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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 08:54 AM
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Nature tells us to COOPERATE with each other so as to SURVIVE
Edited on Tue Oct-28-03 09:26 AM by opihimoimoi
so why are we fighting each other and wasting vast amount of resources??

Are we that addicted to adrenolin? That the rush we get from watching death and destruction in TV Wars is a FIX? Almost like the rush we get when the Chargers make a 84 yard pass touchdown..??

EH!! BUSH, ***Its supposed to be a WAR ON IGNORANCE!!***

*sigh* It could be so much fun if Humanity got its act together. but no, we cannot shuck the ignorance that keeps us apart.

Come, let them fight, let us make luaus, make merry, eat drink, laugh. Let us do the fun thing.... while we can.
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silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 09:01 AM
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1. Bring on the poi!
I'm all for luau!

Aloha!

:hi:
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 09:28 AM
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2. Fish and poi, Hula dancers and good buds.
Come, we light it up. :smoke:
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silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 09:44 AM
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5. Let me check the schedule
...for the next flight to Oahu!

This wahine thinks a DU luau would be SO maika'i.... :D
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 11:49 AM
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9. we can make it happen here so easy,
gimme a time frame and we can make it happen.
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silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-03 05:39 AM
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18. I wish I could...
But I'm afraid it's not in the cards right now. Some day, though.

Mahalo... and I'll be sure to let you know when the opportunity arises. :)

In the meantime, fantasizing about those soft Hawaiian breezes is lovely while we're suffocating under smoky San Diego skies!
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Stanchetalarooni Donating Member (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 09:39 AM
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3. Making luau is hard work but well worth the effort.
So too is the task of turning this "Cannibal Galaxy" into the "Co-op Galaxy".

Hard work but well worth the effort.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 11:52 AM
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10. The question:: TO DOMINATE, OR TO COOPERATE
So simple but so evasive to comprehend/accept by the masses

who mostly are still stuck on FANTASY
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Dr Satan Donating Member (183 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 09:41 AM
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4. we were created in God's image
in other words we are fuckin' morons.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 11:57 AM
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12. We are here as a result of evolution.
our brains are very emotional given to wrong headed decisions at any moment.

Mostly due to fear or addiction to adrenolin rushes.

Somehow, we must conquer fear thru education.

Fear 254, The Understanding of Fear and How its Used to Control the Masses

Courses like this are largely missing from our high schools and Universities.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 09:51 AM
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6. If it's fun Gawd will get you for it!
Gawd wants us to kill people so that Bush's daddy, James Baker III, and the Saudi Royal family can one day own and rule the world!

Come, we go see what happened to the red men when they trusted the great white fathers of old!
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 11:59 AM
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13. The Red Guys took a page from the White Man and Made CASINOS
everywhere they can. Now they drive Mercedes and hire white men to work the casinos.

Come, we go Tahiti look for blk pearls.
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 09:59 AM
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7. "Ishmael" daniel Quinn...a must read......man has yet to learn.........
"the law of competition"...man learns by trial and error...like the right brothers the law of airodynamics...and newton the law of gravity...eistien law of relativity...we have yet to learn the law of competition...very very important law...it will save us from catosrophe...the death of humanity...why are we such slow learners?

www.ishmael.com/welcome.cfm
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 11:48 AM
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8. But from Nature, we learn the effects of cooperation
species that synergize survive while others go extinct.

nuff said, lol
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laylah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-03 06:56 AM
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19. that book
had to be my all time favorite when in school......had my daughters read it when they were 10 and 13. i also sent numerous copies to friends/family. should be "required" reading, along with 1984 and animal farm. (sorry for bad "form" hand surgery has me hunting and pecking)

jenn
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 11:55 AM
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11. No, nature tells us to cooperate with each other if it favors us
Watch pre-school kids trying to "share" a neat toy.

Humans are selfish and cruel by nature.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 12:03 PM
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14. By cooperation we can together build more "neat toys" for all to share.
we should be looking for ways to accomplish this rather than dominate by force/arm twisting
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 12:06 PM
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15. I'm talking base human nature, not reason
Edited on Tue Oct-28-03 12:08 PM by Loonman
Cooperation is reasonable and rational. Humans for the most part are not reasonable and rational. 90% of human actions are emotionally based, not rationally based.
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 12:13 PM
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16. there's always
somebody throwin' water on the bonfire.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 12:57 PM
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17. It can be reversed. It happened to ME
I used to be a cynic too but changed over time
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onebigbadwulf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-03 07:37 AM
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20. Man...
I can't begin to imagine the society we could make if everyone spoke the same language...and no one believed in dogmatic religions...

(sigh) We might actually have been able to live in a peaceful, clean, well-fed, healthy world.:cry:
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