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Migrants passing through Djibouti, on the Gulf of Aden, sometimes save money by buying a SIM card from neighbouring Somalia on the black market. Photographer John Stanmeyer met a group of them standing on the coast waiting to catch a faint signal. "It communicated the universality of all of us," he says. "We really are standing at a crossroads of our collective humanity. Where are we going? What does it mean to be human?"
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Going by the ill educated and misinformed opinions being aired on a radio Scotland phone in at the moment regarding the figure of accepting 10,000 refugees I seriously doubt there is any collective humanity left in this country.
In reality; nowhere. We are effectively alone (unless some benevolent superior civilisation comes to our aid) and we seem hell bent on destroying the planet on which we depend. If that doesn't do for us, then we are as ill prepared for the asteroid strike as the dinosaurs were anyway.
Ace picture.
Fantastic photo!
'I'm alright Jack and so are people like me, while those of other colour/creed/birthplace/ability are enjoying their just desserts'
Not catchy, but it feels like this is the new old way 🙁
We are just vessles for our genes
I'm just starting to get the feeling that we are now living through one of those great swells of the tide in our collective history. With the enormous amount of desperate people now surging across the globe looking for help, we're seeing a huge change being forced, and nothing will ever be the same again.
Some of us are on the path to enlightenment. 😉
Mr Woppit - bang on mate, bang on.
Some of us are on the path to enlightenment
Some of us are on the path to [s]enlightenment[/s] entitlement.
For some reason that photo reminds me of the final scenes of I, Robot:
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Weird.
Load of pretentious tosspots taking selfies at a full moon party.
Get in the sea.
Mr Woppit. Wherever and whenever there is conflict there are desperate people trying to escape to a better place. There can be no greater cause for humans to pursue than ending conflict. Sadly we don't seem to be built that way
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Get in the sea.
Award for the most inappropriate sentence evvah ?
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The trouble with humans imho, is that we have an enormously inflated sense of our own importance.
We are just a flicker, a moment in something we can never understand.
We are not going anywhere, and it means nothing. I'm ok with that.
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I'm just starting to get the feeling that we are now living through one of those great swells of the tide in our collective history. With the enormous amount of desperate people now surging across the globe looking for help, we're seeing a huge change being forced, and nothing will ever be the same again.
Very eloquently put Wopster. Discussing the situation with Mrs Binners last night, we reached a pretty similar conclusion. I get the feeling we're at the beginning of something truly seismic and defining, and probably quite scary
Kayak + lots.
You been reading my therapy notes or something...
Personally I think the last 100years or so seem like a massive waste of every-ones time, as our govts seem hell bent on returning us to a medieval model of aristos and the rest as just serfs.
We've thrown away all those massive advancements in social progression to end up at some weird consumerist nightmare trap.
With the possible exception of a few years toward the end of the twentieth century, when we managed to brush things under the rug thanks to economic growth, proxy wars and a willingness to look away from the problems we were creating, when were we not at the same crossroads?
The trouble with humans imho, is that we have an enormously inflated sense of our own importance.We are just a flicker, a moment in something we can never understand.
We are not going anywhere, and it means nothing. I'm ok with that.
You need to love yourself more bro!
We are part of the universe, we are star dust! 😉
We are part of the universe, we are star dust!
so is cat shit.
we're all dying , get over it, nobody gets out alive.
At some point the human race will no longer exist...at all
so anything we do is ultimately pointless, a futile attempt to carry the genes forward
make your live as fun as you can whilst your here
ignore ever single rule or law that is deemed so important by society
I've been incredibly lucky to have the life I've had. I know it.
Completely ready to chuck in the towel at any given point
If I need a lift, I always know I can rely on STW 😥
I blame it on the structure of our economy. It is fundamentally designed such that any individual, or nation, can only thrive at the expense of another. Our lavish lifestyles are only possible and are fueled off the availabiltiy of cheap consumer goods, which are made by people in sweat shops in other countries. Keep their labour rates low and hinder the growth of their lifestyles so they can keep producing cheap iPhones for us.
It's time we started to fundamentally question how the global world will work and if our economy is suited to it. And I don't mean a socialist vs. capitalist debate, even socialism is only possible at the expense of other certain groups of people.
It seems to me that Gene Roddenberry was a good few centuries ahead in his thinking.
This one caught my attention. I especially like the policeman up a ladder.
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Nah disagree
It the same sh1te just different gravy.... get your nut down and get on with it.
And I say... bring back the Reds and M.A.D
Proper baddies the Soviets, you knew where you stood with them .... Who the enemy was and your place in the world (under your desk when the siren went off 😆 )
I joke of course ... but maybe there is something in it.
It used to be ... them and us
Now it's ... them and us and us ... because the "them" are necessarily "baddies" at all... altough some definitely are ...?
I've confused myself ... you lot have no chance ... 🙂
Really those last 100 years where life expectancy has increased massively and many millions have been lifted out of poverty have been wasted?
As for what's happening now it is pretty much the norm somewhere in the world unfortunately. Only difference is now it effects Europe directly rather than a neighbouring African, Asian or South American country.
Proper baddies the Soviets, you knew where you stood with them .... Who the enemy was and your place in the world (under your desk when the siren went off)
I always wondered how this
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was supposed to protect me against this:
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'I'm alright Jack and so are people like me, while those of other colour/creed/birthplace/ability are enjoying their just desserts'
Until there is the bandwagon of a dead child picture to jump on to make you seem like you care when five minutes before you were complaining about queues at the Eurotunnel.
This country in particular are happy enough to show compassion when the problem is just far enough away that a couple of quid in a tin will dilute any guilt that they feel and give them enough to post on Facebook to make them look like well heeled human beings.
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Until there is the bandwagon of a dead child picture to jump on to make you seem like you care when five minutes before you were complaining about queues at the Eurotunnel.
"You"?
At some point the human race will no longer exist...at all
so anything we do is ultimately pointless, a futile attempt to carry the genes forward
Bingo, we will not even be around to see the end.....
Where are we going? What does it mean to be human?
I was going to post a the Diana Ross song "Do you know where you're going to" but work won't let me post youtube vids 😆
Shame, it's a good song.
Until there is the bandwagon of a dead child picture to jump on to make you seem like you care when five minutes before you were complaining about queues at the Eurotunnel.
"You"?
The figurative "You", replace "you" with "people"
The plebs love nothing more than fighting amongst themselves for causes their betters have chosen, desperate for parity of misery.
Drop the bomb now it's the only way to be sure.
Where are we going?
We are going to die. Fact!
What does it mean to be human?
We are slowly decaying. Fact!
The question you should be asking is what have you learned in your short life span in this universe? 😛
If those who have everything are not willing to give up a significant proportion of that so that those who have next to nothing can have at least something then we are going nowhere.
Or something like that.
The cry of the lonely atheist? 😉
Screw it dude, lets go [s]bowling[/s] ride bikes...