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.
Joined: Sep 09, 2004 Posts: 421 Location: Upstate New York, U.S.A.
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:02 am Post subject: Re: First post, may be my last...
OilDummy wrote:
eastbay wrote:
Instead of stepping into this party swinging a baseball bat, maybe a gentler approach might work. You know, maybe treat this as a learning experience rather than target practice? Try that instead for awhile and maybe you'll convert and become 'One Of Us'.
Are you talking to me? Why would I want to be accepted:
1) in a place I'm not welcome?
2) in a place that treats newcomers/strangers so poorly?
3) where baseball bats are reserved for the residents and recommended to be excluded from the newbies?
I've been around long enough and read extensively enough to know there are few "experts" even amongst those who make such claims. Knowing that, I roam from place to place challenging any tightly held view in an attempt, not so much to shake anyone from their heartfelt views, but to make them painfully aware that there is opposition, just as strong as their beliefs, to their often fringe beliefs.
I am a rabble-rouser and proud of it. I mean no harm. I want you to think. I've done all my thinking already and I know where I stand. That doesn't mean I'm ignorant, just means I'm not going to change, for whatever reason. Maybe I think it's too late to change, won't do any good. Does anyone know, off the top of their heads, where PO gets its funding...or does it self-support? That'd be an answer to know...yes it would.
You stepped in with your first post being critical and aggressive and then want to play victim when people snap back? Interesting.
Olafr _________________ "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Henry David Thoreau
Joined: Dec 18, 2004 Posts: 4994 Location: One Mile From the Columbia River
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:04 am Post subject: Re: First post, may be my last...
I'm not sure what you mean by the unkind welcome. ALL new members here are treated to a friendly welcome gathering. An 'abiotic' gathering with kindness endlessly bubbling up from the ground! _________________ Got Dharma?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:07 am Post subject: Re: First post, may be my last...
OilDummy wrote:
Does anyone know, off the top of their heads, where PO gets its funding...or does it self-support? That'd be an answer to know...yes it would.
Well - I kicked in $30 when they had the tip jar out.
I think you should send me $30 for dealing with the likes of all of you Archie Bunker types...
_________________ 500 MPH into a brick wall - me
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:11 am Post subject: Re: First post, may be my last...
Olaf wrote:
OilDummy wrote:
Are you talking to me? Why would I want to be accepted:
1) in a place I'm not welcome?
2) in a place that treats newcomers/strangers so poorly?
3) where baseball bats are reserved for the residents and recommended to be excluded from the newbies?
I've been around long enough and read extensively enough to know there are few "experts" even amongst those who make such claims. Knowing that, I roam from place to place challenging any tightly held view in an attempt, not so much to shake anyone from their heartfelt views, but to make them painfully aware that there is opposition, just as strong as their beliefs, to their often fringe beliefs.
I am a rabble-rouser and proud of it. I mean no harm. I want you to think. I've done all my thinking already and I know where I stand. That doesn't mean I'm ignorant, just means I'm not going to change, for whatever reason. Maybe I think it's too late to change, won't do any good.
Does anyone know, off the top of their heads, where PO gets its funding...or does it self-support? That'd be an answer to know...yes it would.
You stepped in with your first post being critical and aggressive and then want to play victim when people snap back? Interesting.
Olafr
Olafr, THAT WAS NICE! It was VERY nice. As nice as it gets, anyway. Well, this HAS been an education. I gotta go watch my grass grow so I can burn some gas cutting it again.
Joined: Jun 13, 2007 Posts: 3910 Location: Minniesotuh
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:13 am Post subject: Re: First post, may be my last...
My goodness! What a thread! Oildummy, you sound familiar for some reason.
If you are interested in learning about Peak Oil, you have come to the right place. I would recommend reading THE ASPO Thread for some basic history.
There are many wonderful, intelligent and insightful posters here, from many walks of life, and many countries around the world, who have researched peak oil for many years, and are gracious enough to share and discuss this serious situation with anyone who makes an effort to truly understand. If you really want to discuss this, with an open mind, you are most welcome to stay.
