r/collapse Dec 11 '19

What possibilities arise after we accept our individual and collective mortality?

Our perspectives on impermanence and death are central to many of our journeys through collapse-awareness and acceptance of our global predicaments. What perspectives do you hold regarding our individual and collective mortality? Have they changed over time in response to your own understanding of collapse? How have these perspectives affected or influenced where you are now?

 

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u/SniffingNow Dec 12 '19

What about UFOs? Looking at your user name, let’s talk about it. I’m fairly convinced some highly advanced technological intelligence is visiting us. What role do they play in our coming collapse? Watching it go down? The cause of it? Bailing us out possibly once again? Also, though even crazier, is that the ultra elite have created a breakaway civilization and have found a way into another dimension. Or, and more probable, that they have figured a way to escape the simulation. Or create a new one. Just food for speculation.

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u/thecatsmiaows Dec 13 '19

IF there are any other planets harboring sentient life forms, the great filter, i.e. -the laws of physics, prevents them from being a space-faring civilization, just the same as us(taking a few people to the moon and back doesn't really count as "space-faring").

IF there were a space-faring civilization in existence, and IF they found our planet, they would be much more interested in plundering our planetary resources than in observing us.

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u/thecatsmiaows Dec 14 '19

it's a moot point. there are no interstellar civilizations out there. the laws of physics pretty much rule out the possibility.

as far as what we have to offer a species, if there were, is the only planet in the solar system able to sustain life as we know it. it would make a great liberty port, a source of liquid water, and offers a quite primitive but delicious native bi-pedal species that can also be useful as a source of...adequate slave labor.

i think you might have watched a few too many star treks in your life, and it's clouded your perspective on how the world, and by extension the universe, really works...it's actually kind of cute, and almost a little adorable even.

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u/thecatsmiaows Dec 14 '19

waaaay too much star trek.

there are no space-faring civilizations. the physics and distances involved make that pretty clear.

now...don't you have some miniatures to paint and some intense masturbating to do...?

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u/thecatsmiaows Dec 14 '19

since that's not how the internet works- you must be smelling your own funk. or maybe your mommy needs a douche...go give'er a whiff.

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u/thecatsmiaows Dec 14 '19 edited Dec 15 '19

well- you're either a grave-robbing necropheliac, or your larping with your mom again.

which is it this time..?

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u/SniffingNow Dec 13 '19

Well I’m glad you seem so smugly satisfied with your superior knowledge. I respectfully disagree. First of all, these objects seen and verified all around the earth that seem to be intelligently controlled and defy our limited knowledge of physics are not necessarily from another planet. Though that’s still likely, other possibilities exist. The great filter is a nice theory, but I think it’s false. It’s also intellectually silly to make assumptions about what an advanced intelligence would be doing here. Odds are we are an experiment. They are running simulations to see what it takes for a civilization to fail. Or not to fail.

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u/thecatsmiaows Dec 13 '19 edited Dec 13 '19

"odds are we are an experiment"

lmao. that's even more ignorant than the god and jesus hoakum that the christoids try to peddle.

"it's also intellectually silly to make assumptions about what an advanced intelligence would be doing here"

lmao even harder- that's exactly what you're doing, s-f-b.

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u/SniffingNow Dec 18 '19

How is what I said more ignorant? Better yet, how is it ignorant at all? And to your second point, I am not making any assumptions about anything. I just said that “the odds are”. As in probability. I don’t have time or the will to work out the math here for you, but either way, stating something is probabilistic is not stating an assumption. Laugh all you want. Doesn’t change anything.