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Topic: Do you think the world is screwed?

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By whatever means available.

So we have global warming melting our brains, insane world bankers controlling our economy, people breeding at a rate of 2:10, natural resources draining faster than horses bladder, God coming to judge us all, the stupidity plague spreading exponentially, nuclear weapons grow in abundance, etc, etc

I think that yeah, given a bit more time everything will go kaput. The world is a dieing system, not that we should be all green-save-the-earth.

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IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
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"The world will be fine. WE might be screwed, but the world will still be there." - Lewis Black

 

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There will be a major correction. Mankind will survive. Things will be very different. When? Who knows? Why? Nature, God, or the atom. To what end? Peace on earth?

Meanwhile, there's beer.

 

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I still think we should eat people. It'd solve hunger AND the population problem!

Can AIDS be passed by eating an infected person? If not, it'd solve that problem too!

Hell, it's the same with cancer!

CANNIBALISM: SOLVING THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS SINCE IT BEGAN

 

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Nope, not screwed. But a lot of people do seem to be bluntly ignorant of many of their surroundings in general.

 

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Spyte, this has already been proposed. Go read "A Modest Proposal" for further info.

 

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spyte1 posted:
I still think we should eat people. It'd solve hunger AND the population problem!

Can AIDS be passed by eating an infected person? If not, it'd solve that problem too!

Hell, it's the same with cancer!

CANNIBALISM: SOLVING THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS SINCE IT BEGAN
I like that idea!

The world has always been fucked up though, at least is has been since the evil that is called 'human' originated.

 

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spyte1 posted:
I still think we should eat people. It'd solve hunger AND the population problem!

Can AIDS be passed by eating an infected person? If not, it'd solve that problem too!

Hell, it's the same with cancer!

CANNIBALISM: SOLVING THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS SINCE IT BEGAN

Been taking A Modest Proposal seriously, I see.

 


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AmericanTransvestite posted:
spyte1 posted:
I still think we should eat people. It'd solve hunger AND the population problem!

Can AIDS be passed by eating an infected person? If not, it'd solve that problem too!

Hell, it's the same with cancer!

CANNIBALISM: SOLVING THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS SINCE IT BEGAN

Been taking A Modest Proposal seriously, I see.


We had someone quote that book in history, about eating Catholic babies, there was no stopping to the light-harassment we gave that person.

Think about it, we have people who wont even eat ANIMALS, yet you think we should switch to humans? Well, unless the ones we eat were the vegetarians.

 


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Assuming global thermonuclear war is avoided, I expect humanity to thrive for a long, long time. There are some environmental challenges, but nothing we can't handle in the long run. Humanity is amazingly adaptive and clever. We'll figure it out.

 

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Meh. If we screw up the world then we'll just move to Mars or out onto Spaceships like on Wall-E. I personally am doing my very best to get us into space, I'm throwing garbage out my window as I write this.

 

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spyte1 posted:

Can AIDS be passed by eating an infected person? If not, it'd solve that problem too!



I worked in a place that did hospital laundry and we learned that the AIDS virus is actually a very fragile virus outside of the human (or monkey or whatnot) body. I would assume that stomach acid would definitely destroy it...and if you're talking about cooking the people before you eat them (Philistine!), then I'm pretty sure you're even safer there.

Since you live in Ohio, I'm not telling you where I live though.

On the subject of whether or not the world is screwed, I've had this discussion many times with different friends. One in particular was a comic book fan like I used to be, so I put it to him in terms he could relate to:

He's Magneto: the world is going to shit, you can't depend on other humans, more than likely they'll just sell you out or take advantage of you, so you've got to do what you need to do to ensure your own survival, and anyone who doesn't like it can eat a bag of dicks because you're Magneto.

I'm like Professor X: the world is going to shit, there are few humans you can depend on, and many will try to sell you out or take advantage of you, but as a whole, the human race are good and decent beings, and it would be the ultimate act of giving up if we didn't at least try to do the right thing and set a good example for the rest of the world...even if we realize that it's probably a lost cause.

 

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It is the frank & cynical recognition of the inevitable limitations of people in general which makes me absolutely indifferent instead of actively hostile toward mankind.

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Devil_DancerPXB posted:
Assuming global thermonuclear war is avoided, I expect humanity to thrive for a long, long time. There are some environmental challenges, but nothing we can't handle in the long run. Humanity is amazingly adaptive and clever. We'll figure it out.


Except that everything in existence was designed to decay, including humans. It is inevitable. You are screwed.

 


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Grendel34 posted:
Meh. If we screw up the world then we'll just move to Mars or out onto Spaceships like on Wall-E. I personally am doing my very best to get us into space, I'm throwing garbage out my window as I write this.


Oh great, move to mars, where we will uncover ancient alien ruins and unlock the gate to hell, unleashing demons and potentially wiping us out forever...

 

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It's actually been about three years or so since I studied A Modest Proposal, but yes, I'm proposing something along the long lines of that proposal, the main difference being I suggest we eat all kinds people, not just babies.

 

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