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[PurpleGaga27]

I think no one has discussed this here, but some people did in Discord and Reddit.

 

Australia wildfires, US vs Iran, Trump impeachment, Kobe RIP, Coronavirus (people still blame on China), unexpected climate change, now earthquakes. What's next? War? Invasion?

 

Even as of today, I still think Trump is part alien and a laughingstock because he still doesn't know how to handle government politics seriously. Well guess what, more US citizens are dying (including carnage) under his administration, possibly the most in any US president's history. About half of the world is in a shutdown. And if Coronavirus could kill over 10 million people globally if there's no vaccine, treatment or cure in time, Joseph Stalin would say it's just a statistic.

 

I guess some people do say we will live another day.

[Emperor of the East]

Usually, I come here to talk LotR lore, Battle for Middle-earth, and/or Games Workshop's Middle-earth game.

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But occasionally, I will talk of something Non-LotR.

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No, 2020 is not the end of the world. It only feels that way because we have a press that's uniformly biased in favor of the aptly-named Scarcity Mindset. As for a person like me that abides by the Abundance Mindset, I believe that the world is doing better than it ever did anywhere in the past. Get ready for pleasant realities that nobody in the press reports on.

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Take past pandemics, for example. Historically, it took us many years to find a cure for each one, from Bubonic Plague to Polio. Now, HIV and AIDS have been cured in much less time than it took to cure Pre-2000 pandemics. Therefore, I am convinced we will cure COVID much faster than we cured either of HIV or AIDS. And that's to credit marked advances in scientific inquiry for.

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Next, I will go to relations between people of different demographics. In free societies like America, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, and so forth; people are the most respectful they've ever been in World History of racial and religious minorities. I should know, I'm an Irish-American and an atheist who respects people whether they look and believe differently from me or not.

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Also, the study of sciences, be it hard sciences like paleontology or social sciences like economics, is the most popular it's ever been. Maybe those aren't the best examples of each scientific category, but in general, science as a topic to get to know is the most popular it's ever been globally.

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One more thing before I receive and address any replies: Social orders of Tyranny and Bigotry are losing ground routinely to Social orders that combine Liberty with Equality. If you think about how many nations could be fairly called "free societies" now versus 80 years ago (1940), you realize how much better the world is getting on a routine basis.

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And that's all I've got for this topic, unless people want to reply to this comment of mine.