Posted on 06/03/2018 9:34:27 AM PDT by Boomer
Ah, Revelation finally explained.
LOL! Start prepping NOW! Thinkin’ if it’s THE time, all that prepping ain’t gonna help.
Civilizations end after they get rich and lazy, and when their neighbors are still poor and hungry.
Well we just missed it ending last POTUS election and that’s probably no exaggeration. Do we even have to guess had Hitlery succeeded in stealing the election from Trump that Iran would have had nukes not soon after? And they probably would have used them on Israel and then all hell would have broken loose not to mention the Norks would have been missile testing without any trouble until they got them, probably bought from Hitlery herself.
Or,
None of the above.
Not to mention the Russian collusion .
So, NE “professors” claim to The Atlantic that “climate change’ will undo mankind?
Yep, absolutely no hint of bias there
Starting with the early Roman Empire, (probably earlier with Egypt and Greece) there seem to be cycles that last approximately 500 years.....rebirth/development, greatness, collapse. Incredible advancement has happened from about 1500 (exploration), maybe spiraling out of the cycle since the pinnacle of man on the moon. Is Western/European civilization entering collapse, just as Rome did from the 5th century until about 1000 AD?
There’s a far piece between the collapse or destruction of an individual culture and an end to all “human civilization”.
You left out the most likely one!
How could I forget!
They called these societies “Exo-civilizations” and learning from their mistakes could help us prepare for climate change’s effect.
Personally, I think colonizing the galaxy is the best way to ensure the survival of Humanity...in some form. I say “in some form” because each colony will likely develop into its own subspecies of Human. Over time, some of these could come to appear distinctly inhuman.
So long, as men use reason to preserve a division-of-labor, capitalist society, and are free and motivated to think and to build for the future, the body of scientific and technological knowledge at the disposal of mankind will grow from generation to generation, as will the supply of capital equipment. On this basis, man can steadily expand his physical power over the world and thus enjoy an ever greater supply of economically useable natural resources. There is no reason why, under the continued existence of a free and rational society, the supply of such natural resources should not go on growing as rapidly as in the past or even more rapidly.
Humanity will die of diabetes by eating itself to death.
It’s late night and the cleaning staff is vacuuming and dusting the President’s office when:
“Hey, Juanita, what’s this button do?”
Looks like we have seen the same movies and read the same sci-fi novels.
I know it’s coming and for me it’s not far off, but I’ll fight to live until it’s over.
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” — Isaac Asimov
When the Roman Empire fell, not all civilization ended. Lots of things went very wrong, and the level of accomplishment of the great civilization fell apart.
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