[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')This all happened within 24 hours. My question. Which day was he a hypocrite? When he shot the duck or saw god in the sunset?

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'T')oday I steward 400 acres of wilderness bordering a huge national park.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'W')hy would I want to trust something Mos would trust?

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'L')ike "Iran cable cut"?

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')This moral dilemma can be described by an individual equally helpless to resolve it. Myself for example. I will go to heroic levels to help friends and loved ones.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', ' ')a basket of currencies (what do they call it, special drawing rights). So yeah, that's a bit of tin that ain't so tin anymore.. the Chinese are calling for it, the Russians too, and now even the Obama Administration.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')This moral dilemma can be described by an individual equally helpless to resolve it. Myself for example. I will go to heroic levels to help friends and loved ones.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'e')ven these most derailed and lost of humans are capable of compassion and can suffer. Are they deserving of a priority over other life forms?

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '
')How can we effectively communicate with "regular folks"?

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'e')ven these most derailed and lost of humans are capable of compassion and can suffer. Are they deserving of a priority over other life forms?

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '
')The problem is, the second people leave the theaters, they just go back to their old auto-pilot patterns.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')This moral dilemma can be described by an individual equally helpless to resolve it. Myself for example. I will go to heroic levels to help friends and loved ones.

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'W')hy would I want to trust something Mos would trust?

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', '
')And people wonder why I don't trust anyone here for accurate information.

[EXSLOPER]

Who do I trust? Unlike a lot of the posters here I like to keep it simple to avoid confusing myself.
I trust a pretty small group of people who have earned it... all others fall into one of two catagories - "Jury still out" and "have proven themselves untrustworthy". The second group is huge and the third is pretty big.

In line with keeping my thoughts simple I focus on making sure that the world doesn't have to take care of my family and I and don't spend a lot of time wringing my hands over situations where I have no ability to influence the outcome. I'm not out to save the world.

[Plantagenet]

Trust has to begin with trusting yourself and your own judgement in the personal, social, political and financial realms. Once you trust your own judgement, then you can make your own appraisals of people and situations and have the confidence to trust your intuition and go with your own decisions.

If you start out looking for someone else's judgement to trust, there is a good chance it won't work out for you.

[rangerone314]

There's only 3 people that I trust: me, myself, and I.

And here's a question: what "system" (and the world IS run by systems) do you trust to successfully confront the various problems such as peak oil, overpopulation, environmental degradation, and climate change?

American corporatocracy, Russian thugocracy, Chinese hybrid autocracy-semifreemarketistm, Eurosocialism, Arab monarchism?

How much do you trust that any of these systems can react to successfully meet the challenges?

How many of these systems do you think can be toppled in time to be replaced by a system that COULD meet the challenges? (A big IF even if they were toppled, what follows might be worse)

Societies collapse because they are stable enough to prevent people who see the problems far enough away to do something about them now, from doing something about them now, and will suddenly collapse when things are so far along that no action by the society will forestall collapse.