RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL

kiwi_2005 · 11-03-05, 04:13 PM

STOP!!!.

My son came home from school to day and told me his science teacher said that if man does not slow down he will use up all the earths energy resources within 15-20 years. Is he right? My mind boggled at the thought of Man coming to a stop. And if it truly happened man would surely die... or save himself.

Lets say man has been around for 5000 yrs, and say within the last 300yrs man went from hunter/gatherer to discovering electricity inventing firearms to weapons of mass destruction. Man took a mighty big leap from hunter/gatherer to now modern man in a very short time period. Why did it take us so long to discover electricity or invent firearms. For 4700 yrs (going by the 5000yr theory) man ran around hunting for food, useing primitive weapons living in primitve houses and moving forward in small steps. He didn't really do that great, he didn't really need too. He had shelter he had his mate and plenty of food. What more did he need.

Then we jump ahead to around the 1850's all of a sudden we became very advance in our thinking.

Today what man has achieved is just mind boggling, modern Transportation, air travel, space travel, communication devices,computers, advanced medicines, weapons of mass destruction, and weatlh to name a few. Everything now is moving very fast in our world. if i went back in time say 1000 yrs and said to the people of that time "Man will create machines that can travel round the world
under water" i probably would of been accused of being a warlock and burnt at the stake, yet we achieved it. So i could say the cloning of humans will prolong life resulting in living forever is within mans grasp? And cloning humans would be a way to cheat death? We die but we have stored data of our DNA and memories which are transfered into the new clone of ourselves. Is it possible? From
what has been achieved in the last 150 years of course its possible!, yet probably in a few hundred or more yrs from now.

Everyday man is busy thinking up something better than the last. What will be created today he'll be making plans to better it tomorrow. The scary thing is, will we ever stop!. For example: We have phones to communicate around the world yet are building new better phones each yr, We got computers but theres powerfull ones to come, we got sleek fast cars but we desire much faster sleeker cars, we got weapons to destroy cities yet if we could build a bomb that could destroy the planet we will build it.
Will we one day be satisfied where we can say enough?. Are we striving for perfection, is it greed? Or do we do it because we can?

Maybe we are just "Running with the Devil" and without realising it on the path to nearly destroying ourselfs and reversing back to the primitve days....

GENESIS: Now the whole earth had one language and one speech and they said, "Come let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." But the Lord came down to see the city and tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be witheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

And we all line up to jump on the bandwagon. :|\

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11-03-05, 04:13 PM	#1
kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL STOP!!!. My son came home from school to day and told me his science teacher said that if man does not slow down he will use up all the earths energy resources within 15-20 years. Is he right? My mind boggled at the thought of Man coming to a stop. And if it truly happened man would surely die... or save himself. Lets say man has been around for 5000 yrs, and say within the last 300yrs man went from hunter/gatherer to discovering electricity inventing firearms to weapons of mass destruction. Man took a mighty big leap from hunter/gatherer to now modern man in a very short time period. Why did it take us so long to discover electricity or invent firearms. For 4700 yrs (going by the 5000yr theory) man ran around hunting for food, useing primitive weapons living in primitve houses and moving forward in small steps. He didn't really do that great, he didn't really need too. He had shelter he had his mate and plenty of food. What more did he need. Then we jump ahead to around the 1850's all of a sudden we became very advance in our thinking. Today what man has achieved is just mind boggling, modern Transportation, air travel, space travel, communication devices,computers, advanced medicines, weapons of mass destruction, and weatlh to name a few. Everything now is moving very fast in our world. if i went back in time say 1000 yrs and said to the people of that time "Man will create machines that can travel round the world under water" i probably would of been accused of being a warlock and burnt at the stake, yet we achieved it. So i could say the cloning of humans will prolong life resulting in living forever is within mans grasp? And cloning humans would be a way to cheat death? We die but we have stored data of our DNA and memories which are transfered into the new clone of ourselves. Is it possible? From what has been achieved in the last 150 years of course its possible!, yet probably in a few hundred or more yrs from now. Everyday man is busy thinking up something better than the last. What will be created today he'll be making plans to better it tomorrow. The scary thing is, will we ever stop!. For example: We have phones to communicate around the world yet are building new better phones each yr, We got computers but theres powerfull ones to come, we got sleek fast cars but we desire much faster sleeker cars, we got weapons to destroy cities yet if we could build a bomb that could destroy the planet we will build it. Will we one day be satisfied where we can say enough?. Are we striving for perfection, is it greed? Or do we do it because we can? Maybe we are just "Running with the Devil" and without realising it on the path to nearly destroying ourselfs and reversing back to the primitve days.... GENESIS: Now the whole earth had one language and one speech and they said, "Come let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." But the Lord came down to see the city and tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be witheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. And we all line up to jump on the bandwagon. :\|\ :\|\ __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.