From: thetibetanmonkey@gmail.com
On Saturday, July 19, 2014 10:12:54 PM UTC-4, Mr. B1ack wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 22:31:53 -0700 (PDT), "Wise TibetanMonkey, Most
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> Humble Philosopher" wrote:
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> >On Friday, July 18, 2014 10:29:35 PM UTC-4, Mr. B1ack wrote:
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> >> A problem the fundy Moslems are attempting
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> >> to correct. They'll get rid of 'democracy' and
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> >> insert a grand caliph instead.
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> >Are we going from bad to worse?
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> That's what generally happens. Well, one flavor
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> of 'bad' to another anyhow - kinda subjective as
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> to which 'bad'-of-the-week is "worse" ..........
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> Humans have been writing down the events of
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> the day for a LONG time now ... over 5000 years,
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> even longer in some of the earliest-organized
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> societies in the Indus valley. I suspect even more
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> lies under the shallow waters that rose at the end
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> of the last ice-age ... 12,000, maybe 25,000 years
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> worth.
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> However the STORY is always the same .... things
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> just SUCK. Vile kings, emperors, dictators and
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> fanatics. Poverty and dispair. Totalitarianism and war.
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> Lies, deceits and back-stabbing. Blood flowing down
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> the streets. This is our "normal". The "good" bits are
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> few and far between, lost in all the rest.
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> The story is so consistent over time and across
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> geographical and cultural lines that it's clear this
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> "normal" is one of those "human nature" things,
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> something about *us*, how we think, what we
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> need or imagine we need. If we terraform Mars
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> and move ten million people to that planet, it
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> won't be long before the story picks up THERE
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> as well.
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> Kinda depressing.
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> On the plus side, we keep on trying to de-suck things,
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> we're generally optimistic about tomorrow, we can
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> generally take a licking and keep on ticking. So, short
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> of a massive thermonuke war or engineered plague,
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> humanity WILL survive - to complain about the
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> continuing suckitude, at least until the 'leaders' start
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> handing out 'Soma' so nobody gives a shit anymore.
I think everything went wrong 10,000 years ago with the transition from hunter
gathering to sedentary life. It was a necessary transition, but many things
went wrong, not least the appearance on stage of "God," the one and only, the
one omnipotent god
that ended the freedom for man. Funny, this same transition occurred in
America as recent as 200 years ago. The "spirits" worked great for hunter
gatherers, they provided the rain and good hunting. All they had to do is get
up in the morning and go for
it.
The new omnipotent god meant that they must submit to slavery and boredom.
Many Indians would rather die. So here we are, in this technologically
advanced society, facing OVERPOPULATION & EXTINCTION, bored to death, waiting
for Jesus to come...
It could be better, much better, but our leaders must provide the leadership.
Nobody dares say, in this so called "democratic society," that we must
practice population control. It wouldn't be popular and the Pope will say no.
We must keep growing until
the end of times. It could happen very soon at this pace.
The Great Spirit of the Indians must be saying, "I told you so." The elderly
among the Indians were synonymous with wisdom, while they are now synonyms
with dumbness, cleverly manipulated by our politicians to vote one way or
another. At best they won't
vote.
This is similar to the dumbing down of many domestic animals, such as the pig
and the sheep. I don't know about the sheep, but in the right environment,
pigs go back to being wild boars.
A revolution in thinking must occur and indeed we can make it happen. The
concepts of "god" and "democracy" must be challenged and reviewed. We need to
ROAM FREE once again, not unlike our ancestors in the African savannahs. We
are a bipedal species, not
sheep.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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