Shameless self promotion!
Not only am I going to author, approve AND feature my blog....
I'm not even going to talk about anything relevant!
I'm just bored and want attention.
Well, that and because there are a few discussions going on right now that have helped me form opinion-fetuses.
These little ideas might well grow into something interesting, so help me out! Comment, criticize and adore to your heart's content.
Idea 1:
Shine and I are going to start an atheist commune.
We will fund our private island with a meat-vat factory.
http://www.thinkatheist.com/forum/topics/meat-eating
I will cook if someone else will clean. We can have our individual little houses or huts scattered around the island, and one big lodge sufficient for group meetings, celebrations and community events.
We might also reintroduce bison back to the American wild, but plans are still being drawn up on that :)
If you would like to join our commune, please leave a brief message of how you see yourself contributing, what your desires are, and any special needs we might have to meet.
Idea 2:
Why is climate change important?
I feel myself being a little torn on this topic.
Based on current evidence, I feel that we have altered our world's natural existence.
In some ways, I'm sorta ok with that.
I don't have any children. Let me correct that: I WON'T have any children.
The human species doesn't need any population help from me. There are plenty of us. Hell, plenty of small humans already in existence need homes. If I ever feel like my utterly flimsy maternal instincts need a target, I'll just adopt or kidnap. There is no genetic reason for me to preserve this earth. In all actuality, there is no reason at all for me to preserve it.
The earth is pretty awesome. It will take care of itself. When we abuse our ecosystem to the point that it can't support humanity, it simply won't anymore. We might kill off a few thousand species on our way out the door, but I have full faith in evolution to resort, reorganize and repopulate. Remember folks, T-Rexes weren't always extinct. Endangerment and extinction is a natural part of this Earth organism.
Now, that said, I feel that I've got a responsibility to reduce the physical suffering of creatures I encounter. The meat that I find delicious to consume is not raised in a cage or tortured in a slaughterhouse. The veggies I eat are grown locally (except for bananas, but I'm working on that, too. We might have to add banana-growing to our commune.) Even the car I drive gets 56 miles to the gallon. I don't litter because I hate to see litter on the ground. I conserve natural resources because I believe in the golden rule. Personally, I would not like to be born into a dirty, nasty, over-populated world. On the grander scale, I think we are pretty much fucked anyway. There are two reasons people are concerned about the environment. One is for the survival of our species. (That's not me, by the way.) The other is out of a deep seeded hatred of hypocrisy.(Yeah, that's me!)
I'm not trying to make this world a better place for my children or your children. Once I die, this shit is someone else's problem. However, the suffering of others makes me uncomfortable. I try to reduce that suffering (even vicariously) whenever possible, lest I become what I hate....the hypocrite.
Ok. Time to get ready for work.
You all have a nice day!
I'm not even going to talk about anything relevant!
I'm just bored and want attention.
Well, that and because there are a few discussions going on right now that have helped me form opinion-fetuses.
These little ideas might well grow into something interesting, so help me out! Comment, criticize and adore to your heart's content.
Idea 1:
Shine and I are going to start an atheist commune.
We will fund our private island with a meat-vat factory.
http://www.thinkatheist.com/forum/topics/meat-eating
I will cook if someone else will clean. We can have our individual little houses or huts scattered around the island, and one big lodge sufficient for group meetings, celebrations and community events.
We might also reintroduce bison back to the American wild, but plans are still being drawn up on that :)
If you would like to join our commune, please leave a brief message of how you see yourself contributing, what your desires are, and any special needs we might have to meet.
Idea 2:
Why is climate change important?
I feel myself being a little torn on this topic.
Based on current evidence, I feel that we have altered our world's natural existence.
In some ways, I'm sorta ok with that.
I don't have any children. Let me correct that: I WON'T have any children.
The human species doesn't need any population help from me. There are plenty of us. Hell, plenty of small humans already in existence need homes. If I ever feel like my utterly flimsy maternal instincts need a target, I'll just adopt or kidnap. There is no genetic reason for me to preserve this earth. In all actuality, there is no reason at all for me to preserve it.
The earth is pretty awesome. It will take care of itself. When we abuse our ecosystem to the point that it can't support humanity, it simply won't anymore. We might kill off a few thousand species on our way out the door, but I have full faith in evolution to resort, reorganize and repopulate. Remember folks, T-Rexes weren't always extinct. Endangerment and extinction is a natural part of this Earth organism.