If you are only interested in pushing the community's buttons and "rabble rousing," I am afraid you have come to the wrong place, and, in the end will not be tolerated. This is a research-intensive site, not one of those common blogs where any and all nonsense is tolerated. _________________ "RRrrruuuunnnn!!!" ~Apocalypto
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:16 am Post subject: Re: First post, may be my last...
Roccland wrote:
OilDummy wrote:
Does anyone know, off the top of their heads, where PO gets its funding...or does it self-support? That'd be an answer to know...yes it would.
Well - I kicked in $30 when they had the tip jar out. I think you should send me $30 for dealing with the likes of all of you Archie Bunker types... Archie Bunker
When All in the Family was popular, I did think Archie was right more often than not.
Then, later in life I learned Carroll O'Connor was quite left of center, politically, and that wrecked it for me. Can't stand the man, the work he did, most other Hollywood types.
So we stand at diametrically opposed positions in life. Too bad for you you're on the wrong side.
Joined: May 06, 2008 Posts: 442 Location: Omicron Ceti 3
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:19 am Post subject: Re: First post, may be my last...
OilDummy wrote:
Some of you people (present company excluded) just need something to be worried about, don't you?
Actually, I'm not a worrier at all (e.g., Y2K didn't phase me, and "global warming" doesn't register on my radar screen). However, peak oil is very, very real, and it scares the sh!t out of me.
Joined: Dec 18, 2004 Posts: 4994 Location: One Mile From the Columbia River
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:21 am Post subject: Re: First post, may be my last...
OilDummy wrote:
Roccland wrote:
OilDummy wrote:
Does anyone know, off the top of their heads, where PO gets its funding...or does it self-support? That'd be an answer to know... yes it would.
Well - I kicked in $30 when they had the tip jar out. I think you should send me $30 for dealing with the likes of all of you Archie Bunker types... Archie Bunker
When All in the Family was popular, I did think Archie was right more often than not. Then, later in life I learned Carroll O'Connor was quite left of center, politically, and that wrecked it for me. Can't stand the man, the work he did, most other Hollywood types. So we stand at diametrically opposed positions in life. Too bad for you you're on the wrong side.
After that morsel gets answered, I suspect this may be the first 'welcome' thread that earns a place in the HOF. Crazy. After all the nice welcome links. the 30 seconds from The Boss. Even a nice welcome boot party video!! Sometimes I just don't get it. _________________ Got Dharma?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:23 am Post subject: I'm on the wrong side of town here
I gotta get going. Sorry I rattled yer cages some. I told ya in my sig it's scary here. I'm going back to try to get into my old forum. This place is too doom & gloomy here.
Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 4867 Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:34 am Post subject: Re: I'm on the wrong side of town here
OilDummy wrote:
I gotta get going. Sorry I rattled yer cages some. I told ya in my sig it's scary here. I'm going back to try to get into my old forum. This place is too doom & gloomy here.
Bye.
But you haven't been "saved" yet! _________________ Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Joined: May 06, 2008 Posts: 442 Location: Omicron Ceti 3
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:36 am Post subject: Re: I'm on the wrong side of town here
OilDummy wrote:
I gotta get going. Sorry I rattled yer cages some. I told ya in my sig it's scary here. I'm going back to try to get into my old forum. This place is too doom & gloomy here.
Bye.
Please return when the global economy has collapsed........ so we can chat about that .........
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:38 am Post subject: Re: I'm on the wrong side of town here
vision-master wrote:
OilDummy wrote:
I gotta get going. Sorry I rattled yer cages some. I told ya in my sig it's scary here. I'm going back to try to get into my old forum. This place is too doom & gloomy here.
Bye.
But you haven't been "saved" yet!
Nice job guys...
Really - we need to brush up on our welcome skills.
Let's take'r easy on the next one - k?
Personally - I think I did a whole helluva lot better on this guy.
Don't forget to send the eval forms to me...I'd like them by noon if at all possible. _________________ 500 MPH into a brick wall - me
Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 4867 Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: Re: First post, may be my last...
jdumars wrote:
He'll be back.
I don't think so.
I left a few forums that I belonged to for years. Stopped cold turkey. Never posted again. _________________ Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
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