Doom do you want it to happen?

by **Newfie** » Wed 17 Feb 2016, 18:02:30

Yah think? They should get a room. It's spread over most of the threads I visit. Boooooring.

by **careinke** » Thu 18 Feb 2016, 17:15:46

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I've been shot once as a little kid. It was a complete accident, or so they told me. Horsing around in a friends basement with a bb gun, someone pulled the trigger, and OW!!!! Right leg below the knee. Tweezers pulled that sucker out. I don't even remember that it drew any blood. We debated for the rest of the day if it was a direct hit, or a ricochet off of a wall.

Kids! They do the damnedest things.

by **Newfie** » Thu 18 Feb 2016, 22:15:56

That's it, I'm staying away from you guys!

by **onlooker** » Fri 19 Feb 2016, 01:06:35

Remember kids guns do not kills people do --- boohoo.

by **DesuMaiden** » Wed 02 Mar 2016, 18:16:32

As much as I would find the death of the majority of the human population an unpleasant and undesirable experience, I think the collapse of industrial civilization might be a good thing because humanity has already gone so far into overshoot that it isn't even funny.

Honestly, I don't even care if our species is facing near-term extinction because the Earth will go on without us until the Sun becomes a red-giant and destroys the Earth. The Earth and the rest of the biosphere will probably be better without humanity.

by **Timo** » Wed 02 Mar 2016, 18:40:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DesuMaiden', 'A')s much as I would find the death of the majority of the human population an unpleasant and undesirable experience, I think the collapse of industrial civilization might be a good thing because humanity has already gone so far into overshoot that it isn't even funny.

Honestly, I don't even care if our species is facing near-term extinction because the Earth will go on without us until the Sun becomes a red-giant and destroys the Earth. The Earth and the rest of the biosphere will probably be better without humanity.

by **DesuMaiden** » Wed 02 Mar 2016, 20:24:31

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Timo', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DesuMaiden', 'A')s much as I would find the death of the majority of the human population an unpleasant and undesirable experience, I think the collapse of industrial civilization might be a good thing because humanity has already gone so far into overshoot that it isn't even funny.

Honestly, I don't even care if our species is facing near-term extinction because the Earth will go on without us until the Sun becomes a red-giant and destroys the Earth. The Earth and the rest of the biosphere will probably be better without humanity.

by **onlooker** » Thu 03 Mar 2016, 16:20:23

"Humanity is like a cancer." Yes Desu, we have certainly acted like it.

by **Newfie** » Thu 03 Mar 2016, 21:16:56

Yes, a pretty apt analogy, unfortunately.

by **DesuMaiden** » Thu 10 Mar 2016, 08:51:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', '&')quot;Humanity is like a cancer." Yes Desu, we have certainly acted like it.

by **Tanada** » Thu 10 Mar 2016, 09:37:48

Ah but if you buy into the Gaia theory by certain thought leaders our entire purpose was to free up all that geologically stored fossil carbon so that future life will get a chance to expand into the greenhouse world we are creating. Earth with major glaciations is not amicable to most life.

by **onlooker** » Thu 10 Mar 2016, 10:08:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'A')h but if you buy into the Gaia theory by certain thought leaders our entire purpose was to free up all that geologically stored fossil carbon so that future life will get a chance to expand into the greenhouse world we are creating. Earth with major glaciations is not amicable to most life.

by **Tanada** » Thu 10 Mar 2016, 10:40:33

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'A')h but if you buy into the Gaia theory by certain thought leaders our entire purpose was to free up all that geologically stored fossil carbon so that future life will get a chance to expand into the greenhouse world we are creating. Earth with major glaciations is not amicable to most life.

by **Cog** » Thu 10 Mar 2016, 10:48:35

The doomers think we are going to turn the planet into Venus. That is pure malarkey. Life will continue no matter how much we trash the planet.

by **onlooker** » Thu 10 Mar 2016, 11:08:45

Yes T, it is a mixed bad and certainly creatures like insects thrive in a warmer world. I think what was probably most responsible for the Mass Extinction events was the lack of oxygen along with the Hydrogen Sulfide that was spewed out. At least that is my impression but I have not done extensive reading on all this. Maybe you, Dissident or Subjectivist can chime in more. Also, the speed of change can be a difference maker and certainly now we are I think changing things at an unprecedented rate.

by **Tanada** » Thu 10 Mar 2016, 11:28:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'Y')es T, it is a mixed bad and certainly creatures like insects thrive in a warmer world. I think what was probably most responsible for the Mass Extinction events was the lack of oxygen along with the Hydrogen Sulfide that was spewed out. At least that is my impression but I have not done extensive reading on all this. Maybe you, Dissident or Subjectivist can chime in more. Also, the speed of change can be a difference maker and certainly now we are I think changing things at an unprecedented rate.

by **onlooker** » Thu 10 Mar 2016, 14:11:06

I think we should give a special mention and recognition to someone like Pstarr on this site, because he was a person who tried to make a difference and persuade others to change their ways and change course. Of course the humongous tidal wave of materialism ,ignorance and corrupt leadership it appears was never going to be stopped in hindsight. Nevertheless, I feel it my duty to salute someone like Pete in the way in olden times people saluted soldiers for defending their societies.