter, medicines, building material, fresh air and clean water for any one human. It takes, according to some calculations, 2.1 hectares of land and water to provide for one average human. The important word is: average. The American footprint is about 10 hectares. So if all humans lived at US standards, we'd need another four Earths.
this may well be a possibility who knows its worth a thought..