I get the feeling he is looking forward to a bit of cannibalism and the like.emordnilap wrote:You should hear him when he's feeling pessimistic and depressed.
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Andy Hunt
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Eternal Sunshine wrote: I wouldn't want to worry you with the truth.
Nah, and I am being optimistic in that we may well extinct ourselves during the collapse with all our fancy weapons systems .
If we have a future of warring tribes much like the dark ages, and all our books get used for toilet paper and destroyed, our democracies and TVs and technology disappear, we see the return of human slavery, starvation etc etc its not the worst of outcomes .
I’m not looking forward to it I like this world , I think Id make a reasonable Mongol or Viking but likely I've lived too soft , but even if I hadn’t I think the attrition in the first stages of collapse are going to be terrific even for the prepared but it will be a experience .
Overall I’m not depressed about things my plan is to free myself from ties now and enjoy the descent like a roller-coaster ride, even car crashes or disasters can be fun with the right frame of mind. No one lives forever and when you fully understand that and don’t much want to slowly get old and wither away things aren’t so bad.
If we have a future of warring tribes much like the dark ages, and all our books get used for toilet paper and destroyed, our democracies and TVs and technology disappear, we see the return of human slavery, starvation etc etc its not the worst of outcomes .
I’m not looking forward to it I like this world , I think Id make a reasonable Mongol or Viking but likely I've lived too soft , but even if I hadn’t I think the attrition in the first stages of collapse are going to be terrific even for the prepared but it will be a experience .
Overall I’m not depressed about things my plan is to free myself from ties now and enjoy the descent like a roller-coaster ride, even car crashes or disasters can be fun with the right frame of mind. No one lives forever and when you fully understand that and don’t much want to slowly get old and wither away things aren’t so bad.
"What causes more suffering in the world than the stupidity of the compassionate?"Friedrich Nietzsche
optimism is cowardice oswald spengler
optimism is cowardice oswald spengler
MacG wrote:Uh, yea, but there the age/looks/mind balance ended up the opposite...JohnB wrote:Has she got a sister?????kenneal wrote:Is your girlfriend coming to the Green Gathering is August? And you of course,
Hahahha.
Jim
For every complex problem, there is a simple answer, and it's wrong.
"Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs" (Lao Tzu V.i).
For every complex problem, there is a simple answer, and it's wrong.
"Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs" (Lao Tzu V.i).