7 Billion people versus food which needs land, water and energy

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7 billion people, Human population collapse, Population explosion, World population 7 billion

7 Billion now! 14 Billion in 40 years? 28 Billion in 80 years?

The simple facts: 7 billion people need food to live and raise children! Without food people will die and have no children! Food is grown on land in the form of plants, but there is a limited supply of land. Plants need water to grow, but there is a limited supply of water. Plants need to be transported from where they are grown to where people live, but it takes energy to cultivate the plants and move them to the people, but there is a limited supply of energy. The population of people is continuing to double in 40 years, and new-born people are now expected to live for 80 years on average, but there is no more land, no more water and no more energy available to grow food for these future billions of people. There will be less of these essentials in the future because some of them are one-time-use resources, and when they are used up they are gone forever. If all of them are gone, all of the people will soon be gone too.

7 Billion people hasten Doomsday when positive feedback loops combine.

That stated the problems in the simplest possible way, so everyone can understand, and it seems the conclusions are obvious to everyone, so why do the media and the politicians ignore this most dangerous of all problems? With some people already starving to death, it seems unlikely that the world can double its population and not have many more people starving. If that is the situation the present short-sighted policies are condemning billions of people to a death by starvation. Furthermore, that is assuming the world remains as peaceful as it presently is, and there is no major war, which obviously would be much worse for all humanity. However, because people hesitate to starve to death without a struggle it is likely that they will fight to their utmost to save themselves, and that will cause a war. This would be a war for physical survival and not just a question of ideology or a particular spin on assumptions about the nature of god. Even those non-vital wars have killed considerable portions of humanity, but a fight-to-the-death survival-war might eliminate nearly everyone. Not everyone, but nearly everyone, because the resources necessary to create food would be ruined, and it would take several years for the Earth to recover to the point where large-scale production could even be attempted. However, by then most people would be long gone.

Why worry? We are presently living in the best possible world that ever existed for humans, and that is why human fertility is so high. With the overpopulation disaster nearly certain, the best advice for the vast bulk of human society is to live a quiet contented life while you have the opportunity. It will be great until the last few weeks.

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The future water crisis and famine – a proposed solution

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Build dams, How long until world famine, Postponing world famine, Water shortage, Water sustainability, World famine

World population grows the land stays the same

World population continues to climb and the people of the Earth must grow food to eat or they will die. That’s obvious, but what isn’t so obvious is that it takes lots of water to create the food these billions of people eat and only a little for them to drink. Even those few liters per day are sometimes difficult to obtain and it gets news attention occasionally with a doe-eyed child drinking obviously polluted water.

As bad as the current water situation is, it is clearly going to get much worse in the not too distant future and then continue to get even worse. The reason for this coming catastrophe is that with global warming the glaciers of the world are melting away. They are replenished in an annual cycle but with the warming trend they are getting smaller every year. As they get smaller the winter snows melt more quickly and instead of a moderated flow of water in the rivers below the glaciers, the partially frozen precipitation runs off into the sea more quickly. The water goes by the farmers’ fields and others who rely upon it with a quick flood instead of a steady flow. It soon drains away, rather than being used for irrigation of crops.

What is going to be needed to dampen the floods are dams. The problem is that dams are very expensive and take many years to construct. When countries become overpopulated and stricken with a drought, they will at the same time need more water. Unfortunately, the time when they will need the dams to control the flow of water will be the time when they are economically poorer and thus less able to construct them. Because the cause of this problem is global warming, which covers all the regions of the world, it will strike all the world’s population at the same time. Food created from the water of annual runoff will go into decline everywhere in the world at the same time.

Billions of people are directly dependent upon these sources of water for their food. The greatest dependency is upon the Himalaya mountains which feed water to the two most populous countries in the world, China and India. It also feeds the populous countries of Southeast Asia. That is the most extreme case and includes over half of all the people in the world, but the runoff from the mountains of the rest of the world will be subjected to the same global warming and therefore the same quicker annual runoff. There will be no surplus in one part of the world to supply the shortfall in some other part of the world.

