Face it, the Human Race is Doomed!

We're too stupid and too stubborn to survive. As a general rule we don't mind giving up our freedoms if big brother will take care of us and tell us what to do.

The conspiracy theories are probably all true, and there's probably nothing we can do about it except to lay low, keep out of sight, and quietly wait for the whole house of cards called civilization to collapse.

Of course, it's Thursday, and I always feel that way on Thursdays and Fridays. Saturday, I veg out on video games and don't worry about it. By next Monday I'm sure I will have thought of something meaningful we can do to turn the tide and save the human race from its own self-destructive impulses. Hooray for optimism!

But then on Tuesday and Wednesday I'll be looking for practical ways to implement my ideas, and failing to find any, I will find myself back at another Thursday, ready to concede that the race is, indeed, doomed to extinction.

Until we find a solution for dealing with death, we going to keep doing unproductive things in order to deal or not deal with the terror of death.

I keep thinking that the people who are very well practiced in meditation and who have experienced other states of consciousness are probably best equipped to deal with death, because emptiness and mindless existence are something they know so they don't fear it - but who has time for that shit?

Regardless of how hopeless the situation will be, we owe it to ourselves and to humanity as a whole to fight with all we have.

we are on an extinction course. too bad we'll end up taking a lot of other innocent species with us. but to live is to hope or what's the use. i have to keep reminding myself that because the cards are pretty stacked against us. so when i'm feeling particularly misanthropic, i try to remember to just "imagine."

Whom? What? Whip out WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION??? We have a window of opportunity to survive if we grok our common interests and expel the *MIC whose vision is eternal war. Non-violent intervention will do it, in spite of the reality that many will die to achieve it.

Leave the US for awhile and you see that people are pretty damn cool when they aren't assaulted with propaganda and fear 24-7.

Life would be miserable to believe that. Live your life to the fullest, do what you can to better mankind and shrug off those things you have no control over. Worry only produces ulcers.

Keep your chin up!

if we don't screw things up.

When the Roman Empire collapsed, Civilizations in the East were flowering. If we collapse, other civilizations will come into their own. We need to fix a few major problems before all collapses and make sure that cultish political parties like the PNAC consortium remain small, obscure and powerless in the future.

different now is nuclear weapons. in the day of the roman empire, these were not a consideration. the air and water and food supply weren't contaminated. the ozone hole wasn't huge. not to be depressing or anything, but this is different from any other time in our history. we screw up now, we screw up big time.

I can't keep count, not to mention islands in the Pacific like Bimini. We didn't do them any good but life did go on. Also, nukes kept a kind of peace in the world because of the fact that people understood the consequences of nuclear war. It is a problem that rogue nations have gotten hold of them, but as we are starting to discover it takes a lot of effort to construct nukes and they can't be done as secretely as one might think.

Food and water supplies have always been subject to contamination. Plagues have been thrust on enemies. Biological warfare is also as old as the Romans.

since hiroshima and nagasaki. now it's hydrogen bombs that dwarf those two. and they've proliferated quite a bit since then too. but that's just my miserable outlook speaking and i don't want to depress anyone, so this will probably be all i'll write on this. but life IS still good and life CAN conquer all. an old boyfriend used to always marvel at how grass would grow up in the cracks in a sidewalk. life will find a way - hmmm, strains of jurassik park? i just kind of like the way the earth is nice and green and lush and would be very sad to see it mutated too much.

"rogue nation" equipped with ready-to-fire nukes is... (jump under the table, tuck your head into your chest and cross your arms over the back of your neck- South Shore Elementary School 1959) "G_d shed his grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea..."

Good one, Karenina and it's so true. I think back now and all this keeping the population scared to keep the military big goes back to WWII. They are trying it again and I'm not buying it.