In a thousand years....

[KayinBlack]

I'll still be here, trying to escape the hordes of robots bent on eradicating me. Least by then I'll have gotten a better body...

[Thacrudd]

If the human race doesn't destroy themselves first, then we will be using teleporters and getting our energy from fusion. We will be starting to colonize the close parts of the solar system. That is if the crazies and pollution doesn't do us in.

[Nexxo]

Originally Posted by outlawaol

Nexxo, the old testament is widely based on legalism. Mainly because of the Holy spirit not indwelling in the saved, and because God was still literally speaking to the people (meaning because of that you literally where practicing/remembering what God had told you to do)! You wont get this because you are not saved. It would be like trying to explain the function of a CO2 detector to a caveman.

When the red light flashes and it squeals, it's bad, right?

Don't worry about it. Cavemen didn't know about CO2 detectors but they did know not to light a fire deep inside a cave.

Originally Posted by outlawaol

Jesus is about grace, and by that I am saved. And NOT by my own understanding/strength/knowledge/works (insert humility here). If I lean on my own, I fall, if I lean on Him (Jesus) I stand. By His grace I live, and by faith I am saved. I dont try and change people, people are changed by Jesus. Nexxo, Jesus does indeed love you, and when you stand before Him and God you will have nothing to stand on. Our works are as filthly rags to Him, but through Christ Jesus I am as Holy before God as Jesus Himself. As hippy and offbeat as that may seem so be it. Just remember you wont have any reason that you denied Him, when you stand in judgment. My faith is about giving up self, all of it. And that is indeed a hard thing to do, I admit! But through that change, and that dying of self daily, I live through Christ, and Christ lives through me.

Take it as you will. Its the truth! Jesus does change lives...

All beliefs are "true", for a given value of "true". But my point is that the Old Testament and the Qu'ran do contain passages that wouldn't exactly get a PG rating. Violence, war and conquest were preached, sanctioned and glorified, no matter how we choose to dress it up now. I have some beliefs about that. And if my disapproval of such preachings puts me in Jesus' bad books, then you are right, and I never knew Him at all.

[Nexxo]

Originally Posted by KayinBlack

I'll still be here, trying to escape the hordes of robots bent on eradicating me. Least by then I'll have gotten a better body...

Your real name is John Connor, isn't it?

[Altron]

I think that food will be plentiful, most major diseases will have been cured, and people will live 150 years. And everyone still complain about how much life sucks.

In 1008, you had to worry about the plague, or about your village burning down, or your children starving in the winter because there are no crops. And you'd be lucky to make it past age 40.

If you took someone from 1008 and brought them to 2008, they would see people living much longer, every known disease cured, wars decreased in severity, more personal freedoms, amazing medicine, and creature comforts that they couldn't even dream of.

[zhangmaster12]

women will genetically have perfect boobs...

[bahgger]

Originally Posted by outlawaol

Title speaks for itself. What do you think the world will be like in a 1000 years? Alien overlords? Armageddon? Living on the moon? Telepathy? Smaller brains bigger butts?

I personally believe that Jesus is going to come back. I'll be grasped from this world then all of mankind will deal with Satan for a 1000 years, then me and Jesus and all the saved will comeback and cleanse the planet of Satan and all sin.

I suppose I wouldn't actually be alive in a 1000 years, so I guess my response has a closer time frame!

Suppose my idea dosnt come till well after or around a 1000 years, I suppose its possible that the planet will just be dying. Losing all its ability to sustain its inhabitants. Pollution is going to do it all in.

He hasn't shown up in the bloody last two millenia, what makes you so special that he'll come in the next two millenia?!

[Nexxo]

Jesus is always about to come back. The world is always about to end. Everything is always about to change.

[Altron]

Originally Posted by Nexxo

Jesus is always about to come back. The world is always about to end. Everything is always about to change.

Maybe you don't watch South Park, but He already has His own daytime talk show in Colorado called "Jesus and Pals".

[outlawaol]

Originally Posted by bahgger

He hasn't shown up in the bloody last two millenia, what makes you so special that he'll come in the next two millenia?!

Well, if I die today. Im saved. If I am taken up through the rapture, Im still saved. So I am special in that I have the hope of life no matter what! You can to you know... Jesus will come into your life if you let Him...

What gets me is people are always "looking" for a means to know where we came from, like the mars water thing. People exclaimed "we know where we came from, the evidence is right on that other planet!" And yet, we look past the nose on our own face with our own planet. There are countless species that can not exist if it wasn't for intelligent design. You can rationalize evolution all you wish, but some species are so complex it is like saying a internal combustion engine, and its fuel, came from random acts of accidents, on its own. See, when people hear themselves talk, and talk for so long. They start to believe there own theories, and the scientific community itself is in turmoil!

Southpark is a detestable program, and in of itself is destroying minds/relationships. When does entertainment become a mind set?

[supermonkey]

Well, I don't know about humans, but I can see that this thread's topic has evolved into something else, and it sure isn't going anywhere intelligent.



