| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 4/14/2008 8:34:10 AM | The greatest threat to Mankind is Mankind itself! There's a piece spoken in a film once...
Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn.
Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, or lust, or greed.
Yea, he will kill his brother to possess his brother's land.
Let him not breed in great numbers,
For he will make a desert out of his home and yours.
Shun him... Drive him back into his jungle lair.
For he is the harbinger of death.
Pretty good warning from a sci-fi film.
| |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 4/14/2008 5:44:16 PM |
Nemesis ..the rogue planet ... we will see real soon if that is the case
He didnt call it nemesis. Nemesis is from the theory of the nemesis star, not planet. | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 4/14/2008 5:58:28 PM | If you at all like this topic, there's a book you should read:
"Ishmael", by Daniel Quinn
Like one reviewer wrote: "There are 2 kinds of books I have read: those I read before "Ishmael", and those I've read after..."
Great book. | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 4/14/2008 8:14:03 PM | I would have to say the greates threat to mankind are these dating sites. There are so many phonies on here, someday they're all gonna self-destruct.
What a load of hooey!! | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 4/14/2008 8:31:23 PM | Microorganisms like viruses and bacteria.
Other than that I'd say overpopulation but overpopulation makes the threat of a killer virus more likely. | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 4/14/2008 10:13:56 PM | | The greatest threat to mankind? Is moral-corruption. When people forget God, what can they then expect? | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 4/15/2008 5:30:02 PM | | excuse me but topsoil only disappears real fast if the vegetation that holds it in place is stripped off it which has only been done in mass in the last 100 years and 2nd mountains aren't forming still what nonsense is that. Anyways if this planet x is coming it will start to be visible to the southern hemisphere sometime in late 2009 so there won't be a surprise all the sudden in 2012 without warning but as soon as it can be seen by the world it will be mass pandamonium of ppl attempting to prepare for the eventuality and resources will disappear so if your not getting food stored up now and the event appears evident, then those of you who sluffed it off will be real hungry, best case would be it never happens in which case I have a light grocery bill for some time, nothing lost but some wasted energy over nothing, worst case, the planet is destroyed and it won't matter anyways but if some are spared, those who prepared will be left to pick up the pieces and in my glee the greatest threat to mankind, the weak minded parasites who live for only for thier materialism, self gratification and lack of respect for the well being of future generations will have perished and the the ones left will be the maverick forward thinkers that will hopefully prevent this world from ever returning to the sess pool it's become. Cheers! | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 4/15/2008 7:39:13 PM | | Becoming too dependent on technology/others for our survival and having the carpet pulled out from under us. | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 4/30/2008 3:16:39 PM |
Has anyone said this one yet: "womankind"??
Well, what about womankind? Does Robin Canup speak for all women in the world on these issues of celestial mechanics? | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 4/30/2008 9:26:29 PM | I agree with Author Sam Harris that Irrational thinking and blind faith in dogma of any kind, is the number one threat to humanity itself. It's not disease or pestilence but rather, people, especially those in high places, that adhere to dangerous and irrational beliefs.
I believe that this is what drives the most brutal dictators the world has ever known. This pervasive lack of reason is what sent the Jews to their fates; This same blind faith is what lit the fires of the inquisition; the witch hunts; the fatwas; racism; sexism; gay-bashing; gang-violence; adherence to strange cults; Rwanda and Darfur; wide spread crruption; greed. The list goes on and on.
Need I say any more? | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 5/1/2008 12:07:53 PM |
So i'm curious what people think the greatest threat to mankind is and what we can do about it, if anything... What would you be willing to give up or change for the survival of mankind if indeed we are in danger at all.
A couple years ago, I was on a red eye flight from Chicago to Baltimore. Sitting next to a gentleman, I noticed he was reviewing slides for a presentation. I asked him what the presentation topic was. He said, I'm a senior scientist - microbiologist and the topic was the evolving microorganisms.
He explained how the invisible world of microbes is like a universe of tiny bugs that include viruses and other microorganisms that can rapidly mutate to survive.
