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Soapbox: Cool Cat Calling Community
Posted on Jun 11, 2004 - 03:39 PM by cbolt_toak

General Interest Hmm...look at the entire planet. Go ahead, I'll give you a minute or two.

Done yet? Ok, if you are, you may have noticed a few things. If memory serves me correctly, last time I checked, Naturalism was the thing on this planet. Of course I get updated as often as the ecological status of Antartica, so I may be a few thousand years behind the times.

What happened? A few wars, an Inquisition or two, about a million young people betraying the traditions of their elders, and poof, the belief in this planet going the way of parachute pants.

Why? Now thats up to interpretation. Maybe the whole "I'll cut your hands off if you don't worship." and the "Hey, look, when we die there isn't an abyss of lost dreams, there's some crazy place full of mutant trees and Romanesque buildings where all your ancestors play Backgammon." finally weeded out all the scared little sissies into faiths other than their grandparents'.

Maybe they just outnumbered them and took all the resources, like some plague of upper-middle class neighboorhoods. That Social-Darwinism thing might have happened and the people who knew how to abuse the natural order the best got to live while all the people who knew how it worked died out. (Meh, they'll get there vengence when those people turn the planet into Venus 2. Haha, hey look, acid rain...in a flashflood...roflmao)

Maybe they just gave up. I could see that.
"Hey Earmere, do we really need to fight these Roman guys?"
"You talking about the guys with the big swords, Gogai?"
"Yeah, them, the phalanx guys."
"Meh, nah, that'll teach Maradin to break up with me."
"Haha, yeah, but what about my wife Hesa?"
"Beats me, guess you can go and try asking nicely or something."

But I digress, about time too cause this could be considered a boring tangent by now. WE are not those piss-ant sissies of long ago. (Except you spoiled brats who are just in this to get attention from your parents, and you know who you are.) WE are people who have lived in the nightmare they created.


I wouldn't be surprised if our ancestors knew what was gonna happen, they would of kicked butt and asked questions later, but they had no idea what would happen though, because they had no experience with the thought of all of life on this planet being under the control of industrial and capitalistic neanderthals that have no understanding of how She works. (Oh look, I made a religious reference...)

What do we do? Move. Simple enough. Have everybody whos anybody move to one central place. Outnumber them (one of the strategies, if you'll note.) in one particular nation, or at least state. Just imagine, something like the entire state of Ohio being of a Pagan, Naturalist, Mysticist, or Shamanist influence? Wow. Pagan families going to pagan schools with a pagan government. (hmm...would they be liberal or conservative senators...that would be interesting to think about)

But what if we could get a whole nation? Say...Iceland, or perhaps something more tropic, like Guam (I know its a US Territory, but if we had the whole island I think we could ask for independence), Imagine the entire country being a Earth First mentality.

And the best part is, it's possible. Give every pagan family in the world a one-way ticket to one part of the world and watch the show. With a completely pagan influence the later generations would be almost guaranteed to follow the same path, creating a population that grows like India (knowing that our own interpretation of family size follows suit with thiers)

Maybe something smaller in scale to start. An entire neighboorhood. Then get lots of freinds that are spread thin moved into surrounding houses for sale. (What if they don't sell? Trust me, if you have kids and don't like the kind of people living around the place, you would move, if you don't have kids, you eventually die and someone buys the house.)

Eventually the district, then the county, then the world! Buhaha! (Hey, an ELF-advocate can dream, can't I?)

Of course, why haven't we done it so far? No idea. You answer that for me, cause my hands hurt from all the typing now. Before I go, Curious Cat Calling Community is me, a beat-nick cat that likes to rhyme to the rhythm of time on the dime from five to nine. (close enough) And I just want to tell the locals something very important:

We got maybe 50 more years left. If we don't organize and do something, we'll fade away for another 1000 or so. This is the strongest we're gonna be in a long time, better use it now or watch as we melt away (no reference to a Communist-Agena novel in any way my pretties, no pun or insult intended), if we haven't already started. Nothing more heartbreaking then watching my pagan freinds I grew up with saying that it was "A phase I was going through". *shivers* Phases are something the moon goes through, not people.

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by cbolt_toak on Jun 11, 2004 - 08:04 PM

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gosh, I was kinda high on myself when I wrote this, wasn't I? Sorry for that everyone, been listening to a bunch of Ecoterroristic music earlier today I felt like ranting. Still think we need to take charge over our lives, but I could of been nicer about suggesting it. I apologize again for a dangerous mix of bad Electronica, sleep deprevation, and too many cups of Lipton Ice Tea.



 
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