are modern times the pinnacle of mankind's existence?

Question

or is it all downhill from now on.

Answer 1

I hope to god this is not our pinnacle. I think we have lived in better times than these. Eventually it will be a downward spiral to our own destruction. We are the largest virus in known existence. We will end our own existence with our greed and need for "easy living", we will exhaust all of our resources until we have nothing left.

Answer 2

Funny how little things stay with us.
I grew up in radio days.
When television came along, my
grandmother remarked, "I'm glad
I lived to see this. This has to be the
ultimate."

Space travel is just around the bend.
And any real space travel will require
some type of quantum mechanics.
If we can strip "time & space" away
from the "quark," we can conceivably
get that quark to a galaxy light years
away in the blink of an eye.

Who knows. There is only one sure
thing. Tomorrow never dies.

Answer 3

If the present is the pinnacle of mankind then obviously everything is downhill from now on (you shouldn't have used "or", both phrases agree)

Answer 4

Who knows? How do we know, in fact that intelligent beings like ourselves haven't evolved, and self-destructed thousands of times before our present go-round? I am inclined to think that they have. Maybe with each "epoch" what was left of that particular era of intelligent beings passed something on genetically to the next, who had to begin from the beginning, e xcept that somehow they had within them, the "codes of information" from their predecessors. This would mean that somewhere in there, they had the building blocks of knowledge that would put them a little bit further down the road this time around. Only a few, in that next group, would have the ability to pull out those building blocks and re-construct them, and then go on to add to them. But naturally, everybody would eventually come to benefit from this next phase of knowledge and discovery.

Will we, like the others, reach the point of self-destruction? Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps at last, we are the group that has finally "got it right". If not, then the process will start all over and those who grow up from our ashes will have their turn at bat, and perhaps they will succeed where we, like all the others before us, failed.

Answer 5

you will ought to outline 'top of existence' and 'top of extensive wakeful existence' earlier i ought to supply a seen answer. they look subjective phrases so i won't manage to be optimistic what you have in innovations. Can existence have a top or does it the two exist or no longer exist? It would not lend itself to 'tiers' of existence. while you're speaking a pair of subjective mindset bobbing up from religious ideals, who aside from you may say what presses your buttons. If it works for you, delight in it.

Answer 6

It depends on how you view evolution. In many ways mankind has never been further away from his natural self and therefore more vunrable in terms of physical health and dependancy on material things for his existance e,g, the homes we live in and our percieved needs such as warmth and diet. Therefore we may be technoligically advanced, but physically and naturally 'backward' Therefore inevitably leading to a rectifying of this inbalance ie man creating his own self destruction and returning to nature!

Answer 7

Far from it.
If we can keep those crazy Theists away from the button to blow us all towards THEIR 'inevitable rapture' and if we can keep outa the way of wayward meteors, we have a good chance of progressing to places we can't yet imagine.

The bloke who was in charge of the USian patents office in 1899 resigned saying: Everything that can be invented - has already been invented.

Answer 8

These aren't exactly the Dark Ages are they? It's uphill from here I'm afraid. You know, improving living conditions for everyone and saving the enviorment and all. Kinda makes life worth living.

Answer 9

yeah im gonna go with we have been moving down hill for sometime! im gonna go with..... the day i was born as the pinnacle of mankinds existance, you see the thing is every thing that has happened is so that i could be born... and well now that i am here there is no purpose for humans to repopuate......

Answer 10

Most of what the modern technology
boasts of as its inventions were
available in ancient India.

http://doctorprasad.blog.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_ancient_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadeshi_science_movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_mathematics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramhastra
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Hindu_Culture1.htm
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Hindu_Culture2.htm
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Advanced_Concepts.htm
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Vimanas.htm
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/War_in_Ancient_India.htm
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Yantras.htm
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Seafaring_in_Ancient_India.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimana
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/freebooks/history/vym2.html
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vimanas/vimanas14.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=steel
http://ccc.1asphost.com/hamidsaeed/darood/HIST-PAKISTAN.htm
http://www.vedicmathematics.co.uk/
http://www.hinduism.co.za/
http://hinduism.about.com/
http://www.vedamu.org/
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64575,00.html
http://www.gosai.com/science/
http://www.jainmathemagics.com/
http://www.answers.com/topic/achievements-of-ancient-indian-civilization
http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/t_rs/t_rs_ship_bibliog.htm
http://www.crystalinks.com/indiascience.html
http://mathemajik.tripod.com/article/mathematics.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/indiascience.html
http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/india_contribution/maths.html
http://www.mindsay.com/tags/ancient
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http://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/archeo/india/as-india.html
http://www.cloudbait.com/archaeo/india.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/indiastronomy.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_astronomy

One visioner wrote:

"From 2010, winds of spiritualism will blow
across the entire world, awakening more and more people
in its wake. Where limits of (modern) science end,
spiritualism begins. .... Along with scientific
progress, intellectuals will start recognizing the
importance of spiritualism. .... From 2050, a new era
will begin...."

Swami Dattavadhut, Prophecies 1998 to 2100, Vanita
Books, Mumbai, 1997, pp. 33-42.

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