The CO2 is already in the atmosphere which is warming the atmosphere which will melt the glaciers and it takes over a hundred years for natural processes to clean the CO2 out. Unfortunately, nature has fallen seriously behind in this cleansing process and so as the CO2 grows the atmospheric temperature is certain to rise and the glaciers are certain to melt even faster than they already are melting.

The tragedy is already in the process of unfolding and in the not too distant future, maybe less than twenty years but probably less than fifty, the floods followed by droughts will cripple agriculture worldwide and famine will ensue. The straight-line growth of world population projected by demographers based on the growth of the last hundred years will slump over sharply. Things are going quite well, by their estimations, but when the water is quickly dumped into the sea by the sudden runoff from the depleted glaciers there will be famine. The demographers are measuring past populations for their projections whereas I am looking at the processes that create food to feed the populations.

There is no way to prevent the already inevitable melting and quicker runoffs, but there is a small possibility of slowing the most disastrous of the effects.

Build water reservoirs now while there is time and money.

Your personal EarthArk in a free water bottle.

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EarthArk strategy

The EarthArk Project is designed to save as much of the world’s accumulated life forms from destruction as possible. That includes wild species of all living things and not just the commercially viable seeds. The ultimate goal is to have samples of seeds and soil from every square kilometer of Earth put into 10,000 year cold storage. No human controlled refrigerator can be expected to perform for such an extended period of time but placing the stored material in a container high in Antarctica would work. The South Pole Station has a sub-surface temperature of -50 degrees and the surface occasionally reaches -100 degrees. At those very cold temperatures all biological activity ceases and so does almost all chemically caused deterioration. Virtually anything properly containerized high in Antarctica would remain functional for as long as humanity has raised crops, that is why I choose 10,000 years as my base time goal. There may be a global warming of five degrees before then which would be very troublesome for humanity but for our EarthArk storage site located high on an Antarctic mountain going from -50 to -45 wouldn’t make any difference to its survivability.

The completed EarthArk storage depot could grow to be quite large with over a thousand shipping containers. These should be placed on hard rock such as Mt. Vinson where there will be no glacial activity to move or destroy them. To accomplish the task of getting the complete EarthArk in place requires many people’s effort from all over the world. The Wikipedia model of many independent people cooperating towards a specific and achievable goal is what will probably prove most workable. The plan is for a few people from the millions of isolated places around the world to simply submit a kilogram size or less of local wild seeds and soil samples to the EarthArk. These could be sent by mail to a not too distant local collection point where they could be taken to a larger EarthArk container for the whole country. Once a container was fully loaded and clearly labeled as to its source location it would be flown to Antarctica and simply set in place amongst the community of other EarthArk containers.

These containers could be arranged to form the building bricks for a large structure which could be formed into habitable interior. Within this protected interior volume a small hotel could be built, which could be used for what ever maintenance, tabulation and security personnel were needed for the containers. After they are in place and documented they would require very little maintenance.

This EarthArk Project is obviously vastly larger than I can do by myself but I can do a tiny almost instant EarthArk which will illustrate how it can be done. I can collect and package a small container with tiny samples of some locally collected things and ship them to as high a place in Antarctica as is possible. Perhaps, I could send it with one of the expeditions which routinely send adventurers to the top of various mountains. All that would be required is having a small enough package which could be placed in the mountain climber’s backpack and he would place it in the memento cache located at the top of most mountains. That would be good because it would be a safe and yet easily identifiable location. It is important that they be easily findable in the future but not easily destroyed by any sort of scavenger. To do these mountain top EarthArks only requires finding those Outdoor Adventure Companies and asking those people going to these remote mountain tops to carry a small package and place it there as their personal memento. If the package wasn’t more than a half kilogram it wouldn’t be too much of a burden to carry and it would give their trip a little more purpose and their life quest more meaning. There could be an additional reward for them by keeping a publicly published list of people who had placed EarthArks in high mountain top places. This is similar to people sharing their computer off time for massively distributed computer projects like SETI but in this case it is in their back pack on a mountain top.

