Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Time Machine
Its interesting that someone mentioned 2012 and I just finished the novel 2012 by Whitley Strieber. Its totally fiction and about parallel universes and such, but a good read.
As far as this pole shift business, won't south just become north on our compasses?
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: Time Machine
Kristen wrote:
Its interesting that someone mentioned 2012 and I just finished the novel 2012 by Whitley Strieber. Its totally fiction and about parallel universes and such, but a good read.
As far as this pole shift business, won't south just become north on our compasses?
No _________________ Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: Time Machine
Kingcoal wrote:
The ultimate truth is that the only thing that mankind has ever needed is personal responsibility.
Well concluded!
All this seems an excercise after all, why are we born in the first place?
Just read about a Norvegian ice breaker that returnd home after a visit to the northern shores of Siberia and they physically observed dissolving methane clathrates bubbling up from the ocean (source: Spiegel magazine Germany). Given the magnitude this hints towards, there is no way that this planet will support much of the live forms that we are familiar with (including us as a species) much longer.
My hunch: Earths function is that of a placenta. All physical existing brains will be short-circuited at some point so to say in order to create one singular, new mega conscious entity that does not require a planet or body. This function is unvoluntary however and not subject to discussion.
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject: Re: Time Machine
ReducedToZero wrote:
I was sitting around thinking tonight: If I jumped into a time machine during Peak Oil, and fast forwarded, say, centuries, millenea, beyond, would the mistakes and themes of the 19th to 21st century repeat themselves?
Absolutely, just as we are repeating the flaws that befell the Romans. We are human, and humans love and hate. Human life is an emotional affair, always was, always will be.
Unless, as in the old 60's movie "The Time Machine", we somehow evolve into a pacific race of obedient zombies we will always be human: usury, love, hate, greed, opportunism, included. But then we wouldn't be humans anymore.
Robert Frost wrote:
"Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."
As long as we remain human, things will not change. Not now nor a thousand years from now.
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: Time Machine
Best times humans have ever experienced = RIGHT NOW
Future unknown, could be better, could be worse.
Past known, better in some things, worse in others.
Our present knowledge base and technological capability has never been surpassed. We have as yet never gone backwards (excepting Concorde and supersonic scheduled flight).
Gasmon _________________ Been there, Done that, Bought the tee-shirt
Joined: Jun 29, 2008 Posts: 88 Location: Great Britan
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Time Machine
This is it, the peak of humanity, at least in technological and economic terms. We got this far due to a huge source of highly dense, versatile and accessible energy. It took hundreds of millions of years for this energy to accumulate. Once it's gone we won't see such large quantities of it again for millions of years at least, and thus we will never come up as far as we are now.
It's possible that hundreds of millions of years in the future, another intelligent life form will arise (humans as we know it would surely have gone in some way by then), harness the new store of fossil fuels and off we might go again. But for now, this is the top folks.
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