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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 5 2006, 06:45 PM (276 Views) | |
| Comrade Jim | Oct 5 2006, 06:45 PM Post #1 |
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The Apocalypse Itself
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Sitting in history today I started to wonder how people of the future would look back on today and how they would see it. Personally I think that all this stuff about Islamic extremism will be just a footnote in history compared to the development of China and India. How will they view the leaders of today? How do you think they'll see Iraq, Afganistan, the war on terror etc with hindsight? Anything you think has gone unnoticed today and will become important later in history? Have any large trends in history started that haven't been spotted yet? |
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| Zer0 | Oct 5 2006, 07:31 PM Post #2 |
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LOEV 2 KONSOLE
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If they've reached Technological Singularity-- They would think we were illogical and narcissistic. If they haven't, yet reached a far superior logic and such-- They would think of us with thoughts of pity. If there isn't a future thanks to us-- Nobody will be alive to care. |
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| Mister Sinister | Oct 5 2006, 11:09 PM Post #3 |
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Delusional Granduerist
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Jesus, that really sums it up Zer0. I'm rendered speechless. The finality combined with the short presentation was...bogglingly truthy.
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| Dr. Jim | Oct 6 2006, 01:53 AM Post #4 |
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Nihil estis, Omnes sum
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It's a little hard to tell. Aside from the obvious fact we can't really see the important stuff when we're in the middle of it, we're also right at the begining of an age where ALL information can be stored reliably* and collected by thousands of sources and shared all around the world almost instantly. Back in the day you only really bothered telling everyone in the world about the really important stuff, now a lot of people tell everyone in the world when they break up with their girlfriend. |
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...Matt was no exception to this. When he stood in the street and noticed his chest started to really hurt again, he made the decision to look down. He screamed like a grown man would scream when that grown man sees a laser burning his chest, and that is like a little girl... -From Super Naked Moose Man | |
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| FallenDeku | Oct 6 2006, 03:37 AM Post #5 |
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Planning World Domination
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I think we've fallen into a light age. Don't bother looking that term up, I just made it up as an inverse to a dark age. The problem we are facing is what, out of all the things happening today, do we put in the history books of tomorrow? The answer is that not a whole lot more is happening now than was 100 years ago, well not as much more anyway. We've managed to compile history books of that time, so we have nothing to gear. Wait, it is obvious something has changed over the past 100 years, but what could it be? The answer is that we are more aware of things outside our own little box. Take WWII history for example. Depending where you live you will get very different textbooks. The textbooks here cover Australian involvement, the textbooks in the UK will cover their involvement, and no doubt USA textbooks will cover the involvement of the USA. If you don't think this is the case, the textbook we used devoted a single page to Pearl Harbour, and an entire chapter on the Kokoda campaign, contrast that to how much is written about each in your own textbooks. Likewise, history books will be written about the USA in the new millennium, Australia in the new millennium and the UK in the new millennium. The fact that we are aware of the goings on in each does not warrant its inclusion in our own histories. |
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