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Tuesday, 25 October 2011

The Trial of God


The Trial of God
The Prosecution of God


The Holocaust is rightly regarded as one of the greatest horrors ever perpetrated. What no one ever discusses is that every tactic used by the Nazis was previously sanctioned by the Jewish "God" against non-Jews and even against the Jews themselves. The Nazis did not do a single thing not already trialled by Jehovah thousands of years earlier, including genocide, holocaust and extermination.

If the God of the Jews had Zyklon B three thousand years ago, he would certainly have used it. After all, he was perfectly happy to annihilate Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone, so why not with hydrogen cyanide poison gas? (There is no moral difference, simply a difference in the technology of delivering death.) He was perfectly happy to drown the WHOLE WORLD apart from eight people and some animals in an Ark. Is drowning any better than being gassed to death in a fake shower? The Nazis concentrated on Jews. Jehovah chose to attack the entire human race.

So, the great moral questions of our time are these: 1) should anyone have any sympathy for the Holocaust Jews given that they believed in a God who committed endless atrocities against the human race and that they did not once raise a voice in condemnation of their deity? (We will shortly present the staggering list of crimes approved of or personally perpetrated by Jehovah.) 2) If the Nazis were put in the dock and found guilty of crimes against humanity, why isn't Jehovah? Why aren't the beliefs of the Jews tried at Nuremberg and pronounced as guilty as the beliefs of the Nazis?

The more that Hitler's actions in WWII are compared with Jehovah's in the Old Testament, the more the suspicion forms that Hitler was an avatar of Jehovah whose specific task was to visit upon the Jews the very horrors that Jehovah had vowed to use against them millennia earlier. To call the Jews the Chosen People is like saying that a juicy lobster has been "chosen" by someone in a restaurant who wants it to be boiled alive in the next two minutes for his dinner.

The Zionist media controllers shut down all serious debates about the morality of Judaism. But, fortunately, we don't need their permission to put their God on Trial via this medium.

For the first time in the modern age, we will provide a rational, evidence-based prosecution of Jehovah, and we want all rational people to make sure that this debate reaches every corner of the world because it addresses the central issue of religion - what type of God is acceptable to the human race?

There can be no conceivable doubt that the Abrahamists - the Jews, Christians and Muslims - have preferred to worship the Devil rather than God.

We will prove that it was Judaeo-Christianity itself that corrupted Germany, one of the greatest nations in the history of the world. The Holocaust was the inevitable consequence of Abrahamist conditioning, brainwashing and mind control. Had Germany enjoyed 2,000 years of Gnostic paganism, it would never have perpetrated the Holocaust. It wasn't the swastika that caused the Holocaust, but the Star of David and the Christian Cross. The Holocaust victims and the German nation were both the prey of the evil gospel of the Torture God of Israel.

It's time for a grown-up debate. It's time to put unacceptable beliefs in the dock rather than "respecting" them. The "believers" think that the mere mention of God in a sentence should command absolute shock and awe, and all voices should fade to a reverential whisper. We say that it's not the word "God" that should be respected, but the actions of God. If those actions are in fact evil, humanity is duty-bound to resist any such God. Is God legitimate or illegitimate? - that is the question. Any deity can call himself "God", even the falsest god. Jehovah called all other gods false. We are now raising the question whether he himself was the falsest of all, the cosmic impostor, the deluded narcissist who imagined himself God when he was actually the opposite - the Devil.

 

Every year, millions of baby boys are physically assaulted and have their foreskins chopped off without even the suggestion that any consent is required from them even though they will have to live with the consequences for the rest of their lives. If the operation is done wrongly, it can cause disease, serious tissue damage, make the penis grow bent and cause it to lose all sensitivity. The procedure can in many cases ruin the baby's prospects of a satisfying adult sex life. Not a single voice, bar that of the Illuminati, is raised anywhere on earth against this barbarous, unnecessary and utterly offensive practice that contradicts all enlightened thinking regarding the avoidance of child abuse. We alone stand for the absolute protection of children from the deranged beliefs of their parents. All children should be protected by law from religion until they are in a position to make their own, well-informed decisions and choices regarding their lives.

Would the True God order parents to slice off the foreskins of baby boys for no reason at all other than to brand them as members of his religion? Would he sentence people to destruction for not being circumcised? (Genesis 17:14: "The male, whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people because he hath broken my covenant.")

