[TheForge] Is anyone on-line ? OT:

[Andrew Vida]

The wisdom of having withdrawn from nomadic, anarchistic life is 
eminently questionable.  Blacksmithing is a great thing and technology 
is pretty neat at times, but I wonder if the prices we have paid as 
individuals and as a species has been worth it.  I cannot say I am a 
real big fan of the great big crap we have taken upon the rest of the 
world's inhabitants as well.

Perhaps it is all the same, perhaps not.  I do not suppose we will ever 
know.

On 11/8/2012 2:16 PM, Ries Niemi wrote:
> we think so highly of ourselves that we tend to think that things we have done and built recently, say in the last fifty years, are representative of all time.
> However, in terms of Geological Time, we are wildly over-reaching. As recently as the 1930's, the entire Skagit River, which can be up to 180,000 cubic feet PER SECOND, decided to change its course- and, needless to say, it didnt pay any attention to zoning, where houses were built, libertarian principles, or governmental regulation- it just moved.
>
> this kind of thing happens all the time, we just try to pretend it doesnt.
>
> ries
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
>>
>> Nomadic populations (both man and beast) move in response to changing
>> conditions.
>> Any man made erection WILL be distroyed by natural causes. It is but a
>> matter of time.
>>
>> In a discussion on permanent structure siteing (anything expected to last
>>> 50 years).
>> "Mother nature has no respect for the permanance of man." F.W. Wilson.
>>
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