Posted on 07/08/2006 5:43:39 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
Several of the posters mention the Ten commandments and other religious paradigms. Indeed, in the Movie "Oh, God" we are treated to a gentle god who doesn't work miracles to make a point but just gives his message to a grocery store manager! But the real message that he espouses is, "THINK!" paraphrase, "You have free will and intellect. You can find the answers if you are value based and "THINK!"
Maybe he should watch the History Channel or something.
Easy.
Remove the scourges of mankind, in random order:
1. Islamofacists
2. Communists
3. Democrats
4. Liberal Media
We're actually doing quite well, thank you very much.
Human average lifespan has gone from 25 to 75 years in a rather short time.
Whole diseases have been eradicated.
World-spanning travel can be had in hours for a few days' wages.
Food supply significantly exceeds demand (hindered only by distribution politics).
War-related deaths have flattened right out.
The "poor" in many countries are downright rich by historical standards.
Even the whole planet is allegedly warming up, providing improved growing seasons & regions and reducing the desolation of ice-encrusted areas.
Everything is, on the whole, looking up. What's the problem?
wow. That's it. I was really looking foreward to answering a tough question from a very bright man. This is kinda like finding out about Santa Claus. Another fraud.
The questions is childish and absurd. Designed to appeal to juvenile minds that consider their little lives then center of the universe. Too much TV, not enough study of History. The world does not operate like an episode of 24 or of Superman of the latest Hollywood action flick. The fate of all humanity does NOT rest in the hands of a self selected elite riding to "Save us".
Despite virtually unlimited resources and the best minds applied to it, the no major nation state developed a chemical or bio weapon ANY where near capable of doing the things your movie fantasist dream up. IF the major Nation states can not do it, some little third world thug group is not going to succeed where they failed. It absurd hysteric nonsense. If you have to scream hysteric doom and gloom the world is ending propaganda to try and sell your political agenda, you have all ready lost the argument.
Finally, your space habitats, being a vastly smaller environment, would be a much MORE likely target for a terrorists bio weapon since existing bio weapons COULD destroy all life in such a small, sealed enviroment. Now go away, the adults are having a serious discussion here.
Make that, "Thou shalt not murder." and I'll agree with you. There's some bastiches you just gotta kill.
Hmmm...I'd surmise they've declined rather drastically (including genocide) overall, no matter what time frame you pick.
Nothing on a really big scale war-wise since Iran-Iraq and it's been a long time since Rwanda.
Hawking seems to be playing the Carl Sagan card. Imagine that.
Here's a better question=="Given humanity's manifold blessings from God and the technical fulfilment of those blessings in the past hundred years, how do you think a man of your afflictions would have fared 100 years ago?"
THINK!
I missed that one. Is that number eleven? Did Moses have that on the back of the stone tablets?
Chaos is an illusion.
The best way to end war and ensure peace is to kill the enemy.
Which is prove false. From earliest recorded history to now the world is moving from chaos to greater order. From Hunter Gatherer to the Internet, the movement is from chaos to order. There are limited events in history where chaos over rode order in limited areas but over all the movement has always been from chaos to order.
There has been NO movement from order to chaos EXCEPT where outside forces impose it, to a limited extend for a limited time, on the system. That the problem with applying Physical Science theorems to human dynamics. The human system is vastly too complex to impose such a limited "1 size fits all" frameworks on them.
The decreasing cost of performing great violence.
Expert [noun]
A person who is extremely knowledgable in one field and holds forth on a different one.
"I wouldn't worry too much, dude's in a wheelchair."
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.............. ?? I worry about the above statement. Ugh!
Chaos, it's always chaos with the libs. It's what they live for.
I like your list. I'd be inclined to put the Liberal Media at the top, since all the other things 'feed' off it. Just my opinion.
An Ordnance Corps officer from Aberdeen Proving Grounds told me about an incident where he was directly involved: During Nixon's term he was briefed on our latest bioweapons developed by Aberdeen. The scientists proudly announced that they had developed a totally lethal, pneumonic form of rabies that could not be stopped by any existing vaccine and that would spread through the air as fast as the common cold. Nixon asked what would happen if the bug escaped the lab. The researchers reportedly looked a bit dazed and said, "Well, it would probably kill all of the mammmals on earth". The President used some salty language to critique their judgement and then signed an Executive Order to destroy all U.S. bioweapons since they posed a threat to our nation and the rest of humanity. A couple of years ago a lab in Australia modified one gene on mousepox which proceeded to kill every mouse in the lab. If it had gotten out it would probably have wiped out every mouse on earth. In summary, new bugs cause mass extinctions, and there are a lot of labs TRYING TO CREATE LETHAL BUGS. Fact, not science fiction.
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