What is the effective way to prevent the rapid growth of population?

Lack of food and shelter somehow we can change the world a better place for all...REAL NOT ONLY THOUGHTS AND DREAMS

WW3 Why ask a rhetorical question?

Originally posted by mjhope:

Lack of food and shelter somehow we can change the world a better place for all...REAL NOT ONLY THOUGHTS AND DREAMS

Thoughts and dreams would be all that you're likely to get here. We can discuss and debate until the cows come home, but no decision we make on this board will mean diddly-doo.

In keeping with the reality that dreams-- and maybe nightmares-- are all that can be offered here--- How about contraceptives in the water supply? War and famine have worked to some degree in the past, it's one reason there's not a whole lot more of us than there are, so maybe you can have some of your friends do an anti-rain dance so it won't rain. No rain, no crops, no food--- famine kills a bunch of people-- population problem solved.

Originally posted by mjmsprt40:

War and famine have worked to some degree in the past

ICBM sling fest

Education.

Sometimes education actually helps create population growth for a while in developing countries for a while. Education improves and so health care improves. Meanwhile breeding habits remain the same, but the survival rates improve. Now specific education can help, such as about contraceptives, but that sometimes encounters cultural/religious resistance. Delaying child birth helps a lot, but it's hard breaking age-old habits of marrying off at 15 or 16.

Wow i am amazed of your posted comments. It showed up your interet that there could be a better system for change and not only famine.. But in the present life situation how these uneducated people can do something to change life systems.. I might not expert and knowledgeable enough but thru you some readers can digest and be widen of what we shared...

Some Churches highly disagree of using contraceptives.... And most specially in legalizing abortion.. This least people are lack of education... And their thinking is very different of those mindful people who wants changed, a better way of living as well...

well, am amazed by the apathy over here! If God said be fruitful and multiply, why are we trying to do the opposite?

Keep it simple

Tizz.

Originally posted by Sanguinemoon:

Sometimes education actually helps create population growth for a while in developing countries for a while. Education improves and so health care improves. Meanwhile breeding habits remain the same, but the survival rates improve. Now specific education can help, such as about contraceptives, but that sometimes encounters cultural/religious resistance. Delaying child birth helps a lot, but it's hard breaking age-old habits of marrying off at 15 or 16.

Yes, but at some point education brings the overall awareness that overpopulation and children that can't be properly cared for is causing damage and is not worth it. People generally have more children than can be sustained because they don't know any better. If everyone had as many children as their socioeconomic status logically suggested, the population would actually begin to drop. IMO, it really is the only long term solution. Short of total extinction, no amount of wars, famines or diseases are going to once and for all end the propensity for humans to multiply despite consequences.

Originally posted by Thabotizz:

well, am amazed by the apathy over here! If God said be fruitful and multiply, why are we trying to do the opposite?

Keep it simple

Tizz.

He was talking about math, not procreation.

Geez, do I have to explain everything?

Originally posted by Thabotizz:

well, am amazed by the apathy over here! If God said be fruitful and multiply, why are we trying to do the opposite?

Because it's one thing to "be fruitful and multiply" when anyone can find a field and plant it, and quite another when the fields are all taken

Great for having your comments posted in here.. Thanks:)

Some issues with regards to overflowing population specifically to the under develop country because of unequality, bad governance and the least people stuck because they don't have power to voice out, to exercise freedom, to make up things better for development as well as their education, It remains unsolved because if we look at the statistics rich people plays a lot can explore in the world in anywhere and what they want.. Least people can't even have knowledge to make up over maybe because of their poor mind thinking... It is merely rapid and cancerous deases of truth that rich can only have the power and the poor becomes poorer..its widen now..

So far I think only Virusboy has given a solution, so including his, I suggest:

o A war to end all wars (until we have too many people again)
o A Plague to do something similar
o Persuade men and women to become Nuns & Monks respectively, following the chastity supposedly espoused by RCs and Buddhists
o Persuade the rest of the men to become eunuchs (penalty for non compliance - castration)
o Gag the Pope so he stops prattling about people having lots of kids
o Ignore famines
o Let each country sort out its own population problems
o Make food exports illegal
o Open the flood gates, ban weather forecasts
o Double income tax for each child conceived
o Restrict medical care to one child per family

Take your pick of any or all and feel free to add some.

