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When the aliens notice and launch a pre-emptive strike!

"A preemptive strike would be particularly likely in the early phases of our expansion because a civilisation may become increasingly difficult to destroy as it continues to expand. Humanity may just now be entering the period in which its rapid civilisational expansion could be detected by an ETI because our expansion is changing the composition of the Earth's atmosphere, via greenhouse gas emissions," the report states.

"Green" aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet. "These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets," the authors write.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/18/aliens-destroy-humanity-protect-civilisations?CMP=twt_gu

Note that this scenario isn't made up by the newspaper, it's been raised in a peer reviewed paper from Penn State University and NASA!!!

It is not the Global Warming that is killing us; it is the decline of morals and values.

Just enjoy the ride, be joy and love your neighbours and friends. :)

And be ready to fight for your life when good living space and food gets scarcer :)
I am not a scientist, but I can already see in my own countries weather how its changed over the recent years, anyone who can observe reality without clouding it over with fear can see it lol XD

ps.NASA didn´t come up with the Climate Change first, its been speculated about for decades, and first recently has it been possible to actually verify it.

pss. That as well The monquin.

Regards,
The realist

Life Lessons: Sage Marcel Messing talks to Freedom Central
There are few people on this planet who ooze wisdom and command complete respect from the moment of meeting, quite the way Marcel Messing can.

His gentle way and humble manner make this wise sage, author of over 20 books which have been translated into numerous languages, and educator to hundreds of thousands of people across the world, we are truly blessed with the experience of meeting this man.

Marcel talks only just above a whisper, so our appologies if there is a background hiss, but we had to turn the volume right up during the editing process.

Here's an interesting talk about building ecologic cities.

Here is an interesting article about planet killers:
http://qntm.org/destroy
According to this article, it requires a supremely advanced intergalactic civilization to even make Earth uninhabitable.
God is one of these people.

Here is a good citation of the laws from http://www.dennisprager.com/columns.aspx?g=535e1f40-5ede-4b23-bad0-6fb67fa67d4b&url=still_the_only_solution_to_the_worlds_problems:

There is only one solution to the world's problems, only one prescription for producing a near-heaven on earth.

It is 3,000 years old.

And it is known as the Ten Commandments.

Properly understood and applied, the Ten Commandments are really all humanity needs to make a beautiful world. While modern men and women, in their hubris, believe that they can and must come up with new ideas in order to make a good world, the truth is there is almost nothing new to say.

If people and countries lived by the Ten Commandments, all the great moral problems would disappear.

Or, to put it another way, all the great evils involve the violation of one or more of the Ten Commandments.

Here is the case in brief for the Ten Commandments (using the Jewish enumeration, which differs slightly from the Protestant and Catholic):

I agree with the Jewish version because of a series of traditions to preserve the laws thereof.

1. I am the Lord your God.

There are moral atheists and there are immoral believers, but there is no chance for a good world based on atheism. Ultimately, a godless and religion-free society depends on people's hearts to determine right from wrong, and that is a very weak foundation.

Plenty of people have died in history in the name of God. But many more have been killed, tortured, and deprived of liberty in the name of humanity and progress or some other post-Judeo-Christian value. Religion gave us an Inquisition and gives us suicide terrorists, but the death of God gave us Nazism and Communism, which, in one century alone, slaughtered more than a hundred million people. All the founders of the United States - yes, all - knew that a free society can survive only if its citizens believe themselves to be morally accountable to God.

What is really interesting about this law is that true freedom and true wisdom are nearly one and the same and even includes judging yourself, maybe even peacefully. Doing so and you appreciate what God has already given you and therefore obeying God. It is a western variant of the creed of Buddhism, which clearly states that only through such progress can we find true happiness. I personally felt more joyful volunteering to help my uncle move than with any new toy that I receive.

2. Do not have other gods.

The worship of false gods leads to evil. When anything but the God of creation and morality is worshiped, moral chaos ensues.

No one is godless. Either people worship God, or they worship other gods -- nature, intelligence, art, education, beauty, the environment, Mother Earth, power, fame, pleasure, the state, the fuhrer, the party, progress, humanity. The list is almost endless. And no matter how noble -- and false gods are often noble -- when they become ends in themselves, they lead to evil.

In an objective sense, people should be looking up to small communities and movements that are interested in meaningful service before looking up to the government to solve problems.

