(July 26, 2017 at 3:09 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:Astonished Wrote:Anyone see that movie Idiocracy? I think we're generally moving in that direction, at least in the States. Intelligence certainly has nothing to do with reproductive success. But once it becomes the dominant trait to simply do nothing but eat, sleep and fuck, that'll be the herald of our extinction. Glad I won't be around to see that.
Idiocracy does not take into account all the people in 3rd World nations who are not failing to weed out people too stupid to live, or that the more stupid people there are, the more comparative advantage an intelligent person has in surviving to reproduce. You can't have a big family if you knock yourself off (or your parents let you knock yourself off) before you're nine.
Brian37 Wrote:Ultimately our species will go extinct no matter what, and long before our sun dies too. If over pollution or a nuclear war were not to wipe us out, you'd still have comets and meteors to deal with, and it wont be a matter of if, but when.
In the best case scenario, we leave enough descendants to become something besides strictly human, and they make it into the larger universe before the sun swallows our planet.
I specifically said "States" so I was disregarding overseas intentionally. But given the religious climate in the 3rd world I don't hold out much hope.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