He told me the greatest threat to human survival was deadly microorganisms that are yet to be detected in the body of humans and animals. I asked him if humans should be concerned, he shook his head and said, yes. | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 5/1/2008 12:16:54 PM | | Years ago, AJ Ayer , when commenting on Voltaire, wrote of "the horrors of religious fanaticism in the Middle East", the "recrudescence of fundamentalism in the United States" and "The apalling danger which the stubborness of political intolerance presents to the whole world" as perhaps his greatest concerns...I wonder if they remain some of the major concerns to this day? | |
|
| |
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 5/1/2008 5:24:33 PM | | The greatest threat to manking is their unevolved genetics that could not hope to keep up with their intelligence. When put in a corner, when the $hit hits the fan, we all resort to our animal instincts. It's like giving a two year old a loaded 44 magnum. Our only hope is a genetic redesign, and it better happen soon. | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 5/1/2008 6:26:29 PM | In response to NoseyNeighbor, I believe that a deadly micoorganism should be a cause for concern, especially since there is so much misuse of antibiotics these days. The over prescribing of them, the non-compliance of people on how to correctly use them and the tendency for people not to finish the entire amount prescribed has contributed to the development of sper-bugs such as MRSA. If physicians took a more conservative approach to prescribing antibiotics, and if patients followed the instructions on the labels, perhaps there would be no need to woor so much. It would be more difficult for bacteria to develop any kind of resistance to any of these powerful antibiotics that are now available.
I believe that environmental degradation and unsanitary conditions have always played a role in disease, including the small-pox epidemic of mideval Europe which was responsible for the Black Plague. It all started with rats that carried the fleas that were infected disease, only to be spread to humans. Rats were probably drawn to the unsanitary conditions of the time.
While I do not mean to trivialize the possibility of a potential pandemic of any kind, I believe that "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure." Just by taking care of our environment can play a significant role in reducing the chances of developing any kind of disease. | |
|
| |
| |
| |
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 5/2/2008 8:45:29 AM | Away from man's ignorance and arrogance, the greatest threat to man and the earth is as always has been materialism.
Materialism has seeped past spiritualism and has raised material, temporary forms, above spirit which is eternal. Part or our species, that which has no spirit or has been lured to materialism, lives and works to destroy that which gives life, spirit and replace it with that which is dead eternally. Manufacturing stuff that comes with a high price; the pollution of air/land/water and minds of what could and should be spiritual beings.
The rise of material has been plotted and assisted by those who wish to control the human spirit, deviate it from it;s purpose which unfortunately for material and materialists is not to live to provide opinion on the look and the falsified nature that is created by ego's.
Spiritual beings with purpose to protect spirit and nature are molded to participate in an illusion that is advertised as life.
Pretending to live and creating digital records of people pretending to do or be something is not a way to spend nor invest time. Gathering ego;s together to honor those who pretend is ridiculous and a waste of time and spirit.
I can not see how pretending to be a farmer or laborer and recording humans pretending to be something is of any service. providing that which keeps people away from living is not of service nor benefit to the species or the planet yet, there are those who seem to feel it is the most important aspect of life.
We have a lot of seriously spick people who unfortunately, due to criminal behaviour on the part of those who value or worship material (lies) over spirit (truth) seem to be very aggressive and capable of violent actions which are to defend their way of being which is to act, pretend and offer the world and people, fiat nature, fiat people, fiat live and fiat everything.
In truth, our greatest threat is lies and those who promote them as truth.
If you want peace and serenity to reign and wish to have a world that is filled with love and kindness, get rid of all the materialists and all the tools they use to promote lies as truth. materialism is cancer of the spirit and is killing our species. There are so many idiots who foolishly beleive that they are human when in fact, they are material, a product, a tool in essence, fiat, an illusion even unto themselves for they would believe that destroying the environment to create stuff to sell is man's purpose.
The most ignorant amongst us are generally elevated by materialists to lead us. They hold highest regard for those amongst us who are easily corrupted, those who have no true spirit and are willing to pretend and participate in their foolishness which is aimed to destroy mankind and the environment.
People seem to think that if one one squirts a little urine in the pool, they haven't peed in the water but in truth, all of you who support and promote materialism either knowingly or unknowingly, are drowning in urine and you are calling it champaign and those who know truth and are with spirit, tell you the truth and you laugh and drink it up.
