What one event do you think could unite the whole World?

AMKC · 01-02-2023 9:01pm #1

Do you think a comet on a catastrophic collision course with the Earth would unite the whole World or maybe massive Alien spacecraft like in "Independence Day"?

Could you see the Americans and Russians working together now?

I certainly could not. I think the Americans and Europe working with China is more likely.

SEPT 23 1989 · 01-02-2023 9:10pm

Anything that attacks the Earth will have the combined forces of every state and religion fighting back against them

01-02-2023 9:11pm

Mrs Browns boys ending

FortuneChip · 01-02-2023 9:12pm

Mass Extinction.

ratracer · 01-02-2023 9:12pm

Maybe a global pandemic……… oh wait, scratch that 🙄🙄

dmcdona · 01-02-2023 9:13pm

E. Burke going home?

Potential-Monke · 01-02-2023 11:09pm

Just watch Don't Look Up. As idiotic as it seems, I reckon that would be the exact reaction to a similar event. That film nailed that part of humanity.

Humanity will never be "one", because greed and selfishness rules the roost.

Cody montana · 01-02-2023 11:09pm

Cannabis party

silliussoddius · 01-02-2023 11:12pm

Spice Girls reunion.

andy125 · 01-02-2023 11:17pm

The Borg

randd1 · 01-02-2023 11:37pm

I think something like alien life being discovered in our solar system would initially cause massive upheaval, particularly religious, as we try to make sense of it.

But I think the idea that life evolving on another world independently from earth in our solar system would, and the realization that not only are we not alone but also not that special, might see us unite in a common identity as human beings.

Assuming of course we don’t wipe ourselves out first.

01-02-2023 11:37pm

https://youtu.be/QrFxKY6aFrQ

Have Aerosmith as well on the bill for guaranteed world peace.

Potential-Monke · 02-02-2023 12:26am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120190125#Comment_120190125

Nah, the introduction of aliens would only cause a scramble for religious orders to retroactively include/exclude aliens so they can ~~keep telling their lies~~ ~~appease the masses~~ spread their scripture. Then you'd have the lunatics who would create a new religion based on these aliens. Queue hapes of people then identifying as said alien species, or a mixture of all, and the introduction of legislation to make it illegal to not refer to them as their preferred race (which would mean actual race, not the made up one we humans have). You'd have 'Merica, China and Russia fighting over who will ~~invade~~ bring peace first, secret government organisations doing back handed deals to get that space tech so they can continue to ~~blow up innocents for oil~~ be the bringers of peace. You'd have the loonies trying to kill/blow up anything Alien related, the weirdos setting up camp and creating a new hippy city nearby wherever they landed and adoring them for no reason other than they're from space.

It would bring technological advancement, but would also increase the divide between the rich and everyone else.

Ten of Swords · 02-02-2023 12:37am

I don't think it's possible, we are a naturally tribal and territorial species. It doesn't matter if there are 10 billion of us or just 10 of us, we will always find a reason to align with those we deem closest to us and fight everyone else.

This meme sums it up I think!

Potential-Monke · 02-02-2023 12:53am

"...we are a naturally tribal (selfish) and territorial (greedy) species"

Yours was more eloquent though. And yes, meme sums it up perfectly!

Deregos. · 02-02-2023 12:57am

Jesus coming back and destroying Putin.

Strumms · 02-02-2023 1:34am

more then just human beings, the concept of life itself is competitive….

You compete with others for jobs / promotions / shifts, attaining boyfriends / girlfriends, regular friends , sporting competitions…

similar in international politics…you have friends, allies, enemies, countries you are wary of, countries who dislike, ones you don’t dislike but don’t want anything to do with. It’s human AND political nature.

so you won’t unite the world..…

Putins replacement could be a bigger savage, Kim Jong-un’s replacement could make Kim look like an Asian Larry Grayson on tranquillisers, Xi Jinping the same.

the world has never been without conflict. Probably all that might come close would be a total proliferation of democracies in all countries on the planet.

that won’t ever happen and if it does that’s hundreds of years away.

NaFirinne · 02-02-2023 1:53am

Christ return will unite the world.

silliussoddius · 02-02-2023 2:20am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120190318#Comment_120190318

Any day now.

Dufflecoat Fanny · 02-02-2023 2:36am

Absolutely nothing can unite us by our own free will. Some outliers like nihilists, misanthropes, religious freaks, fetishists, evil etc. will always separate for the sake of it

Fathom · 02-02-2023 3:35am

Super Glue

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 02-02-2023 3:37am

A few years ago, I would have said Liverpool threatening to win the premier league, but that didn't do it - so I'm going wit the return of Jesus Christ Possibly.

