bettcha they don't believe in fireplaces! Wonder how they keep warm in the winter??? Guess you gotta depend on electricity? Hippies I feel could live with or without electricity, but when it comes to warmth, I'm finding that dead tree, digging a pit and building a fire to last through the night, with some amber left over to start my coffee in the morning!
ive always joked, "i hug trees,just before i cut them down".. yeah i thought about the fireplace thing as well being we heat and cook 100% with wood..
Ha! funny! I truly wonder...which pig they are???? cause I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down!!!!! roflmao Your awesome dilli, wish I were up to your standards of living and had the guts to do it! Got a full chicken today, to dismember for chicken soup... I was pissed.
I think ya'll are missing the point. They aren't upset that people are burning wood for their warmth. They aren't expressing outrage over trees being felled in sustainable forestry for building homes. They are lamenting the wholesale distruction of nature, the indiscriminate clearcutting of old growth, and the feeling of helplessness in the face of absolute and unending rape of the forests. I believe this video was taken out of context, and used the peaks of frustration and mourning in a ritual gathering, to make the earthfirsters look like hippy-dippy tree worshiping idiots...which they are not. The same could easily be done at any rainbow gathering to say..."hey, look at these drug-crazed, naked, orgy nuts in the woods". Have an oz. of respect and understanding. (Given, perhaps they shouldn't have allowed parts of their mourning to be video taped, and thus misused.)
I saw that and while I can understand their lament, I thought they went a little overboard and hysterical on it, which made it comical. You can mourn something without going into convulsions....seemed a little staged and far over the top to me.`
Although it seemed a little way to overdramatic, especially that last part. I do like what the first woman said about america losing our identity, it was very on point.. Peace
Reminds me of one time I was building a new big redwood deck for some yuppies and they pulled up to check on the work and they had a “save the spotted owl” sticker on their car.
I see clear cuts everyday... and yea it's an eyesore and yea it kinda pisses me off.... but anyone have some Zoloft?
There is much satisfaction to be gained in gathering and propagating seeds from an old oak, elm or witch hazel, knowing that you are playing a role in preserving the genetic diversity of important local trees and shrubs. Planting native tree, shrub and vine species to address the massive injustice to the land is a nearly sacred act.
do you ever do anything but cut and paste irrelevant off topic bullshit in threads?? oh wait,,your name,.. nevermind...
How many of you have stood in defense of a forest that was about to be cut down so someone else could enjoy a little more than they really deserve? How many of you have lived in that forest that is slated for destruction? I have, probably a lot of us have. The forest helped to heal me, there's so much oxygen there just for biological starters. It's a part of me that I can visit in now dreams and memory. Lately I've had hellish dreams of roads being built around a lake. I think I'd have nice dreams and be a happier person if that would all stop. If people would stop killing my friends. I rise above it, but that video was of people gathering together to express that, it was beautiful, honest and brave. The first lady was telling the trees that they are still loved. Trees are so loving. When you stand in a forest that is slated for destruction and you feeling the loving trees and nature around you it's good. But as you look deeper into the feeling there is a profound feeling of sadness and pain and hope coming from that forest. Like a friend who brings a gift and you take it and then turn them away without even acknowleging their presence so are the trees taken. Like stolen family. So the first lady apologized in prayer. And the second tried to express a strangled repressed emotion that I think many feel in the background and don't express when we visit these places. Love doesn't always mean you need to be hippy skippy happy all the time. Love is about honesty. I think that it was genuine and the first woman brought me a few tears to shed for the forests I've seen blasted away well. I know how she feels. I've felt it. It's about a relationship. Those folks are working on building one with the forest. Just anyone couldn't understand without being there, sure they look silly to you, you look silly to them too I'll wager. What do you think the trees think? Saying sorry is a good first step in any abusive situation. I think if more people followed their example it may help. I think if more people were sensitive to the feeling of non human beings we would be rolling. Not weird at all in the forest defense culture, to cry for the animals that will be fleeing in terror as their houses come crashing down around them. Go and stand in a natural area that is slated for destruction/construction at the whim of the greedy. Tell me if you don't want to express some pain then. Oh yeah, they'll call you crazy, and you'll probably feel weird too. Maybe don't bother. It could be distraction from the party. Last year on "Earth day" there were so many doings a going on in the shitty city... I couldn't motivate myself to participate in one. I sat quietly and asked the earth what it would consider a good way to celebrate. I came to the idea that we all should go outside in our respective front yards and lay face down and cry in to the ground. Give it some of our water and show how sorry we are for how sad it all looks now. Say sorry. It's reality, real animals and trees are sad, and to sit in a forest that is slated for death row is one the most haunting horrible haunting things I've had to do. Have some empathy people. It's real pain. And if more people would express even an iota of feeling/honesty about the horrors that surround us instead of being tough and making fun than these people wouldn't have to bear such a burden as to make them appear "crazy and need zoloft," that's facist bulltalk. Have fun trying to run the NWO jackstraw316, give up the pill pushing. May a tree teach you something with a stout branch, hehehe. Oh never mind, I'm like Hippyhillbilly I hug em or offer them some sort of gift before pruning or cutting...fairs fair they're alive too and make a lot better company than most people I run into.