In a thousand years....

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  1. KayinBlack

    KayinBlack Unrepentant Savage

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    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...
     
  2. Thacrudd

    Thacrudd Where's the any key?!?

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    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.
     
  3. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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

    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. ;)

    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.
     
  4. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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

    Altron Minimodder

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    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.
     
  6. zhangmaster12

    zhangmaster12 What's a Dremel?

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    women will genetically have perfect boobs...
     
  7. bahgger

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    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?!
     
  8. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    Jesus is always about to come back. The world is always about to end. Everything is always about to change. :rolleyes:
     
  9. Altron

    Altron Minimodder

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

    outlawaol Geeked since 1982

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    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?
     
  11. supermonkey

    supermonkey Deal with it

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    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.

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    Run for teh hillz!!!!

    -monkey
     
  12. relix

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    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.
     
  13. Cthippo

    Cthippo Can't mod my way out of a paper bag

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    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.
     
  14. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    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...

    You're just projecting now, aren't you? :p
     
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  15. Ramble

    Ramble Ginger Nut

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    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.
     
  16. supermonkey

    supermonkey Deal with it

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

    -monkey
     
  17. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    ^^^ ROFL. :D

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

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    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 :)
     
  19. daguuy

    daguuy I hate lolcats

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    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.
     
  20. liratheal

    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    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.
     

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