Author Topic: What's your Spokane?  (Read 1858 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Alex179

  • Prince, General
  • Elder
  • Obsessive Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 6677
  • Karma: 345
  • Gender: Male
  • Socially retarded
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #60 on: December 27, 2007, 01:32:57 PM »
If you "own" the land yourself, you should take greater pride of ownership.   Feudalism you have a lord/king/whatever protecting you and doing everying and you work for that government in return.   The Feudal lords get way more than their fair share.    You have to grow what you are told on your land, and you get a certain plot.   You don't serve the land in feudalism, you serve your lord in return for allowing you to live on his/her land.
:P   Internets are super serious.

Offline Calandale

  • Official sheep shagger of the aspie underclass
  • Elder
  • Postwhore Beyond The Pale
  • *****
  • Posts: 41236
  • Karma: -57
  • Gender: Male
  • peep
    • The Game Box: Live!
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #61 on: December 27, 2007, 05:49:10 PM »
'Fair share' is hard to judge.
At the low end of the nobility,
often one couldn't afford the
tools necessary for protection.
Nor was there a great amount of
cash, even for the higher nobles.

Anyhow, I'm not suggesting an all
out return to the feudal structure
that we had, in Europe. There, divine
right eventually became the purpose,
and as you noted, protection was the
original. I'm suggesting a similar faith,
but in proper stewardship.

Those who own land, and can pass it
on, at will, tend to abuse it, from what
recent history tells us.

Offline Parts

  • The Mad
  • Caretaker Admin
  • Almighty Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 37374
  • Karma: 3050
  • Gender: Female
  • Who are you?
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #62 on: December 27, 2007, 06:15:20 PM »
Metal working,  I got a set of books on making a machine shop at home with scrap and am going to try some of the projects this coming year
"Eat it up.  Wear it out.  Make it do or do without." 

'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.'
George Bernard Shaw

Offline Alex179

  • Prince, General
  • Elder
  • Obsessive Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 6677
  • Karma: 345
  • Gender: Male
  • Socially retarded
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #63 on: December 28, 2007, 10:02:08 AM »
Those who own land, and can pass it
on, at will, tend to abuse it, from what
recent history tells us.
Some develop it and use it themselves only.   Others sell lots or build neighborhoods.   Abuse isn't certain.   My great grandparents didn't abuse their land, although they had a small farm on it.   It is now a small neighborhood.  Of course you pass stuff onto your children lol.   I wouldn't just give people I don't know the stuff I earned from my work when I die.   I am an organ donor though, thats a different thing though haha.   I wouldn't abuse my parent's house if I inherited it at all.   I would probably just sell it and move into something smaller and be more depressed.
:P   Internets are super serious.

Offline Silk

  • Complicated
  • Elder
  • Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 2259
  • Karma: 211
  • Gender: Female
  • Trust Me
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #64 on: December 28, 2007, 12:40:55 PM »
Purple
Japan
Books
Architecture
Fashion - Evening dresses from 1890's-1930's.
Anime
Kickboxing
Food
Music
Planes
George:I'd say I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not. I excel at not giving a shit. Experience has taught me that interest begets expectation, and expectation beget disappointment, so the key to avoiding disappointment is to avoid interest. A equals B equals C Equals A, or whatever. I also don't have a lot of interest in being a good person or a bad person. From what I can tell, either way, you're screwed. Bad people are punished by society's laws, and good people are punished by Murphy's Law

Offline Calandale

  • Official sheep shagger of the aspie underclass
  • Elder
  • Postwhore Beyond The Pale
  • *****
  • Posts: 41236
  • Karma: -57
  • Gender: Male
  • peep
    • The Game Box: Live!
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #65 on: December 28, 2007, 03:04:32 PM »

Some develop it and use it themselves only.   Others sell lots or build neighborhoods.   Abuse isn't certain.

Those two SOUND like abuse to me.

Quote
Of course you pass stuff onto your children lol.


Yeah. It's pretty ingrained in our society. This concept that
one OWNS the land. Used to be able to own people too,
in the US. That was pretty natural. So, even ingrained stuff
CAN be unlearned.

Quote
I wouldn't just give people I don't know the stuff I earned from my work when I die.

This is a different matter. But brings to mind the whole
idea of inherited wealth. One could argue that someone
like Rockefeller, or Gates, got wealthy off of their work
(it would be a stretch, but let's assume it). At the very
least, their talents for abusing the system somehow earned
them this huge wealth, and we reward them, as a society,
for being 'clever' enough to do so. But, why do we reward
their spawn, in such a manner? What evils have they inflicted
on their fellow man, to deserve such wealth?

Quote
  I wouldn't abuse my parent's house if I inherited it at all.

NOT what I was saying. A house ain't land.
But, I'd guess that a lot of abuse was inflicted
on the land, in order to make such a structure.

Offline garmonbozia

  • Elder
  • Incessant Poster
  • *****
  • Posts: 581
  • Karma: 136
  • Gender: Male
  • The plane! The plane!
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #66 on: March 10, 2008, 07:30:15 PM »
Since you said, what's your Spokane, perhaps everyone should mention a city, if you've ever been obsessed with a city...

I used to find Atlanta very interesting, and for the longest time tried to get a job there so I could move there...


