Connor Photography wrote:
May be we should go back to the Stone Age

life expectancy like 23 ?
Parasites ?
saber tooth tigers ?

Connor Photography wrote:
Everyone was just trying to get the next meal and keeping the fire going to keep warm.  There were NO extremists of any kinds.  There is no vegans, no religion, no peanut allergy, no green peace, no animal rights, no welfare, no soccer mom, no porn, no escorts.  More importantly, we did not have a mean of killing a lot of people.  Everyone was focusing to survive but not trying to kill others for no reason.  All animals will kill each others for food.  Only human is the only animal that will kill another human other than food.

Noble thoughts, but I don't believe that these views are realistic:

...  As long as there have been human beings, there has been war.  Early man fought over hunting grounds, and the tribe that was successful in wiping out the competition got to survive.

...  Indeed, early tribes were the source of our inclination to be prejudiced.  Our tribe is better than your tribe, therefore, your tribe deserves to die.

...  Early man created religions to justify prejudice, to motivate warriors, and to answer the questions that cannot be answered.  I note that many of the early religions featured gods who were powerful warriors.  Even those religions that featured peaceful gods were perverted to justify war.

...  The earliest pieces of art were pornographic.

...  The tribe that took care of its members had the best chances of survival.  Isn't that welfare?

I don't think the Stone Age was as pleasant as you describe.

Connor Photography wrote:
And I can't and am incapable to do anything about it.

I don't believe this to be true.

Isis22 wrote:
Wrong. Animals DO kill other animals in order to be the alpha male. They kill their young if they suspect they might not be theirs. They kill the females if they are not their females. You must know very little about the animal kingdom. Dominance is not just for humans.

OKay, I think you missed the point.

DOUGLASFOTOS wrote:
Or...OP  you can do this.

Sell everything you own...or give away to charity. Take only a backpack of clothing, and some food..and head off to ..humm  a remote part of Planet Earth.  And never have to deal with today's society. For You...Problem Solved...Goodbye...Oh You owe me a 100 dollars.. Thanks

How about I just buy you a dinner in a 4 star restaurant when I drift to LA by the Santa Ana wind.....hahaha. 

That is what I have been thinking for a few years, but I will do it with a sailboat.  I don't need to sell anything since I am NOT having a multimillion yacht that needs half dozen crews to operate.   I just need a small 40-45 ft late model monohull.  My daughter finishing her med school in a bit more than a year  (her 3rd year).  I will pay off her tuition and stuff, then I will be Free at Last.   I'm still take care my Mom who is is getting old, but she takes very little money to make her happy compared to the expense of my daughter, but I love my daughter

Jules NYC wrote:
I don't belong in this time period at all.
I feel completely displaced.

I would love to be in a past era/century in a heartbeat.

Which era? I think it would be cool to dance to Glenn Miller's, 'In the Mood', as the new hip song.

I think it would be cool to live before WWII, but after the ickyness of the US Civil (sic) War or the Napoleonic Wars.

Can you imagine? There was a time people traveled without visas.

Jules NYC wrote:
I don't belong in this time period at all.
I feel completely displaced.

I would love to be in a past era/century in a heartbeat.

I saw you in a different universe. You were riding a dark war horse, dancing on his back as the angel of Death and singing the verse of Mercy.

scrymettet wrote:
I saw you in a different universe. You were riding a dark war horse, dancing on his back as the angel of Death and singing the verse of Mercy.

That sounds like a great film in my mind!


I like this different universe premise.

DCurtis wrote:

Which era? I think it would be cool to dance to Glenn Miller's, 'In the Mood', as the new hip song.

I think it would be cool to live before WWII, but after the ickyness of the US Civil (sic) War or the Napoleonic Wars.

Can you imagine? There was a time people traveled without visas.

The Victorian Era - early 1900's first comes to mind.

Jules NYC wrote:

That sounds like a great film in my mind!

before Thy the wildest beast kneel in respect to the singing witch whom the West mountains belong

scrymettet wrote:

before Thy the wildest beast kneel in respect to the singing witch whom the West mountains belong

Man, it's nice to laugh... esp. tonight.

/threadjack

Jules NYC wrote:



Man, it's nice to laugh... esp. tonight.