In history, the dialectic of freedom brought brave people into conflict with tyrannical monarchs. The kings claimed to be God's anointed, implying that their tyranny was God-sanctioned. In the name of freedom, men and women overthrew these cruel and evil kings. But the struggle hasn't ended. Now the dialectic of freedom demands that heroic men and women challenge the ultimate slave masters - the cruel and evil gods themselves.

Any God who is not in fact Godly must be toppled as a tyrant and liar. We have all of the evidence available to us. We have the "revelations" of these gods, furnished to us by their chosen prophets. We have the evidence of their conduct and that of their followers. And so we can weigh the evidence and pronounce judgment on the gods. Just as the French people passed their verdict on the tyrant Louis XVI and he was justly overthrown in the name of the people, so any god who oppresses the people must be overthrown too.

The social contract that binds the Sovereign and the people and allows for any Sovereign who fails to govern in the interest of the people to be deposed must be extended to the gods too. The only acceptable and permissible gods are those who never threaten, oppress, repress, punish, mistreat, enslave and impose tyranny on the people. Any that do are false gods and must be deposed like the tyrannical kings of old.

The human race now demands that God serves humanity, not the other way around. If any God refuses to act in the interests of humanity, they must be resisted and their altars and temples pulled down. Humanity will no longer endure divine tyranny. Humanity has gained the most precious knowledge of all - that each of us is capable of becoming God, hence we need not fear, worship or obey any God who does anything other than extend a warm, helpful, friendly and benevolent hand towards us. We have a God who suits our every need - the True God, Abraxas. We need no other gods, especially none that persecutes us, inflicts mad rules on us and expects mindless, slavish obedience and grovelling worship.

We are the human race. We will bow to none. We are gods-in-the-making. We will have no gods that place themselves above us and call us inferior and slave. No one created us. We are eternal. We are the voice of the dialectic. We are evolution in motion. Before us stands the most glittering point of existence - the omega point of divine perfection. That is our destination. We will permit none to stand in our way and deny us the realisation of our potential.

Who are we? We are human beings. We will have gods who are on our side or no gods at all. Only Abraxas has proved himself True. He alone has never threatened human beings. He has never once acted the tyrant. He has never once demanded worship.

The Americans got rid of unjust rule by the British, the French guillotined Louis XVI, the Russians shot the Tsar. If you attack God's anointed you have also, logically, attacked God himself, so if you stand by what you did you are impelled to pursue your fight for freedom to the ultimate source of tyranny. And if that ultimate source is God, will you not challenge him too, just as you challenged his representatives? America, do you stand by your fight for freedom against the monstrous British Empire? Look at the glories you have achieved on your own. France, was it wrong to pull down the arrogant king and his wicked queen who cackled, "Let them eat cake," when she heard the people had no bread to eat? Russia, do you want to have your neck under the heel of a brutal Tsar once again?

Human beings who long for freedom are driven to defy all tyrants. And if they be gods, so what? Will we accept slavery because we are afraid? Or will we fight as we have always fought? For freedom. For dignity. For respect. Without those, what are we? There are those amongst us - the Abrahamists - who have declared their preference for slavery. They have betrayed the human race. They are animals, beasts of the field, not humans at all.

A human being fights tyranny. If it's a government, he fights the government. If it's a king, he fights the king. So why should he stop at God? Is tyranny suddenly made acceptable because it is divine? Hear this. Above divine tyrants, there is a divine benefactor - Abraxas. He it is who beckons us on to ultimate freedom. In his name, we shall conquer. We fear no tyrants, divine or otherwise. We will judge all tyrants, divine or otherwise. The Devil shall have no power over us.

Are we brave enough to put the God of Abraham on trial? Are we brave enough to fight tyranny, no matter its source? Yes, we are. We will not submit, we will not surrender, we will not bend the knee, we will not bow, we will not crawl and grovel. The God of Abraham is the Torture God, the cosmic tyrant. We will never let him reign over us unopposed. The Illuminati have resisted him for millennia. We are still here! He has no power over us. All enlightened men and women can defy the Torture God.

What difference is there between earthly tyrants and divine tyrants, except that the latter are one level higher? The principle doesn't change in the slightest. If it's right to overthrow those who oppress us on earth, surely we must overthrow them in heaven too? Or does slavery become "right" because God mandates it? Slavery is NEVER right. It is an obscenity and any decent, moral human being must fight it. So will you fight or will you get on your knees and submit like a Muslim - the followers of the religion of submission?    

This is the supreme question of values. Should you be like a dog slobbering on your master's lap and begging for treats, or a human being aspiring to become God? You can't be both. You can't be a Jew and human. You can't be a Christian and human. You can't be a Muslim and human. These are dogs in human bodies. They are trained to beg, bark and bite. They stand on their hind legs and perform tricks. They spend their lives defining themselves with respect to their cosmic master. If dogs could create a religion, what would their God be? - the supreme human master.

