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Rialtor
Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.
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Posted - 2007.10.21 01:33:00 -
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10 ways the world could suddenly end Look at number 3 at 20:00
MRSA
So are you worried?
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Rialtor
Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.
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Posted - 2007.10.21 01:33:00 -
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10 ways the world could suddenly end Look at number 3 at 20:00
MRSA
So are you worried?
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2007.10.21 01:41:00 -
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You do know that antibiotics research was all but practically halted many years ago, do you ? I don't think we'll be having problems coming up with new ones IF it becomes a MAJOR threat. _
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2007.10.21 01:41:00 -
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You do know that antibiotics research was all but practically halted many years ago, do you ? I don't think we'll be having problems coming up with new ones IF it becomes a MAJOR threat. _
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Rialtor
Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.
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Posted - 2007.10.21 01:44:00 -
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Originally by: Akita T You do know that antibiotics research was all but practically halted many years ago, do you ? I don't think we'll be having problems coming up with new ones IF it becomes a MAJOR threat.
Problem with that is that the epidemic has to hit 1st to get the political will to find a way to eliminate the strain.
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Rialtor
Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.
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Posted - 2007.10.21 01:44:00 -
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Originally by: Akita T You do know that antibiotics research was all but practically halted many years ago, do you ? I don't think we'll be having problems coming up with new ones IF it becomes a MAJOR threat.
Problem with that is that the epidemic has to hit 1st to get the political will to find a way to eliminate the strain.
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2007.10.21 01:47:00 -
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It won't kill everybody, and even a 99% casualty rate won't mean the extinction of human kind (60+ mil alive). But the "end of the world as we know it", well, that, yeah, pretty much  _
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2007.10.21 01:47:00 -
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It won't kill everybody, and even a 99% casualty rate won't mean the extinction of human kind (60+ mil alive). But the "end of the world as we know it", well, that, yeah, pretty much  _
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Rialtor
Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.
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Posted - 2007.10.21 01:48:00 -
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Originally by: Akita T It won't kill everybody, and even a 99% casualty rate won't mean the extinction of human kind (60+ mil alive). But the "end of the world as we know it", well, that, yeah, pretty much 
Oh I'm not talking mass extinction, just that the epidemic might be very close to hitting us.
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Rialtor
Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.
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Posted - 2007.10.21 01:48:00 -
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Edited by: Rialtor on 21/10/2007 01:51:12
Originally by: Akita T It won't kill everybody, and even a 99% casualty rate won't mean the extinction of human kind (60+ mil alive). But the "end of the world as we know it", well, that, yeah, pretty much 
Oh I'm not talking mass extinction, just that a major epidemic might be very close to hitting us.
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Caid Lemant
Cunning Hats
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Posted - 2007.10.21 01:54:00 -
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Brings up so much truth about depression and its effect on our species. Especially how current anti-depressants aren't effective to a majority of those with the problem.
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Rialtor
Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.
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Posted - 2007.10.21 02:00:00 -
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Originally by: Caid Lemant Brings up so much truth about depression and its effect on our species. Especially how current anti-depressants aren't effective to a majority of those with the problem.
I dunno Depression is kind of a crock. I think the rise of depression has to do with our laziness. You'd be surprised to learn that exercise has the same if not better rate of curing depression than any medication availible.
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LUH 3471
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Posted - 2007.10.21 02:01:00 -
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Edited by: LUH 3471 on 21/10/2007 02:05:50 we have made so much progress outside but on the inside ... there needs to happen a change in consciousness and it will be painfull as evry birth no need to worry
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Atama Cardel
GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.10.21 02:08:00 -
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I like the particle accelerator one, if I'm going to die unnaturally, then let it be being compacted in a black hole 
Originally by: Odda hey im a gonnie and i like to sue CCP to gett the game to my favor
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Caid Lemant
Cunning Hats
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Posted - 2007.10.21 02:09:00 -
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Originally by: Rialtor
Originally by: Caid Lemant Brings up so much truth about depression and its effect on our species. Especially how current anti-depressants aren't effective to a majority of those with the problem.
I dunno Depression is kind of a crock. I think the rise of depression has to do with our laziness. You'd be surprised to learn that exercise has the same if not better rate of curing depression than any medication availible.
