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THE GREAT FILTER AND WHY HUMANITY IS FUCKED

Started by tyrannosaurus vex, September 18, 2014, 02:03:01 AM

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hooplala

#30
September 19, 2014, 03:04:55 PM
So far, I find Vex's theory most compelling.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

The Good Reverend Roger

#31
September 19, 2014, 03:34:57 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 02:35:33 PM
The "We are God's mistake" theory.

Well, yeah.  One time I tried carving a statue out of wood, with no instruction.

It was so awful that I never tried again.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#32
September 19, 2014, 04:13:56 PM
Sadly, this theory isn't that great at convincing people who don't believe in a sentient Creator-type thing.

But we've been down that road.

The Good Reverend Roger

#33
September 19, 2014, 04:42:20 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 04:13:56 PM
Sadly, this theory isn't that great at convincing people who don't believe in a sentient Creator-type thing.

But we've been down that road.

I cannot be held responsible for the thoughts of such optimists.

In any case, given the data, it works as well as anything else.  "God didn't read the directions."  The Christian bible says we were made in his image, which tells you two things:

1.  He has one more rib than we do, due to scavenging the prototype for materials, and

2.  HERPADERP, on a universal scale.

It also suggests that any aliens - who are NOT likely to look like us - are NOT in his image, and the very first thing we should do on contact is drop big rocks on the blasphemous things.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Reginald Ret

#34
September 19, 2014, 04:52:09 PM
We are what grows on the petri dish that was left on the table.
We are the result of Fleming's messy laboratory.
Just remember: there are two things growing on this petri dish and we are not the mold, we are the staph bacteria.
Lord Byron: "Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

Nigel saying the wisest words ever uttered: "It's just a suffix."

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LMNO

#35
September 19, 2014, 04:56:15 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 19, 2014, 04:42:20 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 04:13:56 PM
Sadly, this theory isn't that great at convincing people who don't believe in a sentient Creator-type thing.

But we've been down that road.

I cannot be held responsible for the thoughts of such optimists.

In any case, given the data, it works as well as anything else.  "God didn't read the directions."  The Christian bible says we were made in his image, which tells you two things:

1.  He has one more rib than we do, due to scavenging the prototype for materials, and

2.  HERPADERP, on a universal scale.

It also suggests that any aliens - who are NOT likely to look like us - are NOT in his image, and the very first thing we should do on contact is drop big rocks on the blasphemous things.

I have to admit, your way certainly sounds like more fun.

The Good Reverend Roger

#36
September 19, 2014, 05:30:02 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 04:56:15 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 19, 2014, 04:42:20 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 04:13:56 PM
Sadly, this theory isn't that great at convincing people who don't believe in a sentient Creator-type thing.

But we've been down that road.

I cannot be held responsible for the thoughts of such optimists.

In any case, given the data, it works as well as anything else.  "God didn't read the directions."  The Christian bible says we were made in his image, which tells you two things:

1.  He has one more rib than we do, due to scavenging the prototype for materials, and

2.  HERPADERP, on a universal scale.

It also suggests that any aliens - who are NOT likely to look like us - are NOT in his image, and the very first thing we should do on contact is drop big rocks on the blasphemous things.

I have to admit, your way certainly sounds like more fun.

And since the question is academic, then why NOT support interstellar jihad?  If the bastards ARE listening to us, then that would be just one more reason for them to STAY WHERE THE FUCK THEY ARE and not bother us.  We can already anal probe.  Thousands of perverts do it every day; We don't need their help.  So fuck those galactic perverts.  They can go get their groove on somewhere else.

Come fucking around OUR trailer park, we'll fucking send you home in a garbage bag.  Fuckers.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#37
September 19, 2014, 05:35:37 PM
Quote from: PANGO! on September 19, 2014, 03:58:24 AM
WHOLE ARGUMENT IS POINTLESS, DOGS. HUMANS DO NOT FIND ALIENS FOR SIMPLE FACT THAT HUMANS ARE BLIND TO 99.99% OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM. FUNCTIONALLY COMPLETELY DEVOID OF SENSES. YOU DO NOT SEE BLIND MAN ASK WHY THEY NEVER FIND WOMAN WHO IS PLEASANT TO LOOK AT, NO? IS SAME THING.

ALSO, EARTH IS QUARANTINE ON ACCOUNT OF CONTAGIOUS STUPIDITY.

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#38
September 19, 2014, 06:17:56 PM
Another thing that occurs to me is that maybe they have Gods of their own, and all involved deities have good reasons to NOT allow the species to meet...The last thing THEY need is for us to compare notes and start REALLY paying attention to them.

