with the human race liveing longer,,why is man in a race so eager of populateing the plannet,and yet at the same time we are destroying our self,why is our lives put in the hands of another man for safeaty,while that manlives longer,,,,,is time travel posable,,,why are we so destructive liveing beings,,,why is our destany based on the way others think,while we can make our own destany,,why does todays modern life style seems to live faster than the pass,,,,will we pass ourselfs one day if the rate of speed we are living today
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Because we can create as much food for ourselves as we want. Its not about birth control, or sex ed, or knowing good from evil. We are just like every other living thing on this planet, and as such, are subject to all the same rules of nature. In this case, one of the primary laws of ecology - when the amount of food increases, the population increases. No matter what. No exceptions. Sure as the sun rises and sets. Due to totalitarian agriculture, we produce as much food as we want with no limits, hence our population continues to boom upward. Millions of years ago, the human population was relatively stable (as hunter/gatherers), but when totalitarian agriculture began, our population began to double and triple at astonishing rates. Now, it will  only be 15 years until our current population doubles again. Other living things live by nature's population control methods: disease, natural disasters, draughts, etc. We figured out ways to escape that. Think it's a good idea? Now imagine what it's going to be like in 15 years. 30 years. 100 years. Horrifying. We don't try to do this intentionally, we just attribute the wrong answer to the problem, thinking that birth control will solve everything, all the while producing more and more and more food each year thinking "well, we have more people to feed this year, so we must make more food." This will continue until one year we decide to 1)produce the same amount of food we produced last year, or 2) produce less food than last year. No big cataclysmic devastation will occur, rather the same number of people will die, and fewer will be born. Fact of ecology.
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Not all of us can take over as dictators (Mao, Hitler), not all of us are genii (Albert Einstein), not all of us can exist in magic (Houdini), not all of us are idiots (Presidents Bush and Mugabe) and not all of us can be movie stars and live in soap operas all our lives. We're not normal, we're all different and unique and that's what makes life so interesting. It's the thought that you're 'normal' that makes you so mundane. The real question then is: will YOU live and die just like a 'normal' human?\n\nBesides: Life is a journey. Enjoy the ride. It's how you make the ride interesting that dictates what kind of life you live.
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WOW ... well, let me answer your last question first ... no one will answer because you are making them think too much.  Personally, I am in awe of such an amazing question.  Alas, I know I will NOT be able to do it the justice it deserves with a simple answer.  \n\nSo let's look at the Original Question ( in bold ) and simply answer that.  Yes, I do believe that time is an illusion, that all we have is now ... RIGHT NOW.  Because our perceptions are warped ( only having 24 hours in a day ) we justify by "prioritizing" what we feel is important and has to be done at this time.  Or we put off things that can be done later ( which has no bearing on this topic ).  We might come across a more important thing to do, and therefore put the things we originally prioritized to be done on hold for the time, and pay attention to what seems to be the new important thing. \n\nSorry this isn't as great of an answer that the question deserved because we can still go into depth about abstract ideas and how we must have them done now ... i.e. Love - among other topics.
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there are really selfish people in the world today. I do believe in taking care of the ones around you before anyone else. Reality check do people keep updated on disaters and over seas missions? if so are they true. It's just the waty the world is today. More people need to turn their eyes back on their creator Lord God Almighty. What if people had to live back in those days,they wouldn't make it.
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I think we tend to focus on the negative because in the early days of mankind it made good sense to focus on the problems; predators, food etc. No we have far fewer problems, but still retain the evolutionary trait. This then leads to modern malaises, such as depression, vanity and such like. As a race, we just need to get over ourselves. \nHello Back BTW\nPhil ;)
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There was a time not so long ago when the future looked promising....end of the cold war, the emergence of people power in harsh regimes, popular culture's role in addressing the world's starving, the advances in science that promised the eradication of disease and poverty, etc.  Now it seems that the "old order" has reasserted itself and the most powerful governments of the world are once again committed to jingoistic warmongering activities that place us all at risk once more.  Unfortunately those human traits that are no longer required but have survived evolution to date (greed, fear, aggression) are still a driving force behind most, if not all of, world politics today.  Strangely enough, everyone knows deep down the correct path to take......just no-one has the guts.