I'm still subscribed to the e-mail digest of its newspaper's business section.  Saw this today and found it rather interesting:

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/03/08/futurecity_0309_1.html?cxntnid=biz031008e

Basically, an architecture firm was tasked with laying out a vision for what the city should look like in a hundred years.  What they came up with was cool but I found this rather disturbing:

Quote
Some of the storm runoff that now disappears into underground pipes would be captured and cleansed in wetlands. Today's sewer tunnels would be used to store drinking water, making the city drought resistant.

Uhh... I take it they mean storm sewers and not sanitary sewers, right?
« Last Edit: March 10, 2008, 07:36:47 PM by garmonbozia »

Offline Yuri Bezmenov

  • Drunk-assed squadron leader
  • Obsessive Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 6663
  • Karma: 0
  • Communist propaganda is demoralizing the West.
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #67 on: February 10, 2018, 05:00:48 AM »
Airplanes
Motorcycles
American V-8's
Guns
Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker and Johnathan Haidt
Dank assed weed and top shelf alcohol.

Offline renaeden

  • Complicated Case of the Aspie Elite
  • Caretaker Admin
  • Almighty Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 25569
  • Karma: 2515
  • Gender: Female
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #68 on: February 10, 2018, 07:13:53 AM »
Jordan Peterson the psychologist? Don't know why, but I've seen his name in a few places on the net lately. I don't know much about him though.
Mildly Cute in a Retarded Way
Tek'ma'tae

Offline Lestat

  • Pharmaceutical dustbin of the autie elite
  • Elder
  • Obsessive Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 8965
  • Karma: 451
  • Gender: Male
  • Homo stercore veteris, heterodiem
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #69 on: February 10, 2018, 10:30:54 AM »
The  sciences-the typical biology/biochemistry, and organic/inorganic chemistry, as well as (pretty much exclusively non-Newtonian physics-condensed matter physics, seeing as such things are lower energy level and more accessible to a household with its power supply, not that I'd turn my nose up at a buggering great big supercollider of course, assuming accompanying power sourcing capability.), pharmacology, medicine, drugs both used in medicine and those not (at least, conventional medicine).

Mycology, botany and a whole lot of other stuff in between. Its less a question of what I'm interested in, as to what I am NOT interested in. Always have been a polymath. Ironically as hell, a dyscalculic polymath, and mathematics is..well...I'd sooner wipe my arse with a sack-full of rabid ferrets.
Beyond the pale. Way, way beyond the pale.

Requiescat in pacem, Wolfish, beloved of Pyraxis.

Offline Jack

  • Reiterative Utterance of the Aspie Elite
  • Elder
  • Maniacal Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 14547
  • Karma: 0
  • You don't know Jack.
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #70 on: February 10, 2018, 04:40:21 PM »
Violent crime and related subjects; criminal justice, criminal psychology, crime statistics
Architecture, and the white room
Fear and revulsion, horror and gore
Intensity Squared

Offline Genesis

  • The impostor who isn't from Old Country formerly known as Soviet Union
  • News Box Slave
  • Obsessive Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 8829
  • Karma: 337
  • Gender: Male
  • The Blogger Was Here
    • Night Owl Redux
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #71 on: February 10, 2018, 05:54:52 PM »
Chicago Cubs
Cinema
Traveling
Osaka
Conspiracy Theories (Valid that is)
Art
Booka Shade
Science Fiction
Anime
Parakeets
Brown Tabby Cats
Tumblr
Star Trek
Old TV Shows
French Films
« Last Edit: February 10, 2018, 06:00:17 PM by Genesis »

Offline Fun With Matches

  • Elder
  • Dedicated Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 3515
  • Karma: 225
  • Delicious and refreshing.
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #72 on: February 10, 2018, 06:03:05 PM »
Fear and revulsion,

What about them do you find interesting?
:dog:

Offline Jack

  • Reiterative Utterance of the Aspie Elite
  • Elder
  • Maniacal Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 14547
  • Karma: 0
  • You don't know Jack.
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #73 on: February 10, 2018, 06:58:45 PM »
Fear and revulsion,

What about them do you find interesting?
It's not so much interesting, but more of a seemingly lifelong hate/love obsession with the emotions, going hand-in-hand with the horror and gore. While a removed perspective is very interesting, actual tolerance for real life experiences is almost non-existent. The same could be said for violent criminals; they're interesting but probably wouldn't deal well with actually knowing one.

Fear and revulsion; they are both my nemeses and my best friends.


Offline Icequeen

  • News Box Slave
  • Insane Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 11986
  • Karma: 2026
  • Gender: Female
  • I peopled today.
Re: What's your Spokane?
« Reply #74 on: February 10, 2018, 07:23:54 PM »
Old things...vacuum cleaners, my beehive blender, old clocks, jewelry, coins...etc.

Electronics.
Video games.

Classic cars, old trucks, still have a special love for air-cooled VW's.

Metal detecting, junk picking, all-around treasure hunting.

Cats.
Bohemian style decor and fashion.
Flower gardening.
People watching.

Sunsets, nature photography, abandoned buildings, and cars left to rot.

Horror movies, serial killers, and the unexplained.

Red wine, cheesecake, and good chocolate.
Beaches and hot summer days.