Read Latest Entries..: (Post #42) by hitmanblood on May 18 2007, 10:19 PM. (Line Breaks Removed)
Well seems like this post has diverted actually from the thing it worked for to build story how to take over the world. Well I would like to post something. In order to make our world better place and to improve the people in general and make our civilazitationj better we would have to make some sort of centralized government that is really important because only such government can do something ... read more.
(Obviously this isn't serious... but it is very much an idea, and theory)
To start I will make clear that I am not claiming that my way is the best way to take over the world (even I think there might be simpler ways), I'm not claiming it is the the most efficient way, or that conquering the world is even a just or desirable thing that would help anything at all. Furthermore I acknowledge that the actions the following plan considers necessary, may very well be considered evil. But anyone with their eye on ruling the whole world surely understands that it would be a naive folly indeed to limit their range of actions to "good" ones if they were to ever make any serious progress.
Indeed there are thousands of places one could start, and my initial post I will only be looking at the opening course for this world takeover. After some discussion of how this will progress, with welcome input from other users, the world will eventually be taken over by the completion of this thread. But first it has to start.
And it starts in the U.S.A., with a Leader. In the late 80's and early 90's this Leader has been toying with computers, ripe with grandiose philosophies on how to change the world forever by making any and all of the world's information free and amazingly easy to access. They begin working on platform independent programs. Artificial intelligence is the goal for many of these projects, but the Leader fails to reach this goal. But he develops two things: 1- a superior search program with powerful and accurate algorithms and 2- a software that relies on its community to maintain, store, improve and develop information.
As the Internet becomes successful, masses of wealth are accumulated (about $9-10 billion a year but increasing) and the Leader carefully develops and expands these endeavors to be on the cutting edge of new technologies and new ways to offer digitized information to everyone. It's not being on the cutting edge that matters, though. All being on the cutting edge means, is being the only one making these kinds of information available. Being the possessor of them. Being the one primary, leading source everyone turns to for their information.
The wealth is amassed, and the Leader moves to the Democratic Republic of Congo. He quietly sets up a charity that continually donates to various causes in the Congo, encouraging the violent rebel factions ravaging the country to turn in their guns in exchange for money. This helps stabilize the country.
Meanwhile, information systems dominating the internet back in the U.S. and around the world have produced tons of freely available information, and among the information are free digitized books of various educational purposes.
In the Congo, the Leader sets up a cheap and inexpensive printing press system he runs out of the basement of his own house, printing inexpensive books that have been produced and released for free on the internet. Most of the ones he prints have to do with personal responsibility. They include:
- ways to live self sufficiently and save money - practical guides to creating goods (i.e. chair making, crop raising) - information on prevention of sexually transmitted diseases - books on community values, morals.
He hands them out for free to people in various communities. This is to further strengthen the stability of the nation. He also sponsors certain candidates and political movements he prefers, eventually himself becoming very politically influential.
The country is transformed, it's populace becomes more efficient and less violent, and wider education programs can be implemented. But the major project has to get started.
The Democratic Republic of Congo sits on the Congo River, one of the most condensed and potent natural forces in the world. Only the flow of the Amazon River is stronger. Building a hydroelectric dam on the Congo that fully harnesses the force of this river would generate enough electricity to power not only the entire country, but could fuel all the electricity needs of the neighboring Republic of Congo, any and all bordering nations and could even sell electricity to countries far away as Europe.
This idea has long been a treasured but hopelessly far off dream for the people of both Congo's. It would mark the rising of a new and powerful electricity grid, a source of major wealth for the nations and a mountain of power waiting to fuel industry and lend emergence to cities throughout the hemisphere. But for the longest time there has been no way to finance this dream, except by plunging the nation ever further into debt to foreign nations who would then essentially control all the profits and rewards to be reaped from the construction of the dam.
It was the Leader who came just in time to prevent the Dem. Rep. of Congo from selling off its' future, volunteering to finance a significant portion of it's construction and put the country in much better bargaining power with interested companies and nations looking to finance the dam's construction. The Leader can only afford to pay about $3 billion (and up to an additional $10 billion over time) of the roughly $50 billion in expenses needed to construct the Congo Dam. But the effect is to commence construction and establish major confidence from outside companies and allow much favorable financing that allows the government a much better negotiation position. Of course, the Leader's eventual goal is to have the Congo Dam revolutionize the region and place the nation in a position of considerable influence, with himself at the center.
Developing....
For commenters: problems, holes, contradictions, it is welcome for you to point these out, I won't be upset. I will take them seriously, and try to make sure the Leader addresses them as he works to take over the world. Or I'll freely admit if it's a problem that will linger as the conquest progresses. Maybe the Leader will try different things, and maybe they will fail until a new plan can be thought of.
But (only catch) nothing which has already been written can be undone or re-done. Have to keep moving forward. So I'm fleshing out this world conquering idea a bit... but I wanted to make sure I got the first part of this idea of mine out on the table for scrutiny.