I'm sure there are more, but the overall conclusion is that any solution is going to hurt.

Edit: As far as education is concerned, that's no solution to the problem except that it might be humane to stop educating people so that they don't realise what is going to happen to them.

Here's a short movie that includes this subject and other related ones.

Originally posted by mjmsprt40:

How about contraceptives in the water supply?

Aren't they already putting uranium in water supplies to sterilize the male population? I've actually heard the suggestion to put lithium in the water outside of conspiracy theories tho. :-\ "The new fluoride", lol. Adding a drug to the water supply is a very inaccurate way to dose the population. It'd work better inside a 'vaccine' and with a simple new flu virus scare you'd have them lining up to get injections.

Those countries where they breed like proverbial rabbits don't need an education to see the obvious. If you keep having babies on a strip of land and keep sub-dividing it you will eventually get zilch and then depend on other countries to feed you and still follow that nonsense. Seems a ludicrous position to me. Those that take the message go forth and multiply are being far too daftly literal. It would hardly mean standing room only please would it?

Every time I read of a ferry capsizing, and hearing that way too many people died on that ferry--- way more than the ferry could safely hold-- I wonder. I see photos of trains and buses with people hanging onto every available item, again way overloaded-- and I wonder. I think third-world transportation might be as effective a way as any to limit world population. Overcrowded ferries, trains and buses--- tragedies waiting to happen.

Slinging ICBMs around every time would be quick, easy, and most honorable thing to accomplish our Task.

Originally posted by mjmsprt40:

I think third-world transportation might be as effective a way as any to limit world population. Overcrowded ferries, trains and buses--- tragedies waiting to happen.

Yeah, I've ridden those Microbuses in Mexico, you know those old VW vans. As the "bus" whips through the city streets, passengers are hanging on the door x_x

More people need to die

Originally posted by mjhope:

What is the effective way to prevent the rapid growth of population?

Wow... Thank you for widening.. Glad to read all your comments.. Thanks for sharing...it's good to meet this kind of mentality.. Keep it up, ladies &gentlmen:) God Bless us, all!

Originally posted by mjhope:

Wow... Thank you for widening.. Glad to read all your comments.. Thanks for sharing...it's good to meet this kind of mentality.. Keep it up, ladies &gentlmen:) God Bless us, all!

Yes you're quite right, we're all mental here, although some are more mental than others.

@jbrothernew37: tt92 has got a bigger one than you!

Originally posted by string:

@jbrothernew37: tt92 has got a bigger one than you!

And Yuck!

Time for another big war. Come on Jaybro get your country to take the usual lead.

Make it look like Obama strikes China...

Now there's an Irish situation if there ever was one! You would be in hock to the very country you get financial aid from to provide the bullets to shoot at them!

Tao Te Ching

Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it?
I do not believe it can be done.

The universe is sacred.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it, you will lose it.

So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind;
Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily;
Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;
Sometimes one is up and sometimes down.

Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

The first person I saw writing about mankind as a grasshopper plague was Jacques Cousteau.
The first person I saw writing about how those grasshoppers were even destroying oceans was Jacques Cousteau.
Thirty years ago and nothing has changed. Nobel prizes are attributed to obscures cultures by political correctness reasons.

And yet, some conspiratorial theories defends that "we" are being prepared for huge genocides without even protesting...

Originally posted by Pesala:

Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it?
I do not believe it can be done.

Isn't this an 'extreme' point in reasoning?

Originally posted by Pesala:

The universe is sacred.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it, you will lose it.

Can't improve it? Why are you using your computer to post this then? You don't consider information at your fingertips a improvement? And again, why post? What are you trying to change?

Originally posted by Pesala:

So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind;
Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily;
Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;
Sometimes one is up and sometimes down.

I guess pointing out the obvious makes the rest seem obvious too?


