OlasDAlmighty said:
Hagrid from Harry Potter is half giant. His dad was a human and his mom was a giant...
Why am I picturing that episode of Futurama with the Giant Amazonian Women? Also, if you reversed the genders, that would be far creepier and a lot more excruciating.
DoPo said:
soren7550 said:
Nannernade said:
The story of Adam and Eve, if you think about it really hard we'd all be inbred, making the taboo of incest irrelevant
What makes it creepier is that (if I remember right), Adam and Eve only had two kids, Cain and Able. Cain killed Able, so according to the Bible, we're all the spawn of a quite literal mother fucking murderer.
Erm, no, they had way more than those, Cain and Abel were only the first two.
Still incest and doesn't discredit the notion of parent/child fornication. The Old Testament is full of freaky shit, I'm sure this was one possible draft of it.
OP:
I think the fact that the world is run by only a tiny fraction of the total population and within that group you have Religious Extremists, self-righteous Idealists, War Mongers, distorted historical rivalries and just plain Power Mad Nutjobs, coupled with a weapon stockpile sufficient enough to eradicate life on earth several times over or turn the entire visible landmass of earth into a crater filled dust bowl, is far very unnerving.
Think about it, it's not just us, but billions of years of evolution that would be undone if such an event was to occur. All of it could cease to exist in 1 day. The power for complete planetary extinction really does exist and it's in the control of people who hate each other. It doesn't help that at this moment in time there is a major shift in power towards China and everyone and their mom seems to be worried about it, to the point of paranoia.
It's one thing if the universe in all it's power extinguishes us... but the very real fact that we have that power ourselves is just really unsettling.
Fortunately, if it doesn't happen within the next century, it will never happen. But if it does, I hope I'm already gone. The sheer grief that you would feel knowing that everything ever achieved by our tiny blue planet could be undone by us ungrateful upstarts would be unbearable.