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[telirium]

is it just me or has anyone else been waiting for something monumental to take place? maybe social chaos? maybe ufo contact? maybe time travel? or maybe its all just wishful thinking? but if thats the case then i want to know why i have these, at times, overwhelming feelings of a desire for a change of pace?

[lmbeharry]

Something monumental happens every day - I get up. But seriously, monumental things happen all the time. And overall, the earth is a wonderful place. But with regard to the human system? I (and many others before me) liken the U.S. to Rome. I always teach my students that countries and Empires have a life cycle. And that the average lifespan of a great power is approximately 250 years, on average. Thomas Jefferson said it this way: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
So, given the lifespan of a great power, I'd conclude that the U.S. has peaked and is on its way down (though I think George Bush expedited its demise by about 50 years). China and Asia, well this region is on the upswing (after 600 years in the doldrums). Europe, well Europe in uniting has gotten stronger, but Europe will suffer with environmental changes. Europe will eventually have to allow Russia and Siberia to become members of the EU. Siberia may become the breadbasket of the world. The other factor in the equation is global warming, which is starting to exert pressure onto human systems everywhere. That may be the pressure you are feeling.

telirium on Apr 23 2008, 07:04 AM, said:

is it just me or has anyone else been waiting for something monumental to take place? maybe social chaos? maybe ufo contact? maybe time travel? or maybe its all just wishful thinking? but if thats the case then i want to know why i have these, at times, overwhelming feelings of a desire for a change of pace?

Edited by lmbeharry, 23 April 2008 - 06:15 AM.

[Rosewin]

I would agree lmbeharry. The US is definitely in decline and there are several factors helping this along. China has been an emerging superpower for a while and recently the way they save without spending from all the products they are selling to the US puts the US at a disadvantage. That relationship is also causing the US dollar to further be devalued. Russia is stable but I would consider the EU as the emerging superpower of the continent.

Edited by Clovis, 23 April 2008 - 11:43 AM.

[-Jaded.Silhouette-]

I would have to agree with Imbeharry and Clovis. The only change I see or feel coming is the fall of the United States. If what Imbeharry says about George Bush putting the fall at roughly 50 years, however, that kind of frightens me. I still have more than fifty years left to live, provided the end of the world doesn't come in 2012 like everyone seems to think it will.

Gas prices are high as it is, and before long, there will likely be people who can't get to work because of it, or people who cannot pay other bills or provide food for their families, just because they need a way to get to work. For those who might cry out things like "Take a city bus" "carpool" or "Walk or ride your bike",  it's not that easy. Especially where I live. In a county with maybe ten thousand folks, there are very few people who work in the same place, or if they do, live within a close distance of each other. We do not have city buses: in fact, Little Rock and Hot Springs are the only cities I know of with public transportation. Eureka Springs probably has it too. And riding your bike or walking? Not so easy.

The slipping of our economy and the raising of prices to accompany that is already putting the country in ruin. Here in rural Arkansas, with gas approaching $3.50, you can either put five dollars in your tank and hope you can get back to forth from your home to the local grocery store a few times, or you can buy a gallon of milk without having to run to the nearest Wal-Mart, which is roughly twenty to thirty minutes away, depending on traffic.

[Promethius]

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is it just me or has anyone else been waiting for something monumental to take place? maybe social chaos? maybe ufo contact? maybe time travel? or maybe its all just wishful thinking? but if thats the case then i want to know why i have these, at times, overwhelming feelings of a desire for a change of pace?

Yes! I definitely think change will occur soon, and not a moment too soon!

[Promethius]

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Europe, well Europe in uniting has gotten stronger

I kinda prefered it as it was, the individual countries seemed to have more identity before the EU came rolling in...
I have no reasonable objection to the EU, but some sort of instinct seems to make me regard it with suspicion...

[muddpuppy]

telirium on Apr 23 2008, 07:04 AM, said:

is it just me or has anyone else been waiting for something monumental to take place? maybe social chaos? maybe ufo contact? maybe time travel? or maybe its all just wishful thinking? but if thats the case then i want to know why i have these, at times, overwhelming feelings of a desire for a change of pace?

Off TOPIC...Your avatar is freaky, seriously creeping me out!   LOL what is it?

Edited by muddpuppy, 23 April 2008 - 04:30 PM.

[Bella-Angelique]

Blind Atrocity on Apr 23 2008, 08:00 AM, said:

The only change I see or feel coming is the fall of the United States

Governments fall.

Massive populations with massive resources and massive amounts of weaponry do not fall, they either change their rulers or they go down fighting taking massive amounts of other populations with them.

In a nuclear and advanced bio-warfare age the latter event is not something sane people in the world should wish for.

Hope for an end to corruption and a new government that actually serves the people in the USA and not international investors.

[John from Lowell]

Bella-Angelique on Apr 23 2008, 12:38 PM, said:

Hope for an end to corruption and a new government that actually serves the people in the USA and not international investors.

Yes that is my hope as well. I do think the US recession will effect the global economy. We are a global community even if most of us do not see it that way.

I think the real change will come from the people. They will start to make choices on their own and not as a result of being brainwashed by others. This process will be gradual because it is hard to accept how easily we allow ourselves to be influenced by those who seek power and wealth at our expense.

So as I see it, the recession will be the start of a great awakening for humanity.

John

[Mr.Dot]

Hm, arent they going to turn on the Large Hadron Collider soon? Parhaps something happens then?

[MusicIsLife]

I feel it. Nothing like time travel or anything like that.  But I feel a huge travesty coming along.  Billions of people dying kinda travesty. meh *shrugs* I could just be loopy.  I hope I'm just loopy.

[Promethius]

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Hm, arent they going to turn on the Large Hadron Collider soon? Parhaps something happens then?

I can't remember the exact date but i think it's sometime this year.

WERE ALL GONNA DIE... Or maybe not...  

[jonny b]

telirium on Apr 22 2008, 11:04 PM, said:

is it just me or has anyone else been waiting for something monumental to take place? maybe social chaos? maybe ufo contact? maybe time travel? or maybe its all just wishful thinking? but if thats the case then i want to know why i have these, at times, overwhelming feelings of a desire for a change of pace?

If you are getting a feeling like the winds of change are upon you, It maybe something huge that affects all of human kind, or it maybe just confined to your life only.You just never know till it is upon you.The most likely culprit at this time would have to be another large scale war.

Edited by jonny b, 23 April 2008 - 08:39 PM.

[jonny b]

StagnantTempest on Apr 23 2008, 11:57 AM, said:

I feel it. Nothing like time travel or anything like that.  But I feel a huge travesty coming along.  Billions of people dying kinda travesty. meh *shrugs* I could just be loopy.  I hope I'm just loopy.

hah right after i posted and used the words winds of change i saw your sig.Funny..................................

[BurnSide]

No one knows me on this site anymore.
Before I left I was a very prominant member, and known across this board for my skeptism and enthusiastic logics.

I just spent a year travelling around the world, living in small villages in jungles and mountains, talking with very wise people. And they all say the same thing.
And from everything, everything i've learned while i've been away, from the deepest truths and beginnings of religion to the ultimate change of Age we are about to embrace has convinced me fully. Convinced a man who just a year ago called himself the very definition of Skeptic, that great change is imminent.