What do people think will happen to mankind?

Question: What do people think will happen to mankind!?

i'm looking for this page that has everything for us in our future like disease and chaos later in the future!. what do u think will happen to us and the planet in the future!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Throughout the history of mankind, there has been continuous diseases, chaos, wars, genocides, natural weather phenomenas, etc!.
Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of lives lost because of nature or the greed of man!.
Yet man has survived somehow and will probably survive on other planets too, away from this solar system!.
For eventually, man will cease to exist here when the star of our livelihood, the sun goes nova!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm not sure if we will save this planet or not but I do know that the human race will end somehow with either war, an outside force, or we will pollute ourselves with so much garbage that we will not survive!. The human being has so many flaws just like everything else and I hope to see the day of our destruction!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

we will waste our resources and the world shall be dry!. the water will be polluted and we will dehydrate!. the air will fill of pollution and plants shall die along with important animals such as bees and cows!. crime will increase !. but in the darkest times, someone will find a way to put us on a plentiful planet and we destroy that planet and then men die but women will be smart enough to find a new new planet and treat it correctly and make cloning!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think we will all die because since we are so materialistic, suplies for things will sky rocket!. And since the world has an increase in population of about 215,000 births a day, we will basically be our own apocalypse!. I think we can help by adopting children istead, and staying away from excessive materialism!. Honestly, i think that it is hard to tell what will happen to us!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i think that eventually are planet will suffer from global warming and toxic from nucleur weapons; then will slowly die out one by one!. Thats why i believe in staying "GREEN"!. like recycling, not littering, and buying products that help our planet out!. SO buy those green energy saving lightbulbs pplz! help SAVE the POLAR BEARS!Www@QuestionHome@Com

don't call me crazy but i believe in aliens!. probably more than i believe in myself!. i get it from my dad, me and him think way too much but i think aliens are some kind of reincarnation of us!? or they created us so where half of them!. or just something strange like that!.

& WE will detroy our own world!. in ALOTT of hundreds of yrs from now!. from pollution/destruction!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i believe that we will create our own demise, that technology will destroy us!. the more cocky the human race gets and the more we believe that we can do anything, the quicker it will take for us to be wiped off the face of the planet!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think we will eventually destroy planet earth (or at least make it uninhabitable for a few thousand years) within the next few centuries!. However, I also think we will be able to colonise other planets and hopefully learn from our mistakes!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The History channel just did that whole special a few months ago on life after people!. http://www!.history!.com/minisites/life_af!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Womankind will eventualy have to decide!!!

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it is in process right now!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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In this era, when technology and materialism flourish, we want to take a careful look at the thinking of the times and ask ourselves whether or not this is a good age to live in!. Science has made great advances in technology and that certainly counts as good!. But we should also realize the truth of the saying,
Anything taken to the ultimate point transforms into its opposite!.

In the case of technological advances, good things also beckon misfortune!. Let's look at television, for example!. I know people will object to my analysis of the TV, saying 'Dharma Master, you're a throwback to another age!. You're an anachronism!. You're out of step with the times!.' Nonetheless, in my opinion, the television is a menace to human life!. The television is a man-eater!. Did you know that!? Look at children these days!. Instead of doing their schoolwork, they sit in front of the TV set!. They're glued to the screen, and it eats up their very life-force!. The children might as well be dead, because they will never learn the basic principles of being good people!. They will learn only how to stare dully at the television!.

And what does the TV teach them!? Every kind of strange and freakish behavior you can imagine!. They learn precious little of value!. The kids very quickly learn to enact the evil and harmful lessons they watch!. In no time at all, they learn all the bad things that people can do!.

Before television came into the world, the people-eater was radio!. Radios sucked up humans' life-force!. People used to stick a radio in their ear and completely forget everything else!. Radios made us forget about eating, sleeping, and the ordinary events of life!. Now the television has confused us to the point of not knowing whether we're coming or going!.

Computers have followed along right after the television!. In Chinese, the word for computer translates literally into 'electric brain'!. In the future there will be electric eyes, as well as electric ears, electric tongues, electric noses, electric bodies!. Every one of the six organs will have disposable modules, likes casettes, and will gain an electric boost!. Eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind will be computerized!. Even the mind will tie in organically with 'know-it-all computer memory banks'!. Is this a good time to be a person!? impossible! This is a dark age in human history!.

In this benighted era, our wisdom has been stolen away by material things!. Nobody has any natural wisdom to speak of!. Our inherent brightness has been replaced by products and goods and once we substitute things for wisdom, then people will grow up blank, like idiots!. Wisdom will become outmoded!. People will no longer serve any useful function!. Mark my words: in the future, people will become obsolete!. Would you say this is a serious problem or not!? Look into it! People will soon be rendered useless!

For instance, some unethical scientists now are busy inventing miraculous monsters!. You say its human!? It's not really human!. You say its an animal!? It's not exactly an animal either!. Since they graft human genes onto animal bodies and alter human genes with animals strains, this mutual genetic modification produces a freakish, mutant, hybrid that resembles neither parent!.

Anything taken to the ultimate point, transforms into its opposite!.

Now people can be born with horns, or elephant-like trunks!. In my opinion, a human born with a nose like a pachyderm is more a goblin than a person!. These goblins and freaks are all within the realm of possibility today!.

