Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject: A Thanksgiving Day prayer
Carolyn Baker posted this Iroquois Thanksgiving prayer yesterday on her web site. I had been thinking about what to say at our Thanksgiving dinner and this prayer reflected my thoughts well (though it's long).
We aren't going to be able to rely on oil to take care of us much longer, and most of us are going to be less materially wealthy in the near future. But for some reason I feel more thankful this Thanksgiving than I ever have before. This always seemed like a stupid and hypocritical holiday to me in light of circumstances both personal and political, but not anymore. And I'm glad, and thankful. _________________ "Every junkie's like a setting sun..." - Neil Young
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:30 pm Post subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Day prayer
Shannymara wrote:
Carolyn Baker posted this Iroquois Thanksgiving prayer yesterday on her web site. I had been thinking about what to say at our Thanksgiving dinner and this prayer reflected my thoughts well (though it's long).
We aren't going to be able to rely on oil to take care of us much longer, and most of us are going to be less materially wealthy in the near future. But for some reason I feel more thankful this Thanksgiving than I ever have before. This always seemed like a stupid and hypocritical holiday to me in light of circumstances both personal and political, but not anymore. And I'm glad, and thankful.
Thanks for posting this SM...
As I stare into the abyss and wonder "what now"...perhaps - words like these are the what now... _________________ "There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that." Emersonbiggins
"... hope is a rotten-thighed whore" Niko Kazantzakis
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Day prayer
Oh kind and merciful Lord, who has caused at least 5 global extinction events so severe that 90% of the species perished from the Earth, we thank you for allowing us to ride on your planet one more year.
We thank you for the food, which is so bountiful and cheap that half of the dogs in the USA are obese.
We thank you for the cool fresh drinking water, which is also so plentiful and cheap that we use it to flush our waste products out of our houses.
We thank you for the gift of travel, without which, most of the items on the table before us would not be here: Wine from California, Potatoes from Idaho, the Turkey from Illinois, and the cranberry sauce from New England. The friends and family at our table themselves have traveled thousands of miles during the past year, something that was unimaginable only 100 years ago, to find themselves at this place and time to share this incredible bounty.
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Day prayer
Quote:
"Let us praise God. Oh Lord, oooh you are so big. So absolutely huge. Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here I can tell you. Forgive us, O Lord, for this dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery. But you are so strong and, well, just so super. Fantastic. Amen."
In all seriousness, Happy Thanksgiving to my peakoil comrades in the USA. May ther be many more Thanksgivings in the years ahead. _________________ www.askaboutenergy.com
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 1636 Location: Nez Perce Nation
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Day prayer
May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go. _________________ "Modern Agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food."
-- Albert Bartlett
"It will be a dark time. But for those who survive, I suspect it will be rather exciting."
-- James Lovelock
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Day prayer
Happy Harvests, everyone, may you have what you have earned!
May there be strength in wisdom from our Ancestors as well as the strength from the bounty that we have on our tables. Remember to give thanks for the sacrifices made on your behalf not just now, but down through the ages.
Strength of mind and body to get us through the Winter ahead.
Eat Hearty, be hale and whole, and know joy in your life.
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6625 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Day prayer
Shannymara wrote:
This always seemed like a stupid and hypocritical holiday.
That's exactly the way I feel about Christmas, Shanny.
Thanksgiving has far more soul and far less materialism, so I still celebrate it---the last commercial holiday we crazy "Heinekens" still actually observe in a formal way. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5715 Location: Body in OK, Heart in TX
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:19 pm Post subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Day prayer
Heineken wrote:
Thanksgiving has far more soul and far less materialism, so I still celebrate it---the last commercial holiday we crazy "Heinekens" still actually observe in a formal way.
I think this was the first time I ever celebrated it even remotely like the way it's supposed to be done. It was good. _________________ "Every junkie's like a setting sun..." - Neil Young
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