[knoppix2004]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', 'Y')es, if the world is without humans, it won't be the end of the world, it will just be "different".

[sameu]

I think I went from apathy to acceptance

I'm not depressed over this. I'm not very optimistic either. But I'm just too curious to see how this will change the world, the biggest chalenge of modern society. I find it kinda exciting.
Ok there will be shit. But face it, we don't now exactly how bad it will be, what exactly the consequences will be.
Maybe will say in twenty years, fiew, close call, but we made it...
Or we'll all be dead

Either way. Party hardy, get prepared, get annoyed by people in denial, follow the oil related news, if you're single it's funny to see how the peakoil awareness becomes a factor in a possible partner choice, practice your 'told you so grin', enjoy the ride, have fun!

[threadbear]

There is real danger ahead, character testing times. Perhaps we will turn inward, and in so doing, turn our backs on our fellow man. I wonder how many of us will end up embracing philosophies that are anti human. If these philsophies are anti-human, they are essentially anti-social or sociopathic. We could end up becoming the monster we are trying to defeat. Where are we heading? Where is our grief about the present state of affairs leading us, ideologically and spiritually?

From Common Ground:

I’ve heard from so many people who are disgusted by the ascendancy of bullshit and hypocrisy over decency and truth. And even those who avoid the newspaper and evening news are feeling a free-floating anxiety about the world’s state.

They may disguise it with cynical humour or ironic distance, but at its source, it’s about grief. I feel it myself. But there’s an odd thing about grief as an emotional state. It’s only a degree of separation, a hair-breadth away, from joy.


Knowledge, in some esoteric traditions, is considered a false crown. I suspect that it’s not cleverness, but compassion, that will test our fitness as a species. I have no academic citations handy for this, no journalistic references. The closest I can come is an anecdote from Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, about one of the twentieth century’s great minds, Aldous Huxley.


As the author of Brave New World lay dying, someone asked what he had learned from a lifetime of studying spiritual practices and traditions, as well as his own experiences. His response: “It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

http://commonground.ca/iss/0707192/cg192_future.shtml

[PenultimateManStanding]

Nice post, threadbare. But it is embarrassing to tell you, people are not going to be kind. In fact, I'm pretty sure that they will be as cruel as you can imagine and then some.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'N')ice post, threadbare. But it is embarrassing to tell you, people are not going to be kind. In fact, I'm pretty sure that they will be as cruel as you can imagine and then some.

[HEADER_RACK]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', '
')That's an interesting point. It's also a self reinforcing one. If we realize that emotional states are somewhat contagious, can we not do our bit by maintaining a caring state of mind and count on a mirroring effect?

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'T')hat's an interesting point. It's also a self reinforcing one. If we realize that emotional states are somewhat contagious, can we not do our bit by maintaining a caring state of mind and count on a mirroring effect?

[bodigami]

This is my personal opinion:

I know that humans are animals, but compassion is also useful for survival. Unless TS really HTF. But, if one sees the current ecological situation... compassion is mostly for Life as a whole, not humans. In the end, the human population has to go way down for life to continue a healthy course. For about 2 years I am buddhist. I honestly prefer to die and know that less humans is better for life on Earth, than to live vicariously killing humans for food. I still think that the ideal of compassion, peace, love and Nirvana can hold when TSHTF.

[Roccland]

Every November 24 at 5AM we get a brief glimpse of our true being.

Next time you are on the freeway...and a car wants to merge with blinker on...almost involuntarily you want to speed up.

How very pathetic we are.

Humans are hard wired to cheat.

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roccland', 'E')very November 24 at 5AM we get a brief glimpse of our true being.

[Baldwin]

I have two goals for life:

Tell the truth, even when it is incredibly hurtful and inconvenient.

Life isn't fair....I hope to try and change that in what ways I can.

[Roccland]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roccland', 'E')very November 24 at 5AM we get a brief glimpse of our true being.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('HEADER_RACK', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', '
')That's an interesting point. It's also a self reinforcing one. If we realize that emotional states are somewhat contagious, can we not do our bit by maintaining a caring state of mind and count on a mirroring effect?

[OilIsMastery]

Everything Communist Ground stands for is antihuman and immoral.

[HEADER_RACK]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', 'I') think we could agree that there are also cases of parents sacrificing themselves for their children or caring for them as they all starve together. What we bring to the table as far as character determines how we respond to crisis. The question we should be asking is how will the people in my neighborhood respond to the crisis. Perhaps we will all kill each other for the privlidge of being the last one to starve. That attitude will be out there is some communities. Others, however, will respond differently. They will suffer together and, live of die, walk through the troubles ahead together.

[TheTurtle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'A')s the author of Brave New World lay dying, someone asked what he had learned from a lifetime of studying spiritual practices and traditions, as well as his own experiences. His response: “It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilIsMastery', 'E')verything Communist Ground stands for is antihuman and immoral.

[OilIsMastery]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'S')o you feel that cooperation, in and of itself, is Communist? It's actually what modern capitalism is founded on. The elites cooperate and for everyone else, it's every man for himself.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilIsMastery', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'S')o you feel that cooperation, in and of itself, is Communist? It's actually what modern capitalism is founded on. The elites cooperate and for everyone else, it's every man for himself.

[OilIsMastery]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilIsMastery', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'S')o you feel that cooperation, in and of itself, is Communist? It's actually what modern capitalism is founded on. The elites cooperate and for everyone else, it's every man for himself.