What, in your opinion, is the greatest human tragedy of all time?
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The greatest human tragedy of all time
What, in your opinion, is the greatest human tragedy of all time?
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Did you post this on TWC too??
I will answer the same: The two World Wars.
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Industrialisation, I should say.......men have been killing each other before they were men at all.......but it is this modern state of the environment that'll be the end of us all.
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Gulag and mass murder in and around the Soviet Union.
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The invention of wireless broadband.
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Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
Serious answer? Religion.
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Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
Mankind/humanity.
Honestly, who made all of the other proposals? The two World Wars, industrialisation, religion, the gulags, mass murders and wireless broadband are all products of man.
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Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
Invention of farming and agriculture.
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Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
I don't believe in tragedy and thats the truth
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This.
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Link contains chilling pictures of human tragedy.
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Great death into XIV century. It killed much more men than any war (I mean proportion to whole population).
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My opinion is that World War I is the greatest human tragedy. Not only was the war itself a tragic waste of lives and resources, but its effects were far-reaching and these were to a big majority tragedies in their own right.
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The project that will kill us next Wednesday. Chernobyl, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Any war since there were humans.
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The Treaty of Versailles. One war was inevitable as the world did not understand the true horror of modern warfare. The second was entirely unnecessary.
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The Toba eruption:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
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Damn Louis, you beat me to it. I was going to post some Tecktonik-related crap.
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The slide into the First World War.
Also, perhaps the death of Alexander.
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I agree with him.Originally Posted by Caius
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Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
Probably atheism.
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Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
Industrialization and with it the massive increase of world population/ polution.
No offence to anybody, but if i think about it it is sort of cause for lots of problems in our societies.
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Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
Politicians
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Biggest tragedy huh... agreeing with Tevash on this one, politicians
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I really have to disagree on this. Politicians or anarchy? I'd rather take the politicians (by the way, I'm including monarchs, despots, and indeed any leader as a "politician" in this case).
Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
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The organised one.
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Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
Yeah, people working only 8h per day instead of from dawn to dusk, having good medical care, education, enough money to fulfill their needs not just to sustain themselves is a real bummer.
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Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
When Cain killed Able.
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When Eve ate the fruit
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Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
Christianity.
Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
The destruction of the Meso-American civilizations by smallpox and chicken-pox caused by the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, and the replacing of their rich and advanced culture with guilt-ridden conformist catholicism.
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An enlightened master once asked this question of one of his students: "...what is the greatest suffering that a sentient being can ever encounter?"
The student answered: "hell"
The master replied: "the greatest suffering that a sentient being can ever encounter is to exist but not know what they actually are..."
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The greatest human tragedy of all time is that so few of us ever attain the realization of what we actually are, and so many of us suffer unspeakabily pursuing the illusion of what we imagine ourselves to be. This is the root of all human tragedies, great and small.
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