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in the "not...irreversible" category. It would be a mess and it might take a long time, but eventually things would get sorted out, from paper records if necessary.
...If you don't mind my persuing some of your statements, even for an intellectual exercise: i find studying and analyzing and forming predicts exceptional mental stimulation...
ok- here: due to domino effects, how could this be reversed, espically in banking, due to the mountains of docuements that would need to be created? points, e.g., have any idea of how many clerks it would take to write all the necessary records by hand? what about the uncountable billions of past lines that would be lost? how many clerks would come to work under very serious senarios? due to JIT problems with disruptions, how would all these banks even find enough paper and pens, etc? You see, I see an extreme number of permuations possible in any domino senario. You don't like to worry about all these things;
I find them fascinating to explore the potential senarios and permutations possible!
....this perplexes me as you said you know about sytemic/domino effects??? Are you saying you just don't worry about it, or you don't see the potential/probability as I do, for a universally catestropic results from multi-diminsional domino effects?
I'm saying I don't worry about it, not that it won't happen. To me, this is just like the nuclear problem. If we end up with a surfeit of fallen dominos, we're all doomed so why worry. At the risk of oversimplifying, we'll either end up with civilization more or less in place, or we won't. Any problem or combination of problems that results in the latter, is a waste of my life energy.
....which do you think is the more likely senario? and why?
I have excellent analysises/papers on Domino effects- would you like me to post any of them?
Thanks, but no thanks. I've written this one off.
You know, Ken, when we consider things point by point, we don't disagree on much of anything. I wonder why is it that our posts sound so different!
.....You are pretty correct- I think our differences are of degree, rather than kind.
I guess based on my several thousand hours of research, and so many of them extremely pessimistic ones, including a lot of 'insiders' reports (many of which are not hoaxes) and for over a year's time, then seeing how the media, govt and corp spokesindividuals are daily, whether intentionally or not, leading the masses to self-destruction, and the fact we have less than 6 months (and watch HOW VERY QUICKLY THEY WILL PASS) before it hits, I have little tolerance for the "no problem, everyone be happy and prepare for 3 days or not at all, and don't you dare say anything not happy, to wake us up and make us think we will not be really, really happy and the world will always be wonderful' BS from the uninformed y2k-challanged. Like several others here, I see a struggle for absolute survival coming, while others here focus mostly on maliciously initiating personal attacks and advise other INNOCENTS to do things in lieu of rational prep, that may and might get OTHERS KILLED, REAL, REAL DEAD!
p.s. Like baroque music best, Bach of course, and Corelli. Piano from the romantic period and classical guitar. Dislike almost everything written in the last hundred or so years
....What about Shastokovitch, Strauss, Rite of Spring? 50s and 60s great oldies?
(except Berg's Pavane for a Dead Princess). My taste is not very sophisticated and my ear is not very good. RE the former, I like most anything that's heroic and has a melody.
.....then I am amazed you don't like, or perhaps haven't been exposed to the ultimate in heroic themes, and wonderful melodies...
such as Strauss tone-poems, Wagner, Brucker, Mahler !!
If you like heroic, and you haven't gotten or heard these, suggest getting Alpinesymponie and Einheldenleben by Strauss, for starters, and of course, for the penneultimate in heroic stories, almost anything by the Master of Masters, Herr Wagner!
For melody....Bruckner is spectalular...he is known by many as the greatest of the romantic composers!
RE the latter, I can't tell one composer from another.
....You would probably find it very wonderful and stimulating and educational to take a course in the history of classical music, as i did!
p.p.s. I have never eaten a bug, other than the occasional inadvertent gnat, and the prospect is singularly unappealing. If faced with the choice between eating bugs and dying, however, I would find a way.
......when the food chain is disrupted, and there is very little food that will be left out as garbage, all these billions of little buggies will have a quite similiar choice- eating humans or dying...which do you think they'll choose? |
