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05 Oct 2014, 9:21 pm

Are things just getting worse, even than they are right now?

Is my life being threatened by this changing world? Will I end up dying soon? I always had this fear since the world started going down. I want to get a girlfriend etc. but I'm only 22 and an Aspie. Please help me.



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05 Oct 2014, 11:23 pm

K_Kelly wrote:
Are things just getting worse, even than they are right now?


Your life expectancy decreases fractionally, everyday.

"Life expectancy is a statistical average of the number of years a human is expected to live";
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy



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06 Oct 2014, 12:54 am

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

It is better now than ever before, and the problems of the future are minor, compared to the Black Death, 1918 Flu, and life before AC.

In 1800 London, 90% lived in a poverty you could not imagine. Mostly they lived on Gin, a quart a day per man woman and child, and died at 42. These were the good old days of the British Empire.

Of those going out to support the Empire, half died before they got there, another half from new diseases when they got there, dying of the s**ts was common, and a few even died in battle.

The worst of times is we have more information about what goes on in the world. It seems bad, but the Crusades were worse in the Middle East, and plagues ravaged whole people. Ebola kills thousands, but five million die of the s**ts before five every year, and the death rate in most of the world gets most before fifty. In most of Africa, half are under fifteen, because those older die. They still live more than ten years longer than they used to.

Even the actual Romans, Citizens not the slaves, only lived to 42.

Over the last hundred years, over a hundred million died of famine, in China and the Soviet Union, who kept records, no one kept count in Africa, South Asia, India. Famine got the credit, but most would have died from something else, if they had food.

Now we have AC and Internet.

Being 22, during most of the better times, you would be dead in twenty years. Now, you may live three times that long.

I think that makes up for a lot of our current problems.

We have minor problems, and the ability to learn much more about everything that anyone had before.

My advice, talk to girls, be nice, and and the more bait you put out the more likely you are to get a bite.

All predictions about the end of the world have been wrong, all of them.

Be true to yourself and you will be false to no man,
but wear the best clothes you can, for clothes make the man.

You did not ask to be born, so learn some useful skills, have as much fun as you can, and you are going to die sometime.

Make the most of what you have, and you will have no regrets.



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06 Oct 2014, 7:17 am

Your future is your own,
nobody else can live it
it's like your past ; you own it!


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06 Oct 2014, 7:41 am

K_Kelly wrote:
I always had this fear since the world started going down.


Who told you that the world was going down?
The world isn't going down my friend...

The world is just starting to power up

you are the youth and our future
you are the potential and the realisation


the fear that the world is going down has been a constant fear created by religion ever since religion created itself to create fear

you will find yourself and be allright


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06 Oct 2014, 12:52 pm

I think so about things getting worse not that you'd be dying anytime soon, but that doesn't mean you can't live.....I mean you can worry about dying sooner rather than later, or try and enjoy it while you can(easier said than done for me by far with my depression and PTSD). I mean the state of things in the world certainly does not seem good. Have you worked or are working? If your aspergers or any other conditions you might have prevent you from that then you should apply for SSI so you have something to live on. As for getting a girlfriend, well what sorts of things do you do? perhaps you could find someone with similar interests.

But yeah I myself am trying to find the balance between living my own life and concerning myself about the world around me and how it seems to be going downhill in a lot of ways.


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06 Oct 2014, 1:15 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGYNuoCigGY[/youtube]


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06 Oct 2014, 1:53 pm

LoveNotHate wrote:
K_Kelly wrote:
Are things just getting worse, even than they are right now?


Your life expectancy decreases fractionally, everyday.

"Life expectancy is a statistical average of the number of years a human is expected to live";
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

I don't think that's true. He's still going to live for, say, 80 years, it's just he's lived an extra day in that.



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07 Oct 2014, 7:16 am

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I want to get a girlfriend etc. but I'm only 22 and an Aspie. Please help me.


Now to the crux of it


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07 Oct 2014, 9:41 am

I think it appears things are getting worse really fast.

And part of the reason is because of International news programming, which is so current and often immediately horrifying, it lures you into watching, an old newspaper technique called yellow journalism designed to sensationalise all news and thereby attract subscribers.

It's truly disgusting: Like auto drivers passing an endless series of gruesome accidents along the road and being forced to see each one.

It upsets everyone. The news services should do better IMHO.



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07 Oct 2014, 7:36 pm

syzygyish wrote:
K_Kelly wrote:
I want to get a girlfriend etc. but I'm only 22 and an Aspie. Please help me.


Now to the crux of it


Perhaps this isn't the correct forum for this particular thread?



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07 Oct 2014, 7:51 pm

They sure are. Natural blondes with blue eyes are dying out and I'm not sure how society will survive.


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07 Oct 2014, 8:47 pm

Copious amounts of dye and contact lenses.



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08 Oct 2014, 8:33 am

Who_Am_I wrote:
They sure are. Natural blondes with blue eyes are dying out and I'm not sure how society will survive.


The most racist thing anybodies said on the internet or should I quote Hitler?


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08 Oct 2014, 1:29 pm

syzygyish wrote:
Who_Am_I wrote:
They sure are. Natural blondes with blue eyes are dying out and I'm not sure how society will survive.


The most racist thing anybodies said on the internet or should I quote Hitler?


I took it to be more satire, and am not sure what is exactly racist about implying natual blondes with blue eyes dying out(whether it is for sure true or not I question, but am having difficulties seeing the racism....would it be racist if they said natural brunettes with hazel eyes where dying out? as well.


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08 Oct 2014, 2:40 pm

syzygyish wrote:
...or should I quote Hitler?


Hitler wrote:
Nein! I said get rid of the JUICE! This grapefruit stuff is terrible!
We need Liebfraumilch!