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[–]gonzoblair 130 points131 points ago

Glad to see /r/futurology digs it. I probably got half my ideas for the image from subscribing here.

[–]phrakture 33 points34 points ago

MAKE MORE!

[–]gonzoblair 23 points24 points ago

I will definitely think up something the next time I'm unable to sleep.

[–]autobots 16 points17 points ago

Should have had a post on the page "reddit in 4012" or something like that.

[–]Vault-tecPR 5 points6 points ago

New plan... keep gonzoblair awake at all costs.

Hey, did you hear about this website called reddit?

[–]TEmpTom[S] 17 points18 points ago

More pocket whales!

[–]videogameexpert 7 points8 points ago

Yeah, pocket whales are a gold mine. I see that one cropping back up in the repost lane along with the baconing narwhals and waffles.

[–]dmanww 5 points6 points ago

Don't you mean carrots

[–]cyberjet189 3 points4 points ago

/r/pocketwhales

[–]froglegsoup 1 point2 points ago

Statstically, Reddit won't be around that long.

[–]dog_on_acid 52 points53 points ago

in 3012 i don't think anyone will be smoking weed anymore, we'll just have nanites stimulating our receptors. it'll be 'i've just found a new mod for my sense-stim: "Mellax 5.38b"'

[–]chkchk 105 points106 points ago

While you're probably right, "this year we'll legalize it!" was fucking funny.

[–]kskxt 6 points7 points ago

"Jailbreak for BioStim 4.0 is out!"

[–]yogi89 2 points3 points ago

Ever read "Feed"?

[–]gamelizard 0 points1 point ago

thout sounds like it would get boring fast.

[–]dog_on_acid 0 points1 point ago

i'm not so sure, the amount of receptors we have, the possibilities are almost endless for the different highs you could get

think of 30-40 receptors with varying amounts from -3.00 - +3.00 and releasers of neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine; its essentially an infinite amount of different intoxicants. the introduction of nano stimulators would be a revolution in drug using. i can't wait

[–]gamelizard 0 points1 point ago

hm i wonder if there is a limit to the amount you can get high. like at what point do all those chemical reactions start to stop working properly

[–]dog_on_acid 0 points1 point ago

in theory that could always happen, what if the machine stops working or something like that but i'd say by the time we work out how to do this kind of stuff we'll have eliminated those malfunctions.

and as for things like tolerances, i think if there's direct stimulation to the receptors that shouldn't be a worry. the only other possibility would be the brains own natural chemical releasers and things like withdrawals would slow down but i think if there were backups in place to keep it on an even keel then those would be a thing of the past too.

then in terms of say societal problems, like the rats that had a button to control orgasms, then they starved to death, i think another failsafe would have to be introduced to limit the amount of times the button could be pushed, this would also help to keep the natural neurotransmitters going as well

[–]FourteenThousand -1 points0 points ago

But that's not all natural, dude!

Nah, I think we will still have weed around. It has been around for thousands of years already, which is a pretty good precedent.

Regardless, there will probably be lots of new drugs invented by then too.

Edit: It is almost legal already in CO, with the way the for-profit medical marijuana industry works here. However, it is pretty hard to guess how the future politics of the Drug War will play out.

[–]Interospection -1 points0 points ago

The future one thousand years from now will likely operate on a paradigm beyond our own comprehension, to think that we will still behave in the same primitive ways as in the current times is completely ridiculous.

[–]FourteenThousand 0 points1 point ago

Maybe. But there are some human desires that don't change. The urge for sex, food, and basic needs of course. But also the desire to change or alter our perception of reality. These are all things that have existed for thousands of years into the past. I think you may have an unrealistic view of the human condition if you think the desire to perceive reality differently will change.

[–]Interospection 0 points1 point ago

You are assuming that we will remain solely human in one thousand years time, which I would very much hope we would not.

[–]FourteenThousand -1 points0 points ago

I've been thinking about what you said quite a bit. I think I need more clarification on your stance. Let me explain how I see it.

If we are part mechanical and part human, we will still have biological parts. I don't see how our entire brain could be replaced with a mechanical interface, as that would make us essentially not human at all. If this is what you mean, then you are hoping for the total extinction of the human race. But if you mean that we are still part biologically human, then I maintain that desires for basic biological needs will still exist.

