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annm4peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 08:16 PM
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The decay of our civilization
"I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care--when the spiritual forces that make us wish to be right and noble die in our hearts. Arnold Toynbee has pointed out that nineteen of twenty one civilizations have died from within and not conquest from without. There were no bands playing and flags waving when these civilizations decayed. It happened slowly, in the quiet and the dark when no one was aware."
Lawrence Gould President, Carleton College
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 08:19 PM
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1. Here's another reason we are going down the tubes
http://www.amazon.com/Walter-Farting-Dog-Banned-Beach/dp/0525478124
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 08:21 PM
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3. LOL
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 09:31 PM
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6. Or how about this?
http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Office-WM-01-Laptop-Steering/dp/B000IZGIA8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=automotive&qid=1265596236&sr=8-1
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 08:20 PM
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2. I find a lot of truth in this! n/t
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 08:21 PM
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4. What Toynbee wrote about dominant minorities, internal proltariates, and societal disintergration...
are very relevant today.
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 09:24 PM
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5. And from each fallen civilization have sprung more
I see no real reason to worry overmuch about "ours"
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