... wrote on Jul 10^th, 2012 at 5:42pm:


I think I understand your point. Many things are outside our control. A nearby supernova could kill us all.

We now need to overcome some of our most basic instincts:
1. Over population - like rabbits we breed at the rate we are designed for. In nature population grows until all resources are unavailable/restricted then they die back to a sustainable population or die out.

With no natural preditors to keep our population in check, micro organisms will cull us back or the lack of resources will. Competing for scarce resources (war) could also cull us back.

We just consume more and more... something needs to give. We need to overcome this instinct with our bigger brains.

2. War ...etc

It will be for resources or ideology. We are a fighting species. When we gave up the hunt, we focused on taking the resources of others. We need to overcome this natural instinct with our bigger brains.

3. Action

I don't think there will be real action until something drastic happens. We tend not to react until it's too late. Hope is not a good action plan... our leaders need to get their poo together and start using their bigger brains for something useful.

Our short term ideology of the moment will not serve us well into the future.

We are collectively stupid sometimes.

We are pretty young really. We haven't been out of the trees much more than a million years and civilisation only started after the last ice age. If we don't get killed off we could do great things.

As an individual I relate to the waste of my life that is "work". Man I spend my whole life working for others just to feed the family and pay the morgage.

However, in past times, I would have spent my whole life chasing or growing food just to survive.

Life is all about doing enough to survive and breed. That's it. No higher purpose than that.

Sad really.

"Dogs and cats seem pretty happy spedning their whole day sleeping, and I reckon they're onto it. "

Yes because they have us to feed them.

Would you be happy if someone provided you with food and shelter and you had nothing to do but sleep.

That's called the dole or welfare... they generally don't seem happy with fulfilled lives.

Super Nova wrote on Jul 11^th, 2012 at 6:57pm:



Not so sad ..

"We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our sympathies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted to battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished.

The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses."


Robert Ardrey (b. 1908-10-16 in Chicago, Illinois; d. 1980-01-14 in South Africa) was an anthropologist, playwright and screenwriter.


Zac the Black

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Super Nova wrote on Jul 11^th, 2012 at 7:29pm:


Cats sleep 16 hours a day. Even in the wild. They catch a mouse or something to eat then go back to sleep.

On the other hand ppl on the dole spend all day sitting in centerlink or standing in queues and filling in forms and what is it now? 10 interviews a week? How is that even possible? They spend time looking for where they are going to sleep tonight and if they have time looking for somewhere to get a feed.

SOB

Super Nova wrote on Jul 13^th, 2012 at 9:22pm:


When would they have time?

If you are talking about WFTD then why the heck cant they pay reasonably and call it a job instead of slave labour?

SOB

aquascoot wrote on Jul 16^th, 2012 at 4:14pm:


Well ... thats my second only direct reply on this forum. The first said 'Horse-shyt' ...

So obviously I like yours better .... lmao

Ta mate !

Zac the black.

Homo sapiens aint that smart. Have a look around you. The planet stuffers are really hard at it. What a bunch of morons.
My jack russell is just as bad.