did someone say peyote?! On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have these three sea shells and some peyote. Can we trade? > > On Oct 19, 2016 12:42 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Screw your tribe, I have the conch... >> >> *From:* Josh Reynolds >> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 19, 2016 10:52 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Ot but common >> >> >> Once upon a time, we had tribes. >> >> They lived together, believed in the same things, had the same language, >> same problems, etc. Same ethnic, religious, geographic ties. And so on.. >> >> We still have tribes now, but the individuals in these tribes might be >> separated geographically by vast differences. >> >> We also have the media, which is a megaphone for issues important to the >> tribes - well at least the biggest two, everything else is marginalized and >> discredited and looked down upon. It gets even worse once you're on the >> internet. >> >> Critical thinking is gone. Fact checking is too time consuming for the >> masses. Facts themselves are too easy to hide or distort. There is as much >> disinformation as there is information, and its intentional to continue to >> perpetuate the system. >> >> I just want a small island with a temperate climate to raise my >> mini-tribe. The rest of you can fuck off ;) >> >> Native American Indians did it right, mostly. I wouldn't mind going back >> to that at this point. Enjoying nature. Enjoying family. Spending quality >> time. The only work to do is the work that has to get done. I'll figure out >> spears, I'm okay with bows and good with fire. No more rat race, no >> twitter, no CNN/fox, just kicking it with my fam enjoying flying through >> the cosmos as insane speeds on this ball of space dust. >> >> On Oct 19, 2016 11:36 AM, "Chris Wright" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > It really is a shame that we’ve been conditioned to default to >> establishing our own world of confirmation bias. We tailor our social media >> by liking posts we agree with, and unfriending (or at least muting) posters >> of contrary material. We create our own personal worlds of yes-people and >> intelligence no longer becomes necessary. Our handicapped minds are no >> longer required to hold two conflicting ideas for the sake of critical >> thought. All this has devolved a once-functional society filled with >> different people who recognized the value of compromise into a >> self-centric, personalized hegemony of detached resonating chambers. >> > >> > >> > >> > Guys I’m not even fully caffeinated this morning why am I even writing >> this… >> > >> > >> > >> > Chris Wright >> > >> > Network Administrator >> > >> > >> > >> > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of That One Guy >> /sarcasm >> > Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2016 9:21 PM >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: [AFMUG] Ot but common >> > >> > >> > >> > Can we all still be friends after this shitshow? Pleeeeeeeaase? Even if >> we can't be friends will you folks at least still offset my incompetence? >> > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