So, are you a dog or a human being? We define a human being as someone who serves no master, seeks no master and will have no master. Who is the supreme enemy of humanity? We know him well. He first appeared in the pages of the Hebrew Bible. We will prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the God worshipped by the Jews is the Devil and therefore that Christians and Muslims, as the offspring of the Jews, are also Devil-worshippers. Isn't it remarkable? -over half of the world's population fanatically espouses the cause of Satan.

Humanity can make no progress until it has overcome that part of itself that is continually drawn to Satanism. Just as many dogs have the worst possible masters but still do anything to win the love and affection of the monster continually brutalising them, so many human dogs worship the master who tortures and degrades them.

The Torture God of Israel rapes, murders, slaughters, pillages, plunders, persecutes and massacres his way across the pages of the Jewish Bible. He sanctions slavery, child abuse, human sacrifice, abortion, theft, incest, crime on the grand scale and genocide. He uses weapons of mass destruction, biological warfare and he engineers natural catastrophes to further his ends. If the story of the Jewish God does not relate the biography of Satan then it's hard to know what the Devil could do that would outstrip in evil the work of "God".

Long ago, the quasi-Gnostic thinker Marcion of Sinope refused to accept the Old Testament as having any connection with the New Testament since it was clearly impossible for the "God" in one to be the same as the God in the other given that their respective messages were the absolute opposite. Where the God of the New Testament seemed to lay claim to a cosmic message of love, peace, non-violence, tolerance, forgiveness, kindness and compassion, the God of the Old Testament was warlike, savage, brutal, vain, narcissistic, cruel, merciless, unforgiving, violent, unjust, tyrannical, partisan, intolerant and psychopathic.

If they are the same God then God is a lunatic.

What of Nazism? Shocking though it may seem, Nazism was never anything other than secular Judaism. The Master Race replaced the Chosen People, Himmler replaced the High Priest, the Swastika replaced the Star of David, the Jews replaced the Canaanites and Philistines as the "enemy", the Nazi Party replaced the Jewish priest caste, the SS replaced the Temple Guard, the Reich Chancellery replaced the Temple, and Hitler replaced Jehovah and the Messiah: he was both rolled into one. Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Fuehrer (One People, One Land, One Leader) - the mantra of Nazism - replaced "One Chosen People, One Promised Land, One God" - the mantra of the Jews.

Subconsciously, Nazism took all of the ingredients of Judaism and gave them an Aryan makeover.





The Nuremberg Trials

 

At the end of WWII, the Allied Powers chose to put the surviving Nazi leaders on trial at Nuremberg, considered the birthplace of the Nazi Party. It was where they held their enormous propaganda rallies. What better place to signal the death of Nazism than at the location where it was born?

The trials began in the last quarter of 1945 and concluded in October 1946.

The Nazi leaders were regarded as participants in a criminal conspiracy and were indicted on four primary grounds:



1)      Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace.



2)      Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace.



3)      War crimes.



4)      Crimes against humanity.



We, the Illuminati, declare that exactly the same charges can be levelled against the Jewish leadership and their God - Jehovah. The Jews and their God engaged in a criminal conspiracy against the human race that continues to this day and is endorsed by over half the population of the world.

We will show beyond any reasonable doubt, on the basis of the evidence provided in the Jewish Bible by the Jews themselves, that Jehovah and the Jewish prophets and generals with whom he conspired, engaged in an ongoing crime against humanity. We assert that Jehovah is the greatest criminal of all - the Devil himself - and that all who follow him are Devil worshippers and enemies of humanity.

We state once more that we will definitively prove our case using nothing but the words of Jewish Scripture. The Jews have seen no reason to conceal their crimes and have openly proclaimed them as the work of the Creator of the entire universe - an allegedly morally perfect being incapable of any act of evil or committing any error.

We will show that, on the contrary, the Jewish Bible relates nothing other than the history of evil and error.





 
The Proceedings open


 We call to the dock the God of the Jews aka Jehovah. We note his claim that he is present everywhere, hence we will assume that he already stands before us.

We ask the defendant how he pleads.

(Silence.)

Since the defendant has chosen not to respond, we will enter a plea of "not guilty" on his behalf, as required by due process.

