[smallpoxgirl]

Up until two days ago, the lot next to my office was a really beautiful spot. It had three huge majestic elm trees. These things were so big that if you wrapped your arms around them, your fingers wouldn't touch. Some piece of sh-t chiropractor bought the space and decided to build an office. Yesterday I came in and found two of the trees crumpled on the ground with a giant backhoe loading their pieces into a dump truck. We thought they were going to leave the third one. About halfway through the afternoon, I heard a sickening crunch and looked out the window to see a guy with a chainsaw stomping through the body of the third tree, which he'd just cut down. For what? To build some piece of crap office building that will look like ever other piece of crap office building? Worse yet, not even that. He cut down this tree for $10 an hour. For two six packs of beer, he murdered a tree that's probably older than his grandmother. I was just beside myself. I left the office. Couldn't stand to be there. Even now, I just feel sick being here. Who could do such a thing? How is it possible that this level of evil has become normalized? Our species just seems to hate everything that lives. We measure our progress by how much we can maim and kill. I'm just as responsible as the dickhead with the chainsaw. I should have stopped them. If I'd thought they were going to do this, I would probably be in jail right now, because I would have tried to stop them. How have we built a world where this is considered acceptable? How is it that we've created churches that tell people that they're going to hell if they have unsanctioned sex, but they will suffer no consequences for doing this kind of thing. This morning I really hope there is a hell, because if there is, this chiropractor will surely go there for doing this.

[Devin]

It hurts a lot worse when it's nearby.

But this isn't a human thing.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Yeah, that's pretty depressing. Reminds me of that story of the dairy farmer in a rural area. The subdivisions were built nearby one day and a lawyer and doctor moved in. They didn't care for the smell of the cows and sued. The dairy farm was shut down.

[DomusAlbion]

I feel for you SPG. I hate to see these things going on, but I have to say I'm guilty of the same type of crime. We're taking down two black walnut trees by our house. One is 100 feet tall and over 6 feet in diameter. But they are a threat to the foundation and the roof, but my feelings associated with the act are not positive.

I hereby vow that my penance will be to plant 10 new trees on our property for each one I bring down.

[Ayoob]

Post deleted by wisconsin_cur. Off topic and a personal attack

[Byron100]

Look at this way, SPG....with the effects of Peak Oil closing in upon us like an approaching tsunami, people won't be building things like offices for very much longer. This is truly the end of days for paving over the landscape with crappy office buildings and ass-ugly McMansions...and it's about dammed time, too.

I'd not be surprised if he's unable to go into business once the building is complete, as we'll probably be too far into the Greater Depression for anyone to afford such frivolous things as chiropractory. Kinda sucks to have something like this happen and have it be for naught, though...maybe the banking crisis will hit before groundbreaking actually begins, so that lot can remain vacant for all time. If could get my hands on that land, I'd pack it wall-to-wall with fruit and / or nut trees.

Just hang in there just a wee bit longer, SPG...it won't be long now.

[Jack]

Sorry to hear about the trees, SPG.

There is a Lowe's store in town that did the same thing. I haven't gone in the front door, ever - and that's been well over a decade.

Come the dieoff....

[Ludi]

If there is a bright side to the collapse, it is that some forms of destruction will be more difficult, and take longer. Maybe people will think twice before they cut down trees if they have to do it with a two-man handsaw or an axe.


But sadly, even with those tools, folks were able to do an enormous amount of damage.


Early Anglo settlers here in our area cut down the wild pecan trees to get the nuts, because the nuts were so valuable to sell and trade. They didn't seem to consider they might want nuts next year...

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I')f there is a bright side to the collapse, it is that some forms of destruction will be more difficult, and take longer. Maybe people will think twice before they cut down trees if they have to do it with a two-man handsaw or an axe.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', ' ')I think the only hope is that with the die off, the current life way dies too.

[Ayoob]

Post deleted by wisconsin_cur. Off topic and, in light of the previous post, a thinly veiled personal attack.

Lets make well thought out arguments people.

[smallpoxgirl]

Ayoob, don't you have some puppies to throw off a cliff or something?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'A')yoob, don't you have some puppies to throw off a cliff or something?

[MacG]

Why exterminate the entire humanity because of this? Could you not be satisfied with just the chiropractors?

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MacG', 'W')hy exterminate the entire humanity because of this? Could you not be satisfied with just the chiropractors?

[Ayoob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'A')yoob, don't you have some puppies to throw off a cliff or something?

[MacG]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'A')yoob, don't you have some puppies to throw off a cliff or something?

[cowuvula]

I am the uvula of the singing cow
I must tell you much to my chagrine that anyone that says adultery is fine and cutting down trees is immoral, you have a warped sense of ethics.

You have put the replaceable vegetation above irreplaceable humanity,it's thinking time. Wake up.

I take it you won't be referring patients to the kiropracter then?

There are laws in the universe and they run the universe, when you break them you die.

Overeating will kill you
drugs will kill you
etc etc
jump off a cliff and you die.

murder kills.
When we think we can kill others for a reason eventually it comes round circle and they will always have a reason to kill you, eventually everyone dies because technology now allows it.

When our consciences think WE are God and are smart enough to know when to kill, that is when we all kill ourselves.

It didn't take the Germans ten years to warp their thinking from killing retards to killing Jews. The human mind is unstable and hypnotizable and there in lies the danger you have to have set rules and if you dont like them there are ten of them

then you shalt die, no whining. it will happen.

Dishonor your parents, it is a snowball rolling down hill eventually everyon dies.

comit adultery ok? no, society will die and you too.

covet things? everyone willl die eventually

you cant break gravity or the la2w if you do EVERYONE including the innocent will die.

nukes kill innocent people, not guilty people, it all came from covetousness.

anyway this may be above you, much like a discussion of warped space time is above the aborigine, but gravity will still kill him anyway.

complaining about gravity won't help anything you will still die.

When we think we can have sex with anyone we want and think we are going to have a normal society, it just means you have a low IQ and are ignorant.

just as ignorant as jumping off a cliff and thinking you won't die.

it won't happen.

Cutting down trees won't kill anyone.

actually in a thousand years this will all be trees again, and no human life so be nice. Treat your brothers and sisters however retarded they are, with a bit of love, they don't have long any more. They are about to kill themselves with their breaking the laws of the universe.

[Ainan]

I know how you feel smallpoxgirl, so many trees have been cut down near me, mainly to make 12 spot car parks. They won't stop till every last piece of life has been consumed.

Still look on the bright side, the end is nigh and all that, plenty more destruction to come but proportionate to our own.

If you haven't seen it already watch 'Life after People' by the American History Channel. Or 'The world without us' book by Alan Weisman. Both show how nature will bounce back.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', '
')You kill live human beings for money.