Life is a game of chance...

TruckerT

Rotor wrote: »

you are confusing 'truth' with 'belief'

That statement is not true, it is what you believe

TruckerT

TruckerT

The search for truth is a uniquely human activity, and plays no part in nature's big idea

The search for truth (political, economic or religious) leads only to conflict, destruction and human misery

The only truths are the laws of nature, and the more we 'understand', the further we get from any kind of resolution

A simpler question is 'why did nature allow the human race?'

The answer is 'because nature doesn't care'

The human race has existed for almost no time at all in the grand scheme of things, and is rushing towards its own self-destruction

The disappearance of the human race will be no more and no less significant than the disappearance of the dinosaurs or the neanderthals

TruckerT

Joe_Bloggs

@ TruckerT
we share/host the genes of our ancestors within our bodies.
What our brains think is immaterial. If enough people learn to co-operate, avoid getting prematurely dead , then the genes can make progress through time.

J_B.

TruckerT

Joe_Bloggs wrote: »

If enough people learn to co-operate

That's the tricky bit - in nature, survival depends on selfishness

Only humans beat themselves up about it...

TruckerT

...not bankers though...

TruckerT

TruckerT wrote: »

I think it was quite by chance that the banks discovered their absolute power to bring down a capitalist economy

I think it was quite by chance that the anti-capitalist protestors discovered their potential to bring down a major component of the UK Establishment

I think it is quite by chance that we are discovering the impotence of our leaders to deal with our current woes

I think it is a matter of chance as to which form of extremism will succeed in 'filling the void'

TruckerT

Has it occurred to anyone that we now have two member nations of the Eurozone under the rule of non-elected governments whose stated aim is to impose their will upon the financial affairs of their home nation?

It remains clear that other European nations are at risk of becoming ruled by similar dictatorships

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macaque_2

TruckerT wrote: »

Has it occurred to anyone that we now have two member nations of the Eurozone under the rule of non-elected governments whose stated aim is to impose their will upon the financial affairs of their home nation?

It remains clear that other European nations are at risk of becoming ruled by similar dictatorships

TruckerT

Trucker, this is the age old problem. Are we better off being ruled by dictators or idiots voted in by Furbies?

geneer

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Both good games, but isn't it more like Game of Life

Chance card reads "you boast about your life on a faceless internet forum. Do not consider why you might be compelled to do so. Do not pass go. "

TruckerT

macaque wrote: »

Are we better off being ruled by dictators or idiots voted in by Furbies?

It used to be the case that bankers controlled the money, whilst politicians controlled governments, and a useful compromise was usually reached

But right now, the banks are in complete control, and demanding more protection money than the Kray twins ever dreamed of

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bendix

Do you ever talk in anything other than bland platitudes, Trucker?

Contrary to your perception they don't make you look insightful. They make you look like you take them out of some tedious left wing magazine and that you have no original thoughts of your own.

TruckerT

Bland platitudes are capable of generating hot air, it seems - there was a guy on Newsnight last night, speaking for the bankers, who tried to blame the last UK government for the unrest across America, as well as the European deficits etc etc. At one point, he even tried to bring in the name of the unknown Ed Milliband f'chrissake

The Newsnight person more or less laughed at him - I wonder what magazines bankers read...

TruckerT