boomhead shot you win!King_County_Downy wrote:
Religion.
Poll
What Ailment is going to be the end of Human Civilation?
| Sars | 3% | 3% - 3 | ||||
| Aids | 10% | 10% - 10 | ||||
| Avian Bird Flu | 10% | 10% - 10 | ||||
| Monkey Poxs | 0% | 0% - 0 | ||||
| Some Thing New | 76% | 76% - 75 | ||||
| Total: 98 | ||||||
The reason they aren't trying to cure aids anymore is the same reason why they aren't pushing for alternate fuel methods for cars. If the aids disease was miraculously cured by a pill you could take, think off all the companies that would be out of business and the money they would lose.
If they made decent cars that could run off a reusable commodity like hydrogen or solar power, think of all the money Chevron/Texaco/Shell/Whoever would lose!
Now that the Bird Flu is around and in the news every other day, people believe it's the next plague even though it's only killed killed a handful of people. Put up the number of deaths from aids or cancer world wide and compare them to the Bird Flu and tell me which one you are more afraid of!
If they made decent cars that could run off a reusable commodity like hydrogen or solar power, think of all the money Chevron/Texaco/Shell/Whoever would lose!
Now that the Bird Flu is around and in the news every other day, people believe it's the next plague even though it's only killed killed a handful of people. Put up the number of deaths from aids or cancer world wide and compare them to the Bird Flu and tell me which one you are more afraid of!
Last edited by [FHF]MattyZ (2006-06-07 03:54:41)
The inability to get only decently with another fellow human being, that will be the disease with no cure. Just look at some of the exchanges on this forum itself
I dunno', but it seems quite likely that, were hydrogen to be adopted, these companies would most likely rennovate for the new systems.[FHF]MattyZ wrote:
The reason they aren't trying to cure aids anymore is the same reason why they aren't pushing for alternate fuel methods for cars. If the aids disease was miraculously cured by a pill you could take, think off all the companies that would be out of business and the money they would lose.
If they made decent cars that could run off a reusable commodity like hydrogen or solar power, think of all the money Chevron/Texaco/Shell/Whoever would lose!
Now that the Bird Flu is around and in the news every other day, people believe it's the next plague even though it's only killed killed a handful of people. Put up the number of deaths from aids or cancer world wide and compare them to the Bird Flu and tell me which one you are more afraid of!
AUUUUGH!Xietsu wrote:
chuyskywalker wrote:
And religion is different because it's not about power, right?Xietsu wrote:
Often, it is the road to power and the sustaining of such a role already developed. Much like the private economic sector within the USA, it could be possible the wars result from this.
On the large scale, no, it isn't. Most religious wars have been ones in defense of a perceived encroachment. In modern times, such a conflict isn't seeming too realistic.WTF are you trying say there? I can't quite understand it when you've got a dictionary/thesaurus stuck in your mouth. The nonsense has been highlighted in case you have trouble parsing it yourself.Xietsu wrote:
Unless a truly insane individual comes to grips with some ability to contract WMDs on quite the massive scale, humanity is likely to be unravaged by war within contexts of affects among our populace in the whole.
lol. Hey, you wanna' make assumptions, suit yourself -- fact is, in every aspect, it makes sense.Perhaps you're not up to date, but in the last 100 years our planet's average temperature has risen 1 degree. That's pretty minor -- well, excepting for the fact that over the last 1000 years (prior to this century) the rise was about the same. I'd say we're having a pretty drastic effect.Xietsu wrote:
At this current point in time, it's quite hard to differentiate actual global warming between a minor climate change within dear ol' Earf.
lol. I'm not even discussing severity of impact, but just that global warming isn't a discernible issue at this point in time, given that temperature increases have, during some years, made no progress even during peak increases in automotive/gasoline use.
As an example of how drastic a change one degree is, just look at the scale of which hurricanes we've been seeing. You can not write off the weather changes as "incidental" -- Katrina, etc, are storms the likes of which that area of the world has never seen. At least not for thousands of years. Additionally, did you know that this last hurricane season, the weather service ran out of their predefined names for a given season due to the never before seen number of weather events?
Please don't be so trite when writing off such a massive subject, it's ignorant.
Code:
/me's head explodes with your inability to properly quote a person.
i agree with the human stupidity theory.........
not so much in the environmental sense, but more along the lines of,
we'll keep producing technology to such an extent that we will eventually genetically eradicate what actually makes us human, in the vain pursuit or trying to make us perfect humans.
that was deeper than i thought................
not so much in the environmental sense, but more along the lines of,
we'll keep producing technology to such an extent that we will eventually genetically eradicate what actually makes us human, in the vain pursuit or trying to make us perfect humans.
that was deeper than i thought................
Some tribes in Africa are immune to aids[deep puff and inhale hold and exhale]will grow old and evolve and eventually form a new race that is going to have both sexes and start there own religion called the bumblebee tuna religion.[deep puff and inhale hold and exhale] and that my friend will be the start of a new world order guns and bombs will be a thing of the past and stones and spears will be the new weapons of choice with now human beings alive the animal and insects will evolve into the old days of dinosaurs and giant bugs and they will fight for survival until the next Big Bang that will cause all of them to die. [deep puff and inhale hold and exhale] and from them will form a new enzyme with a new DNA strand that will influence the growth of a new human race that will be superior to all gods and aliens and will rule thee earth for all eternity dang my joints finished !!!!!
i second thatSorcerer0513 wrote:
There is one simple answer to that question:
Human stupidity.
