Are you more cynical than me?

Problem Child

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I believe that:

-global warming will change the climate in the world's major crop-producing regions enough so that food production will decline to the point where massive starvation will occur, causing a wave of disease epidemics withing the next thirty years.

-someone will nuke Israel, causing major war in the mid-east, and this time Israel will not be giving any land back as before. All this of course hinges on whether or not her military survives the initial nuking.

-China will once again threaten to take Taiwan by force and we will be dragged into the fight. Nukes? Maybe.

-our system of government is the best on earth, but is being run by politicians who are corrupted by money, and are not working for the best interests of the people.

-we are from now on locked into a struggle with the more radical elements of Muslim religion. This is really scary if you consider the fact that these people make all their decisions based on religion, which to those who believe in it makes everything and anything they do right.

-excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides, along with intensive farming practices are destroying the farmland in the midwest. Couple that with the fact that maor corporations are pushing the family farmer off the land and slowly gaining a monopoly on the basic food commodites in this country and you have a recipe for disaster.

Of course there are answers to all these problems, but as long as our politicians continue to be whores to corporate America instead of responsible public servants, I can't see how we're anything but fucked.

sweet dreams.
 
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Don't worry PC, we'll blow each other to bits before that happens. WWWIII is in the offing. I wouldn't be surprised if the governments started promoting childbirth in the media through subliminal messages, particularly among the lower classes. We will need to replenish the troops; if anyone survives the NBC.

Anyway, Greenland is in the middle of the ice age, the north pole never froze over this year, and we're moving closer to the sun.

In 2024 we'll be electing a cockroach for president.
 
You know that Vince McMahon will become the next 5 star general and will lead the allied forces against the infidels? Watch it live on PPV if you're not involved.

We've got MOP4 gear here. We've got stockpiled water, heat oil, and any necessary gear to hide in the mountains and play Red Dawn.
 
I think maybe p_p_ man may have the edge on you. Cynicism laced with paranoia...
 
KillerMuffin said:
kiwi, don't confuse cynicism with psychosis. :)


LMAO... Hey c'mon KM... I was trying to be polite... or tactful... or some shit like that.

Psychosis... I like it.:cool:
 
KillerMuffin said:
You know that Vince McMahon will become the next 5 star general and will lead the allied forces against the infidels? Watch it live on PPV if you're not involved.

We've got MOP4 gear here. We've got stockpiled water, heat oil, and any necessary gear to hide in the mountains and play Red Dawn.

Now all you need is mountains.
 
KillerMuffin said:
You know that Vince McMahon will become the next 5 star general and will lead the allied forces against the infidels? Watch it live on PPV if you're not involved.

We've got MOP4 gear here. We've got stockpiled water, heat oil, and any necessary gear to hide in the mountains and play Red Dawn.


Well thats a relief, WW3 will be purchased by the WWF, at least it will all be fake...right;)
 
Problem Child said:


Kiwi, don't confuse paranoia with unbridled stupidity.


Alright... so my whole post was fucked... *throws up hands in despair* :cool:
 
Problem Child said:

-excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides, along with intensive farming practices are destroying the farmland in the midwest. Couple that with the fact that maor corporations are pushing the family farmer off the land and slowly gaining a monopoly on the basic food commodites in this country and you have a recipe for disaster.

Destroying the farmland in the midwest? Have you been here lately? We have miles and miles of untouched land. Plenty to grow a few acres of corn or wheat. :)

No, I'm not as cynical as you. I don't dwell on all the potential bad things in the world, that would drive anyone crazy! You can't fix everything, and worry helps nothing. I'm an expert on that one, lately.
 
Problem Child said:
Well, I am assigned to a Level One Trauma Unit (that means we get the worst of the worst) & I continue to hold out hope people will stop maiming & killing each other.

It sounds over-simplified but if I & others I work alongside of refrained from being just a wee bit cynical about our chances of saving the %$#&^% world we couldn't do our jobs.

As harsh as it may sound one gets rather unemotional & detached about removing 9 mm rounds from gang-bangers who have previously graced one of our tables two & three times.

Our ER is just a macrocism of what is happening in the world at large. Sad. Very sad, but true.

However, thank god we are here to man the ramparts! *laughing
 
Really Cynical???

My favorite aunt noticed that I was quite cynical even as a child and offere the following advice:

It's ok to be cynical, just don't get bitter about it.
 
Simplistic and naive; i don't care.

I believe that all will be well for most of us as time progresses.

I believe that most of the people in the world want just exactly what you want: to love and be loved, enough to eat, clean water to drink, a safe place to live, good schools for thier kids, appropriate health care, and a nice vacation every so often.

What happens globally is the result of decisions and policies and manueverings which no one asked us, the majority, about. In the end, the simple, basic, so-human needs that most of us share will drive who does what to whom on a macro scale because most of us want the same things.

Additionally, the Earth is far more elastic than the doom-sayers will allow, though not infinitely so. It, too, will rebound.

All will be well, PC; i am definitely not as cynical as you.
Never have been, never will be.
:cool:
 
Bitch, please. I was more cynical than you when i still believed in Santa Claus.
 
I think the proper way to phrase the question is:

Are you more cynical than 'I'?












Probably.
 
A good friend of mine (me) always says that sarcasm is the poetry of cynic. :)

Weeves, you're about as cynical as my left butt cheek.

And you're both wrong, Alexandraah. It should be "Are you more cynical than I am?"

However, if one cannonballs into the public swimming pool of vernacular then either is correct.
 
...and fade to black as two of Lit's erstwhile members of the Grammarian Police face each other down, thesauri at the ready, the townsfolk peering uncertainly from behind the doors of the Saloon, the Bank, and the General Store...

CUT and PRINT!
Good one, folks; thanks.
Let's take an hour for lunch.
:D
 
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