Stainless steel water bottles could be made with the EarthArk mailing information printed on them

500 ml stainless steel canteen bottles like those in common use for portable water containers would be ideal for this purpose. The style with a stainless steel screw-in stopper would be best because they could be expected to remain fixed permanently especially if a retaining wire were wrapped over the top and around the neck. The EarthArk logo and basic information could be printed on the outside and specific information could be etched or scratched onto the side. These cans with the logo and information could be manufactured in quantity and sent to high schools and colleges throughout the world. They could have pre-paid postage as part of their outside design. Thus after they had been used for a while as regular water containers, advertising The EarthArk Project, they could be filled with local seeds and soil samples and simply placed in a local mailbox. From the mailbox they would find their way to an appropriate shipping center where they would be placed in a larger container destined for Antarctica. Alternatively, their contents could be emptied into a more convenient EarthArk container and the canteen sent back out into some area which needs more collection. This reminds me of the way glass beverage bottles were recycled many times before single use aluminum ones became available.

The very first bottled EarthArks could simply be sent to Adventure Sponsors who could give them to their clients before they started their climbs. As the idea became more widespread and accepted and large monetary donors were found it would be possible to mass produce the bottles. Once these were available in quantity they could be shipped to high schools and colleges all over the world where they could be used for a while and eventually filled by local kids with local wild things and dropped into their local mailbox.

This approach seems doable because there are personal rewards for people at every level. Everyone is helping to save their local environment from the problems of eventual global warming and other problems. It is a way to make people more aware of how to make our planet a better place not only for ourselves but for the people of the future.

A bottle of seeds with your name on it could help restore your whole countryside.

Dependence on deep water aquifers courts disaster.

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Aquifer preservation, California drought, Drought prevention, Water shortage

Humanity is mining itself into a corner from which there may be no desirable exit. The mining of deep ground water aquifers to the point of nonexistence may be one of the most difficult problems for future humanity to cope with because it forces the users of water to depend solely on temporary sources which are variable. Water sources such as rivers depend on the amount of precipitation which varies greatly not only from day to day, but year to year and decade to decade and possibly on even longer but relevant cycles. It is necessary for humans to have a reliable supply of water on a daily basis which therefore requires the construction and maintenance of reservoirs. Nature provided us with some truly huge reservoirs in the form of freshwater lakes, snow and glacier topped mountains and subsurface aquifers.

US ground water aquifers map

Global warming is melting away our glaciers and the snowpack is smaller than in the past; thus that form of water storage is vanishing. Humanity is consuming many natural resources at rates way beyond the rates at which nature is replenishing them. When one considers these things in the long term, 12,000 years, there is absolutely no way that nature can sustain humanity at the current levels of consumption for that long. Perhaps even thirty years is an over-optimistic estimate.

California, where I live, is one of the most economically productive places on Earth and because it is so attractive it is in  a state of population expansion and hyper consumption of resources. But,when the next drought hits, there may be severe problems. That drought may already be upon us because we have had record breaking high temperatures this winter and only modest rains. If these water problems can not be coped with they may force the first ever large exodus of people from California. It did happen in Oklahoma in the 30s and it can happen in California.

There are other places throughout the world where there is an impending water shortage and an ensuing disaster. Where will the people go when they depart drought stricken areas when the rest of the world is already full of people? Obviously there will be great stress.

In the 12,000 year time frame the human population must drop back to one hundred million people and until last week I had no idea how that might come about in a desirable way. But possibly with the advent of human UNITY and the possibility of all people intercommunicating on a personal level it might be possible to organize humanity into a single functioning being which would seek self survival as a prime purpose. When everyone feels  being part of the human community is more important than their relationship to some particular portion of it, then we might find a way into a sustainable future.

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The water table must be raised world wide.

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Aquifer preservation, Restoring water tables, Water conversation, Water creation, water saving, Water sustainability

People here in California talk about drought, when we have one, but they don’t talk much about the water table dropping even during a drought. I suspect this is the general attitude world wide and people don’t worry about water until the well runs dry. Unfortunately, it is running dry! Farmers in our central valley have been pumping water out from deep under their soil for many years even during rainy years when there is surface water to use but when there is a drought they pump much more. Needless to say this can’t go on forever, especially when the California central valley is so near sea level already. The State Capitol building in Sacramento, which is in the center of the valley, is only 3 meters above sea level, so a further subsidence as great as that pictured below would put that building deep into the sea.

