[extropy-chat] thanks, but i know all this

[Al Brooks]

All you responders, thank you for the reassurance. 
Yet, the war in West Asia (what we call the 'Middle
East') is bad, very bad. Our worst since 1942.


 
> This year more than half of the population of the
> world goes to the voting booth. Even though some
> countries aren't as democratic as their government
> would like them to appear, this is still a
> significant percentage of the globe and more than
> ever before. Famine is decreasing, average life span
> is increasing and the world as a whole is getting
> richer and richer.
> 
> Even though bad things are happening, the general
> trend is that tomorrow will be a better day than
> today, which is a better day than yesterday.
> 
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
> On 2004-11-02 Kevin Freels  wrote:
> 
> Since when did things NOT go this way? This is the
> story of human
> >civilization.
> >1999
> >    Y2K bug
> >    Serbia
> >    Columbine school shootings
> >    Yugoslavia
> >1998
> >    Worldwide financial crisis
> >    Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons testing
> >1996
> >    Mad Cow Disease
> >1995
> >    Gas attack in Tokyo Subway
> >    Oklahoma City Bombing
> >1994
> >    Rwandan Genocide Begins
> >    (Lorena Bobbit?)
> >    US troops to Haiti
> >1993 First WTC bombing
> >    WACO
> >1992
> >     Los Angelos Riots
> >1991
> >    Gulf War
> >1990
> >
> >1989
> >    Exxon Valdez
> >    Tiananmen Square
> >1988
> >    Flight ? over Lockerbie Scotland
> >
> >My mind gets a bit foggy as I go backwards and
> forgive me if I miss the
> >start date of some things by a year or two, but you
> get the point.  Need I
> >continue? What makes anyone think the last 4 years
> is anything but SSDD?
> >
> >Kevin Freels
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Al Brooks" <kerry_prez at yahoo.com>
> >To: "ExI chat list"
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> >Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:50 AM
> >Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Looks like a Kerry
> victory
> >
> >
> >> Not to be alarmist, but since 2000 it's been one
> f-up
> >> after another; dotcom bust, recession, Bush
> election,
> >> 9-11, Enron-type reverses (yes, i know, 'creative
> >> destruction'), misfired Iraq invasion.
> >> It's enough to turn one to the remote possibility
> of
> >> the 'Endtimes' Christians subscribe to.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> __________________________________
> >> Do you Yahoo!?
> >> Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page.
> >> www.yahoo.com
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> extropy-chat mailing list
> >> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> >>
>
http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >extropy-chat mailing list
> >extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
>
>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
>
http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat
> 


		
__________________________________ 
Do you Yahoo!? 
Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. 
www.yahoo.com