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88keys

88keys

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There is now more history and more recorded history than there ever has been in all of history. That means there are now more years, months, weeks, and days, than there have ever been before.

The more days that we accumulate, the more likely that one of those days will be the day that a bunch of really really bad shit happens.
 
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mikeymikec

mikeymikec

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EagleKeeper said:
And your point is?
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That if we try to learn all the lessons that history has to teach us, we won't be looking to the future in time to be ready for <INSERT DISASTER HERE>. !!

Perhaps?

We must get rid of history before it has a chance to overwhelm us.

Take a lesson from Fry:

It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?
 
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Looking at history I think we are closer to another plague. We had a war with terrorists. We had an economical collapse. A plague is probably past due to be honest. People don't think we can have them these days. They think medicine has it beat. But they are so wrong. Sadly I think with how globalized we are now that a huge plague is going to wipe out millions or even billions eventually :(
 
mikeymikec

mikeymikec

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Plagues work well with lots of encouraging elements, eg. poor sanitation, widespread vermin, poor waste management, lack of access to medical facilities. In most developed countries, those are pretty well managed. It doesn't leave a lot of potential for something plague-ish to run unchecked for very long. The only way that I can think of that a developed country could be naturally vulnerable (ie. not a case of human-caused deliberate infection) would be through the water supply. Even then, that only tends to suggest a localised outbreak.
 
Perknose

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lxskllr said:
I see someone read the latest tautological society newsletter.
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It's stirring moto? "We hold these obvious truths to be self evident!"

Still, I prefer the journal of the slackalogical society. It's more laid back.
 
Perknose

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If you have a history with the OP, answer him now, before your time runs out, leaving your front door wide open so that a rabid badger strolls right in and bites your toy poodle Bob Barker (awwww, so cute!)

The worst part? Your time, having run out (your front door,) is later found, drunk, at a local dive soliciting prostitutes. Your time is arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced, and imprisoned. That's right, your time ends up doing time. o_O

This disturbing meta condition of time doing time causes the very fabric of the universe to be rent apart, leaving it naked. Because deep space is chillier than your ex g/f, the now naked universe contracts pneumonia and dies, ending its jail sentence, which in turn ends this sentence.

And that's the truth. Or consequences. Which are never the same. But which was also a TV game show. On which time ran out. The front door. Letting a rabid badger on stage. Which bit the real Bob Barker. A smarmy game show host.

Smarmy game show hosts are not unlike toy poodles, if you take the time to think about it.

Take the time to think about it. Then take the time to your local dive for a drink. Just don't let it solicit any prostitutes. or you'll be forced back into the infinite loop of this post.

You'd be trapped in an infinite life sentence. A sentence composed of paragraphs, which is so mind-blowingly inverse from the norm, paragraphs usually consisting of sentences and not vice-versa, that the very fabric (I'm thinking a nice wool blend) of the universe would be rent apart, once again causing the universe to contract pneumonia, which would . . .
 
BoomerD

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Perknose said:
It's stirring moto? "We hold these obvious truths to be self evident!"

Still, I prefer the journal of the slackalogical society. It's more laid back.
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I am, and always will be, a member of...


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http://www.armory.com/~crisper/Scorch/


Here at the Scorched Earth Party, we are dedicated to a few simple principles:

that the concept of "life is sacred" is the best joke we've heard this year.
that nothing satisfies like clubbing some moron to death with a lead pipe.
that you can never get laid enough.
that the world will continue to deteriorate until 90% of its population is eliminated.

True happiness will never be yours unless you rise up with us. Join the 10% with the lead pipes. Help save the world through random, messy violence, and then wallow in carnal pleasure among the ruins.
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pmv

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This is why I am baffled why so many people seem to think its a good thing to 'make history'.

We already have a surplus of it* - far more than we know what to do with. We have a history mountain. The more you have of something the less it is worth, everyone knows this, basic economics.

Yet still people persist in wanting to make yet more of the stuff!

Just say no.

Its time to make history, history.

*most of it pretty grim
 
Rakehellion

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88keys said:
There is now more history and more recorded history than there ever has been in all of history. That means there are now more years, months, weeks, and days, than there have ever been before.

The more days that we accumulate, the more likely that one of those days will be the day that a bunch of really really bad shit happens.
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Actually, there may be less because a lot of history is forgotten and records destroyed.
 
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T9D

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mikeymikec said:
Plagues work well with lots of encouraging elements, eg. poor sanitation, widespread vermin, poor waste management, lack of access to medical facilities. In most developed countries, those are pretty well managed. It doesn't leave a lot of potential for something plague-ish to run unchecked for very long. The only way that I can think of that a developed country could be naturally vulnerable (ie. not a case of human-caused deliberate infection) would be through the water supply. Even then, that only tends to suggest a localised outbreak.
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An influenza type plague spread from people to people and taken on planes/boats/cars doesn't need any of that 3rd world type of living to happen.
 
BoomerD

BoomerD

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pmv said:
This is why I am baffled why so many people seem to think its a good thing to 'make history'.

We already have a surplus of it* - far more than we know what to do with. We have a history mountain. The more you have of something the less it is worth, everyone knows this, basic economics.

Yet still people persist in wanting to make yet more of the stuff!

Just say no.

Its time to make history, history.

*most of it pretty grim
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Not only do we need to eliminate much of our current stockpile of history...we need to eliminate the "history makers" before they can make more and more and more...
 
SlitheryDee

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Yeah but how much of it is history, and how much of it is just "information"?
 
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