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Left wing / Re: Warming up to Obama
« on: August 09, 2009, 08:06:25 pm »
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"Unfortunately pseudo is a word that can be attached to most political movements... the truth is a lot of people join these things because its the popular thing to do, or because someone told them to do it. In either case they don't know why they do and say the things they do, they just follow others. I have to say, I have even less respect for people like that, than the millions of people who ignore politics entirely and don't even vote, at least those people aren't doing damage."

You have a point there. Plato certainly was spot-on in saying that there are three wrungs in the brain (autonomic/automatic nerve system- emotional emigdala- philosophical prefrontal cortex), and that most people have a tendency of acting withe first as hedonistic drones.

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Lets just say, I wouldn't support any policy that didn't take a self imposed apocalypse seriously. You'd think most people would agree with that...

"Now o'er half the world, nature is dead/ And wicked dreams abuse/ The curtain'd sleep," for a reason. Homo sapiens never build a safe-proof to protect against instinctual greed and sloviness, do they?

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That's why it needs to be funded.

Well, scientists have made presentations to public officials, so simply continuing that simply won't do any good.... what we need is to shut the mouths of the oil giants and Pat Roberts of this world and prove just how sickly they're being. Granted, if done to simply attack them, that is argumente ad hominem, but a logical argument isn't always the only means to solving a sticky issue....

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Left wing / Re: Warming up to Obama
« on: August 08, 2009, 10:31:40 pm »
I wish I had seen that rant (I take it you posted it via YouTube?). Sad, people are too engrossed in their shallow television sets, the cost of gas, and office politics to truly be concerned, and those who do take action are, in majority, pseudo-hippies who mostly do little than complain and rant on the PETA website.

Just imagine the dying ecosystems decades from now and the havoc the blazing heat (that is to say, famine) and the ensuing rising of waters, cascading into massive flooding. Need I mention the change in the current belt (due to warming of the ocean waters, waters that flow in a distinct cycle of drifting coasts and seas) that could easily cascade into world-wide catastrophe?

Nuclear power has so much potential, as does solar energy. The problem is the lack of energy-friendly power plants, nor any real fiscal initiative to build them.

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Left wing / Re: Warming up to Obama
« on: August 08, 2009, 02:56:27 am »
On the topic of the environment, I do like the idea of slowly pulling down oil-based cars and introducing more hybrids. I mean, cars are, what, 25% of America's environmental toll, let alone the rest of the planet. Slowly, too, we need to introduce more solar and nuclear plants (albeit nuclear plants located a safe distance away, so as to prevent another 1979 incident. Granted, what I'm saying is of course quite obvious.

But then, despite the fact that it is a good start, talking cutting oil and slowly making reforms that limit its use, we do need more done.

And then there's the problem of deforestation and third-world poaching. We continue at this rate, and half our species will be gone by the 22nd century in a world where steel and cement blanket the earth and trees are as rare as gamma ray radiation.

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Welcome forum / Re: Greetings and whatnot....
« on: August 04, 2009, 12:42:52 am »
It's nice to see you again, GIT. Sorry I'm late; I read the e-mail you sent me just two days ago. I like the idea, a bit like a democratic election.

Nin, heh, ask any person I know, and they'll inform you I'm...well, a bit of a quark.

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Welcome forum / Greetings and whatnot....
« on: July 31, 2009, 08:04:44 pm »
Hello, I am MacDuff, a new member that switched over from globechat. Granted, I'm coming in a bit late, seeing how I responded to an e-mail months late, but nevertheless.

To make it brief, I am an agnostic, vegetarian, and intend on majoring, and earning a Ph.D in, science. I hope to fit in and find a refreshing forum.

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