You'd be surprised how many cases of actual depression will not change with exercise. I do agree that many cases of it are laziness, but actual depression for healthy people has been on the rise. --------
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LUH 3471
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Posted - 2007.10.21 02:12:00 -
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Edited by: LUH 3471 on 21/10/2007 02:14:36 depression is because we as a people are casting of our old habits its a natural process in the development of consciousness if one looks on what old principles society is build up on .... as fish in water it is not easy to see this problem .... its hard to think your own thoughs
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James Swindle
Caldari Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2007.10.21 03:20:00 -
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Edited by: James Swindle on 21/10/2007 03:23:18 The ones that would have me worried the most are the 2 that involve black holes/strangelets....i mean if a blackhole does come across our path or we "accidently" create one there is nothing we can do about it at the moment really and that would be pretty much curtains on the human species as we know it.
Also according to the Mayen calendar, the "world as we know it" will end in 2012... maybe they predicted the time that the earths magnetic field will switch round. Ahhhhh 5 years left to live.
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Sharupak
Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.21 05:22:00 -
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Originally by: LUH 3471 Edited by: LUH 3471 on 21/10/2007 02:37:31 actually nvm
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Derovius Vaden
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Posted - 2007.10.21 05:29:00 -
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Technology doesn't save lives, it reduces the number of deaths normally attributed to the natural culling of the population. Know what happens when natural selection can no longer work its tricks against the stupid and unfit to live? Watch about 20 minutes of CNN, all will become clear.
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Sharupak
Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.21 05:54:00 -
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Originally by: Rialtor 10 ways the world could suddenly end Look at number 3 at 20:00
MRSA
So are you worried?
The problem description in 10 is not a problem but actually kind a solution from a collective perspective (hence not an individual one). I once had this epiphany. Every every civilization that I can think of in history is almost soley built on one instinct...Survival. It has happened in small microcosms throughout history...Take for example the Romans. Their civilization becomes so wealthy and powerful and its people removed from the need to exercise the actions of thought that this one instinct creates. Its almost like conquering survival is the end of the game and thus the only thing anybody can think to do is create an environments of synthetic threats to fill a vacuum. This leads to the civilizations ultimate corruption and destruction.
But the reason for the vacuum is that the mechanics of the civilization were built for the purposes of ensuring survival. Thus ideologies and systems are ill equiped to deal with "What do we do now?"
However, today in so many Western cultures, I feel we are grappling with this issue without consciously realizing it. But we arent going to advance to the next level without serious change in our monetary and economic systems. We get buy in the short term by playing the money game. Schemeing to get more and more and justifying it to our selves subconciously that we NEED it for our survival. But this system evolves in us metaphorically eating each other alive.
Ultimately, the solution to all of the human created problems in your post have to do with people effectively managing that instinct to see that...killing,stealing, slaving away,conning and all the methods we use to increase our share of material posessions are actually not benefiting us.....(I cant find a good word here so I am going to post a slew of them) spiritually, mentally, happiness. In fact all that we are realling doing is trading those things for our material share on an individual level and also as a society or culture. People as individuals need to figure this out as it is the only way we are going to do cool **** like "Terraform mars" or "Find that earthlike planet" and cull the impending doom of "Biotech disaster" and "Ecosystem collapse".
We need to lose our will to survive!
On a side note. Many people believe that tribal cultures were immune to this type of thing and that this is only a plague of western culture. I partially agree but also not. As those cultures also went to war with each other and were canabals and slaughtered their own people. However, they were never as bad as Western Civilization. If you are an Eastern civilization proponent...they did that **** to. _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude. |
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Caid Lemant
Cunning Hats
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Posted - 2007.10.21 05:59:00 -
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Originally by: Derovius Vaden
Technology doesn't save lives, it reduces the number of deaths normally attributed to the natural culling of the population. Know what happens when natural selection can no longer work its tricks against the stupid and unfit to live? Watch about 20 minutes of CNN, all will become clear.
Stupid and 'unfit' to live are never the same thing. --------
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Sharupak
Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.21 06:04:00 -
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Originally by: Rialtor
Originally by: Caid Lemant Brings up so much truth about depression and its effect on our species. Especially how current anti-depressants aren't effective to a majority of those with the problem.
I dunno Depression is kind of a crock. I think the rise of depression has to do with our laziness. You'd be surprised to learn that exercise has the same if not better rate of curing depression than any medication availible.
