Lot's of Answers ,No Solutions

[Wasillaguy]

Originally Posted by Charles

Don't worry, if we don't kill ourselves off, the planet will do it for us.

Chas

This.

We multiply and consume, with no natural predators to keep our numbers in check. If we somehow avoid killing each other at war, diseases and pathogens will do the job.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

This.

We multiply and consume, with no natural predators to keep our numbers in check. If we somehow avoid killing each other at war, diseases and pathogens will do the job.

Especially as we allow folks like Monsanto to ensure that our milk supply is laden with antibiotics so that the germs now are immune to them.

Although maybe Mad Uncle Wayne is a sort of predator.

[one1]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

This.

We multiply and consume, with no natural predators to keep our numbers in check. If we somehow avoid killing each other at war, diseases and pathogens will do the job.

Yes ,Like having the plague,One thing for sure though People will never cease to be their selves.

Has a lot to do with mans situation also.No matter what affiliation or what membership card we carry,we get the Idea that some are not as worthy of Sharing the same rights and Liberty's as some of us Enjoy.The world runs on a Class system and it goes into every social and financial or intellectual fiber of our world.we are not the higher beings we think we are and someday we will be shown this.

[CarlV]

I don't see the need to sacrifice the future generations that could find a solution to it.


Carl

[one1]

"MAN IS THE PROBLEM" and this is why. I have really been into this all day.And i totally give that Man as a Species And as a Caretaker of this planet has effed up royally!!!
for those that have not already seen this,, take your pick it all involves "US" http://www.youtube.com/user/storyofstuffproject/videos

[one1]

How can we be the Great thinkers that we think we are and not see a effect to what we is going in the name of our comfort here on earth.
http://storyofstuff.org/

[one1]

On Death,
Then Almitra spoke, saying, “We would ask now of Death.”

And he said:

You would know the secret of death.

But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?

The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;

And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?

Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

- Khalil Gibran

[Charles]

Originally Posted by one1

On Death,
Then Almitra spoke, saying, “We would ask now of Death.”

And he said:

You would know the secret of death.

But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?

The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;

And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?

Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

- Khalil Gibran

I like that.

Chas

[one1]

Just found this too,boy does it bring memories,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL-KCFbIpA

[merrylander]

Been too many years since I've read Gibran's works, tho if mamory serves the children had me read some verses of his at their wedding. Guess it really did not work as they are now divorced.