I'll trade you for some Bison. On Oct 19, 2016 1:44 PM, "That One Guy /sarcasm" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. >
