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Title: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: FlipPro on September 13, 2012, 10:02:24 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/protesters-storm-us-embassy-yemen-084845510.html

I feel something in the air.

I don't know what it is, but it feels "different".

I feel like we are about to experience a paradigm shift.


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: ElectricMucus on September 13, 2012, 10:11:21 AM
I feel something in the air.
Get outside more often.

No we are not at the brink of WW3, last time I checked economically oppressed people in 3rd world dictatorships are still ruled by western sockpuppets and do not have access to aircraft carriers.


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: cbeast on September 13, 2012, 10:14:07 AM
History will probably call these the Abrahamic Oil Wars.


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: hashman on September 13, 2012, 03:11:22 PM
Yes.  War coming from the North.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWHLE3DBs38


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: Monster-Ant on September 13, 2012, 08:50:46 PM
No.



Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: Mageant on September 14, 2012, 01:44:43 PM
No.

Want to start a bet on betsofbitco.in?

 ;D


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: Jermainé on September 14, 2012, 02:03:13 PM
Yes.  War coming from the North.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWHLE3DBs38


Hahahaha +1


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: CJGoodings on September 14, 2012, 03:24:20 PM
History will probably call these the Abrahamic Oil Wars.

I think it will more likely be the Opium Wars.


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: Akka on September 14, 2012, 03:32:18 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/protesters-storm-us-embassy-yemen-084845510.html

I feel something in the air.

I don't know what it is, but it feels "different".

I feel like we are about to experience a paradigm shift.

So this are protesters, having a demonstration.

Against what are they protesting? A Video?

A Video that likely 99.9% of them haven't seen.

Only one word: Religions.


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: theymos on September 14, 2012, 03:36:34 PM
If there is another world war, it will be nuclear. I don't consider this entirely unlikely, since our incompetent, violent governments have lots of nukes...


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: JMAHH on September 14, 2012, 03:37:19 PM
What do you want me to say? Haters gonna hate.


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: SysRun on September 14, 2012, 03:39:55 PM
Hey OP, you might be watching too much TV.


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: myrkul on September 14, 2012, 03:52:23 PM
If there is another world war, it will be nuclear. I don't consider this entirely unlikely, since our incompetent, violent governments have lots of nukes...

Quote
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
--Albert Einstein


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: theymos on September 14, 2012, 04:09:10 PM
If there is another world war, it will be nuclear. I don't consider this entirely unlikely, since our incompetent, violent governments have lots of nukes...

Quote
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
--Albert Einstein

I don't completely agree with that. If all nuclear weapons were unleashed at once it would be doomsday, but I don't think any government has things set up to do that. Full-scale nuclear war would consist of dozens or perhaps hundreds of nuclear explosions at certain strategic points, but an entire country would not be blanketed with explosions. This would result in short-term (a few months) danger from fallout and long-term (decades) economic damage due to "nuclear winter" climate change and illness/death due to the radiation. But we would not need to rebuild civilization from scratch or anything.

I used to kind of hope for a nuclear war because I thought the shakeup might cause positive social change, but I now tend to think that it'd be bad for voluntarism. Probably it would lead to less rational thinking among the populace (due to panic) and a more violent government.


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: thebaron on September 14, 2012, 04:14:04 PM
I feel like we are about to experience a paradigm shift.

Just another excuse for more of our freedoms to be eroded. That's why I'm focusing on BTC now...


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: myrkul on September 14, 2012, 04:26:08 PM
If there is another world war, it will be nuclear. I don't consider this entirely unlikely, since our incompetent, violent governments have lots of nukes...

Quote
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
--Albert Einstein

I don't completely agree with that. If all nuclear weapons were unleashed at once it would be doomsday, but I don't think any government has things set up to do that. Full-scale nuclear war would consist of dozens or perhaps hundreds of nuclear explosions at certain strategic points, but an entire country would not be blanketed with explosions. This would result in short-term (a few months) danger from fallout and long-term (decades) economic damage due to "nuclear winter" climate change and illness/death due to the radiation. But we would not need to rebuild civilization from scratch or anything.

Depends on what you mean by "rebuild." Perhaps not sticks and stones, but in the near-term after full-scale nuclear war, ammunition will be worth it's weight in gold. We'd need to rebuild the industrial base, probably a good chunk of infrastructure, and the social structure would be at best deeply shaken.


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: dank on September 14, 2012, 04:30:39 PM
The change will happen from within, no need for war, it's not happening.


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: CJGoodings on September 14, 2012, 04:34:36 PM
If something like a full on nuclear war were to break out, the survivors would have nothing to look forward to but C.O.G.


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: bitcoinbear on September 14, 2012, 04:45:04 PM
...

[/tinfoil hat]  ... [tinfoil hat].

...


I see your normal state is wearin gthe tinfoil hat, and you took it off for that part of the post  :D


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: phelix on September 15, 2012, 01:01:32 PM
[...]

I used to kind of hope for a nuclear war because I thought the shakeup might cause positive social change, but I now tend to think that it'd be bad for voluntarism. Probably it would lead to less rational thinking among the populace (due to panic) and a more violent government.

Also billions of people dying could easily disturb you.

to OP: I am under the impression too, that some religious people get more and more touchy. Is it because they get access to the internetz and youtubez?


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: hashman on September 15, 2012, 06:06:16 PM

I feel something in the air.

I don't know what it is, but it feels "different".

I feel like we are about to experience a paradigm shift.

We need a trailer park boys clip here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvm-n6gwPCY


Title: Re: Are we at the brink of WW3?
Post by: miln40 on September 16, 2012, 04:56:48 PM
It's a proven fact, exposure to the Internet results in a mild-to-sever case of douchebaggery. Combine that with a fundamentalist religion, and you get gunpowder.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/