tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post6192315706341623789..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: I Don't Listen to Doom-and-Gloomers Because They're False ProphetsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-27997394294377402252015-10-01T17:56:45.675-04:002015-10-01T17:56:45.675-04:00Simple, all-purpose prediction: Things will get wo...Simple, all-purpose prediction: Things will get worse for a while, and then they'll get better again. Lather, rinse, repeat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-58341906864707621812015-10-01T09:08:05.317-04:002015-10-01T09:08:05.317-04:00You don't understand. I know what I am talkin...You don't understand. I know what I am talking about. The sky is falling. I should know it hit me on the head.Chicken Littlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-11262553611739255672015-09-30T17:18:40.526-04:002015-09-30T17:18:40.526-04:00I used to pay attention to some of the supermarket...I used to pay attention to some of the supermarket tabloids when I was a kid, about how the world was going to end, bat-people, and the like. The I realized all their stories repeated on a 3 month loop, and I saw them for what they really are: cheap entertainment. Carl Sagan is entertainment. "Hey, look at how the world will end THIS week!"Briannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-63526033074299793812015-09-30T15:41:57.203-04:002015-09-30T15:41:57.203-04:00I think your right , everything is Awesome! I think your right , everything is Awesome! miforesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499320518036973108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-48053332343988238822015-09-30T14:26:57.020-04:002015-09-30T14:26:57.020-04:00You may have read/studied Sagan and Ehrlich carefu...<br />You may have read/studied Sagan and Ehrlich carefully, but I know you did not study the Bible carefully, as it shows in your commentary. It takes many years to grow understanding of that Book. <br /><br /><br />Scriptural prophecy has a one hundred percent accuracy rate. So far. Mixing it in with the 'prophecies' of Sagan or Ehrlich or any of the other pseudo-prognosticators is like saying that Andrea Dworkin, Gloria Steinem, and Uncle Bob are all in the same basket because they're 'gender commentators'. Then leaving any distinctions unacknowledged.<br /><br /><br />Prompting the question: why toss something truthful, and even holy, into a pile containing the populist dreck of modern salesmen like Ehrlich? Why this need to degrade the Bible? Could it be because the holy Scriptures of Christ and his (real) prophets detract from Uncle Bob pontificating on what'll happen in the world? Or maybe, like the conspiracy-theory-debunkers, you're just too lazy to do the due diligence of studying and grokking the Bible, and then measuring it against the world to see if, in fact, it is either truth, or false prophecy?little dynamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11380746207592226835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-46547828232864510652015-09-30T13:28:14.434-04:002015-09-30T13:28:14.434-04:00"The fracking energy revolution, combined wit..."The fracking energy revolution, combined with the automation-driven manufacturing renaissance and the fission/fusion energy revolution starting in the next decade will kick that can down the road another 20-30 years. When the debt apocalypse finally does occur, around 2050 or so, we will have 3-D printing, radical life extension, and perhaps some form of molecular nanotechnology that will help us to keep everything going through the transition."<br /><br />Even in the so-called Dark Ages there were a lot of inventions. And these days, science and technology is exploding. We're not going to have another Dark Ages and we're sure not heading toward Mad Max either.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-77283403265145481792015-09-30T13:07:21.619-04:002015-09-30T13:07:21.619-04:00How can there be experts when not a single person ...How can there be experts when not a single person on Earth can make a pencil. <br /><br />And even if you can work up a plausible scenario...to yourself, I keep in mind the words of Bruce Schneier that anyone can build an encryption system they can't break. Generalized, anyone can come up with a disaster they can see a way out of. But neither means that someone else won't see a trivial solution.JK Brownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-42633702569941435412015-09-30T12:17:16.635-04:002015-09-30T12:17:16.635-04:00The only disaster scenario that ever seemed credib...The only disaster scenario that ever seemed credible to me was the debt collapse of the U.S. government, which I expected around 2030 or so. However, I don't even believe in this one, at least for now.<br /><br />The fracking energy revolution, combined with the automation-driven manufacturing renaissance and the fission/fusion energy revolution starting in the next decade will kick that can down the road another 20-30 years. When the debt apocalypse finally does occur, around 2050 or so, we will have 3-D printing, radical life extension, and perhaps some form of molecular nanotechnology that will help us to keep everything going through the transition. <br /><br />Besides, we know from the experience of Weimar Germany what a debt/hyperinflation collapse looks like. A lot of people suffer. But the lights stay on and industrial/technological civilization continues unabated.<br /><br />BTW, by far the best conservative blogger on the net about such things is "AlFin" and his "dangerous childhood" ideas.<br /><br /> https://alfinnextlevel.wordpress.com/kurt9https://www.blogger.com/profile/02101147267959016924noreply@blogger.com