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In the future ..

Must be said I don't commit wholly to the Swerve - it pleases me to believe there is more but that doesn't mean this gift of life shouldn't be enjoyed properly. I don't "do" religion, and anyway any religion which is sternly opposed to this Utopian duty is in breach of the proviso

In the future ..

Badly, it sounds quite like a kibbutz and of course the whole credit thing is non-transferable to the outside world -

The 15 hour week for a living wage was inspired by Utopia For Realists (the whole blog is a complete mash ) which in theory is achievable. Whether it would happen - but I believe it is being trialed and early feedback is good.



I am ENJOYING this discussion a guilt-free life, wow. Would be so cool.

RE: Who should I hate today?

Fair comment - pick the most horrible person you know then for a daily blast, run it past the dog, then a high-pressure blast and be free for the rest of the day

In the future ..

Bogart, ha! another good quote, he had a lot of good stuff!

Never mind water, we have wine too for our visitors

In the future ..

Molly, I was pandering a bit to those who would be outraged by the idea of their parental role being ridden over roughshod - I'm ashamed of myself

Basics - read, write, count to 100? School has become increasingly divorced from reality, what we force on kids now (hours of homwork, holiday projects, the rising stress of exams) would fall away to become more like uni lectures with the good lecturers inundated with the interested, the ambitious submitting to testing ... oh well, it is all theory anyway.

I completely agree it takes a village to raise a child. Maybe each centre of learning / medicine / shelter should be surrounded by villages? Modern cities have been both the best and worst developments of life as we know it now? I like living in a small town near a city, I´ve repeated the pattern at least 6 times now and it works for me.

RE: Hal Atosis...

Ocee, the other test is when flossing, sniff the thread. Then pick yourself up off the floor ...

Chat, we had a guy come in once to sort out the office airconditioning who moved in a haze of the previous night's garlic dinner which was very nearly visible. Chatty guy, very friendly, took us about 4 days to remove all traces of him

I had a boss who had breath like the breeze blowing over a re-opened grave. We offered him coffee at least twice an hour. Coffee breath is not beautiful but the alternative ...

In the future ..

Robrt, religion - from the ancient Greek temples and through Christianity, which stamped on it hard - doesn't approve at ALL. To have any role at all, religions would have to morph into teaching that duty and proviso, and to forget all about sin and the dangled carrot of the life everlasting.

Thing is the theory has been around for a long time but - could it work? Would it have changed your life? Would it have worked with the most unpleasant person you know?



looking forward to reading the story / book

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Badly -

Each of the visitors responds to the community (in Walden Two) differently. Castle finds it abhorrent; he spends the duration of the visit arguing with Frazier about the feasibility and desirability of a community like Walden Two. Burris, on the other hand, finds himself somewhere in the middle; he is skeptical that such a utopia could work, but he finds Frazier's arguments compelling, and he cannot discount the evidence of success in front of him. Steve and Mary are both convinced that this is the life for them; they decide to stay at Walden Two. Rodge, too, is convinced, but Barbara is not; he grudgingly leaves Walden Two with her at the end of their visit. Burris is torn, but decides to return to his academic life. However, at the train station he suddenly realizes that he would rather try life at Walden Two, for whatever it's worth, than go back to the university. He walks back to Walden Two and begins his new life there.

And of course Imagine

In the future ..

This is the quote that got me reading Lucretius - I have reached an age where so many people I know, all ages, seem obsessed with material gain, and here was someone making sense ...

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Epicurus

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Badly, "Imagine" was playing in my head will go check out your boy

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Robrt, this was mooted a few thousand years ago (for adults) by Lucretius, a follower of Epicurus, in his poem On The Nature Of Things. Ancient Greek stuff.

The movement was firmly stamped out of existence by organized religion, which far preferred everyone to worry in this life in the hope of eternal bliss in the next.

RE: French troops given go-ahead to ‘OPEN FIRE’ on Yellow Vest protesters if lives are threatened!

It is easy to be a good person when times are good.”
? Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In the future ..

"Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom:

the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been,

and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come."

Epicurus

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"We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it."

Epicurus


(I hit a rich vein of Epicurus quotes but do know there are other philosophers. Brace yourself, more coming)

In the future ..

"Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance" - Epicurus

RE: Who should I hate today?

Badly - your happy is all that counts. How about a different person every day, to add a little variety, a spice to your day knowing that they are so bloody miserable and awful that your life sparkles all the more by comparison

RE: Difference between water and beer......

Heineken took the UK by buying Scottish & Newcastle so I was half hoping for bagpipes

RE: Who should I hate today?

You could hate, hmmm - robots that phone to tell you of a promotion in your area, when you were expecting / hoping for another call

The person in front of you in the 6 items or less queue at the supermarket, who can only move her groaning trolley by brute force

The youngster who parked in the last handicap parking spot and bounced into the supermarket grinning

The little dog that barks until 4 in the morning about a block away from me? If enough of us send hate waves maybe its owner will let it in. You know I'd do it for you.

The mailman (hey, dogs always Know)

RE: The Toad

Maybe it goes with the territory? Perhaps best to switch to SciFi

Genuine will advice???????????????????? Uhoh

*you mean there are people actually reading these things?*

RE: Sometimes

Sometimes it´s a scream?

Sometimes it´s a tad jangling, but I´m not going to hunt down a Picasso for you

RE: Breaking News

Ok fess up you and Palm have scored a lucrative contract to post multiple blogs every day, right?

Huh.

RE: The tip of the iceberg

Mimiiiiiii! but much as I love you, my pet and future-fellow-member of Harb's future clique, here's a smack up the heid for yet another Mimi blog not allowing comments. Huh.

RE: The tip of the iceberg

Funny you should say that about t-shirts, Harbal, I want to branch out into silk screening - I feel there's a real market here for Spanish witticisms (or some of the colloquialisms aired on my last blog) as ALL the t-shirts here have English slogans

The results, when someone wears a shirt with not a clue what they are blaring out to the world, can be hilarious, mind.

RE: The Irish Potato Famine,

There are 50 million people around the world claiming Scottish ancestors. There are 5 million people left in Scotland who haven't yet got their boots on.



For 25 years and more Saffers have been fanning out all over the world, watch this space in 100 years time (You'll have to watch it, I'll be dead)

RE: The tip of the iceberg

Agreed, I HATE those. Rub a dub dub.

Especially as most of the details are primly held back and we are expected to take sides having no idea what the issues are or even, usually, the other person involved.

Just like I have no idea which event you are referring to but as a wannabe member of your clique when you form it, I hurried to post a comment anyway

RE: The tip of the iceberg

The only person who ever used to message me lobbying for support was, um, Crest and that was a while back. Bloggers dearly love to think there is a tree network ruling behind the scenes but I think there are just a few indefatigable messagers who like to quote people's real names just to show how good buddies they are.

Seems to ME the only ones who hunt in packs are the angry and they mob up really quickly. The so-called good guys instantly melt away leaving the numpty who posted a contrary comment flailing around on their own attacked from all sides. But I doubt even the baddies coordinate their attacks, they just keep an eye on the blogs and pile joyfully in.



Thanks be I'm not paranoid

Voy a mi bola

e importante pareces!

Voy a mi bola

Vier - gustos, yet another variation and meaning for gusta and gusto, I suspect that is one verb that will ultimately defeat me. Along with the evil abre.

Tiempos difíciles por delante

RE: :)

There's a guy you wouldn't want to find yourself on a blind date with

I mean before he was dead.

RE: What ever Happen ?

Oh Luke