If you mean something entirely different, like the idea that we will be able to grasp/manipulate the human genome in its entirety and then "force" evolution upon ourselves, I will still argue that a completely genetically modified race will either still have basic biological desires as stated above, or be completely non-human and therefore members of a different race inconsistent with the qualifier "we."

Either way, if "we" remain as human, in whole or in part, I don't think that we will ever fully escape the human condition, including some suffering/pain. We can already do much to improve suffering in many forms, but as part of being human, I do believe that some pain, psychological or physical, will always exist, as long as "we" do. And with it, human desire: sex, food, acceptance, and yes, the desire to perceive one's reality differently.

Anyway, the "all natural" thing I said was a joke. I guess no one really got it.

[–]phrakture 49 points50 points ago

Fucking Chairman Tylo. WHERE IS THE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY? WHY WON'T HE PRODUCE IT?

[–]FeepingCreature 21 points22 points ago

Wouldn't that be Certificate of Manufacture?

[–]ANETchwitz 9 points10 points ago

I bet that scumbag is half human. Dirty cyborgs, get out of our elections.

[–]phrakture 5 points6 points ago

Most of his parts are from Kenya, Inc.

[–]ChiefIndianLung 3 points4 points ago

You have to understand Earth anti-colonialism.

[–]rincew 31 points32 points ago

And their entire front page is now a repost from a millennium ago. As is proper.

[–]MisterWonka 32 points33 points ago

Ugh, not another prepost.

[–]skpkzk2 15 points16 points ago

I see what you'll do there

[–]SuckMyWeiner 5 points6 points ago

I see what you'll do then

[–]Bowsa2511 86 points87 points ago

"Half life 3 Released", looks like its time to look into cryogenics

[–]NeedsAGoodUsername 12 points13 points ago

**Announced. And it doesn't say the date either. For all you know it could be another thousand years after that announcement.

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[–]autobots 18 points19 points ago

I tried to hoverzoom over the "I love girls with triple eye implants" one.

:(

[–]Infin1ty 19 points20 points ago

Wanna se[E] where I can fit my tentacle?

I almost lost it when I read this. Now I'm curious as hell as to what exactly an 'E' is.

[–]Cezetus 11 points12 points ago

[E]xtraterrestrial?

[–]Infin1ty 3 points4 points ago

Ah, and now I feel dumb for not realizing this to begin with

[–]Cezetus 7 points8 points ago

It's not consistent, though. Look at "2 [e]arth [f]emales...". "Extraterrestrial" doesn't fit here and neither does "earth" in the post you mentioned (unless there is an alien race that lives on Earth and has tentacles).

[–]Scapegoat_the_third 8 points9 points ago

Eel.

[–]goodvibeswanted 6 points7 points ago

I bet [e] is for earthling/earther and [E] is for exterrestrial. I bet that's in the new alphabet song.

[–]Hedgehogs4Me 1 point2 points ago

I'm surprised [x] isn't extraterrestrial. Maybe it's something else. Is there* a letter for cross-dressing? Or, uhh, cross-undressing?

* I don't spend much time on NSFW subreddits. I know, it's sad, but I just simply don't have time between all those cats!

[–]sprucenoose 2 points3 points ago

Wall-[E]

[–]FeepingCreature 62 points63 points ago

More like 2112. If things slow down.

[–]roco-j 5 points6 points ago

Well, I can't see any post concerning the priests of Syrinx

[–]tuxxi 0 points1 point ago

Those damn priests had no need of my no need for ancient ways. APPARENTLY, the world is doing fine. it's just "another toy to help destroy the elder race of man"...

[–]typtyphus 24 points25 points ago

I don't think we would have interstellar travel in a hundred years.

[–]MightyLemur 42 points43 points ago

Humans couldn't fly 110 years ago, a lot has happened in 100 years. We may at least be proposing a NASA interstellar program by that time.

[–]alkali_h20 25 points26 points ago

While I love the enthusiasm, I honestly hate this argument. Powered Flight had a precedence in birds before humans did it. Further, many physicists and mathematicians predicted powered flight long before it happened just based on the numbers involved.

Now compare that to intersteller flight. We have no basis to even believe it's possible, and our current understanding of physics suggests it to be an unlikely possibility, if possible at all.

Honestly, this is like saying "we couldn't fly 110 years ago, a lot can happen in 100 years. We will likely at least have a proposed time travel program."

