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| Cosmic |
I came across the following text on the internet somewhere, and it has some very sharp idea's about our world-views...
The paradox of our time in history is that we have wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less;
we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time;
we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life;
we've added years to life, not life to years.
We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We've conquered outer space, but not inner space;
we've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul;
we've split the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less; we plan more, but accomplish less.
We've learned to rush, but not to wait;
we have higher incomes, but lower morals;
we have more food, but less appeasement;
we build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication;
we've become long on quantity, but short on quality.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology has brought this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to make a difference, or to just hit "Skip Ahead"... |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
:rolleyes:
The world sucks because of technology. Things are only getting worse. Humans have never been like this before. blah blah blah.... |
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| Ondrayce |
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or to just hit "Skip Ahead"... |
Whoa!!! That's exactly what I did after about the fifth line. |
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| Massive84 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
:rolleyes:
The world sucks because of technology. Things are only getting worse. Humans have never been like this before. blah blah blah.... |
true, i would do anything now to live in the middle ages and fight with a sword major battles, just like in the movies :D. |
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| Lira |
| Nice text, I like it :) |
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| Cal |
| Yeah I saw Fight Club too |
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| BTG |
they didn't have to make as many lines as they did.
3 or 4 would have been just as good. |
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| Geoff |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
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we shouldn't be praying at all haha
other than that, pretty good stuff |
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| whiskers |
| smells like CrimethInc. |
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| mezzir |
yeah the pray to seldom thing kinda tilted my whole view on it and made me look at it as a critic
and i'll try to avoid my whole thing about how religion, although it does have its merits, is a huge contributor to a bunch of the negatives that this list mentioned IMO
bleh |
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