Zygimantas
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I think that when you look at humans 20,000 years ago you will see that they were in stateless societies. But naturally, when technology allowed them to do so, humans made allies and began to live in larger groups for efficiency, and civilizations and organized governments began to form. If we were in a stateless society right now then the same process would occur again. People are greedy, if you can't change that then a stateless society will not last.
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Society has taught us to be this way. We still have not let go of our primal urges and we're just blank slates as children. I didn't say progression was a bad thing, but economic growth can hardly be considered progression. If anything it holds back true progression. Greed is exactly like religion, it played a huge role in our rise to the top, but it is not necessary anymore (doing more harm than good).
I agree. But I also realized that as a human species we are just part of the universe. If we go extinct in 50 years then its ok. Everything comes and goes, even humanity. What happens to us is just another part of the beauty of existence.
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yes. But intelligence is just an illusion really.Could a banana be more intelligent than us, and the reason we have not observed this is because we are lacking the necessary intellectual ability or that the banana is so smart that it can give us the illusion that it's non-sentient?
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I dont find any of these to be good reasons for war, but I was listing all the reasons war does happen. Generally its summed up to either taking something from someone, forcing an ideology on someone, or retribution for an attack.
In my personal opinion I think without a state that could amass troops wars would only involve those directly involved and would affect 10's of people instead of 1000's or millions
I like your idea about a stateless society, but I still think that if humans don't change how they think at their core then no matter what political system we have there will be much suffering and violence in the world like there is now.
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Does economic downturn inhibit or encourage deep thought? Is recession necessary for a nation? What about war?
What do you mean by deep thought?
Intellectual advancement. Cultural movements. It's really open for interpretation, as many movements may have been negative, but it's often from times of turmoil that we see the most important ideas and people emerge.
And war is not necessary by any means
I'll disprove when I get home, if nobody else has.
War is a necessity to solve issues that cannot be solved diplomatically.
What is the cause of war?
Either to steal someone's land - so 1.) money, 2.) power are some causes with wanting land
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To force an ideology on them - so 3.) religion 4.) government
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Retribution for an attack - 5.) honor 6.) retribution
Generally with 1 or 2 there is an aggressor country and a victim country. With 3 and 4 these produce very violent wars as both sides desperately want to force their ideology on the other. And with 5 or 6 either the aggressive country acted with error or was attacking to provoke a war usually for reasons 1 or 2.
With 1 and 2 - diplomacy is impossible if the aggressive country wants to attack.
With 3 and 4 - diplomacy is also impossible and these tend to be very violent wars.
With 5 and 6 - diplomacy is possible but only if the victim country is willing to accept it.
But this sums up all the reasons why we have wars on the top of my head
And none of that is really necessary, just the way that many humans think make things like money, power and forcing ideologies seem necessary. In reality they are not, not everyone seems to want to see that though. Oh well.
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Does economic downturn inhibit or encourage deep thought? Is recession necessary for a nation? What about war?
What do you mean by deep thought?
Intellectual advancement. Cultural movements. It's really open for interpretation, as many movements may have been negative, but it's often from times of turmoil that we see the most important ideas and people emerge.
And war is not necessary by any means
I'll disprove when I get home, if nobody else has.
War is a necessity to solve issues that cannot be solved diplomatically.
Times of crisis make more people aware of problems, therefore change often arises from those times. Is change necessary? I don't know, but its going to happen anyway, everything changes.
War never solves anything in the long run, it just brings about more fear and hate which later leads to even more violence. Of course war is going to seem like a necessity then.
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Does economic downturn inhibit or encourage deep thought? Is recession necessary for a nation? What about war?
What do you mean by deep thought? And war is not necessary by any means, but of course it occurs all the time because people are fearful. Overcome fear, and you overcome war and violence.
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Nevermind the fact that Julian Assange completly disregards the 9-11 truth movement and calls anyone who actually supports it a wacko.
I'm not usually one for open mockery, but this is just too easy.
Yep, because hundreds of construction experts, demolition experts, and scientists from around the world, who make buildings collapse for a living, must all be wackos.
[citation needed]
Just google it and spend 5 minutes reading some articles.
Or failing that, explain how a building that supposedly pancake collapsed, i.e. one floor falling on top of another, can fall at free fall speed?
Barring god willed it its physically imposible because the floors falling on top of one another would have slowed it down.
you are trolling, right? If I remember right a pair of 757's hit those buildings. Last time I checked being hit by a large airplane was rather damaging.
Yes it is. Exccept that the twin towers were actually designed to withstand the impact of a boeing 707, an airplane that is almost the same size and mass as the 767.
http://www.science-writing.org/id29.html
Now lets just use this one document as evidence that fire actually did bring the towers down. In order for that to happen then the entire floor would have had to be heated at the same time and at a consistent temperature. Otherwise parts of the floor would have failed before the others and would have caused the floor to fall down at an angle. And, well, leaning tower of pizza.
