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Started by P3nT4gR4m, November 06, 2006, 10:16:47 AM

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#45
November 07, 2006, 07:53:25 PM
Quote from: LMNO on November 07, 2006, 07:51:35 PM
Not really, you capitalist pig.


LMNO
-spends summers in Montana, hearding cattle on horseback and firing shotguns.

Touche  :-D

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The Good Reverend Roger

#46
November 11, 2006, 06:37:17 PM
Quote from: SillyCybin on November 07, 2006, 04:08:34 PM

I'm still involved in currency to that extent but that's a lifestyle choice. I'm more than capable of hunting, clothing and housing myself without having to resort to capitalism.

No, you aren't.

Just saying.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Jasper

#47
November 11, 2006, 06:40:11 PM
Is any one person capable of indefinite self-sufficiency without a socety to provide?

Tomas Paine ftw.

The Good Reverend Roger

#48
November 11, 2006, 06:52:07 PM
Quote from: Felix Mackay on November 11, 2006, 06:40:11 PM
Is any one person capable of indefinite self-sufficiency without a socety to provide?

Tomas Paine ftw.

Even Thoreau couldn't do it, and that was nearly 200 years ago.

I spent 10 years in the infantry, living outside about 45% of that time (LI sucks), and I couldn't do it.

But every dumbass who has seen an episode of Grizzly Adams thinks they're the next fucking Davy Crockett.

:lol:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Jasper

#49
November 11, 2006, 07:35:31 PM
Truthery.  I'd need at least a ten-person group to be really content with my lifestyle.

Edit: Make it twenty.

The Good Reverend Roger

#50
November 11, 2006, 07:36:39 PM
Quote from: Felix Mackay on November 11, 2006, 07:35:31 PM
Truthery.  I'd need at least a ten-person group to be really content with my lifestyle.

Edit: Make it twenty THOUSAND plus.

Fixed.

TGRR,
Knows that medical supplies, for example, don't make themselves.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Jasper

#51
November 11, 2006, 07:52:31 PM
/Agree

I'd vote twenty as suvivable, though.  I prefer my hundred of thousands, thanks.

The Good Reverend Roger

#52
November 12, 2006, 04:57:11 AM
Quote from: Felix Mackay on November 11, 2006, 07:52:31 PM
/Agree

I'd vote twenty as suvivable, though.  I prefer my hundred of thousands, thanks.

Historically speaking, 20 is FAR too low to be a viable community.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Jasper

#53
November 12, 2006, 06:50:19 AM
Then what is your proposed minimum?

Cain

#54
November 12, 2006, 01:04:04 PM
I say around 30,000.  To keep it at a modern level.  You're going to have to have basic supplies of energy, food, water etc, a viable economy, medical supplies, sanitation, doctors, transport, a judiciary, civil authority, defense, builders, etc etc.  Thats why the development curve for states is phenomenal when compared with cities or princedoms, feudal territories etc  Athens, for example could not have developed in the way the USA did, as fast as the USA, even if the threat of invasion had been removed totally.  It was too small, had too little in resources, was dependent on other cities for vital resources.

B_M_W

#55
November 12, 2006, 06:39:03 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 12, 2006, 04:57:11 AM
Quote from: Felix Mackay on November 11, 2006, 07:52:31 PM
/Agree

I'd vote twenty as suvivable, though.  I prefer my hundred of thousands, thanks.

Historically speaking, 20 is FAR too low to be a viable community.

You could do it, if you had the prehistoric knowlege of the world around you and culture of how to survive in it; but thats been all but lost for this part of the world, so scratch that.
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#56
November 12, 2006, 08:33:03 PM
This is why suicide is the answer.
The Jerk On Bike rolled his eyes and tossed the waffle back over his shoulder--before it struck the ground, a stout, disconcertingly monkey-like dog sprang into the air and snatched it, and began to masticate it--literally--for the sound it made was like a homonculus squatting on the floor muttering "masticate masticate masticate".

Jasper

#57
November 12, 2006, 08:49:33 PM
Suicide is for quitters.

Cain

#58
November 12, 2006, 09:06:00 PM
And suicide bombers.

B_M_W

#59
November 12, 2006, 10:27:05 PM
Quote from: Rabid Badger of God on November 12, 2006, 08:33:03 PM
This is why suicide is the answer.

For us or for the sheep?
One by one, we break the sheep from their Iron Bar Prisons and expand their imaginations, make them think for themselves. In turn, they break more from their prisons. Eventually, critical mass is reached. Our key word: Resolve. Evangelize with compassion and determination. And realize that there will be few in the beginning. We are hand picking our successors. They are the future of Discordianism. Let us guide our future with intelligence.

     --Reverse Brainwashing: A Guide http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=9801.0

6.5 billion Buddhas walking around.

99.xxxxxxx% forgot they are Buddha.
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