And Gene turns around and says, We're not going to make it.

How on Earth do you expect us to survive?

If we do nothing, we stand a better chance of getting away. Perhaps you're right.

We won't make it as a country unless we can turn this thing around.

The first is can we really survive on volunteers?

Anyone comes by, we say we're hunters, and get away with it maybe.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him

We needed anger to survive, to regain the realization that the violence meted out to us was not normal or ordinary .

Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed, not just to ourselves, but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spread.

See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven