It's not just men. It applies to women also - this text but don't text, or text but don't ring thing. Or you have to wait two days to text someone, and conversely if you don't text that night or the next morning, it's off. It's mainly girls in their early to mid twenties far as I can see.
I know one girl, have known her for years - won't talk on the phone most of the time. Texting. Then more texting. You'd need prosthetic thumbs by the end of it.
Some of the Egyptology wasn't accurate, they mixed up some of the gods and mythology, and didn't use proper sources. Alot of the religion part is best taken with a grain of salt.
I think part of the financial section was wrong as well. There's different theories on why so many valid points would be presented alongside such sloppy research and material - my opinion is that it's simply one of the many forms of misinformation.
There's another short one to watch, definitely not for everyone. It's by Stefan Molyneux of Free Domain Radio. Only 13 minutes, paradigm shattering stuff.
By the sound of it, the IOU system might have screwed that up a little. Takes some of the good out of it. Some things don't equate easily in value terms. Like, a lift to the shops isn't the same as a lift to the airport. And several kilos of vegetables don't compare easily with work done or a service rendered.
That sounds kind of familiar. There's no fee for this one though. A few people on the site don't post any available skills or services. Wonder what that's about.
Will have a look at the Venus one, but the Zeitgeist one is a little tricky. Some of the information used in the film is not accurate.
Try Kymatica and Ungrip - both made by the same guys. Ungrip is more recent, about off the grid living, sovereignty and the legal system in straightforward terms. Kymatica has so much distilled information in one film that you need to watch it a few times to get all of it. Kymatica is broader, covers a few areas.
Had a quick look at their site there. Some of their points look interesting, but it has a bit of a "cult" feeling to it - maybe a few similarities to Scientology?
That's only on first impression, will have a proper look tomorrow. Would like to watch that video they have on the homepage: "Paradise or Oblivion", and see what they're about.
Well you're more than likely aware of alot more than can be commonly said without creating a disturbance.
Did you ever know a heavy sleeper before? Someone that will hit and slap at people who try to wake them? Have often observed a similar reaction from a sociological perspective. Our schools are still industrial based, the majority of them exist to prepare workers for industry. People can justly point out arts and english etc, but job preparation is an ordinary school's primary purpose.
It's a shock even to go on the website and click on all the things you can do, all the skills we have and don't use. And one of the bigger reasons why we don't use these skills is because there's no money in it. Perhaps money is getting in the way, especially regarding peoples values and sense of worth.
Don't worry about the homebrew, I'm a veteran at this stage. Your head is much better from it than with the other stuff, whatever the heck is in that. .
Have a few people in town that I barter with and part exchange skills etc. About 6 or 7 at the moment. It will be fairly revealing to see what will happen on expanding that group of pooled resources. Am probably going to have surplus veg from my garden, at least it won't go to waste. Might have a big dinner at the house, all home grown food, home made beer and wine. There's quite alot of the beer and wine to go round.
Yeah, he's not full blooded anti-materialist. From the article also, he and his friends were discussing ways to change the way certain aspects of modern living in the world function. So I suppose he'd have to communicate his ideas to other people and keep in touch to achieve that. He kept his bicycle too.
All big changes start small, imagine if people made one tiny change every two weeks, for example. In a year their paradigms and priorities would have shifted. In reality, in the majority, it is not that easy. Definitely know where you are coming from.
Yeah, in response to Mr.G it would have been like that in ordinary communities years ago. Cottage industries and the like. If you needed clothes you would see a local tailor, or you wanted to learn something new - someone in the village with a knowledge in that area might give you lessons. There would be a local carpenter, mason etc. There would be a local market where bartering could be used in lieu of money. And your food wouldn't come from South Africa, it would be sourced a few miles from your house. Bars and Taverns even made their own beers and ales - not many doing that now.
You are extremely moderate FF. It's kind of a contradiction in terms. I have two old tellies at home and neither of them are connected. Does that mean I'm an extreme extremist?
You'd be surprised when you go on the website and start selecting your skills to post - you more than likely have a lot more than you think. Just the way things are structured now, you'd very seldom to never use any of them.
It's appealing to me on lots of levels. I like the idea of boycotting the banks and denying them their "cut".
The Frugal lunch club sounds cool. Might meet some interesting people, as well as giving older people somewhere to go to meet and mix. Reminds me of an old parable about a magic soup stone. Though I doubt anyone's read that.
Hope it will work out, I widened my search radius to 25 miles and have 30 freeconomists within that area. A few live within walking distance.
That's pretty cool. Wedding bills are way too big as it is.
It will work in towns also, the more people around, the more diverse the skills and services. There's always the chance it could be exploited in a city.
After working on building sites for 4 years I know all the euphemisms, but you seem nice so I won't repeat them.
I'm an electrician by the way. Did I mention that? Yeah.
That was part of the founder's ethic - to try to put a true value on goods and services. Money doesn't really have a solid value anymore, it changes all the time. People can never really get a grasp on what things are worth, which can lead to market exploitation and other things we'd be better off without.
It indicates that he is only posting from the opposite perspective to stir up hassle for kicks. That is what I have issue with, it cheapens the debate.
I disagree with his point of view, and he is not well informed. That I can debate. But disrespect and time wasting like the above is best ignored.
Lad, you don't know what you are debating. You don't even seem to know the definition of a Republican and a Nationalist, or about political procedure and bartering. Tell me about peace under the British and exploring all options. Was 700 years long enough to try that, or would another 200 years have done it? The Home Rule League was formed in 1873 - so it was some 43 years that the political debate on Home Rule was going on?
And tell me, what year do you think the British were going to grant us the limited paper agreement of Home Rule? Do you even know what Home Rule meant?
Lad, look up your history again. That's exactly what it was. Gladstone was known to have some sympathy towards the "Irish Question". Advances toward Home Rule were made then. But that was around 18 years before The Rising. It was kicked about in parliament, and often dismissed when brought up by Irish politicians because more "pressing matters" had to be resolved. It was often decried as a waste of parliament time. That's how much respect the British government had for us and our politics.
And if you think we would have been better off with Home Rule or British Rule, then by definition your are not a Republican. You're not really a Nationalist either, unless you wish to hold a British passport and be termed a British National.
I have to respectfully and completely disagree with you. I understand your point of view, because you would probably have been ok under British rule. Many people in Dublin were. And you refer to seeing the horrifying violence there.
But how would you feel on a farm in Cork, your home burned, your children starving and crying because a British landlord demanded more from you than you could possibly give? What if your son stood up to the RIC when they broke down your front door and they shot him? Would you still be bending on one knee to kiss the ring on Lizzy's finger?
We may not know about Home Rule one way or the other, but we do know for certain that it was a carrot that the British dangled before Irish politicians to pacify the people, or when they needed something - like more cannon fodder for WW1. With such a strong British foothold in this country, Home Rule would have been rendered moot, a paper status and agreement only.
One tiny nation, with a handful of men stood up to an Empire. . and in the end they won. Call it romanticism if you want, but my Grandad did it, and I'd do it without a second thought. Irish lives were lost, but many more depended on it. Think about the population of Ireland in 1840 compared with 1920 if you want to abhor bloodshed.
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Your head is much better from it than with the other stuff, whatever the heck is in that. .
RE: Are men ever intimadated by womens power tools ??? And i dont mean the ones sold in diy stores......
Not just me, men in general. You can't ever fully replace us, that's the point.