by NEOPO » Thu 05 Apr 2007, 04:17:54
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('max_power29', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cestlavie', 'H')ey, relax people! Just remember, you have plenty of movies to watch, and music, and TV, and radio and and ice cream! And candy (and beer and wine... ) Ok, ok, anyway. Just look at the bright side. Ultimately if we look into Near Death Experience, somewhere in there (all those books -about NDE) is a quote "life is the real death". And I read somewhere 'Death is like birth into the real life'. Honestly, I don't know what the real truth is. But when your up in the sky flying in a cessna two seater (or whatever your flying in) and you look down, and you see the little houses and little trees all of earths problems look so small from a distance. So its really all perspective (to a huge degree anyways - for example marathoners run 26 miles and then collapse one step right after the finish line), even though we may be negative, and of course even rightly so given the conditions. I work to prepare (if anything just for the emotional well being even if I die early!!!) and look forward to each new spring and planting. Remember life is tough, but maybe not the life after! Some thought came to me one day "we create our life in the world to be by the things we do in the world we see". All of life is a stage and we are the drama. I currently find that I don't want to be a part of that drama anymore, especially cause the wood floor sure is isn't any good for digging. Kunstler had said in his presentation "Life is tragic", and he also had a picture of an airliner with a thought bubble going up into the sky and the words "fill 'er up with.... uh.... technology?". Give me technology! So I drink, I drive (but not necessarily in that order of course - unless I want to die) in my 2000 pound vehicle to and from work, I see the insanity and hilariousness of it all, I plan for spring, plant stuff like Rampion, Day Lilies, Jerusalem Artichokes, etc and hopefully will be ready for the crash. A light load for anyone to be sure. But I don't know how else to deal with it and everything else seems trivial now...
Tom Brown Jr was a survivalist who lived in the woods for over ten years with practically no tools except for a knife. It's almost consoling now ever time I read his books and his information and the vision quests he has. He even wrote a book on plant identification, in addition to books on his experiences. Grandfather told him the future is like the palm of the hand, with the fingers representing the many possible futures that could be had and one of the fingers was the most probable future but this could change. Grandfather suspected that before the flock of birds changed course it was one bird that came up with the thought. Its good to get a store of written books that you can go back to and read. When the computer, the internet is down we'll have hard copies of all the good stuff, and life won't be as miserable. Survivalists focus on the survivalist stuff but its also important to stock up on good books too, for ye shall not live by bread alone, when I was a child I spoke as a child but when I grew up I put all those childish things aside.... (grin!) Just having fun of course!!! Throughout the land
Snooorreeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....
Great Post! I couldn't have said it better.
Of course you couldnt as we all know you cant even pronounce let alone spell half those words!
TB - Aw now stop it as you know I care, we are doing the right thing by moving toward sustainability and all that yet the root of this is do you really trust people.
I dont hate them I just doubt their ability to get along well post peak so I dont want to be too near a herd of them when they stampede!
Now tell me you dont kinda feel the same way which is a mild, soft and gentle example of cynicism.
Bas -I wake up on fire man, you couldnt put me out with niagara falls and that little bit of fuel you tossed on me lasted about a nanosecond.
My cage is made of old bones and rattles all the time anyways.....
