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• A comment on Conversation: Will there still be humans on this planet a million years from now?

  Dec 5 2012: WELL SAID!!!!
  
  THANK YOU for the pleasure and honor of such a response and conversation as a whole!! I think you are also right in that our views are probably not all that far apart at all!! I appreciate the allowance for this little jaunt off the exact original topic of your thread - even though I might have gotten a tad distracted, I thoroughly enjoyed the rapport!! :)

• A comment on Conversation: Will there still be humans on this planet a million years from now?

  Dec 4 2012: I can certainly respect and appreciate your beliefs as well, Steven! I would not call it "religious" convictions just to clarify, but instead Faith or Spirituality and yes convictions too --- I find that RELIGION tends to twist, presume superior knowledge of and really excludes so much and so many so often!! (To be expected, as they are man-created and managed) And as far as Christianity - I would I guess be forced to apply the label simply because I do believe in the Christian God and Jesus Christ (Holy Trinity), but I really prefer to think of my God as The Creator and to me He represents Pure truth and Love -- Not a dictatorial, demanding and egomaniacal being! :) I don't see my walk as one that requires conforming to a set of strict codes and rules but instead it is a wonderous exploration and discovery - where I think my Creator ultimately only want to Give and bless me and show me how to be exactly who I was meant to be - live my true and highest purpose!! So really, it is not unlike what you described as your greatest hope...... :)
  
  One further point, if you don't mind.... I believe that all history has been handed down the same way - in part verbally, by written account and letters/missives and other documents if they were applicable or obtainable!! So, It still surprises me that the majority of people who argue against The Bible always seem to use that for their basis.... The Bible actually says... "God is the Living Word" and I am not aware of anywhere that is claims to be the entire chronological history from Creation to the early years A.D.
  
  I believe it is a representation of what we should know to help us to better understand ourselves, our Creator, the way the world works, the ways we can get off path and further away from Love and what we have in store for us once we embrace Love in it's purest form! A guidebook more than the entire set of encyclopedic history for mankind! ;) Be well and God bless you!!! :)
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  A comment on Conversation: Will there still be humans on this planet a million years from now?

  Dec 4 2012: In other words, we need to stop and realize that there are just things that are NOT within our power!! Yes, we should act responsibly, conserve to a point in all ways, be frugal and aware of the "costs" of things, not be wasteful and wanton in our actions and ways of living -- that just makes sense universally!!
  
  We are NOT the highest on the intelligence scale of beings in this universe, I would bet on that!! And we need to realize how small we actually are, yet how integral a part we have in all things at the same time!! There is a pattern to ALL THINGS.... Just look to sacred geometry, fibonnaci sequence, golden spiral, quantum mechanics, math, music, the phases of the moon, the tides, planting seasons, the miracle of life/birth, the Bible and that is proven!!!
  
  How different might things be if instead of being bullyish and arrogant and thinking we know it all, we understood, respected and lived within the discipline of those divine patterns??? That is an amazing thought as far as I am concerned and I believe we will (or some of us anyway) finally get it and have the opportunity to do just that!
  
  But only after the Creator of all finally shows us how little and insignificant we really are when we refuse to give credit where it is due.... and in the midst of it all destroys this planet as we know it HIMSELF and in doing so wipes away Ego and Self and Pride, Jealousy, Lies and Meanspiritedness and Greed, Lust, Rage and Hate away with it!!!! And then as only HE can, recreates this place to sustain us for eternity in everyway we could possible need or want and allows us the chance to enjoy it fully once we can finally truly appreciate and honor it!!
  
  May sound hokey to some of you, but as I stated before, it is the ONLY THING that makes perfect sense to me (and many others too)! :) So, Steven, a million years from today.... There is a good chance that we will be "here" under those circumstances!! Maybe I'll even see ya there.... :) Hope so!!

• A comment on Conversation: Will there still be humans on this planet a million years from now?

  Dec 4 2012: 2. Which is why there is a cycle to everything around us!! Kind of like a sprinkler system on a timer - Your lawn still gets watered even if/when you forget or are too lazy! There are natural filtration systems in place everywhere we look (oceans, sand, fire, wind, rain, volcanic eruptions, etc), natural population controls (wars, aging, food sources, even murder and famine) and growth/re-growth that occurs without any more help from us than our breathing.... That says to me that our Creator fully anticipated our inattention and/or laziness and set everything up on auto-pilot!
  
  I get so aggravated with people who constantly preach that we are destroying this planet and demand this be done or that in the hopes of slowing down, stopping the process? We would have to purposefully set out to destroy this planet, in my opinion and we are arrogant to think we have that capability short of a nuclear holocaust!!
  
  100 years ago we "strip mined" a large portion of the United States with Gold Frenzy and were blessed with MILLIONS of ounces of gold, with some more prosperous mines in California operating up through the 1950's - Then the "Gold Rush" ended, or so we thought. Right now some of those same areas have been explored are are capable of producing amounts in the same ranges as in the late 1800's AGAIN! Oil resources in North America FAR surpass any in the Arab countries STILL with many untapped areas that could last us a hundred lifetimes even if we all were driving Chevys with big block motors! We have clear cut much of our timber resources had HUGE fires burn across the states and yet there are no shortage of trees! Even the Exxon Valdez tanker spill many years ago couldn't contaminate our oceans forever and ironically, we still have buffalo even after the "white man" was thought to have killed them all off in an effort to control the native American people, etc... Even the flood of the Bible didn't wipe us or the planet out!!! (to be continued)

• A comment on Conversation: Will there still be humans on this planet a million years from now?

  Dec 4 2012: I assume that your questions apply to habitation of the current space in which we live... geographically, physiologically, etc??
  
  If indeed you are referring to humans (in our present form) living on Earth (as we know it) a million years from now... Then my answer would be No!
  
  However, I do happen to believe that the mass, planet, rock (whatever) we live on currently will be in existence then but wholly regenerated, purged and reformed with many familiar characteristics but in a much purer state! Likewise, the inhabitants of that planet (a million years in the future) will be quite similar as well, but cleansed, purified and perfected.... The true utopian society - A New Jerusalem, Heaven, paradise....!
  
  Yes, I am referring to the Biblical prophecies and promises! :) And aside from the issue of "religion" or Faith - It just makes SENSE!! Here are a few reasons why I think so...
  
  First of all, the planet Earth - Really a brilliant concept and design, capable of sustaining MANY millions of life forms harmoniously and in such a way that everything is inter-connected. Breathtakingly beautiful, bountiful and it continuously replenishes and regenerates in multitudes of ways. But this is the thing that I believe that so many people discount... It's design was purposely meant to accommodate "life as we know it" TEMPORARILY!! This was not intended as our "final dwelling space"!
  
  Simply put, I am convinced that our Creator with foreknowledge made the perfect place for us to live while we are yet carnal creatures. Knowing man's propensity for destruction, selfishness, voracious appetite, and limited vision - Earth was intended to sustain us long enough for us to prove once and for all that we cannot manage it alone or we turn into animalistic, war mongering, self-important hedonists bent on our own and each other's destruction!! It was taken into account that we would fail to care for our home responsibly and would rape it for its riches to satisfy our wants