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Will technology overcome limitations in natural resources? Two possible scenarios:

— Star Trek: technology does achieve this, leading to expansion into the solar system.

— Mad Max: technology fails to achieve this, civilization crashes.
The world's population will jump by about 6 billion people over the 75 years between 1975 and 2050 after having only climbed to 4 billion people over the previous 1,975 years.
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception."

— Carl Sagan
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Thibaut
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While reasonable success has been achieved in science and technology, has this success made us all into happy individuals?

The answer is: only partly so. Why?

A thread about the uncontrolled human mind,
The mind is often unsatisfied, no matter how much has been acquired, gained and possessed.

More often than not, the mind worries, and worries without reason.
While on the one hand the mind and body are truly speaking existent only in the present moment (the Here and New),

The noise of irrational thoughts relentlessly and continuously forces the mind into thinking and worrying about the past and the future (the There and Then).
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Thibaut
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If you don’t learn how to work with your inner emotional states, you will never be free.
Once you realize your emotions are temporary they no longer hold power over you.
You can't force raging water to be calm.

You have to leave it alone and let it return to its natural flow.

Emotions are the same way.
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Thibaut
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We always think we have so much time to do what we‘ve been wanting to do someday,

To say something we’ve been shoving down because we were scared or insecure, or maybe because we thought the timing just wasn’t right.
But then something happens, something terrible and terrifying, something that takes your life as you knew it and splits it in half, and suddenly the only thing we have left to hold on to is a photograph.

A faded memory.
The two cursed words "what if" and the agonising question of what could have been.

So do it now.

Don’t postpone.

Don’t make excuses.

Don’t make the mistake so many of us make.

Say what you’ve been wanting to say before it’s too late.
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