I was out and about with my friend, and he stopped by somebody's house in the general vicinity. Now, I refrain from describing this guy as a "friend" to either of us. More like an accquaintince. And he's got a lot of cats. But he doesn't spay them. Just feeds them is all. They can get shot by the farmers or hunters out here, ran over by traffic, or freeze in the winter. He doesn't do nothing about it.

So I walk up to this kitten. It's just sitting there in the grass. Looks up to me because it can hear me. But it can't see me. Know why? This kitten is in the middle of an infection. It's eyes were encrusted with green shit, closed shut. A combination of blood and grey shit was coming out of it's nose.

And he didn't haul it off to the vet. The only thing he did do was try to clean its eyes, and he did a piss poor job of that too. So after he went back into his house, I picked up the cat and left. I'll be bringing the little fellow into the vet tomorrow.

Relevant?

Personally, I think that picture is bogus. And there's a good reason for it too.

Although, over the last few decades, technology has accelerated greatly, you're forgetting one thing. With every leap and hurdle we jump, the next one grows bigger. As you progress down the line, the hurdles you have to take, and this distance you have to cover to make more progress on what you already have grows bigger every single time.

It's a lot like a car really. You can drive faster and faster, going higher on the speedometer, but eventually you're going to hit the speed limit for how fast the car can go. You'll be going at maximum speed and whether you like it or not you won't be able to travel any faster.

Just because we make progress doesn't mean we will continue to make progress.

The second reason I have, is that we as a species are not accelerating with our own technology either. We aren't evolving and changing with it. In fact, we're regressing. Technology will always exist to make people's live's easier, and that's okay. But we've taken the wrong path, and we have two things working against us here.

The factor of numbers, "mob mentality" has been scientifically proven that the more people you have in an area, the lower the IQ of the group becomes as a whole. And because of this, and the large majority of the human population that lives in cities, technology has evolved mainly to go through the route of comfort, and above all segments.

Our population is controlled and guided by the government, the media, and corporations which are all connected together for the same purpose in this day and age. Discovery and invention are no longer for the sake of progress. It's "when can we release this for more money and how long do we hold this back." Basically, without technology nowadays, people are either quite stupid or incredibly helpless, because through that advent and acceleration of technology, we've forgotten something key. Remembering the old ways. You don't get anywhere without remembering your roots.

Personally, I belive that at the rate and path we're taking, we're going to go through another crash. The second dark ages if you will.

If the Roman empire had survived all the way up to now, we might be different. But at the same time, we might have hit the same barriers we currently need to overcome. Population overcrowding, mass and over consumption, environmental care and species preservation.

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Will there be kittens

I was wondering where you'd gone off to. You dropped off the face of the earth for a while. Good to see you here.

Quote from: Sandtrap on September 06, 2014, 11:33:57 PM

I hereby declare myself "That one asshole in the Banshee."

You son of a bitch

Personally I'm amazed that after what? Three, four years of not touching Halo 3, I can still fly as well as I did. I mean what the fuck, how many times did I avoid getting lasered when I dropped one of you and you all kept dashing over there to pick it up again? I count 6 times you guys tried.

I still got the touch!

Quote from: True Turquoise on September 06, 2014, 04:09:34 PM

My British accent is better. SMH

I wanna hear! I am not sure if I will talk right away.

I wish I had an accent, my voice is boring.

Why don't you make yourself one then? Accents aren't exactly a gene based thing. Spend enough time around people and you'll start speaking like they do, in a similar manner.

Used to live in a motor home when I was younger. There was a fold up bed above the driver's seats, and I slept up there as a kid. Sometimes, rarely, I move around in my sleep quite a bit.

Well, one morning I woke up hanging off the bed upside down.

Big-Boobs-Benny

You're the reason I made myself grilled cheese sandwhiches for supper last night.

If you want to see it that way, fine, but I'm just trying to be nice.
You're a valued member and it would be nice to not have to see anymore of this gloomy nonsense. What happened to the happier more enthusiastic Korra?

Fall is here compatriot.

I would be scared enough if it was just you but you holding a cleaver is like "shit my pants" material.

Although I've never seen it, and not many people have been around me for the rare times that I'm ever visibly angry, but apparently I've got a really fucking mean face when it comes up. That's just me pissin' around with some raised eyebrows for fun. Here's hoping that face never comes out, nor do I have to use the cleaver for anything other than cutting pizza.

This thing is so handy for cutting pizza.

No, they're fucking disgusting. Kill yourself.

Living the dream right?

Everybody's got a favorite season. Everybody's got a season they dislike. But I ask, is there any season that affects your mood? Something in the background that makes you feel a certain way when you look at the environment around you, and you know without a doubt that it's this one season for sure?

Mine is Fall. I can appreciate what comes with Fall, but I don't enjoy it. There's something deeply off putting to me when I look outside, and I see the sky, grey as if it were dying, and the colour draining away leaving dead husks. I never knew what it was, but Fall was always tricky for me. My head's a mess, scrambled and lost, and depression creeps from the black corner of it's hole and takes another step, another foothold.

I can always tell when it's fall because I have to fight every morning to get up and do something with my day, and the world around me turns into something unsettling,

At the very least, Fall is short lived. No more than a month at the most before the ice and snow rolls in.

How about you folks? Any seasons with special influences on you?

Na. Until there's verification and positive proof, I don't buy it. That, and my world is filled with old men. I'm used to the company of those who are beyond their prime. Hell, my brother in law is 70. The youngest person I know personally is 43 years old.

Age is not, and never should be relevant to who and what you are. If Chakas is 50 and he wanks off to fairies, then that's what he wanks off to. So long as nobody comes to harm, then it's fine. I have my own likings, my own kinks, and surely I will carry them with me as I grow older. The same as you or anybody else.