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Thanks. I'll read carefully. I have shared this in my networks, and they say some portions of this are really quite right on, while other parts may be less astute. I'll keep you posted on what we're learning from this.

Your premises here are false, REF. I am already growing food -- herbs and veggies. But the last frost is in the future, so I'm making starts for future planting outside. I also plan -- with my neighbors -- of having a backyard chicken coop for eggs. Gardening and providing a few chicken eggs...

I was being honest here. I'm afraid, because I'm informed. Way, way more informed than most people in this country (USA), about the real risk of a new Great Depression. We have two major global emergencies here. One is a disease caused by a virus. The other is an economy heading into meltdown...

I've been letting my hair grow long for the last several months. I plan to grow it even longer. I'm afraid I won't be able to hang with the fashionally buzzed fellows, unless they can accept me as I am.

Vinsanity - I risk looking like a fool and appearing to be arrogant because I'm genuinely frightened of what seems to me at least highly possible, if not highly probable. I believe we're in for a major financial-economic depression of the sort which may lead to real hunger -- and I mean real...

I live in a little rented house without much of a yard, front or back. My next door neighbors have a large backyard. We are planning to grow a large garden in that large backyard, and also to encourage our neighborhood to do the same in their yards where possible. We are also wanting to form...

That's total BS, Vinsanity, and clearly meant to imply that I'm arrogant. But if you look at your actual words carefully you will discern that they are not true. I cite actual experts -- or other people with insight and understanding. Let's be honest here. Only a small fraction of the...

It's late and I've had a big day already -- and I'm tired. So I'll provide only a very partial answer to your very reasonable questions, Tinwin. I'll try my best to return to your inquiry tomorrow. It's crucial that you conceive the distinction between food availability and food arriving on...

PS- I read my hurried response again a couple of times, then re-read the posts I was responding to. Those replies to my prognosis of great risk (not certain collapse) were the kind of superficial response people like me have grown very accustomed to from those who don't think in complex system...

Hi all - For epidemiological insight, seek input from epidemiologists. For economic insight, talk with ecologically informed economists. I'm not a professional ecological economist, but I'm deeply informed from my in depth non-professional study of this field. So... Rather than responding to...

What do you mean by "recover"? If by "recover," you mean we can (and swiftly) go back to how we were living prior to this pandemic, it is clear to me that you are either in denial or are ignorant of how very different the world must necessarily be in the future following the first great global...

I live in Santa Fe, NM. The governor here just hinted very strongly that by tomorrow we may have pretty much all businesses shut down -- cafes, coffee shops, restaurants, (schools are already shut), hotels, motels... everything non-essential. We can leave our homes for grocery shopping and...

I completely agree. It would have been nearly impossible to prevent the virus from escaping China and becoming a global pandemic -- even if all travel out of China were halted at the very earliest stage of their epidemic. Maybe (I can't say I know) China should have halted all travel out of...

I had my second "date" in several months today, with a different woman than the last one a couple of weeks ago, roughly (time is vague these days, with so much happening!). We met for tea and breakfast at a place which was half shut down. Venues of this kind are presently half shut down in...

Okay, I did that. (Oddly, it was invisible to me the first time I looked for it. Must have been too obvious!):p

Report: user "StewartElusy" sent me some advertising and a link (purely commercial, unrelated to polyamory) in a private message from out of the blue. Don't know this person. Sure it's spam.

PS - In other words, if in fact we create our own realities / worlds with our thoughts and feelings (as the "Law of Attraction and Abraham Hicks has it) then there is no valid reason for social and historical knowledge or "intervention" or "engagement". All of that would be irrelevant and...

I do take issue with what you actually wrote. You're saying that I get to choose the kind of society I'm living in, whereas I say the kind of society I'm living in is a product of a historical process which I can influence to some extent, but that extent is made somewhat small on account of my...

I don't know which came first, the chicken or the egg. An evolutionary biologist would probably explain that they co-emerged together as parts of a singular process in something kindred to co-evolution. LOL. (I giggle 'cause co-evolution usually is evoked to describe different species in...

It should probably be obvious from what I said that I was not literally running a scientific experiment on objectification. I was simply using the concept "science" to differentiate my general way of understanding human experience, thus contrasting my approach with F.A.'s approach. F.A. has...