08-30-2016, 03:37 PM
(08-26-2016, 11:02 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(08-24-2016, 09:02 PM)Copperfield Wrote: Maybe on your side of the country. Not so much in mine. Like I said, get out more.
No, nationally.
(08-24-2016, 08:47 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Look, I know you've never shot anything in your life. I know you can't define the difference between what are military and non-military weapons (because there is no such thing). I know you enjoy heaping more power onto the already powerful. I get it. I really do. Problem is, none of your inexperience and not-knowing makes you right in the end. It just makes you... Old and powerless.
I can fortunately and proudly say I've never shot anything in my life, yes. Call me Green.
Those who say there's no difference between those two kinds of weapons are shooting in the dark. Not up for debate.
It's the parties with which you tend to align (although you don't align with either strictly speaking) who are dedicated to promoting the interests of the powerful (and wealth is power). That would be the Republicans and Libertarians.
Those of my viewpoint understand that we all have a lot of untapped power. The power of the Great Spirit is always within me. Materialists such as yourself, however, have no concept of this. My inexperience with guns has no relevance. Guns do not provide any power; they are a substitute for power, employed by those who do not know their own power.
Quote:Oh and P.S. The difference between the picture of your pond and mine? Mine has a year-round population of 0.
No question. In my view that I posted, the trees and mountains look empty of urbanity, but it's all around it. But, that's partly because of our politics, which has insisted on protecting our green foothills.
Nah, not here. Most of the wilderness is actually privately owned yet still open to everyone. Certainly there is the occasional environmental tiff but the biggest threat to the wilderness here is from tourism (mostly from those provincialist blues in New York and Massachusetts). They tend to be the ones who litter, destroy and treat nature as a shiny trinket to be consumed. Basically wealthy urbanites who have never seen a tree outside of a local park. Much like you, they don't really understand nature. They just buy it for a few weeks each year.
Power *chuckle*
I could drop you off in wild places where you wouldn't make it back to civilization alive. You don't understand power or nature. You certainly aren't ready for the responsibility that comes with it. You've barely even left home in your lifetime.
Your politics have chained you to the to the arrogant notion of wilderness as just another human resource to be controlled rather than understood and embracing your connection to it. That's a big part of the problem. As I've often said, when you folks run out of water don't bother coming east.
The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me. -- Lysander Spooner