[QUOTE=mastermaul;21397780]When did I say it was?
I said that not questioning things is the most idiotic thing a man can do.[/QUOTE]
Question anything you want but the universe.
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Ever hear of scalping?
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Not to mention some of the ancient tribes of Australia.
I think they were war based and ate their enemies.
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;21397715]I doubt a single one of you even read what my post was really saying, you just heard "OMG HE WANTS TO TAEK MY PRESHUS INTERNETS OMGOMGOMG" and didn't think about how this could benefit you.[/QUOTE]
I heard some 16 year old kid who thinks he knows exactly how the world works and exactly how to make it better.
Also it wouldn't benefit anyone.
You would give up after two days.
My idealistic world consists of lots of small city states, towns, and villages existing like they did thousands of years ago but with all the scientific, medical, and technological advances of the modern world.
Except the skyscrapers and stuff I guess.
Think vikings but with internet
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;21397809]Question anything you want but the universe.[/QUOTE]
Since the universe is by definition [I]everything[/I] what you just said is a double negative.
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;21397795]How is it selfish to not want to kill anybody. How is it selfish to not want to fuck up the air we breath. How is it in any way selfish to want a happier life for other people and myself?
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I'm all for a happier life for everyone.
The thing is, a happier life for you is a dead life for a lot of other people.
Those people being patients, people who in future could be treated by medical advancements.
Saying that "Guys we have done enough advancements, lets stagnate into a pile of eco-puss." is selfish and steals from what we could achieve.
God you guys are so afraid of losing your precious possessions.
It's ok though I love you either way and hope you see the right side of things
[QUOTE=Zeke129;21397824]Think vikings but with internet[/QUOTE]
That'd be great. We could scour the earth while listening to [I]Stormwarrior.[/I]
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[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;21397895]God you guys are so afraid of losing your precious possessions.
It's ok though I love you either way and hope you see the right side of things[/QUOTE]
Burn everything you have and live in the woods for the rest of your life.
[I]It's the right side of things.[/I]
Sounds like anarcho-communism. Both are shit ideas.
You have activated my trap card, OP! The tank squadron! I take over your land and kill/enslave your people. Why? Why the fuck not? After all, after some time we can work out a better deal.
I prefer scientific environmentalism.
Environmentalism through scientific advance. Through logic and understanding we can better the world and everything in it. Even going as far as bringing the population of animals that were destroyed by human activity back up.
Science is awesome. It will make everything better. In some cases things have to be bad before they can be good, and I see nothing but good in the future for science.
OP tribal life is not a fantasy.
I'd love to see how happy you'd be if your entire family was killed and you where captured and put into slave labor.
Oh wait caring about your family is materialism so you don't care about them.
Caring about your self is materialism too so I guess you don't care about yourself or your clothes for that matter.
If Humanity didn't progress or if individuals hadn't developed materialism then we would not even have the technology to build spears.
Good luck living the non-sentient life of an upright Ape.
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Hell without humanities natural curiosity to figure out stuff we would not even have a language.
This would also mean you couldn't think.
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And don't tell me that they were provoked, there were a lot of combat based tribes that would have, and did, attack us no matter what we did.
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Better kill em all just to be safe.
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;21397026]It sounds a hell of a lot better than having science do nothing but promote materialism[/QUOTE]
Dear god, its the Unibomber.
Also how would you like being sacrificed to the gods by your own parents?
Your friends and family cheering on as they skillfully rip your still beating heart out, and for the last few seconds of consciousness you reflect and see how truly shitty your life was. Working night and day for a few ounces of grain, the hours of standing still trying to catch a single fish, the deadly trial of killing a Tiger to become a "man" to your fellow tribesman, or even the hours upon hours of gibberish you have to say as the village Shaman.
Yeah being a tribal is not all fun and games. As a matter of fact fun and games are almost non existent in tribal life. Maybe you get to play a little when you're to young to work, but as soon as your able they put you to work in the fields doing back breaking labor for no pay and with no reward at all besides a meal of mushy corn.
Yeah I'd rethink your whole fantasy of being a tribal if I was you.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;21398772]Also how would you like being sacrificed to the gods by your own parents?
Your friends and family cheering on as they skillfully rip your still beating heart out, and for the last few seconds of consciousness you reflect and see how truly shitty your life was.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, during the times when this happened a lot of people believed it was an honour to be sacrificed to the gods and actually volunteered to do so.
[QUOTE=Xystus234;21398768]Dear god, its the Unibomber.[/QUOTE]
Actually its the UNAbomber.
The UNA means UNiversities and Avionics.
Basically because he targeted universities and the aircraft industry.
OP has been watching too much Avatar.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;21398799]To be fair, during the times when this happened a lot of people believed it was an honour to be sacrificed to the gods and actually volunteered to do so.[/QUOTE]
In the case of the Aztecs they used the prisoners (Specifically the ones who where of nobility) as sacrifices.
Many other tribes did the same in much less.... civilized ways.
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Hell one Aztec myth states that the Aztec's where going to ally with this tribe, to honor the agreement the Aztecs kidnapped the kings daughter, skinned her, then wore the skin whole to the meeting. They where promptly chased out of town, so to speak, and created their capital where some bird was sitting on a cactus (Why there's a cactus in the middle of a swamp is beyond me.).
[QUOTE=Kyle902;21398816]In the case of the Aztecs they used the prisoners (Specifically the ones who where of nobility) as sacrifices.
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I didn't say them all, I'm referring more to early European tribes.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;21398816]They where promptly chased out of town, so to speak, and created their capital where some bird was sitting on a cactus (Why there's a cactus in the middle of a swamp is beyond me.).[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/faculty/hodgson/Courses/so191/Projects2007/Borello/October16/Mexican_Flag.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Zeke129;21398886]I didn't say them all, I'm referring more to early European tribes.[/QUOTE]
Well early European tribes had the habit of going to the neighboring village and stealing the food, women, and children. They used the children for slavery, fucked the women until they died, and ate the food(And possibly the children.).
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[QUOTE=lulzbocks;21398912][img]http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/faculty/hodgson/Courses/so191/Projects2007/Borello/October16/Mexican_Flag.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Funnily enough Mexico city is on top of the former Aztec capital.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;21398922]Funnily enough Mexico city is on top of the former Aztec capital.[/QUOTE]
Yeah the lake dried up right?
[QUOTE=lulzbocks;21398944]Yeah the lake dried up right?[/QUOTE]
Either that or thats why the water in Mexico is so bad.
OP reminds me of this,
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/user104135_pic6864_1270668220.jpg[/img]
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