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Post by whistler on Mar 24, 2011 9:52:52 GMT
We talk of how important is it to take Personal Responsibility for our actions - I was just wondering how Personally Responsible it is to live on a Fault line, the flood path of a river, or the slopes of a volcano BTW there is about 10 Volcanic cones within a few Kilometers from my house.
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Post by sammy on Mar 24, 2011 12:01:14 GMT
I live where we get all 3... lucky me
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Post by jayman on Mar 24, 2011 14:19:45 GMT
a few years back, the comedia Sam Kinison had a skit on this.
He had this to say:
"there wouldn't be starvation if people would live where the food is."
"Do you know what this is? This is sand. Nothing grows in this s***. Nothing will ever grow in this s***.
"We have deserts in America too, a**h***. We just don't live in them"
While caustic, it does go back to what you are saying, Whistler.
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Post by maat on Mar 24, 2011 23:19:13 GMT
A lot of people do not have a choice about where they live, most especially in the poorest countries. Border guards have a lot to say about things.
In our society it is most often the family/friend connections which bind us to a locality. That and the old "it will never happen to us" attitude.
You might like to check out the miracle of Findhorn, and the lady who helped reclaim some of the Sahara Desert but simply planting trees. Miracles still happen when someone follows their dream.
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Post by maat on Mar 24, 2011 23:21:35 GMT
I would move if I were you guys. When you decide not to (I have a bet with myself that you don't) then you will be able to identify the answer to your question. www.iris.washington.edu/seismon/
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Post by maat on Mar 24, 2011 23:24:33 GMT
I attended a Shinto type seminar, workshop thingy about a month ago. Those people were working at the time to balance the energies beneath NZ, Japan and a part of Russia. I didn't take it all that seriously, I have to admit. Two days later, Christchurch was hit. Two weeks later, Japan. Yesterday Russia. I shall take them more seriously next time.
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Post by whistler on Mar 25, 2011 20:06:41 GMT
My thoughts are - If i choose to live on a volcano do I have the right to ask you for help if the volcano blows my house up. If I am true to accepting personal responsibility for my life I would go and live away from the volcano
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Post by sammy on Mar 26, 2011 13:26:11 GMT
Its not that its family and friends that bind you. Its like the lottery, your just as able to win a lifetime of money as you are getting laid off and reduced to poverty. Its quite random and unforgiving, as they say "its just business". So family and friends will be the only thing to help you through it.
If I had a choice to live anywhere I would NOT be in America and my whole family will say the same. Its what we were left, and we have to break our selves to maintain that. Sit boo boo sit... good dog.
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Post by anubis on Mar 26, 2011 16:19:31 GMT
If I had a choice to live anywhere I would NOT be in America and my whole family will say the same. Its what we were left, and we have to break our selves to maintain that. You want to go where things are "easy" and given you for free? If you ever find this imaginary paradise, please inform the rest of us of it's existence. Okay, that's from the end credits of a TV show.
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Post by sammy on Mar 29, 2011 14:41:46 GMT
If I had a choice to live anywhere I would NOT be in America and my whole family will say the same. Its what we were left, and we have to break our selves to maintain that. You want to go where things are "easy" and given you for free? If you ever find this imaginary paradise, please inform the rest of us of it's existence. Okay, that's from the end credits of a TV show. Did I say free anywhere? I earn what I get because I work for it. That doesnt work on the corperate end. Ive worked over 80 hours in a week doing construction. Which I cant do anymore if I want a family because you move all the time. That is if you want to keep working. Many people work just as hard at alot of jobs but it wont make business think twice about tying up loose ends. If your not in big business you might scrape by, but its a rough life to live with low income. They like a good dog, and many are sitting for their non-existant treat.
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Post by jayman on Mar 29, 2011 15:19:47 GMT
Sit boo boo sit... good dog. Sit Ubu Sit, so named after Ubu Productions, the creators of Family Ties and Spin City.
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Post by sammy on Mar 30, 2011 13:25:23 GMT
ahh quite a bit funnier knowing that HAHA. It never made much sense to me growing up, except that they told the dog to sit and he did... good dog.
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Mr_Chaos
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We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget.
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Post by Mr_Chaos on Jun 2, 2011 4:15:26 GMT
Don't fear the reaper my friend. We will all be dead soon enough.
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Post by vajranagini on Jun 20, 2011 15:01:09 GMT
How responsible is it to built a nuclear reactor complex in an major earthquake zone, right on the shore of the ocean, eh?
I got an ironic chuckle from all the pompous statements from scientists declaring that the moon being at perigee wouldn't affect anything and that "nothing" was going to happen as a result...and a day later the tsunami hit Japan.
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Post by sammy on Jul 5, 2011 16:22:31 GMT
It wasnt the earthquake as much as the "emergency system" required electricity to work, and there was none to be used. So the emergency pumps couldnt get water to the reactor. Now china has been mass-producing cookie cutter nuclear plants to replace coal burning plants. Thier new emergency system will be placed ontop of the steam stacks, so that gravity will replace any need for electrical parts.
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