This was very fun for me to read. Its obviously very well thought out. I think that after the dam is built and the country is debt free or close to it the Leader should run for president, or whatever executive power they have in the Republic of Congo. Considering that he or she brought the Republic of Congo out of debt, I think that the people of Congo would be pleased to have him or her lead there country to further greatness. Once the Leader is in office he or she can really start focusing on taking over the world. Perhaps you should have the Leader increase the price to neighboring countries and some how put them in enough debt to convince them to allow you to buy them and form a bigger Congo all under your control. If I was the Leader, that is what I would do. I would also while I was in office increase the medical technology and education and food in Congo. This will make the people of Congo like you more.
I always wondered how to do this so it was fun to read. If you play the game risk it can spoil your brain and also make you want to conquer the world. I do not want to get into these things as a matter of fact i just want to live my ordinary life, pray and after i die i want to go to heaven. I hope i get successful. And as for USA. Its a country of *BLEEP* like seriously even if they like do damages to mosque or destroy the pyramids people will protest for 2 days then George Dubbya will come out and say oh im so sorry on behalf of my troops and their aim missed and all that *BLEEP*. So America has somewhat taken over the world and we saw that in Iraq. Saddam said something against him and he got killed(may god forgive him for his crime) He had committed crimes but not more that the respectable president of USA. I just want to spread message and show people that USA is wrong. Its slowly taking over the world.
For commenters: problems, holes, contradictions, it is welcome for you to point these out
And point them out I will, thank you very much. Ok, so the Democratic Republic of Congo becomes a nice hegemon in Africa. Won't there be a few concerns about "another power in the region" from the current lords of Africa? Another thing: the place is rich in minerals - gold and other metals, and diamonds. The US already backed a coup under Lumumba back in the 60's because he was appealing to the Soviet Union and didn't give international companies the agreements they wanted over gem trade. Who's the say this won't happen again -say with some other country or by economical sabotage by these corporations? And to finish this off, cultural revolutions take time. I'd say 10 years is a good minimum bound on changing everything in the DRC and implementing all your reforms. Ok, the Great Leader of our Respected Fatherland has brought in reforms and brought electricity to the region! Does he repeat with his neighboring countries or what? Because it'll take a long time for him to take over the world if he's doing this one nation at a time...
Ignoring necessary criticisms, I like the topic. Just hoping that no one is crazy enough to follow it though.
IF (big if) I wanted to take over the world, I'd rather develop a fleet of reasonable spaceships and have the whole world at gunpoint. I even have a few ideas on building a reasonably safe, economical and powerful space ship (NOT star-ship, just space ship), so the idea isn't as far fetched as it sounds. If you arm your fleet well and have the element of surprise on your side I'd say you could stand well out in space and take out the military installations of the most powerful nations first, then dictate terms. They might comply, they might argue, but if you can develop a space fleet secretly I'd say you have SOME chance of success. Human weapons don't reach very far space-ward - it is a fatal weakness. If you want to rule earth in this day and age, you must rule space first.
Anyway, I have no interest in taking over the world, because if I did, I'd be bound (by the codes I follow) to solve each and every one of it's problems. A leader lives for his people, or he is not worthy to be a leader.
Anyway, I'd rather work at solving the worlds problems without being chained to the job, hehehehehhehehhe. - Just a different way of looking at the job of 'kinging it' over humanity
Not only people want to take over but we need a good selfless leader who will guide out humankind to victory and great advances. Someone not like Hitler but someone who is fair and who doesn't hold any racism or any bad thoughts in his mind. If this is completed then our human race will go to success and we may have technology we may have never thought of before. A world where everyone is rich and no job is a bad job. That is when we have success.
And point them out I will, thank you very much. Ok, so the Democratic Republic of Congo becomes a nice hegemon in Africa. Won't there be a few concerns about "another power in the region" from the current lords of Africa? Another thing: the place is rich in minerals - gold and other metals, and diamonds. The US already backed a coup under Lumumba back in the 60's because he was appealing to the Soviet Union and didn't give international companies the agreements they wanted over gem trade. Who's the say this won't happen again -say with some other country or by economical sabotage by these corporations? And to finish this off, cultural revolutions take time. I'd say 10 years is a good minimum bound on changing everything in the DRC and implementing all your reforms. Ok, the Great Leader of our Respected Fatherland has brought in reforms and brought electricity to the region! Does he repeat with his neighboring countries or what? Because it'll take a long time for him to take over the world if he's doing this one nation at a time...
Ignoring necessary criticisms, I like the topic. Just hoping that no one is crazy enough to follow it though.
Well, it is true indeed that this would take several years to implement the reforms alone in the D.R. of the Congo, the construction of the Congo Dam itself will take about a decade to complete, and the water flowing through it will carry more force than the dam at Three Gorges in China, the world's largest dam (when completed).
