empty promises

[bitRAKE]

Consumption is a process required by all life: from the space you displace to the dark pint. Others have died (even if you are a vegetarian) so that life may continue. No discovery will stop this process. Certainly technology has made it easier for humans on this planet, but have we lost our reverence for life? Why do we continually fail to harmonize with nature? Even in this it seems as if we must consume her and in doing so die.

Our attempt to stave off the end seems to welcome it. No matter. Death is but a transition - new life will spring forth from a new mother. Silly humans.

[HopeForHumanity]

I think physics is great and is a great model for inventions, however, physics is only temporary and is always some how having to be changed because some brilliant man invented something that disproved it. Thats why physics SHOUDN"T ALWAYS be trusted for everything. You assume the carnival will have some clowns, but sometimes thats not the case, and plus, don't assume every clown will be funny.....(i don't want to get into that )

What the hell was I thinking when I compared carnival clowns to physics?

[Sataur]

True bitRAKE, but we've stepped far beyond the natural limits of healthy consumption with the industrial age. No longer are we merely consuming to live like every other organism, we are consuming for our ego's. Certainly we do not need large SUV's and cars to live (though we've dug ourselves into a whole where we must use them for salaries which pay for food grown by someone else), but it certainly makes us feel good about ourselves superficially. We do not need many lightbulbs (though they are nice), nor large televisions, nor expensive, large housing. These are all luxuries which indirectly harm the earth and the rest of its inhabitants on an atemporal scale (that is to say, we can not foresee when this harm will take place in time, but it will).

True, consuming is a natural part of life, and life itself even emits CO2, but when you consume far more than any other species and don't give back to the earth what you have taken, then you begin to create a problem.

[IronHead]

Is it not the clowns that are thee pinnacle of over consumption . With there excessive use of makup and shoes 5 times to big. All that plastic and Nylon. Youthink they use those little bikes for transportation ,NO! Enough material on there backs to cloth 12 people .I say DO AWAY WITH THE CLOWNS **Pink Floyd voice**  "getum  up against the WALL "
Clowns are scary anyway .

There really was a point in this post .
IronHead

[beedees]

I,4one, REALly think that somehere out there  is a circus missing a clown.