[–]gamelizard 7 points8 points ago

time travel is significantly less possible then interstellar travel.

[–]alkali_h20 4 points5 points ago

And what do you bases this on? Interstellar travel within human lifetimes would require significant increases in life expectancy or faster than light travel. Cryogenics are sort of an option with the exception that communication would be difficult and the individuals traveling would effectively never return. It would be less interstellar travel, and more interstellar transplantation.

Further, I don't think we can even say we have ever encountered a object from another star system. For all we know there are distortions in interstellar space that render traveling to another star impractical. Further, we don't even know if any of the planets within our travel range would be worth traveling to.

So from the standpoint of practicality and current understanding of reality, time travel is only slightly less possible than interstellar travel.

But in reality, that's not even my point. It was meant to be a hyperbole. The point was that comparing the challenges of flight (something which we knew was possible, if only in birds and insects) to interstellar space travel (something we have no precedence to believe is feasible) is illogical because they are completely different things all together.

[–]gamelizard -1 points0 points ago

there are theories that are plausible for interstellar travel and extending human life has been increasing steadily so it is pretty obvious that interstellar travel is far more likely then time travel [backwards and forwards]. also my point was that it was an unfair comparison.

[–]alkali_h20 4 points5 points ago

And my point was that a comparison between flight and interstellar travel was as illogical as a comparison between flight and time travel... given that they are fundamentally different. But hey, I'm chill. I'll just say I'm wrong... somehow... and offer this instead. "Comparing the timeline of flight to interstellar travel is like comparing the timeline of agriculture to terraforming." Is that more palatable for you?

Also this:

extending human life has been increasing steadily

is misleading. Humans are believed to have a certain biological life expectancy (I believe about 120 years, but don't quote me). We have currently only been successful in increasing life expectancy closer to the theoretical maximum life expectancy. This is like making a gas engine that gets closer and closer to the theoretical maximum efficiency. We have yet to devise ways of moving the theoretical max out further, at least not in humans. Even the research in animal models only gain comparatively small improvements.

Edit: Also, theories for possible interstellar travel? None that I know of could deliver feasible travel times without assuming something like cryogenics. Further, we can't even identify if a planet is habitable from telescope so we would have to send a prob, wait for it to report back, and keep doing it until we find a suitable planet. Oh, and no mining ventures because you would never get back within a time period to make it feasible.

Pretty much all FTL travel theories are about up there with time travel. And don't counter with the lack of time travelers within history, because it's basically like the Fermi paradox, and has plenty of holes in it.

This isn't even considering the need for gravity, shielding, food, fuel. I mean, just getting to the nearest star isn't useful if it has no useful planets.

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[–]alkali_h20 5 points6 points ago

Well, I was actually refering to the people not on the ship. They would have to live a really long time. Alternatively, we won't really have interstellar travel so much as "well, their gone."

[–]OutofH2G2references 5 points6 points ago

Most prominent futurologists have suggested that the human species will be a multi planet civilizations in 100 years but will not, and may never, leave to solar system.

Note that that doesn't mean our technology wont be interstellar. It means that, even with a technological singularity around mid century, biological human beings will be confined to the solar system for a very very long time.

[–]generalT[!] 4 points5 points ago

biological beings.

[–]OutofH2G2references 5 points6 points ago

Yes, that is what we were talking about. I even conceded that non biological technology may be able to go interstellar in 100 years. Even that is a stretch though. If the speed of light is still the speed limit by then, we'd have to be on the edge of sending that technology into the universe in the next 40-50 years because, at its fastest, it will take another 40 to 50 years for whatever we send just to reach another system. (And equally as long to communicate back the fact that it reached that system)

[–]DoesntWorkForTheDEA 4 points5 points ago

Or Half Life 3.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

http://100yss.org/

[–]typtyphus 7 points8 points ago

I like the idea, but I have more hope for the warpdrive. This will probably take longer than a hundred years.

[–]lx-s 15 points16 points ago

I like how it's still the same design

[–]aspartame_junky 7 points8 points ago

There was a cataclysmic web war in 2375 initiated by the Diggian empire, a group which claimed to be precursors to reddit and insisted on upgrading reddit's appearance to a more "commercially pure" design to bring balance to the net.

many cats died to bring us this information.

