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Peak Oil: Too good to be true
Re: Peak Oil: Too good to be true
by 0mar » Wed 18 May 2005, 14:05:42
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JohnDenver', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('0mar', 'W')hat goes around comes around. For the past several hundred years, we have been handing out peak oil style punishments to the rest of the world. We finally get to experience a bit of the same medicine.
PAY BACK TIME. I don't buy it. It sounds like something from the movies, or the Bible. Justice isn't a part of the way nature works. It just operates blindly, and totally injust acts are perpetrated at a certain statistical rate every day.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') look forward to the riots, gives my AK47 a real chance to work out instead of punching holes in paper.
It ain't gonna happen, Omar. It's too good to be true. You're confusing your fantasy with reality. When you are shooting at paper, do you sometimes fantasize that you are shooting real people? Maybe authority figures? Or just people you hate in the neighborhood?
That argument makes ZERO logical sense.
It's too good to be true that the US won WWII, yet it happened. It's too good to be true that we lived in the largest economic boom in history, yet it happened. It's too good to be true that I got a 30K fellowship from the DOE but it happened. It's too good to be true that the twin towers fell (for those jihadists), but it happened.
The payback that's going to happen to the Western world is a result of nature acting out. It's just that we get to taste it for the first time ever.
Joseph Stalin
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. "
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. "
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by JohnDenver » Wed 18 May 2005, 21:44:09
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('entropyfails', '
')You can sit the kid down, put 100 red marbles and 1 blue marble in a bag and have them keep picking and replacing until they get the blue marble. Then they can have some understanding of the situation they find themselves in with the lottery ticket and rationalize about the realistic consequences.
')You can sit the kid down, put 100 red marbles and 1 blue marble in a bag and have them keep picking and replacing until they get the blue marble. Then they can have some understanding of the situation they find themselves in with the lottery ticket and rationalize about the realistic consequences.
Good analogy. I'd like to do that with the posters in here.
See this blue marble? That's the outcome where U.S. gets paid back in spades for all its sins, and the government collapses, and Walmart dies, and suburbia ends, and we go back to the barter system, and fat people get back into shape, and the Indians get their land back, and Omar is out happily shooting people with his AK-47 at the riots, and the SUV-driving peak oil deniers are all getting their just desserts, drinking dog piss out of hubcabs, and mother nature fights back, and all the animals are safe again.
The other 100 red marbles, are the outcomes where none of this fantasy, utopian bullshit happens.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')pparently you find your arguments more convincing than most people here
Most people here are totally deluded -- blinded by their juvenile utopian fantasies. If we expand our scope a little, you'll find that most people outside of this forum find my "too good to be true" argument to be totally convincing.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'h')ere do so you set yourself up as the "wise parent." I however, feel that you come here to preach civilization
Yah, silly me. Civilization has been a constant, unchanging feature of human life for 10,000 years, and I'm the nut because I don't believe it's going to vanish in the next year or two.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JohnDenver', 'W')ho knows about governmental collapse? Advocating either side seems ridiculous to me since that area of speculation has never had any accuracy.
After 200+ years of government in the U.S., and 2000+ years of government in Asia and the Old World, your view is that the odds of governmental collapse are 50:50. Personally, I would put the odds at 1:1000000. You're like a Marxist claiming the state could potentially "wither away", and that is utter bullshit. The state never has withered away, and it never will. killJOY, who "can't wait for it to collapse" is going to be waiting til his hair turns gray and his teeth fall out.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('entropyfails', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JohnDenver', '
')The message is: You're over-excited, son. It's better to calm down. The world doesn't work neatly like that. It's messy, and sloppy, and full of friction and tenacity and delay.
