Datura plants grew in my back yard when I first bought my second home

On Oct 19, 2016 12:45 PM, "Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>>
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