[Sixstrings]

ReverseEngineer wrote:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')ts too outside the box for you to imagine a REALLY big House of Cards falling down? Even when you witness players like Lehman CONSUMED in the Tsunami?

[jupiters_release]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', '
')"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem." There is no problem.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', 'M')y point is that politics should have no effect on our Reality, all our problems originate from discord within not without.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'I') write it as I see it, and "Doom Lite" is NOT how I see it. Short term, yes SOME of the mega rich will retain SOME of their money, but by no means all will, already some mega rich are clearly on the skids here.
... that is why I live up here on the very edge of civilization on the Last Great Frontier. Its where I am positioned for my personal survival, and I make the case often enough for why I think its as good as you can get when Uber Doom approaches.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', 'A')nd yet, here we are in the world. Therefore none of us are free from karma, and there is dharma.

[jupiters_release]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', 'M')y point is that politics should have no effect on our Reality, all our problems originate from discord within not without.

[jupiters_release]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', 'M')y point is that politics should have no effect on our Reality, all our problems originate from discord within not without.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '
')I don't know about the other Uber Doomers here, but I personally like the way my life is right now too much

[MrBean]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TreeFarmer', 'H')ow a society would function without interest I don't know, but we've seen how one functions with interest. Every 70 years or so you need a reset.

[MrBean]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Starvid', 'T')he vast majority of human societies weren't very nice living in. As a matter of fact, in most of them life was nasty, brutish and short.

[MrBean]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'H')ow do you know whether it was worse living as a Comanche or as an Pakistani Child in a Capitalist clothing factory? Did you live either life? Was it worse living as a Somali under Capitalism or as a Somali tribesman before Capitalism?
Your viewpoint is thoroughly ethnocentric and in no way takes into account that your life and your wealth has come at the expense of both the earth and other countries made subservient through the manipulation of the capitalist system.
Lucky you, born in Sweden, eh? Enjoying all the fruits of capitalism that come on the backs of children enslaved in countries far enough away you never have to see the pain and desperation. You will see it soon though, coming to a Theatre Near You in Stockholm, as it has come to Iceland already.

[MrBean]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'I') think a lot of doomers have so much invested in the changes they've made in their lives (which, if you cut through their denials, ARE sacrifices) that they are literally tapping their feet like Sonic the Hedgehog anxiously waiting for their vision of the future to get on with it. This will color any sort of predictions they make, since they need so much to validate what they've done.

So excuse me while I take your day to day analysis of current events with a grain of salt.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', '.')..what would you say to her, RE? Really? She is a human being too...remember. Is *she* a Pigwoman?

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', '
')
But what of those that thought they were philanthropists (as many of them were too.) and *thought* they were doing something good? What of them?

WHat if you DID have some of them, say Ms. Bettancourt, right in front of you now, she has saddened, maybe downcast eyes, never thinking she'd fall below a certain point in her life, especially this late in her life. Maybe she thinks, what will it be for my children and grandchildren, those I trained to take over, then next generation?
"What will it be like for them?"...she is just beginning to realize it now.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'W')hat tangible assets might I ask does Poland have that the US does not have? Far as I can tell, its way smaller, has less farmland, a greater population density, is surrounded on all sides by countries that overan it before and has no Oil at ALL. We at least still have some pumping off the Slope.

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '.')..
To my mind, Bernie Madoff is the first Hero of the Revolution. Possibly nobody else in history took down so many big hitters all by his lonesome. Talk about JUSTICE. Talk about SWEET REVENGE. I waited 50 years to see this, and now it comes to pass, without even the need for the Guillotine. The Rich will off themselves or cannibalize each other in this end game. I can walk into the Great Beyond a Happy Man now.
...

[Starvid]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'A')nd it was the Germans who gave Finland the most help against the Soviets. Without German military aid Finland may have spent a few happy decades as an SSR.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'A')nyhow, I did not deal this hand, the Pigmen did with Bretton Woods and before that with the Fed and before that with Alexander Hamilton and before that with the Rothschilds. Its about TIME it came to an end, don't you think?

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', '.').. Why would you think he is envious? Why would anyone envy the superwealthy with their botoxed lips and bank accounts? They seem like a very sorry lot to me.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cube', 'I')'m getting this paranoid feeling that 90% of everything written about the rich are written by people who are writing from their own personal biases rather than first hand knowledge.