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How will human life on the third rock from the sun end? A comet, or a bug, or nuclear war, or alien creatures might come and kick us all in the posterior.
Actually, probably, well, possibly, one of these millions of years, all life will cease on our planet, except for very hardy micro-organisms. What are the candidates to do the evil deed?
First up in the batter’s box is some sort of super-duper bug that will make Covid look like a walk in the park. Second in the batting order will be a nuclear war between human beings. In third place? A gigantic comet will come crashing down upon us, obliterating the entire planet. That one will challenge even our fellow micro-organism creatures. In the clean-up position? Who knows. Maybe advanced powerful alien creatures from the planet Zorgon who want to eat us all.
But whatever is this threat, the danger will be enhanced by human error. What kind of mistake are we making? We are fighting each other. Mary Tyler Moore used to say that “love is all around us.” We can now opine, more accurately, unfortunately, that “hostility is all around us.” Wars abound; there are more of them than you can shake a stick at. Violent crime is seemingly ever erupting.
What is the source of all of this? The sociobiological explanation might well be the most accurate: we humans needed a nasty streak in order to fight off the saber tooth lions and their brethren of field and stream when all we had was sticks and rocks at our disposal. But the residue of such behavior is still with us, when it is no longer needed; when it is positively harmful to our well-being. Any 90-pound weakling of our species with the proper equipment can nowadays make minced meat of the most ferocious mega fauna now bestriding the earth or swimming around in its waters. And this goes as well for dinosaurs should they ever pop up again, several movies to the contrary notwithstanding.
The point I am trying to make is that we human beings face problems, serious ones. Several can mean the end of life as we know it. The more serious ones can eventuate in the death of all of us, children and grandchildren included. Do we really want to risk this? Are we really going to fritter our way out of saving ourselves by fighting each other? Can we not resolve to cease and desist from what in effect might possibly become species annihilation? If not, we will be committing mass suicide.
The first step, it seems to me, is to somehow orchestrate a cease fire and then a lasting peace between Russia and Ukraine. Part and parcel of this would be that the former should obligate itself not to topple the government of the latter, nor criminalize any of its leaders; in response, the latter should give up all efforts to join NATO. That organization should be disbanded in any peace treaty, not further expanded in an eastward direction. Let’s say no to the entrance of Finland and Sweden.
There are equally serious conflagrations continually occurring in Africa. A large part of this emanates from the fact that Europeans all too often set up national boundaries that totally ignored ethnicity. This is a recipe for disaster. Secession might well be the best way out of this morass. But that will take understanding and willingness to see the other side’s view that unhappily is in all too short supply. Why should it be alright for the thirteen colonies to secede from England, but not, say, for California or Texas, to depart from the United States? A peaceful secession would also dampen down the threat of war in Spain.
Is this too much to ask from our fellow humans? Probably it is, given our history of murdering each other. But, happily, we can now at least ask. Maybe, pray for peace and good will toward each other. As for those aliens, why not reserve our nastiness for them?
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Ok. I read this silliness.
No God. No Bible. We can save ourselves if we just decide to get along.
Sorry, but I just can’t take speculation from people who haven’t bothered to check out the once and future program. (“…ya can’t tell the players without a program!)
I always thought it would end in either of 3 different ways.
1) War
2) Pandemic
3) Famine.
BUT, I do not see any scenario where 100% of humans are extinguished from the face of the earth.
The sun WILL run out of fuel. Eventually. Then … comes the BIG KABOOM!!
Only 1.2 BILLION years to go Stucky, the sun is in no danger of a KABOOM.
BL here.
and you know this because????
Red/Yellow dwarfs expand as they age. They are not big enough to have a cataclysmic collapse and bang.
Human life will end on its collective knees begging for mercy before the Author and Finisher.
Amen!
I never really was jealous of rich people, but this Davos-Rothschild-psychopath control class need to be put in their place once and for all to teach to stay in their sandboxes instead of on the backs of the regular people. And I’m talking going medieval on their asses and those that protect them.
“The first step, it seems to me, is to somehow orchestrate a cease fire and then a lasting peace between Russia and Ukraine”
No, No, and No. How bout we just stay out of their business.