As for cultural reforms, the leader was never interested in any, save how culture is reformed by becoming more educated, self sustaining and up to date. The choice wasn't between their well known tradition and some foreign, ugly imposing values telling them to change how they lived. Just better. Just improvement. It's like a beggar being handed free money. Can you really say no?
Of course this country has its history, its heritage, and its cultural integrity and is only a "beggar" in the sense that it is crippled in debt accumulated from interest and loans, and in dire need. The people were merely being offered a solution to violence, a way to move forward and out of the chaos that ravaged them. But it is true that there was a culture of opposition that made itself most known through violent rebellion and populist politics (which will be dealt with in the next post). This opposition had to be answered by propaganda, by being declared terrorists and surrounding one side of the conflict with stately legalized formality, but this was a true and major, and long running problem which again, will be covered in the next post.
Institutions were built from the ground up, never imposed but flowing freely from the veins of practicality. They took possession of their lumber industry, selling raw materials to their own companies to produce wood and pulp-based products and wherever possible the nation would buy it's own gold, zinc, and other natural resources as well, to convert into other products, effectively swallowing up the other stations of the production line which were getting a free ride on remaking Congo resources.
For convenience, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo decided a merger was necessary. Both nations had claimed ownership of the river and agreements would be much less complicated if they merely became one nation, the Congo. Economically, politically, and in every national way possible they would simply be too intimately tied as nations, to the extent that it would do more harm than good to remain separate entities.
More overwhelming than any cultural and political objections, was the exciting and inspiring fact that the new nation would become the economic capital of Africa. And they would.
While the dam was being built, understanding and information spread greatly reducing the prevalence of diseases such as aids and malaria. Common knowledge about the seasons and sickness prolonged life expectancies, surpluses of grain were witheld in an inventory to combat the regularly occuring famine season, and refugees from violence of neighboring nations poured into the borders causing the population to boom from 66 million to over 90 million.
Before the construction of the dam, many problems could not be answered by money, and so the Leader's printed books were spread as widely as possible (i.e. pumps, tanks and water filters were not made available but information on construction of simple wells, protecting water from infection, the need to store water from the rainy season in anticipation of the dry season, for those with no access to the river... all of this information was widely disseminated). What money the leader could afford to spend, outside of financing the Congo Dam went almost exclusively toward education: recruiting teachers and constructing buildings, to create a new generation of skilled laborers by the millions,
After the dam was completed, at the urging of the "Leader", the political groups controlling the Congo shocked and outraged involved corporations and financiers by nationalizing the Congo Dam (seized control of it). In response an ever engulfing web of debt, lawsuits, and fines were being heaped upon the nation. These things went unanswered and unpaid or only paid in miniature fractions of the required amount by the Congo, because they claimed they couldn't afford to pay everything upfront. But in truth, these things were being deliberately disregarded by the Congo. They would eventually declare all debt and fines of any sort which had been crippling the nation totally null and void, but had to wait for a time when this could be done without bringing (economic) warfare down against itself.
As it was between the Congos, energy agreements and intimate interconnections developed among neighboring countries- Cameroon, Gabon, Zambia, Tanzania, Sudan and eventually all the way down to South Africa eastto Somalia. This close relation was preferred over making money, and often Congo would deliberately take a loss to show good will toward the other nations and to further establish the ever expanding electricity grid, to only make money when certain regions became stable in the near future. And they would make money, on the hundreds of villages and townships which grew into hundreds of towns and minor cities across the heart of Africa, all dependent on Congo's Hydropower.
This bargaining hand also made a significant impact on the nature of the African Union. It just seemed a matter of convenience that every summit between the nations would be held in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo which soon became considered the capital of Africa.
Soon the supreme governing body of the union, "The Assembly of the African Union" (the collected heads of states of African Nations) found that they held their yearly meetings in Brazzaville (the capital of the "other" congo before their union). An African Court of Justice was also established in Kinshasa and inevitably the government of the Congo held huge sway over the entirety of the continent.
Under the African Union, the Congo (and the Leader) gained an ever stronger grip on other nations of Africa preaching fierce isolation and integration, and it would take merely a decade or so for the reforms, both educational and economic, to spread in at least a skeletal way as Africa became a modernized and integrated super-nation.
As this happened classes of labor were born: a hundred-million fold class of unskilled, poor laborers (never paid more than $1.00 an hour) who competed with China and India for the manufacturing business of the first world, giving rise to a small collection of genuinely African based manufacturing corporations. The second was a class of skilled workers (engineers, architects, programmers) and business minds that oversaw and developed the African labor force and infrastructure of the ever more integrated continent.
As for the U.S. they would actually support this venture- they were well aware an American billionaire was setting up a charity, transforming and gaining influence in the continent, risking wealth in a way the U.S. government itself never would. Without the hindsight all of you readers have, what would they be worried about? Perhaps the everyday push and pull pressures of politics and economy that all big nations thrust against each other, but nothing more. What were they to suspect?..
For convenience, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo decided a merger was necessary.