Why pay your house note? You're only trying to hold on to something.
Why flip a light switch? You're trying to control or improve what you can see.
Why post your ideals at all? Shouldn't this information be sought, not offered? There you are trying to change stuff.

The universe is change and your part in it is to change it. When you eat you change it. If you eat healthy to feel better, you're controlling it. If you don't eat to avoid changing it, you're being extreme.

A redundant loop of fallacies come from any points you try to make.

Originally posted by Pesala:

Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it?
I do not believe it can be done.

You can improve your little piece of it through a few kind words and decent acts.

Originally posted by Sanguinemoon:

You can improve your little piece of it through a few kind words and decent acts.

One should take control of what is within one's own domain — that is one should control the mind to restrain desire and anger. As soon as Man tries to control others, conflict ensues. Lead by setting a good example and others will follow you. That way your immediate environment is improved. If everyone takes responsibility for their own actions, society will change, and the world will improve.

Originally posted by ensbb3:

What are you trying to change?

If you want to improve your life it is within your power to change your attitude. Nothing I can say would help anyone unless they are seeking knowledge and wisdom. If I remain silent those who wish to learn will lose the opportunity, while those who don't wish to learn have nothing to lose.

All very charming Pesala but vague and doesn't really do anything practically. More snips all round I do reckon.

The more prosperous a nation is, the less population grows.. but more population = more potential profit for the corporations and the governments they control...

A catch22 if you will.

Originally posted by shoust:

The more prosperous a nation is, the less population grows.. but more population = more potential profit for the corporations and the governments they control...

A catch22 if you will.

Thats not a catch22 at all. that cant make sense in terms of per capita income

Originally posted by rjhowie:

All very charming Pesala but vague and doesn't really do anything practically. More snips all round I do reckon.

You can be vague and never wrong

what is the relationship between population growth and the world's problems?

Originally posted by minho:

what is the relationship between population growth and the world's problems?

People make problems; more people, more problems.

Originally posted by string:

Originally posted by minho:

what is the relationship between population growth and the world's problems?

People make problems; more people, more problems.

you want people to be prevented from being born to avoid further problems? Or do you want us to kill some of the people ever born?
or you want both? Are you fan of eugenics?

Originally posted by minho:

Originally posted by string:

Originally posted by minho:

what is the relationship between population growth and the world's problems?

People make problems; more people, more problems.

you want people to be prevented from being born to avoid further problems? Or do you want us to kill some of the people ever born?
or you want both? Are you fan of eugenics?

Don't be ridiculous. There is no need to lurch into emotive conclusions. The sad fact is that the human population is too big to sustain the sort of life we would all like to have given the amount of resources on this planet. If Human beings cannot control their population themselves then it will be done, perforce by running out of food, space, air - take your pick for whatever doomsday scenario you think most likely.

The problem is solvable and, clearly the solution will impinge on behaviour patterns we have enjoyed in the past. We will have to redefine the term "acceptable restrictions".

Originally posted by minho:

Are you fan of eugenics?

You do read all posts right?

Originally posted by minho:

you want people to be prevented from being born to avoid further problems?

Nah thats very ineffective

I should add something to what I wrote above because it may give the wrong impression. I stated that the problem (over population) is "solvable". While I think that is a true statement, I have no great faith that it will be solved. As mentioned before, the solutions are unpleasant to some degree and I doubt the capability of mankind to accept let alone agree a solution rather than continued fruitless hand-wringing and/or blinkered denial, implicitly accepting the consequences of over-population.

I gave a list a few posts ago; number 7 on that list is interesting - paraphrased it means every country does as they want and lives or dies with the consequences. It may come to that in the end.

Originally posted by string:

Originally posted by minho:

Originally posted by string:

Originally posted by minho:

what is the relationship between population growth and the world's problems?

People make problems; more people, more problems.

you want people to be prevented from being born to avoid further problems? Or do you want us to kill some of the people ever born?
or you want both? Are you fan of eugenics?