Kind of goes with stupidity...."Greed"
What? The point of yellow text is to differentiate my response from the quote. I don't understand the issue you have with this. PLEEZ PROHVIGHD MEI WIF EELOOSIHDAYSHUNchuyskywalker wrote:
AUUUUGH!Xietsu wrote:
chuyskywalker wrote:
And religion is different because it's not about power, right?Xietsu wrote:
Often, it is the road to power and the sustaining of such a role already developed. Much like the private economic sector within the USA, it could be possible the wars result from this.
On the large scale, no, it isn't. Most religious wars have been ones in defense of a perceived encroachment. In modern times, such a conflict isn't seeming too realistic.
WTF are you trying say there? I can't quite understand it when you've got a dictionary/thesaurus stuck in your mouth. The nonsense has been highlighted in case you have trouble parsing it yourself.
lol. Hey, you wanna' make assumptions, suit yourself -- fact is, in every aspect, it makes sense.
Perhaps you're not up to date, but in the last 100 years our planet's average temperature has risen 1 degree. That's pretty minor -- well, excepting for the fact that over the last 1000 years (prior to this century) the rise was about the same. I'd say we're having a pretty drastic effect.
lol. I'm not even discussing severity of impact, but just that global warming isn't a discernible issue at this point in time, given that temperature increases have, during some years, made no progress even during peak increases in automotive/gasoline use.
As an example of how drastic a change one degree is, just look at the scale of which hurricanes we've been seeing. You can not write off the weather changes as "incidental" -- Katrina, etc, are storms the likes of which that area of the world has never seen. At least not for thousands of years. Additionally, did you know that this last hurricane season, the weather service ran out of their predefined names for a given season due to the never before seen number of weather events?
Please don't be so trite when writing off such a massive subject, it's ignorant.Code:
/me's head explodes with your inability to properly quote a person.
Last edited by Xietsu (2006-06-07 16:04:18)
religion isnt goin to be the end of mankind, religion will die soon enuf. the top countries in the world (wealth etc) are more secular now than ever before, that is if u dont take USA into the accounting, but there are reasons why they still hold religion in high regard.
religion as we know it will wither and die when the world gets even in advancement
religion as we know it will wither and die when the world gets even in advancement
Bullshit. You're claiming humans will afford a position of extreme erudition, and that all unwarranted, assumptious nature will vanish. Bull-fucking-shit.
And when everyone is saying religion do they mean reliougs wars? or that god is going to come down and kill us all?
SARs was the biggest crock of shit EVER
I say something new, But its not really something new. It will be man who destroys man. Look at all the hate in the world, the lack of understanding, and the lack of understanding and judgment of a country based on ONE MAN.
Thats whats going to destroy mankind, MAN!
Xietsu, while i agree on your views on global warming and storms. I have to dissagree on the assumption that storms are of the nature of what has never been seen. the storms are the same, Katrina was different in the fact it hit New Orleans. Thats the ONLY difference between that storm and any other that enters the gulf. Does anyone bitch and moan about all the deaths these storms cause In the third world countries they destroy before they get to our coast? NOPE. The loss of life and the total whipeout of whole viliges and towns on its way to the US coast doesnt even show up as a blip on the medias reporting radar.
Katrina was only bad because it hit a city that shouldnt have ever been built in the first place. If you have to pump out the city after EVERY rain storm, dont you think you might have a problem in the future? Poor planning and poor placement is the only reason katrina was so devistateing. I was there Volenteering, You literally have to drop 20 feet over a wall to get to ground level in New Orleans.
Thats whats going to destroy mankind, MAN!
Xietsu, while i agree on your views on global warming and storms. I have to dissagree on the assumption that storms are of the nature of what has never been seen. the storms are the same, Katrina was different in the fact it hit New Orleans. Thats the ONLY difference between that storm and any other that enters the gulf. Does anyone bitch and moan about all the deaths these storms cause In the third world countries they destroy before they get to our coast? NOPE. The loss of life and the total whipeout of whole viliges and towns on its way to the US coast doesnt even show up as a blip on the medias reporting radar.
Katrina was only bad because it hit a city that shouldnt have ever been built in the first place. If you have to pump out the city after EVERY rain storm, dont you think you might have a problem in the future? Poor planning and poor placement is the only reason katrina was so devistateing. I was there Volenteering, You literally have to drop 20 feet over a wall to get to ground level in New Orleans.
mono
War, McDonalds, Patrioism i.e. America
Last edited by Sh1fty2k5 (2006-06-08 09:48:37)
comet from space?
Whatever nasty disease is produced by the rotting corpses left by the bird flu.
Or packs of rabid dogs that have learned to work together.
Or frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads.
Or packs of rabid dogs that have learned to work together.
Or frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads.
damnd hippieJinto-sk wrote:
I know it's not part of your poll but humans polluting the earth will be the end of civilization - in my opinion
Honestly, late to the party again, but I think we are our own worst enemy. We will either become something new entirely, or wipe ourselves off the map.
The second coming of Jesus.
gayness ! nah the Flu or SARS will probably wipe out 80% of the world when it mutates to a really deadly strain.
The Gulf Stream will stop, so will the rest of the oceans streams due to global warming, the next ice age will hit don't fool yourselves.
You forgot to include the worst, most deadly virus on earth, consuming, destructive wipeing out whole species, plants and even changing the climate......................humans.