Water table in California

At present our governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared California to be in an official condition of drought and the public has had restrictions placed on water consumption.

California Drought Monitor from NDMC

The National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) has charts of Drought Monitoring: Current Conditions for the United States. The NDMC considers, at least in this site, only surface water but that will be essential for current use and for replenishing subsurface waters. The surface waters are important for the yearly cycle and a few years but the subsurface waters are important on a decade long and century long basis. When the subsurface aquifers are gone, the shorter term droughts will become instantly devastating because their effects will be felt much more quickly and there will be no recourse but to suffer.

US soil moisture Jan 11, 2009

Water is one of the basic necessities of life and without water there is no life, at least not human life. When there is no water falling from the sky and no water coming in from rivers or aqueducts we can sometimes turn to well water. However, much of this type of water tends to be a one time use and once it is used it is gone forever. There is only one way to get more water out of the ground in the next hundred years and that is to put a lot more water back into the ground than is presently being taken out. We could wait for nature to take its course to refill the deep aquifers but that would take thousands of years and probably it would never happen. Perhaps there are ways to re-water the drained out sandstone aquifers by putting water in at some place where it can then find its way to where it is being pumped out. Some experiments are already being done along this line with pumping CO2 gas deep into the places in the earth where there is porous sandstone but that is intended to sequester the CO2 permanently. Perhaps some of these porous sandstone layers could be filled with water instead of CO2. The exact same wells that are presently drawing water could be the ones where water is pumped back in when it is available.

Unfortunately, if we wait too long after the ground water has been taken out the porous ground compresses and material above it subsides into the space as seen in the photo above. When that happens it would be necessary to literally jack up the land above the aquifer which would be near impossible. Probably only still porous sandstone can be re-aquified. The alternative to this obviously expensive plan is to watch the best land of California slowly sink into the sea, well not so very slowly if the picture above is accurate.

A similar problem on a more local and personal level is when erosion of a stream cuts into the land so the near surface water table descends toward a new water level nearer that of the lowered stream. This lower level means all of the vegetation near that stream must seek lower to find its water and sometimes this is impossible and the vegetation dies. This is the beginning of desertification. This kind of water table drop can be reversed by installing small dams frequently along the stream which raises the water level of the stream and soon that of the surrounding land. After a while sedimentation raises the stream bed to this new height and another dam can be constructed to raise the stream a little higher. This procedure makes possible the survival of much greener and more water demanding vegetation which can be more productive for human use.

When I think long term I like to aim for 12,000 years as that is the lifetime of modern human activity and when one thinks of these problems in that way it becomes obvious that humans must be much more active in the controlling of water in a sustainable way.

Use no more water than you can obtain sustainably.

Note – Perhaps I should make a drought chart similar to the Disaster Scale for measuring the seriousness of the water condition. Going all the way from total flood to absolute absence of water. It would include the typical causes for each level of the water problem.

Water saving – Drought threatens California and we need real reductions.

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California drought, drought, toilet water, water saving

This blog has been primarily about saving humanity, but today’s post is about a local problem that will have worldwide implications, and what we as individuals can do to help. Very few people have found my solution to this problem on my web page so I am reposting it here.

Drought is common in California history and it appears that this bit of history is about to repeat itself. The problem will now be more difficult than in the past because there are vastly more people here than when we had the last drought. Just last week Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a drought, because we have had two years of below average rainfall in northern California, and appear to be entering an extended period of below average rainfall. This is bad news not only for California but for the whole world because not only is California the economic powerhouse of the world it is an agricultural one also. A problem in California will soon ripple throughout the entire world.

How you can cut your domestic water consumption in half by using this controllable toilet flushing system.

In the United States the standard flush toilet uses about three and a half gallons of water with every flush. This is irregardless of the type of material being flushed down the drain, and into the sewer system. Obviously solid material requires more water to consistently wash it down than does liquid waste. This calls for a variable flushing system which is dependent upon what is being cleared away. Presently there are dual flush systems available, but they are complex and thus expensive. There are also temporary fixes which are proffered upon the unsuspecting public during temporary drought conditions. One of these is a simple lead weight which is attached to the floatable plunger-ball which closes the valve when the user is not physically holding the flush lever in its down position. The problem with this method of saving water is that the lead weight all too often detaches itself and goes into the upper part of the toilet water distribution system, and plugs it up. This requires a plumber to come out and remove it or in many cases to completely replace the entire toilet assembly. In an effort to save a little water the end user causes a problem costing him hundreds of dollars. I have discovered an extremely simple way to save more than half of the toilet water, and with no risk of ruining your toilet. It is easy to install, and it works great.