The majority of people on the planet simply wish to live, learn and create and maintain a legacy whereas materialists won't pervert everything from fact and give things a new purpose which ultimately destroys them and those they foolishly lead and many others.
Materialism is what is killing the planet and so many species and it will be the end of our species yet the planet will recover and material will go back to being dead as all the egos (lies) will be gone. Real smart animal man, lives to be something other then what it is while those amongst them who do not wish to serve spirit, that which is eternal, the very nature of all things who would rather allow their ego to rename and provide opinion on what nature is and what all other things are and for, these are fools and they are our enemy, they have no idea what their own purpose is yet they state they know the purpose of things that are not alive.
The sickest are not those who have been turn to material and are now tools for materialism but they are those who promote ignorance as wisdom, lies as truth and pretending as living.
Good luck in your daily worship of material and in your work to lower the worth and value of spirit, nature, truth. | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 5/2/2008 10:51:26 AM |
Need I say any more?
Yes you do. What is a woman's opinion of our solar system and it's early formation after our solar nebula flattened into a system? What is your opinion of all of the possible origins of the moon and Earth?(read the book titled"The Big Splat: or the origin of the moon" by Dana Mackenzie). What is your opinion of the asteroid belt and it's possible origins? What is your opinion of pluto and all three of it's possible origins? Should Pluto be a planet or a dwarf planet or a dwarf icy body? What is your opinion of the killer asteroid Apophis and it's possible flight path, in the Earth's magnetic field, over the pacific ocean and the Mexico mainland in 2029 and 2035?
The Solar System is out there and it's not going away. | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 5/3/2008 9:29:37 AM | Eybonez can you give me a clear definition of your idea of what is materialistic and what isn't?
What I mean here is this. I agree that it's material desires and attachments that cause many of the problems in life and the suffering. Yet it seems like people are trying to find that spirit your talking about in material things.
Obviously this means something. Like maybe people are not communal enough and not properly bonding with one another. Since if human bonding was done with the proper accordance wouldn't people be happy enough to feel so good they wouldn't need material possesions as a salve.
Now honestly I think our materialistic pursuits aren't completly evil. I guess I find rationalizations to justify my materialistic side.
Yet I find that sometimes it's hard to find spirituality in other people. Especially today. I think it makes one run to material things though. If we are running to material things then to other people. It must mean that our relationships with people have become less fufilling than material things. Then the problems lies squarely on how we socialize with one another or the lack thereof.
As for the thing about labourers and farmers can you expand on this? Do you mean how the labourer has to sacrifice his identity to do a job that does not allow expression of the self? | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 5/3/2008 1:26:11 PM | I've always kind of felt that materialism is a replacement for spirituality and is simultaneously bad for the environment; therefore, materialism isn't in my books a great thing. But I wouldn`t define it as the greatest threat to mankind either. Those countries who are the most spiritual and least materialistic also find reasons for violence and killing. Even native North Americans, who put great value on community and relationships, lived in harmony with the land, and placed little value on materialism, still found reasons to fight and kill between tribes.
I don't think there's one greatest threat to us at all, since a lot of things could get us, but if we're talking about the demise of society and meaningful relationships, I'd say the Internet ostracizes us by creating the illusion of friendship. If it didn`t exist, we'd probably have a lot more time to go out into the real world and establish real friendships. | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 5/4/2008 10:58:52 AM |
As for the thing about labourers and farmers can you expand on this? Do you mean how the labourer has to sacrifice his identity to do a job that does not allow expression of the self?
I am speaking of fiat life and fiat people that run rampant in Hollywood/TV, online and everywhere.
Actors and those who participate in life as critic or as a role player.
Peasants elevate those who pretend above those who actually live and produce something other then false echo's of the past.
The populace is watching fiat life on TV, worshiping and lavishing siches upon those who are truly a product themselves as they are a means and a way for others who assist them to pretend, in lieu of being real these people choose to earn and make a living by amusing people with fantasy or biased recreation, fiatism.
Our purpose as a species and one that has many gifts over and above all forms of life, is suppose to grant us benefit and reward not grant us the means to destroy that which gives us life, gives us purpose. How could our purpose be anything near spending our time/enegy and reward of toil to watch others pretend, play like they are alive as something they are not.