Don't be ridiculous. There is no need to lurch into emotive conclusions. The sad fact is that the human population is too big to sustain the sort of life we would all like to have given the amount of resources on this planet. If Human beings cannot control their population themselves then it will be done, perforce by running out of food, space, air - take your pick for whatever doomsday scenario you think most likely.

The problem is solvable and, clearly the solution will impinge on behaviour patterns we have enjoyed in the past. We will have to redefine the term "acceptable restrictions".

more ridiculous is the world's problems associated with the number of inhabitants. In my country many people are starving or malnourished and this has nothing to do with the number of inhabitants. People are in this situation due to lack of money to buy food, not for lack of food or space.
The solution is to end the system of consumerism, it is the cause of these problems allegedly caused by the number of people on the planet.

why worry the world always find a way to reduce its population. There are vast options: dieseases, war, birth control policies, natural disasters, discovery of New words( some people just have to go to the moon soon), you name it...
But what baffels me more is even when all this options all present in africa somehow, miraculously, the population seems to increase the more

why worry the world always find a way to reduce its population. There are vast options: dieseases, war, birth control policies, natural disasters, discovery of New words( some people just have to go to the moon soon), you name it...
But what baffels me more is even when all this options all present in africa somehow, miraculously, the population seems to increase the more

Originally posted by johnogaziechi:

There are vast options: dieseases, war, birth control policies, natural disasters

nature itself is responsible for regulating the number of people keeping balance between the number of births and deaths. In many countries life expectancy is very short.
Some idiot invented this idiocy to associate the number of inhabitants of the planet with the problems caused by the system and many people are believing this idiocy.
This is a farce as the stand global warming that are now calling it "climate change", uhauahauhauha

Originally posted by johnogaziechi:

why worry the world always find a way to reduce its population. There are vast options: dieseases, war, birth control policies, natural disasters, discovery of New words( some people just have to go to the moon soon), you name it...
But what baffels me more is even when all this options all present in africa somehow, miraculously, the population seems to increase the more

Thats because the core problem isn't being addressed, the more poorer a nation is, the more likely the inhabitants are going to breed out of desperation, hence higher birth rates than death rates.

Hence this question: Do you often see rich families have lots of children?

The most likely answer is No, because they don't need to.

I don't know how you fathom that one out johnogaziechi that the world always finds a way to reduce numbers as you suggest. I say this as espeically it has been a relentless rise through the ages. As for Africa the fact that they breed more and want to have big families that cannot be afforded is the problem!

Its more of a case that they can't afford to have small families, you can see the interesting parallel with our own country if you look hard enough, our "chav" culture is a problem caused by our government financially punishing people who are together and rewarding them when they are apart.

I'm not entirely sure of the system of governing in Africa, but I wouldn't put it past them to have a similar system there...

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

He was talking about math, not procreation.

Geez, do I have to explain everything?

Come on

Maybe it is getting too complicated for you.

Keep it simple

Originally posted by rjhowie:

I don't know how you fathom that one out johnogaziechi that the world always finds a way to reduce numbers as you suggest. I say this as espeically it has been a relentless rise through the ages. As for Africa the fact that they breed more and want to have big families that cannot be afforded is the problem!

'multiply and fill the earth' some how we africans foolishly think that part of the bible was talking to just us...

Just put IBM's Operating Systems division in charge of growing the population

( yes I know, nobody born after 1980 is going to get the joke )

Originally posted by Macallan:

( yes I know, nobody born after 1980 is going to get the joke )

I don't, at any rate. I know they had a fair number of different ones, but then most of it switched to MS-DOS?

Originally posted by Frenzie:

Originally posted by Macallan:

( yes I know, nobody born after 1980 is going to get the joke )

I don't, at any rate. I know they had a fair number of different ones, but then most of it switched to MS-DOS?

Remember OS/2?
Back then it went like this:
Q: How do you end all drug related problems once and for all?
A: Legalize everything but let IBM handle the marketing.

Originally posted by Macallan:

Remember OS/2?
Back then it went like this:
Q: How do you end all drug related problems once and for all?
A: Legalize everything but let IBM handle the marketing.

Hehe, now I see.