The first photo shows a front view of an open toilet water supply tank with a duct tape strap across the top of the tank.

The second photo shows an interior of the toilet refill tank, and a brass rod running vertically from above the tank down through the water, and into a floatable plunger valve. The floatable plunger valve is held in the drain pipe by the weight of the water above it. The rod is held in a vertical position by running it through a hole in a piece of adhesive duct tape strung from the front of the tank to the back of it. Lower down the rod runs through another preexisting guide attached to the filling assembly. The hole in the duct tape is surrounded, and strengthened with a metal washer. The bottom of the rod is threaded and it is screwed into the plunger valve.

How to operate the toilet-water water-saving mechanism.

When the refill water tank is full the rod may be lifted by hand to release all of the water that is in the tank. It will flow out of the tank into the toilet bowl below. This operation is the normal full flush option, and it performs exactly as it would had the typical handle on the front of the tank been attached to the mechanism, and depressed. The water saving alternative option is accomplished by pushing the rod vertically down, with the hand, at any time after it has been lifted up. When the rod is depressed the plunger valve is pushed into the drain pipe, and the flow of water ceases immediately. When only liquid waste is being flushed away as little as one quarter of the water in the tank is needed for flushing. Eight out of ten household usages of the toilet are for liquid waste disposal thus there is ample opportunity to save water. The assembly can be made to look much nicer by running the rod through the water tank lid. This can be done by boring a properly located hole through the top of the water tank lid. Use the duct tape method for a week or so first to make sure you are satisfied with its operation.

Climate – Air above, earth and water below.

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climate, ecology, ocean, pollution, weather

The book “To follow the Water: Exploring the ocean to discover climate from the Gulf Stream to the Blue Beyond” by Dallas Murphy seemed to be a natural next read for me in my quest to understand the climate and its future and to ascertain what I should do about it.

Mark Twain said, “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” but, these days it seems “everybody is talking about the climate and how you and I are screwing it up.” Well, if you have been reading my blogs you will see that I am about as pessimistic as it is possible for a human being to be about a pleasant solution to the climate problem being found. There are far too many people living a high carbon consumption lifestyle for the Earth to sustain us for very long. If the people of Earth are going to live like current Americans—and it seems they all want to—there must be no more than 10 million of them or there will be an ecological collapse. That small number of people living an American lifestyle will put as much CO2 into the atmosphere as all of the people of the world did back in 1800 when things were in balance. Actually, for a while, there would need to be an even smaller number of people to permit the CO2, and other pollutants to be digested by the Earth’s natural processes.

In this book I had hoped to find just how much of a moderating effect the world ocean has had on human despoliation, but that wasn’t its author’s goal. This book was more concerned with the flow of water through the oceans. It is a good general interest book, and I enjoyed reading it. He follows the scientists who are trying to find out just what is happening with this oceanic water before there can be a realistic attempt by them to say what is going to happen. One thing that becomes abundantly clear is that the ocean is not just a big puddle of water quietly sitting there with a few fish swimming about in it. It is a really, really big ocean of water with huge quantities of stored energy going all sorts of complex directions at every level in difficult to understand ways. The ocean is every bit as complicated as the atmosphere, and its movements, but it has the complicating factor that you can only see the top of it, and half of it is well below 10,000 feet down. How do you observe that? It does matter, and it does affect us all but we can’t see it.  The scientists are just now placing a few sensors down to those depths to see what the oceans behavior actually is. But, unquestionably, it is huge and it is turbulent on a grand and multidimensional scale. But, as huge as the ocean is, it is beginning to warm up because of human activities. It is a huge sink for much of our heat production and polluting chemicals, but it is not infinite. It is changing and will continue to change throughout our lifetimes, and those changes will not be beneficial to us.

p. 232 The atmosphere is running the show in the short term. In the long term, the ocean rules. What ultimately determines climate as far as humans and the rest of life on the planet are concerned is the long-term temperature at the surface of Earth. Yet that temperature is related to the ocean and its transport of heat poleward from the equator.

