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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #15040 on: 06/12/2020 09:57:10 »
But before all, it connects to a game of inequality, pushed to its limits.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #15041 on: 06/12/2020 09:58:46 »
Because the game has by now meet its limits. But you still want to play it.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #15042 on: 06/12/2020 10:00:30 »
Playing this game on a finite place is very much as asking for disasters. You call them 'black swans' but they're not. They're just a result of your game.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #15043 on: 06/12/2020 10:03:14 »
Everything you see around you today, in your home and outside it, is a result of the combination of science and this game I'm talking about. You call that progress. You're probably the only species on earth believing that it is.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #15044 on: 06/12/2020 10:04:00 »
One reason why I won't mind you taking a hike out in space, as long as you promise to stay there.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #15045 on: 06/12/2020 10:08:17 »
Not even you call it progress any more. You call it 'micro plastics', topsoil degradations and 'intensive farming', you call it water shortages and ground water shortages, you call it air pollution and soil pollution and water pollution. And global warming
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #15046 on: 06/12/2020 10:09:18 »
And you know that the game is pushing you to your extinction.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #15047 on: 06/12/2020 10:17:13 »
I can express it even clearer. With us gone earth won't have any problems. We are the problem, us and our game. Which build on greed, on egoism, ignorance and hubris. Which support it by making the schools fail, safety nets fail, presenting you with ideals , dreams and beliefs in where you all expect yourself to become rich and successful. and everything is allowed to get there. As long as you're not found out, pushed to the wall.

It makes for a certain type of person. One I don't want around me.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #15048 on: 06/12/2020 10:17:50 »
So take a hike, will you
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #15049 on: 06/12/2020 12:44:00 »
Honesty, is it worth anything? I don't know, but if you can't handle that you won't handle anything. Take a look,

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/09/everybody-lies-how-google-reveals-darkest-secrets-seth-stephens-davidowitz

Honor and honesty is important to me, to the world?
Not really..

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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #15050 on: 06/12/2020 21:22:14 »
Think of it as you getting hit, none of those hits mortal, but coming at you all the time, without you given a chance to breath. That's how it looks today. You can't ignore stuff like  " More than 61,000 koalas and almost 143 million other native mammals were likely in the path of the Australian bushfires of late 2019 and early 2020, according to a major assessment of the ecological toll of the “black summer” blazes. The estimate from 10 researchers and scientists, contained in a report commissioned by environmental group WWF-Australia, recounts the devastating losses in habitats across the country.

Almost 3 billion animals, including 2.46 billion reptiles, were in the path of the flames, the report says – the same number the team calculated in an interim report, revealed in July by the Guardian. "

Well, you can but when you do you're inviting your extinction. You need to change this game of inequality but there will be no change unless you change. It's very simple and one of the hardest things you ever will do, change.
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« Reply #15051 on: 06/12/2020 21:27:57 »
Without a change the life you know will fall to pieces, people will die around you, some starve to death, some by migrating, others in wars. It doesn't matter if you think yourself isolated and self sufficient. Global warming reach you too, that why it's called global.
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« Reply #15052 on: 06/12/2020 21:29:08 »
I shouldn't really have to explain those things to you, but it seems you can't see them? Now why is that?
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #15053 on: 06/12/2020 21:29:40 »
Because you don't want to see them?
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« Reply #15054 on: 06/12/2020 21:30:28 »
Yeah
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« Reply #15055 on: 06/12/2020 21:44:36 »
It would be easy to point to your role models as the reason for this game not changing. Usually that is the way our blame games works, we need our scapegoats. But the game builds on you,, and without you changing no change of role models will mean anything.

Tricky, and I'm not sure you can handle it. Sure, you can play the blame game, but can you change?
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« Reply #15056 on: 06/12/2020 21:45:48 »
I know, responsibility, isn't it

sorry
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« Reply #15057 on: 06/12/2020 23:08:08 »
The democracy I'm describing is your chance to prove yourself. To make a choice, because you don't have one today.
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« Reply #15058 on: 06/12/2020 23:11:50 »

You have the game, you have your role models, and you have your blame games. all of them building on a concept where earth is 'infinite' and nothing matters as we are the crown of existence, a human mold made in the resemblance of a God. Look around you, does that look like any God you want to have to do with?

If it is, please take that hike, you're a disaster waiting to unfold.
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« Reply #15059 on: 06/12/2020 23:16:17 »
And no, that's not about your faith, that's about how it looks.
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