[–]StopYellingAt_Me 10 points11 points ago

THEY ARE FINALLY GONNA LEGALIZE IT!

[–]Zig-Zag 2 points3 points ago

This one got me.

[–]petemann 9 points10 points ago

I'm depressed because I want to live in that world.

[–]HedoNNN -1 points0 points ago

Get cryonics.

[–]commiepinkosocialist 8 points9 points ago

they missed 'Ron paul campaign still accepting donations'

[–]revolved 80 points81 points ago

Now I want a pocket whale.

[–]cuddlemonkey 28 points29 points ago

This is also the first comment on the r/funny post.

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[–]revolved 4 points5 points ago

I didn't click the r/funny link actually.

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[–]revolved 3 points4 points ago

May your pocket whales always swim in a pod.

[–]sethin2 7 points8 points ago

I very nearly tried to click on that link.

[–]jpops91 8 points9 points ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/PocketWhales/

[–]Mhill08 1 point2 points ago

Insta-sub

[–]loricasegmentata 4 points5 points ago

Seconded

[–]ofker 13 points14 points ago

Desperately hope pocket whales become a thing. Unless they follow the same rules as Crichton's mini-elephants.

[–]digitalnexus 6 points7 points ago

Oddly enough, probably the most believable part of this image is the three sidebar advertisements.

I always wondered how we've survived so long on one.

[–]Zybob 19 points20 points ago

That is genius, I love the last post in /r/christianity

[–]scottread1 4 points5 points ago

The only thing we can be sure of is that this will be reposted again.

[–]Dahill 17 points18 points ago

Ah, looks like circlejerks exist in the future as well.

[–]technewsreader 3 points4 points ago

Regarding exportable life experiences. Make sure to see Strange Days of you have not. There were similar concepts in the matrix and minority report. Great movie.

[–]kulgan 2 points3 points ago

Might want to read This short story by Cory Doctorow.

[–]blackoak365 2 points3 points ago

no cats pics?!?!....the future is a dark place

[–]biitchhplease 7 points8 points ago

Look on the bright side... pocket whale!

[–]jafrich 2 points3 points ago

......... Pocket whale?...

[–]biitchhplease 5 points6 points ago

Pocket whale.

[–]BluApples 0 points1 point ago

Pocket whale!

[–]Noisebot 3 points4 points ago

I eagerly await the arrival of Misbehavin' Pocket Whale.

[–]l0l_cabbage 1 point2 points ago

I don't think that we would still shit our pants In 3012.

[–]OM_NOM_TOILET_PAPER 1 point2 points ago

"Founder of New Mars Liberation Party" sounds pretty important, why doesn't it have more upvotes?

[–]gonzoblair 0 points1 point ago

They're a fringe party. Sure you might agree with their policies but you aren't going to be voting for them and just throw your vote away.

[–]bailsters 2 points3 points ago

The Bill Murray one was by far my favorite!

[–]alkali_h20 1 point2 points ago

Easily the best.

[–]powercorruption 10 points11 points ago

Reminds me why I'm not subscribed to /funny

[–]DocFreeman 2 points3 points ago

Very amusing, especially pocket whales. Jab at Christianity at the end was pretty unnecessary though.

Edit: Lol downvotes. Real classy folks.

[–]Eryemil 22 points23 points ago

Jab at Christianity at the end was pretty unnecessary though.

Why? I thought it was pretty funny personally and also likely to prove quite accurate.

[–]roflocalypselol 4 points5 points ago

I didn't interpret is as a jab at Christianity, so much as a jab at /r/christianity.

[–]DocFreeman 9 points10 points ago

Meh, to each their own. I just feel that people really underestimate mankind's need for religion/spirituality. Most of our current major world religions have been around for 1000+ years, I don't think they're ALL going to disappear in the next 1000.

[–]Rick-KLN 12 points13 points ago

Actually most religions are long gone. Only a few are left and they are dying faster than ever. I think you are grossly overestimating how long it will take religion to die. I personally think that there might still be Theists for a couple of hundred years but Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam will be gone before 2100.

I live in South Africa and here the amount of people who call themselves religious has gone from 98% to 80% in the last 10 years. The amount of people attending church has gone from 85% to 40%. We're not even a country where lots of people are connected to the internet. Once everybody in the world is connected to the internet religion can only last one generation.

