Man's greatest enemy
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I would say nature. Despite our advances in technology we are still powerless against hurricanes, floods ect. It's not just natural disasters though but every single aspect. We need the air to remain reasonably clean to breathe, we need soil to stay healthy to grow food. There are those out there that seem to think that with technology we don't rely on the earth that much anymore but when you really think it through we are screwed if something goes wrong.
As many fine gentlemen have noted before me, I would say...
#1 = Reality/Nature/The Universe. Has. It. All. Since it includes everything else! We're scr*wed. Literally. For all infinity... :|
The most deadly aspects of the aforementioned are probably:
- Man himself (humanity);
- the laws of physics / the physical laws (we still don't know them well enough!);
- ignorance, stupidity, human sins, thinking that we are right;
- believing in our species' superiority while any deadly virus or other biological threat might kill us all off relatively easy;
- other natural disasters...;
- being evil;
- being good;
- not giving a fuck about anything;
- the feeling of doom & giving up;
- not pursuing progress, prosperity and health for all life, including ourselves...;
- religions, governments, politicians, bureaucracy, real conspiracies, aliens, monsters, ghosts, dudes from alternative universes...;
- starvation, poverty, social alienation, global injustice...;
- hypocrisy, double standards, human inequalities...
I think that those mostly sum and wrap everything up...
P.S. Good topic for a thread, well done.
#1 = Reality/Nature/The Universe. Has. It. All. Since it includes everything else! We're scr*wed. Literally. For all infinity... :|
The most deadly aspects of the aforementioned are probably:
- Man himself (humanity);
- the laws of physics / the physical laws (we still don't know them well enough!);
- ignorance, stupidity, human sins, thinking that we are right;
- believing in our species' superiority while any deadly virus or other biological threat might kill us all off relatively easy;
- other natural disasters...;
- being evil;
- being good;
- not giving a fuck about anything;
- the feeling of doom & giving up;
- not pursuing progress, prosperity and health for all life, including ourselves...;
- religions, governments, politicians, bureaucracy, real conspiracies, aliens, monsters, ghosts, dudes from alternative universes...;
- starvation, poverty, social alienation, global injustice...;
- hypocrisy, double standards, human inequalities...
I think that those mostly sum and wrap everything up...
P.S. Good topic for a thread, well done.
Ottomans. Evil, conniving, plotting ottomans. Licking their chops and staring at your shins. Moving in the dark to position their sharpest corners in the best way to cause as much pain as possible. They are damn clever too. Holding up near their faithful minions coffee table and chair leg in the hopes that the initial impact will send you reeling into a painful collision with one of their mates. At this point I think I may have overdone it, but who reads these things anyway?
Ninja'd by OP! Been a while since that's happened.Blobpie said:
I guess illnesses that guarantee death.
That sounds like a challenge...Shoggoth2588 said:
OT: Our own curiosity. We always need an answer, and we can jump to illogical ones just because we want one so badly (see: religion).
Um....Why? Seriously, just...Why?sahwar said:
Oh, also, I was going to make a joke where I very dramatically did something like this....
[HEADING=1]MAN HIMSELF!!!![/HEADING]
But I can see that people are actually saying that seriously. So.....awkward.
OT:I believe George Carlin had something interesting to say on the subject...
Unfortunately, he doesn't actually answer the question until about 6:20, but it's a really fascinating video nonetheless,
and I recommend you watch it.
Ideas.
Think genocide and war, both based on the belief that other people are wrong and you are right.
Yeah, its harsh, but true.
Think genocide and war, both based on the belief that other people are wrong and you are right.
Yeah, its harsh, but true.