The death penalty for parking violations-- that should work. Especially in cities like Chicago, New York,-- just about any city which has more cars than parking places.

Nuclear war against terrorist

Originally posted by DANBUZU:

Nuclear war against terrorist

No. never. Learn restraint.

Now I have noticed that more life is occurring than when Death collects. Which means 1 of 3 thing will or is occurring.

1: Death has been told of a huge and cataclysmic event and kicking back else where.
2: Death is collecting more else where. Since existence is more than Earth.
3: Death is preoccupied else where, that our world can only be visited for mundane visits.

Originally posted by mjhope:

Lack of food and shelter somehow we can change the world a better place for all...REAL NOT ONLY THOUGHTS AND DREAMS

if only we can accept same-sex-marriages and not only accept, but also encourage more men and men, women and women, boys and boys, and girls and girls to marry each other, the world's rapid population increase can decrease for the betterment of all human being on this planet earth.

Originally posted by Chiyembekezo25:

Originally posted by mjhope:

Lack of food and shelter somehow we can change the world a better place for all...REAL NOT ONLY THOUGHTS AND DREAMS

if only we can accept same-sex-marriages and not only accept, but also encourage more men and men, women and women, boys and boys, and girls and girls to marry each other, the world's rapid population increase can decrease for the betterment of all human being on this planet earth.

Would you marry another man if you were allowed to?

Wooh, Chiyembekezo25. So we all become Boy Georges?!

Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma, cha...

Na. Not so much fun and a tad boring there, Frenzie! Big spoon, big spoon, big spoon, big spoon, cha

A cha of a different order...

Originally posted by Macallan:

Originally posted by Chiyembekezo25:

Originally posted by mjhope:

Lack of food and shelter somehow we can change the world a better place for all...REAL NOT ONLY THOUGHTS AND DREAMS

if only we can accept same-sex-marriages and not only accept, but also encourage more men and men, women and women, boys and boys, and girls and girls to marry each other, the world's rapid population increase can decrease for the betterment of all human being on this planet earth.

Would you marry another man if you were allowed to?

the decision to marry another man or another boy if allowed, can be equally uneasy decision as choosing to marry one out of a list of beautiful girl friends, deciding to became a prostitute or not and marring a female or your fellow male - that is if you are a male.

But if i were a gay, with a sole intention of not wishing not to have children, i can not wait to marry my fellow make if allowed.

Are you trolling on this? I agree that you should be allowed to marry a member of the same sex, if that's your inclination. But as form of population control, it's too silly for serious comment. No amount of encouragement would cause this either. Even among the the most open-minded heterosexuals the prospect of going through life having sex with a same-sex partner would be too revolting. Of course, common sense tells us that nearly all prostitutes join that profession out of desperation (and may need help with out issues, such if they became prostitutes to support a drug habit, etc)

Well to control the population we could close down the RC Church Muslims, send immigrants to the moon and make being queer the stanard. And hey presto!

Thank you all for your comments.. Anyway, everybody are account to their own thought and ideas. There is positive and negative but all are looking for a changed.. Marrying the same sex isn't bad rather but in some of church against of that.. Even in some country.. In some point if that would be legalized we can't say or see any problems arise but maybe it only applies in the most developing countries.. In my point of view the ramphant here is that uneducated and uncivilized poeple has tha main problem how they can improve the life system... Maybe it is the most advantage to the more liberal countries because they look the world difference.. While the least is that even the thinking isn't advance... Very great difference.... We can see the unfair life the world has... While only a few experiencing very great life and most are starving....

Use a condom. It's simple enough.

Too damn simple. I just came a cross a reference to the fact that the hordes of immigrants descending on us get better benefits than our senior citizens with their pensions (some 2 million in the Labour government's enter here, encouragement term). Everyone 60 and over gets a one-off £200 payment for winter fuel allowance but the immigrants get £25 every week! Then there is housing allowance, benefits for the children - squads of them. free bus passes that everyone working pays for (although 60 and over in Scotland you can travel anywhere by bus or inter-city bus free. It gets you a discount on train fares with up to 10 miles for 80p single and £1.20 return).But they have contributed to the country. The scrounging, smiling incomers also get free of Council Tax. Time after time many are getting a housing alowance to let them live in areas others couldn't afford to live in. I find it galling that the aged get such a raw deal having been born and lived here all their lives and many fought for their country and people who have done nothing get money shoved at them when some of the old are finding it difficult. Small wonder the French haughtily said regarding those trying to smuggle out of France here that we are too generous.

