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pan6467 · 04-02-2009, 10:30 PM

This issue is to do 2 things, IMHO.

1) As the OP kinda points out, take focus off the real issue which is a global economic meltdown that will cost many lives.

2) Make some people VERY VERY wealthy.

We cannot control sunspots, the Earth's movement and nature herself. I'm sure we are not helping polluting the ground waters, killing off animals, destroying rainforests.... but man is adaptable, we have survived many things throughout history. We have evidence that species long thought extinct or endangered do find ways of coming back, so plants and animals are just as adaptable. Think evolution.... I know it's a bad word for theists and for libs, they embrace it until this topic comes up, hypocrites that we can be. We have no proof, just theory, that there is any man made global warming. Africa at one time was as rich and fruitful as South America.... how did it become mostly desert BEFORE industrialization?

Temps increase and decrease with no rationale because we are NOT in control. And therein lies the biggest problem.... MAN'S ego does not want to believe we are not in control of this planet's destiny. NATURE is.

This whole issue reminds me of the history we hear of how tribes believed sacrificing virgins to Gods or the great steaming mountain would change weather patterns or yield better crops. It was bunk and mythology now but it was man BELIEVING he could change nature. We are in effect doing the same thing today... just instead of superstition and some theistic BS, we are saying it is "Scientific" and so on.

BS is BS.... but some times people sell BS as fact so they can make lots of money and take focus off what truly matters.

04-02-2009, 10:30 PM	#8 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	This issue is to do 2 things, IMHO. 1) As the OP kinda points out, take focus off the real issue which is a global economic meltdown that will cost many lives. 2) Make some people VERY VERY wealthy. We cannot control sunspots, the Earth's movement and nature herself. I'm sure we are not helping polluting the ground waters, killing off animals, destroying rainforests.... but man is adaptable, we have survived many things throughout history. We have evidence that species long thought extinct or endangered do find ways of coming back, so plants and animals are just as adaptable. Think evolution.... I know it's a bad word for theists and for libs, they embrace it until this topic comes up, hypocrites that we can be. We have no proof, just theory, that there is any man made global warming. Africa at one time was as rich and fruitful as South America.... how did it become mostly desert BEFORE industrialization? Temps increase and decrease with no rationale because we are NOT in control. And therein lies the biggest problem.... MAN'S ego does not want to believe we are not in control of this planet's destiny. NATURE is. This whole issue reminds me of the history we hear of how tribes believed sacrificing virgins to Gods or the great steaming mountain would change weather patterns or yield better crops. It was bunk and mythology now but it was man BELIEVING he could change nature. We are in effect doing the same thing today... just instead of superstition and some theistic BS, we are saying it is "Scientific" and so on. BS is BS.... but some times people sell BS as fact so they can make lots of money and take focus off what truly matters. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?" Last edited by pan6467; 04-02-2009 at 10:33 PM..