Honestly and sadly Ed, if we don’t get our act together on this one, I don’t know what good expanding into the universe will do. Have a wonderful weekend and talk with ya when I get back….SMILES!

From Wikipedia:

“DNA evidence indicates that modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago,[3] and they now inhabit almost every continent, with a total population of over 6.6 billion as of 2007.”

I don’t have a crystal ball but I don’t see any reason to think we can’t last another 200,000 years.

The rate of scientific knowledge is increasing at an ever excelerating pace.
Every year we are gaining a better understanding of the world we live in.

Another trand is that technology is allowing people to exchange information almost instantly. People living thousands of mile apart now talk to each other over the internet. The world is getting smaller. I believe this will breakdown the barriers that seperate us.

Internation trade will result in the nations of the world become more interdependant on each other. The wars of the future may be fought with money, not bombs.

Reason will prevail over the emotions of race, religion and nationalism.

I also believe we will discover how to travel to distant planets and repopulate at least some of the many thousands of “earth like” plants in the universe.

Sounds good to me, but I can only say I hope that it will happen. I really don’t know what is going to next week let alone in 10,000 years.

I will of course be long gone by that time, but the thought does make it easier for me to look forward to tomorrow.

A couple things that I can’t help but comment on here…when you answered b’s questions..If I didn’t know you were a Christian, I would think you were one.

I want war and poverty to end as well, but we both know it won’t, not the way things are now anyway. if people could quit being hung up on the fact that what’s in the Bible is from “God” and just start applying the principles in it…(it’s a start) then I believe that they would see that His ways are best, even if they don’t want to give Him the credit. Yet, they can’t stop fighting long enough to try.

“When we see our neighbors as member of one family….” Perfect! As Christians we do! I know you do too without being one…but I think we have the up on that line of thinking! LOL Blessings to you!

The two primary evils I want to see disappear are war and poverty. That we have yet to create a society that is capable of doing this leads me to believe that significant changes are still needed.

I do think society is working in many respects. I think democracy is a good model. I like the idea of a balance of power between the the branches of the US government, the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial. I like the financial model of Capitalism. I am however prepared to accept any changes that will result in the significant reduction of, or the elimination of, war and poverty.

I believe that people working together can solve any problem. I want to see a global society that is able to remove the barriers of race, religion and nationalism that divide the people of the world and fuel conflict instead of cooperation.

A specific plan on how do this will take someone a lot smarter than me.

My hope is that over the next 10,000 years, maybe longer, we humans can develop a society that does eliminate war and poverty. Where we see our neighbors as members of one family, the human family, and not as Jews or Muslims, not as brown or black, not as Russian or American.

I guess I am asking. Is there anything that cannot or shouldn’t change?