issuevoter wrote on Oct 14
th, 2017 at 2:44am:
Yadda wrote on Oct 13
th, 2017 at 10:36pm:
"....As I said, I am not interested in any of that ['that' = = platitudes, or 'Jesus' or 'religious fervour'],
and its because I am continual confronted with visions of paradise."
- issue, in the OP
"......To me, the Big Question is: "Can humanity save itself from itself."
.....Can we save ourselves from ourselves? That's my Big Question."
- issue, in the OP
issue, the person on OzPol, who is,
1/ continually confronted with 'visions of paradise', but,
2/ is also obviously deeply perturbed and troubled, about whether humanity will survive another day.
The highlighted words are
yours, not mine.
Then why not put, in your own words,
what your own feeling are, about the imminent threats, facing the future existence of mankind on this planet.
After all, this is a public forum.
This public forum exists, for the purpose of people expressing ideas and hypotheses,
and for presenting arguments in support of those ideas and hypotheses.
And, for expressing their
reasonable fears, on any particular issue.
issuevoter wrote on Oct 14
th, 2017 at 2:44am:
And your point is?
[for all persons who believe in the theory of evolution...]
Extinction events [whatever their 'source' my be] are something which must be faced [confronted, accepted?], by all species on this planet, as simply one of the many natural, evolutionary processes, that will occur.
And though it would be very 'inconvenient' if such an event were to 'impact' specifically upon mankind's existence, why should mankind feel that he has the right to rail against such an occurrence ?
And as 'not an atheist' yourself, why are you, at all, concerned [or not] about the possible imminent demise of humanity on this planet ?
'Do you want to live forever!'I must not fear.
Fear is the mind killer.
The little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to passover me and through me.
And when it has gone passed, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
- DUNE