given the title of this thread I find it odd that 'The End Is Near' has yet to post.......
genkisan said:I'm doing everything I can to get my shit together.
I have started an investment group with the idea of buying 200-500 acres within the next 3-5 years and building totally independant, low-tech, low-impact housing that will last a few hundred years and is built from natural, locally harvested materials.
I have a number of business ventures I am either running (Cannabrex) or starting up to try and fund my project. I have about 6-8 interested parties and am always on the lookout for like-minded people who think the Canadian Shield is a good place to be in the future (esp those who are rich and generous...hee hee hee).
These kinds of thoughts started for me when I was 6 years old.
On the first day of grade one, I was less than enthused with the prospect of going and asked my mother why I had to go to school. She told me the usual shpiel about having to get a good education so I could get a good job etc etc...
And it hit me all at once...in about 1.8 seconds.................is that it?
Is that all I am here to do....go get a job, work, pay taxes and die?
I hid in my closet, screaming hysterically.................... and have been recovering ever since.
That early experience and the thoughts it forced into my mind led me long ago to one major decision. I have made it my life's work to provide a place for my children where they can LIVE for a living, not spend their time dying a slow death working their lives away making some scumbag donkeyhonking nutsack in a suit richer than he ever needs to be.
Because I truely believe that the only way to free humanity from the malignant, exploitative profit-based paradigm we have been following for the last 5000 years is to make people who live differently, and value a life-giving as opposed to resource-hoarding lifestyle and philosophy.
Some people say having children in this fucked-up world is a crime, and we don;t need more people, blah blah blah....
I say bullshit.....we need children who value sitting in a 400 year old oak tree over a fucking video game or 'bling'. We need children who marvel at the wonders of this beautiful planet we live on, and can make the drastic lifestyle shift to low-tech, low-impact living. So have kids...and provide them with the infrastructure, knowledge and skill base to be truely free of the malignancy we call industrial society.
Maybe after 15-50 generations of people who live on that paradigm we can start maturing to the point where we can use our vast and deadly technological ability responsibly and with long-term vision.
perakko said:i just gotta say thanks to NOKUY for starting and everyone else contributing in this thread.
been feeling extremely depressed lately and having trouble dealing with it. i think it mostly comes from seeing the mental state of people around me deteriorating. don't have anyone with similar thoughs to talk to really. don't wanna go on anti-depressants or some bullshit shrink. but i finally got myself through this whole thread and already feel a bit better.
about being ready... well i'm still young (23) and in good physical shape. dont have any loans but dont have any money either. no kids, no gf etc. dont have an education but i consider myself aware and pretty intelligent in common sense. that's all i got for now.
i'd like to contribute more myself but have to get my brain functioning better and some thoughs together.
anyways thanks to everyone and please keep contributing to this thread.
oh yeah, i can grow ganja pretty far up north...
If America faces a 2nd 'great' depression, there have actually been a few depressions in US history, then basically the world will be in a depression. No place to go to in this instance. Just look at the auto industry tanking. ANY businesses directly or indirectly related to the auto industry in Canada are hurting.hunt4genetics said:One question is, if America faces a 2nd great depression, will Americans spill over into Canada in search of work?
I feel that it will take alot less to create a great depression. Perception is reality. In 2009 our standard of living is so high(material) compared to 1929, that it will take alot less for us to believe that we are in a depression.
I think you guys are all paranoid.