@StreetCowboy, it looks like the wheels have come off your thread.

2 hours ago, connda said:

The collective West (US/UK/EU) spewing collective hyperbole that 1) Russian is going to invade Europe, 2) China is going to invade all of Asia including Australia and New Zealand, 3) Iran is going to take over all of the Middle East and drive Israel into the sea, and 4) the DPRK is going to invade South Korea and Japan.  So - NATO must expand world-wide, the West must stage preemptive decapitation strikes on 1, 2, 3, and 4 in order to "Save Western Democracy," and while NATO is at it, let's start with invading and absorbing Kaliningrad to defend NATO territories. And read into enough articles by the like of the Rand Corp and Council Of Foreign Relations, a nuclear first strike on 1, 2, 3, and 4 may be a great idea and the US will WIN WIN WIN a nuclear war because it is EXCEPTIONAL!

Yeah - Armageddon is coming...soon.  Trump and his cabinet may survived underground if they can make it to a bunker, but you, I, and the rest of us ain't.  

 

CCP stooge much. It would be worth global annihilation to have China and Russia removed from this universe. Utterly morally bankrupt and corrupt to the core. Post-WWII, they should both have been dealt with and sent back to the Stone Age. Nukes could then have been curtailed down to a few left for those shady states that try to develop them. 

4 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

I sometimes listen to songs, and it drives me mad when "fire" is pronounced "Ffiah" as in Martin O.
Since it seems it is me against the world, Armageddon can't come soon enough.

 

Who else is rushing towards Armageddon?

I get it. A bit like this beaut 

 

 

4 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

That's a lot of figments to ignore.  I hope that you are less reckless when you are driving.  

Mankind has manufactured something on the order of 6000 different religions.

 

If you're playing Pascal's Wager, that means you've got a .0167% chance of picking the right one. Not good odds. Might as well enjoy all the vices your senses can experience, hell be damned.

 

In any event, AI is going to destroy us before any 'final battle'. I cannot help but wonder if the reason we haven't actually been visited by aliens is because every advanced civilization in the 200,000,000,000 galaxy Universe eventually invented AI, and it killed them.

 

Even if AI doesn't kill us, it is going to change society in ways almost unimaginable a century ago. Almost every job will be taken over by AI. Many people will lose meaning. Some will turn to violence for its adrenaline effect. Knowledge will be for knowledge sake only, because there will be nothing any human can do with knowledge that AI won't be able to do better. We won't need any universities, or if we have them, they will be free and folks will just study for fun. 99.99% of the people will get UBI (universal basic income), and a very select few will have enormous wealth and control every aspect of society. They will become like the gods humans have invented, because all they will need is endless thanks and adoration. What is Sam Altman going to do when he's a trillionaire? He will want everyone to worship him for altering humanity more than anyone, even more than Genghis Khan.

 

If you want a real Armageddon, it's AI and the precious few people who control it. They have no conscience and no moral compass. 80 years ago a group of similarly brilliant people changed humanity for all time, but they had a moral compass. They knew the danger of what their minds were creating, and tried to warn the self-serving powers-that-be of the risk. Of course they were ignored. The guys doing the analogous effort today, like Altman and Musk and others, really don't care how dangerous their invention might be. They just want endless wealth and adoration. They will, if they do not already, fancy themselves as deities.

They dont want to pay taxes again....ever.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz8TZrGAoiU&pp=ygUUYWVyb3NtaXRoIHN0YXkgYXdha2U%3D

 

Come on baby light my Ffiah...........

A bit random and off topic but there was a rugby league player (mainly in the 1990's) Martin Offiah.

 

Had the nickname 'Chariots' which I think was genius in it's purest form.

 

8 hours ago, NanLaew said:

@StreetCowboy, it looks like the wheels have come off your thread.

There’s been a bit of digression.

1 hour ago, Keeps said:

A bit random and off topic but there was a rugby league player (mainly in the 1990's) Martin Offiah.

 

Had the nickname 'Chariots' which I think was genius in it's purest form.

 

That’s the whole bloody point! Fire is only one syllable.

20 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

I sometimes listen to songs, and it drives me mad when "fire" is pronounced "Ffiah"

I tried singing the song this morning using 'fire' instead of 'Ffiah', and it just didn't sound right. Try it and see what you think. 

Sometimes, your faith is restored, your nihilism abandoned and the rush to oblivion like an over-ambitious lemming abated

I revisited the song that was my orignal cause for concern, and sure enough, our late man from Crossgates says "Fire" with emphasis that could be heard as 'Fyer' or 'Fire', but not 'Ffiah'.

Lemmings are creatures of great ambition and interepidation.  When times are hard, and overcrowding a challenge, they find the highest vantage point to leap to the sea as far as they can, and swim on through to the other side.  East is East, and West is West, but lemmings carry on, and they never rest.