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What you are experiencing is what it means to deal with liberals and liberalism. Its a mental disorder of the worst kind. You are now finding that out.
As someone with a supremely logical and rational mind, I appreciate you posting this awesome story!
Do you live entirely to hate liberals? Is that what keeps you going from day to day?
Next time I will post a long diatribe about how the purple telletubbie is going to take over the world with his gay agenda, that may captivate your attention better.
I already did that.
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Originally Posted by Harrier
5. On October 12, 2000, 17 U.S. sailors lost there lives on the USS Cole, and this was done by:
(a) The purple Teletubbie
(b) Gary Condit
(c) LA Crips
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
(I am not the author of this quiz - the writer is unknown - I have transcribed the quiz from the book Flying Blind: How Political Correctness Continues to Compromise Airline Safety Post 9/11. - by Michael Smerconish.)
It is, but these people evidently had few survival skills suitable to the environment that they chose. For instance, they didn't hunt very effectively, using persistence hunting and some sort of traps, when making bows and arrows or even spears could have increased their meat supply. They were weaving cloth patches for their clothes, instead of tanning the hides that they could have used to supplement for shoes and cloaks/coats, at minimum. They complained of living without salt, but I wonder if they tried tracking any animals to their sources of salt (salt licks)? They did not figure out how to cook without their kettles, which rusted beyond use. Et cetera.
This is what surprised me. They survived but they weren't doing what I would call living and they certainly weren't thriving. In contrast I've watched a few pieces on life in Siberia where young men were dumped off in the fall without much of anything to survive (no warm weather gear and minimal skills) and they stayed and thrived over time. The things they did, learned and taught themselves is amazing whereas this family sounds like they were almost living in the middle ages as far as tools, gear and conditions go.
No offense to them but in 40 years, I'm going to put a real floor down and at the very least be using furs for insulation on the walls but maybe that's just me.
Still a very interesting story. I'm not quite sure why it's controversial though.
I don't know a lot about Russia but isn't America much more developed etc....Alaska yeah but I hate the freezing cold.
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Originally Posted by timberline742
Well they have many millions in Siberia. It's all relative.
Actually, timberline, it's NOT all relative. From the story:
"This forest is the last and greatest of Earth’s wildernesses. It stretches from the furthest tip of Russia’s arctic regions as far south as Mongolia, and east from the Urals to the Pacific: five million square miles of nothingness, with a population, outside a handful of towns, that amounts to only a few thousand people"
Alaska --- the entire state -- is 663,000 square miles. This Siberian forest was nearly 8 times as big, with a few thousand people living there.
THAT is desolate.
Great post, OP. I've read about the Japanese man that was still "fighting" WWII, but I had never read this story before. I'm not an extrovert by any means, but I definitely could not have lived like that.
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Is that what keeps you going from day to day?
