Just another day of a typical Canuck mom in my country living in the woods. Move along, move along, no boobies to see here.

Also, birds aren't real. That Eagle is an American spycraft! Thanks for exposing this American illegal border crossing into my country just for boobies pics, Seth!

That news anchor's dress at 11 seconds. I'm not a person that gives a shit about fashion, I live in the woods, but that dress is awesome!

When did you become a welfare queen like that? Like I'm just wondering what made you change your mind that you said "that's it im going to start being on welfare."

I thought you hated stuff like that, i still haven't gotten my check, but I believe in good government policy that uses socialized programs to help people in times of need. I thought you would be living in the woods or on Walden pond or something by now.

Instead you became a welfare queen. I never would have thought you were a welfare queen but I guess tha'ts the way of it.


WELL I'll look forward to you NOT giving people a hard time for taking needed help in the form of government handouts in the future since you're a welfare queen now too.

He could probably charge people a couple thousand to live in the woods and learn how to build stuff for a week.

Thanks for the promote!

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*promote

@blankfist

First off, you're not forced to pay for anything. That's the whole point behind 'Walden' and Thoreau's philosophy (durrrr). Secondly, it doesn't bother me that Thoreau was an anarchist, it bothers me that his idea is nearly impossible to implement on a mass scale. I mean it sounds great and all, but it has about zero practicality in my opinion.

You, on the other hand, seem to have a very different idea of what he means and how it could be done. Correct me if im wrong here but you, YOU, are the one who is bashing the "statists" and promoting an, in your words, anarchist. You're telling me "Hey, Thoreau says you should have a government that doesn't govern, he was an anarchist and that's the way we all should be!!!" Then I say, well shit why not follow through on any of those ideas if you believe in them so much? And you say WHOA I'm FORCED to pay taxes. No you're not. Go fucking live in the woods and stop bothering people.

Or at least, stop bothering people and do something productive like fight for social change with your obviously capable mind. Instead of promoting an idea that is going to go nowhere. "Wait my idea's not going nowhere!!?!?!"-you -- Then stop paying taxes.

Sartre's story, The Wall, does a good job of illustrating the idea that we always, ALWAYS, have a choice. If you really believe you don't have a choice then you're more hypocritical than I thought you were.

This is a great video of our dog, Buddy, and a rescued baby deer. They were just playing together when this video was taken. As the deer (a buck) got bigger, he went to live on his own in the woods, but still comes back to visit our dog and cats and us every now and then. I'm sure we will eventually not see him any more, but it's nice to know that we saved him from death. When he was first found, he was dehydrated and near death on a 100+ degree summer day in Texas. After treating him for deydration and bottle feeding him daily, he eventually became strong enough to live on his own. We caught the little deer and our dog playing with the soccer ball on a few occassions before this particular day. We had to film this, as they were having so much fun running around together. Our dog loved this deer and the deer loved the dog. We often found them laying next to each other on our front porch when we awakened in the morning. Please know that the buck has now gone on to live in the wooded areas in the hill country around us. He seems right at home there. Enjoy!!!!

This digital life revolution mentioned here is inevitable, Google or no. Consider the alternative, I may be naive but I actually believe Google, as a company, have a very strong sense of right and wrong and they go to incredible lengths to stick to those values. The obvious antithesis is Apple, the fact they are so successful is truly concerning, it is proof that there's a gross misunderstanding of the concepts of freedom of information and its importance in the general public. You want complete privacy? you're more than welcome to go live in the woods. Again, these changes are inevitable and we should be thankful Google is leading them as anything else would be too 1984ish for me to accept.

More semantics. You like original meanings?

How about this: libertarians are awful. They should start using that to describe themselves.

And the libertarian idea of "freedom" is really a charade to cloak their arrogance and selfishness.

A real libertarian should live in the woods and eat berries, otherwise he's just another social parasite.

Individual freedom does not preclude social duty. Selfishness does.

I had a long-lasting crush on a girl, and it actually motivated and inspired me in many ways over the years. Feelings of attachment and righteousness aren't "in place of" clear thinking, they can co-exist.

Religion is a little deeper in us, remember Ted Kaczynski making up his own rabbit-god while he was solo in the Montana forest?

"While I was living in the woods I sort of invented some gods for myself. Not that I believed in these things intellectually, but they were ideas that sort of corresponded with some of the feelings I had. I think the first one I invented was Grandfather Rabbit. You know the snowshoe rabbits were my main source of meat during the winters. I had spent a lot of time learning what they do and following their tracks all around before I could get close enough to shoot them. Sometimes you would track a rabbit around and around and then the tracks disappear. You can't figure out where that rabbit went and lose the trail. I invented a myth for myself, that this was the Grandfather Rabbit, the grandfather who was responsible for the existence of all other rabbits. He was able to disappear, that is why you couldn't catch him and why you would never see him... Every time I shot a snowshoe rabbit, I would always say 'thank you Grandfather Rabbit.'"

