gopher.createaforum.com/1/forums/globalcollapse/p/117/1

DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
Global Collapse
HTML https://globalcollapse.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
DIR Return to: General Discussion
*****************************************************
#Post#: 3768--------------------------------------------------
Re: There shall be only one!
By: RE Date: July 16, 2022, 4:13 am
---------------------------------------------------------
[quote author=FarmGirl link=topic=117.msg3767#msg3767
date=1657921377]
[quote author=K-Dog link=topic=117.msg3759#msg3759
date=1657821158]
[quote author=RE link=topic=117.msg3756#msg3756 date=1657790526]
Well Sportsfans, somewhat unbelievably, I am one of the Final
Four candidates for the position of Director of the Susitna East
territory of MEA, the Electricity provider for the entire Mat-Su
Valley.
RE
[/quote]
The future is doom, but keeping the lights on is good to do.
[/quote]
The future has been, is, and always will be, doom. Such is the
cycle of life, with only one real guarentee to it...it ends.
Doing good along the way for others is a noble endeavor. i hope
RE gets the gig!
[/quote]
The Open Question still remains, what IS Doom, and to what level
will the species Homo Sap sink before this go round of Collapse
is finished?
I remain a firm believer that this is NOT an ELE (Extinction
Level Event) for the species Homo Sap. A huge Population
Knockdown yes, Extinction no, not in the Near Term anyhow. Near
Term being the next Century at least.
My objective and purpose remain the same. and will remain the
same until the rest of my corporeal self joins my missing leg
currently pushing up daisies.
Save As Many As You Can
RE
#Post#: 3770--------------------------------------------------
Re: There shall be only one!
By: FarmGirl Date: July 16, 2022, 9:12 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[quote author=RE link=topic=117.msg3768#msg3768 date=1657962810]
[quote author=FarmGirl link=topic=117.msg3767#msg3767
date=1657921377]
[quote author=K-Dog link=topic=117.msg3759#msg3759
date=1657821158]
[quote author=RE link=topic=117.msg3756#msg3756 date=1657790526]
Well Sportsfans, somewhat unbelievably, I am one of the Final
Four candidates for the position of Director of the Susitna East
territory of MEA, the Electricity provider for the entire Mat-Su
Valley.
RE
[/quote]
The future is doom, but keeping the lights on is good to do.
[/quote]
The future has been, is, and always will be, doom. Such is the
cycle of life, with only one real guarentee to it...it ends.
Doing good along the way for others is a noble endeavor. i hope
RE gets the gig!
[/quote]
The Open Question still remains, what IS Doom, and to what level
will the species Homo Sap sink before this go round of Collapse
is finished?
[/quote]
Based on the times it has been claimed to be about to happen, is
happening, or happened recently but no one noticed, the answer
is probably tht it is relative to most everyone. Your neighbor
loses their job, it is a recession,, you lose yours, it is a
depression, right?
It is an open question because it can be whatever we want it to
be. In the greater schema of no one gets out alive, it is just a
minor subset of the WHY, and not much more.
[quote author=RE]
I remain a firm believer that this is NOT an ELE (Extinction
Level Event) for the species Homo Sap. A huge Population
Knockdown yes, Extinction no, not in the Near Term anyhow. Near
Term being the next Century at least.
[/quote]
I am a firm believer that most of us on this board aren't going
to be knocked off by some big and impersonal DOOM, but by the
small and personal and common.
[quote author=RE]
My objective and purpose remain the same. and will remain the
same until the rest of my corporeal self joins my missing leg
currently pushing up daisies.
Save As Many As You Can
RE
[/quote]
I seem to recall Mike Ruppert having a similar theme, back
during his LifeBoat hour days? Can't save everyone, make
lifeboats, etc etc. Got tired of waiting around for it maybe?
#Post#: 3771--------------------------------------------------
The Ring of Energy Politics. Round she goes.
By: K-Dog Date: July 16, 2022, 11:20 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Yes FarmGirl. Doom was a part of everyday life forever until
fossil fuels came along. Then excess energy led to mass
delusion and mental derangement. People went to seed. Now we
all have to deal with a mortality modern life tried to pretend
was not there.
Life is a struggle, many want to give up. Things are getting
interesting.
Giving up is much easier than thinking things out and dealing
with reality. But people like easy. A revolution is too much
work.
A revolution would be appropriate but 'we' don't have enough
intellectual horsepower to know what to do on the other side.
Or enough love.
#Post#: 3772--------------------------------------------------
Re: RE Throws his Hat in the Ring of Energy Politics
By: Digwe Must Date: July 16, 2022, 11:28 pm
---------------------------------------------------------

The Open Question still remains, what IS Doom, and to what level
will the species Homo Sap sink before this go round of Collapse
is finished?
I remain a firm believer that this is NOT an ELE (Extinction
Level Event) for the species Homo Sap. A huge Population
Knockdown yes, Extinction no, not in the Near Term anyhow. Near
Term being the next Century at least.
My objective and purpose remain the same. and will remain the
same until the rest of my corporeal self joins my missing leg
currently pushing up daisies.
Save As Many As You Can
RE

