Things that are WAAY overdue

[Alphapheemail]

I have been following this thread completely enthralled with the series of ideas that have been discussed. I agree with most, some i have to do some research on what yee all are talking about. kudos

I love hearing about the space program and all of the discoveries that have come forth from it.
However I do think its time that we eradicate world hunger. I mean its been around for HOW LONG?
now I know its not as simple as allocating money... we have seen that.
Its politics of the hungriest nations. It may seem that having hungry people benefit few on the top. This is what saddens me.
The only way i can see to efficiently attempt to solve this is by dramatic population control. Why bring children to the world to be hungry?
Less of us would help the environment as well.

thoughts?

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

I am a dude. And I've got watches, rings, old bracelets and necklaces (the seventies sure were fun!), ID cards, and rare coins. Until I get around to building a safe in a hidden alcove in my study (right after I build my study, I suppose), I gotta put that stuff somewhere!

I'd build the safe at the same time as the study. Less demolishing of stuff you've just build that way

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Speaking of which, something else that's waay overdue: Ditching the whole "jewelry box," "man-purse," "Mars" and "Venus" and "homo" and "straight" and "hit like a girl" and "man hands" and "who wears the pants in this house" load of felgercarb. Check the oven, that one was burnt to a crisp a long time ago.

I think I've jewelry box somewhere.
What is a man-purse?
Mars is the fourth planet of our solar system and Venus is the second. They are also a Roman god and goddess. What is wrong with those two words?
We're all of the genus Homo. It means human.
Standing up straight made our ancestors Homo Erectus.
Hitting like a girl? You shouldn't hit at all...
What are man hands?
I always wear pants, but so does my husband. The cats don't though...
Our oven is filled with pans (lack of other storage space in our tiny huge kitchen). I once turned on the oven without removing the pans, they were just short of being burnt to a crisp (though they were very hot) when I removed them....

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by Alphapheemail

I have been following this thread completely enthralled with the series of ideas that have been discussed. I agree with most, some i have to do some research on what yee all are talking about. kudos

I love hearing about the space program and all of the discoveries that have come forth from it.
However I do think its time that we eradicate world hunger. I mean its been around for HOW LONG?
now I know its not as simple as allocating money... we have seen that.
Its politics of the hungriest nations. It may seem that having hungry people benefit few on the top. This is what saddens me.
The only way i can see to efficiently attempt to solve this is by dramatic population control. Why bring children to the world to be hungry?
Less of us would help the environment as well.

thoughts?

When you start talking about population control, you get into a really dicey area. I, for one, do not want to tell people whether or not they can procreate. I wouldn't have liked it if someone told me I could only have 2 children, then I wouldn't have had Ryleigh who is an absolute blessing from God.

Having said that, I agree that people should be more sexually responsible. If you can't provide for a child, don't have one. I wish it were that simple, but know that it is not. Go back a few posts to Steve's comments about "getting laid every night" and you see an underlying issue. Sex feels good! When you can't control much about your outside environment, that seems to be the only thing you can control. The escape that sex can provide from the realities of life is one of the biggest aphrodisiacs. Thinking about birth control or disease transmittion gets in the way of that euphoric/escapism feeling, not to mention the religious or cultural aspects of birth control.

Bottom line, we're going to have to deal with world hunger another way.

[phenomshel]

Kaz, you said it better than I could have at this time of morning...

[Alphapheemail]

[QUOTE=Sweetpea;494813]
I think I've jewelry box somewhere.
look for the family jewels... and u will find it
What is a man-purse?
A purse covered in testosterone
Mars is the fourth planet of our solar system and Venus is the second. They are also a Roman god and goddess. What is wrong with those two words?
the vowels
We're all of the genus Homo. It means human.
that's the problem
Hitting like a girl? You shouldn't hit at all...
unless u hit a boy
What are man hands?
hands covered in testosterone
I always wear pants, but so does my husband. The cats don't though...
they carry the big stick
Our oven is filled with pans
mine is filled with potential and empty promises

[Alphapheemail]

Originally Posted by kazbates

When you start talking about population control, you get into a really dicey area. I, for one, do not want to tell people whether or not they can procreate. I wouldn't have liked it if someone told me I could only have 2 children, then I wouldn't have had Ryleigh who is an absolute blessing from God.

Having said that, I agree that people should be more sexually responsible. If you can't provide for a child, don't have one. I wish it were that simple, but know that it is not. Go back a few posts to Steve's comments about "getting laid every night" and you see an underlying issue. Sex feels good! When you can't control much about your outside environment, that seems to be the only thing you can control. The escape that sex can provide from the realities of life is one of the biggest aphrodisiacs. Thinking about birth control or disease transmittion gets in the way of that euphoric/escapism feeling, not to mention the religious or cultural aspects of birth control.

