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world's civilization is getting dangerous

before, civilizations used to enjoy life for a certain period of time, then gone or vanish
but that used to happen before, when civilizations used to emerge one by one
so the vanishing was for the civilization that have extreme knowledge or technology, just one civilization that vanishes
though, now at current times, we all, the whole world is interrelated
that makes it dangerous for a civilization to fail
this means the destruction of the whole world

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  • Erich Kreppenhofer

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    Oct 7 2011: Civilisation has never vanished, it always has progressed on a different level. In ancient time the inter action of different societies created new realm, new countries and beliefs. Today with the multiculturalism so touted by all, the interacting of economies in the name of business and religion it is not destroying civilisation, it is destroying the fabric of individuality and tolerance. As we know the protest marches in Egypt removed Mubarak and a new order his taken control. How much of this new order will be directed by one group? The Muslim Brotherhood for example. Will it destroy civilisation, not likely, will it change the way of life and the existence of certain freedoms? Definitely so, you have seen religious fanatism already and intolerance of outsiders. But civilisation is the basic body of advancement of science, of the tolerance of opposing views and the co-habitation of the planet. It may be a large family living in different areas or different nation living behind different borders, but civilisation will survive. At no time in the past has the population of planet earth reverted to the stone age or the bronze age. We may have digressed into wars for "Lebensraum' or enrichment, still every time other nations or tribes in the ages have come forward and fought with others for a cause. That is civilisation in a nutshell, 1940 the world un ited against Hitler, 1960 against Russia, right or wrong, it is still civilsation. Advancement of nations of individuals and of technology.
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      Mohamed Selim

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      Oct 8 2011: agree except
      "The Muslim Brotherhood for example. Will it destroy civilisation, not likely, will it change the way of life and the existence of certain freedoms?"
      the thing is, we are conditioned as most of the world that the The "Muslim Brotherhood" is not good
      well they have their rules, and it's not to prevent freedoms, define freedom if you please........
      it's a governing party that have its own rules, if the people like it, they will elect them, if not they will go down too
      but external pressures is what I don't like

      The Muslim Brotherhood is Mubarak's system made
      so the government acts as the super hero, that stops the evil
      anyhow, this is politics, lies and cheating

      hey this goes in the whole world, but the rest of the world knew how to keep their people busy, I think

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