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Really, how did the human race reach this impasse

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spiderslegs · 13/04/2011 00:53

Where PFBs, children who are too weak to hear the 'horror' of the Easter story & parties where they only eat crisps & shit have survived.

Really, we're so tragically weak, we should have died out shortly after we developed lungs.....

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ExeterisEasy · 13/04/2011 01:03

eh?

madbunnieseggnest · 13/04/2011 01:11

Actually I think we were stronger in past times...take away the things we now take for granted..food without hunting, light and heat even in the depths of winter...etc. We are now creating beings who will be incapable of surviving without these things. Put it into context and a dinner from McD's and a story that ends in painful death really pall into insignificance! Anyway how many dc's play Halo or other games?? Can't see the trauma from the easter story if they can slaughter for fun. spider is right...we are breeding a new type of child if they can't deal with these concepts. The church has spouted fire and brimstone from the first Bible..are dc's now not strong enough to handle that but fine to play games that encourage you to shoot anything you come by??

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spiderslegs · 13/04/2011 01:13

'tis not an academic argument....

How have we become a species that are so delicate, yet have reached a state which allows us to destroy the mothership....

Does not compute

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laInfanta · 13/04/2011 01:17

what the fuck are you all talking about?

madbunnieseggnest · 13/04/2011 01:17

Because we are so far removed from natural life..most of us would not stand an earthly (pardon the pun) in a natural environment. People have time to obsess on the small things..you don't see a starving person refuse a chocolate bar! We destroy nature coz we no longer understand it and try to control things we do!

madbunnieseggnest · 13/04/2011 01:26

To put it bluntly...we love to eat shit and and pretend to be nice. Guess it's better than eating well and being shits..Grin

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spiderslegs · 13/04/2011 01:32

Madbunnies Thank you.

We are part of nature, yet have, ridiculously, allowed ourselves to become, above it....

So many threads on here pander to a 'gentle', western, 21stC vision of chilhood.

Are we not still animals, red in tooth??

Yet we see ourselves as somehow, detatched...

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LDNmummy · 13/04/2011 01:33

Agree with you spiderslegs, I probably have these same thoughts every week.

laInfanta · 13/04/2011 01:38

still not with you...

madbunnieseggnest · 13/04/2011 01:38

We get our meat from packets, not from an animal. We let our kids play "beat em ups" but worry they will be upset by the easter story. We are in danger of, to put a point, breeding wimps!! We are more detatched than we have ever been...give us a cold snap and we grind to a hault! How did the dinosaurs die out again??? Inability to adapt...oh shit!!

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spiderslegs · 13/04/2011 01:40

LDN & Mad thanks, yet I am not a deranged hippy.........

Although others on here may see me as such.

Aach - the boughouise - have become a mindless force......

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Morloth · 13/04/2011 01:41

It's the lack of predators, I say it over and over.

We need the sabretooths back.

madbunnieseggnest · 13/04/2011 01:42

I would love to be a deranged hippy..they seem so happy Grin

madbunnieseggnest · 13/04/2011 01:44

Morloth we are the most dangersous species..mostly to ourselves Grin.

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spiderslegs · 13/04/2011 01:44

Ohh Mad - I like you.

You see the point.

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madbunnieseggnest · 13/04/2011 01:47

Grin spider I feel oyur pain Grin. Will namechange back to my normal Madhattershouse soon, easter begone!

madbunnieseggnest · 13/04/2011 01:48

Your...FGS!!

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spiderslegs · 13/04/2011 01:56

You do understand Mad, that I am not aligned to the left, nor really, any party politics..

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madbunnieseggnest · 13/04/2011 02:02

I am more " left of centre" but I feel that the real politics are real life..at the moment that is survival..something we are no longer good at! Sod the politics..let's find a way to make life better!

Morloth · 13/04/2011 02:03

Yeah, but when was the last time you were chased by something that actually wanted to eat you and you had to use your brain to get out of it?

There is a school of thought that says that since we are free from the need to survive day to day that we have space to improve ourselves and to really think about things more.

What actually seems to happen is that we get bored, we are not evolved enough to do that. We need something to worry about so in the absence of real worries we invent them.

Hence a Maccas meal becoming the modern parent's version of no meal.

I can't decide whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. On one hand I have no interest in fighting for survival day to day and think the longer life spans are great (especially when it comes to the people I love), on the other, I think we are a somehow 'less' than what we could be.

madbunnieseggnest · 13/04/2011 02:06

Morloth you are so right. The problem is that we have created technology in the place of evolving..tske the tech away and are are buggered!

thumbwitch · 13/04/2011 02:07

Isn't that why we have so many films about alien invasion? So that we can go back to our survivalist roots and pretend that we need to fight the predators? Ditto Jurassic Park, I guess although that's a bit old hat now.

I see what you're saying - many of the children today are so mollycoddled and cocooned in cotton wool in an effort to protect them from everyday harm, that they have no real sense of danger or how to protect themselves. It can't be good for the survival of the species as a whole.

Morloth · 13/04/2011 02:10

Not so much worried about the species thumbwitch there are plenty of places in the world where humans still have to be strong.

But I do worry about my kids being too soft. I don't believe that the bubble we have created in the West can last. In historical terms it is such a small amount of time that we have been living like this.

I do think it will bite us on the arse eventually, when I don't know.

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spiderslegs · 13/04/2011 02:11

Morloth, much of what you say is true.

I think the bored bit is most pertinent.

So, we stroke the vacant egos...

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madbunnieseggnest · 13/04/2011 02:15

Thumbwitch look at the films from the 50's about alien invasion..we have always been scared of the possiility of other life. Why?? Coz we always think they would be more intelligent than us. No proof of that just our normal scared of change perspective.