Are You Happy? How Do You Know? (514 hits)
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Submitted by <The Fifth Horseman> (View user info) at 2004-10-05 01:30:10 EDT
What if there is only so much good in humanity. One person dies, one is born to take its place. The balance is preserved.
Enter population inflation.
How much of our problems are caused by overpopulation? War. Pollution. The simple loss of family values due to rising land value and both parents having to work. And broken homes in the next generation because the values of the family are lost.
Society as a whole degrades as the feeling of community is lost. People no longer see their fellow man as neighbour. Men and women competing for the higher paying jobs selfishly thinking of nothing but personal comfort.
What is good and real is forgotten and replaced by material things. Things of status. People measure their achievements, their success, by possession rather than looking inward to see if they are actually happy with their station in life.
I am not looking at people of wealth with distain but rather raising the question of sacrafice. How much good are you willing to give up for a little comfort?
And is it worth it.
Wasn't sure where I was going when I started writing this, not sure if I even said all I wanted to, but there it is.
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Submitted by William_Q_Percy (user info) at 2004-10-05 17:35:41 EDT (#)
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Submitted by William_Q_Percy (user info) at 2004-10-05 14:23:24 EDT (#)
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Keep thinking deep thoughts.
Good luck in Madness, I've put up my post... are you close to finishing yours?
We got a wicked sweet title, so I hope you use it well.
Submitted by Supreme_Overlord (user info) at 2004-10-05 13:13:10 EDT (#)
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I'd seriously recommend doing that Gnome.
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2004-10-05 10:53:20 EDT (#)
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Teephphah: didn't know janes addiction wrote interesting lyrics. might have to have a second look at the band.
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2004-10-05 08:42:23 EDT (#)
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True hunting is over.
No herds to follow.
Without game, men prey on each other.
The family weakens by the bites we swallow...
True leaders gone,
Of land and people.
We choose no kin but adopted strangers.
The family weakens by the length we travel...
All of us with wings...
All of us with wings...
All of us with wings!
All of us with wings!
All of us with wings!
All of us with wings!
From "Three Days" by Jane's Addiction
Submitted by LexLutherin (user info) at 2004-10-05 07:58:09 EDT (#)
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Ishmael is a book.
Submitted by LexLutherin (user info) at 2004-10-05 07:57:44 EDT (#)
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Ignore Funkboy, and read Ishmael.
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-10-05 07:23:05 EDT (#)
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Worth reading (+0)
Submitted by funk_boy (user info) at 2004-10-05 04:38:46 EDT (#)
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I was convinced GayAids was the answer. A disease for to kill the diseased. Then it went all Metropolitan, due to the bi-boys n girls, and a new, less discriminate Aids began to spread.
Admittedly, Aids is not as lethal as GayAids, but i still don't want it.
Submitted by TheMidnight12AM (user info) at 2004-10-05 01:45:22 EDT (#)
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Nice thoughts, but the answer isn't overpopulation, it's the fact that humanity is basically evil.
+1, just about to recover.