And, any explanation for building 7?
Building 7? http://www.debunking911.com/pull.htm
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See you don't even need to be athletic to play football. Just be big and fat and your good.
Completely false. I guarantee that even those chubby defensive linemen have more muscle than you. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if their body fat percentage was lower than yours. Regardless, most guys are under 300 lbs., so they're hardly fat.
It might interest you to know that Trent Cole, one of those supposedly unathletic defensive linemen for the Philadelphia Eagles, ran a 4.7 40 yard dash.
Must only be in highschool football then. Yes, most of the DL and OL in our school are stronger than I, but they can't run for [cabbage].
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See you don't even need to be athletic to play football. Just be big and fat and your good.
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When every part of a woman comes together so perfectly to form such a beautiful being. <3:
So your favorite thing about the opposite sex is the opposite sex?
Yep.
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When every part of a woman comes together so perfectly to form such a beautiful being. <3:
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do you throw a Rug around in Rugby?
No, but its not called Rugball...
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Buying Burnout Revenge for 70 bucks when I thought it'd be as good, if not better than 3. ;_;
Burnout Revenge is among my favorite games of all time, and I would never pay more than $45 for it. Especially now that its going on 6 years old.
Yes, I love it, and it is much better than Burnout 3.
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Yeah, I agree.
Question for people on the thread: If you found out you were going to die tomorrow, and nobody else knew...what would you do?
I really don't think that I would do anything too abnormal. I would probably just try to go and have some good conversations with as many of my friends and family as I can. :)
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I hate people and the world they inhabit. I have resolved to ride 18-wheelers over beds of organic soybeans straight into Al Gore's house while simultaneously hitting every little man, woman, and child I see on my path of destruction.
No videogames to channel rage makes Kim a sad girl.
Someone needs to play some GTA. Hmm... I think I'll go play some myself.
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A lot of teams are looking pretty equal with wins and losses right now. Partly because the Heat suck :P
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*Nickelback's "If today was your last day" plays*
Exactly, and I really don't think I would go doing very immoral type things on my last day either. I just find it interesting how when people are close to death they value life more, and try to enjoy every day. But when they are not dying they waste their time bored, complaining and in sorrow.
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That is quite interesting - an interesting read anyways.
What is the point of life? Or, rather, how do you live it to its fullest?
Basically, by just living it and enjoying the moment.
Most of TIF'ers go or have gone to school.
I'm pretty sure we all had that one boring class.
Thus, we couldn't enjoy that moment.
Thus we cannot live it to the fullest.
:sad:
I really don't think the past has to do with not living life to the fullest. Its not about what you didn't do or how you lived before, its about making the best out of the situation and having the most fun right now.
Sweet. I am totally becoming an art theif right now.
Good for you ;)
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That is quite interesting - an interesting read anyways.
What is the point of life? Or, rather, how do you live it to its fullest?
Basically, by just living it and enjoying the moment.
Most of TIF'ers go or have gone to school.
I'm pretty sure we all had that one boring class.
Thus, we couldn't enjoy that moment.
Thus we cannot live it to the fullest.
:sad:
I really don't think the past has to do with not living life to the fullest. Its not about what you didn't do or how you lived before, its about making the best out of the situation and having the most fun right now.
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That is quite interesting - an interesting read anyways.
What is the point of life? Or, rather, how do you live it to its fullest?
Basically, by just living it and enjoying the moment.
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Make something. So much better.
This guy has a good idea; if you're good at something artisanal or artistic, make her something. You get twenty times the brownie points.
I can't make anything, really not artistic unfortunately.. Back to getting ideas.
Come on, theres got to be something you can make
This website has a lot of cool projects and ideas and things to make, some of them are very simple and pretty cool too.
Or you could get her flowers and chocolate or something that reminds her of something fun you two did together
One word. Origami. Anyone can pick it up, all you need is a $5 pack of apper to last you a year (or just print yourself a colored square of paper), and girls freaking love it.
For my girlfriend's brithday I did the folling:
-Made an origami box
-Made an origami heart
-Put the heart in the box with a short note
I also gave her a bracelet, but the heart in the box was actually the gift she liked more. (It's also very, very simple to make)
Also, origami roses. Trust me, those things are the Holy Grail of romanticness. (Although they're fairly advanced, hey.)
Looks like I'm going to be buying some origami off the local Asians :)
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This just in: The middle sister was lying about being a princess. She's actually a prince.
Not so lazy about our life choices now, are we?
Then shes not a she..... and therefore I'll pick one of the other two.
The point was that you don't know which is which. So you don't know who's the middle sister (brother), and have to solve the riddle to avoid marrying him.
So much work. Well, I think I can work it out with a guy.. I mean I'll just avoid sexual confrontation :P
Humans - The Glass Cannons?
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Success is just an idea, it is not needed. What greed does is create the need for success, but really there is no need.