Hmm... interesting idea, creation of a greater Congo. But I offer some historical trends to consider: Unification by assent seems to only have been treated in a nonhostile manner by small nation-states -or city states such as in the case of Switzerland, and that (correct me if I'm wrong) Jordan and Syria. However, large unifications tend to invoke the ire of many, such as the Anschluss between Austria and Germany (which I still illegal I believe) partly because leaders of one of the governments don't want to share power. So how exactly do they join?
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Just improvement. It's like a beggar being handed free money. Can you really say no?
Oh, in that case that wouldn't take too much time. You're right I guess.
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Before the construction of the dam, many problems could not be answered by money, and so the Leader's printed books were spread as widely as possible
This one would take a lot of time actually. We're working off a 66% or so literacy rate and self-help. Granted, it brings in self-interest, but it would still take time for coordinated events to occur.
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After the dam was completed, at the urging of the "Leader", the political groups controlling the Congo shocked and outraged involved corporations and financiers by nationalizing the Congo Dam (seized control of it). In response an ever engulfing web of debt, lawsuits, and fines were being heaped upon the nation. These things went unanswered and unpaid or only paid in miniature fractions of the required amount by the Congo, because they claimed they couldn't afford to pay everything upfront. But in truth, these things were being deliberately disregarded by the Congo. They would eventually declare all debt and fines of any sort which had been crippling the nation totally null and void, but had to wait for a time when this could be done without bringing (economic) warfare down against itself.
Ok, kind of like Egypt and the Suez Canal. How do we know that nations will not go to war in order to answer their corporations or at least impose some sort of sanction for it? -It'll be hard to have any trade, because Western nations will pressure its neighbors into not trading with the Greater Congo. Even if the US is supporting the Leader, I'm sure its corporations will proceed with economic pressure and other Western countries will follow a more formal action against the "Leader".
I like the development of the Greater Congo. However, it all depends upon harnessing the power of the Congo Dam. That makes it a strong strategic source for anyone wanting to pull off another coup d'etat. Sure the people may go in to protest it, but if an opponent is strong enough to make a police state, it's all over.
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What were they to suspect?..
Touche. But I'm sure their historians and politicians will remember the long history of Western interference in Africa.
nice post...it was fun to read your post...i m still amazed at the fact that how much of your brain and time you have devoted to this thing...which, most probably, you are not going to do ...
by the way i feel that there are many loopholes in your story...sorry to say...though i liked your story very much...but i think it can work better as a fiction novel...the problems i point out here are related to both human psychology and the general ones...
i have read so many posts in your topic therefore i dont remember correctly the first one...but i think first problem lies with the starting...
i don't know how many people after earning so much that they can , according to you, almost support an entire country, will go out from United States of America and live in Democratic Republic of Congo. i mean give it a thought...you are living a great life in one of the world's best and safest countries with billions around you(dollars)....and then suddenly one day you will say to yourself and your family members that come on we are going to Democratic Republic of Congo...where right now you don't know that when some mercenaries will shoot you...where you don't have any facilities provided by government...ok you can have most of the facilities through your money...but still not all...
then having people give up weapons for some charity is easier said than done...the problem is when people are illiterate they don't have a sense of their own...i live in India and i know why idiotic political parties like congress, dmk, rld etc just dangle out the carrot of reservation policy and not do anything to actually educate and elevate people...because as long as they know that their voters are illiterate they can just turn them in any direction ....because illiterates dont think from their mind but from the minds of their so called 'leaders'....my point is that when our 'leader' starts giving charity those people will oppose who are the already present leaders of Democratic Republic of Congo...because they know that although their country is very poor..under huge debt,people are dying all over...but still they can have much more power and money if they are the leader than accepting your charity and have you become the leader...and if they are not satisfied then they will just tell the story to those illiterates in such a way that, although they will benefit from our 'leader', they will start believing that whatever our leader is doing for them is wrong...i will give you a real life example...in india right now governments of different states are setting up SEZ's(special economic zones) for the setting up of industries etc...so what happens is that they have to get some agricultural land cleared up and then give it to the industrialists to build up...after which the people displaced get huge benefits in terms that they get jobs, their area gets advanced, their living standard therefore rises...but at most places, as presently is happening in Singur, people of the region oppose this...why??? ...because if there is a conflict of interest with local politicians on any issue, which almost always happens since these idiot politicians have no work but to stall ongoing work at any palce, then they just tell the public, which is mostly illiterate, that its not good for you and all that blah..blah...blah...and they trust them ...thats why i was saying that its not that easy to give charity and get people give up their arms...or habits...
then when the leader prints out books then before that he must ensure that most of the people are literate enough that they can read...i dont know about Democratic Republic of Congo, but i know that their are far too many people in India who cannot read...and i think India is considered way better than Democratic Republic of Congo....and this , educating people, i can tell you surely will take a very long time....and i dont know whether our leader has that much patience or not...
but still i would like to say that i liked your post very much and i very very much appreciate your thoughtful mind...i think one day you can, if not the "Leader", definitely become a great novelist or scriptwriter or something like that...but i will add to your story in next post...though it is flawed but it is still too good to be left..
and i urge all others also to keep writing...
ok...bye...may our "Leader" succeed in his good deeds..