The most visible and critical weather related effect at the moment is at the poles, because of the heat transfer from the sub-polar regions regions. There are some things that can be done to slow this energy transfer. And there are some things that could be done to re-radiate energy back into outer space, and thus cool the local areas. But, even massive efforts along the line of geo-engineering would be futile in a few years if there were simply more people creating, and using more energy. The ultimate problem is simply that there are far too many people.

Most efforts so far have been to try and slow the increase of greenhouse gases, but even the most extreme proposals haven’t suggested a way to get back to the pre-industrial levels of 1825. No one has done anything to have the slightest impact on lowering global temperature, and the only effort along this line has been for wealthy people to ease their conscience by purchasing carbon credits from rich politicians in poor countries. It is impolitic to say that, and no one running for any public office will win any votes saying it. Unfortunately, your using less energy won’t help a bit, even the short run, if the person next to you is polluting at a rate a thousand times what the Earth can digest. Your restraint from having a child will not lower carbon production either if someone else is having a litter of kids who will do it in your place. What is needed is to totally stop high energy consumption, and to start doing things which sequester energy and pollutants.

Well, none of this is going to happen any time soon, so what is a rational, and responsible person to do?

Our next morning in Punta del Este, Uruguay

We walked in the other direction from where we saw those spectacular sunsets last night.

It was an easy walk from our home for three nights, with many scenic things. This picture shows more high-rise hotels than yesterday’s photo, which only shows those on the left side.

We walked out to the end of a long, narrow breakwater that separates the Atlantic Ocean from what they call the Rio de la Plata. Along the sea wall, we experienced the Atlantic Ocean, just over this rock wall, and saw a mother cat with two adolescent kittens.

It’s an extremely wide river! But, back at the pier, something strange was happening under the awning hanging over the water.

We hurried back, and sea lions were begging for fish scraps from the person in yellow slicing up fish for sale to customers. On the right, a sea lion jumps onto the fishmonger’s platform.

I ran over as it began begging for fish scraps, but the seagull was quicker and got a whole fish skin.

He was begging very peacefully but was persistent.

He looked at me, hoping for something, but soon got bored, ignored me, and returned to his begging.

This was the good stuff.

We continued on our walk over to the Punta del Este lighthouse.

Every trip needs a spectacular sunset.

We see the sun about to set a few steps from our beautiful apartment.

The waves make a fine-moving foreground, and the reflections flow left and right.

A vertical view brings the waves to my feet and reveals the various forms of bubbles.

A zoom shot emphasizes the glowing clouds over the distant island.

A wide-angle view emphasizes the glow’s width and the beach’s length.

A lower view emphasizes the rolling water and glowing back-flowing water.

This final photo brings all of these visual thrills into one complex photo.

These photos have been reduced to about 10 percent in size to fit website constraints. At two meters wide, they would be spectacularly sharp.

Measuring the Unmeasurable: Future unknowns

This analysis explores the complex and often paradoxical relationship between the “future unknowns” concept and various emotional and spiritual experiences. In some cases, such as relieved survival or a high thrill, the experience itself may bring a heightened awareness of the inherent uncertainty and unpredictability of the future as the individual confronts the precarious, ever-changing nature of existence. In other cases, such as dreamy intoxication or cheerful pleasure, the experience may offer a temporary escape or respite from the anxieties and concerns about the future, allowing the individual to immerse themselves in the beauty and wonder of the present moment.

At the same time, the analysis suggests that there may be deeper, more transformative ways of relating to the unknown and unknowable aspects of the future, such as through the cultivation of contented graciousness or the realization of sublime blessedness. These experiences often involve embracing the mystery and uncertainty of existence, recognizing the inherent limitations of our knowledge and control, and learning to trust in the unfolding of life’s possibilities with openness, curiosity, and faith.