Glad to see you are still in the fight, RE.
Your refrain of SAMAYC is what first drew me to the Diner, as
this is essentially my focus. I agree that what we face will
probably not be extinction for the human race, but a rapid
die-off to levels that will be more sustainable - for a while.
We are in the beginning phases and it is not likely you and I
will see the end. No matter what gets us, the important work is
to mark out a path - for those who remain - to live lives with
the possibility of some dignity, meaning and maybe even some
joy.
As Mr. Hemingway said, "It is a fine world and worth the
fighting for. And I hate to leave it."
The pace of deterioration of the natural world is accelerating
and gets my bet as a primary driver of die-off, but every few
days the possibility of nuclear war seems to take the lead, with
solar flares, magnetic pole shifts, famine, new custom built
diseases and social and civil conflict coming up on the outside.
[/quote]
We (as a species) face a grim future, of this there is nn doubt.
Anyone who does deny this needs a good smash on the head with a
Sledgehammer. But Population Knockdown dpes not equal
Extinction. 75,000 years ago by the DNA mitochondrial record,
our species suffered a Knockdown that took us down to around
10,000 Human Souls or 1000 Breeding Pairs. What actually
caused that knockdown remains a disputed point amongst the
Indiana Jobeses of the academic community, but that it did occur
is NOT disputed From that last set pf SURVIVORS, we grew to
now near 8B people.
Done once, it can be done again. Hopefully we (as a species)
are a bit smarter about it on the next go round.
If YOU wanna be one who makes it through the Zero Point, now is
NOT a good time to be a QUITTER. I won't make it much longer,
but bad as things can be for me on a daily bassis, I just do not
quit. Losers QUIT. Keep on fighting to the end.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY
RE
#Post#: 3785--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Ring of Energy Politics. Round she goes.
By: FarmGirl Date: July 18, 2022, 4:42 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[quote author=K-Dog link=topic=117.msg3771#msg3771
date=1658031625]
Yes FarmGirl. Doom was a part of everyday life forever until
fossil fuels came along.
[/quote]
Oh, people didn't stop dying just because humans began using
coal and oil and whatnot. Maybe they just didn't die as soon as
they once did.
[quote author=K-Dog"]
Life is a struggle, many want to give up. Things are getting
interesting.
[/quote]
Struggle being relative, do you have any favorite metrics?
Suicide rates suddenly skyrocket or just folks using more
anti-depressants? The idea that life was once not a struggle,
and today for some reason is, is interesting. Just because of
fossil fuels? To me it seems like the entire social media "look
at my great life as an influencer" is likely to make people
depressed as anything.
[quote author=K-Dog]
Giving up is much easier than thinking things out and dealing
with reality. But people like easy. A revolution is too much
work.
[/quote]
Everyone likes easy. My metric of a world gone wacko is the fact
free nature of our social interactions. Fact free, alternative
facts, "I choose to not believe your facts and will substitute
my own", that sort of nonsense.
#Post#: 3786--------------------------------------------------
Planet Critical
By: K-Dog Date: July 18, 2022, 4:57 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML https://youtu.be/aIwSC8aLb6I
[quote]We tend to sort of villainize concepts rather than really
accurately pinning down the names of oligarchs and corrupt
individuals who are driving the state of the world and
profiteering from it.
Focusing on concepts impinges our ability to accurately envision
solutions to the problems that we face we need to be pointing
fingers at individuals we need to be publishing lists of names
not just of companies but of the people running those companies
and the connections that they have to governments.
We need lists of the subsidies that are propping up destructive
industries and we need a list of the ministers who are granting
those subsidies year in year out and yes that information all
exists in disparate silos. We need to be collating it to create
a really clear picture of who is running the world into the
ground.[/quote]
Down the pyramid of needs we go. I like her question. Why
aren't we rioting?
[img]
HTML https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.explicit.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.KXleoddrL0K-e2zRxIWLpgHaDy%26pid%3DApi&f=1[/img]
#Post#: 3788--------------------------------------------------
Re: RE Throws his Hat in the Ring of Energy Politics
By: Digwe Must Date: July 18, 2022, 7:42 pm
---------------------------------------------------------

If YOU wanna be one who makes it through the Zero Point, now is
NOT a good time to be a QUITTER. I won't make it much longer,
but bad as things can be for me on a daily bassis, I just do not
quit. Losers QUIT. Keep on fighting to the end.
Well said, RE.
I've posted this link before - but it is appropriate once again.

HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNp1kqnRw-U

#Post#: 3853--------------------------------------------------
The Big Day Arrives
By: RE Date: July 27, 2022, 4:11 am
---------------------------------------------------------
In a little less than 10 hours, I will be sitting with 6
Directors and the CEO of MEA interviewing for the position of
Director of the Susitna East district electric power, which
includes Wasilla & Palmer. I have no idea what they will ask
me, what the job responsibilities are, what it pays or anything
else relevant to a job interview.
I am about as physically cleaned up as I get these days, and
have my freshly washed best Cripple Clothing ready for the trip
in the Cripple Delivery Service Van to MEA Headquarters around
11 AM. My outfit needless to say is NOT Suit & Tie. lol. That
I actually have functional clothing that works for me has taken
a lot of experimentation.
I will report 2moro on how it went.
RE
#Post#: 3856--------------------------------------------------
Re: RE Throws his Hat in the Ring of Energy Politics
By: Digwe Must Date: July 27, 2022, 12:29 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[quote author=RE link=topic=117.msg3853#msg3853 date=1658913076]
In a little less than 10 hours, I will be sitting with 6
Directors and the CEO of MEA interviewing for the position of
Director of the Susitna East district electric power, which
includes Wasilla & Palmer. I have no idea what they will ask
me, what the job responsibilities are, what it pays or anything
else relevant to a job interview.
I am about as physically cleaned up as I get these days, and
have my freshly washed best Cripple Clothing ready for the trip
in the Cripple Delivery Service Van to MEA Headquarters around
11 AM. My outfit needless to say is NOT Suit & Tie. lol. That
I actually have functional clothing that works for me has taken
a lot of experimentation.
I will report 2moro on how it went.
RE
[/quote]
Best of luck, RE. I hope it works out for you. My guess is
that you look dapper, earnest and competent.
*****************************************************
DIR Next Page