It satisfies our need to humanize our environment (and our existence) and have a personal relationship with it. Though I think your metaphor was right on in some ways, I don't think religion can be reduced to that level of triviality.

>> ^Drax:
Obviously this fades over time as one wises up.. but remember getting a massive crush on someone in your youth, and falling in love with very little knowledge of the person? Remember how it felt?
I think this same emotion is felt for many with religion. No I don't mean they have an actual crush on Jesus or anything, it's just that same sort of base feel of love. I mean it's there in all of us, we just wise up to falling into it frivolously over time with physical people. When it's felt for something abstract, there's no rejection to make you realize you're in it's trance, or conversely no one to work with to develop it into a more true love.
I think -that's- a key reason religion is so strong for some people. It's certainly a good emotion, but it causes a feeling of attachment and righteousness (in a, 'I'm on the right path...' sort of way) in place of clear thinking.
Just my theory.

"I see your votes or comments occasionally, but haven't seen you sift for a while. You around? Taking a break?"

I was living in the woods for a while with no internet. It was a nice break from civilization. But I have to say it's good to be back in touch with what's going on around the world.

It's a style thing I guess. If your post said "Fox Banned Affiliates From Airing This Segment after 2001" then it wouldn't bother me. Calling it "Banned" with no qualification implies external censorship, like if the government has told FOX or the production company whether it can be aired.

I know it's semantically accurate to say it's banned, it just makes the wrong implication, imho. I think sarcasm and hyperbole have encroached on everyday dialogue to the point where people pay less attention to tone and implication than they did 200 years ago. It's not effective communication to say this is banned, it's just you marketing your video. Maybe it's time for me to grow a beard and go live in the woods, because until they put ads in the moon, at least in the woods there's no ads in your face.

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MINK-Caligraphy, is a balm, an obsessive distraction, and so many wonderful things.....welcome to history, become your passion!



Gorgonheap, well, yer a go-getter!


"First two initials followed by last name. K. A. Raidl. (Raidl pronounced Ray-dull.)"

[Rayden, rather, suck yer head off inna minnit!]..never give yer name on the internets....in case you wanna run for the office!!!]

I enjoyed the books and always had a good laugh from the Zifnab/Fizban characters so I started using Zifnab as my online handle and it kinda stuck"


[thank the fucking stars, a reader!]

My avatar notwithstanding, my name is not from the bug, but a type of encryption ke....[all we need to know, thank Bob for insects]

"Also there was this small swamp behind a graveyard down the road from where I lived in some woods where my friends and I braved as kids"[swampthing, can prob'ly cook up a mess a greens, too]

This
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/eric.boix/Koan/Hekiganroku/index.html
[indecipherable: -adj. Having many talons and gifts. 2. lush

"based on the bird, snipe, rather than sniper."
[pigeon and you'd gedda long]

"I found a toque in my parents attic when I was younger and it simply said "fedquip", I had that toque for a long time, it's now my user name."

goddamn we have a lot in common....(*lights bowl)

My name is Farhad.

The 2000.....is because he could die before will ever stop posting before I hit 2000]......(....fahad's ever-presence..)

dag, -For all ya' toilet flushing-wankers it's Dog, in Aussie, and pikey....


so.....anyone else need a Fresh-queued roast????....Microwave or conventional???

Oh, I've used variations of "swamp" in a screen name for 15 years. There are a few influences for that I suppose.
I grew up on this road named after Francis Marion (The Swamp Fox). Everything in the area is named after him, even the University.
Also there was this small swamp behind a graveyard down the road from where I lived in some woods where my friends and I braved as kids. Later it became a hangout area where our folks weren't monitoring our ..uh activities .
But ultimately I'm a southern girl and it just fits that vibe.

Officially for my online persona, I'm adopting this story:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Swamp-Girl-1971-Trailer

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I would say greatest. By chance, I've been watching this one a lot recently with my kids. There is a great wikipedia article about what makes this great, here's a small excerpt:

According to director Chuck Jones, this film demonstrated for the first time that animation can create characters with a recognizable personality, independent of their appearance, milieu, or voice. Although in the end, the animator is revealed to be Bugs Bunny, according to Jones the ending is just for comedic value: Jones (the director) is speaking to the audience directly, asking "Who is Daffy Duck anyway? Would you recognize him if I did this to him? What if he didn't live in the woods? Didn't live anywhere? What if he had no voice? No face? What if he wasn't even a duck anymore?" In all cases, it's obvious that Daffy is still Daffy; not all cartoon characters can claim such distinctive personality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Amuck