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Howcome we're all doomed?
It seems to me that the media are obsessed with the fact that we are all doomed. The reasons are:
Global warming
Running out of oil
Animals becoming exctinct
AIDs, MRSA, cancer or heart disease will kill us
We're all being neglected in hospitals
Teenagers will break their ASBOs and attack you
Children are being stabbed at school
With all this going on the world seems like it needs an ocean full of prozac
Does anyone think we're not doomed?
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Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
If you had been talking all the normal doom and gloom stories about violence and the downward spiral of modern society and the evils of cannabis I could explain it simply, sensationalism sells.
Instead you pick the end of oil and global warming. Why do they bang on about these stories? Because they are true and are happening.
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Ducenarius
Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
Well most of that has been going around for awile, and most of them you can control. You can hire more security in the schools, use other substances to substitute for oil, and were bound to find a cure for AIDS, cancer, and a solution for global warming some time.
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Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
Humanity likes to think it's doomed in some way in every era (or at least in some way worse off than its past). Of course, though, some of the threats you listed are certainly more real than some of the others.
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Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
The end of the world has been coming a long time ago. It would be interesting to study the viewpoint of the ancient cultures, and whether they too felt the end was approaching. Afterall, we have Nostradamus in the (1600s?) and Zarathustra (?) along with the Christian Apocalypse.
I think this phenomenon is part of human culture as humans always will feel that "theres nothing new under the sun." In other words, we always feel that everything has been said before, that everything has been done before, that because times are hard and the "storms are approaching" that somehow we are in an old age, in an ancient age -- that the world is in a stage of aging, such as the aging of a house. Or that we are in the climax of some faboulous story. Furthermore, the human experience is a tiring voyage and this world of mononoty can often make us feel that the end is approaching.
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Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
If I remember correctly, when the first 1000 years had passed according to western count of time people where certain that the world would end. Same thing happened in some scale in just 6 years ago.
I agree with orange slice. Tecnology and sience will come up with a solution and new proplems will come in the next centuries that will concerne people and they will be resolved too. In the end it's just a matter of idnividual thinking wether to beleive that the world will end or not.
Even if a thousand people believe in a lie, it's still a lie.
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Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
End of the world????
PSIII being made in China...
The world cannot end yet! I must play some more...just a little more...
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Darkness is the light
Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
Everything is horrible
Really really really terrible
I'm really depressed
I'm really downtrodden
The whole world is doomed
We're all gonna die
25,672 people die every single minute
Seventeen hundred and fifty people just died
Cancer
Death
Aids Inflation
Taxes
George Bush
Hell
Satan
Cancer of the face
Cancer of the colon
Cancer of the wrist
and John Denver on compact disc.
Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
Quaint...
I think we've always been "doomed". There've always been murders, wars, diseases. Now, its just the media letting the public know.
Ducenarius
Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
Yes, but how many people just got born in that minute? probably way more then the world is losing. And in some places the problem is not losing many people, it may be gaining too many people for the town to hold.Originally Posted by PacSubCom
Darkness is the light
Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
Nonono. That is not the right way to see it, you know, this is the downtrodden song, and all these people are really dying, isn't that terrible?
Global warming isn't exaggerated, the atmosphere as a whole may become Venusian. This is a possible scenario, make no mistake. Sleep well tonight ... :inqusitio
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Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
Why are you worrying about that stuff, it is the Manbearpig that you have to worry about...
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Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
Manbearpig is the single biggest treath to our planet, Im super serial.
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Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
The consequences of global warming are sooo exaggerated... the earth is far more healthy than 30 years ago.
true, that sucks, but I'm more scientists will find a replacing energy sources in one or two decades.Running out of oil
We're protecting most treatened animals like tigers and gorillas. Greenpeace says that the sea is becoming more and more empty, but that's not true: in fact, there's more fish in the sea than 30 years ago.Animals becoming exctinct
Eat vegetables and fruit, take a shower each morning, use condoms... if you live healthy, the chance of getting cancer is very low.AIDs, MRSA, cancer or heart disease will kill us
Dude, we (Westerners) have the best health care ever. Imagine you're living in Paris in the 11th century or in London in the 18th century...We're all being neglected in hospitals
Practice a martial art and counterattack. Or buy a gun.Teenagers will break their ASBOs and attack you
The chance of a child being stabbed at school is 0.002%.Children are being stabbed at school
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Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
Well most teenager hang around in gangs, and have knifes. Using martial arts against 1, 2 or even 3 would work, but in the UK where the chavs hang around in MASSIVE gangs, its not practical, the best thing to do is not go naer them.
And in msot countries its illegal to buy a gun.
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Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
In most countries it is legal as long as you have a license
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Wait... wait... wait...
You're automatically saying the "chavs" are going to attack you and make you use your martial arts. Tell me, have you ever had a real beating from them? I'm guessing not.
Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
No, but there is a high chance of getting a beating by them. Have you ever had a beating from them?
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Re: Howcome we're all doomed?
Nope. Thats 0% chance, as far as I'm concerned. And, I only know one person that's been beaten up - and he wasn't beaten up, just punched by one of them.
Wait, OK, I've been lamped by one a looooong time ago.
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