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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI've often said that if the world ends on my watch, I'd be big time honored.
My little 100 years on this earth--if I make it---is just a speck of sand in the Sahara.
Imagine it all ending on our watch---how cool would that be.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)And have you thought about your children? Grandchildren and their children?
Avalux
(35,015 posts)What if the rest of us don't want it to end?
ladjf
(17,320 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)What kind of logic would cause one to feel honored to be part of the last days of Earth?
Javaman
(62,530 posts)MineralMan
(146,307 posts)significance to the planet itself and you'd be honored to be alive at the cataclysm. So, if the world ended while you were alive, it would somehow be more important. I get it. Wait...no, I don't. What honor are you talking about?
Every day, the world ends for many people. For them, the world might as well have ended as well. The effect is identical. We live. We die. And so it goes.
ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)You get it.
I as an individual matter not to the planet nor its environment.
This is why I drive a Hummer and let the sprinklers run all night here in Ca.
MineralMan
(146,307 posts)Collectively, we have a very large effect. To feel honored that the world came to an end while you were alive, though, seems a bit on the odd side to me.
In a planetary or universal sense, the passing of one person is something of zero impact. There's no reason to feel honored that the whole thing ended while you lived. At least that's how I see it.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)that I have been reading here on DU.
The point is---IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!
BUT as I should have know--- This place is loaded with a bunch of stick in the mud characters.
Bonx
(2,053 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)It's interesting that you think you are, and that you would be honored to fail.
trumad
(41,692 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)It was a piss poor delivery.
Why would someone need to duck if it's over their head?
trumad
(41,692 posts)Doesn't it feel weird to follow me around? It's kind of creepy how you pop in and respond to just about everything I post.
You know you are the only one here at DU who follows me around. Now I know---you'll reply with some lame excuse for doing it...but a quick search sure does prove it.
Every fucking thread you're there dropping turds on my comments. Really fucking weird dude.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)just pointing at them.
trumad
(41,692 posts)You weird.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)I do, and I share it.
Civilization will be coming apart big-time before I shuffle off this mortal coil. It's going to be an amazing thing to see. Hell, it's already coming apart, and it's already amazing. I think this is the most remarkable time in the history of human presence on the planet to be alive. It feels like watching the final act of a really thrilling play, and being here to see the curtain come down. I mean, how cool is that?
trumad
(41,692 posts)I think they get it but wake up with a shit in your Cheerio's attitude.
Par for the course for those who follow me around here on DU.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)LOL
pintobean
(18,101 posts)I guess he just can't decide who is his bestest friend.
trumad
(41,692 posts)His obsession is really weird. Been here since 2001 and really never had a member follow me as much as this guy.
It was fun for a while but now it's bordering on creepy.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Nobody will be "around" before the "world" actually ends anyway, the oceans will be boiled away as the sun heats up and begins to die.
R. P. McMurphy
(834 posts)If it does end now all I have to say with my time-limited comprehension of this universe is IT'S BEEN A HELL OF A RIDE (and in an allusion to another fictional work "THANKS FOR ALL THE CANNABIS!"
I appreciate a twisted sense of humor.