I cures it for the moment. I think that alot of people that are depressed are that way because they figured out that they spend 3/4 of their waking life doing a job that they dont like and even if they were doing one that they did like, they are pressed to do it all the time. There are probably a couple of other lockdowns in there, but the basic idea is they wake up one morning and realize that the social world they live in does not allow free creativity and expression in the manner that they would like to express it. The real killing you softly. _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude. |

Sharupak
Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.21 06:05:00 -
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Originally by: Derovius Vaden
Technology doesn't save lives, it reduces the number of deaths normally attributed to the natural culling of the population. Know what happens when natural selection can no longer work its tricks against the stupid and unfit to live? Watch about 20 minutes of CNN, all will become clear.
Please prove that human technology is not natural. _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude. |

Derovius Vaden
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Posted - 2007.10.21 06:06:00 -
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Originally by: Caid Lemant
Originally by: Derovius Vaden
Technology doesn't save lives, it reduces the number of deaths normally attributed to the natural culling of the population. Know what happens when natural selection can no longer work its tricks against the stupid and unfit to live? Watch about 20 minutes of CNN, all will become clear.
Stupid and 'unfit' to live are never the same thing.
I don't know where you stand, making this observation, but every stupid person I've met seemingly defies the very nature of survival of the fittest. People of value are dying routinely at the hands of people who should be locked in a dank hole for their numerous violations of even the most basic responsibilities as citizenry.
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Sharupak
Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.21 06:10:00 -
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Edited by: Sharupak on 21/10/2007 06:10:31 Oh sorry for the triple post, but it was necessary.
To answer your post rialtor.
The real solution is to do what you can and also to live for the now. If the **** hits the fan, two things are going to happen...either there is nothing after this life and **** it..you had fun and you wont remember the bad times (or the good for that matter) or there is an afterlife to which you can say "Look at the **** I did" "That was a blast, whats next!" _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude. |

Eval B'Stard
Minmatar Republic Military School
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Posted - 2007.10.21 07:01:00 -
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Edited by: Eval B''Stard on 21/10/2007 07:02:33
Originally by: Sharupak Edited by: Sharupak on 21/10/2007 06:10:31 Oh sorry for the triple post, but it was necessary.
To answer your post rialtor.
The real solution is to do what you can and also to live for the now. If the **** hits the fan, two things are going to happen...either there is nothing after this life and **** it..you had fun and you wont remember the bad times (or the good for that matter) or there is an afterlife to which you can say "Look at the **** I did" "That was a blast, whats next!"
I couldn't agree more, if the **** does hit the fan and it wipes us out as long as I can say "Yeah my life has been pretty good" I'll be happy.
Not all of those 10 are what would be classed as ELE's (Extinction Level Events) anyway some people would survive to continue on.
At the end of the day it's not worth worrying about UNLESS you are one of those people that is in a position to actively do something about it, if an asteroid struck the planet next week theres not a lot I myself could do about, but there are people that could, so I'm not gonna worry about it, if it happens it happens, I've got other more immediate problems to worry about at the moment. -------------------------------------------
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Amarria Black
Clan Anthraxx
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Posted - 2007.10.21 08:16:00 -
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Originally by: Sharupak
Originally by: Rialtor
Originally by: Caid Lemant Brings up so much truth about depression and its effect on our species. Especially how current anti-depressants aren't effective to a majority of those with the problem.
I dunno Depression is kind of a crock. I think the rise of depression has to do with our laziness. You'd be surprised to learn that exercise has the same if not better rate of curing depression than any medication availible.
I cures it for the moment. I think that alot of people that are depressed are that way because they figured out that they spend 3/4 of their waking life doing a job that they dont like and even if they were doing one that they did like, they are pressed to do it all the time. There are probably a couple of other lockdowns in there, but the basic idea is they wake up one morning and realize that the social world they live in does not allow free creativity and expression in the manner that they would like to express it. The real killing you softly.
I'm sorry, sir, but I'm going to have to issue an order to cease and desist. You're going to have to take the video cameras out of my living room and the thought probe out of my brain.
Seriously, you were spot-on with this one. I suffer a tiny bit from chemical depression, but the majority of my mental state can be directly attributed to the fact that the way we're doing things at the moment is complete and utter bull****. Your average joe has 10,000 times the computing power possessed by the US government sixty years ago, and what does he use it for? Video games and pron. We're richer than ever and are at the pinnacle of our technological power, but in many ways, we're worse off than we were 50, 100, 200 years ago. We just get stupider and more complacent, and the truly malevolent and evil people are left to run the show.
