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Author Topic:   Will Humans survive the next major catastrophic event.
coffee_addict
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Message 3 of 22 (122391)
07-06-2004 1:17 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by jar
07-06-2004 12:59 PM


Well, global warming isn't exactly a confirmed fact. Even if global warming is going to cause a major catastrophy, I suspect that it's going to be so gradual that people won't even notice and will naturally adjust to whatever that comes.
I think that the danger of some kind of catastrophic event has always been there and always will be there. The difference is we are more aware of its presence now than ever before, probably due to all those doomsday movies that have been cranked out by movie producers the last few years.
Anyway, to answer your question, we might see changes such as the rid of an outdated morality, the need to cover oneself's nakedness, widespread use of coop bathrooms, and the acceptance of cannibalism as morally necessary.
By the way, I got all of this from a science fiction book I read a few years ago. The name and the author of the book escapes me for now.

The Laminator

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coffee_addict
Member (Idle past 503 days)
Posts: 3645
From: Indianapolis, IN
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Message 6 of 22 (122552)
07-07-2004 1:05 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by Mespo
07-06-2004 2:10 PM


At this moment in history, I believe that there are more chances for a manmade catastrophe than a natural one. If anything, we might see another Chornobyl in the near future, probably somewhere in the middle east.
Let me tell you all a secret. I think life is too boring right now. I would celebrate like crazy if there is some kind of disaster happening. I know, I have a classical view of disaster, where heroes are made by unfortunate sequences of events.

The Laminator

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coffee_addict
Member (Idle past 503 days)
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From: Indianapolis, IN
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Message 9 of 22 (122579)
07-07-2004 4:10 AM
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07-07-2004 1:32 AM


sidelined writes:
I am curious, you state you are bored yet from what I have heard from you in your posts I cannot fathom that you would find the need for a disaster to happen to people in order to to see heroes in action.What is it you find boring about life that you would celebrate disaster?
You are right about me. In real life, I am a very enthusiastic person who is always interested in learning, meeting people, and getting close to people. In fact, and I swear I am not exaggerating this, I'm having trouble remembering all of my friends' names. Too many to keep track of.
What I find boring about life is that everything in my life seems to be written in stone... cold and hard. I've tried so many things to get myself out of my semi-depressive state. I've driven 6 hours to another state just so I could meet someone for the first time. I've joined every philosophical club and every sport group I could spare time for. I've switched major twice. I've driven to New Mexico to help build a house for Habitat for humanity. I've switched from being straight to being gay. I have pretended to be an illegal immigrant and worked with illegal immigrants in sweat shops and other undesirable places (which I wanted to skin the bosses alive because of the way they treated us). Heck, I've even just transfered out of a top notched school (university of chicago) just so I could transfer to a state institution. Those are just a few of the things that I have tried to make my life a little less boring. Too bad I only had a knee injury in my recent car accident.
The point is I'm having trouble finding a purpose for myself. If this latest stunt I pulled (transfering to a school that my parents objected to) doesn't make my days a little brighter, I'm joining the army.
Give me plague, give me alien invasion, give me earthquake, give me flood, give me dawn of the dead, give me a big ass asteroid smashing into earth, give me anything but this mechanical uninteresting lifestyle that I am trapped in.
I know that this is outright selfish of me to wish for disaster. Most people want a stable unchanging lifestyle. They want to be secured in their everyday duties without interruption. They want to have as many chances as possible to have sex (at least that's what the guys seem to be after all the time).
Anyway, perhaps being responsible for the destruction of every organized religion in the world will cheer me up a bit.

The Laminator

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