Now we are seeing a baby boom. Over half of the children at the second biggest city, Birmingham are non-indigenous. We spend 8 figures on translation work alone in GB. There is pressures on schools (they breed more than us), give schools headaches over language issues, create ghettoes (but we are still told it's multiculturism), pressures on housing, utilties and now England is having water supply challenges. We are lucky up here in that one! A million new homes need in the southeast of England in the next couple of decades and the population mushrooming. Talk about a nation committing sucicide? I would give a handsome donation for the distribution of condies but they would probably use them for balloons.

I am putting in for dictatorship with Jaybro as secret police chief just to balance things........

Thank you for sharing your knowledge..

Originally posted by rjhowie:

I am putting in for dictatorship with Jaybro as secret police chief just to balance things........

Well, the secret's out of the box now, Rj! Nice work!

make a prediction that in 12/21/2012 that the world will end.

The overpopulation preventer.

This would work, too.

This reminds me of a movie "Wanted". They tried to keep an order in the world by killing the people who got picked by 'destiny'.


To get on topic here, I think that there are many ways to prevent the growth but a very little number of them is acceptable.

Originally posted by domagoj03:

To get on topic here, I think that there are many ways to prevent the growth but a very little number of them is acceptable.

define acceptable. removing live according to "intelligent" people is never acceptable.

I( reckon the woman in the photograph comes from Edinburgh?

I'm pretty sure she's from Mississippi.

What do you have against Edinburgh?

Just wondering...could that little woman have such a huge hand?

I never could figure RJ's hatred for Edinburgh. I drive by it every so often, looks like it's not a bad place to live. (Edinburgh, Indiana, that is.)

Edinburgh in Scotland doesn't look too awful either, at least what we see of it here. Like all cities that have been there ever since the invention of dust, it has good and bad.

God invented dust.

Originally posted by mjmsprt40:

Edinburgh in Scotland doesn't look too awful either, at least what we see of it here. Like all cities that have been there ever since the invention of dust, it has good and bad.

'Edinburgh in Scotland' is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever visited. I used to tell people just how beautiful it was before I realised that describing it as such was a bit of a cliché, as everyone says the same thing. You'd have to have the aesthetic sense of Helen Keller to not appreciate it. I'm not so sure of the rest of the country. Roll on devolution! I say.

P.S. I don't remember any dust. Are you on any strong medication?

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

God invented dust.

Or ... did dust invent god?

You do use some words overly strong here Chicagoan and misuse them. Hate? Since whenever, there has always been rivalry between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Auld Reekie (called that as in olden days as they emptied chamber pots out the windows. It is decidely posh wheras here it is a down-to-earth city. In fact Glasgow is as old as it's rival but grew into an industrial centre in the old days of the BE. Edinburgh became genteel and ever so la-de-dah. In sniffy Morningside the language is warped and sacks of coal would be pronounced sex of coal. All fur coats and nae knickers as the saying goes! There is also more bonhomie here.

Yep Jaybro, God invented dust and the dust of yourself can be wiped away.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

You do use some words overly strong here Chicagoan and misuse them. Hate? Since whenever, there has always been rivalry between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Auld Reekie (called that as in olden days as they emptied chamber pots out the windows. It is decidely posh wheras here it is a down-to-earth city. In fact Glasgow is as old as it's rival but grew into an industrial centre in the old days of the BE. Edinburgh became genteel and ever so la-de-dah. In sniffy Morningside the language is warped and sacks of coal would be pronounced sex of coal. All fur coats and nae knickers as the saying goes! There is also more bonhomie here.

Yep Jaybro, God invented dust and the dust of yourself can be wiped away.

