Capitol Hill Blue Forums Life and Moral Issues Religion and Philosophy Gimme some of that good ol time religion

I love the tax laws and I wish I could start my own religion. Maybe I can! Although I think Texas is a little more “liberal” about this sort of thing.

And if this charlatan doesn’t have a face that can stop a thousand freight trains at once, I don’t know who does:

Tax breaks for the enlightened

So I shall continue on with this thread as I am not sure if it is worthy of another. But have any of you malcontents out there stopped to think about the wonder that is our current situation? We have electricity that we can flick on with the turn of the switch, does anyone stop to think about where that power originates? Or even care as long as it comes on. We have heating and cooling that come through inventions of modern physics, chemistry, metallurgy, and science that both both warm and cool at the turn of the switch as long as one has the resources to pay the utility bills. Does anyone really stop to think about that? And the miracles it really involves.

I know some do but most don’t. What about turning on the faucet and being able to drink potable water that won’t kill you or at least make you sick. What about being able to pull the lever and flush the toilet where all of that nasty stuff goes “somewhere”. Where does it go? Who gives a [censored] as long as it just goes away. By the way it goes away to the King of the Turd world. I know that guy, he was a friend of mine. And whoever thinks about that? Just flush it and be disposed of it.

My mother who was born and raised on a small farm in Saskatchewan had to walk to the outhouse guided by a string whilst it was 40 below to do her business. I am sure that business was conducted very quickly but she had to hold the string to find her way back to the house so she would not get lost and freeze to death. Have any of you folks ever thought about such a thing? I didn’t as I grew up in Hawaii and heard her stories in astonishment.

I could continue but I think it’s time that all of us who live in this modern world should give thanks for all the stuff that we take for granted that we don’t even stop to think about from day to day. Shoot me tomorrow,

I might be grateful if you did that.

I think about it all the time and have concluded that all those conveniences that folks in “developed” countries mindlessly enjoy are unsustainable and are bringing us to extinction as a species (along with a lot of other species).

The only action that can change this is for humanity to wake up - but I don’t think that’s gonna happen. We will be registered in the geologic record as the “Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em” epoch. The alien researchers of some far future day will comment that a giant meteorite ate the dinosaurs’ lunch, but those wild and wacky humans ate their own goddam lunch! Crazy!!

Church tax breaks are a total scam - especially given that churches have turned into off-record political entities.

I wish that we could start anew, 'cuz wakin' up is hard to do...

Here is the musical version, but Neil changed the lyrics 'cuz folks didn't want to wake up and the record wasn't selling.

Here's an idea for the basic belief of a new religion - I'll help you to start it!

Life as we know it is a dream, and the real thing is in the before life and the afterlife. The financial scam part will be a pitch about how money isn't real, so giving it all to us is inconsequential - necessary even, to break the 'habit' before waking up. Then we can have the religious experience of "champagne wishes and caviar dreams"!

Ken - such snow survival techniques were not unusual. Check into the “Children’s Blizzard” of 1888. In heavy blizzards, it was common to tie a rope from house to barn in order to avoid being permanently lost.

Thirteen years in North Idaho I never had an indoor toilet - we shoveled a path through the snow to the outhouse (sometimes it got to be a trench 3' deep). I thought it was a benefit, getting out early in the morning, overlooking the alder and fern wetland (no door), watching the chickadees and whistling back to them. The seat was a carved piece of blue foam insulation board, so no seat shock to contend with. We never had winds when it snowed, though, so no blizzards to get lost in.

When folks would ask, "You don't have an indoor toilet?", my answer was, "Hell no, we don't shiit in our house, do you?"

My mother lived in Alaska for a while when she was married to an Army officer. There were so few educated people in the territory at the time, she served as secretary for the governor. But her story that impressed me the most was about the time she got chased around a cabin by a hungry bear, Her friend finally unlocked the door, but did not remain her friend after that.

Good thing they didn't have a rope between the outhouse and the cabin to block her escape.