Could you survive

LOL at Ken.

No I don't think I could cope AG. Wouldn't want to, to be be honest.

Hardship is very overrated IMO, and being reduced to basic survival leaves no time for any of the more important things in life. 'Mod cons' give us the time and space to think about life, read a book, learn a skill, discover new information, invent things etc etc if we choose to do so. The fact that many choose to spend this extra time endlessly watching TV or sports or drinking themselves silly is neither here nor there; it's having the luxury of choice to be able to do more than survive. I think that's what modern life has given us.

Where did spaceman's message go?! He replied first and said yes he could easily. Ok I am seeing a lot of threads disappearing whats going on :confused:

Yeah, I saw Allens posts, and now they are gone. Unless he deleted them for some reason. Nothing controversial in them so I can't see a mod removing them. Hmmm.

Can we delete anymore? I was gonna delete a thread I made before anyone responded, as I was having trouble embedding the vids. They came up the first time but disappeared when I edited a few words. So I figured delete the thread and do it again, but I couldn't find the delete button anywhere.

(I figured out the embedding prob for those having similar probs: make sure when editing you 'Go Advanced' there are check boxes there and you get to select if you want them embedded. Dunno whether that's a new feature or I just missed it before)

I don't think we can delete our posts, just edit?
I think there's an evil mod around I have seen several posts vanish lately. And not bad posts, just regular posts.

Huh? Why? So no more N/A's just poof!

Whaaaat? Surely not for those last 2 posts they were innocent. Unless he's been having one of his rants at the wrong person?

Aww, he's usually not serious, I mean he's had some heavy spats with Kay and the next minute they are pals again, so he's not mean.

AG, you used to able to delete your posts as I've done it once or twice, usually when I've just posted it and it's unlikely to have been read by many. Just thought twice about getting into an involved discussion at that time so clicked delete and it was gone.

Maybe Admin stopped it because people were doing it when the posts had been around for a while for people to read, and that would be confusing especially if someone had responded to it - I've seen that happen in a few threads and I couldn't figure it out at first.

I wish I were a mod, I'd have fun zapping people into neverland :p

Even though he said he didn't miss me, he didn't deserve to be zapped away for that.

LOL - as for the original question. Yes, I could survive - and so could the rest of you. It would just take some getting over our cush existence that we have grown so fond of.

As for disappearing posts? That has happened before in the forum. When the Nonsense thread got to 50 pages or 70 or something posts throughout it and new pages disappeared here and again. I think some of it is just gliches for the most part but sometimes people delete their own posts here and again, too. I really wouldn't waste a lot of thought on it. You will need your mental energy for figuring out how to get your clothes springtime fresh without those little sheets you put in your electric dryer in case we are suddenly reverted to the nether years.

Nowadays we call those kind of people homeless; they live an existence in every major city in the world. You could survive like that if you had to.

I freeze in the winter with my thermostat set to 70. I would die in the winter with no central heat.

And how to make your own soap?? How to wash your clothes with no washer, detergent? I know how to dry em by putting them out in the sun.

How to sew. How to get well without doing to the doc and getting a prescription.

Most ppl like me dunno how to do any of that. I don't think I could live like that even if I had to, I am too used to this modern existence and have never been taught any olden type ways.

The Amish are still doing it now though.

About spaceman- whatever happened to n/a? I thought if someone got zapped their posts still remained but instead of their username it was n/a. Some people have said some pretty rude or controversial things before and they didn't get zapped, so it's just weird.

Who has the power to ban? Does any mod have that power?

It would be extremely difficult but I guess I would have to make do. One thing I can not do without is my drugs, espcially those that due to blocked nose and asthma.

Concerning spaceman, I thought it was a bit strange. I think he has toned down his posts recentely already. We really do need interesting people on the OT forum.

Derek

I have been trained to surive with nothing and I know I could do it. The real question is: Am I willing to do it? and that answer is no, I love technology! espcially the internet.

Sonora - only Allen has the power to ban someone. I have checked around and have confirmed that Thom was correct - he has disappeared, yet his profile remains...to me that means one thing. Allen deleted his posts himself for some reason. He might have gotten pissed off. He told me once he was about done here. He might have felt he was being watched and just erased himself for "security" purposes. Whatever his reasons, he definitely flew over, eh?

I can survive. It'll be interesting.

If no-one else had those comforts then it would be no problem - if I was the only one a huge problem!

But then without modern medicine I would already be dead!

Who got banned? Allen who?

Also, there was a thread yesterday, I think Patricia started it, where she was thinking Thom I believe. It's gone now. What happened there? Did it turn ugly somehow? Anyone?

You think you can't because you're accustomed to the time you're in but if you were born then you'd do it just like anybody else. Even if you could go back in time who knows you might get used to it, just like TV addicts who somehow stop watching TV and after a while actually don't miss it anymore.

Yikes, watch out, scary stuff
Threads, people disappearing like that, poof, no reason, no nothing, just disappear
Who is next
It's strange nobody knows why he was banned

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Medicine: I was dying from asthma...in and out of the hospital three or for times a year...I was on five inhalers, two maintenance meds and steroids for YEARS. Hyssop, honey and lemon literally CURED me. I'm not on any meds now, and I use herbs most of the time excepting occasionally I use antibiotics....VERY rarely. I'm doing MUCH better now WITHOUT the meds. Diet, exercise and natural medicines IF I need them.

After my wreck, I went to the doctors for six years and only got worse. they wanted to put me in a wheel chair, called me a hypochondriac ( they couldn't find why I was in so much pain...a neurologist finally figured it out --post herpetic neuropathy, chronic ganglionitis, chronic diskitis ), then they wanted to give me a morphine pump into my spine, then they told me that if the inflammatory attacks of the ganglion and disks didn't stop...it would kill me within a year. So, now almost two years later....on herbs and acupuncture...I'm walking without assistance, going for a masters, working on a business. So, meds have their place---but personally, I don't depend on them. I'll go to a field and find my medicine first.

keeping warm: layers. knit house socks. blankets ( I LOVE my home made blankets & house socks!). Use a pellet heater...keeps everyone toasty. They are like a cast iron belly stove, with a pipe that goes up through the roof and you burn pellets in it. They have been used since the foundation of this country. My aunt in Pennsylvania has one. I couldn't believe that she purchased it at an estate sale ( the thing was made in the 1850's ) and keeps the house ( all three stories ) WARM in the dead of winter!

Seriously, if the economy collapses while the New World Order gets set up, we're all going to have to come up with ideas on how we are going to make due without all the modern conveniences.


Dorothy :p