@deetoo, Thank You. Zoom and I don’t seem to be on friendly terms, and it isn’t a challenge I really want to conquer.
Considering I am new at this, reading all these separate posts makes me feel like someone who is talking too much. Would you tell me how to put all responses into one post? Navigating a new website is often a challenge for me, and posting in one even more so. Bear with me, I am still learning.
Yes @claire welcome! I was like you as well..... just reading the whole site and loving it! We are positive Warriors! Light workers one and all. I think in reality we are going ahead to pave the way. Mr Barr is a Clear and Present danger to our beloved Nation. The truth will out itself. Happy Earth Day everyone. Spelled another way.... Happy Heart Day.....the Earth is a Heavenly Body. ?
As someone once said here, we feel more in tune energetically when connecting with this Forum..
Baraka Bashad
(Let the blessings be ...)?
You are a kind soul, @claire. I found your individual responses very thoughtful. Rest assured, you're not talking too much!
Are you asking how to include a number of quotes from different individuals? I've only included, at most, two separate quotes from two individuals in one reply, mainly because I don't want my postings to be too lengthy or confusing. But I don't believe there are any fast or hard rules on it. If I'm not including quotes, then I'll sometimes reply to a couple of individuals in one posting. I usually include a quote if I want to highlight something that resonates with me, or to clarify my response to someone. And then there is always the "Like" button.
This is the first and only online community site that I've joined, so it took a little time for me too. I discovered this site in December of 2016, but didn’t get the courage to join until November 2018. Now you can’t shut me up. ?
Yes, @deetoo, I would like to know how to respond to other posters on the same page. (I haven’t quite figured it out. I had just discovered the “quotes” link earlier and was trying it out, if I seemed rather confused. I keep telling myself it is good to learn new things, even though I have no need to be disruptive while I do it!
Warning: long post with some links.
For a view of a better way to live, a Buddhist economics, take a look at the Schumacher Center. I am sure many of you remember the book by economist E. F. Schumacher, "Small is Beautiful: Economic as if People Mattered" --it is one of my favorite books and my copy is tattered, barely staying together.
In the mid-1970s, the phrase “small is beautiful” became a counterculture slogan against the industrial threat to the environment and the scarcity of resources. Arguing against excessive materialism and meaningless growth, the late Dr. Ernest Friedrich Schumacher—the author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, promoted the use of
small-scale technology to benefit both humankind and the environment. As an economist trained in a market oriented discipline, his thinking evolved from believing that large-scale technology could be salvation for
industrial civilization to believing that large-scale technology is the root of degrading human beings and the environment. https://www.unm.edu/~varma/print/BSTS_Schumacher.pdf
I had read books and essays by Wendell Berry and this brought me into a full circle.
I discovered the Schumacher Center for a New Economy:
"MISSION -
To envision a just and sustainable global economy; apply the concepts locally; then share the results for broad replication.
Founded in 1980 the Schumacher Center for a New Economics works to envision the elements of a just and sustainable global economy; undertakes to apply these elements in its home region of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts; and then develops the educational programs to share the results more broadly, thus encouraging replication.
We recognize that the environmental and equity crises we now face have their roots in the current economic system.
We believe that:
- a fair and sustainable economy is possible and that citizens working for the common interest can build systems to achieve it
- our natural commons are best held by the regional community
- money issue can be democratized
- ownership should be more diversified and that labor should have a part in the ownership structure
We favor the face-to-face relationships fostered in local economies. We deliberately focus on transformative systems and the principles that guide them."
- (read more here: https://centerforneweconomics.org/about/ )
I also had done some reading about The Catholic Worker history. Both these movements brought me to reading about Distributism. New Economics is kind of like a Crunchy Distributism, which while Catholic Social Doctine can be seen as an underpinning, it is independent of any religion --so I feel it is a more universal, unitary system for people of the religious, areligious and multireligious.... so if someone was at an evolutionary point to look at capitalism in a different way, and look at globalism/interdependence/localism in a different way that even the right could find value in this and even the left could embrace or at least acknowledge the value of the doctrine of subsidiarity:
a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to co-ordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good.
I then found some really interesting information on Transition, transition towns, permaculture, the sharing economy, Blue Zones etc. There is so much! The biggest hole we have is a lack of community in the structure of our society and I really don't know answers to how to fix that (I am a nurse, not a trained community organizer). I would love to be part of a social movement that incorporates the principles of all of the above but it is just so.. big. And the world, our nation, or society so dug into the current system and so busy, too busy to look for alternatives for the status quo.
This post is already too long but I really wanted to share this as the discovery of which was the result of a lot of soul searching during the period of 2001-2008. But afterwards, I really didn't know what to do with myself and these ideas. I discovered I am village person, not a rural person (although I live in a suburb). It was really hard to find other people in real life that is engaged these ideas.
Well great. The mango moron has suggested investigating injecting a disinfectant to cure the virus. I just got home from the grocery and no Lysol to be found. Plenty of bleach but I can’t stand the smell. Can anyone say “25th Amendment? I hear Nancy is bringing new imbleachment charges!
Repost from the random predictions thread:
Last night I received a sudden vision of Mar-a-Lago and heard the words "chop shop." Then came a cascade of rapid images showing T's properties and possessions being seized, actioned off, and otherwise liquidated.
There was a humorous news bit about the supposed "golden toilet."
@vestralux Come to think of it, it looks like this could lead to the Trump family filing for bankruptcy, as seen in one of the readings that I couldn't find.
now he is not doing any more rallies I mean briefings cause of the horrible no good fake news media took his words and twisted them. He said he was being sarcastic and also playing a joke. I think he was doing the daily briefings because he was just jealous of Cuomo. Because people praised him and said he looked more presidential then him.
This opinion piece in WAPO which includes Republicans turning against him finally after the lysol remarks, is good. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/27/lysol/