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I've never really thought about it that way, but you have some really deep and profound points. You're absolutely right. Mankind's health and quality of life is going to you know where in a handbasket. It's going down hill everyday. I could set for heaven knows how long trying to think of all the people that I'm connected with in some way or the other that have something wrong with them. You sound a lot like my father.  He should have been born 100 yrs ago. He would be perfectly content in a cabin in the woods somewhere about infinite miles away from everything and everybody and honestly wouldn't care if he ever saw any one again. My dad is pretty extreme, but I'm just saying that you remind me of him because he's constantly talking about dependent society is in general and how people should learn to be self-reliant and live off the land. Kind of in a pioneer sort of way. My parents live on a farm and grow a lot of their own food. My dad hunts also for meat. Sorry if that offends anyone. I'm just saying the way it is. Sorry for rattling on so much. Talking or in this case, typing is my speciality. LOL. In answer to your last question, no I'm not happy with how reliant I am on civilization and other people just to exist everyday and I hate how much I need other people to feel validated as a person. But what do we do about it? Guess I should post my own question on that one. Just trying to share some random thoughts with you. Thanks for listening.
559642
id run back in a heartbeat. people these days dont care about anyone but theirselves. the most important part of society is failing fast,the family. forget about how much harder it is to live now. its the morals and mindset of people that's scary.
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Why must we be selfish?\nWe can't take all the gifts of life back when we hit expiry date due in planet of apes.\nThose living in misery were at loss in mastering our creator's universal gifts of life with loss of Fishing lines,hooks and sinkers vital for their own survival and advancement of themselves in planet of apes.\nLessons from Africa.\nGiving cash or kinds does not work.\nTaech them how to fish for their own survival in planet of apes.\nThat will last them for the rest of their lives in planet of apes.\nGive them ghost stories will see all The Mummies risen from the graveyards and kick us on our own butts in making a monkey out of us in planet of apes.\nSo correct the blunders and slip-ups with human errors in planet of apes.
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here goes:\nHumans only think they are superior because they think. Humans are no more or less than the other species, but since we have developed technology, we have the responsibility to all of nature to control ourselves so that we end up contributing some Net Creativity as a species to the soup of the universe in order to counteract the decay of things.\nThe value of other species is in diversity of DNA. We should do whatever we can within reason to preserve and maintain as much diversity in the living DNA as we can because every variation is a resource which may be needed by nature to support other life, including us.\nAll species have an inherent Net Creativity. Somewhere, they contribute some kind of structure to Life or Nature that makes them valuable to the universe. If they didn't create more in structure than they use up in resources, they would have become extinct. Humans are messing up the system temporarily because we have the technology to destroy more resources than we use, prolong our lives when we would normally die from disease or injury, and collectively, we have the ability to use resources which otherwise wouldn't be available to us to exploit. (Oil, coal, and gas are basically ancient sunshine stored in the ground, and we are running our world on more energy than the sun provides to us. This will only end badly unless we limit our consumption voluntarily. It is called "unsustainable")
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I believe we are set on a certain path for this life, and that path remains hidden to us until we pass on.  For this reason, life is better taken in stride, letting it unfold before you as opposed to expecting this or that.  We don't control anything, but rather live under the illusion of control.
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Technicallly, everybody is a mutant! We all carry some alterations unique to us in our genomes, this is part of what makes us different. And yes, over time we will evolve as a society to carry genes that are more advantageous to us due to the process of natural selection. It's a case of survival of the fittest!