Run for teh hillz!!!!

-monkey

[relix]

To the people who think we'll all have perfect bodies (e.g. big tits, huge eyes, perfect boobs - funny, how it's all about women): I don't think so. Yes, perchance fancy women have a slight advantage in finding mates, but when you take love and current medicine technologies into account, you can see that an exterior genetical advantage doesn't necessarily provide you with a number-of-descendants advantage.

In short: ugly people have kids too.

[Cthippo]

Originally Posted by relix

In short: ugly people have kids too.

Beautiful people have ugly children as well, so it's not always heritable.

That, and the standards of beauty change a lot faster than mere evolution can keep up.

[Nexxo]

Originally Posted by outlawaol

What gets me is people are always "looking" for a means to know where we came from, like the mars water thing. People exclaimed "we know where we came from, the evidence is right on that other planet!" And yet, we look past the nose on our own face with our own planet. There are countless species that can not exist if it wasn't for intelligent design. You can rationalize evolution all you wish, but some species are so complex it is like saying a internal combustion engine, and its fuel, came from random acts of accidents, on its own.

Yeah, I particularly like the appendix, the way our hair stands on end for no discernable function, the way that the eye's photoreceptors are tucked behind the nerve layer they connect to, the sharp ridges of the sphenoid bone in the skull right below some of the most delicate brain structures and blood vessels, accounting for most of the traumatic brain injury damage... Give me a break. Lifeforms are so full of design flaws and vestigial features that God must have been a cowboy builder.

What gets me is people criticising evolution when it is blatantly obvious they don't understand any of it. Like you said, CO2 detectors and cavemen...

Originally Posted by outlawaol

See, when people hear themselves talk, and talk for so long. They start to believe there own theories, and the scientific community itself is in turmoil!

You're just projecting now, aren't you?

[Ramble]

Originally Posted by outlawaol

What gets me is people are always "looking" for a means to know where we came from, like the mars water thing.

You're doing the same thing, but I choose to base my origins on evidence and you choose to base them on a book about a telepathic zombie in a father and son team, cleaning up the world one soul at a time.

[supermonkey]

Originally Posted by Nexxo

Give me a break. Lifeforms are so full of design flaws and vestigial features that God must have been a cowboy builder.

QFE. No intelligent architect runs a waste line through a recreational area.

-monkey

[Nexxo]

^^^ ROFL.

Absolutely. The male urethra runs straight through the prostate gland, one of the most vulnerable glands susceptible to infections. Go figure.

[lcdguy]

realistically, the world economy will most likely fail and the earth will be eradiated by a nuclear war as there is no way that isn't going to happen in 1000 years. Or alternatively. Some crap will happen between now and 3008

[daguuy]

I don't see a good future. Here's my various predictions:

1. The world will become so overpopulated it can't sustain decent life so there will be lots of death, famine, and poverty. It will be much like the middle ages but with a butt load more people and starvation.

2. For the same reason (overpopulation) the world will be in ruins but technology will have advanced far enough for the matrix to become a reality and we will live in a different virtual world while our physical bodies lie motionless in pod things that connect us to the matrix. There will inevitably be tyrannical rulers (politicians/admins) of the virtual world who will use firewall-like software to ensure that their "lives" are better than the common people and the common people will "live" in a restricted and relatively unhappy virtual environment much like a crappy videogame.

3. People will eventually recognized overpopulation as the biggest threat to humanity after global warming doesn't happen to the degree most people think will happen and realize they need to have less kids (possibly with laws to enforce it) and life will go on. Assuming this happens, here's what else could happen:

a) This is the most likely scenario - technology will become so advanced that governments will not only have laws to make life crap, they will have the power to electronically moniter everybody and use high tech automated weaponry to make sure no rebellion can possibly happen and the world will be in permanent tyranny. Unfortunately this technology is already becoming available, fueled by society's growing dependance on the internet, which will become owned and moderated by the government.

b) People will get pissed off enough with the government's growing power that they will overthrow it before it gains too much control (which is highly unlikey because most people are pussies) and create a new constitution that more strictly preserves rights because the one we have now will be long gone, most likely as a result of nuclear war. Things will start all over again much like the founding of a new country, but this one will engulf the whole world.

4. We will be extinct or set back to very primitive caveman lifestyles, most likely as a result of nuclear war.

[liratheal]

In a thousand years I see myself doing your daughter.

Or, you know, like the rest of us, either cremated or rotting away in a wooden box in the ground.

Make your own damned future, some books written by some religious people quite some time ago, no doubt piss-poorly translated so the original message is not there (I bet half the bible was originally how to roll a good joint), should not rule how you see the world, and damn sure shouldn't rule what you see yourself doing in the future, whether that be a month or a decade.

Don't know about you, but I'd rather go to bed thinking about boobs and beer, not wondering whether I could wake up to the rapture, alien invasions, nuclear war or whatever.