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15 Dec 2011, 6:52 pm

dmm1010 wrote:

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But where would you be without all the technology? unless you can go out into the wilderness and survive without the use of modern technology you're not actually on top of the food chain.

Our capacity to make fire and to fashion crude weapons such as spears positions us, more or less, at the top of the food chain; and, these aren't exactly what I would call modern technologies.

They are simple technology.....but yes without technology humans are more like the bottom of the food chain.

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15 Dec 2011, 7:01 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:

dmm1010 wrote:

Sweetleaf wrote:

But where would you be without all the technology? unless you can go out into the wilderness and survive without the use of modern technology you're not actually on top of the food chain.

Our capacity to make fire and to fashion crude weapons such as spears positions us, more or less, at the top of the food chain; and, these aren't exactly what I would call modern technologies.

They are simple technology.....but yes without technology humans are more like the bottom of the food chain.

Only when working together are we near the top of the food chain. Even then, the viruses and bacteria that afflict us with disease and eat our dead cells are above us on the food chain. lol

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15 Dec 2011, 7:10 pm

"So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being."

Franz Kafka - Investigations of a Dog

Read this story. It's hilarious.

My interpretation:

Intelligence is overrated. The capacity for introspection, social awareness, and existential angst are a ridiculous curse on mankind. Our insatiable inquisitiveness and hunger for meaning is also self-defeating in the end when we take it too far. We would all be happier if all we ever had to think of was our next meal.

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19 Dec 2011, 7:43 am

The graphics are nice. I especially enjoy the shader effects and it all runs very smooth. The gameplay is abit repetetive and puzzling though. I cant seem to access my HUD so I cant check my objectives.

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19 Dec 2011, 7:57 am

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19 Dec 2011, 8:04 am

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19 Dec 2011, 8:18 am

dmm1010 wrote:

WhiteWidow wrote:

I assume that was a paragraph that re iterated that love makes the world go round?

I think that people should read more and learn the basic concept of economics.

Angular momentum, not love, makes the world go around.

I lol'd.

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19 Dec 2011, 12:44 pm

it appears to me like an immense accumulation of spectacles.

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19 Dec 2011, 11:58 pm

marshall wrote:

WhiteWidow wrote:

I assume that was a paragraph that re iterated that love makes the world go round?

I think that people should read more and learn the basic concept of economics.

Nobody understands economics. A lot of people think they do but they don't really. They just understand whichever dogma suits their fancy.

truman said that if ya lined all the economists end-to-end, they'd still point in all directions.

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20 Dec 2011, 2:27 am

auntblabby wrote:

truman said that if ya lined all the economists end-to-end, they'd still point in all directions.

The version I heard was if you laid out all the economists in a line head to foot you would not reach a conclusion.

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