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Sounds like a good start for a parody to me.  ;)

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Sounds like a good start for a parody to me.  ;)
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It is, but I'm totally unmotivated so you can have it ;D

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All the apocolypse warnings we've had recently... I can remember reading about one happening 25 years ago, one on the 4th August 1999 (I remember distinctly because I was away from home at the time: Nostradamus predicted that one, making it the latest of his dated predictions), End Quote

My birthday! :o

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>notes down on paper< Junior: 4th August
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Well Bobo Bear, while you're at it.........jot down Aug. 25th! (FYI, I'm into anything electronic) :)

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Why even waste time worrying about it? We're all gonna die, people... does it really matter what the mechanisim is that brings it about?  I'll die when I die, but in the meantime I have more important things to do than worry about it.


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I agree, and I, for one, would rather not know it was coming ;)

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Why even waste time worrying about it? We're all gonna die, people... does it really matter what the mechanisim is that brings it about?  I'll die when I die, but in the meantime I have more important things to do than worry about it.


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This is a bit off the topic, but oh well.  WL, I don't see it as "worrying about it" if by that you mean walking around in sack cloth and ashes, and please don't take offense at what follows.  There are two points I want to make.  First, your attitude displays a lack of concern for the future.  Sure, we are all going to die, but I have 4 kids, with a grandkid on the way - hopefully the first of many.  I'd like them to live out their lives in peace and prosperity too.  Second, I hear echoes of helplesness in your response, and generally from many people.  There is a wise saying: "when good people do nothing, evil triumphs".  Maybe the reverse is also true, and evil can be defeated if good people act.  I guess, as just one of many who rejected the Vietnam war and contributed to its end, I have to remain an optimist.  Admittedly, with all the s**t going on in the worlkd today, that is getting harder to do.  But then, when the going gets tough...

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This is a bit off the topic, but oh well.  WL, I don't see it as "worrying about it" if by that you mean walking around in sack cloth and ashes, and please don't take offense at what follows.  There are two points I want to make.  First, your attitude displays a lack of concern for the future.  Sure, we are all going to die, but I have 4 kids, with a grandkid on the way - hopefully the first of many.  I'd like them to live out their lives in peace and prosperity too.  Second, I hear echoes of helplesness in your response, and generally from many people.  There is a wise saying: "when good people do nothing, evil triumphs".  Maybe the reverse is also true, and evil can be defeated if good people act.  I guess, as just one of many who rejected the Vietnam war and contributed to its end, I have to remain an optimist.  Admittedly, with all the s**t going on in the worlkd today, that is getting harder to do.  But then, when the going gets tough...
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No, I didn't necessarily mean that people were walking around in sack cloth and ashes. But a couple of people did seem quite dismayed over the article.

As for a lack of concern for the future, I'm not quite sure where you picked that up. I don't worry about an asteroid hitting the planet because, quite simply, there is nothing that I can do about it. That doesn't mean I don't want there to be a world here for future generations to enjoy, but if someone is going to figure out how to prevent a collision with any space object, it is going to be a scientist trained to deal with those matters, not me. In other words, it's out of my control, therefore I don't think about it much one way or another. The sun will burn out one day too, but I don't devote much thought to that either.

I also don't feel helpless. I simply stated my basic philosophy... you are born and you die. Life is too fleeting for me to dwell on the fact that death will come knocking one day. We all know that will happen. The important thing to me is what I do until then... I choose to live life and get the most out of it, rather than fret over when I'm going to cross the river Styx.

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No, I didn't necessarily mean that people were walking around in sack cloth and ashes. But a couple of people did seem quite dismayed over the article...

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A good post edited for brevity.

Sorry WL, I misunderstood, or better misread the neuances of your post.  I quite agree with everything you said in the expanded version.  I do detect though, especially among young people - generation X? - a "live for today, forget tomorrow, and who cares about the past" attitude, especially with the freshmen I teach.  And I do see a sense of helplessness prevading the common people.  Both are alarming to me.

Let me be more specific.  I have'nt read it, but I saw a book in the Quality Paperback Book Club advert about where science shouldn't go.  We can't control astroids, but we can control genetic research, and certainly application.  There is a strong movement in VT to ban, or at least regulate geneticly modified seed use here, because we have a very healthy and growing organic farming community which feels threatened by the pollen produced by GMS plants.

I have no position on this, not knowing much.  My point is that people can (and should) have an influence in where science takes us.

Again, sorry about misreading your brief post.  No offense intended.

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Again, sorry about misreading your brief post.  No offense intended.
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No offense taken, DC. I am a little worried, however, that you agreed with my expanded post!  ;D :P

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Ah well if it happens it happens. Nothing can be done! SO let's just live it up and enjoy life and not worry about it. ;D
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You got that right.  ;D

Howard

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No offense taken, DC. I am a little worried, however, that you agreed with my expanded post!  ;D :P
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I'm not sure why  ???  You made good points.  Why should I disagree, and why should that worry you?

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I'm selling apocalypse protection certificates if anyone is interested, only $19.95, money back guarantee!
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I'll issue similar certificates for anly $9.99, and double your money back guarantee!!!

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I'm not sure why  ???  You made good points.  Why should I disagree, and why should that worry you?
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It was a joke, DC... I thought the smileys would have announced that.  The joke being that since we never agree on anything, I am now concerned that the fact we did agree could itself be a sign of the apocalypse. Sorry if it confused you..

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It was a joke, DC... I thought the smileys would have announced that.  The joke being that since we never agree on anything, I am now concerned that the fact we did agree could itself be a sign of the apocalypse. Sorry if it confused you..
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I know it was a joke, as was my response  ;D  ;D