Ultimately, the relationship between the concept of “future unknowns” and these various experiences invites us to confront the fundamental questions of human existence, such as the nature of time, the meaning of change, and the possibility of transcendence. By exploring the role of uncertainty and unpredictability in our lives, we can perhaps develop a more nuanced and compassionate understanding of ourselves and others, recognizing the universal challenges and opportunities that arise from the ever-shifting landscape of the future. At the same time, we must remain open to the transformative power of experiences that dissolve our past, present, and future concepts, revealing the timeless, eternal nature of reality and the ultimate insignificance of temporal concerns. Only by cultivating a wise and open-hearted approach to the unknown, one that embraces both the mystery and the beauty of existence, can we hope to navigate the uncharted waters of the future with grace, resilience, and joy.

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1. Relieved survival: The experience of relieved survival often brings a heightened awareness of the unpredictable nature of the future, as the individual’s brush with death serves as a stark reminder of the inherent uncertainty and precariousness of existence.
2. Reveling riot: The chaotic, uncontrolled energy of a reveling riot may reflect a collective disregard for the future consequences of one’s actions, as the participants’ wild abandon and destruction prioritize the fleeting pleasures of the moment over their community’s long-term stability and well-being.
3. Dreamy intoxication: The altered state of dreamy intoxication may offer a temporary escape from the anxieties and uncertainties of the future, as the individual’s expanded consciousness allows them to immerse themselves in the beauty and wonder of the present moment.
4. Nympholeptic orgasm: The intense, all-consuming nature of a nympholeptic orgasm may provide a brief respite from worries and concerns about the future, as the individual’s complete surrender to the moment erases all thoughts of the past or future and reveals the timeless, eternal quality of ecstatic union.
5. Joyous communion: The shared experience of joyous communion often creates a sense of timeless, eternal connection that transcends the uncertainties and limitations of the future. The participants’ collective celebration of love, friendship, and unity affirms the enduring power and resilience of the human spirit.
6. Jolly merriment: The lighthearted, spontaneous nature of jolly merriment may reflect a carefree attitude towards the future, as the participants’ laughter and good cheer prioritize the joys and pleasures of the present moment over the potential risks and challenges of the unknown.
7. High thrill: The adrenaline-fueled intensity of high-thrill experiences often involves a direct confrontation with the uncertain and unpredictable nature of the future. The individual’s willingness to take risks and push beyond their comfort zone reflects a bold, adventurous approach to life’s unknowns.
8. Exuberant triumph: The experience of exuberant triumph may bring a renewed sense of confidence and optimism about the future, as the individual’s success and achievement serve as a powerful affirmation of their ability to overcome obstacles and shape their own destiny.
9. Jubilant satisfaction: The deep sense of jubilant satisfaction that comes with realizing a long-held dream or aspiration may reflect a newfound faith in the possibilities of the future, as the individual’s accomplishment is a testament to the power of perseverance, vision, and hope.
10. Cheerful pleasure: The simple, carefree nature of cheerful pleasure may offer a momentary respite from the uncertainties and complexities of the future, as the individual’s joy and contentment affirm the value and meaning of the present moment.
11. Contented graciousness: The cultivation of contented graciousness often involves a deep acceptance of the unknown and unpredictable nature of the future, as the individual’s inner peace and equanimity arise from a willingness to embrace the full spectrum of life’s possibilities with openness, curiosity, and trust.
12. Delighted fulfillment: The experience of delighted fulfillment may bring a renewed sense of clarity and purpose about the future, as realizing one’s deepest aspirations and potential provides a guiding vision and direction for the journey ahead.
13. Sublime blessedness: The transcendent experience of sublime blessedness often dissolves all concepts of past, present, and future, as the individual’s direct encounter with divine reality reveals the timeless, eternal nature of existence and the ultimate insignificance of temporal concerns.
14. Blissful contentment: The deep, unshakable peace of blissful contentment may reflect a profound acceptance of the future’s unknown and unknowable nature. The individual’s unconditional embrace of the present moment arises from a recognition of the inherent perfection and wholeness of reality, beyond all concepts of time and change.
15. Seraphic enlightenment: When a person reaches the highest level of seraphic enlightenment, they have no more thoughts of the past, the present, or the future. They have direct knowledge of the absolute reality, which erases all feelings of separation, lack, or becoming and shows them the eternal, unchanging nature of themselves and the universe.

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