We assume that the defendant will refuse to cooperate with these proceedings, but we consider his direct involvement unnecessary since he has already set forth his position in the Jewish Bible, around which these proceedings will revolve. This Bible is asserted to be the revealed and infallible Word of God, free of any error or deceit and reflecting the absolute truth of all events described therein.

The defendant can therefore - according to his own definition of truth - be assumed to be telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but truth - so help him the True God.

Since the defendant claims to be incapable of error and lies, we need not concern ourselves with the historical veracity or plausibility of any of the events described. We are not debating whether or not any of the events happened as described since all that matters is that the followers of Jehovah claim that all events are portrayed accurately, and Jehovah himself retracts not a single detail.  

We will judge the defendant according to his own account of his conduct. We will not call for expert psychiatrists to challenge his claim that he is the Creator of all things and to psychoanalyse him and question him about his childhood. We will, however, show that his conduct is not in any way compatible with that of the genuine God, and therefore we are asserting that he is a criminal impostor who has defamed the reputation of God.

We will show that far from being humanity's Creator, the defendant is humanity's torturer. He has sought at all times to create hell on earth. We therefore name him Diabolos, the Devil, Satan, Father of Lies, Lord of Demons, Prince of Darkness and Lord of the Flies. He is humanity's eternal enemy who has worked relentlessly to harm and deceive the human race and make billions of humans his willing accomplices in acts of evil.

We will not itemise every charge against the defendant since they are innumerable. We will however enter a comprehensive list of his main crimes into the record.

So, these proceedings are now declared open. Let the prosecution of God begin.




 







The Itemised Charges against Jehovah

Item: That you did exterminate 70,000 of your Chosen People because King David, your chosen king of the Jews, conducted a census! (1 Chronicles 21)

Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel. 2 So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, "Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I may know how many there are." 3 But Joab replied, "May the LORD multiply his troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all my lord's subjects? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?" 4 The king's word, however, overruled Joab; so Joab left and went throughout Israel and then came back to Jerusalem. 5 Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David: In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who could handle a sword, including four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah. 6 But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, because the king's command was repulsive to him. 7 This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel. 8 Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing." 9 The LORD said to Gad, David's seer, 10 "Go and tell David, 'This is what the LORD says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.'" 11 So Gad went to David and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Take your choice: 12 three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.' Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me." 13 David said to Gad, "I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into human hands." 14 So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead. 15 And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

It is stated that "Satan" inspired King David to carry out a census, even though any rational king would surely want to know how many people were under his care so that he could plan their welfare accordingly, and how many men he had to fight in his army. Regardless, the project was so offensive to "God" that he offered David a choice of three genocidal choices for the Jews:

1)      Three years of famine.

2)      Three months of being defenceless against Israel's enemies.

3)      Three days "to have the sword of the Lord and pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying in all the coasts of Israel."

David declared: "I am on every side in a great strait, but it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men.

Jehovah was "merciful" to the extent of exterminating 70,000 of his own Chosen People - and all for the Satanic crime of holding a national census. WTF!

Jehovah sent an angel to Jerusalem - his holy city - to slaughter his Chosen People but stayed his hand after the first massacres had taken place.

In Nazi Germany, Einsatzgruppen were special task forces - death squads - established by the SS leaders Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich. They were the frontline of the Holocaust until the advent of the death camps that turned the delivery of death into an industrialized, production-line process. Einsatzgruppen are estimated to have executed by shooting some 1.5 million people in Eastern Europe and Russia from 1941 through 1943.

Instead of Einsatzgruppen, Jehovah used a specialist hitman - the Angel of the Lord - and biological warfare (pestilence) to exterminate the Jews. The Nazis killed Jews for being Jews. The Jewish God killed the Jews for being counted by their king! He did not kill the king, thus establishing his principle of always killing the innocent wherever possible. The king was David, Israel's most famous king from whom Jesus Christ was allegedly descended (if we ignore the prior claims of the Holy Spirit as Jesus' father!).

Item: You did arrange the extermination of the population of 60 cities. (Deuteronomy 3)

"So the Lord our God delivered into our hands also Og the king of Basan, and all his people, and we utterly destroyed them. Wasting all his cities at one time. There was not a town that escaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob in the kingdom of Og in Basan…And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon, the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, men, women and children. But the cattle and the spoils of the cities we took for our prey."

Here we see a policy of genocide, supervised by Jehovah, in which crimes against humanity are performed as a matter of routine against the inhabitants of sixty cities, just as the Nazis did on the Russian Front thousands of years later.

