From: xebec (xebec@home.com)
Date: Sun Dec 20 1998 - 07:16:22 MST
I've always had a very positive outlook on the future of humanity,
it's ability to improve itself, (or atleast that there is a lot of room
for
improvement :-) ), etc etc, BUT...
Since many people out there are less positive and tend to believe
that there will be majorly horrible events occuring in the next 24
months ahead of us; I believe there may be some people in power
out there where if "God doesn't deliver" (notice the sarcasm there),
then they will.. Meaning we could have religious nuts (middle east?),
or just general doomsdayers (terrorists, etc), causing all kinds of
destruction to our planet and our civilization.
Anyone given any thought on this? And is there anything we can
do as extropians to prevent these useless and backward-thought
actions from happening?. I believe I've read that around 999 AD
there were some major events occuring (ie: Wars were started
for the end of the world), well with the advent of mass-destruction
technology, we only need one warring party to bring an end to
us all...
Just a thought..
John
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