With all the doomsday talk...

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iridium

Temporal Navigator
...that seems to be so prevalent these days, I figured I would indulge myself and list out some things that I would find positive if we were all thrown back to the stone ages.

1. I would enjoy the slowed pace of life. Prior to automobiles, electricity-a-plenty, Internet, etc., people had a much slower pace of life. Businesses operated during daylight hours for the most part. Getting from point A to point B was always a journey. On such journeys, family and friends had TIME to spend in meaningful interaction. Fathers imparted knowledge and principles to their children. Friends created strong, lastings bonds.

2. I would enjoy the renewed sense of community. Right now, we live in a small world. A very small world. With a flip of a switch, a couple clicks, I can order a product from half-way around the world and have it show up on my doorstep within days. Yes, there are benefits to our global economy, but there are also some negatives. Anymore, people commune with groups of friends that span the globe, but they don't even know their next-door neighbor. However, take away the technology/resources that allow that virtual community to exist, and you are left with real-life, face-to-face interaction. Neighbor watching out for neighbor. Villages raising the children.

3. I would enjoy the fulfillment of some natural God-given desires for adventure. I'm not talking about conquests or thrill seeking. I am talking about a sense of adventure that would accompany providing for one's loved ones. A sense of adventure that you can't get sitting behind a desk and you can't get from a video game. A sense of adventure where the stakes are health and survival, the cost is physical and high, and the rewards are fulfilling.


Anyway, just thought I would toss those out there. I don't know what the future holds, but I do know Who holds the future. For me, that is comforting.

It is interesting that things seem much more on the edge now, than they did prior to y2k, and yet, it was prior to y2k that most people were preparing for survival. Buying generators, stock-piling water, food, etc.

I guess we'll find out soon enough.
 
I agree with you on your thoughts, iridium. There are still some places like that left in somehwat hidden areas. RainmanTime visitied such a town with me and I think he would agree that the town was like a throw back to the days when people where bonded together as a real community.

The town I lived in for quite some time even has a camping trip in which the entire town takes off for a week-end into the desert and has a big party.

They also are extremely independent and are multi-skilled at many different trades and could probably survive alone for quite sometime without outside influences. The neighbors get together in front of the local market each friday and saturday night and have a B-B-Q and swap jokes and stories. The wives bring food and one guy even can make home made tortillas on his home built oven he constructed out of scrap parts.

It is truly God's Country tucked away inside a National Forest and inaccessible, exceptiong for one road in and one road out. Even people that live in the region haven heard of the town.

This link will provide a window into the city of which I describe...

Silverado Canyon
 
Greetings iridium and OvrLrdLegion:

Your posts come at an oddly coincidental Time for me... as I have just now arrived in the small city of Cortez, Colorado. Note the propitious connection to "the mark of the beast" in this link.... I love the irony!


It is coincidental to this thread, and to OvrLrd's addition, because this is the area of the US that I plan to create my own such respite, away from the hubble-bubble activity (pun intended) of the "connected" mega-city of southern California.

North of the small city of Cortez is the town of Dolores, and a beautiful reservoir which is fed by the Dolores River Valley. My goal here is to purchase a decent amount of land (~35 acres) and build the most high-tech, energy-self-sufficient homestead that I can envision, design, and construct. Call it my engineering project for retirement!


This city takes me back to the slower, more enjoyable Times of my Past. The pace of life is slow, but it is sure, and purposed. In the spirit of OvrLrd sharing the peacefulness of Silverado Canyon in SoCal, I thought I'd share the same info about the town of Dolores that I have discovered.

Come to think of it... maybe the January 1st "Titor was BS" party should be held here, in the country of SW Colorado, away from the big cities like LA!? That would be in keeping with the Titorism party theme!
The coolest thing is: Even though this is a fairly sleepy little CO town, I've got fully wireless broadband access in my hotel room. I love tech... Makes life a bit more grand, I'd say. /ttiforum/images/graemlins/yum.gif

RMT
 
I too would not care too much if the dark ages dawned again (ironic). Number 3. is what I would love the most, the thrill of survival, flirting with danger and death.

Good Scientist
 
There is a place that my family and I visit roughly ever year in upstate New York called Schroon Lake. It's almost as if you travel back in time when you enter the small little lake town and I enjoy every minute of it. We have been going there for over 20 years and the town hasn't change a bit. It's a great place to just slow yourself down and be with the family, which people today tend to do the opposite of. I'd figure i'd throw some East coast towns out there since the majority of you live out West!

Speaking of the West, the family and I also go out to Colorado (Steamboat, Vail, Breckenridge) and Utah (Park City, Snowbird) for skiing trips and pretty much the one town that seems as though you are back in time is Steamboat, a great place to visit. Vermont is also like that. So I guess you can say that there are still some places out there to get away from the everyday life, which is a good remedy for many of things.

Schroon Lake
Vermont- Sugarbush
 
Roo said> Speaking of the West, the family and I also go out to Colorado

Creedo responds by saying, "Whaaaaat! did someone say west Nile!!!Runs out of the building.
 
Acc. to the bible the messiah needs to come before the jewish year 6000, being as how its 5769 i think.... well that just means its gotta come soon.

acc. to the bible the messiah has also NOT come yet, as there needs to be certain things in place for him to come. so no jesus, sorry people.

just thought i'd throw that in here, the messiah can come anytime within the next 230 years or so.... I have strong beliefs that it will come within the next hundred or so, possibly sooner, but thats just me being crazy and that is if in fact there will be a messiah, which i'm pretty confused about in the first place.

enough of my tired random ramblings, creedo, as always, you're weirding me out.
 
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