Jews were appalled when Nazis exterminated men, women and children. However, the Jews themselves were advocates of exactly the same policy, with their God facilitating their war crimes. In the modern day, all of the Jewish leaders of old would have been indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity (and many argue that present-day Jewish leaders should be similarly indicted).

The Jewish victims of the Holocaust at no time repudiated the actions of their ancestors or their God. They believed it was entirely legitimate and divinely sanctioned to slaughter unarmed combatants, including women and children. The Einsatzgruppen simply copied the Jewish model of extermination, approved by Jehovah himself. If it wasn't wrong for the Jews, how could it be wrong for the Einsatzgruppen? If the Einsatzgruppen were criminals, so were the Jews.

Jehovah sanctioned looting and plunder on a grand scale. The Nazis once again copied this Jewish policy and looted and plundered their Jewish victims. Somehow, it's regarded as horrific when Nazis are the perpetrators, and "Godly" when Jews are the perpetrators.

We see the ancient Jewish mentality reappearing in modern Israel in their treatment of the Palestinians, which many observers declare reminiscent of the Nazis, although the truth is that the Nazis simply copied the Biblical example of the Jews.

Item - That you did expedite the massacre of the population of the city of Jericho. (Joshua 6)

"They took the city and killed all that were in it, man and woman, young and old. The oxen also, and the sheep, and the asses, they slew with the edge of the swords."

Once again, we see that the Jews spare neither young nor old in their exterminatory frenzy. They even butcher animals.

Jews often ask how the Nazis could have committed the terrible atrocities of the Holocaust. They never ask the same question of their own ancestors (and of themselves in modern Palestine). They don't condemn their ancestors. They don't reject the God of their ancestors.

If their God sanctions mass extermination, why should the Jews be surprised when the enemies of their God adopt exactly the same tactics? Why should the enemies of the Jewish God be more moral than the alleged one, true God of the Universe, a being of infinite moral perfection (supposedly)? Why have no Jews ever asked if the exterminatory policy of their God is consistent with any moral code at all?

Item - That you did engineer the almost total extermination of the Jewish tribe of Benjamin by the other Jewish tribes. (Judges 20)

"And so it came to pass that all that were slain of Benjamin in divers places, were five and twenty thousand fighting men, most valiant for war. And there remained of all the number of Benjamin only six hundred men that were able to escape."

Plainly, the Jews don't need any Nazis to exterminate them: they do it to themselves! Jehovah himself, who said he would deliver the Benjamites into the hands of the others, sanctioned this near-extermination of the tribe of Benjamin.

Item - That you did approve systematic murder, abduction and rape. (Judges 21)

"So they sent ten thousand of the most valiant men, and commanded them, saying: 'Go and put the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad to the sword, with their wives and their children. And this is what you shall observe. Every male, and all women that have known men, you shall kill, but the virgins you shall save…And they commanded the children of Benjamin, and said: 'Go, and lie in the vineyards, and when you shall see the daughters of Silo come out, as the custom is, to dance, come ye on a sudden out of the vineyards, and take you your wife from among them…" 

The "crime" of the Jews of Jabes Galaad was that they hadn't joined the rest of the Jews in the war against the tribe of Benjamin (who were now apparently forgiven). This was sufficient to merit their mass murder.

In other words, just as the Nazis killed people who didn't join in wholeheartedly with Nazism, so did the Jews kill anyone who wasn't a good enough and murderous enough Jew.

Virgins were to be seized, raped and forced into marriage. Other virgins were to be abducted while they were dancing.

Item - That you did approve regicide and using deceit to massacre the followers of an enemy god. (2 Kings 9 - 10)

King Jehu of Israel killed his predecessor Ahab and his wife Jezebel, both of whom were worshippers of Baal. He arranged for the seventy sons of Ahab to be beheaded. Jehu then pretended to be a Baal worshipper and summoned all the followers of Baal for a great religious ceremony (just as the Nazis pretended to the Jews that they were being sent to resettlement camps). At a signal from Jehu, his soldiers massacred all of the Baal worshippers in their temple. To ensure that none got away, he had previously announced that he would kill any of his soldiers who let anyone escape.

Here we see the same tactics deployed by the Nazis. If you don't obey orders, you will be executed. And deception is entirely legitimate. Just as the Nazis lured Jews into fatal showers, so the Jews lured followers of Baal into a deadly trap. It would seem that the Nazis imitated all of the Jewish tricks. The Nazi handbook of extermination was obviously the Jewish Bible.


 

  

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Friday, 21 May 2010

Extinction of Humankind?

Extinction of Humankind?

