Alex Christoforou
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If you’re desperate, you don’t go off on another hopeless endeavor and expect good results. You quit fighting. Why make it worse?
Oh, I forgot. Humans are an “Intelligent Species”. That’s the way you do it.
Space to Earth. Space to Earth. We are looking for signs of Intelligent behavior. Do you have any examples?
It’s fairly simple Game Theory. If you throw for low stakes, you cannot turn the war around. But if you raise the stakes sky-high, then maybe… just maybe… you might strike it lucky in some as yet undefined way. Just as Mr Mercouris says.
A theory about gamblers is that subconsciously they are trying to make God, or Fate, or the universe, show love for them. Just as parents (well, mothers anyway) are disposed to forgive even the worst of behaviour. Just as Jesus Christ taught his disciples to forgive, not unto seven times, but unto seventy times seven. So, no matter how hopeless things look, and no matter how foolish or even criminal the gambler has been, he hopes that the world will come through, relent, and prove its love for him. Indeed, the more desperate the situation, the more there is to… Read more »
It helps if one can distinguish between hope and hopeless.
Just as, when going to fight a war, it helps if you know who the real enemy is.
Ignorance may be bliss until the bomb explodes.
Hysterical behavior is usually not the best way to solve problems.
But keep repeating: We are an intelligent species
I think. Or maybe not.