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« on: December 15, 2006, 07:17:15 PM »
There is no more forlorn sight in the world than one 75-foot tall lit-up billboard after another hawking lonely rooms and white bread food at the end of a long day of glare flashing off semis, afternoon tree shadows twitching the iris too fast, headlights to the left, red lights ahead, another off-ramp hawked with the same shit after the same shit. All the same shit. Noisy "grit" towns, and somehow, some long dead mountain man or farmer or native man's great great great great grandson is proud to have or hawk sign space to SCREAM in everyone's eyes about what they should really really buy, he's proud of the trucks and the interstates crisscrossing the land so a person can't walk out in peace anymore.
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« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2006, 07:23:13 PM »
It would be fun if there was a Billboard Dominoes holiday, or else Long Range Billboard Painting with paintball guns, or even a better sport, Slingshot Painting, like shoot off paper cups with different colors of paint in them.
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« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2006, 07:29:15 PM »
It would really be different and new if truck drivers started thinking to themselves - "Why am I driving from California to Connecticut with a truck full of lettuce to make money to feed my family? If only I had a garden, and a hill to put a house on, and some woods to hunt in, and some neighbors to trade with, I wouldn't have to be away from my wife and kids." Maybe they do, maybe they do. You never know. You never know when those truck drivers are going to tell the supermarkets full of fat people to fuck off, they'd rather be with their kids, grow your own god damn canned Spaghettios. Et fucking cetera. This country makes me want to scream! I make myself want to scream! I'm leaving! I hate you! I'm slamming the door behind me! Fuck Off America!
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« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2006, 03:11:54 PM »
So, what are you suggesting?  That everyone quit their jobs and move to commune where they can grow their own veggies, hunt their own meat and make their own clothes?  Should the entire country go back to the barter system?  America is fucked up.  Walmarts and 7-11s everywhere, but not everyone in suburbia is selfish, clueless and evil.  I'm finally getting to a point in my life where I actually enjoy it.  I like getting up and having my coffee with a little vanilla, reading the paper or a book, walking the dogs with my neighbors and buying stupid little meaningless crap to put in my kids' stockings just cuz it'll make them feel good.  I like being able to run to the supermarket and get toilet paper if I need it.

Extremism on either side is unhealthy, IMO.
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« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2006, 07:32:45 PM »
I would agree with all that you said anne. Except for the Vanilla in coffee. Now that is just wrong! :D
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« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2006, 10:24:59 PM »
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I would agree with all that you said anne. Except for the Vanilla in coffee. Now that is just wrong! :D


Translates to: Please help me. I am clueless.
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« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2006, 11:38:22 PM »
Quote from: ""Anne Bonney""
So, what are you suggesting?  That everyone quit their jobs and move to commune where they can grow their own veggies, hunt their own meat and make their own clothes?  Should the entire country go back to the barter system?  America is fucked up.  Walmarts and 7-11s everywhere, but not everyone in suburbia is selfish, clueless and evil.  I'm finally getting to a point in my life where I actually enjoy it.  I like getting up and having my coffee with a little vanilla, reading the paper or a book, walking the dogs with my neighbors and buying stupid little meaningless crap to put in my kids' stockings just cuz it'll make them feel good.  I like being able to run to the supermarket and get toilet paper if I need it.

Extremism on either side is unhealthy, IMO.

Yes! What?s wrong isn?t materialism per se, but the wrong kind of materialism. Ghey materialism!
I am against the brainwash that says more of what they sell will make you happier.

It?s too late to return to nature; to dismantle technology would be false extremism.
Technology can serve us; it?s just that authority should be disseminated.
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« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2006, 12:35:10 AM »
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Yes! What?s wrong isn?t materialism per se, but the wrong kind of materialism. Ghey materialism!
I am against the brainwash that says more of what they sell will make you happier.

It?s too late to return to nature; to dismantle technology would be false extremism.
Technology can serve us; it?s just that authority should be disseminated.


Me too, I guess it's just a matter of what you consider to be trash and what you think is valuable.  Most of what society offers is trash, but I guess I'm trying to learn how to live in it and live with myself.  I spent way too long feeling like shit and I really don't want to have to feel guilty for feeling good.  Does that make sense or am I drunk?
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« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2006, 12:46:57 AM »
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Does that make sense or am I drunk?

Ask me again in the morning.  :D
-Froderik
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« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2006, 08:15:39 PM »
The Navajo loves Crapple and wanted me to join their tribe..But they said I couldn't leave the tee-pee during peyote cerimonies..
And then when one of the drunk indains chopped off another ones legs with an axe I thought,  "fuck this, I wanna be a cowboy"..  They still have Crapple dopecop stickers on their trucks though..
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« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2006, 08:35:47 PM »
But a person can't legally leave society and return to nature without paying for that anyway..

Got to have a license to hunt..
Got to have a license to fish..
Got to pay property tax on that garden..
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« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2006, 09:14:00 PM »
Yeah, they get you coming & going.
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$$$$CASH$$$$$$$$$
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2006, 11:03:57 PM »
They keep collecting is what it is...  Most know the sad sickening truth..  Money will buy ANYTHING..  Just ask Micheal Jackson and Oj Simpson..
EVERYTHING is taxed (even death) except lawsuit awards..  That's cause attorneys make legislation..

In truth Attorneys commit more malpractice than doctors or any other profession by a longshot..  But finding an attorney that will sue another attorney only happens on TV..

Tom Morgans Attorney fees for murder defense in Midland, TX
$5000.00  to take case
$15000.00 to actually read case
$25000.00 for light punishment plea
$40000.00  guaranteed aquittal or dismissal..(how much of that goes to the judge and DA??)  that's pretty cheap actually for a guaranteed walk on murder..
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« Reply #14 on: December 17, 2006, 11:09:21 PM »
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That's cause attorneys make legislation.

Perhaps this should change?
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