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slightlv

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16. Man is not happy living in paradise.
Tue Sep 10, 2024, 06:34 PM
Sep 10

He has to do something to screw it up. Adam and Eve disobeyed God and gained the ability to think and reason on their own. Our greedy bastards are addicted to money and power, at the expense of everything else. No matter their own children and grandchildren's future.

I used to truly believe that the Christian view that everyone is born corrupted and evil was a really wrong way to believe. That everyone is born in innocence, and that innocence is eventually stripped away and corrupted by the world. Some days, it's hard to hang on to that thought.

This was man trying to best Nature... and that never comes out right. Nature will always win. But man's greed took the tragedy and compounded it time after time. I realize that nuclear energy is seen as a "clean" energy, but I worry when I hear men are building nuclear reactors along fault lines in CA. I mean, in my own innocence of the subject, I consider that to be the height of audacity... of tempting Nature. And totally and completely stupid. Especially with as many shortcuts that are bound to happen in building because of cost overruns.

There are a few things I guess I'm a Luddite about. Genetically modified foods and seeds, nuclear power. These are a few of my least favorite things...

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