Well seems like this post has diverted actually from the thing it worked for to build story how to take over the world.
Well I would like to post something. In order to make our world better place and to improve the people in general and make our civilazitationj better we would have to make some sort of centralized government that is really important because only such government can do something similar to the sort of the world and centralizied governemtn can work on the global problems however problem here is that such government might invest in some sort and in the other sense to make more investment in some already developed regions this is main problem. Because if we work out some sort of principle where maybe even computers might split resources between different regions.
Also I would like to say that because of the such things might and might not work we can tell by the communistic society organization because they were working on similar principle but the problem was that capitalism was so much strong that they made they attacks on inner security by suporrting student protests and so on. And in this way they udermind the inner security of state like Soviet Union which in fact was the largest country and probably the strongest at that time we can tell this by the fact that they had made so much advantages in science and so on as opposite to the scientist from the united states who did not made any significant advancement at the same time.
While I do not wish to comment on the thread itself other then the author has been very creative and has made a nice thread to participate in and get people thinking. (which is always good, we need to keep thinking as a race, as soon as we stop trying to thing in large scale terms we are doomed as a species) So Kudos to the author.
I think it's interesting that someone would post something like this actually. I myself have not been plotting to take over the world per say, but definitely leave my own mark and legacy throughout history. I am 22 years young and I have since the age of 15 one could almost call it an obsession with endeavor. I wish to create my own society and culture in the world, and at any cost I will do what I must to obtain this goal - or Die trying if it must come to such events. Even in the event of my untimely demise, others have already been enlightened by my views of the world around me and that has been all the more worth it for me if even I could reach just one person.
For many years I have worked extremely hard to make myself different from other people, as an individual and not following what others believe. Not simply because I wish to be unique, or different. Not even for attention as some would think of people around my age and a little bit younger then me. I think like no other I have met; I do not see things as gray. They are either off or on much like a binary circuit. No maybe, no middle-ground, no indecision. I loathe emotion itself so much that I have conditioned myself to control them and even repress them to the point of feeling nothing at times. My personal quote I use just about everyone even reads ''Sever Your Emotion Like A Defective Circuit'' - Much like the Science Fiction race known as the Borg, I believe that emotion is irrelevant. Attachments can make you a stronger person but they can also deceive you in the worst ways. I am a very analytical person by my own doing. I have always had an affinity for technology, science, science-fiction, history, language (especially German/Japanese/Latin), and almost any piece of information that I could get my hands on that I felt worthy to be known. I am constantly thinking; analyzing; running scenarios in my head of multiple things at once to determine outcomes to future events. I have become so efficient at this that I have to force myself to stop thinking or else it just goes on and on with no end because of my endless craving for information and understanding.
I will not try to portray myself as some sort of 'good' person. I will not try to portray myself as a 'bad' person either. I care little about what others think of my existence to be truthful. I am what I am and I will always be this way until the day that I die. Some of my views on things are completely against the grain with what most of the world believes or thinks is correct/good morale value (however you would like to classify it) and I do not mind this because what I believe in is more simplistic and at its very core is more for the advancement of our entire race, instead of the more common selfish goals of obtaining wealth; power; religious stature; political achievement; and outright greed that others seek.
Going back to the Borg for one last time, it was said that all others outside the Hive Mind are small and think in small terms. Now... I do understand that everyone has their 'thing' that they do well or field that they know a great deal about and probably have a great deal of genuine experience in and as a race of individuals with different dreams, goals, functions, and responsibilities I understand how such a statement like the paraphrased exert from the beginning of this paragraph could be taken the wrong way because everyone in their own mind usually feels that they are either doing some good or doing the best that they can with what is available to them in their existence at any given point across the expanse of time. But I believe in this statement fully. There are so many people who dedicate their lives to the most retarded things like being a corporate ceo or becoming the next rap star and other trivial, most unproductive pursuits. For those of you who are doing something with your life whether it be raising your children with -real- values and morales or saving people's lives in some way or another from being a law enforcement agent or paramedic to just making sure the power plant is running smoothly so that the hospitals in your area can run safely to promote the health and wellness of those who depend on them, this is not against you. You are genuinely helping society in a major way, person to person until the whole is one massive element of nourishment to the community that is humanity itself and on a larger scale, our living planet.
I'm sure out of all of the people who are members of this community that someone, somewhere in the world has watched the famous anime Ghost in the Shell and all of its variants spawned by the creation of the series. I believe in a Stand Alone Complex of sorts personally. (if you are not familiar with this, click the SAC link and refer to the wikipedia page and assimilate the information, specifically the last three headings entitled ''Stand Alone Complex'' - ''Relation to Social Theory'' - ''Relation to Teamwork'' | There are many references to the series itself but if you can read through them and pretend you understand what they are talking about you get the idea that is being conveyed.)