Now, that said, I feel that I've got a responsibility to reduce the physical suffering of creatures I encounter. The meat that I find delicious to consume is not raised in a cage or tortured in a slaughterhouse. The veggies I eat are grown locally (except for bananas, but I'm working on that, too. We might have to add banana-growing to our commune.) Even the car I drive gets 56 miles to the gallon. I don't litter because I hate to see litter on the ground. I conserve natural resources because I believe in the golden rule. Personally, I would not like to be born into a dirty, nasty, over-populated world. On the grander scale, I think we are pretty much fucked anyway. There are two reasons people are concerned about the environment. One is for the survival of our species. (That's not me, by the way.) The other is out of a deep seeded hatred of hypocrisy.(Yeah, that's me!)
I'm not trying to make this world a better place for my children or your children. Once I die, this shit is someone else's problem. However, the suffering of others makes me uncomfortable. I try to reduce that suffering (even vicariously) whenever possible, lest I become what I hate....the hypocrite.
Ok. Time to get ready for work.
You all have a nice day!
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Comment by Shine on April 18, 2010 at 4:57pm -
The best part about Texas is that I can fully stock up on cowboy boots in preparation for my new career as a bison-herding-cowgirl! Or, wait, would that make me a bisongirl? Hmm...
So here's the basic gist of what I like to call THE GREATEST IDEA EVER!, a.k.a. an amalgamation of several of Misty's previous blog topics:
1. Vat-meat-factory and wild bison ranching. We grow most of the meat for consumption, sell the rest, and use the wild bison herds as our source for tissue.
2. Establish the tax-exempt Church of the Holy Buffalo. (Crappy name, but my creativity is dried up at the moment; if you think that you have a better idea, have at it, Hoss!) Also, by including marijuana and other homegrown psychoactive substances as necessary components of our transcendent buffalo worship, we would also skirt the drug prohibition laws.
3. Pseudo-communal living. Private dwellings with personal restrooms (sorry, I'm just not up for communal toilets) combined with a large communal kitchen and dining area. Food production and preparation is a group effort in order to minimize resource consumption and maximize edible output. Cleaning of communal areas is arranged on a set, rotating schedule; there will be no indefinite duties lest the "courtyard owned by all be swept by none."
I feel like I'm missing some component of this master plan. Hmm...
(By the way, Misty, I love your tags; I'm totally tagging all my posts as "babbling" from now on!)
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Comment by Shine on April 18, 2010 at 4:58pm
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Edit: THE GREATEST IDEA EVER! is actually an amalgamation of several of Misty's previous forum topics.
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Comment by Reggie on April 18, 2010 at 8:10pm -
I've always wanted to be an innkeeper with a tavern.
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Comment by Graham E. Lau on April 18, 2010 at 9:02pm -
I've always wanted to be a rambling, drunken barfly at a tavern on an atheist commune in meat-growing bison land... Well, okay maybe it's never been a thought before, but I can still swing it. Count me in.
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Comment by Reggie on April 18, 2010 at 11:02pm
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Do you have coin, Lau?
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Comment by B. on April 19, 2010 at 12:27am -
I'm out.. I can't do commune-living..
I might be alone on this, but doesn't any find that utopian existence deathly dull? I mean, your purpose is so circular: get up, eat, farm eat, dance-or-sing-or-something, eat, sleep. It's almost like having no purpose at all. What are you supposed to do with yourself, exactly? Just go through the motions of survival?
I think if we made life that easy, it would take the fun out of it =(
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Comment by Misty: Baytheist Living! on April 19, 2010 at 2:37am -
B-
That's where the drugs come in!
I would rather have 'shrooms over pot.
Reggie will run the tavern and innkeeper (I imagine family and friends will want to visit occasionally.)
We'll all cook and clean and I'll grow the recreational- Oh, I mean CEREMONIAL drugs!
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Comment by Dave G on April 19, 2010 at 2:49am -
I'll keep the network up and running. You'll never convince me that this group of net-hungry atheists will be willing to cut themselves off from the net, particularly if that means being cut of from things like Twitter, TA itself, or the latest Dr Who episode.
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Comment by Graham E. Lau on April 19, 2010 at 3:55am
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There is indeed coinage to pay the keep.
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Comment by Misty: Baytheist Living! on April 19, 2010 at 5:31am
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Lau-
You are going to be the resident brewmaster.
Not sure about your knowledge to date, but if you need to, better brush up.
I can name at least two proud alcoholics you'll have to tend!
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