The pill of life

Discussion in 'The Whiners' started by syd, Mar 6, 2005.

  1. syd

    syd Banned

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    Wouldn't it be cool if there was a super pill that made all humans have high self esteem and have no sense of jealousy, therefore elimanating the need for the war, and maybe it could also be a birth control pill at times to control population rates, and it was distibruted by the government, so that if population in one place got too high they'd make the super pill into birth control pills to slow the population rate down. And then make it into a aphrodesiac if the population got too low.....


    This was all stolen from a book called "Oryx and Crake" by margaret Atwood, good reading.
     
  2. carsick

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    no doubt there would be side effects
     
  3. imagining

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    woaa..:eek:it makes it sound so simple.. but yeah i agree there'd have to be some catch..
     
  4. syd

    syd Banned

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    But what if the side effects were good side effects? hmmmmmmmm, now thats some thinking..............
     
  5. imagining

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    but there has to be a downside somewhere..nothings perfect..heh i sound like a pessimist :( ..but seriously..like maybe it slowly killed off braincells or something..or worked too well so people had a falsely high opinion of themselves when really they had some major problems..? ierno.. tis all hypothetical anyways i suppose :rolleyes: ..
     
  6. _chris_

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    its somewhat like the pill in an earlier book, Aldus huxleys brave new world. He talks of the persect pill,soma. Maybe thats where atwood got her insparation.
     
  7. jesikhaviolet

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    self esteem - cocaine!
    no jealousy etc.... acid or ket
    birth control - speed

    well... put them into one. this weekend i was on acid and speed. last weekend was cocaine, acid and ket... i guess its gotta work
     
  8. BraveSirRubin

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    Wouldn't it be good if idiotic utopic ideas such as these would all get lost somewhere.
     
  9. Orsino2

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    Hmm... yes... I believe it's called crab.
     
  10. jo_k_er_man

    jo_k_er_man TBD

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    lovely childish thoughts.... sorry buddy... all those things you'd wanna get rid of is called Life..... deal with it the way it is.... we're all dealt different cards in life, play'em.... why would you want a pill like that anyways.... it seems somethin that would be made by the machine to control us even more than they try to already...... war is needed... wether the reasons for was are right or not.... its needed.... people need to die... no its not a good thing.... but its needed humans are reproducing at too fast of rate.... natural resources are being deminished... and without death to slim the worlds population we just become an infestation to mother earth.. yea natural death takes its course.. but its not fast enough.... sorry to say it.... but mass death is needed for this world to survive... wether its animals or humans...
     
  11. lover/young_peace

    lover/young_peace Senior Member

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    NO.










    Fuck. No.
     
  12. lover/young_peace

    lover/young_peace Senior Member

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    Just... A PILL to erase your humanity?!

    Good god.
     
  13. Applespark

    Applespark Ingredients:*Sugar*

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    theres a movie about this its a kids in the hall movie....I forget what its called. I know its by the kids in the hall.
     
  14. Orsino2

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    Brain Candy.
     
  15. lover/young_peace

    lover/young_peace Senior Member

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    I'm so very against this idea. :D
     
  16. Synaptic Ether

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    lol no shit good god leave me out of this 'utopian' disaster!

    the idea reminds me of the drug Soma in Brave New World
     
  17. matthew

    matthew Almost sexy

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    ? your having a joke, right ?.
     
  18. blindhobosam

    blindhobosam The Legend

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    and then the government didn't take them and they added stuff to them to make us mindless morons....sure why not? :)
     
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