Sad Reality :(

[brewer]

Assuming we don't collapse the ecosystem in our lifetimes (I'm not ruling out that possibility), it's a great time to be alive. We've developed aircraft, automobiles/motorcycles, and computers with highspeed internet. We've begun to solve most major medical issues that plagued (literally!) our immediate ancestors. We've figured out where we are in the cosmos and developed a solid scientific explanation of how we got here. Our knowledge is growing exponentially, so fast that it's hard to keep up with even a fraction of it.

Yes, I do sometimes rue the fact that we don't get to explore the universe in ships of some sort (I like that phrase, "the laws of physics are not known for their laid-back nature", Iroscato!), usually when musing on Sagan's passage about how the religious Dark Ages set our civilization back by 1000 years, but then I go start up the Road King, and all is well.

Your not playing right. Yours: Happy Reality : hehehe

[Iroscato]

(I like that phrase, "the laws of physics are not known for their laid-back nature", Iroscato!)

Thanks. You can chalk that up to my reading of Pratchett as of late

[MTL]

Assuming we don't collapse the ecosystem in our lifetimes (I'm not ruling out that possibility), it's a great time to be alive. We've developed aircraft, automobiles/motorcycles, and computers with highspeed internet. We've begun to solve most major medical issues that plagued (literally!) our immediate ancestors. We've figured out where we are in the cosmos and developed a solid scientific explanation of how we got here. Our knowledge is growing exponentially, so fast that it's hard to keep up with even a fraction of it.

Yes, I do sometimes rue the fact that we don't get to explore the universe in ships of some sort (I like that phrase, "the laws of physics are not known for their laid-back nature", Iroscato!), usually when musing on Sagan's passage about how the religious Dark Ages set our civilization back by 1000 years, but then I go start up the Road King, and all is well.

Exceptionally well-said, as usual.

[Salacious B. Crumb]

I can't complain about the time I was born in. If I was born a few thousand years ago, I might be worshipping the sun. If I was born 100 years ago, I might be worshipping jesus my whole life. The access to practically any information that you want is at your fingertips in a second. You can hear both sides of any story and make up your own mind. It was much more difficult to get that in the past, and still is in certain parts of the world.

I wish I was born a little later, so I wouldn't have to hear a bunch of jesus freaks wanting everyone to worship their god, or muslims killing people that don't agree with them, but we are at a dawn of an intellectual enlightenment, so it's wonderful and it can be entertaining to listen to some of these people that believe in these absurdities (but sad). Life is very interesting at least.