Life After People (History Channel)

[70Chip]

Originally Posted by saden1

I love Life After People. I love how the History Channel takes a 2 hour show and turn it into a series. How the Earth Was Made is one of my fav shows.

Everything decays! Even the entire planet! What a scary thought.

It's not scary at all.

[saden1]

Originally Posted by 70Chip

It's not scary at all.

It depends if you believe in a magical place called heaven.

[70Chip]

Originally Posted by saden1

It depends if you believe in a magical place called heaven.

It depends on whether you have failed to absorb the obvious fact that the present reality we inhabit and everything in it is losing momentum and will one day collapse on itself. Only someone who has drunk a lot of kool-aid about the perfectability of man and other kindergarten fairy tales would be shocked to find out that planet Earth will not go on forever as it is right now.

[saden1]

Originally Posted by 70Chip

It depends on whether you have failed to absorb the obvious fact that the present reality we inhabit and everything in it is losing momentum and will one day collapse on itself. Only someone who has drunk a lot of kool-aid about the perfectability of man and other kindergarten fairy tales would be shocked to find out that planet Earth will not go on forever as it is right now.

Knowing something and realizing the implication of it are two different things. Everyone knows their parents are going to die but not everyone realize it until they're actually dead. From secular-humanist-none-magical-place-believer what is frightening is not that the earth is going to die someday but that mankind is done for once it does and there will be no recovering from it. I guess what I'm really trying to get at is that the mortality of the entire human race frightens me more than my own mortality.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by saden1

Knowing something and realizing the implication of it are two different things. Everyone knows their parents are going to die but not everyone realize it until they're actually dead. From secular-humanist-none-magical-place-believer what is frightening is not that the earth is going to die someday but that mankind is done for once it does and there will be no recovering from it. I guess what I'm really trying to get at is that the mortality of the entire human race frightens me more than my own mortality.

well, that's kinda why I think it's more blah blah blah than anything. I don't really see a "mortality of the entire human race". I think we are a vibrant, intelligent, and adaptable species, that will under anything other than a supernatural event, will find ways to survive. So, I won't be scared because some tv show pretends to have an idea of what could happen 10,000 years in the future, or for that matter a politico's inconvenient truth.

[saden1]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

well, that's kinda why I think it's more blah blah blah than anything. I don't really see a "mortality of the entire human race". I think we are a vibrant, intelligent, and adaptable species, that will under anything other than a supernatural event, will find ways to survive. So, I won't be scared because some tv show pretends to have an idea of what could happen 10,000 years in the future, or for that matter a politico's inconvenient truth.

I'm not sure you realize how handicapped we actually are. We're vulnerable and fragile species that's very much in danger of being whipped out completely on a whim.

Here's to becoming a Type III Civilization as soon as possible.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by saden1

I'm not sure you realize how handicapped we actually are. We're vulnerable and fragile species that's very much in danger of being whipped out completely on a whim.

Here's to becoming a Type III Civilization as soon as possible.

I'm quite sure I understand the frailty of the human race. That being said, I am fairly certain you don't understand the power of the human spirit.

[70Chip]

Originally Posted by saden1

Knowing something and realizing the implication of it are two different things. Everyone knows their parents are going to die but not everyone realize it until they're actually dead. From secular-humanist-none-magical-place-believer what is frightening is not that the earth is going to die someday but that mankind is done for once it does and there will be no recovering from it. I guess what I'm really trying to get at is that the mortality of the entire human race frightens me more than my own mortality.

I say we all have a toast to the end of mankind and the closing of the age. Once we're gone, it'll be like we weren't even here at all.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by saden1

It depends if you believe in a magical place called heaven.

Saden, if you don't believe in heaven, then this shouldn't be scary anyways, since the whole point of it is 1000's of years AFTER people. Chances are 100% you won't be here to see it, hence, not scary.
And if you do believe in a new heaven and a new earth, then most of this is just modern day blah blah blah anyways.

[saden1]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Saden, if you don't believe in heaven, then this shouldn't be scary anyways, since the whole point of it is 1000's of years AFTER people. Chances are 100% you won't be here to see it, hence, not scary.
And if you do believe in a new heaven and a new earth, then most of this is just modern day blah blah blah anyways.

See answer above.