or if not the uttermost perfection, then most assuredly the absurdities of our own time, utterly and thoroughly forgotten. war a thing of the past, 'ends of the world' having come and gone, famine and epidemic as well. it will not be heavin exactly. rocks will still be solid. it will still be possible to stub your toe on them. or walk into a tree and hurt your nose from being lost in thought and not looking where your going. but all of todays excuses for screwing things up, yes, those will be no more then puzzling curiousities of a distant past, of intrest only to historians and history hobbiests. will others have been invented to replace them? a few perhapse. but even those will likely for the most part have come and gone. many things, even our shere numbers, will have been forced into harmonious, or relatively harmonious balance, with the rest of existence, even to survive. but people won't be just merely surviving. they will be thriving, enjoying life and having fun. they will have tecnologies, but not the destructive of natural balance ones we have now. one's though, that will gratify many of the same things, without doing so. and others we have yet to imagine. but the main thing is, they won't be putting them ahead of their own survival and well being. if we're still here we will have learned that much in order to be. and i have just a feeling, one that isn't all just wishful thinking either, that we will and will have. it's called the collective growing up of our species. one that is only going through its early adolescence now. =^^= .../\...
ghod! zager and evans. i HAD that alblum, the only one as far as i know they ever did. the house with nothing but a chair and a shelf, was on there, and the last song was the one about putting my friends in my tupperware in my frigidare. i don't remember if i had on 8-track or cassette, but it was still the 8-track era when it came out. and of course the title cut was their one ever hit single, in the year 2525. you know, people thought the mayan calander was going to end in 96 or 97 when that first came out. those that had ever heard of it or thought about it at all. =^^= .../\...
yah yah, woopdie doo. but everything that really is life or death now, WILL long since have lived and died or just died as the case might be, and whoever, whatever, is here then, will be looking at a world none of what we face now has anything to do with, beyond just an odd page in forgotten history. i doubt very much that that particular symbolic value of "69" will remain, though it might be forgotten and reinvented multiple times. might even be made meaningless by that adoption of a different based numbering system, like what we call today hexidecimal, or base 16 rather then base ten, as a resault of our number of fingers and toes we inheireted from the ceolicanth. but the mysts of time are just as obscuring whether looking through them uphill or down. only that given enough time, sentient perspectives DO chainge beyond recognizability. and six or seven millinea, ought to be at least just about enough, and then some. =^^= .../\...
Humans will have just reached beyond the solar system. The early days have been tough, war, famine, and continuing moral crisis. Humanity binds together and see the cold, unforgiving depth of space as a new chance at "redemption" for their parent's sins and all manner of ideas explode once again, as did in the sixties. Math, Science, and all technology reach astounding levels of complexity and reliability while the long shunned arts and philosophy bring us together to allow every child, woman, and man to co-exist to further the species and truly enjoy and understand what they are doing. Spirituality will makes its triumphant return (not in a religious sense) and as a result humans will come to terms with the fact that we do not know everything, but by attempting to connect with the things of this universe and possibly outside it, we achieve a greater peace and understanding of ourselves and how we can connect and further ourselves in this unknown space. By 2769 we are on a path that truly brings out the best in humanity, and we begin the first true outreach into space and beyond.
everything everyone "knows" about "human nature" is wrong. humans are certainly capable of destroying themselves by destroying their planet's ability to sustain life. they are not fated to do so. galactic cops ARE big enough to handle them. =^^= .../\...
galactic cops? We had our chance, I'd say we kinda blew it. We got too smart for our own good...If we could take the knowlege we have now, and begin again... 50/50 chance we'd continue to screw it up. Not everyone believes in climate change, or that humans have a high influence on nature, a lot of people believe that "god" gave us the Earth to do as we please. The problem, as I see it, as that we got too intelligent too fast while still holding on to religious beliefs about how god will "lead us the right way" and all that. I guess I'm just a little pessimistic.
Life's a long song, but the tune ends too soon for us all. Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da, the white zone is for loading and unloading only.
no; we didn't get "too smart" be got too MANY, and haven't smartened up yet. as long as we keep buying into trying to impress each other and get any sort of real gratification out of doing so, while letting the kind of world we all have to live in go to hell in a hand basket in, and because of the proccess, we haven't gotten smart at all. but we can. and there's a real good chance that we will. its too late to prevent the screwing up of what we've already screwed up, sure, but that's the ONLY thing we really know any such thing as anything being too late for. too late, even if it is, still sounds too much like too much of a copout to me. =^^= .../\...
