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by ripsawridge 8y ago
The alternative is the real world, where you look into the eyes of the faces around you and put your energy into those relationships more than others. (Not being flippant. I was on FB 9 years, but realizing that I was prioritizing the far o
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Paying customer for years. I got 7000 photos up there -- memories of the best times of my life. Extremely worthwhile service. All these folks talking about "death knell" should maybe think about paying for it if the feelings are s
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Wonderful insight!
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
True, but a) it's very much on the plan of every country without significant per-capita carbon emissions to become a country with significant per-capita carbon emissions, and b) the expanding populations can and often do emigrate to co
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Yeah, I agree with that quote so much. I was a pretty avid user, and only very slowly realized that I'd begun carrying around "The Audience" in my head, which judged what I did and how I looked at all times. Becoming disencha
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
I don't know why this is downvoted, even if someone disagrees with the opinions, there is a rich vein of ideas to explore. I think we are talking about objectification, in which everything becomes subject to a mental algebra necessaril
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
I actually think this huge block of gun owners in America share a particular mindset with each other that means they'll become the local arm of the government in the hinterland. Just as you always see affinity between police forces an
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
"I don't know what more you want." I think rabboRubble was just offering good practical advice: the "prostration" OP offers has at least a hint of insincerity about it, and isn't serving anyone. OP should follo
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
+1. There are other ways of looking at what you are and what this world might be. You are defining yourself by what you appear to be here. You are much more. What if the meaning of your life right now is to have lost the thread of meaning?
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon are not really uncontacted. They are the way they are by preference.
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by ripsawridge 9y ago
"Science and technology lead to creation of resources..." No, they lead to finding and digging up of resources. "and more efficient use of resources" Efficiency doesn't make anything better, it just increases the am
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by ripsawridge 9y ago
You could also find the beautiful things that you can easily reach. You'll have a better life that way, less filled with longing for the scarce, the disappearing, the already gone.
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by ripsawridge 9y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that all "movements" are theater in a way. They have a position to state, and they get it out there by saying the words and doing the things. If it looks a bit artificial, well,
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by ripsawridge 9y ago
Very interesting. I've heard stories of the GMO spreading to another farmers field, causing some problems. But that field is mostly devoid of insects, so it's easy for the GMO to live there. I still think that a fear of "ir
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by ripsawridge 9y ago
Thanks for writing your article, it was good, and I sympathize with your experience! I think we are brought up to believe we can pursue whatever we want to pursue, and of course this is true, but there is a cost. If that pursuit falls out o
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by ripsawridge 9y ago
It's not out of fashion because of a name. It's considered dangerous because of the rate, and there is logic to that. The slow change in dogs or crops over many decades or generations is tolerable. But rapid change can kill, or at
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by ripsawridge 9y ago
I definitely sympathize, but I've come to recognize that we can only expect so much of people in mass numbers. I agree with the poster further up that people have a reason to fear the application of expensive technology to the food the
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by ripsawridge 9y ago
It's strange how much fun it can be to spend an evening with a well-built mechanical tool, long forgotten by the rest of the world. I've got a portable ("laptop," LOL) Swissa Piccola machine that I just love, and a bigge