As a Society we are cheating ourselves big time. Sure we research and build constantly, but we only research and build things that we need because our society is so poorly managed globally. I believe that the governments of the world are controlled by greedy individuals with little or no intelligence. Anyone can sit through school and be educated in something - What you do with that education is another thing. Behind the scenes of the public view governments are controlled by other greedy individuals as well as Religious & Corporate (or business) Entities that make them crooked even further.
- Religion: Personally I think religion is a waste of time. You can believe what you want, I will not discount you as a person or discount your intelligence for believing in anything 'Religious'. Compare with me Celtic Druidism, The Greek Pantheon, Christianity (or a relationship w/Jesus Christ as some would prefer it be known as), and Paganism. Each and every one of these were/are nothing more then a method of control over those who were not as; 1. Intelligent 2. Observant - Or were Easily Influenced - Gullible. It has been proven that old school religions practiced methods of 'scare tactics' or technological innovations that others did not understand at the time to trick others into believing what they were proclaiming to be truth when in fact they were just trying to make a living or were one of the aforementioned flawed characteristics that led them into the situation in the first place that helped to spread the widespread disinformation that has happened throughout history in relation to Religion. People who believe in God, Multiple Gods/Goddesses, Deities, or the Planet we live on, and/or any number of other entities that you can think of that you must please to either have a life without constant torture or bad situations arising to having some sort of an afterlife that is achievable if you jump through enough hoops for your local pastor; Are just kidding yourselves. You either have too much time on your hands or need these things in your life to feel complete. I am here to tell you that each and every one of you are you own person and you get out of life what you put into it. I myself do not believe in any sort of religion. I am without a God, a Karma, a Soul, or anything that others who do believe in such things are bound to. And I live just fine. Sure we all have our ups and downs, but that is life. Nothing is perfect. No one is perfect. They teach you in school at a early age that practice makes perfect, then later they tell you that No One is perfect. So why keep practicing? The bottom line on this is Live The Best Way That You Can Without Screwing Other People Over In The Process. I will remind you that this is simply my opinion and I know that some people may be unsettled or upset by my words. Know that I respect your wish to believe whatever you wish to believe, and if it makes your life more complete, then do it. Enough Said.
- Business: I personally believe that business is the most purest form of evil that the modern world knows today. It revolves around the greed of others and the mistreatment of those with little or nothing who are only trying to live a comfortable existence and not struggle between poverty and being a respectable person in society. The more we exploit each other the more degenerate our society becomes. And what is at the baseline of the entirety of the Global problem? Read on my friend...
- Money: Money itself both feeds Business and Religion in many ways/dimensions if you look at it correctly. I will not go into the different aspects of how but more why. Money is equal to power and influence in this society, especially among younger people, and definitely is a major influence to those who live in poverty stricken nations. You could go to say Cambodia and wave an American $100 bill in just about anyone's face and they would do just about anything for you probably. Money is a source of deception that desperately needs to be destroyed in our society. Now I know a few of you just thought in your head to yourself or maybe even out loud... ''This guy is nuts'' - Well Maybe I am, Maybe I am not. It is very hard to imagine a world where no one has money or works for money, rather the betterment of their local community and our race as a whole. Why is this? Look at yourselves. All of you. Basically the world around you has been built on money and the selling of goods. You yourself may not in any particular fashion be a greedy person, but this is the society you have been bred into and this is the way of life that you know. How many of you would really abandon money to make a statement? Probably none of you. What if you had a place you could go to where money has no meaning? Nice. The world sits around with advertisements shoved down their throats and pitfalls at every turn in their lives because of debt and things that they are driven by others to believe they must have that you are all like F'in 3 year olds stuck in front of the TV everyday obsessed with sponge bob - oblivious to the bigger picture that is life.
I believe that Cybernetics, Smart Machines/A.I.'s, and the expansion of our race into space should be our main targets to hit on when we think about an agenda that our race should work towards. If we stay on this planet, it is not a matter of prevention, it is a fact that we will be extinct one day. There are too many variables that could go wrong in our current society that can lead to our extinction even one second from now let alone 10, 20, 1 Million years from now. Hell, one nuke sent the wrong way could start a chain reaction of a global nuking that would destroy us. And all it takes are a few irresponsible people to make it happen. If we make our way away from Earth, and out of this solar system we have a better chance of survival if we are spread out some instead of staying on one planet or one solar system. There are still things in space that we know so little about that could destroy us and we could never see it coming. It only makes perfect sense to colonize other solar systems and make massive ships that people can have a real life on and explore. It's self preservation at it's highest level and most urgent level. I know the danger of our extinction does not seem imminent but that is just being vain. Cybernetics is one major path to our future in my belief because we are frail lifeforms. We die easily and we are very limited. But with our spirit to expand ourselves and survive teamed together with cybernetic advanced the possibilities and achievements for our race could be endless. Artificial Intelligence itself could advance our race dramatically, if controlled properly. I think some of us remember the end of the world discussion about A.I.'s taking over the world(I have a detailed post in that thread as well) Given the chance path of thinking and enough resources, an A.I. faction could potentially form and destroy us. This goes back again to us being somewhat feeble and frail creatures. Where we bleed, the A.I.'s will simply continue going. Any sort of conflict fought against Artificial Intelligence that is capable enough will be a war unlike any we have seen before and the destructive properties that could emanate from it could lead to the extinction or our race or some other calamity situation whereby we loose our freedom.