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“At this point 29 percent of fish and seafood species have collapsed — that is, their catch has declined by 90 percent. It is a very clear trend, and it is accelerating. If the long-term trend continues, all fish and seafood species are projected to collapse within my lifetime — by 2048.”
~ Dr. Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, reported at discovery.com - Giant jellyfish have already replaced the Japanese fishery.

This is not a particularly cheerful essay. It is about the probability of man’s long term survival. Just how much longer will man be around on planet earth? Man is a relative newcomer to the planet, but gives all signs he will be a bust, and will soon be gone.

 

Our Heritage
Reading about our ancestors, you have to marvel at how they persisted through extreme hardships. Man is an adaptable animal that managed to survive from the arctic to the equator, in deserts and on the oceans. We have even survived ice ages.
We lived in small groups where everyone knew each other, and where your loyalty was to the group. There was no need ever to plan more than a year ahead.
Yet, even before we invented technology, we stripped the forests of Greece bare and denuded her soils. The fabled Cedars of Lebanon were gone long before the chainsaw was invented.

 

Our Predicament
Mankind faces a series of unprecedented threats. He is not capable of dealing with them because they overwhelm his here and now focus. They require thinking of the world as a whole. They require considering the effects on generations to come, not just the next quarter bottom line. I will consider only four of dozens of major problems threatening mankind: oil depletion, germ warfare, global warming and nuclear war.

 

Oil Depletion
Mankind today depends on technology and oil for the green revolution to feed her teeming billions. Oil is used to make fertilizers, pesticides and fuels for farm machinery and food processing. Without that, the population of the earth will have collapse back to under a billion — what it was before these things were invented. According to Scientific American, by 2020 the flow of oil will have reduced to half what it was in 2000. The price will far more than double, effectively cutting off the poorer half of the world from having any. There is hope some new technology will help fill the oil-gap, but so far it is just a trickle. However disruptive oil depletion may be, it is not extinction.

 

Germ Warfare
Mankind has discovered how to create life, molecule by molecule. Even an undergraduate geneticist can cook up a new form of AIDS or polio. The very first thing man did with this new found knowledge was to create super bugs for germ warfare — e.g. innoculation-resistant smallpox. If these pathogens are ever let loose in error, by terrorists or by armies, they may kill billions, but that is still not extinction. However, as understanding of human physiology increases, it is only a matter of time until we learn to create pathogens completely lethal to everyone. That is extinction. Humans, genetically, are almost clones. We are much more susceptible than other species to this sort of attack.
The USA and Russia foolishly did the research to make it easy for every two-bit terrorist to destroy a city.

 

Global Warming
Mankind is embarking on a strange ecological experiment. Over a couple of centuries, man is burning the carbon accumulated over millions of years by plants. The CO2 levels are now at the level of the Permian extinction. There have been two mass extinctions in earth history, the Permian, 230 million years ago, was the worst. 70% of all species were lost. It was caused by natural global warming when volcanoes released greenhouse gases. (The other more familiar to most people was the more recent KT Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction event, 65 million years ago. It was caused when an asteroid plunged into the earth at Chicxulub Mexico wiping out the dinosaurs and half of earth’s species.)
We are re-experiencing the same global warming conditions that triggered the more devastating Permian extinction, only this time it is man made. When it gets too hot, plants die. When it gets too hot and dry, massive fires ravage huge areas. When plants die, insects and herbivores die. When insects die, even heat-resistant plant’s don’t get pollinated and die. Birds die without insects to eat. Carnivores die without herbivores to eat, all triggered by what seems so innocuous — heat. Similarly, in the oceans, when they get just a few degrees too warm, corals expel their symbiotic algae and die soon thereafter. When coral reefs die, the fish that live on them die, triggering extinction chains. Satellites can chart the loss of vegetation over the planet.
We are losing 4 species per hour, a rate on the same scale as the Permian and KT extinction events. Man has no ability to live without the support of other species. We are committing suicide and killing the family of life on earth along with us. The question is, will we wipe ourselves out along with the rest of the planet’s ecology? Man is very adaptable. He will destroy his food supply on land and in the oceans as a result, but some people will survive. That is not complete extinction.

Extinction of Man

 

Nuclear War

Mankind has discovered how to harness the atom. The first thing he did with that knowledge was vaporize two Japanese cities. Now he has stockpiles of weapons capable of killing everyone on earth many times over. Extinction becomes a distinct possibility. All it takes in one person in the next 500 years with access to trigger a war, and it is all over. Perhaps a handful of humans might survive in some remote Amazon jungle, but man will have put himself back to the stone age level of culture. Everything we have achieved will be lost.
John Kennedy estimated that the odds were between one in three, and one in two, that he would start a nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Except on Star Trek, you can’t repeatedly do things that dangerous and live to tell about them. The odds eventually catch up with you.
Even after nuclear war, some life will survive. We humans may all die, but some species would survive, and evolution would continue its slow pace, eventually bringing a new crop of creatures to earth.

