The future of Mankind...

thousands of years of evolution allowed us to adapt to our environment and surroundings. dark skin for sun soaked countries, stockier body types for the colder climates etc.

and then we stopped adapting and started creating the environment around us to suit our needs. buliding skyscrapers, inventing air conditioners etc. interracial relationships have spawned children with the best of both worlds...

but now with technology quickly advancing exponetially, will we start to play god and change our genetic make up so that we are suited to different environments? evolution in a needle perhaps? humans with gills to live and breathe underwater... humans that don't need oxygen to live...

i wish i could be around to see what happens in the next few hundred years.

maybe you will be around in the next couple 100 years to see it happen(refearing to some sort of drug that will extend your life for a few centurays, yet we still wont have a cure for AIDS, and pot will still be ieleagle...

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The future of Mankind...

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...is bleak

i saw a documentary once about a tribe in indonesia that thay can see clear underwater. For thousands of years those people were diving underwater to catch their fish. In the beggining they were seeing everithing blurry but when the years passed their eyes adapted in water and now those people have genetically improved eyes, much better than ours with modified eye-lences that give them the ability to see clear underwater... amazing...

that is amazing.

isn't it weird how evolving even works in the first place? because i mean the people who originally started diving under the water for their fish, were long long long, gone by the time the rest started adapting.... just weird to think how it works....

i think by following the guidelines of our society and doing what is expected of us (get a job, go to work, retire), we're essentially boxing ouselves into a perpetual loop. we need to break the boundaries that are forced on us. only then will our minds and bodies evolve.

There's a whole website dedicated to answering this question.

Future Human Evolution

unfortunatly man will be it's own downfall. Our own ego's and beliefs will cause us to war ourselfs into extinction. Unless evryone and i mean EVRYONE comes to an understanding that THERE IS NO GOD, just humanity, we are god, we are existance. were given a life to live, and a wonderfull world to live it in, and what do we do with it? deforest the land, fight over property, and leave a mess, then move on. we are all the same, wether you live in a castle in paris, or a shack in some ghetto. were people, we love, we hate, we cry, we all want to live life, and be happy.

i find it hard to believe that mankind will drive itself to extinction. it's a cliche line that narrow minded people with no comprehension of the big picture say because well, they can't actually decide for themselves what they think will happen, but rather relay other peoples thoughts and tired "bleak future" predictions.

why do i say that? because it is in every living things nature to fight for survival. and what that boils down to is that even if there is a "nuclear war", or a "killer virus" is unleashed, those who survive and have been warned will find measures to protect themselves and the ones they love.

some people like to bitch and whine about the deforestation of the land, fighting over property, leaving a mess etc, because they think it's harmful to the environment. well heres some food for thought...

this world has been through alot worse than what we're dishing out on it now. but you know what? the environment changes, adapts, just like humans do, just like animals do. as time passes the world continually adapts.

Just because the earth's not the way it was 100 years ago doesn't necessarily mean that it's dying, no matter how many facts and figures they throw out to the public.

what's ironic though is that the lifegiver in our solar system, the sun, will be the one to ultimately destroy earth. as it is dying and we all know what happens when a star dies. expansion, fizz.... there goes earth.

if our society is nearing the height of greed and debauchery, what happens when we can't sink any lower? people will come to realise the futility of war, because if this 'bleak' future is going to happen then we're all going to be affected by war in one way or another on a personal level. if everyone on earth lost a loved one due to war, will we continue fighting? or stop because the pain of loss becomes too much to have to overcome again.

god is about peace. everyone knows that. no matter what god you believe in, what religion you're apart of. it's when our beliefs are pissed on that these wars start. (ain't that the truth). even non religious people have their own faith, they believe there is no god. that's their religion. and they continually torment those who are religious, (and then wonder why there is violence when people defend their beliefs.). they ask religious peopl to prove that there is a god, well, why don't they prove that god doesn't exist?

i was born into a buddhist family, yet i don't think i am religious, although i believe that there is a higher power. something tells me somewhere down the line there will be a convergence between science and religion...

are we capable of destroying our species? yes, but will it happen? no, because even the dumbest individuals have survival hardwired into their brain.