Slumerican502 said
It’s been a long fuckin’ time. this is the thread where no one voice matters over another. Here we go.

 

1.How Nationalist are you? at what point would you be willing to take another mans life in order to preserve our imperfect union?

 

2. Do you honestly value certain human lives over others?

 

3. What do you think it would take for the human species to come together as a race?

 

4. Do you value technology and innovation over happiness? Or are they intertwined? 

 

5. Bonus: don’t hafta answer:  Where do you see us as a race in a 100 years?

1. I have fairly close to zero nationalistic tendencies. I basically feel like the US is a disaster and I hold no allegiance to it as a concept or a people beyond preserving my own homeostasis. 

2. The people in my life are valued more than the people not in my life, but only by sheer selfishness on my part. In relation to the first question, a dead Syrian carries as much weight on my soul as a dead New Yorker. 

3. I don’t think we can, honestly. We’d have to eliminate borders which is impractical with the way we understand culture and laws. We’d have to eliminate capitalism and move further into the global tribe mindset, but I don’t know if it will ever truly succeed.

4. I don’t really see them as intertwined or mutually exclusive. Technology is a tool which we use to many different ends and happiness is a fleeting emotion we carry with us as we move through our lives. They are both dynamic and work independently of the other.

5. Basically the same as we are now but with cooler technology. We might eventually have computers in our brains. I think the next big technological development will be in the bio tech world which takes computers and puts them in biological life forms (plants and animals) which will eventually include humans. 

Slumerican502 said
It’s been a long fuckin’ time. this is the thread where no one voice matters over another. Here we go.

 

1.How Nationalist are you? at what point would you be willing to take another mans life in order to preserve our imperfect union?

 

2. Do you honestly value certain human lives over others?

 

3. What do you think it would take for the human species to come together as a race?

 

4. Do you value technology and innovation over happiness? Or are they intertwined? 

 

5. Bonus: don’t hafta answer:  Where do you see us as a race in a 100 years?

1. hard for my to say, being an aussie. would i kill a man to preserve australia? nope. would i kill a man to preserve myself? definitely. i would torture them prior to death aswell if i thought it would help. would i kill a man to preserve my family? yep. no question.

2. agree with rob kinda. except mine is mostly apathy. if it aint directly concerning me (friends/close family) i dont particularly care. you could wipe out all of africa, and i would be like ‘oh shit, well that happened. i suppose the murder rate worldwide will drop now, cant be all bad.”

3. Nope. never going to happen. we are a virus, we move into a place and destroy it. never gunna happen. thers always gunna be a few groups who will go against the greater good.

4. i definitely agree with rob, techology is a tool. i use it, but i couldnt say there is a direct relation to its use and my happiness.

5. about the same as we are now only slightly more technologically advanced than we are now. 100 years is not very long in the grand scheme of things. 1000 years, we’ll all be dead. the human race is slowly eating itself. but the earth will survive, so the damn hippies will be happy.

shortest answers….

1.) No, I am not. It is all imaginary borders and phony ownerships. No one owns anything but their bodies. I would kill a man over many, many things, as I feel there are endless amounts of worthless scum out there. People, for the most part, are not good intentioned.

2.) My small family takes a humongous place over the rest, in my mind, for value. 

3.) Psychedelic relics legalized, administered personally and/or with a caring sitter (friend, psychotherapist, lover, shaman, etc) to help guide us and/or heal the harsh realities that we know of. Basically, mass consumption of natural herbs and medicines, to each individual at the appropriate degree. We could become just peaceful enough to shift our focuses on the more important and exciting things, like eliminating disease, dealing better with death, exploring the cosmos and our oceans, our inner crust of Earth, and our own brains. Something like that.

4.) No. They are intertwined for some folks. Say the man that could never see or lost his sight, one day is affitted with a mechanical eyeball that lets him see the wonders and the horrors of life. That does, in effect, bring happiness through technology.

5.) There is no way to tell. I have no way to predict. Peep the new Deltron 3030 album, “Event 2” for their vision about life on Earth far into the future.

@old-mr-dangerous – i like the thought of legalizing psychedelic relics, but it just wouldnt work. some people just aint gunnna do it becuase its legal.

and there would also be the group of people there to monetize and abuse the whole thing. 

Novocaine, The Blue Collar King said
@old-mr-dangerous – i like the thought of legalizing psychedelic relics, but it just wouldnt work. some people just aint gunnna do it becuase its legal.

and there would also be the group of people there to monetize and abuse the whole thing. 

basically we just need a consciousness paradigm shift. Psilocybin, DMT, mescaline, to a lesser extent cannabis, and even MDMA have profound potential to alter our hive mind. 

There is so much exploring to do.

Novocaine, The Blue Collar King said
are you implying we should poison the worlds water supplies and get everyone high?

because if you are, sign me up. lets do it!

well, not at first, but now…. sounds like a plan!

These used to be the best threads out there. Just saying. Now hardly anybody contributes. That disappoints me.