Bottom line, we're going to have to deal with world hunger another way.

I agree.. i never said my idea was the solution. But i have been getting laid and have yet to get pregnant. Population control, may have been a wrong term. But prevention it before it happens.
There should have been a birth control pill for men already. Distribute it in the poorest of nations.
I do not see what's wrong with not allowing people who are starving to make more children.

Secondly; hunger should have been eradicated already, but politics do get in the way. I have heard there is not enough food. bollocks! the majority of the homes in the US are stacked with food for at least a cpl of years.

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by Alphapheemail

I agree.. i never said my idea was the solution. But i have been getting laid and have yet to get pregnant. Population control, may have been a wrong term. But prevention it before it happens.
There should have been a birth control pill for men already. Distribute it in the poorest of nations.
I do not see what's wrong with not allowing people who are starving to make more children.

Secondly; hunger should have been eradicated already, but politics do get in the way. I have heard there is not enough food. bollocks! the majority of the homes in the US are stacked with food for at least a cpl of years.

I agree completely. Why is it only the woman should take some kind of chemical to prevent pregnancy? And, frankly, there needs to be better forms of contraceptives that don't have such a huge negative impact on the body.

As someone said in another thread, we also need to kick up the advancements in the medical sciences!

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Alphapheemail

I think I've jewelry box somewhere.
look for the family jewels... and u will find it
What is a man-purse?
A purse covered in testosterone
Mars is the fourth planet of our solar system and Venus is the second. They are also a Roman god and goddess. What is wrong with those two words?
the vowels
We're all of the genus Homo. It means human.
that's the problem
Hitting like a girl? You shouldn't hit at all...
unless u hit a boy
What are man hands?
hands covered in testosterone
I always wear pants, but so does my husband. The cats don't though...
they carry the big stick
Our oven is filled with pans
mine is filled with potential and empty promises

Family jewels? I only have my own. No old jewels in my family...
Yuck!
?? (into the washing machine!)
Hmm, without us humans, there wouldn't be any books!
Not even boys....
Again, yuck! (maybe he should wash his hands?)
No sticks, but they do carry mice.
CAn you eat that?

[Alphapheemail]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Family jewels? I only have my own. No old jewels in my family...

sweet pea.. ur the family jewel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yuck!
That's why they are looked down upon...
Hmm, without us humans, there wouldn't be any books!
not true... the aliens read...
Not even boys....
okokokokok... boy shaped pinatas?
Again, yuck! (maybe he should wash his hands?)
have u seen the way they pee... animals...
No sticks, but they do carry mice.
in catpurses?
CAn you eat that?

only with a cup of disappointment tea....

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by kazbates

Amen!! And the same can be said on the other side of the gender card!

(Hmm... I thought I was including the other side of the gender card!)

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by kazbates

When you start talking about population control, you get into a really dicey area. I, for one, do not want to tell people whether or not they can procreate.

There are lots of things I don't like to have to tell people (as those in this forum might attest*). However, for the world's own good, sometimes you've just gotta stand up and say them.

Negative Population Growth. Starting now, and not to stop until we hit 100 million.

Seriously. You want to solve most all of humanity's problems with one program? That would do it.

*Or not.

[Angst]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Negative Population Growth. Starting now, and not to stop until we hit 100 million.

Yes, that would work. But it's a pipe dream. There is no way to achieve, (or enforce), that option without trampling people's human rights.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by Angst

Yes, that would work. But it's a pipe dream. There is no way to achieve, (or enforce), that option without trampling people's human rights.

I hate to say it... but that doesn't mean it can't be done. And for the record, the whole "trampling people's human rights" thing pretty much breaks down when the food is gone, and the men with guns kick in your door looking for a sandwich.

C'est la vie.

[balok]

Originally Posted by kazbates

there needs to be better forms of contraceptives that don't have such a huge negative impact on the body.!

Yeah, we should be able to spend hours in the sun without getting red-lobstered, and we should be able to eat a bag of cheetos a day and not get fat, and we should be able to breathe under water, but what can I say... that's the way we're made eh?

Maybe we should come to terms with the fact that having sex makes babies. That's the way it is.

[balok]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Negative Population Growth. Starting now, and not to stop until we hit 100 million.

That entails keeping people from having sex or making them take pills to prevent pregnancy. Sounds like tampering with nature to me. Humans are as much a part of the environment as everything else.

Our ability to proliferate is a survival trait that has saved the race more than once in the event of a cataclysm, and a widespread genepool makes for more efficient natural selection.

Curtailing at 100 million sounds like a bad idea. How about putting to work the ingenuity that allowed us to reach 5 billion to find a way to deal with the problems of overpopulation?