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Originally Posted by Junkenstein
I think that a balance between herd-dependency/individual satisfaction coupled with an intense inherent cruelty is what nature gave to mankind to have its own 15 minutes in the evolution path. And if everything works as it has usually worked in the bigger schemes, it could be eventually the same tools that will annihilate mankind.
All living species have their own edge, some die because that edge doesnt adapt to their surroundings anymore, or because the new kids on the block have a better ones. Eventually our time will come and we will self-annihilate without even noticing, completely enraptured by our masturbatory need to find meanings where there arent any, arguing pointlessly, and kill each other for the sheer thrill of it (because somehow it's obvious that all forms of money or value will eventually turn out to be meaningless). And that will be the time where nature will give place to somethging else.
Ah the warm feeling of being a yapping sanctimounious prick... Yada Yada Yada...
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It's possible, but not probable in my mind.
Thinking about us becoming extinct by our own hand is wrapped around our own inherent ego, I doubt very seriously that we will ever have that kind of power.
For millions, if not billions of years, we have been evolving to reach where we are today. To think that we suddenly have the ability to render our own complete annihilation, which I admit with things like nuclear technology is within the realm of possibilities, but I think thoughts like that are why we also used to think the universe revolved around the earth.
I think a far more likely scenario is, we continue to branch off, diversity increases exponentially, and we all become something else. Space travel may make us the cockroaches of the universe, and given time, each planet being it's own Galapagos, we may become very different. Genetic manipulation will likely aid in our rapid evolution, it is possible that we may one day be able to selectively choose our own genetic destiny, custom manufactured for whatever environment we wind up in. With the ability to, within a single generation(or who knows, maybe within a single lifespan), evolve ourselves in any direction we choose, coupled with the ability to travel to any isolated locale within the local universe, I imagine we will only continue Nature's manifest destiny. We will continue the pattern established by evolution, as will all things, at an ever increasing rate until we attain complete adaptability/sustainability/stability.
In my thinking, that is the more probable scenario.
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Originally Posted by BrownEyedBtch
Hahahahahaha!!! this is one of the funniest things I have read in so long, mostly because it is so untrue! I thought for a second about asking you to prove it, but honestly, I don't really care for what you think is a representation of my closed-mindedness to the views of others, because I know they would not be indicative of me at all.
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Proof is in my signature, as I said. What you are doing there is the same illogical head in the sand coping method I complain of about you. You will only see what you want to see, and will always believe it is the only truth, hence the hilarious oxymorons I used before when I called you "rigidly open minded", and claimed you to be a good person(but only by your own standards). You actually took those as compliments, stunningly oblivious as it makes you. As I said, as you have once again proven, talking to you falls on deaf ears.