Thelonious Monk · 02-02-2023 6:36am

Ayahuasca

ALB2022 · 02-02-2023 8:24am

We haven't evolved enough to appreciate collective progress over personal satisfaction in a finite time.

We are restricted by boundaries and borders, mental and physical.

There is no single thing that can speed up evolution or unite us all for a greater good.

There are 3 things that would come very close...doing away with reality programs, influencers and the constantly offended.

gmisk · 02-02-2023 8:25am

Absolutely nothing

Pawwed Rig · 02-02-2023 8:33am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120190356#Comment_120190356

His first visit didn't unite too many people. A second visit by (insert deity of choice) would just cause chaos and those that were wrong about their religion would try to kill everyone else.

I would like to see Quetzalcoatl descend on the Earth and get vengeance for his wronged believers.

corner of hells · 02-02-2023 9:34am

A new type of Rubixs cube or fancier fidget spinner.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 02-02-2023 10:28am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120190601#Comment_120190601

Dunno - a few miracles i think would do the trick.

Maybe Cuthultu?

ancapailldorcha · 02-02-2023 10:35am

I'd have said alien invasion or pandemic but given how the last pandemic showed how vile some people are, I don't there's a good answer to the OP's question.

Coillte_Bhoy · 02-02-2023 10:46am

Mayo winning the All Ireland

bloopy · 02-02-2023 10:49am

Carrington event.

Everyone would be united in misery and anarchy.

Badly Drunk Boy · 02-02-2023 12:23pm

If benevolent aliens arrived on Earth, I'm sure I'd prefer the grey ones, whereas I know some people who would definitely be more into the furry lads. And if the aliens weren't so nice, and instead started enslaving or killing us, there would always be some quislings sidling up to them to be on the 'winning' team.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120190820#Comment_120190820

The thing is...is that fancier fidget spinner really better than the old one? I think I'll stick with my old-skool fidget spinner, thank you very much! It mightn't have the flashing lights of your new one or generate enough energy to power a children's hospital in Africa or tell you won the Rumbelows Cup, but it's mine.

What were we talking about? 🤔

Quantum Erasure · 02-02-2023 12:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120190418#Comment_120190418

Bless you

cml387 · 02-02-2023 12:54pm

I remember one of the comics I read some (many) years ago featured a series where a soccer playing alien race came down to Earth and challenged the world to a single game of football to be played.

If the Earth won, they would go away.

If they won they would subdue the Earth and take our women (or something, I'm a bit vague about the consequences).

Would you support the World XI, even f ithe side contained a player from Rangers?

Mad_maxx · 02-02-2023 12:56pm

Funding a one way ticket to Mars for James Corden

SAMTALK · 02-02-2023 1:57pm

Buying a one way ticket to outer space for Putin, Trump and Johnson might work

odyssey06 · 02-02-2023 2:08pm

"we are a naturally tribal and territorial species..."

But the 'tribe' and 'territory' have been expanding over time and if a hostile alien race showed up our 'tribe' could become our species, and our territory the planet.

It is a Dunne Deal · 02-02-2023 2:08pm

The painful death of Piers Morgan.

ancapailldorcha · 02-02-2023 2:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120192080#Comment_120192080

We should just do that anyway.

StevenToast · 02-02-2023 2:20pm

England in a football world cup final would unite the world....

In wanting to see them lose.....

maninasia · 02-02-2023 2:23pm

I think nothing could unite the whole world.

ILikeBoats · 02-02-2023 2:29pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q93IT_f0uaQ

Just need Wyld Stallyns to unite the world

silliussoddius · 02-02-2023 2:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120191110#Comment_120191110

They’d just lose and blame it in an Alien curse.

Pawwed Rig · 02-02-2023 2:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120191038#Comment_120191038

Miracles will not convince anyone given the low bar that has been set in some instances.

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2013/08/06/the-miracle-of-the-herrings-why-thomas-aquinas-is-a-saint/

Unless there was a massive display of power no one would bat an eyelid. Water to wine or loaves and fishes is not going to work

Santan · 02-02-2023 10:40pm

As said earlier, the film, don't look up, is exactly how I think it would now play out with humanity, the pandemic has to have proven that, we were asked to do the most simple thing in the world, just keep some distance, not a km or anything but to the point of just small lines on the ground to give guidelines to follow in queues, and people not only could not do it but just point blank refuse to, knowing that the possibility of getting or giving a disease to someone. The only thing that ever might unite people is the cancellation of money, and the power it gives someone over another person, give everyone the opportunity to be able to live without the absolute need to work all of their life to have nothing to show from it, maybe that's what we need, we have tried the other side of it and it is only just about surviving over 2000 years, maybe we can try another way