On a scale of universal proportions, our world is probably quite insubstantial. Depending on your view of things, I suppose. You know, some people think "God has a plan" and such, so they might see this matter differently. Whether or not there is other intelligent life in the universe that's aware of our existence here may be another thing to consider too. Some race may, either now or in the future, have a vested interest in our continuation or destruction. Assuming that nobody here is a high-ranking member of government, such things our really out of our control. If life on earth is going to end in some way, there's not much we can do about it. Right?
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id make a virus that would cover the world insantly, then dangle the cure. cuz slowly the virus would eat at any thing organic, then over time would degrade the health of the subject to the point of limbs falling off.
then id have the cure and dangle it over everyone and laugh, id prolly destroy it or swallow it or hide it in my body. then take a massive amount of the virus making me very infected, and if any one touches or gets near my body they will share the same fate.
oh yea and burning the body would only make the virus grow XD
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The world gets destroyes and recreated with every passing moment.
If you're worried about the Beast, become the beast.
It's better to be eaten by the Old Ones than to live in fear of them.
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One, we as individuals can make things happen. Never doubt your ability to effect the outcome of something!
Two, as fun as murdering the population of the world might sound thats not very productive.
Three, who said I was scared of the Dark? I Like to think about good and evil as my breakfast, lunch and dinner. They are things to be understood and used as necessary, one can't fight your inherent dualism, no?
Although I do believe a balance of sorts can be achieved - and I mean an understanding of what's really right and what's really wrong. A moral code based on understanding your actions for what they are not for the forms that modern society holds so dear.
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well, the virus concept mentioned earlier already exists to an extent, its called the human race, only we are slowly killing ourselves....
If there were to be some sort of population control(?) amongst human kind, perhaps then we could start to talk about balance, but before then we have to figure out how the hell to deal with 6 billion people, and a ravenous greed that engulfs many of them. But if a few members of the human species do survive their own self destruction then this balance may have a chance... unless ofcorse over the progression of time human kind falls back in to the trend we are experiencing today... then this whole damned circus would just be a vicious cycle...
BUT! off my stream of conciousness ramble... If and when an end comes we can rest assured that in the U.S. alone something like 90% of the opoulation is dependant on health care for prolonged survival, then there is the staggering number of humans in developed countries that dont know how to survive with out Mc Donalds, Walmart, and general convinience, say good bye to them if ever survival were to be an issue... In all reality, things will inevitably straghten themselves out, even if it needs to get worse before its better, the earth will cull over population, those that are not fit will die, all we have ever created has come from the earth in some shape or form, and will inevitably return to the earth in another, we have already seen bacteria that are able to metabolize heavy metals, toxic chemicals, we have seen mushrooms that consume plastics and petrolium products, and there are microbes that have been observed breaking down concrete. All that was human achivement will one day be consumed by some of the earths oldest and most superior orgonisms (bacteria/fungi)... No one will even know we were here.
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Saving the world is easier then destroying it cause people like being alive. People are inherently resistent to change (its thw whole fear of the unknown thing all over again folks), the destruction of the world, as it is now, and the beginning of something new and possibly foreign frightens people to death!
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I thought we are doing agood job ourselves about destroying the world.
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on the other hand
man dont start calling people shit like that unless u got a reason, hunterwich is a group of mine unless u know something about it, dont do shit like that.
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Every passing moment sees worlds being destroyed and being reborn all around us. We all know the fate of our world is to be destroyed by our sun in the end - the question is whether or not we will leave the honours up to our provider of light.
As for destroying the world... I'd prefer to take the people of my choice to a new continent raised from the seabed and leave the rest of the world to slowly kill themselves off.
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It's called "Immanentizing the Eschaton" and is actually discussed in Catholic rhetoric and is what politically rabid Fundy Christians are doing when they into cheerleading about the ongoing military scheme to keep the Middle East duly destabilized.
In post-modern magick, the term implies bringing about a new consensus paradigm or new aeon in which magick is empty-handed and where it is recognized that "nothing is true, everything is permitted."
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I play Guild Wars.
As far as destroying the world, I don't think anyone really needs to worry about that. The human race is doing a good enough job of trashing the world already. Don't you just love the smell of carbon monoxide in the morning?
And just think, a really long time ago people used to smell the cedar when they woke up. Cedar, I say!
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personaly im not really scared of the world we live in cuz its all greed and greed can be defeated if done correctly
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It doesn't need to be defeated. Greed will defeat itself if you just sit and wait long enough.
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Wouldn't greed's own self destruction be a sufficient example?
Ok, maybe keeping people from getting hurt might be some motivation, but it could be an educational experience for them. Would you want to keep them from learning a valuable lesson for themselves?