The industry of pretending is wasteful, it wastes what could be human resources, service in lieu of being a waste of time, riches, wealth and spirit and something that gives other eternally from the spirit that others waste to witness fiat life and fiat living.
If any creature had within its species, one that would pollute it's habitat and push it to be something it isn't and to go against nature at every possible juncture, that species would rid itself of that which is killing it. In our species, we abet that which wishes to destroy us and nature and we do it by participating in it and by even toiling so as to be a part of that which is lies.
In truth, our greatest threat is in excepting lies as truth or allowing fiatism to be promoted as purpose or better yet, that lie that man has no purpose so the world and all that gives life is ours to ruin.
Can you see the error in your ways? Wanting, praying, working and suffering for sake of lies, molded cosmic debris that has no purpose and is given name/purpose by an ego which states that it is for idle or "idol" time, a reward to assist you to take your mind and purpose of that which is your purpose and allow for you to pretend and participate in life as an ego rather then as a spiritual being with purpose which is not to elevate the value or perceived (ego manipulation) worth of something that is truly dead without dualistic and superficial ideals being brought in to argue the a mute point which is that time is ever changing and in time, we have free and spare time to use for leisure and for entertaining and wooing ego's and personalities.
Until man realizes he is sick, he will continue to worship material and ego's, lies, over spirit and purpose, truth.
Tell me, if materialism pollutes and destroys our habitat and all that is essential, does this mean we are to materialistic or does it mean we are not meant to be materialistic?
Material has no spirit, it has opinion or ego, it has a label and a name and most importantly, it has a price tag. Material is valued upon a scale which can never measure spirit as, spirit is truth, true wealth, it is found in friends, stored in family and is alive, eternally within good action and good intent. tell me, what does material do or bring to mankind? it brings strife and the means and way to use dualism and material to divert man from his purpose and make him slave to that which is dead.
Possessions are liabilities and come with a cost and they steal spirit and negate spirituality if one believes he alone owns something, in that mindset, the something owns him and is his death sentence.
cheers!!
ps.
The other threat is Fait people, FaceBot's, computerized robots that are now posting on the Internet in popular forums and sites so as to give an illusion of strong support for the death of spirit and the rise of fiatism. research it and remember, when you think you are debating a person, it is highly likely that that which you communicate, when it is pro-war, and pro-elites is a fiat person, fake, computer programed to abet the elites. These will replace the current peons who have no spirit nor soul as their time and skills have been put to use for sake of material and those who are without life. | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 5/4/2008 11:24:40 AM | ^^^^^ Wowzers....
I don't think I'm ever turning my tv on again.
I've never felt so bloody guilty for turning on my tv and utilizing movies as a means of temporarily escaping the stresses of the real world.
Thanks a lot, eye8one2.... you just ruined it for me.
 | |
|
| Greatest threat to mankind?
Posted: 5/4/2008 11:41:02 AM | I'm running the numbers through my head and if something happens, this is where my brain is going ....
With each generation, our awareness changes and grows. Back to back we had a population explosion mostly known as the babyboomer generation. This group had a very long reign on shaping the way our society thinks. The 70s and 80s generations have all these great thoughts but no one to listen because of the way the babyboomers had things structured.
70 years is a long time for a society to be stuck in one way of thought with no evolution. We are already starting to see the changes taking place it just takes awhile for people to catch on.
So our biggest threat to society statistically is what do we do with the babyboomer generation who we have to tear down everything they are used to in order to build a new society. There is the added complication that we don't have the educated bodies to fill the jobs they are leaving behind which is impacting everything and every system you rely on.
If there is any global threat, it is them who will be the most vunerable with the 1970 plus generations having more abilities and tools to network and cooperate.
They are leaving us a big mess to fix and a great majority of them will be completely dependent on us to do it for them.
The survival of mankind though does not hinge on their survival. I think the greatest threat to mankind would be if there was a global threat in the next 10 years and we had to make a choice between the survival of the young and survival of the old. Unless we could come up with an ingenious solution, trying to save that large of a senior population might end up in our own destruction.
It's not like we haven't had global events before so its not competely out of the spectrum of possibilities. | |
|
Home
login 
