Can the Earth defend itself?

Have no idea where to post this, tired of talking about fights and Covid and politics. I understand many of you are religious and that is fine. But please humor me and let's pretend like evolution and things of that nature exists because ______ made it so. I am agnostic and I don't believe the Earth is an intelligent being, but I do believe the universe is in its own way, or that rules were put in place to keep things dying.

So, when a population gets out of control, the Earth/God/Mother Nature or whatever either makes a new predator to deal with it or in some cases l Ike the lemmings, cause them to.committ mass suicide. So here is my question and kinda what I believe.

Do you think that if we keep populating, that we will start evolving a suicidal tendency or even "gene". Yes I know we already have suicide, but this would be like on a massive scale. If so, how do you think it would come about? Just in forms of depression or you just spontaneously decide to jump off a cliff?

Or, do you think as I do, that diseases, natural disasters, wars etc. Are all just ways for the Earth to check intelligent populations? Raising aggression in humans so that they fight more, more and more diseases etc.

Orrrrrrr and this a little out there, new human predator just pops up. Maybe some kind of parasite, or some venomous bug starts spreading across the planet. Or Sharks get lazers or whatever you think. There is so much we don't know, I like talking about this stuff

Talk to whirly he likes talking about conspiracy theories

Interesting thread. I can’t agree, though I think most think in this life are of a random variant.

There are certain issues which will push MANKIND to come together to address (each) irrespective of FAITH and other considerations.

VOICES which seek to undermine perpetuation of HUMANITY as a whole, should be discouraged in my view.

No.

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#RubyWeapon

Originally posted by Surtur
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Those were some hard fights

Originally posted by Surtur
Those were some hard fights

Well, Ruby is harder because you have to fight it solo, but get Yuffie on that shit, the Conformer is a beast against high-HP enemies

Then again, this was on my most recent playthrough (circa 2017), so it was the first time I actually ever really tried fighting them seriously

Obviously no. Nature keeps populations in check by scarcity of resources and increases in predator population size. It does not randomly create suicide genes or brand new predators or whatever. So what will keep humanity's population under control is recourse limits and all that that entails.

Originally posted by Surtur
#RubyWeapon

Damn. Forgot about this...

Originally posted by Scribble
They're actually really easy if you grind to lvl 99 and have a very good working knowledge of materia, like I did

Well, Ruby is harder because you have to fight it solo, but get Yuffie on that shit, the Conformer is a beast against high-HP enemies

Then again, this was on my most recent playthrough (circa 2017), so it was the first time I actually ever really tried fighting them seriously

Omega weapon from FF8 make everyone his *****. Unless you The End his ass with Selphie.

Originally posted by SquallX
Omega weapon from FF8 make everyone his *****. Unless you The End his ass with Selphie.

One thing I do remember though is that Selphie is best girl (although I also have a soft spot for Quistis)

I hated FF8. Hated it.

I dug FF8. It was my first in the series, not the best title, but still memorable.

Actually, the lemmings literally suicided themselves and new predators used to evolve all the time. I didn't mean like *poof* here's a dragon. I assumed everyone would know that it takes thousands of years for it to happen if not longer

Originally posted by Surtur
I hated FF8. Hated it.

I’m right there with you. Think it’s one of the worst in the series. Best thing about it was triple triad and some of the CG cutscenes.

The story is a total mess and Squall is one of the most unlikeable protagonists in the series. And the final boss is garbage.

Originally posted by ShadowFyre
Actually, the lemmings literally suicided themselves and new predators used to evolve all the time. I didn't mean like *poof* here's a dragon. I assumed everyone would know that it takes thousands of years for it to happen if not longer

Thousands of years is way too long. Population growth and decline happens in a far smaller length of time.

Before me, and not including Backfire, this thread was full of Patricks. Even the title sounds like "is mayonaise an instrument?"

Originally posted by Blakemore
Before me, and not including Backfire, this thread was full of Patricks. Even the title sounds like "is mayonaise an instrument?"

Shut up, pedo.