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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Some of the excerpts I've pulled from your comments (below) , I have read 
similar from others on this list and on other lists (on other lists/forums, I 
only read, I don't comment).  You think that other people don't listen to you 
when they might be listening more than you are aware.  

I'll use James as an example.  He is assertive enough to chastise me if I am 
stepping on his toes. And, he is the best example of which I am aware of 
completely becoming independent of the system.

he has actually changed the wway I look at my interaction with society and 
how I might be able to change that interactivity.  There are very few people 
in my 'real' life that have had such an impact.  But, james probably thinks 
he has had no impact at all because I haven't moved quickly enough and I am , 
still, where I am.  But, he would be wrong. 

The fact is, I don't want a life 'just' like his, and , another fact is, for 
the first year or so, I didn't believe what he (or a lot of others on this 
list) said about their live was 'true".  I was new to the internet and had 
read how people made up stuff on the internet (in the MSM).  I really did not 
understand how people could still be so "connected" to the land and the 
natural order in modern society, and I did not understand how people , very 
smart well-educated people, could live on as little money as had been 
'claimed' by people on this list.

  Until, recently, the 'security' of money was an 'ideal' that still seemed 
'real to me.  I have , in the past several years, started to understand very 
simple concepts which took a lot of reading, listening and 'education' to 
understand. 

Now, someone like james will probably say he doesn't care whether I listen or 
not.  You are the type to say that you do care.  But, I believe that neither 
of you, in either of your ways, would spend so much of your time explaining 
to the rest of us , a different way of looking at society, if there was not 
either some kind of 'teacher' within you or some kind of altruism in your 
nature.

never think that you are wasting your time spreading your version of the 
'gospel' to strangers (or family).  One day, you will be in the ground and it 
won't matter who made fun  of you, but it might matter who listened to you 
..............................bobford

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--- On Sat, 12/6/08, sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net> wrote:


> I've been watching this whole thing unfold, Lisa, andseveral times been 
 struck by the similarities to my situation.  I've always been the 'crazy' 
among my birth siblings, and they weren't sky about stating their opinions.  
Rarely have they deemed it worthwhile tovisit me; the accommodations are 
lacking, services are lacking, they

  Always I have been the butt of  jokes, some of which would be actually 
cruel if I


>
  But this past fall I started getting more  interest......now I notice, no 
one's laughing anymore. I'm not waiting (or wanting) for them to say 'you may 
have had a point' but the 

> 
> So, no matter how they blind themselves, whether through ignorance or 
> deliberate refusal to look at facts they find unacceptable,it's really 
> a hard fall for folks like that.
> 

> Boggles the brain how perfectly intelligent people (at least one is a 
> lot smarter than I, speaks/translates/interrogates in 11 languages plus 
> many dialects in some of those!) can walk around with closed eyes is 
> beyond the ken of this old slow woman with her goats. 
> 
>,