Also, we have enough door-to-door evangelists without dealing with Space Mormons.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#39
September 19, 2014, 06:35:46 PM
Gonna back out now.  Sorry, V3X, didn't mean to kill the thread.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#40
September 19, 2014, 06:37:33 PM
I'm not sure you killed it... After stating the supposed paradox, people came up with some responses, and, well, it seemed like it ended fairly naturally, except some doofus decided to make a meta-style comment on the life of the thread and is currently feeling a bit embarassed about it, to tell the truth.

The Good Reverend Roger

#41
September 19, 2014, 06:41:08 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 06:37:33 PM
I'm not sure you killed it... After stating the supposed paradox, people came up with some responses, and, well, it seemed like it ended fairly naturally, except some doofus decided to make a meta-style comment on the life of the thread and is currently feeling a bit embarassed about it, to tell the truth.

No worries.   :lulz:

I was basically just goofing.  The God of the Gaps is alive and well and weighs a fucking ton on this particular issue.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Wizard Joseph

#42
September 20, 2014, 12:09:27 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 19, 2014, 06:17:56 PM
Another thing that occurs to me is that maybe they have Gods of their own, and all involved deities have good reasons to NOT allow the species to meet...The last thing THEY need is for us to compare notes and start REALLY paying attention to them.

Also, we have enough door-to-door evangelists without dealing with Space Mormons.
:eek:
This got me thinking and I'm not sure what yet. It stirred something in the back of my brainmeats. This thread is not yet done I think. Mayhap I'll open a new one when whatever this is hatches. Or you'll never hear from me again. Could go either way.
You can't get out backward.  You have to go forward to go back.. better press on! - Willie Wonka, PBUH

Life can be seen as a game with no reset button, no extra lives, and if the power goes out there is no restarting.  If that's all you see life as you are not long for this world, and never will get it.

"Ayn Rand never swung a hammer in her life and had serious dominance issues" - The Fountainhead

"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation."
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality :lulz:

"You program the controller to do the thing, only it doesn't do the thing.  It does something else entirely, or nothing at all.  It's like voting."
- Billy, Aug 21st, 2019

"It's not even chaos anymore. It's BANAL."
- Doktor Hamish Howl

The Good Reverend Roger

#43
September 20, 2014, 12:45:33 AM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on September 20, 2014, 12:09:27 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 19, 2014, 06:17:56 PM
Another thing that occurs to me is that maybe they have Gods of their own, and all involved deities have good reasons to NOT allow the species to meet...The last thing THEY need is for us to compare notes and start REALLY paying attention to them.

Also, we have enough door-to-door evangelists without dealing with Space Mormons.
:eek:
This got me thinking and I'm not sure what yet. It stirred something in the back of my brainmeats. This thread is not yet done I think. Mayhap I'll open a new one when whatever this is hatches. Or you'll never hear from me again. Could go either way.

If they say ANYTHING about a "host" or "larvae", shoot them center mass right away.  Headshots don't work.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Wizard Joseph

#44
September 20, 2014, 01:26:02 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 20, 2014, 12:45:33 AM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on September 20, 2014, 12:09:27 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 19, 2014, 06:17:56 PM
Another thing that occurs to me is that maybe they have Gods of their own, and all involved deities have good reasons to NOT allow the species to meet...The last thing THEY need is for us to compare notes and start REALLY paying attention to them.

Also, we have enough door-to-door evangelists without dealing with Space Mormons.
:eek:
This got me thinking and I'm not sure what yet. It stirred something in the back of my brainmeats. This thread is not yet done I think. Mayhap I'll open a new one when whatever this is hatches. Or you'll never hear from me again. Could go either way.

If they say ANYTHING about a "host" or "larvae", shoot them center mass right away.  Headshots don't work.

Fire is the great purifier sir!

This
http://wolfhillammo.com/12gauge2-34dragonsbreath.aspx
And if there's a carapace a frangible breaching slug first.

I always wanted one of these for just such emergencies.
http://bondarms.com/bond-arms-handguns/snake-slayer/

Problem is in this case the emergency might be me.. :|
You can't get out backward.  You have to go forward to go back.. better press on! - Willie Wonka, PBUH

Life can be seen as a game with no reset button, no extra lives, and if the power goes out there is no restarting.  If that's all you see life as you are not long for this world, and never will get it.

"Ayn Rand never swung a hammer in her life and had serious dominance issues" - The Fountainhead

"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation."
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality :lulz:

"You program the controller to do the thing, only it doesn't do the thing.  It does something else entirely, or nothing at all.  It's like voting."
- Billy, Aug 21st, 2019

"It's not even chaos anymore. It's BANAL."
- Doktor Hamish Howl
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