[–]DocFreeman 4 points5 points ago

Most religions are long gone.

True but the ones that remain have more followers (in absolute terms, percentage wise is next to impossible to know) than ever before in human history.

Only a few are left and they are dying faster than ever.

Source? According to wikipedia there are 16 religions with at least 1 million adherents. 3 of those 16 also have at least 1 billion adherents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups#Largest_religions_or_belief_systems_by_number_of_adherents

In terms of decline, I'd love to see evidence outside of Western Europe and South Africa. I also think you're making a mistake in presuming that current/past trends = future results. Case in point, China, a county where the state adopted atheism as its official religion, has recently experienced growth in religious affiliation.

I also heartily dispute your assertion that internet access = decreased religious affiliation. I concede that increased technology does correlate with less of a dependence on religious or traditional solutions to problems. However, I, personally, think the modern human is still a fundamentally spiritual being with spiritual/religious needs.

If anything, I think religions have to do more to adopt themselves and their traditions to modern technological developments but I fundamentally reject the notion that more technology = no more need for spirituality/religion.

[–]Eryemil 7 points8 points ago

However, I, personally, think the modern human is still a fundamentally spiritual being with spiritual/religious needs.

This is a nonsensical statement. Unless you can define what spiritual is in a way that sets it apart from other synonymous words in this context then you might as well be saying that modern humans are still fundamentally bladagook beings. The word spirit "Spirit", from the Latin spiritus, is an inherently dualistic phrase—in other words, it is meaningless because there is zero evidence to validate the belief that we exist in anything but a physicalist universe.

Religious needs are manufactured; people with religious "needs" have them because they were indoctrinated into believing that they had them.

[–]DocFreeman -1 points0 points ago

Religious needs are manufactured; people with religious "needs" have them because they were indoctrinated into believing that they had them.

Do you have any support for this statement? I find such a claim not only EXTREMELY difficult to prove but also at odds with most of my life experience. In my brief time on this Earth, I've met children of atheists who adopted some form religion. I've also met children of religious folks who became atheists.

My point is that completely unsubstantiated perspectives don't make for good arguments. If you want to couch it in the language of "I believe X" or "I think Y" that's fine, but don't dress up your personal opinion as fact without scientific evidence to support it.

[–]monalisafrank 4 points5 points ago

You're raised by more than just your parents.

[–]DocFreeman 1 point2 points ago

But for the average child, they are far and away the biggest influence don't you think?

Even so, I imagine it wouldn't be difficult to find someone who had atheist parents who grew up in a less religious culture that eventually adopted some form of religion/spirituality.

[–]Eryemil -1 points0 points ago

Don't give me that shit buddy, you are the one that said that human beings are inherently spirituals as if it were some profound, meaningful statement.

How about you define what the fuck spiritual means before complaining?

[–]generalT[!] 1 point2 points ago

zen-sunnism will rise.

[–]Rick-KLN -5 points-4 points ago

True but the ones that remain have more followers (in absolute terms, percentage wise is next to impossible to know) than ever before in human history.

This is very hard to know for sure but because while irreligion is the fastest growing group the population among the religious groups is also increasing. However I would guess that growth of irreligion among the previously religious is faster than population growth and so everyday there ar less total religious people than the day before.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/01/the-second-aftershock-the-rise-of-irreligion/

In terms of decline, I'd love to see evidence outside of Western Europe and South Africa. I also think you're making a mistake in presuming that current/past trends = future results. Case in point, China, a county where the state adopted atheism as its official religion, has recently experienced growth in religious affiliation.

Could you provide a source for the claim that China is experiencing a growth in religious affiliation? Also irreligion is not just growing in Western Europe and South Africa. It is also growing in the rest of Africa, the America's and Eastern Europe.

I also heartily dispute your assertion that internet access = decreased religious affiliation. I concede that increased technology does correlate with less of a dependence on religious or traditional solutions to problems. However, I, personally, think the modern human is still a fundamentally spiritual being with spiritual/religious needs.

This claim is false, no human naturally has spiritual needs.

If anything, I think religions have to do more to adopt themselves and their traditions to modern technological developments but I fundamentally reject the notion that more technology = no more need for spirituality/religion.

There never was a need for religion. Religion is simply a tool based on lies used by the powerful to control the weak minded. Nobody that grows up with free access to information will die religious. I simply don't believe there is a human being stupid enough, or at least I hope not.

