09-09-2003, 04:18 PM
Homeland Security, formed after 9-11 to protect us from them bad terrorists. To date, all it is is a Black Hole in which our tax dollars disappear while taking away our Constitutional rights. It was a bad idea from the start.
I like you already, you sound alarmingly like a copy of me. I also am called the Black Sheep of the family because I do things my way without fitting into any convenient catagory, enjoy a good, lively debate (some call it arguing) and generally live my own life the way I see fit. Although I do have to live, somewhat, within the laws of man and nature. Man is more forgiving than nature is, just get lost in the forest and see what happens. Of course, I've never been lost. I may have "not" been where I wanted to be but never lost.
When the next Great Depression hits, and it ain't that far away, we'll be the ones who are eating regularly and living off the land while others are scratching their heads and screaming, "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?" We'll be the ones people come looking for and asking how to survive. How do I catch a fish? How do I find a deer? No, it's not in the Yellow Pages and you don't catch a trout by waving a worthless $100 bill at it.
Perhaps it's our anchestral genes kicking in, I don't know, but survival of the fittest will be the Law of the Land, and we're better prepared than most of the population. That CEO sitting in his office high above the city will be munching on stale crackers while we're enjoying grilled trout and venison. Okay, call me crazy but I think the outdoorsman (person) is better suited to cope with today's pressures than any psychologist raking in $500/hr just to tell you to relax. Did Davy Crockett turn to a psychiatrist when he had a problem? No. He just told someone in town, they told everyone in town and pretty soon, no more problem. That's why we're more mentally stable that anyone else. If we have a problem, we step outside, talk to the squirrel and the problem is gone. Of course that squirrel now has a problem, but we don't.
To those who think communing with nature is a walk outside to get the paper, I say .^.
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I like you already, you sound alarmingly like a copy of me. I also am called the Black Sheep of the family because I do things my way without fitting into any convenient catagory, enjoy a good, lively debate (some call it arguing) and generally live my own life the way I see fit. Although I do have to live, somewhat, within the laws of man and nature. Man is more forgiving than nature is, just get lost in the forest and see what happens. Of course, I've never been lost. I may have "not" been where I wanted to be but never lost.
When the next Great Depression hits, and it ain't that far away, we'll be the ones who are eating regularly and living off the land while others are scratching their heads and screaming, "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?" We'll be the ones people come looking for and asking how to survive. How do I catch a fish? How do I find a deer? No, it's not in the Yellow Pages and you don't catch a trout by waving a worthless $100 bill at it.
Perhaps it's our anchestral genes kicking in, I don't know, but survival of the fittest will be the Law of the Land, and we're better prepared than most of the population. That CEO sitting in his office high above the city will be munching on stale crackers while we're enjoying grilled trout and venison. Okay, call me crazy but I think the outdoorsman (person) is better suited to cope with today's pressures than any psychologist raking in $500/hr just to tell you to relax. Did Davy Crockett turn to a psychiatrist when he had a problem? No. He just told someone in town, they told everyone in town and pretty soon, no more problem. That's why we're more mentally stable that anyone else. If we have a problem, we step outside, talk to the squirrel and the problem is gone. Of course that squirrel now has a problem, but we don't.
To those who think communing with nature is a walk outside to get the paper, I say .^.
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