Some thoughts on what might need to be done in order to sustain a population of 7.5 billion or more:
- Much of the world's population will have to live in skyscrapers or arcologies, which are the only sort of buildings capable of housing extremely high population densities in small areas...
I choose to discuss religion because being aware of how it shapes people's thoughts and actions is quite useful in many regards, regardless of your personal stance on religion and religious thought itself.
The Book of Revelations in the Ephraemi Codex, as well as several other fragments of the early Greek manuscripts of the Bible say that the "Number of the Beast" is six hundred and sixteen 616.
However, most other early copies of the Bible say that the "Number of the Beast" is 666.
Is there...
I love how the picture's logic amounts to the assertation that there have been three billion people alive for three billion years, and the "Christian Logic" asserts that there have been three billion people alive for six thousand years.
Probably the most interesting part of the article is this:
I originally thought the idea of retributive justice rather barbaric, but under such judicial circumstances, where perpetrators of such crimes are rarely caught and the punishment given to them is both minor and cursory, such a...