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Originally Posted by Charles
In other words, you're English. Everybody's gotta belong to the club, maybe not the same one, but to one. Gotta have papers when you're born, gotta have papers when you die, and ya gotta pay taxes in the meantime.
I suppose if you went far enough up the Amazon the powers that be might leave you alone, but the people who already live there might cook you up for supper.
"What's for supper, Grandpa?"
"It's you, laddie!"
Now I've got a pretty independent streak, and I don't much like people telling me what I'm gonna do...but I'm hardly an anarchist. Can't say I'd prefer to live in a Mad Max world...I like my air squezzer and easy chair too much.
To tell the truth, I think your main complaint about society and the nature of things is due to the fact that you consider yourself to be poor.
Look at it in another way. If you want an orange, can you not only afford one, but is it not easily accessible? A couple of hundred years ago even a king couldn't have an orange whenever he wanted one.
Count your blessings, and look around. You aren't truly poor, you just want more money. People really ARE starving to death in Africa.
And in closing, I'll address the dreaded chigger.
It's a little bug you can't see with the naked eye. When one of them bites you, you get a big red welt which itches like mad for a good week. Most of the time when you get into them, you wind up with several hundred bites, they prefer your feet, the backs of your knees, your crotch, and your balls. And when that happens, you are miserable for a LONG time.
They're lousy in Missouri, only good thing is they can't stand DEET. DO NOT live in a tent where there are chiggers.
Chas
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I went out with the astronomy club one warm summer night in sandals and shorts, I thought the place we were headed had concrete pads to set up on. It didn't. It was an open grassy field. The next morning, my feet were so swollen up with chigger bites I couldn't get my feet into my work boots. Had to stay home for three days, nursing my feet. Miserable, miserable experience that cost me three vacation days.
I like what you said about oranges, too. It's easy to forget that people once lived short, brutal lives. And that it really wasn't all that long ago. Unfortunately, some still do. We in the "developed nations" are very fortunate, despite our grievences. I'd rather live in an apartment in Europe, North America, or the more "developed" Asian countires than a mud hut in Rwanda anytime.
Dave
02-08-2011, 11:49 PM
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