3. Do not take God's name in vain.

People have misinterpreted this commandment. They think it prohibits saying something like, "Oh, my God, what a home run!" But the Hebrew literally means "do not carry" the name of the Lord in vain.

In other words, we are forbidden from doing evil in God's name. Only when thus understood does the rest of the Commandment make sense -- that God will not "cleanse," or forgive -- the person who does this.

Thus, the Islamist who slits an innocent's throat while shouting "Allahu Akbar" is the perfect example of the individual who carries God's name in vain and who cannot be forgiven. These people not only murder their victims, they murder God's name. For that reason, they do more evil than the atheist who murders.

In other words, follow the Golden Rule and have a clean heart and mind.

4. Keep the Sabbath day and make it holy.

Leaving the world one day a week and elevating it above the others is the greatest vehicle to family harmony and to harmony with friends.

One day a week without video games, without parents leaving to go to work or to do their own thing on the computer forces parents and children to spend time together and to actually talk. It even encourages couples to make love. It also weakens the institution of slavery. If even your servants get a day off because God commands it, that means you do not have absolute control over them.

I have a high appreciation for the Sabbath Day because it is always a day when I feel the most optimistic about life. It always feels good to be away from the worldly things every once in a while.

5. Honor your father and mother.

The first thing every totalitarian and authoritarian movement does is to try to undermine parental authority. That's why it is dangerous, even in a democracy.

Take our universities, for example. Woodrow Wilson, the first progressive president, said, "The use of the university is to make young men as unlike their fathers as possible."

And that is exactly what colleges have been doing for over a half a century. Instead of searching for truth and beauty, the universities have been alienating American youth from their fathers' -- and the Founding Fathers' -- values.

The spirit of the law also suggests that you learn from your parents and see what mistakes they have made, a direct equivalent of "those who do not study history are bound to repeat its mistakes."

6. Do not murder.

If people lived by this commandment alone, the world would enter a heavenly state. At the same time, the commandment has been widely misunderstood. The Hebrew originally prohibits murder, not killing. By mistranslating the Hebrew as "Do not kill," too many modern Westerners have been taught that pacifism is moral and noble. It is neither. It is an accessory to murder, since it prevents pacifists from doing the only thing that stops mass murder -- killing the murderers.

The Nazi death camps were liberated by soldiers whose job was to kill murderers, not by pacifists or "peace activists."

If justice ceases to exist, God ceases to be perfect and respected. His method of punishment is always a way to make people humble, which is the reason why "imperfection" exists in the first place.

7. Do not commit adultery.

Observance or even near-observance of this commandment alone would end the formation of the underclass. No amount of state aid can do what marriage and commitment to a spouse do to end poverty and almost all social pathologies.

The said commandment would also encourage the fifth commandment to be obeyed by being prepared to raise children.

8. Do not steal.

This commandment prohibits the stealing of people, the stealing of property, and the stealing of anything that belongs to another. The first prohibition alone, if obeyed, would have rendered the slave trade impossible.

Protecting the sanctity of private property makes moral civilization possible. That is why the recent riots in London should frighten every citizen of the U.K. and the West generally. Just as the burning of books leads to the burning of people, so, too, the smashing of windows and the looting of property leads eventually to the smashing of heads.

The rampant violation of this commandment by the governments of Africa is the primary reason for African poverty. Corruption, not Western imperialism, is the root of Africa's backwardness.

What is sad is that people are more forgiven for stealing than for losing things. Sustaining this law would surely turn things around.

9. Do not bear false witness.

Lying is the root of nearly all major evils. All totalitarian states are based on lies. Had the Nazis not lied about Jews, there would not have been a Holocaust. Only people who believed that all Jews, including babies, were vermin, could, for example, lock hundreds of Jews into a synagogue and burn them alive. That similar lies are told about Jews today by Arab governments and by the Iranian state should awaken people to the Nazi-like threat that anti-Semitism still poses.

The video I pointed out is a prime example of such.

10. Do not covet your neighbor's spouse, property, etc.

The cultivation of class warfare -- i.e., the cultivation of coveting what richer citizens legitimately own -- inevitably leads to violating the other commandments, most particularly the ones that prohibit stealing and murdering.

Would competition be safer if it was healthy?

There is only one way to achieve a great society, and it is not by creating a massive state that doles out other citizens' money. It is by cultivating citizens who try to live by these Ten Commandments. They are as relevant today as they were 3,000 years ago.

You see, the Ten Commandments are real. They are not made up.

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