So let me get this straight, modern society: you're essentially forcing me into a state of permanent indentured servitude to my choice of masters, spending the lion's share of my functional lifespan making said master rich at the expense of my health and happiness, and trying to entice me into embracing this stupidity with a never-ending torrent of worthless ****, and you wonder why I'm depressed all the damn time? Sounds like I'm not the one that needs the crazy pills.
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Rialtor
Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.
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Posted - 2007.10.21 08:17:00 -
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Originally by: Eval B'Stard Edited by: Eval B''Stard on 21/10/2007 07:02:33
Originally by: Sharupak Edited by: Sharupak on 21/10/2007 06:10:31 Oh sorry for the triple post, but it was necessary.
To answer your post rialtor.
The real solution is to do what you can and also to live for the now. If the **** hits the fan, two things are going to happen...either there is nothing after this life and **** it..you had fun and you wont remember the bad times (or the good for that matter) or there is an afterlife to which you can say "Look at the **** I did" "That was a blast, whats next!"
I couldn't agree more, if the **** does hit the fan and it wipes us out as long as I can say "Yeah my life has been pretty good" I'll be happy.
Not all of those 10 are what would be classed as ELE's (Extinction Level Events) anyway some people would survive to continue on.
At the end of the day it's not worth worrying about UNLESS you are one of those people that is in a position to actively do something about it, if an asteroid struck the planet next week theres not a lot I myself could do about, but there are people that could, so I'm not gonna worry about it, if it happens it happens, I've got other more immediate problems to worry about at the moment.
I don't know, something like an asteriod plan wouldn't necessarily be top secret. The fact that we don't know about it would probably mean that we don't have a plan. Well, I think we have "plans" but just theoretical, nothing ready to be implemented. I've heard scientists talk about orbiting asteriods with satelites to change their path before. However, there's no sense of urgency here, because the public just isn't concerned about it. Sometimes it's on citizens to raise interest in a topic to get some political clout to get some of these programs rolling. This idea of not worrying might lead to our doom, we should worry, enough to spark interest to correct some of those issues.
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Rialtor
Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.
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Posted - 2007.10.21 08:31:00 -
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Originally by: Sharupak
I cures it for the moment. I think that alot of people that are depressed are that way because they figured out that they spend 3/4 of their waking life doing a job that they dont like and even if they were doing one that they did like, they are pressed to do it all the time. There are probably a couple of other lockdowns in there, but the basic idea is they wake up one morning and realize that the social world they live in does not allow free creativity and expression in the manner that they would like to express it. The real killing you softly.
If you wind the clock way way back, like the middle ages. Are you saying we work more than those serfs working on the fields? I don't think so, Today we have an abundance of free time. More so than any other point in human history. We have so many of our needs taken care of us. Heat, Water, Food, Entertainment, etc. Technology has advanced us to a point where we don't need to leave your house ever. Today we can get away with doing so little work or activity it's not funny.
Take me for example, technically for a day all I HAVE to do is go to work. I take the bus, but I could drive. All I would have to do is walk to a car drive to work, and sit in a chair for 8 hours. Go home, and sit in a chair for another 8-10 hours. Everything else is freetime to do whatever it is I want to do. It's that kind of lifestyle that causes this depression epidemic, because it's becoming the norm. Now I'm not saying depression doesn't exist but I would say this move towards laziness is the reason for the increase in depression in America.
I would say the move towards laziness and bad nutrition is the sole reason for the increase in cases of depression in this country, and among kids in specific. Physical Education is optional now in some curriculum.
If you notice it's not the poor that's depressed, it's the privileged, so it's not really a quality of life issue.
Also the medical institutions have sold their soul to drug companies. Too many things are attributed to depression, and the 1st thing they do is prescribed some pills for it instead of just solving the root problem.
Again, I'm not saying depression doesn't happen but this epidemic is kind of a hoax. People just need to change their lifestyle and be more active and the levels of depression will go back to normal levels.
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Rosa Rosette
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Posted - 2007.10.21 09:22:00 -
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staph aureus, also the resistant form, has been there for ages. usually it is no problem unless you wash too often and by that destroy your natural germ flora or you are immuno suppressed or suffering from any other illness. you also mostly find those germs in hospitals and they are not resistant to ethanol.
so if you get really woried get some 70% ethanol in water and give your house/flat a good rub.
personally i prefer the use of ethanol via my digestive system even though it might not help with germs
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