[–]DocFreeman 5 points6 points ago

Thanks for calling myself and, at a minimum, millions of other people potentially stupid.

I'm sorry you feel the way you do about people of faith.

[–]Rick-KLN -2 points-1 points ago

Faith is believing something without evidence. In other words approaching something without using reason.

Stupidity is acting without intelligence or reason. By it's very definition having faith and being stupid are the same thing.

EDIT: I would like to say that while I believe that having faith is being stupid. That doesn't mean I think less of those people. My parents are religious, I still respect them. I don't believe they are inherently stupid or that they cannot do smart things, just that the act of having faith is one of the stupid things they do.

[–]Mhill08 1 point2 points ago

Posts like this are why people unsubscribe from /r/atheism.

Sincerely, an atheist.

[–]Rick-KLN 0 points1 point ago

I absolutely hate all the posts on /r/atheism that say atheists should respect religious beliefs or shouldn't mock religious people.

For years the only Atheists I encountered as a Christian were "nice" ones that said: well that is one way of viewing things, this is mine. None of those people even made me think twice about Atheism. I thought they were all being nice because in their hearts they actually believed in God.

Only when I heard guys like Ricky Gervais speak and actually found /r/atheism did I seriously consider that people are actually in their hearts atheist. These people were mocking me, these people were really sure of what they were saying. So I gave atheism some thought, it made sense and changed my life.

Not mocking religious people is not giving them the same chance /r/atheism gave me.

[–]alkali_h20 1 point2 points ago

Logic fail, 5 yards back. Faith = belief without evidence not belief without reason. Plenty of people have reasons for their faith, even if you don't agree with them. I might have "faith" in my mechanic, or have "faith" that the job market I entered won't implode, or faith that my loved one with cancer will pull through. None of these things are stupid.

Further, the human mind is generally trying to look for order and patterns. For this reason, it can in some way seem logical to think that something as complex as the universe has some sort of higher order.

Seriously, I honestly hate identifing myself as an athiest mainly because of posts like this. Go back to /r/atheism.

[–]Rick-KLN -1 points0 points ago

There is a difference between hope and faith, the things you are referring to are hope. Hope is believing something that can be proven to be possible will happen.

It can be proven that your mechanic or the job market can possibly succede. It cannot be proven that god can possibly exist.

Believing something without evidence is not reasonable. There is no problem with the logic.

Seriously, I honestly hate identifing myself as an athiest mainly because of posts like this. Go back to /r/atheism.

I can't tell you how much I hate posts like This. As someone who was once a Christian I will tell you that anytime someone from a different faith or an Atheist respected my beliefs, saying things like "well I understand how you can think that but I just think this", it was very easy to dismiss anything they said as coming from someone who is actually thinking about Christianity and will soon "come round".

The only things that really made me realize people seriously didn't believe in a god was when I saw some comedians like Jimmy Car and Ricky Gervais mock Christianity and when I found /r/atheism.

The thing is militant Christians get converts and militant atheists get converts. You guys always want it to turn out that the people that respect everyones beliefs, make them see there are atheists that are nice people, that they are the ones that make people consider atheism but that is not true.

You think mocking people's belief pisses them of and they will never convert if they think atheists are all assholes. This is not the case. Nobody really becomes an Atheist or a Christian because they think either party consists of nice people. They become an Atheists or a Christian because of what they believe and people only really change their beliefs when they realize their beliefs are wrong.

Mocking someones belief does a much better job of making them think they are wrong than respecting their belief.

[–]skpkzk2 0 points1 point ago

Judaism is over 3000 years old, I see no reason why a religion as widespread as christianity or islam couldn't do the same.

[–]djmnfg 0 points1 point ago

I thought it was pretty...likely to prove quite accurate.

I know I'm late... but a post with 1 default upvote getting to #40 on the frontpage is quite unlikely.

[–]revolved 1 point2 points ago

Eh, notice there were no atheism posts. The joke was that the atheists on reddit finally won.

[–]-Hastis- 1 point2 points ago

Notice that there are no post from /r/atheism on the front page either... lol

[–]Vimsefreet 0 points1 point ago

What? Christianity is a sham anyways.

[–]bizbunch 1 point2 points ago

I think you should keep going with this...

