Do you think you'll be happier after Peak Oil?

Website · by **Narz** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 16:34:25

Both "after peak oil" and "happiness" can be defined in a variety of ways. Choose whichever you feel like and vote in the poll.

Please explain you reasoning also!

Cheers,
Narz

by **Zardoz** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 16:44:53

You gotta be kidding. Here we are, all living like European royalty of 200 years ago wished they could have lived, and you have to ask if we'll be happier when it all blows away and we're reduced to subsistance living?

by **oowolf** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 17:08:11

Happy...what's that? Only someone who's transcended the gross flesh can be happy here.

http://king-james-bible.classic-literat ... -jeremiah/

by **gego** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 17:31:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'Y')ou gotta be kidding. Here we are, all living like European royalty of 200 years ago wished they could have lived, and you have to ask if we'll be happier when it all blows away and we're reduced to subsistance living?

by **smallpoxgirl** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 18:43:33

Happiness is a condition that is only possible amongst people who have faced adversity and prevailed. The closest that modern Americans come to happiness is loading up on various drugs (e.g. television, cheap consumer goods, Prozac, etc.) and managing to temporarily zone out and ignore the patheticness of their lives. Happiness post-peak? Yes. And hardship too.

by **Stratovarius** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 20:20:20

I voted yes.

You don't need money for happiness. You don't need riches and royalties and all that fake shit that is merely a picture of happiness and not happiness itself.

I feel that in chaotic times, my friends will stick together and we'll struggle together (assuming the worst happens). I love struggling, I love challenges, I'm tired of having my hand held.

This is why Nietzsche is my favorite teacher. At the bottom of the ladder is self-pity, acceptance, laziness and cowardice. The middle rungs involve many things...a broken heart, injury, fatigue, isolation, defeat, depression, terror, misfortune, poverty...a constant struggle.

The top rung is where your reward is. You can interpret this however you wish.

I dunno about you, but I'm fucking sick of sitting at bottom and being average and getting slapped around. Please, throw your challenges at me, I'll be looking forward to my reward, whatever that will be.

by **TheTurtle** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 20:49:29

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', 'H')appy...what's that? Only someone who's transcended the gross flesh can be happy here.

by **Zardoz** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 20:56:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Stratovarius', '.')..I love struggling, I love challenges...

by **Stratovarius** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 20:59:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Stratovarius', '.')..I love struggling, I love challenges...

by **Benzin** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 21:01:40

Actually it feels like being cheated. But it could be a lot worse.

Reminds me of this ad I kept seeing everyday when I went to work. "Today she'll read about the world, tomorrow she'll save it." Seriously our kids and grandkids will hate us for placing this burden on them. Why weren't we saving the planet all this time? My guess is money, power and greed took over.

by **Zardoz** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 21:04:06

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Stratovarius', 'I') wish your avatar would go away...it scares me.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 21:16:33

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Stratovarius', 'I') wish your avatar would go away...it scares me.

by **mmasters** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 21:17:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'Y')ou gotta be kidding. Here we are, all living like European royalty of 200 years ago wished they could have lived, and you have to ask if we'll be happier when it all blows away and we're reduced to subsistance living?

by **Eli** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 22:26:38

Well, if we have an economic collapse and energy shortages it could very well be worse than the great depression. What that would mean is a persons daily life could be spent worrying about finding some food.

That would suck. It would be hard to be happy if you knew that your children had not eaten in a couple of days.

by **128shot** » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 23:24:40

Inherently, if you believe that there will be a resource collapse and a fallout, you're screwed.

only in a condition like this will nuclear weapons be used.

Not to mention its a foolish assumption.

by **Tanada** » Wed 13 Dec 2006, 00:18:39

Personally I think all who beleive in PO are waiting for the shoe to drop. For me, the sooner the shoe drops the sooner i can get on with the rest of my life finding my way to survive, I ain't getting any younger and the older I am when PO is admitted the harder it will be for me to adapt myself and my family in an attempt to insure our survival.

The sooner, the better!

by **EnergyUnlimited** » Wed 13 Dec 2006, 04:39:41

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('128shot', '.')..only in a condition like this will nuclear weapons be used.

by **Grifter** » Wed 13 Dec 2006, 05:15:49

climate consequences from small scale nuclear exchange

by **perdition79** » Wed 13 Dec 2006, 05:41:47

Happier? Of course not. As stated several times before, we'll all be struggling to find our next meal, fight off other apex predators, etc. We'll be miserable. The only bright side is that it will no longer feel like we're just living a lie; that we are "playing along" with a system that we know is doomed to violent, sudden collape.

by **EnergyUnlimited** » Wed 13 Dec 2006, 06:13:10

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Grifter', '[')url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6169717.stm]climate consequences from small scale nuclear exchange[/url]