[paimei01]

jasonraymodson "village idiot" ? I need to borrow the title

After looking a lot at what's going on with the world, I realize that the only way out is to ignore everything and laugh . Crazy for the the win
Or "Nothing Else Matters"

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('paimei01', 'j')asonraymodson "village idiot" ? I need to borrow the title

After looking a lot at what's going on with the world, I realize that the only way out is to ignore everything and laugh . Crazy for the the win
Or "Nothing Else Matters"

[Stratovarius]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('paimei01', 'j')asonraymodson "village idiot" ? I need to borrow the title

After looking a lot at what's going on with the world, I realize that the only way out is to ignore everything and laugh . Crazy for the the win
Or "Nothing Else Matters"

[Opies]

The essence of normalcy is the refusal of reality.
-Ernest Becker

[btu2012]

Sanity means dedication to the truth.

Sane people look insane or stupid in a world which lives by lies.

How many really truthful people do you meet in one year ?

Btu

[peaker_2005]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('btu2012', 'S')anity means dedication to the truth.

Sane people look insane or stupid in a world which lives by lies.

How many really truthful people do you meet in one year ?

Btu

[FreakOil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('paimei01', 'A')fter looking a lot at what's going on with the world, I realize that the only way out is to ignore everything and laugh .

[eastbay]

No. A dead Yangtze River is nothing. It can be brought back in time.

Anyhow, one dead river isn't jack compared to the unimaginable folly of burning food crops so SUV's can remain on the road.

I think stuff like that is what J is laughing about. I may begin laughing about it too when the body count starts to skyrocket, which should be any time now. Laughing tears.

[peaker_2005]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'N')o. A dead Yangtze River is nothing. It can be brought back in time.

Anyhow, one dead river isn't jack compared to the unimaginable folly of burning food crops so SUV's can remain on the road.

I think stuff like that is what J is laughing about. I may begin laughing about it too when the body count starts to skyrocket, which should be any time now. Laughing tears.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peaker_2005', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'N')o. A dead Yangtze River is nothing. It can be brought back in time.

Anyhow, one dead river isn't jack compared to the unimaginable folly of burning food crops so SUV's can remain on the road.

I think stuff like that is what J is laughing about. I may begin laughing about it too when the body count starts to skyrocket, which should be any time now. Laughing tears.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('btu2012', 'S')anity means dedication to the truth.

Sane people look insane or stupid in a world which lives by lies.

How many really truthful people do you meet in one year ?

Btu

[paimei01]

Ok, I will remain "heavy crude" then !
FreakOil yes that kind of stuff, or this :

International observers observing Russia :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7274395.stm
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')Equal access of the candidates to the media and the public sphere in general has not improved, putting into question the fairness of the election," the PACE observers said.

[peaker_2005]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peaker_2005', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'N')o. A dead Yangtze River is nothing. It can be brought back in time.

Anyhow, one dead river isn't jack compared to the unimaginable folly of burning food crops so SUV's can remain on the road.

I think stuff like that is what J is laughing about. I may begin laughing about it too when the body count starts to skyrocket, which should be any time now. Laughing tears.

[shakespear1]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'There is no truth, regardless of what people claim... just another layer of bull shit.')

Sorry but that is stretching it a bit.

Stick your hand in a fire and see if what they say is not true.

[FourOfSwords]

Diogenes of Sinope was an ancient Greek philosopher who was thought 'crazy' by all the citizens of the city. He basically lambasted all popular conventions of the people, showing them how silly their notions were. He lived in a wine vat in the market square, kept company with only dogs who he felt were far smarter than humans. Today, with all the 'wonderful' things we are doing to the planet and each other, I think being 'crazy' like Diogenes, might be an enviable option...
Alex(looking for a wine vat/cardboard box,friendly mongrel, and oh ya, 'an honest man')

[PhebaAndThePilgrim]