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Yes, it is inherent that the human race repeats itself again and again, whether it be mistakes or discoveries.\n\nI had read something in the last year that discussed this exact theory. Some scientist (I forget if it was a historian or another type of academician) had recently published a theory stating that society and people will always be rediscovering the same concepts and go through the same errors in each time period. His theory was that since the way we learn is through experience, and if we haven't experienced something yet, we will need to experience it to truly have a frame of reference. Thus society tends to forget lessons that have been learned if the people in that society were not directly involved in those lessons.\n\nWe can see this in today's society. We have already seen the atrocities of war in the beginning of the 20th Century - famine, genocide, discrimination, etc. Yet these same problems and same concepts are re-emerging as the people who lived through those times die and newer generations who have no real experience of those scenarios become the majority.\n\nYou can see it in every teenager. As they emerge from childhood and become teens, they start to really develop their own sense of independence, self-being and identity. The things we tell them as parents since we have experienced it ourselves become ignored by them. Their frame of reference is limited to what they have experienced so far. Since what we are telling them is beyond their frame of reference - it ends up being ignored - until they experience it themselves.\n\nInterestingly enough, this whole theory that this modern day scientist developed regarding this reiteration of the same themes and need to relearn the lessons of history and ideas is not something new. According to the link that I was reading this from, there was an economist or philosopher in the 1500s or 1600s who had developed the same theory and had given it a specific name. Of course, as a self-fulfilling theory, that theory had been forgotten until it was "discovered" by this modern day philosopher. I'm sure that same theory was discussed in ancient Greece or Rome or Egypt or China and had been similarly lost until it was "discovered" by the next philosopher.\n\nUnfortunately, I don't have the link anymore to that site - until it becomes "rediscovered" by someone else.\n\nInterestingly enough, this whole concept occurs in literature as well. I had been reading a fantasy series by Robert Jordan. This Wheel of Time series has this same concept. It depicts time as a wheel with the different periods as a spoke or arc of that circular wheel. When we are in one spoke or one era, we can look behind us and see parts of the wheel, but not the whole wheel. The part that we can see clearly is history. As it fades further away it becomes legends. Soon even that is forgotten as those sections of the wheel are no longer visible. Eventually though, that section of the wheel comes back to our frame of reference, along it all the mistakes and lessons of that time. Its a very interesting theory that Robert Jordan presents in his series and of course it is a wonderful series to read if you enjoy fiction.
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You cannot go into the past beyond your own birth and the future for the same reason. In both cases non-existence cannot be overcome. You may live to 100 but you have not yet so....you cannot visit yourself, there is nothing to visit. When you get to 100 you can visit yourself at 20 and so see yourself at 100 and see the future that way.\n\nTime travel  will always be limited to a persons life time i am afraid and the events that occured during it. No hunting dinosaurs, Hitler killing, Cruxifiction visiting.\n\nThis is the reason no one from the future has visited us yet. Once the future becomes the present and they invent time travel they can but only if the people who invent it and use it are alive now.\n\nGet it.\n\nIt a paradox I know but.....
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The human race is very intellectual, full of potential but above all is a race of curiosity.\n\nOur curiosity drives us foward in finding new answers to previously unanswerable questions. This drive increases our intellectual ability and our understanding of everything around us.\n\nWithout this continuous curiosity, life would just be plain and boring. We wouldn't have evolved, we wouldn't be driving in cars or living in expensive houses. We would still be cavemen. \n\nThis curiosity and thus discovery is what makes life our life and not some tideous boring dead end job in some plain white, symetrical office...\n\nThis discovery is why you are on yahoo answers asking that question and is why I am on here releasing my opinion and hopefully seeing what other people think\n\nIt means to me that without discovery and curiosity you might aswell be dead
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Are you suggesting that with improving technology we are living less long?\nIf so I can think of nowhere to find evidence to say you are correct.\nGenerally, improving technology goes hand in hand with greater lifespans, although the relationship is far from causal in every case.
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i think a lot of people who want to be totally present cannot be because we are humans that way.  we strive for it, of course, but nobody would could be completely that.  even the greatest, most intuned people has to think about the past and the futrue.