When was the last time the US govt. did anything correctly? Or more to the point, that some action from this satanic govt. wasn’t simply to effect more wealth and power to themselves and their sponsors regardless the consequences to anyone else.
Yup, the empire has gotten it’s ass handed to it every time since Korea. It all about the money that comes from killing. No need to really win. The objective is achieved win, lose or draw.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u4DCFvaK7LA
Some people say that the Hopi were the first people on this planet. DNA tests shows the Hopi does have a unique DNA. Hindu tradtion has it that we are in the age of Kali Yuga. The last age
We survived the Toba Event. We’ll survive whatever comes next.
My best guess is not enough water eliminating 61.8 of humans. But as to the “end of man”…
“I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.”
Kudos to anyone who can name the speaker & where he said this.
“I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.
He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.”
—– William Faulkner, 1950, Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Faulkner was quite an optimist.
In his day science sought to modify the OUTWARD environment …. from washing machines to space shuttles.
Today science is increasingly aimed inward …. at modifying our minds, memories, personalities … even merging soul and silicon. The New Human 2.0
Wonder if his optimism would waver today?
Congrats! Evelyn Wilder made us learn it by heart in the 8th Grade at Chastain Jr HS in Jackson, MS. If you can find Faulkner’s “Speeches, Essays & Public Letters” (Random House), buy it, as it is truly priceless in content and prophetic about integration in the South. Faulkner was no racist but foresaw thar rapid integration would be disastrous.
As for optimism, he’d be quite informative. Remember, he went to that ‘ol “Rive Gauche” in the 1920s, and Sherwood Anderson told him to go back home and write about what he knew. Great advice.
I’m always opiomistic but wary. Growing great broccoli, maters, onions, cabbage, collards, etc. this year. And live in the middle of nowhere with great neighbors. Who have chickens.
I always root for the comet, meteor, asteroid, etc.
It only shows the underlying delusions of grandeur (instilled by the Western Modernity upbringing) when the author starts with “how we can end human life on Earth”, or even full ludicrous mode with “how to end all life on Earth.”
We would likely not be able to kill off all humans. Especially not by “super-bugs”, as there are always a few people that are immune, by some genetic lottery.
And it completely impossible to end all life on earth, down to the last bacteria, as long as we are not able to switch off the sun, or blow all of our oceans and atmosphere into space and disallow new ones forming (from gases emanating from volcanoes.)
That silly intro then devalues the later, pretty good considerations in the article.
War is the default human setting.
She walks into Smokey’s
one hip at a time
Like a broken field runner
slippin’ through the lines
He likes the way she looks
so he calls a little wife
says don’t wait up for me,
I’ll be workin late tonight.
Wife hangs up the phone bursts into tears
calls her sister up and cries get over here.
Sister tells her boyfriend be back in awhile
boyfriend wants a beer, the store is just a mile.
Leaves the motor runnin’ he’ll only be a minute,
his car drives away with teenagers in it.
Driver tells his buddies, got one life to live
they scream into the night, lets get it over with.
Cause and effect, chain of events,
All of the chaos makes perfect sense,
When we’re spinnin’ round,
Things come undone.
Welcome to the earth, third rock from the sun.
The kid guns the gas, car starts to swerve
Heads for a semi-truck, jumps the curb
Truck hits a bigboy in the Shoney’s parking lot
Flies through the air, takes out the bank clock
Clock strikes a light pole, transformer sparks
lines go down, town goes dark.
Waitress calls the cops says she saw it all
swears a giant alien has landed at the mall
Cops ring up the mayor says there’s panic in the street,
hate to wake you up but we cant find the chief,
mayor says use your head, if he ain’t in his car
he’s hiding from his wife, down at Smokey’s bar
Cause and effect, chain of events,
All of the chaos makes perfect sense,
When we’re spinnin’ round,
Things come undone.
Welcome to the earth, third rock from the sun.
Mankind will do himself in. We are a species of beings ruled by psychopaths who are by nature self destructive. Mankind has been walking the earth in its present form for nearly a half million years, and yet we only have recorded history going back about three thousand. There is a reason for that. We try to exterminate ourselves on a regular basis.
We are all given the choice to be either a coworker with God or a coworker with Satan.