Will Black people survive Global Warming?

[Simba Nerevu]

Global Warming: Do you know what it is?

Come and see the film An Inconvenient Truth
and learn how climate change is affecting the future of the planet.

Friday March 30 at 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner-City Studies
700 East Oakwood Blvd., Chicago, IL

Cost: Free (donations are accepted)

For more information call 773-268-7500, ext. 126

This is a community discussion sponsored by the
Outdoor Leadership Skills Project
http://olsp.blogspot.com

[Simba Nerevu]

***Kazi ni njia katika uhuru****

[G.O.D.F.A.T.H.A.]

We will survive global warming. We have been here for all these centuries so why not?

[Pain]

".............In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is a certain district which is called the district of Sais, and the great city of the district is also called Sais, and is the city from which King Amasis came. The citizens have a deity for their foundress; she is called in the Egyptian tongue Neith, and is asserted by them to be the same whom the Hellenes call Athene; they are great lovers of the Athenians, and say that they are in some way related to them. To this city came Solon, and was received there with great honour; he asked the priests who were most skilful in such matters, about antiquity, and made the discovery that neither he nor any other Hellene knew anything worth mentioning about the times of old. On one occasion, wishing to draw them on to speak of antiquity, he began to tell about the most ancient things in our part of the world-about Phoroneus, who is called "the first man, " and about Niobe; and after the Deluge, of the survival of Deucalion and Pyrrha; and he traced the genealogy of their descendants, and reckoning up the dates, tried to compute how many years ago the events of which he was speaking happened. Thereupon one of the priests, who was of a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you. Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why. There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Paethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals; at such times those who live upon the mountains and in dry and lofty places are more liable to destruction than those who dwell by rivers or on the seashore. And from this calamity the Nile, who is our never-failing saviour, delivers and preserves us. When, on the other hand, the gods purge the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors in your country are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on the mountains, but those who, like you, live in cities are carried by the rivers into the sea. Whereas in this land, neither then nor at any other time, does the water come down from above on the fields, having always a tendency to come up from below; for which reason the traditions preserved here are the most ancient.

The fact is, that wherever the extremity of winter frost(Pain says ICE AGES) or of summer(Pain says GLOBAL WARMING) does not prevent, mankind exist, sometimes in greater, sometimes in lesser numbers. And whatever happened either in your country or in ours, or in any other region of which we are informed-if there were any actions noble or great or in any other way remarkable, they have all been written down by us of old, and are preserved in our temples. Whereas just when you and other nations are beginning to be provided with letters and the other requisites of civilized life, after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education; and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times, either among us or among yourselves. As for those genealogies of yours which you just now recounted to us, Solon, they are no better than the tales of children. In the first place you remember a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones;....."

From Plato's Timaeus and Critias



Think of it as a fever. It's a sign that your body is fighting off whatever afflicts it. Alot of us gon' die, no doubt. We'll be aiiiight though. We bout to get bathed in that black eloptic light the Dogons talkin' bout. We been there and done that. The only reason some of us are worried is that that knowledge has been taken away from us.

I downloaded that film a couple weeks back and watched it. I always just gotta keep in mind who the info is coming from.

[Simba Nerevu]

Originally Posted by Pain

Think of it as a fever. It's a sign that your body is fighting off whatever afflicts it. Alot of us gon' die, no doubt. We'll be aiiiight though. We bout to get bathed in that black eloptic light the Dogons talkin' bout. We been there and done that. The only reason some of us are worried is that that knowledge has been taken away from us.

I downloaded that film a couple weeks back and watched it. I always just gotta keep in mind who the info is coming from.

Htp Pain. Can you elaborate on this Dogon concept?

And yes, I agree that this is a recurring theme.

SN

[SoularFlarez]

i could be wrong but...

if the earth goes thru DAILY seasons...

spring/morning... afternoon/summer... evening.autumn...nite/winter..back to morning/spring

and yearly seasons... spring----> winter --->spring

then maybe it happens on BIGGER cycles as well (25,000) ???


we are probly the LAST people that should be worrying bout this lol
but forreal... all the artificial UN-natural foods we eat might be maken it harder to adjust to the changes