/threadjack

and I thought I was good

*kicks rock, misses, fells*
*cries*

scrymettet wrote:

and I thought I was good

*kicks rock, misses, fells*
*cries*

but it IS good!


That's just my laid-back way of 'yay'.

Jules NYC wrote:

but it IS good!


That's just my laid-back way of 'yay'.

if I pout convincingly, will I get a cookie ?

Connor Photography wrote:
no porn

Fuck all that, Holmes.

Jules NYC wrote:
There is no vegans, no religion, no peanut allergy, no green peace, no animal rights, no welfare, no soccer mom, no porn, no escorts. 


I always wondered why porn is a standard 'like'.

that said I do remember seeing stone age erotic statues and stone dildos.

Connor Photography wrote:
...........when life was simpler and hard.  Everyone was just trying to get the next meal and keeping the fire going to keep warm.  There were NO extremists of any kinds.  There is no vegans, no religion, no peanut allergy, no green peace, no animal rights, no welfare, no soccer mom, no porn, no escorts.  More importantly, we did not have a mean of killing a lot of people.  Everyone was focusing to survive but not trying to kill others for no reason.  All animals will kill each others for food.  Only human is the only animal that will kill another human other than food. 

My parents came here for freedom and the American dreams.  It was easy, we got it in no time plus more.  But I am so unhappy about our world as we are heading.  And I can't and am incapable to do anything about it.  I am just a mad scientist playing with drugs, animals and humans.  I can't solve the polarization of the nation and the world.  We choose our leader not by what the candidate can do for our country, we choose our leader by how much he or she can benefit our pockets NOW.  We have lost our vision.  We are suffering in our our success and democracy.   

When I sailed and landed on some remote islands in Caribbean and Central Americans,  at first I felt sorry for the natives how much they have missed our advance and progress .  Our massive productivity of the modern world.  But very soon, I realized they were laughing at me for chasing the impossible dreams.

Perhaps, life comes to a full circle.  Now it is time to return to the basic.  We should all return to the sea where all lives came from.  I hope the day will come where I will sail into the sunset where I can live off the seas.

I felt better NOW. 

I agree with you but we (humans) have never been known for nuturing wisdom.

Look at what happened to Socrates, Christ, and even Einstein had to flee Europe because it was no longer hospitable to the imagination.

We continue to be an attention deficit species going no where fast.

Jules NYC wrote:
There was a guy that I kept imagining me knocking him out reverse-style Cave Man (in hyperbole) and I drag him by his hair into some Lion's Den then well,

m/

when will the young learn the good manners ?

scrymettet wrote:


when will the young learn the good manners ?

I have manners. 
I'd offer him a beer first.

\m/

Connor Photography wrote:
May be we should go back to the Stone Age.....

You are not alone.

Osama Bin Laden and all the neo terrorists wanted this too.

They thought they could do it by destroying the Financial Center in NYC.

Destroying all the historical relics of great civilizations in the Middle East.

Occupying healthy cities and towns in the Middle East and bringing them back to the dark ages.

.

Jules NYC wrote:

I have manners. 
I'd offer him a beer first.

m/

seems fair, proceed

Connor Photography wrote:
...........when life was simpler and hard.  Everyone was just trying to get the next meal and keeping the fire going to keep warm.  There were NO extremists of any kinds.  There is no vegans, no religion, no peanut allergy, no green peace, no animal rights, no welfare, no soccer mom, no porn, no escorts.  More importantly, we did not have a mean of killing a lot of people.  Everyone was focusing to survive but not trying to kill others for no reason.  All animals will kill each others for food.  Only human is the only animal that will kill another human other than food.

Yeah... the good ol' times that never were...

It is all the same... just on a different level...

In those ancient, golden times, murder, rape, pillaging, all the good stuff was thriving and part of daily life... you are influenced by the vision of the life of the Eloi, described by H.G. Wells in his "Time Machine", but the reality is that the ancient times were filled with Morlocks... everywhere...  I am guessing you are not substantially older than me... so, you might remember the 1960's version...     


P.S.: I have been through so much stuff (only a few know about it), that, sometimes... I am tired... so tired of the struggle... so, somewhere in my mind and heart, your rant does resonate... as well as the positive turnaround...