Comments | akico_blue: It's the End of the World as we know it--provoked by "Power Down" by Richard Heinberg

akico_blue

It's the End of the World as we know it--provoked by "Power Down" by Richard Heinberg

Sep 26, 2005 16:45

Are we really living through the height of Western Civilization? The peak of American society and dominance? How hard it is for me to fathom the end of, essentially, my life. I have am image, or really, a feeling that what is now will always be. I know on the surfarce that that is ultimately wrong. Homo sapiens will not last forever. The Earth ( Read more... )

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jazzcat7 September 26 2005, 16:50:08 UTC

Cheer up, emo kid.

akico_blue October 7 2005, 16:29:52 UTC

maybe you need to see reality...

:))

coreyback September 26 2005, 19:18:49 UTC

So then, what purpose is it now? We will all die eventually. Even conserving the earth is a farse, because it just prolongs the inevitable.

Then what's the point? Why don't we all just drive SUV's just to get across the street and leave them idling the whole time? You've given me new hope for a more wasteful society.

(What I mean is, I think I missed the point. Because you just described the plot of Mad Max 2, I think)

coreyback October 7 2005, 16:43:29 UTC

obviously I do believe there are answers to the questions i posed to myself. i think it is stupid to say 'we will die eventually so what does life matter', yet it is one answer. if you have a good answer to my question, though, i would like to hear it.

point was i have a lot of questions that i haven't thought out completely or answered. or i think it's intriguing to think about. did you take time to consider the future? or is it not worth considering?

ps...i don't know what mad max 2 is.

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anonymous October 7 2005, 16:54:04 UTC

I don't think it is an option that mankind will never fall, we will, someday. And the time frame does depend on what we do/will do/have done. But I am with you, I agree with your first statement (a quote?) one cannot focus on death. but is it right it ignore it? is ignorance bliss?

I don't think it should be ignored.

but i only ponder these thoughts, i do not pretend to be smart or clever enough to answer them, but i am also not upset by them--only intruigued.

And yes, college is going well. hopefully it will help me to formulate my thoughts and ideas better and be able to analyze better. i'm taking Chinese thought and religion--which is fascinating.