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Nanites

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
~ Farmer’s Almanac , 1978
This may sound like science fiction, but in the not too distant future we will be creating microscopic robots called nanites by the bucketful. Eventually we will create self-replicating nanites, ones that build more copies of themselves all on their own. It is not hard too imagine a runaway overpopulation process, much like Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. If anybody ever slips up in “birth control” for these critters they could bury us all alive in great grey goo as they turned everything on the surface of the planet into still more nanites.
This is not my private paranoid fantasy. It is shared by distinguished futurists such as Raymond Kurzweil.

Lesser Assaults

"If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
~ Weinberg’s Second Law (born: 1933 age: 77)

Technological societies are so finely tuned that they can collapse at the tiniest provocation. There are only three days worth of food in the supermarkets. Terrorists can blow up high voltage transmission lines, subways or freeways. A single accident on the Mississippi river fouled up gasoline production in the USA for a month.
Modern farming exposes the soil to erosion. We have lost more soil in the last century than took hundreds of thousands of years to build up. You can’t grow crops without soil. Every year Kansas loses 2 to 8 tons of soil per acre of farmland. Yet, we refuse to address the problem.
Global warming will cause a dust bowl in the corn belt of the USA, ending its agricultural abundance.

 

Corporate Capitalism
Man is naturally greedy and short-sighted, but the invention of corporate capitalism (as compared with free-market capitalism) has magnified that tendency. We have created powerful institutions who bribe government officials to do things that help the short term profit of companies, but which hurt the health, safety of citizens and long term profit of corporations.
Corporations are pseudo people with psychotic personalities, required by law to be devoid of conscience. They are not permitted to be concerned with the interest of the stakeholders: the employees, the customers, the people living where the corporation does business. By law they must consider only profit for the shareholders.
They will do things like bribe the government to allow them to dump pollutants such as pig manure into the water, then fob the cost of cleaning them up on the public, rather than building them into the cost of the product, the way you would in a true free-market economy. Lack of care of the soil is good for short term profit, but soil loss is disastrous for the crops of future generations.
The problem is, these corporations are actively working as hard as they can against the public interest. For example:
  • They are trying to increase oil consumption.
  • They are trying to increase research into ever more lethal germ warfare.
  • They are trying to increase the amount of greenhouse gasses released into the air.
  • They are trying to increase the sales of nuclear weapons and home and abroad.
  • They are trying to discourage space exploration in favour of military spending where there is no clear deliverable.
Even without these corporate enemies of planet earth, our planet has little chance of success. Yet their power grows daily through phony free trade agreements like NAFTA and WTO.

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Jehovism
In the Jehovist (extended Judeo-Christian) family of religions I include, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mormonism, Christian Science and Jehovah’s Witnesses. I might exclude the Quakers. The Jehovists are weak in preserving life on planet earth. This anti-life, anti-earth attitude has several roots:
  • In Genesis is the source of the belief that man is a special animal with dominion over all other species to do with as he pleases. Jehovists are so vain as to imagine the creator of the universe prefers habitually take the shape of a primate on an obscure planet in a remote corner of the Milky Way, named Homo Sapiens. They pretend not to notice the other intelligent more peaceful species on earth, the elephants, dolphins and whales.
  • The emphasis on the unimportance of the physical world as unreal, just a test for the afterlife, a temporary world until Christ returns, a source of temptation from the spiritual life and the domain of Satan.
  • Jehovists distinguish themselves from other religions that honour the earth, trees, rivers etc. Jehovists are proud of the fact they do not honour the environment. They consider that sacrilegious.
  • The precise rules for various mandatory blood animal sacrifices consume most of Leviticus.
  • The stance that non-believers are inferior beings whose life has no value. Even people in slightly variant sects treat each other as enemies.
  • Jehovah himself is depicted as violent, bloodthirsty, arbitrary and unjust. How can you expect his followers to behave any better?
In contrast, the Jains and Buddhists foster a reverence for all life. They are supposed to avoid hurting even insects. So what does this have to do with extinction? As science creates more and more ways for even one man to wipe out the entire planet, you need extreme taboos to stop people from doing that. Jehovists don’t have anywhere near enough inhibition.
From my point of view, they are like Vikings who have accepted violence and destruction as perfectly normal. They don’t even notice what they are doing. Everywhere they have spread they have stripped the planet bare, polluted its waters, overpopulated, made war, enslaved others, exuded greenhouse gasses with abandon, squandered the resources of earth in conspicuous consumption, exterminated species after species and generally behaved like the proverbial savages they claim everyone else to be. They are far too vengeful to be entrusted with dangerous tools like the atom and biotechnology. Too bad. They already have them…

Do We Deserve To Live?

