Posted on 06/28/2014 7:20:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Just one question. You are a very prolific poster. Do you have a life beyond your keyboard?
I’m something of a shut-in, but yes, I don’t live here. I take my wife lunch most days when she’s at work because she is so busy, I do the shopping, work some side businesses and volunteer.
Famous last words. There probably wouldn't be "poor countries" today, except for tribal, tyrannical and anti-capitalist rulers. But I guess all that will just disappear in the next 20 years, right?
I’ll be 99 years old.....and...not sure I believe all this, especially if the world is morally corrupt
“Researchers are confident that within 20 years they can design a vaccine to stop the spread of HIV, which currently kills anywhere from 1.5 million to 2 million people per year.”
We already know how to stop the spread of HIV. It would be gone in one generation, but...
I’ll be 90.
We are experiencing the easiest existence ever enjoyed by the human animal...and listen to us bitch.
While I am pretty sure this is crackpot stuff (they said similar things in 1901), these kinds of people who talk about becoming immortal and curing all disease and having no poverty anywhere are utopianists. They’re insane, and they will go to any ends to convince themselves they are right. In a sense, they are the creepiest types of utopianists, transhumanists.
Killing people is more expensive? Really. Seems even easier and more cost-effective than it ever has been.
When they start talking about designing babies in test tubes and uploading computer brains... you have to wonder if Alex Jones has a point about how genuinely amoral the global elite are. I mean, this is pure evil, playing God, designing new ways to control and manipulate people.
I’d sooner join the stone age ranks of the Taliban than serve the kind of utopia envisioned here. Sounds like an Orwellian hell mixed with Christopher Lambert’s ‘Fortress’.
I just quickly scanned over portions of this “essay” but nowhere did I see any references to people’s political freedom. I can only conclude that that is not important to this author. It is to me.
Perhaps he meant we’ll ALL be poor countries, and then no one will know the difference.
Thank you and keep up the work of revealing the truth. And thank you for your service.
Lunacy
Far more likely that the world will be a post-apocalyptic wilderness with very few inhabitants and no advanced technology left working.
But as to the idea of “humans living forever as computerized brains,” count me out. What’s the point?
They’ll be spandex jackets one for everyone.
All 100 million of them.
What a brave new world it will be.
I’ll be 84.
I'm guessing he is a veteran, he's of retirement age, and a good American. He posts a lot because he is doing his part to inform us of the shit shape the world is in. Even on Free Republic I run into guys who had no idea what was going on in the Cochran/McDaniel race, asking "What did he do?"
I am only responding, not because he needs any defense (I have not yet read past comment #1) but because I actually like the particular posts of his. We, unfortunately for him, are on the same wavelength. Like JohnHuang2, and Kattracks before him, 2ndDivisionVet adds s certain je ne sai quoi to the conversation. Actually, I do know what the message is. It's: " I want it on record that I know that the shit is going to hit the fan, the whole thing is going to collapse, the bastards are gonna take us down...And I tried in my own way to get you guys to wake up and listen. Get ready."
See post 12. You can come in anytime you wish, this is Free Republic. “Gouting’ to dinner and “gouting” to bed, good night.
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