I am striving for a society and culture that is more involved in expanding our horizons of survival, knowledge, and understanding rather then disinformation, greed, gluttony, power, and discrimination. Anyways, if you would like to entertain this further with me, PM me. We can debate, argue, or I can give you more of what I think. Who knows, you might just be interested in becoming part of the project
Guys you are sending way too much time thinking about this. The world is too big to be affected by a single man. This has been proven time and again.
I quite strongly disagree with that. Look up a guy named Stanislav Petrov and you'll see that he basically prevented nuclear war between the US and the USSR. And when was it first proven? It was never proven. History doesn't prove anything, but it does give good theorems. And "one man can't change the world" isn't one of them.
Now,for everyone who considers World War III NOT to be a little thing in this world: this article's at least stimulating and probably one of the better ones that are made here. True, it is all folly. But didn't we acknowledge that once we started?
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but it would be useless if noone keeps record of things done and said.
I am just interested whether anyone keeps record of what have everyone said and how does leader is working on his plan to take over the world. It funny though. I would like to add some of myself in it but it would be useless if noone keeps record of things done and said.
Internet discussion forums seems abuzz with talk that Nostradamus forecast the attack on the World
Trade Center in New York. Thousands of people have received e-mails from known/unknown sources
containing this prophecy, often with a second part forecasting that the attack on the twin towers
will mark the beginning of World War III. Several versions are doing the rounds. This is one of
many: In the year of the new century and nine months, from the sky will come a great king
of terror... the sky will burn at forty-ive degree. fire approaches the great ne....
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I am simply irate as to not knowing why this is happening. My friend is running Vista Home Basic.
Apparently it was working well until I touched the machine and optimized Vista, disabling services
that she didn't need and turning off the eye candy that would slow the machine down. (It's a
Dell Inspiron 1501, by the way.) Now when she runs World of Warcraft in her usual windowed mode, it
exhibits very choppy frame rates... as in that it pauses/becomes unresponsive every second. However,
when she maximizes the windowed mode it runs perfectly fine. I have not tried....
I propose the idea that giving free premium software to those who could never afford a purchase can
only help the owners of that software. Some say that if a sale was never going to happen it
can't be a lost sale. I agree. If people can get started learning to use programs they could
never buy, they may develop skills and abilities that would enable future revenue and loyalty. At
the same, time a third world nation can have more development as skilled and trained professionals
grow. Another important issue would be addressed as well. Piracy. By lifting the copyrig....
As you probably have heard these days the G-8 summit is taking place in Toyako, Japan. I am not an
anti-globalisation activist, but there is no way you can't hate them after this meeting
(meetings). They discussed some very important world issues like the global warming, how to decrease
CO2 emissions and the pressing problem of increasing food costs which translates in a global food
crisis. Regarding the first subjects, just as they do every G-8 summit, they agreed to decrease C02
emissions by half by 2050. It's not like it's too little, much too late... As ....
I don't think that world of warcraft is worth wasteing you life on I have watched a video about
a WoW addict and it isn't pretty.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8hfK3RQs2g ....
This picture taken in my desktop, no other editing except the red line I use to mask some things in
the picture. I don't modify the date in my computer, as you will see it displays the right time
in my computer. ....
This guy I know has a server hosting World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King He is a family
member/friend or whatever of the developer team, and he has been assigned as a beta tester You, yes
YOU, can play WoW:WotLK now! How to play: Download the WoW Wotlk Alpha Client - 3.0.1 - Build
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live in poverty. Jobs are scarce. The Peruvian government generally does a poor job of collecting
trash and there is almost no formal recycling in the country. Garbage is just placed on the streets
of Peru in whatever kind of plastic bag is available. In the capital city of Lima, where
approximately one third of Peru’s 28 million people live, residents take out the trash on a daily
basis. In other cities, it also generally is a fairly regular activity. So, with a regular sup....
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time we went about 15 of us enjoyed every minute of it even the pranks of waking up my older bro was
fun lol....
For those of you who have lost friends to vicious "Wow" addiction, you'll find some sympathy
below in the form of a YouTube. The news short tries to make a strong analogy between Warcraft
addiction and more well-known deadly addictions, such as drugs and alcohol. We even get an
"addict's mum" breaking down into tears, bewailing the tragedy of losing her son to WoW. For
those of us who actually know something about the game, this is either hilarious or frightening (in
the sense that stuff like this tends to whip the parents and legislators into a bit of coercive ....
