Michael Reid
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So I have been a bad termite today cutting wood for next winter especially the trees interfering with my solar arrays. I find cutting wood is the best time to reflect on my thoughts.
So I have been reflecting on why I didn’t respond. Yes I did not have much to offer but maybe it is because you have accomplished what I would consider a successful life; marriage, child and home within your wife. These are the things that I have wanted and I was not capable of. I am no genius and in fact I feel my engineering way of life and turbocharged work ethic where work was always first probably prevented me from achieving those goals. But there are other reasons.
Like you all of the people from my hometown in Toronto were economic refugees. I grew up in an isolated fishing output in Newfoundland. The destruction of the fishery is a good example of capitalist extraction of renewable resource that eventually resulted in fishery collapse. I realize this is to be expected in mining.
I reflect on my life. I have never felt economically secure and I have never felt secure in relationship to achieve my goals. Perhaps I should have stayed in my hometown because I would have achieved my goals here but I would not have seen the world and had all of those very interesting experiences and gained all that knowledge
@ WES
Thank you for the response and some of your previous comments have stuck in my mind which means they were significant to me because there is a lot of stuff I am forgetting these days. I usually don’t respond unless there is a question or a point I am trying to share.
Like you I found Toronto very unfriendly and difficult to establish relationships. People were disconnected from each other and no feeling of community. Maybe cities should not be allowed to exist. Most of the people that I met were from college but I was also helped socially because there were quite a few people from my hometown in Toronto at the time and a bunch of us were in the apartments just below York university.
I was doing Electronics Engineering Technology on a full tuition scholarship at DeVry Institute of Technology and it was not until the end of that that I met a nice Quebec girl.
After that, like your brother, I went to the University of Waterloo but I did Computer Engineering.
I concur with the selection of sativa. The effect of this strain is energetic, creative and uplifting. It is the total opposite of indica.
Thank you for parsing the European Medicines Agency message:
Get that needle in your arm, stay home, put some underwear on your face, and keep your clap shut.
I agree. Bullshit
One thing that I noticed growing up in a small town in the middle of nowhere is that you get to know everyone or if not you can recognize which family they are from just by the look of their face. And when new people come to town it’s very exciting because you can make new friends with new ideas. My first time driving into a city was amazing at night, so much light, so many people to meet. And when I was older and moved to Toronto alone at 17 years old I was thinking I am going to make a lot of friends here. That idea did not take long to change. As customary I would say hello to everyone I passed as a common human curtesy but they looked at me like a freak but I was very kind and handsome so I knew it was not my fault. The larger the city, the more alone I felt. Hong Kong was like living in a sea of bodies but I never felt so alone. Small is beautiful, the giant cities are not sustainable and ground floor is optimal.
@ madamski
The way I see it is to think small, your family and work your way up and when you recognize the lying, stop, take a step back and check again until you have found a group that you can proceed forward with your life
@ madamski
“ Take a chance and talk to your neighbor. Don’t try to convince hem/hir of anything. JUst ask questions and listen. When they ask your opinion, you can always say, “I don’t know yet. That’s why I’m asking other people their opinions.” “
Brilliant comment until you figure out what you want to do
@ John Day
I’m a bad termite. You should see all the wood I have cut this winter yet less than last winter which was more suitable for wood harvest with snowmobile and sled. Yet today I am scrounging for dry wood so we will not be cold. Winter storm today so no harvesting of dead fairly dry trees. If I run out there is still dry wood from construction left in the basement. I am sure we will be fine but a man must work every day
I am starting to see the picture more clearly. Scary times ahead for us living in the west but more uplifting of its citizens for those living in the east
The discussion was profound for me. Shocked me like Planet of the humans. Thank you for the wake up call
@ John Day
The idea of the current Titans of power culling the population for ecological reasons has entered my mind and seems to be a ecologically sound solution but I have not fully considered this conclusion as our possible current reality. Maybe it is. Maybe if enough of us are gotten rid of the rich survive as do some of the population and the ecological issues are solved but I don’t see it playing out this way. If the population is faced with this reality and if it is real I feel the population will act out in a way that will destroy any of these ecological goals and those currently in control. I wish I was living in the late 1960s
Just to be clear. I understand the reason for clearances for things like military work like COMSEC, nato and secret but to live a full life in your country I am of the opinion that the only documentation required should be a citizen card with no strings attached
@ absolute galore
I would not do well living in an environment requiring “the pass”. All of my life I have rejected authority probably because I wanted to be free and experience life as I saw fit as long as I was not hurting anyone. But this bullshit COVID-19 would appear to be trying to place controls on the way I like to live my life and I don’t believe that I would be hurting anyone
“we are in the midst of a government created Depression”
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/03/23/who-is-shaking-the-jar-part-2/
@ Bill7
The article that you brought to my attention:
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/03/22/who-is-shaking-the-jar/
Reflects much of the way that I am thinking these dayshttps://www.rt.com/news/519177-nose-masks-restaurant-covid-protection-mexico/
I am seriously worried for anyone who thinks this is good
@ Bill7
“ your kids are much less prone to sunburn w/ their permasks, and fear of going out in the super-scarey
World..yeesh.”
