Comments by "Ronin Dave" (@RoninDave) on "TED" channel.

we have put rules before our sanity and souls. Look what happened recently at a supermarket in Georgia where the police restrained poor people from taking perfectly good food that was bound to the landfill because the landowners (sun trust bank) ordered it so.
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@theolivetree3900 "thus being incorporated into the dogma of the Christian church." No it wasn't. The Catholic Church never accepted this (especially as Lloyd and Ussher were Anglican) nor did other Protestant sects. Even Pat Roberston doesn't buy it.
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This assumes that intelligent life would arise similar in terms of our own and our intelligence is questionable as despite our scientific knowledge we live in a world fueled by the collective belief in an intangible concept for which we will work ourselves to death, kill, steal, go to war over. I'm talking about money which only has the value we give it but we are willing to ignore the signs of our own self destruction in order to get more of something we cannot eat, drink, make tools or clothing out of, etc... But I digress, with the age of the universe we could either be late or early to the party. Another world or worlds of the countless number out there could have had a series of events that saw an intelligent species arise a million or a billion years before now. We went from simple villages to landing on the moon in under 10,000 years - a mere blink in geological time - and the greatest leaps were in the last two hundred years. Only a thousand years ahead of us currently would put them way ahead of us in ways we can barely imagine. Conversely, if the universe lasts 120 trillion years as some suggest, the 13.8 billion years the universe has existed up to now will seem an incalculable eternity ago if an interstellar civilization arises somewhere in the Universe in 50-100 billion years from now. By then we'll be long gone along with our solar system with little trace of us ever having existed unless someone bumps into one of the Voyagers and plays our greatest hits.
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only a relatively small number of religious people believe that and yet this is one thing constantly brought up as though it were a major issue. Even freaking Pat Robertson doesn't believe the 6k old earth.
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the 6th Extinction started long before Fukushima (from our perspective). We have been wiping out species and changing the environment of the Earth for some time now picking up speed in the 19th century with deforestation, poisoning our seas and air, putting out chemicals into the air and water that never had been in atmosphere before.
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My brain hallucinated my conscious reality of robbing a liquor store high on meth did not make much of an impression on the judge.
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It may well be that human existence is/was as an extinction agent to prepare the Earth for the next dominant (and hopefully more intelligent) species. We arrogantly think that the coincidences favored us when it may very well be they favor our successors a million or two years from now (a blink in geological time) and we are merely stepping stones to them or like how we use the dinosaurs as warnings, we are used as warnings for their kind not to put greed before common sense and empathy.
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