[CNCRaymond]

Here is a thought for ya to consider.

What if we are all that is left of life out there?

What if there are no more planets for us to colonize?

What if all that we will ever have is what we have here?

Think of it this way; five people are stranded on a desert island with enough rations to Last one month. How long do you think it will take one of them to figure out that if he bumps off the other four, he will have enough rations to keep him alive for many months?

What we have here and now is the best we will ever have it. Our resources are dwindling away and our population is increasing at a tremendous rate. Eventually there will not be enough to go around.

If you take an empty bottle that takes exactly one hour to fill if you start by adding one peanut to it and every minute that follows you double the amount of peanuts you add to it, (1 then 2, then 4, then 8 etc), at what point will that bottle be half full?

Albert Bartlett, a mathematician and economic specialist has shown without a doubt that math does not lie when it comes to growth and consumption of resources. Eventually our growth will out pace our ability to meet our basic demands. That democracy is reduced by growth and that freedom will diminish as our resources do and our population increases.

No religion in the universe is going to save us from ourselves. We are here alone, on this fragile little planet out here in the farthest reaches of known space, all alone in the dark, with no hope for survival. There is going to be no salvation, no utopia, and no future for our race, our planet, or our concept of faith.

God cannot save us, so stop hoping that he will. Our number has been punched before we were ever conceived.

Do this, play a game like Civ3. You start out with this huge map and all this free space. Over time that free space becomes less and less as you expand. Eventually what was once vast open spaces is now all city and full of population. A hundred years ago most of the USA was still wilderness and unpopulated, but now, freeways and housing developments everywhere. Think how bad it is going to be in the next hundred years?

Just remember this simple philosophy, nothing really matter five minutes after you do it. For in a hundred years, what you have done will mean nothing. In a thousand years no one will ever know you did it.

I give us about fifty more years before all hell breaks out and the war to survive begins. No amount of money will protect you when this happens, no amount of faith, no amount of hope. It is simply going to be a matter of survival, for if we do not do something soon; Mother Nature is going to do it for us.

[ February 28, 2003, 04:01: Message edited by: CNCRaymond ]