Quote Originally Posted by Shwenn View Post
Not while I live and breathe.
Thanks for the segue!

Here's an idea: religion is a red herring. It is used by the consensus of elites who control this world's cultures to keep people angry, or better yet placid.

Theism and anti-theism are at best philosophical positions. Our world has been carelessly overpopulated to a degree vastly beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. There is no sustainable model for this population. Billions will inevitably die; the longer we put it off, the more we damage the environment, reducing the carrying capacity of the planet.

Not sure what I mean? Here's an example... think about how you (or your children, or grand-children, etc...) are going to keep warm in the winter after the shit hits the fan. Burn wood? How much wood is there in your local area? Will it warm everyone who lives in your local area for even one winter? What about food? Do you know what the last sustainable peoples in your area ate (the last sustainable age was the Stone Age; for Americans that would be the Native Americans)? Where I live the Shawnee ate deer, buffalo, berries, and corn. I can assure you that there is very little of the first three still available in the Ohio River Valley. Anyone who survives the collapse around here better fucking love corn.

The fun part is in thinking about how the 5 billion unsustainable inhabitants of this world are going to go; through voluntary population reductions, or involuntary ones.

In a little while, no one will care whether you believed in a god or not; they'll be more interested in the fact that they can't find any potable water.

Fun fact: it takes 3 to 5 liters of water to produce 1 liter of bottled water, and 250 grams of CO2 is pumped into the atmosphere to make the bottle, fill it, and transport it to you.