If this belongs in S,L,&M, could one of the moderators please move it there:
The outlook on the future thread got me thinking. Right now, it seems that history is headed for bleak stagnation. However, if you will, imagine a future a couple of centuries from now, where things turn out as well as we'd hope they would. My question: How did it get there?
Discuss!
Engine of History
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Engine of History
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2070s - The Seventy-Niners ... 3500s - Fair as Death ... 4900s - Against Improbable Odds V 1.0
2070s - The Seventy-Niners ... 3500s - Fair as Death ... 4900s - Against Improbable Odds V 1.0
Those who screw with or try to make history tend to fuck it up for everbody and the ones who clean the mess up are the ones who make history. The future is bleak only because for change to happen, some painful measures will be undertaken. Change is always painful in one way or another.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong
But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
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Once the thermonuclear cleansing is complete and the scouring finished, I will rebuild a new world based on the pillars of pain, suffering, depravation and my personal self-indulgence.
This world will be far greater then any previously know to mortal man.
This world will be far greater then any previously know to mortal man.
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I say we rewrite history!
In (year), (your first name)(your last name) was angry at (country) for (gerund) them too much. So he led (number) of brave men to fight for independence from (same country)...
On a more serious note, humanity will eventually end, whether it be an asteroid impact next week, a nuclear attack 100 years from now, or the sun dying out after 5 billion more years.
In (year), (your first name)(your last name) was angry at (country) for (gerund) them too much. So he led (number) of brave men to fight for independence from (same country)...
On a more serious note, humanity will eventually end, whether it be an asteroid impact next week, a nuclear attack 100 years from now, or the sun dying out after 5 billion more years.
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Re: Engine of History
::Thread Bump::GrandMasterTerwynn wrote:If this belongs in S,L,&M, could one of the moderators please move it there:
The outlook on the future thread got me thinking. Right now, it seems that history is headed for bleak stagnation. However, if you will, imagine a future a couple of centuries from now, where things turn out as well as we'd hope they would. My question: How did it get there?
Discuss!
Tales of the Known Worlds:
2070s - The Seventy-Niners ... 3500s - Fair as Death ... 4900s - Against Improbable Odds V 1.0
2070s - The Seventy-Niners ... 3500s - Fair as Death ... 4900s - Against Improbable Odds V 1.0
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I'm betting the world will go one the way it has. mountains of skulls, rivers of blood, some good excuses, and the poor bastards caught at the bottom.
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Not yet, anyway. But social progress has turned into social regression and that's a key early warning that things are going to go to hell in a handbasket sooner rather than later.SWPIGWANG wrote:stagnation my ass
this isn't the dark ages by any standard.
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