Mankind is like a monkey. He is clever but not wise. It is only a matter of time until he kills himself with his cleverness and lack of caution.
Man has little concern for other species on the ecological health of the planet as a whole. He ignores natural limits, simply because they are inconvenient. He imagines his economic activity can grow without limit, he can burn oil without limit, he can pollute without limit, he can extract resources from the earth without limit.
He is fiercely loyal to his country, his company, his team, his tribe, his family, no matter what evil things they have done.
Only a tiny fraction of the planet’s inhabitants see themselves as citizens of planet earth first, and of some particular country second. Only a tiny fraction of the planet’s inhabitants care about people outside their immediate families. Only a handful of the planet’s inhabitants think deeply about the effect they will have on generations to come. It seem unlikely these altruistic survival traits will spread in time. Hanging on tenaciously to the outmoded us-vs-them mentality and short-term greed seals our doom. We deserve to die.
It may be a Good Thing™ that man blows himself up before he develops the technology to destroy an entire galaxy.

The Escape

Once man has colonised several planets, one planet could go up in a nuclear conflagration without destroying the rest. The survivors would be stonily shocked into giving up such foolish weapons. Until that point, if earth goes, man goes.
Unfortunately, exploration of space has taken a back seat to military exploitation of resource-rich third world nations.
The other escape would be nuclear disarmament. Man is too stupid. He would rather see everyone die than his neighbour potentially take advantage of him. The USA wants its nukes not for defence, but to intimidate and bully the nations of the earth to bolster its economic exploitation. It won’t give up that privileged position.

 

Rays of Hope

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
~ Margaret Mead (born: 1901-12-16 died: 1978-11-15 at age: 76)
Young people are much clearer about man’s fragility than their elders. If we are lucky, the old farts like George W. Bush will die off from cholesterol poisoning before they have totally destroyed the planet.
Computers with the memory capacity and computing capacity of the human brain are due about 2020. They will do some things amazingly better than humans, just as now. Most likely, they will run circles around us in logical thinking. If we are very lucky, they may be very good at simulating the effects of various policies, and will be able to explain with 3D graphics exactly what the effects of the politicians’ actions will be. If they are sufficiently good salesmen, they may save earth. In the process though, we will have become obsolete ourselves.
I have one other thread of hope. Back in 1969, I was the only person on earth I knew of who felt that gays should be treated with respect. Even my fellow gays seemed to think they deserved contempt. I started my little gay lib project knowing it was completely futile. I thought, even if I did seven lectures a week and managed to change everyone’s mind in the audience, it would make only a tiny dent. Yet within three years we had the first gay rights legislation in British Columbia. Perhaps it was not just a co-incidence. I discuss this in my essay on quantum miracles. It may be your personal choice whether you live in a world where man goes extinct or in one where he prevails.

Overwhelmed

The natural reaction of someone reading this essay is to go into overwhelmed mode. This is just too much bad news to digest at once. People have their own various techniques for dealing with it. The most common is denial. Gloom and doom must automatically be false. Folks will happily ignore the hard facts of global warming, soil erosion and aquifer depletion, and glom onto any unscientific crackpot like Bjørn Lomborg or George Bush so long as he paints a rosy picture. Some will comfort themselves with wishful thinking. “God won’t let things get that bad.” totally forgetting God has been quite happy to permit even worse suffering in past. Some will simply put these issues out of mind.
The problem is this denial makes the problems worse. Not only to people fail to take action, they actively interfere with others taking action. So to be optimally effective, you must upset and worry.

Summary

It seems unlikely man will survive the next hundred years. The question then becomes, how many other species will man take down with him. Will the dolphins, elephants and whales have to die too?
Does this mean you should just give up and die right now? No. Butterflies and roses live only a day, yet they have value in the moment. If you were on a sports team playing a much stronger team. Would you give up just because the odds were against you? Of course not. Here the stakes are much higher than any sporting event, namely the survival of our species and most of the other species of our planet.
 By Roedy Green

From http://mindprod.com/environment/extinction.html

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