你使用一些过强的话，这里的芝加哥和滥用。恨？由于无论何时，格拉斯哥和爱丁堡之间一直存在着竞争。 Auld Reekie（所谓昔日为他们倒空出的Windows便壶。它是决定性的豪华，而这里是扎实的城市。事实上格拉斯哥是作为旧如它的对手，但进入一个工业中心增长在昔日的爱丁堡成为上流社会，并不断使LA - DE-大新晨嗤之以鼻的语言是将煤的显着性的扭曲和煤麻袋。裘皮大衣和俗语NAE短裤的有示好的姿态也多在这里。

叶先生Jaybro，上帝创造了灰尘和粉尘自己擦干即可。

Nope, I thought it would make more sense in simplified Chinese. Apparently not.

Originally posted by OperaBloke:

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

God invented dust.

Or ... did dust invent god?

No. Man did that.

Take a few months off and devote it to deep consideration of god (gods) as related by centuries of theological speculators. If you don't finally see the batshit craziness of it, you'd best clear your head and take a few more months off.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Any questions?

And God said, Let there be batshit craziness, and there were Southern Baptists. And God chuckled.

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Originally posted by OperaBloke:

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

God invented dust.

Or ... did dust invent god?

No. Man did that.

Take a few months off and devote it to deep consideration of god (gods) as related by centuries of theological speculators. If you don't finally see the batshit craziness of it, you'd best clear your head and take a few more months off.

Yeah, batshit crazy ... that sounds about right.

I seppose we had better acknowledge the newest (?) member of the Crazy Gang here, namely OperaBloke who seems to be the in that select group for dishing out satire but no-one else that doesn't please him. He didn't need all that kiech to try and put me down when I was addressing someone else but he was the same when here before under another name I reckon. It's the old story of not being able to stop answering me. Now folks await a great answer from the recondtioned know-it-all.

You would like it here Jaybro as we don't have Southern Baptists and the Baptists here are very meek compared to your lot over in the ex-Colonies. Bweing in your face would be something alien to them.

Originally posted by Thabotizz:

If God said be fruitful and multiply, why are we trying to do the opposite?
Tizz.

Hey, we already have been fruitful and we have multiplied. It's done already. In fact, it was done quite a while ago. Now we're to the point of "too much of a good thing".

Originally posted by rjhowie:

You would like it here Jaybro as we don't have Southern Baptists and the Baptists here are very meek compared to your lot over in the ex-Colonies. Bweing in your face would be something alien to them.

I must have given a false impression. I'm not bothered at all by religionists of any variety, in or out of family. And I don't bother anybody with my atheism...it's a personal thing.

I've a next door neighbor, a Baptist minister, a kindly man, who hasn't even invited me to his church. We live in peace.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

I seppose we had better acknowledge the newest (?) member of the Crazy Gang here, namely OperaBloke who seems to be the in that select group for dishing out satire but no-one else that doesn't please him.

At least I can write sentences that make grammatical sense. As for 'dishing out' stuff; if you live in a glass house, don't throw stones!

Originally posted by rjhowie:

He didn't need all that kiech to try and put me down when I was addressing someone else but he was the same when here before under another name I reckon.

I'm not actually sure what 'kiech' is, isn't it made with eggs? Talking of 'egg on the face', I suggest you look in the mirror.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

It's the old story of not being able to stop answering me. Now folks await a great answer from the recondtioned know-it-all.

Well, I am also not quite sure what 'recondtioned' is either. You seem to have a bit of a persecution complex.

Boys, boys!

Originally posted by mjhope:

What is the effective way to prevent the rapid growth of population?

Really interested?
There you have it... Pentti Linkola: Ideas
I'm sure that you'll find this Finnish ideas... well, refreshing to say the less...

Pentti Linkola writes about the apocalyptic climactic changes that will soon effect us here in humanityland, but he doesn't take the easy way out that most authors do. Instead, he chooses to be brutally honest and suggests that we've already missed our chance to curb our damage of the world, so what we must do is to begin the elimination of human and technological excesses now.