[–]Zombi_Sagan 4 points5 points ago

Finally got a release date for Half Life 3

[–]eduardvictor 0 points1 point ago

LOL Half life 3 Release Date XD

[–]PlacentaLotion 1 point2 points ago

pretty funny :)

[–]Chawklate 1 point2 points ago

I'd expect more votes, considering the increased size of the population

[–]stonesfcr 1 point2 points ago

What the [E] stands for?

[–]biitchhplease 1 point2 points ago

I think it means Earth.

[–]stonesfcr 1 point2 points ago

Mom's Friendly Robot Company is behind Tylo's agenda

[–]proper_vibes 1 point2 points ago

lol @ cannabis still not being legal. Apparently the US wins the next 3 world wars :(

[–]EngagementBacon 0 points1 point ago

Special appendages?

[–]NotoriousLynx 1 point2 points ago

Somebody needs to become Shitty_WaterProjections.

[–]brokeboysboxers 0 points1 point ago

How come I can't read it on my phone? I even went to the web browser. Anyone else having issues?

[–]silverdeath00 0 points1 point ago

Completely lol'd at "Half-Life 3 Release Date announced"

[–]DoesntWorkForTheDEA 1 point2 points ago

This is so unrealistic. 3012 is way too early for Half Life 3 to be released.

[–]Robby712 1 point2 points ago

Am I the only one stoked about pocket whales?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

In the times when humans died

This is the most telling thing. Not only will we one day conquer death, we will eventually stop thinking about it except as a part of history. Today's dying of smallpox will be tomorrow's dying at all.

[–]fatalblur 0 points1 point ago

To be fair, it would be more like "ERROR 404" but nice prediction anyways

[–]KindredBear 0 points1 point ago

lost it at "The year we legalize" and "Half life 3"

[–]zenzer42 0 points1 point ago

17296 link karma? I wish I could get that in 1000 years...

[–]Pwag 1 point2 points ago

I fucking KNEW Mitt Romney was a mandroid.

[–]carnenom 0 points1 point ago

hahahah number 24 is the best!

[–]hazysummersky 0 points1 point ago

Reddit in 1000 years..still no change to layout! I approve..

[–]jkjkjij22 0 points1 point ago

not a single video! so glad we in our time.

[–]erosharcos 0 points1 point ago

This was seriously awesome. My favorite post on Reddit yet. You deserve the highest of fives and more karma than could ever be mustered on any single sub reddit.

[–]Kashyyykk 0 points1 point ago

Mandatory Half Life 3 release date joke. This thing is complete, well played sir.

[–]FourteenThousand 0 points1 point ago

Too bad this is practically unreadable on my phone, no matter how I try to enlarge it.

[–]noxbl 0 points1 point ago

This is great. I felt like I got a real sense of that world. Thank you

[–]Syn_Splendidus 0 points1 point ago

The last one is my favorite, not gonna lie, but the /r/trees one was hilarious as well!

[–]ragsta 0 points1 point ago

Memo to self: Pocket Whale.

[–]kortank 0 points1 point ago

It's lacking the following UI :P -> Linkeh

[–]PhilGarber 0 points1 point ago

Pocket Wales? Did I miss a memo? You thought up some pretty gory shit for the NSFL bits.

[–]shaolingod 0 points1 point ago

Love the trees submission!

[–]Jumpin_Jack_Flash 0 points1 point ago

I honestly believe this whole graphic was created to poke fun at Half Life 3's release date.

[–]FreeSammiches 0 points1 point ago

12 gets me in the feels.

[–]keelar 0 points1 point ago

The best ones were "Half Life 3 release date announced!" and "Hello, anyone else still here? Guys?" I think the Half Life 3 one was the best, though.

[–]antdude 0 points1 point ago

Wow, Reddit will still be alive in 3012 unlike Digg and others. ;)

I won't be able to live that far. Does anyone have a time machine I can use?

[–]Artem_C 2 points3 points ago

Brilliant.

[–]mazagran 1 point2 points ago

1,000 years later - same ui. i believe it.

[–]SonsOfLiberty86 1 point2 points ago

Obama Memorial Spaceport, eh?

NASA would like a word with you...

[–]NapalmRDT 0 points1 point ago

Snake... SNAKE! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!!!

[–]replicated 0 points1 point ago

No r/atheism? this is a future I want to live in.

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