Posts from The future is in your hands...
People have been saying that throughout the ages. I recently read "The Tale of the Heike" – a medieval Japanese book – and I was just laughing: every two pages, there's some variation on the theme of "even though the end of the world is near, such disrespect towards elders/the emperor/etc. cannot be tolerated"...
And I'm not even talking about medieval Europeans, who expected the end of the world any day now.
But the world is still here! And it seems to be doing pretty well:), and for now – it's getting better and better (if you don't believe me, just imagine what life was like eight hundred years ago – with rampant superstition, incredibly high mortality rates, constant epidemics and famine, cruelty being the norm, a fantastic lack of fresh information and the unimaginable boredom that resulted – brr!!!:mad:).
So, humanity will probably live for many, many more years...:)
Although, in reality, who knows!
I also believe that the world will exist for a very, very long time. I won't explain why here, otherwise it will become off-topic.
Let us also barricade ourselves from the Plague!
Let us light the fires, fill the glasses,
Let us merrily drown our sorrows
And, having prepared feasts and balls,
Let us glorify the kingdom of the Plague." The classic, it seems, was looking far into the future
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"So much has gone
and little is new"
David Bowie
"...But I believe in legends
And that I will have a happy ending too..."
Seryoga, a piece of fate.
If no one "crows," then maybe everything will be alright...
"...But I believe in legends
And that with a happy ending, it will be for me too..."
Sergei, a piece of fate.
If no one "caws," then maybe everything will be alright...
Ravens caw, and a person looks and sees, or imagines, what they want to see. However, I agree – it's better to try to live and remain human than to sit and whine.
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"So much has gone
and little is new"
David Bowie
If no one "caws," then maybe everything will be alright...
Ravens caw, and a person looks and sees, or imagines, what they want to see. However, I agree – rather than sit and whine, it's better to try to live and remain human.
Sorry for the off-topic.
All I wanted to say in my posts is that the topic of the future, discussed here, is much more serious than just enthusiastic and optimistic messages, like "everything is okay," "we'll get through it," and so on. Modern humanity lives both literally and figuratively on a volcano, so, in my opinion, to say something sensible about this topic, it is necessary to have knowledge of all sorts of "cawings" as well as an objective understanding of the situation in the world, in order to compare and understand that "everything is much later than it seems," as the American Orthodox hieromonk Seraphim Rose (died in 1982) put it.
In my opinion, it is better to understand everything but try to LIVE in that train rushing into the abyss (the film "The Train of Runaways" by Andrei Konchalovsky) than to remain in blissful ignorance and paint the world with naive illusions.
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"So much has gone
and little is new"
David Bowie
Well, if anyone makes it to the year 3000, say hello to the K'tharr. And remember, the cheapest minerals are on Gordius Prime.
Yeah! Well, if anyone lives to see the year 3000, say hello to the Kil'jaeden. And remember, the cheapest minerals are on Gordius Prime.
It seems to me that the path of humanity, as a species, is coming to an end. It's noticeable...
I don't want a future; I want the present to end as soon as possible.
And in general, the future, as I see it, is an industrial nightmare of concrete and glass. And I'm currently living in it.
Днём и ночью от наших тел,можно слышать крики боли,из-за накопленных нашими душами грехов...
Actually, I think the future will be an industrial nightmare made of concrete and glass. And that's the kind of world I'm living in right now.