[k_semler]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raphael', '[')b]Tyler JC$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')on't bother asking, "why am I here?"

[Specop_007]

Is there a higher power?
Barring that, I'd want a fullunderstanding of the techniques and history of all martial arts form.

[UIUCstudent01]

I love Rapheals posts. They always have a certain 'whole' understanding of the world in the strangest new-age reasoning. Alot of times, I find that I have a similar point of view - although, I find his use of words hilarious. But, that's probably just me.
If I encountered Rapheals post about 6 months ago, I would have totally thought everything he said was complete bullshit (now, I think its only half-bullshit ).

[PenultimateManStanding]

Wisdom is fleeting. It comes and goes at its own behest. We can honor it but not often possess it. Intellect can be used well as has been shown in the past few centuries. Now we know the World is made not of Earth, Air, Fire, Water but of atoms in a dance with energy. And intellect we possess. It's use brought power and knowledge. ergo: SCIENCE = GOD. Wisdom is elusive, unreliable, hence SOPHIA = WISDOM = LUCIFER. ENERGY is the ANTITHESIS. The opposite polarity from GOD, it is THE OTHER. The Stuff of the Cosmos; possessing no intelligence IT IS.

[katkinkate]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('k_semler', '.')..From a biological standpoint, the only purpose to your existance is to create more humans. That is why men have a penis, and women a vagina. Biologically speaking, procreation is your only purpose. Also, from a bioligical standpoint, if you choose, (or are unable), to not have children, then there is no purpose to your existance, and you might as well commit suicide. From a biological standpoint, I am a waste of precious DNA because I have no offspring, and I do not intend to.

[k_semler]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('katkinkate', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('k_semler', '.')..From a biological standpoint, the only purpose to your existance is to create more humans. That is why men have a penis, and women a vagina. Biologically speaking, procreation is your only purpose. Also, from a bioligical standpoint, if you choose, (or are unable), to not have children, then there is no purpose to your existance, and you might as well commit suicide. From a biological standpoint, I am a waste of precious DNA because I have no offspring, and I do not intend to.

[ohanian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'D')r. Faustus made his deal with the Devil so that he could have knowledge of things hidden from humans. In his book,'Natural and Unnatural Magic' (if that's how you translate it) he was supposed to have offered ways to get out of the deal. Martin Luther was one who took it seriously. What sort of questions would you wish to know the answers to? Here are some that I would like to know: what happens after death? what are the major developements of human history in the far future? Are there intelligences in the Universe that far surpass ours and what kind of beings are they and what do they know? Just how are we going to deal with the depletion of fossil fuels? Naturally, some practical things come to mind: whatever knowledge would be effective in making me rich, etc.

[ohanian]

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What I would like to know:
How come the sheeple not only put up with, but actively support a system that subjugates them?

Knowing the answer to that could be the start of changing things for the better.

[ohanian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'W')hat I should teach my grandchildren.

[ohanian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raphael', 'T')here is only one question that I believe needs to be asked, and all else will thus reveal itself ...

why are we here, our purpose please?

Namaste

[ohanian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'I')s there a higher power?
Barring that, I'd want a fullunderstanding of the techniques and history of all martial arts form.

[ohanian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raphael', '[')b]ohanian wrote in reponse to my question posed to the Devil

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hy are we here? Because your father screw your mother.

Our purpose please. To consume resources and change your environment (if possible) to your liking.

[Barbara]

So you're elected World Emperor. Compliments!
Being a peakoiler, you decide your main responsibility is to help the world to face oil depletion in the smoothest way.
What's your FIRST decision?

(Mine: outlaw all cars. Allow anything else to go on running on oil: trucks, public buses, trains, electicity, fertilizers, whatever but cars. It will leave us with many more years of oil and time to adjust.
Don't like it? Well, after all I'm World Emperor so do it or die! )

[MicroHydro]

Worldwide population control, a retroactive one child policy: Every person who has had a child will be permanently sterilized, no exceptions. For every person who already has more than one child (even if already adult), all offspring except the oldest will be sterilized. So for a wealthy couple who have three adult children aged 25, 23, and 21 - the adults aged 23 and 21 will be sterilized.

This is not a eugenics program, just a program to reduce overshoot, which addresses problems besides peak oil. The endless growth Ponzi scheme is over.

For people resisting this program, the death penalty, by order of the emperor. Special penalties reserved for cornucopian economists and religious figures advocating population growth..

[Carlhole]

What MicroHydro said.

[sklump]

Retool the money supply of Western nations. Get rid of Fractional Reserve Banking. This monster does not have a Reverse gear: any efficiency in fuel, multiplies ten-fold in further consumption by somebody else: more, efficient consumption rather than more efficient consumption.

Mandate public ownership of the money supply, to grow or shrink based on the amount of energy coming into the system.

[Aaron]

I issue a high-powered firearm to everyone on the planet, then retreat to my moon base for a few years.

I return to lead the smart, strong & responsible survivors into a new golden age.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Learn to play the fiddle?

[Nike62]

Too complicated for me, at the moment, to make a precise list of things to do, but I strongly believe that a "must" should be to escape from capitalism.
I absolutely cannot understand in which way a capitalistic economy could be compliant with the strong social planning required by the PO event.

[Tyler_JC]

Have everyone line up.

Then I'd pick 1 in 10 people to live.

My choices would be based solely on looks and what they can offer me in the future.