I Play at a small private server called AlphaWoW (Previously wow.vtwout.net) We are a small
community and have all grown to know each other withing the game and on the forums!
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Christmas has come early with World in Conflict, which does to RTS genre what Bioshock did to
the first-person shooter. It redefines it. Set in a hypothetical 1989 when USSR invades both Europe
and America in a startling World War III to prevent its internal collapse, the game puts you in the
shoes of Lieutanant Parker, tasked to help defend American soil from Mother Russia. In between,
players also get the chance to play on the European front where NATO forces are holding the line.
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I play WoW and have a very successfull guil dwith over 100 members im lvl 41 and i ahve no idea
where to lvl up most of my members were recruited at lvl 1 now we have about 40 lvl 70's i have
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Blizzard just released the Burning Crusade's cinematic. Click here to view Click here to
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Ragnarok Online 2: Gate of the World from what i saw from some sites, its full 3D,
graphics not too bad, they improved the gameplay somewhat and also introduced new systems. However
i'm not too sure on the details. looks great though. i heard its already out in korea..or was
it japan. if you would like some info about it, you can check out wikipedia. anyone has any info on
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Hello, I used to play WoW a LONG time ago, I have no idea what my account name was, so re-activating
is out of the question, but I'd like to get back into it, but I'd much rather start over
with a free trial, so...anyone know where I can find one? /ohmy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle"
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A world without religion? I was thinking about it and thought, you know, i think
it would be better. Here are my reasons. The biggest change in the world would be less wars. Think
about it. Most wars are start because of religion. One of the reasons people came to America back in
the 1700s was because they wanted freedom of whatever religion they wanted. Another great thing
that would come about it would be that laws would be made on what is actually bad. For example, the
most well known mostly religious law is the banning of gay marriage. I don'....
Well seeing as how many people come from different backrounds, I just wanted to know where
everyone is located. Due to the fact that we all are from different locations. So when I am on in
the morning some people are just going to sleep. So when do you think we get the most traffic to
the site, and where are people located the most, in Europe, Middle East, North America, South
America, Australia? For me is the United States, the people that get critized the most, are
obsessed with fighting in Iraq and military power, have a crappy President ( /ph34r.gif" style="v....
I just bought a book written by nostradamus, it contains all of his sayings. Almost all of his
sayings have been true so far. He predicted That there will be two dictactors for france and germany
and there were mussolini and hitler. His predictions about thwo world wars was true, He lived in
1564, how can someone predict a world war 3 , When even 1 and 2 have not even taken place, crazy
isn't it. He also predicted that there will be bin laden that will rock the world, and also he
predicted 9/11 attacks, he said that there will be two long buildings and the country wi....
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for. So PLEASE hold the religious comments. I was at school one day, I turned to a friend and said
"I bet the world will end on June 6th of this year". Now I think they'd know what I meant(goth
kids, ya, no I'm not one). But they didn't! So I sat there and explained it, all of a
sudden "Bing" the light in there brain goes off, they said that's really a possibilty. For
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China has planned to attack USA if US aids Taiwan anymore. /mad.gif' border='0'
style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /> A Chinese General said they would have no option
but to start a nuclear war. It would cause great trouble even to the surrounding countries such as
Canada, Mexico etc... I think that instead of attacking USA, China should cut off the trade,
because at-least it won't cause much destruction. USA has not responded to the comment of
China's Nuclear War yet. I think that China will have more victory over USA, because it has a
lot of army....
World hates America ? Everyone just assumes that every American
agrees with it's government. Everyone assumes all Americans support Bush.
Everyone thinks we're evil, and we are dumb. Why? Give me a great example. Be
prepared to back that up that example. Has your country done anything similar, slightly less worse,
or way worse? Has any other country? If you wanna hate Bush, then hate Bush (or any other
president), but don't hate the rest of the America. We're innocent, I swear. ....
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order (after fall comes winter, after day comes night,...). Is the source of this order purely and
eniterly material or is there something else that puts things in order? I personaly think that
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organs of sense and our emotions). I think that there is some sort of PURE GOOD outthere (that could
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the world, or if at all. USA as everyone knows is the current world super power but what do you
think will happen to it? undoubtably Britain was the worlds greatest super power in history, which
eventually declined, so can the same thing happen to the US? I think a decline of the USA and rise
of the economy of China are inevatable, but weither they become a super power is an issue. Discuss.
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According to a reliable investigation that appeared in India's prestigious Newspaper - The Times
of India, the economic of China may surpass that of the US by 2020 and India's will surpass the
US by 2050. Economic changes also brought changes to military might and influence in the world. And
the interesting part is that the sole superpower at the moment - the USA will no more play as a
global police anymore, rather China and India will form a bi-polar world. However US influences will
be felt just like China is today. What do you say? It is possible or its just ....
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whether our leader has that much patience or not...
I quite strongly disagree with that. Look up a guy named Stanislav Petrov and you'll see that he basically prevented nuclear war between the US and the USSR.
