Would you like to see a world united by the year 2040?

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  1. Cleisthenes.

    Cleisthenes. New Member

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    It's a pretty simple question: Would you like to see the Earth as one nation be the year 2040 or no? If no, comment why please.
     
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    Capitalism Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes, but not in the way you do.
     
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    No. Bigger government is tyranny. Local government is the only way to go. Instead of one huge government we should have even more governments than we have now. Imagine a planetary IRS. My god, that's worse than an alien invasion.

    I have successfully fought and won against local government. You cannot win against the feds. My father testified in a tax case involving a company he had worked for. He testified honestly, of course. The company won their case and my father's taxes were audited every year for over twenty years. When he complained he was ignored. When he complained through is congressman there was a meeting where the Lois Lerner predecessors sneered and said it was just a coincidence that his taxes got audited every year. He never owned taxes but he spent a lot of money on accountants.
     
  4. Arphen

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    As one nation or one country? There is a difference. If it would be one country, it would be very multicolored and very divided by a huge number of features. And most likely with the constant conflicts on various occasions. And yet, Americans would be under great threat
     
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    NO. Having a one world govt would put too much power into the hands of too few people.

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    Why would Americans be under more threat than others?
     
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    No because it means I would have to live through some pretty bad stuff to get there.
     
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    It's simple - because most of the world doesn't like us. They hate us. American stand-up comedian, television presenter and writer Jay Leno once said: "There is a book with a complete list of countries which hate America. It's called: "Big Atlas of the world. " Did you see it?
     
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    No. We'll never get along if the world is united in the short time between now and 2040. Even 2070 is pushing it.

    Now if we're talking about hundreds or thousands of years from now than maybe yes.
     
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    Together? Yes.

    Not united though.......



    Subjugated!

    J/K. ��
     
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    Not just no, but hell no. There is no way a one world government can be responsive enough to the needs of the people.
     
  12. One Mind

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    The only way the world will ever be united is with a change in human consciousness itself, moving away from the ego consciousness that has created this brutal world.

    Now, personally I think this is inevitable, the transformation in human consciousness, as a part of the evolution of the human brain. A mutation is needed. That mutation is possible, but who knows when it will start? Once it does start, it will be like a crystal forming from some catalyst. It will then depend upon the older consciousness dying out as the older people die.

    There is no way possible for any unification without this change in consciousness. Many religions speak of a time when this will happen, like with the return of Christ who will rule on a new earth for a thousand years. Other religions also have this idea inherit in their beliefs. I think man intuitively knows this is in our future, yet we are far away from that today. So something has to happen which will place pressure, in order to bring about the mutation.

    With this mutation we will not see gov't as we have known it to be. The mutation will burn off the dross which inevitably corrupts all gov'ts.
     
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    I would like to the world united....NOW.
     
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    I strongly suspect that the issue of rising ocean levels
    that is threatened by the possible, rather rapid, cracking and
    sliding of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, that is below sea level.....
    and thus especially vulnerable to rapid collapse...........

    will force political leaders to rethink their response to climate change.....
    I am hoping that they will decide that heavy investment in large scale
    desalination of ocean water for agriculture and reforestation projects will
    be a large part of the response that they decide on.

    They will also need to pay Brazil to NOT CUT DOWN THE AMAZON Rain
    Forest......... because we desperately depend on those old growth trees to
    keep the climate somewhat stable......

    Over the past six decades ONE NATION has experienced cooling in its
    climate.

    That same nation also led the world, on a per capita basis in planting trees.....
    and in desalinating ocean water for agriculture, reforestation projects as
    well as for towns and cities.

    Can you guess which nation that was?


    http://www.livescience.com/3276-antarctic-meltdown-flood-washington.html
    Antarctic Meltdown Would Flood Washington, D.C.

    .....

    .......
     
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    National boundaries are false creations that serve only to enhance and protect the power of the ruling elites.

    The US elites have their agenda and Russian elites have theirs. Imagine, as Lennon did, what could happen if the trillions poured into protecting those respective agendas were spent on renewable energies, increasing food production, mass transit, housing, health care, and education.

    No, not by 2040, maybe not till the roached assume their rightful place on this planet.
     
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    I heard a you tube video by a gifted psychic last week in which he predicted that
    the world would now go through a phase that will come to be viewed as the
    Energy Revolution........ He stated that we would soon no longer depend on oil.... but
    that we would largely switch over to a hydrogen based economy.
     
  17. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    Leno is an (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*), that's largely what he calls his "act" Why they gave him the mantle of the Greatest Stand Comedian to Ever Live is beyond me.

    Don't we have a de facto world government now? There are many institutions in the modern world that are International in scope and most nations that exist are dependent on several of them. Corporations are the first to come to mind but by no means the only ones. What we are conversing on presently is another.

    Having a de jure world government by 2040 would be a lot more trouble than it's worth. You still have war under a world government, just like you still have crime and banditry now.
     
  18. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    Where would we get the hydrogen from? Wouldn't we need energy to do that? and where does that energy come from?
     
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    All you need to do is buy everyone a Coke.
     
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    [video=youtube;ib-Qiyklq-Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q[/video]

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    Got me while posting :)
     
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    No.

    There are many reasons to oppose such an idea.

    One of the biggest is that the US and other western nations would be required to pay the cost of such unity bringing all the third world nations up to par with western civilization. While of course refusing to assimilate or adapt western values.

    Wishes for such unity often cloud reality. One of the reasons left wing regressives are always so apologetic about islamic terrorism is that such terrorism clearly indicates that everyone is not the same. Left wingers do not like distinctions between people, and cultures and simply live in denial that they exist
     
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    At the rate things are going, the world will be united by 2040 (or sooner), and run by an axis of Russia/China. Central bankers make poor leaders, but that's what we have had running the "Western World" since Bretton Woods in 1944. It is failing. Badly. But Russia and China are being led by people who are much smarter and much more capable than a gaggle of self-styled, geopolitical 'bean-counters'....

    Parenthetically... how many people even know that Vladimir Putin holds a Ph.D in Economics? And that's just ONE of his core-competencies. :omg:
     
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    No.

    Historically speaking giant multicultural nations (empires really, think Rome) don't last beyond 1000 years (if lucky) in their true form (and I believe we're beginning to see this in the US) because eventually it's simply whittled down to an economic zone essentially full of peoples who hate each other. So there is always a deep irony to all great historical empires in that the very thing that makes them stronger, multiculturalism and influxes of people, also ironically slowly but surely both seals and ensures their eventual future doom and collapse.

    Diversity is one of those duality's where in the beginning it adds some benefits then over time the negatives end up accumulating to critical mass where there is no other option but collapse.
     
  24. Moriah

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    As I think of your response, A random Man, Japan and China and India come to mind. These countries are almost 100% homogeneous. Do you think they have a better chance of survival than the USA?
     
  25. Lil Mike

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    Well there is a cost to be paid for large multi ethnic empires. Because different cultures have ways of life that are largely incompatible, it takes an authoritarian government to keep order and make sure a heavy boot in on the neck of everyone so they don't make trouble. So I would oppose a world government because it would have to be a dictatorship in order to function, and why would anyone want that? Just let every country do things the way they want.
     

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