Furthermore, the range of computers has grown out of control!. Within the next two centuries, telephones and the like will be totally obsolete!. Televisions and computers will have disappeared!. Every person's physical body will contain the capabilities of these machines!. Nobody will have to bother dialing a telephone or punching a touch-tone!. A person will only need to beam out the number of the desired party from his own built-in phone, with its antennae located in the eyebrows, perhaps, or from his hair, and the other person will receive the call the same built-in way!. "Hello! Good morning!" That's how easy it will be to place a phone call!.

Somebody may be thinking at this point, Dharma Master, that's the craziest talk I've ever heard!.

Well, I ask you to consider this!. How many people wold have believed you if five hundred years ago you had said, "In five hundred years, there will be airplanes, television, and radios!?" Everyone would have considered you insane!. But all these inventions are commonplace now!.

[W]e should recognize that advances in science, and in material benefits are not necessarily good for humanity in the long run!. They are incomplete, imperfect benefits, Wisdom, on the other hand, is the most thorough-going benefit for all the world!. Thinking and attitudes born of morality and virtue are thoroughly good for us all!. The Buddha's Four Measureless Attitudes of kindness, compassion, joy, and even-mindedness are totally advantageous to all creatures!. When we base ourselves in thoughts such as these, then we can go ahead and put technology to work for us!. There's no fear that we will forget the fundamental aspects of humanity: our own bodies for example!. In the future people will forget entirely what people look like!.

We will all become like animals!. I'm not scolding you, this prediction is a cold, hard fact!.

The superior person,
Even in poverty,
Maintains his integrity;
The petty person stops at Nothing to strike it rich!.
That's how the world turns!. Good taken to the ultimate point turns bad!. Evil, once it reaches an extreme, turns good!. A person who is poor to the bitter extreme of poverty can suddenly strike it rich, while rich people can lose every penny overnight!. Once born, we are tiny infants, but we grow up, grow old, get sick, and die!. That's the cycle of creation and destruction rolling on in the world!. It is a natural process of progressive, cyclical change!. A process of metabolism, and transformation!. If we recognize the state, then getting rich won't especially appeal to us any longer!. And if we should lose our wealth, then we will see things according to the proverb:
So it is most important in this day and age of insanity to not go crazy, and to not forget what it means to be a person!. We must keep in mind the original purpose and appearance of human beings!.
When speaking of the meaning of human life, I can say frankly, that the most beneficial things I have run across in my entire life are The Six Guiding Principles of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas!.
The first of these is not fighting!. This rule applies unilaterally!. I will not contend with anybody!. No matter what criticism you give me, I will accept it without reservation,!. Call me what you will!? A small cat!? Fine, I'm a cat!. Call me a dog!? Okay, I'm a dog!. However you perceive me in your mind, that's what I am!. Do you see me as a Buddha!? I'm a Buddha!. Do you see me as a Bodhisattva!? That's what I am!. 'Everything is made from the mind alone!.' I am whatever you conceive me to be!.

For my own part, I have my goals and purposes for being a person!. What are they!? Simply not contending with people, no matter who it is!. You may call me what you please, and I will wear that label!. I will acknowledge the name!. That will be who I am!. I won't contend with you!.

The second rule is no greed!. Whatever you own, is yours!. I don't want it!. And anything of mine that you want, I will give to you!. I actually will hand it over!. When I give, it's not like the classic, greedy Sangha-member, who constantly tells people to Give! Give! Give!, and who mouths the platitude, Left-home people do not crave wealth; but the more there is, the better!. Any ordinary person hopes that people will give to him, yet this monk is not at all interested in being charitable towards others!. This is a wrong attitude!. We should avoid it!.

As for no seeking, it means don't look for opportunities to make a killing, or to score a fat profit!. Everybody in the world fights for advantages!. If we understand the principle of not seeking, and resting content, with few desires, then we won't contend with people any more!. Someone who grasps this point truly understands the Six Great Principles!.

Why don't we seek!? It's because we don't want to be selfish!. The only reason a person would seek for things is because of selfishness!. With no self, there's no reason left to seek!. And free of selfishness, one won't run after personal benefits!. These two of the Six Guidelines are interrelated!. No selfishness creates the condition for not seeking personal advantages!. The two names: 'no selfishness' and 'no self-benefit' sound similar: in fact, they have distinct differences!.

The last one is no lying!. The only reason a person would lie is out of fear; he's afraid of losing his selfish advantages!. This fear moves him to criticize everybody else, saying, All of you are wrong!. I'm the only one who's right!. Why does he feel this way!? Because he fears he'll lose his benefits to other people!. Somebody who didn't hanker after personal profits would have no reason to tell a lie!. In the final analysis, what's a lie worth, anyway!? If you can truly understand these Six Guiding Principles, then you know what it means to be a person!.!.

If you don't understand the Six Guidelines, then you're simply running in lock-step with the rat-race of this mad age!. As long as you flow with the tide of insanity, you're just another madman, as crazy as the next person!.

That's my message for you all today!. I hope the young people among you who hear me won't go insane; The elderly among you should even more keep a grip on your sanity!. The little chiWww@QuestionHome@Com