When humans ALMOST went extinct

[[DHT]Osiris]

Regardless of how many we want to consider, I don't believe that your real feelings were joy at the thought your trees would become a forest.

It actually is. It elicits overt and overwhelming feelings of joy for me. I would love to peek into the future, and see the ruins of society with 300' tall trees piercing above a post-post-apocalyptic wasteland, host to an entire ecosystem of life with nary a human around.

Did you see anything hopeful in the notion of God4.0?

I don't find hope in human inventions. They're inevitably ruined by humans, religion included.

 

[Moonbeam]

Much was said in that post. Care to be more specific, what exactly do you not agree with?
My belief, from both history and current observation, is that humans are not rational actors.

There is nothing wrong with your observations, in my opinion. The problem I have is with your interpretation of the meaning of what you see. What you see as a fixed condition of human nature I see as a motivated state. It is the fear of knowing what we really feel that makes us irrational. The fear of feeling what we feel can dissipate via self confrontation, a search for the golden fleece, the waters of life, memories of the Garden of Eden. It is all there staring us in the face in stories with archetypal meaning.

 

[Moonbeam]

It actually is. It elicits overt and overwhelming feelings of joy for me. I would love to peek into the future, and see the ruins of society with 300' tall trees piercing above a post-post-apocalyptic wasteland, host to an entire ecosystem of life with nary a human around.


I don't find hope in human inventions. They're inevitably ruined by humans, religion included.

You would love to peak into the future but you have no use for human inventions that might allow millions of children who will never be born to never have the experience you wish for. And you call that joy. I would call you profoundly depressed. Sorry

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

You would love to peak into the future but you have no use for human inventions that might allow millions of children who will never be born to never have the experience you wish for. And you call that joy. I would call you profoundly depressed. Sorry

There is an uncountable number of experiences both joyful and tragic that myself, yourself, and an uncountable number of unborn children will never experience. Attempting to equate that fact to my emotional state is rather pointless and a waste of your time.