[MMe M]

IF it does go to subscription, then we all know what the whole parade has been about dont we.

I am so sorry for the loss of Henry Deacon and John Lear. Both are people I respect and admire. I hope all is well for them and that Henry is safe. I was unaware there was an issue.

Personally, I couldnt make it through the atrologers videos. This is a failing of mine, but if something doesnt feel right I find my mind wandering.

I am controlled by money like all of us, but there is an ethical issue at hand here. Would it not be cost effective to have some advertisements at the bottom? Perhaps I am not familiar enough with associated costs but it does worry me that it would come down to information being not available to some for want of money. Besides, what is a pittance to some is a fortune to others. We are not all from the same continet.

I am also bothered by those that push love love peace warm happy places. Reality is an every day ordeal. We must eat, if we dont we die. We wont be all lovey peace and happy june bugs when in the depths of starvation or with a foreign soldiers gun (gasp, my gawd, she said the "G" word again!) pointed directly at our forehead. Reality sucks but we can maybe make it to better times by trying to become educated in the school of every day survival. This may mean you must have a weapon, make a snare, a deadfall, know how to light a fire without matchs or a lighter, make a shelter, find water, know what plants wont kill you. We all should have the propensity to love, and empathy. How many of you throw out leftovers containing meat? Think about where that meat came from (not the grocery store, before that)? Have you ever raised your own? Crops? If you are indeed ignorant or guilty of any of the aforementioned, do not talk to me of love. You have nothing but words. Ostriches. Denying a thing doesnt make it go away. and I am the unenlightened one? Okee Dokey then. lol

I see people on here compromising their own beliefs. Afraid to state anything. Good or bad, you must choose. The only ones that may ride the fence are politicians and that is because they are parasites that are unable to function on their own merit. Who wants to be at that level?

It is true, we may all be guilty of being stubborn ocasionally. I am notoriously flawed in this area and I struggle with myself to overcome this carachter failing, but admit when I am wrong. I am here to learn. I am now officially sleep deprived from so many hours reading, posting and researching here. I cannot learn and grow if I refuse to allow anyone else an opposing viewpoint or idea. I will not continue to participate which I am sure delights some if it is a question of money. Ive too little now, perhaps even less in future, hard as that concept is to contemplate.

Hard times call for frugality.

Regarding false information, I think one must weave together their own versions with what rings true from many sources. No one on this forum has the whole picture, only bits and pieces. Its up to us to assemble and utilize.

Warmest regards to the da crew,
MMe M