[Migrated, see pinned post] Casual Conversation

Great thread, thanks for posting.

For the last long while I've considered the feelings people are having as similar to a dog that barks before an earthquake or when cows lay down before it rains. There may not be an understanding of the origins of our prophetic rumblings but their validity should not be discounted.

As for what form our future will take I find it sad watching all of you struggle with the evidentiary overload. It is not nearly as important to worry about what will happen as it is to decide what common outcomes there will be and how you want to prepare for them. Food and energy supply, gone. Government control and protection, gone. Reliability of these networks people talk of building, gone. What do you want to do in these circumstances? Starve? Kill? Die?

None of this is worth worrying about. Don't let anxiety paralyze you. If you choose to do something then look at the broader picture. Do things that lead you to where you think you'll be content. Learn to kill. Learn to die. Learn to survive. Many are taking that approach.

One last point. There is much of humanity that holds such promise. There is also much that proves our animal origins. My personal take is that we should absolutely be exterminated, though I've chosen to try to survive. Had we overcome our notion that our goodness as a species was beyond our taking the necessary steps to avoid this outcome, perhaps we would have conducted the necessary genetic engineering and population control that could have saved us. To be fair, very few would have thought this was even possible 50 or 100 years ago, but any such thoughts were very carefully controlled by people who knew better or were intentionally blinded by greed. It is these people I will be taking out my frustration on.

Sorry, I know this is not a positive message. It's never popular to say the quiet parts out loud. The main point is I want to say don't be discouraged. Good luck.