I concur. The last 50 years or so has seen such a convenient existence disconnected from life/nature that people are afraid to live in the real world
@ madamski
I hope that I have not been bitchin
You are right though. Go live your life instead of talking about it
@ madamski
I love your mind. I hope you stick around to express it, as you so feel, for as long as you are capable
As a nurse I have seen a lot of death. I am of the opinion that when death is coming to you perhaps it’s best to embrace it like the first time you had pleasurable sex.
@ madamski
With regards to COVID-19, all one should look at is the population death rate. Insignificant. People got to die my dear. That is how life works.
Seems like we learned how to treat the flu with this yearlong exercise.
@ madamski
“At this point, what people need to know most of all in order to break out of the covid hysteria is what covid actually is and what is best to do about it. Simple basic facts that sufficiently refute the official narrative.”
Let this sink in. The truth is that COVID-19 is a bullshit nothing virus like a bad seasonal flu. Yet what has happened? Seriously, people need to stand up
Putin may be the best leader in the world today. I have always felt countries should be run for the benefit of its citizens. Sadly in the western world all the countries seem to be run for the benefit of the capitalists
I was referring to your first comment
Please don’t be afraid. Maybe I will drop by to say hello the next time I drive by get a Llewellins setter pup.
I fully agree with your comment
Dear sir,
I have also forwarded this excellent essay to my parents who will likely get the mRNA vaccine.This last year my worldview has imploded. I seriously don’t trust anything in the mainstream media. As a retired surgical, ICU, medical and mental health nurse I know what we have been doing in the west is simply incorrect. Living in Canada I have emailed my provincial minister of health on multiple occasions pointing out how health policy is incorrect from a medical standpoint. No response. I have sent messages to some of the nurses that I have met and have risen to prominence and no response. I have sent messages to my family and friends and no response. I don’t feel crazy. I know I am intelligent. I know I am educated in the issues we are facing with COVID-19.
So I ask myself why I am being ignored. Canada owes tremendous debt and especially my province. And we have many retired civil servants drawing pension and we have a health care system funded by the government that spends tremendous amounts of money on maintaining and saving people who have nothing positive to contribute to the country.
If we lived in a reality of small groups of people existing on their efforts many would have been left to die a long time ago. I do not have financial knowledge but I suspect those holding our debt have tremendous power over over our governments. If this is correct we can understand why the government is implementing a pile of shit health policy to avoid insolvency. Also we have moved most of our manufacturing to the Far East and the west adds little of real value to any items of critical usefulness.
So here we are, but the story gets worst.
It seems to me all of the problems we currently face are due to over population. If there were very few people in our world then our actions would have insignificant impact on the world. But that is not our current reality. But a major culling may be the only sustainable way forward and may be a goal of the global elite
I was in the woods today cutting trees to feed our wood stove next winter so we don’t freeze to death.
I feel your comments.
Living life can be such a joy
Thank you for writing this article which I have forwarded to my parents who are likely to get the vaccine because the government says you should. As for myself I will never take a COVID-19 vaccine.
Freedom was nice while it lasted.
COVID-19 is not much different than the seasonal flu but the way it has been used by western governments to affect the lives of its citizens is telling me that those running the country don’t care for the people. Not a big surprise but at this point in history many were thinking we are so smart that we could not be fooled again.
People need to stand up together if they want to regain the freedoms we have lost this year
@ John Day
You might consider
Kitchen Queen Grand Comfort 550 for heating area 800 – 1500 sq feetOr the older design Kitchen Queen 380 similar to the 480 but smaller and similar sized to the grand comfort
http://www.kitchenqueenstoves.com/home/22-grand-comfort-550-wood-cook-stove.html
@ John Day
I use the Kitchen Queen 480 wood cook stove that is made in the USA. It makes our hot water as well and is designed to last