Good day From Pheba, from the farm:
My father in law is getting ready to sell his cattle. A cattle man loves his cows, and my father in law is no exception. But, he is suffering from some health problems, and is 83 years old.
He has run out of hay because of the bad hay crop last year, and has no way to feed them.
This entire lot of cows, 12 of them, are all pets. He can scratch them all on the back, and he cares about them.
It's a famer thing. My husband is the same way about his cattle.
They care for the needs of the cattle first, putting the care and comfort of the animals above their own.
I asked my husband if he would like to buy a couple of his daddy's cows, just for nostalgia sake. He said "absolutely not".
With corn predicted to go to 5.60 a bushel, there is no way we can afford to keep them.
For the first time in decades, we could not afford to fertilize the ground. Fertilizer prices doubled this year from 31 cents a pound to 62 cents a pound for a low nitrogen, high phosphate/potash mix.
Without fertilizer we have no ideal what our hay crop is going to be like. Last year was dismal, even with fertilizer because of the freaky weather we had last spring and summer.
We are barely going to squeak by this year on hay.
If we end up having late snows, or rough weather, we are going to have to sell some cows.
Crazy! I feel like I am living in a loony bin all of the time. We are burning food for fuel. We have been having a fierce debate over whether waterboading is a form of torture. We have given the rights of the individual, as covered in the 14th amendment of the constitution, to corporations. Corporations = businesses.
We are teetering on the edge of a total economic meltdown, and people just aren't getting it.
Another million home foreclosures are predicted for this year.
The bank fiasco is just beginning the meltdown. We have only seen the first dominoes fall in what is sure to be a record setting tumble.
When all of this impending doom is added to life's local and personal problems, the insanity load gets to heavy to bear.
I had been escaping with my sci-fi. I watched X-Files, Stargate, and Farscape. It doesn't work any more.
My 30 year old daughter was just diagnosed with the same auto-immune diseases I have. I am taking her to my doctor in two weeks. Hopefully the same antibiotic therapy that has me in remission can help her also.
My father in law is in poor health, as is my mother in law.
My husband's aunt is having a nervous breakdown.
(my parents are both deceased)
This list of problems is no different than what other people go through all of the time.
The point is, how does one go through this, look around and see peak everything, global destruction, economic meltdown, etc. and still stay sane.
I believe that crazy is a normal state of mind.
A sane person would have to be crazy not to be crazy.
Pheba.

[FreakOil]

Hello Pheba. I'm sorry to hear about all your troubles. For what it's worthy, you've got some anonymous Internet friends pulling for you.

And we're all a little bit crazy too, methinks.

[static66]

Wow, I lucked out and picked a thread where Pheba was posting! Always a pleasure to read about the goings-on at the farm... Sorry about the life troubles P-Girl. As Bill McKibben says The new "Normal" is the old disturbed, and he is right... imagine how many people you come in contact with on a daily basis that are jacked-up on re-uptake inhibitors and synapse re-locaters and other "depression" drugs that are also synthetic chemicals that pass through the human body and stay active in the water supply, they cannot be filtered out with water treatment.... hope to hell you are not drinking any water other than your own artesian well... anyway, the crazy thing is a great subject during these end-times... pretty soon you will see people walking around in their bathrobes with the thousand yard stare just shuffling down the street to god-knows-where.... how much for the cows?

[static66]

Wow, I lucked out and picked a thread where Pheba was posting! Always a pleasure to read about the goings-on at the farm... Sorry about the life troubles P-Girl. As Bill McKibben says The new "Normal" is the old disturbed, and he is right... imagine how many people you come in contact with on a daily basis that are jacked-up on re-uptake inhibitors and synapse re-locaters and other "depression" drugs that are also synthetic chemicals that pass through the human body and stay active in the water supply, they cannot be filtered out with water treatment.... hope to hell you are not drinking any water other than your own artesian well... anyway, the crazy thing is a great subject during these end-times... pretty soon you will see people walking around in their bathrobes with the thousand yard stare just shuffling down the street to god-knows-where.... how much for the cows?