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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

--- On Tue, 2/3/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

 In a similar way, I was always environmentally
> minded, but never thought about 'living green'.

*****  AS a child and even a young man, I never thought much about such 
issues, other than to know that littering was wrong and that you shouldn't 
kill a songbird or be cruel to animals.  Well, I did get involved with a 
'save the manatee' group, but that was more about meeting girls.  We didn't 
mis-use our land and we were not cruel to animals, but we never thought of 
any of that as a political or social statement -- it was simply the right and 
proper way to behave.



 I just think there were a confluence of ideas that this list put together 
for me, and suddenly, I had a solution to the  dreams that haunted me, but 
that solution also felt right.

******  I remember when you bought your land; and when you were deciding 
about whether TJ should go to public schools after being homeschooled.  Time 
moves quickly.
    
 

> 
> I know you are not alone with that belief, but I am not
> that cynical yet.  It is a crazy, idiotic, mixed up world,
> but I still think you have to teach a child to do the right
> thing by people, even if they are outside the 'circle of
> trust'.<g>
> 
> 
  Go visit Atlanta on a Friday night, walk the streets -- you are looking at 
the future.
  

> My best friend wants to introduce me to Ikea in downtown
> Atlanta on Thursday. I have no interest in going.


***** IKEA - Cheap Temporary junk -- but colorful.  For the money, a person 
could do much better at an estate sale or an auction



 I certainly never wanted to be right, because life wasn't a bowl of cherries 
in my dreams.  It was more like Hell, pain and suffering-not
> something you wish for.


********  I rarely remember my dreams.  Sometimes , I'll remember them just 
for a minute or so after waking, with the good ones, I want to go back to 
sleep so the girls won't leave; the bad ones, I forget them, but I'm wary for 
the rest of the day.  If tyou can remember your dreams -- most people don't-- 
there are some books on the interpretation of dreams.  

*****I don't know if it is new-age garbage or not.  Some Indians put stock 
into dreams, but I know nothing , really, about the subject.  I don't know if 
your insurance covers psychiatry, but some psychiatrists are really good with 
delving into a person's dreams.  I like my psychiatrist.  She finished 
Harvard medical school several years before the President started Harvard 
Law.  I poke fun at her that "her people" (Bush went there too) are ruining 
the d*mn country.
> 
> > 


  All the preparations are meaningless if the rest of your family is gone.

***** Very important; but a little different with you than me,because of your 
children
 


> 
> That's horrible, Bob.  I wouldn't have thought that
> of you. I don't know what to say.

****** Bev, we were talking real raw 'survivalism'.  I'm not a survivalist, 
but I was making the point that that is the way to survive and thrive in a 
world of barbarism.  I don't believe, at all, that things will become so bad; 
but, if they do, I would be stupid to think hiding in place would be my 
salvation.  
> 


> 
> Careful there, or you will see the people you fear in the
> mirror.


*****  I've seen that person in the mirror, before, Bev.  I never want to see 
it again. I was taught business by men who wore Brooks Brothers suits, but 
who were capable of depraved violence when someone messed with their money.   
But that isn't my point.  

*****My point is that you and I are old enough and decent enough to do what 
is right without a thousnad laws, rules,& regulations dictating our every 
movement.  People commit felonies and misdemeanors regularly without knowing 
that they have broken the law. I know, usually, the 'right' thing to do.  
Whether or not it is legal doesn't enter the picture for me , much anymore.  
Remember who wrote those laws and for whose benefit they were written.
> 
> 
 
> 
> That sounds promising.  Want to share any details?


***** Not details.  This list archives every message.  But, remember when 
that magician made the statue of Liberty dissappear?  It is all about 
illusion and mis-direction.  Our only reality to any entity is by our 
numbers.  Birthdays, SSN, Tax ID #,DL, mailing address number, telephone # 
etc.   When a person can have his numbers living in a totally different place 
than his physical being, then, his physical being is free. 

**** I can always post pictures and say hello to this group or to others when 
I am traveling away from my 'bobfordstead'.  Money can not buy happiness, but 
it can buy , to some extent , privacy.  I intend to gradually dissapear into 
the ether, with no one the wiser.  Even my family will not know, for at least 
the first few years while I have completely established personal privacy.  I 
visit them , ususally, rather than them visiting me, anyway.  

****  **My escapism is all about furthering my happiness.  I 'want' privacy, 
so I shall have privacy.  I've paid off the government goons and don't have 
any other obligations.  I want to do what I think will bring me the greatest 
joy.  To me , my idea of 'bobfordsteading' is not about work and drudgery; it 
is about fulfilling a personal desire.  And, I am not trying to build up a 
place to leave as a legacy.

**** Note , Mama is flying out to visit me next month; she will be here for 
almost a month.  The dog is not going to like someone getting that much 
attention.



*****You know you really  are a very bright person , Bev.  You don't give 
yourself enough  credit.  By the way, your story about Ron trying to change 
the rules of sowing seed made me laugh.  When I planted my 'seed' garden spot 
last fall, I did the same thing he did.  The damn seed were so tiny.....

Thanks for the conversation ...............bobb


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