Hi Kituwa,
I understand where you're coming from. I think we need to look back a little to understand the present, and then hopefully understand the future.
I don't know about these days in the US, but almost thirty years ago (wow, am I that old?) we had a fad in the UK called CB radio, used by truckers and almost every teenager had a straight forty with the ariel mounted on an old biscuit tin. We would chat all night, many lost sleep, lost their jobs even because of the 'need' to talk about nothing with someone they didn't know.
However, those people who lived near to each other began to meet up and before you knew it real relationships began to blossom, even marriages. At that time life and the world was realatively stable. But the impotant thing is that there was a need to communicate, even though in the initial stages of communication, the content was about nothing, just chit-chat.
Now the world is very different and the vehicle of communication is different. The principal is the same, the need for communication. Only this time there is a need to pass on information, as the world appears to be morphing every day.
With the internet, information is being bombarded on us from all sides, and what is going on in your neck of the woods can now be informed to somebody on the other side of the world in an instance. Like for example the two identical speeches that were given by the Canadian and Australian politicians posted in this forum on another thread.
Thirty years ago that would have been impossible to do.
So we have a group of 'like minded' consciencious people who are sharing all of this information and trying to make sense of it all (which is why many times there are different directions of discussion in the forum) that is spread worldwide and which can be broken down into demographic locations. Those that are relatively close can and should meet pysically and discuss personally their thougts, ideas and information. Not everyone in the Ground Crews will think like Chicken Licken that the sky will fall on their head tomorrow, and will have their agenda. Others have their different political views and so it goes on. But I think I can honestly say that all are concerned about the state of the world and are trying their best to understand what is going on and how to solve problems.
I personally would love to meet other Ground Crew members, take them to the farm and spend a week discussing the possibilities of the future, however, it appears that I'm the only one here in the Northeast of Brazil.
If you are in striking range of a concentration of others, try and meet up with them, shake their hand, discuss, argue, solve problems and come together to form a conclusion. Even if you didn't manage to save the world, you would have contributed and at the very best, if the world becomes a peaceful place once again, you will have mede some friends.
Best regards,
Steve
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Originally Posted by Kituwa
Are there really ground crews here or is it only cyber crews?
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