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LuvNewcastle

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17. Humans are lazy, myself included.

Thu Dec 18, 2014, 11:16 PM

Dec 2014

It's a shame that we spend so much time in life acquiring things to wear or put in our mouths. I wish our species had as much of a thirst for knowledge as they do designer clothes and fattening food and good-looking sex partners. Knowledge is the only thing that will lift us up out of this mire we're in, and we can never run out of it. There are so many places we could go if we would learn and cooperate with each other. Like I say, if our descendants ever get out of this hole and truly grow in knowledge, those descendants will probably have evolved into another species already. I don't hold out a lot of hope for this species as things stand now. I can try to do my part to make things better, but if I were playing our odds in a casino, I wouldn't bet on us.

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What Is the Nature of This Country We Have? [View all] LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 OP

Children of Manifest Destiny! nt adirondacker Dec 2014 #1

I wonder how closely the concept of Manifest Destiny is tied LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #9

I often think that religion is invented by the ruling class to herd the flock. adirondacker Dec 2014 #15

"Religion was invented when hifiguy Dec 2014 #21

Not invented by but defiantly used by. zeemike Dec 2014 #23

Something new under the sun is happening nowdays. hifiguy Dec 2014 #2

+1000 JEB Dec 2014 #4

Sadly, I must agree. LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #5

One would think that watching The Hunger Games some may get a clue, but apparently iPhones are a adirondacker Dec 2014 #13

But the people will not rise up WHEN CRABS ROAR Dec 2014 #14

Pretty much sums it up... mountain grammy Dec 2014 #19

+1 eom Odin2005 Dec 2014 #24

America is so past tense WillTwain Dec 2014 #3

Maybe America never was. LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #7

It was, as someone once said of Christianity, hifiguy Dec 2014 #8

In Greed We Trust™ GeorgeGist Dec 2014 #6

The Parable of the Tribes The2ndWheel Dec 2014 #10

Freedom, phooey. If you can't sell it at Walmart, we don't want it. Unlike drunken apes, more like jtuck004 Dec 2014 #11

Humans are lazy, myself included. LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #17

"History supplies little more than a list of people who have helped themselves to the property of Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #12

And those are the people we hold up as examples and LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #18

How about sinful and unclean? That is a phrase that I grew up with in confession and I have found jwirr Dec 2014 #16

I don't know about "sinful." LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #20

I get what you are saying. I think the phrase just means that we have a tendency for doing bad jwirr Dec 2014 #22