Here is a Random musing about the Future. In preparation for my special three part posting featuring my random predictions for the future.
People have been trying to predict the future ever since time began; but not many people can even remotely claim to have succeeded. Astrology doesn’t work (mostly because there are thirteen zodiac signs but astrologers only use twelve), psychics don’t know what their talking about, and Nostradamus was so vague that he could have meant anything. There are so many books and movies that are set in the future that they can’t all be right. And after watching some of them I don’t think that I would want any of them to be right. Who would want to live in a future ruled by apes or robots? No one really wants to become the society that burns books or makes Children fight to death on live TV, right? The future that H.G. Wells wrote about in the Time Machine doesn’t sound too appealing either. The future in Back to the Future 2 isn’t so bad, maybe even doable, in fact the year that it takes place in, 2015, is only three years away.
When you think about it the future can only go one of three ways: it can get better, it can get worse, or nothing can change. The hard part is defining better and worse because some people look upon the past as being more favorable than the present. I would also like to bring up the saying, “the more things change the more they stay the same,” this really makes it hard to project into the future because if the future is always repeating the past then nothing can ever truly change and America is doomed because the Romans and the Greeks thought they were the end all and be all of civilization too.
Of course things may stay the same in theory but things will always be changing. Technology will advance and then knowledge will be lost and then rediscovered that’s all part of the cycle of history. History is full of parallels and repeated mistakes. This is because people never learn from the mistakes of their ancestors and so they just make the same errors. Like the old cliché says “either learn from history or repeat it.”
A popular saying printed on Christian T-shirts, bookmarks, key chains etc. . . is: “I know not what the future holds but I do know he who holds the future.” This means that as long as God is in charge there is nothing to worry about. But the future gives us plenty to worry about anyway; it’s the greatest unknown, the ultimate variable and just plain scary. And the farther ahead you look the scarier it becomes, because the more time that goes by is more time for something bad to happen; like a natural disaster, or a layoff at work, it’s also that much closer to death. And death is a scary thing to most people. Unless, you know he who holds your future.
C. O. Bonham 
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17 Aug 2012 Leave a comment
by C.O. Bonham in Random Musing, Well founded paranoia Tags: Chocolate cake, Comments, flame wars, Opinions
One thing that some people fail to appreciate about our society is that this, more than any other era, is really the age of personal opinion. when else in history could you read a news story and then immediately put in your two cents. We go online read an article and then leave a comment. In fact reading the comments consumes more of our attention than the story that we came to read. The comments show what people really think. And reading the comments can also make you really angry. They can turn into real flame wars sometimes. Check out the following example that I made up and see if you can spot the commenter that makes me the maddest.
Headline: Ten year old boy eats Chocolate cake everyday. Doctors find no ill effects.
Comments
Cakeluvur: I like cake. You go kid!
Sparedarod: That is so wrong his parents should go to jail for not making him eat healthy foods. My kids don’t eat sweets ever. Cake is the Devil’s Food.
Cakeluvur: It can be Angel Food too! 😀
Spoildechild: @Sparedarod, You shouldn’t be so strict. Kids need to have things in life to make them happy or else they will grow up bitter and angry. Besides the article says that he got a piece of cake everyday. It’s not like they fed him nothing but cake.
Dietdiva: I wish I could eat cake every day and not get fat like this kid. 😦
Superdad: Maybe you should play three different sports like my boys. They eat all day.
Sparedarod: You are all crazy it dosen’t matter what else you eat sugar is toxic. I never had any sweets growing up and I turned out perfectly fine. We should ban all sugar.
Cakeluver: What we already have a higher tax on sugar than other foods.
DietDiva: No we have a tax on beverages. I pay the same tax for my unsweetened tea as i would if I bought a soda. McDonald’s even taxed my bottled water.
Superdad: @Sparedarod, You did not turn out fine at all it sounds like you turned into a bitter hag who thinks that everyone should suffer just because you had an unhappy childhood. Stop forcing your beliefs on others.
Peacemaker: Why do you people have to be like this? Everyone has the right to their own opinion. Everyone should stop putting down the opinions of other. If we all respected each others opinion then the world would be a happy place and we could all get along.
Now who do you think made me angry in the above example. That’s right it was Peacemaker. Everyone else had an opinion that contributed to the debate, even if some of them could have been nicer about it. But Peacemaker just commented on the arguing. His or her opinion was that people really shouldn’t have their own opinion. Peacemaker would rather everyone sacrifice their beliefs in the name of tolerance. But we can’t do that. We must keep arguing, debating and having different opinions. Because if everyone has the right to their own opinion then that includes everyone with a dissenting opinion too.
So come on leave your opinion. Lets see if we can start a good comment war.
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