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  • The Not-So Good Old Days

    from the New Yorker ....
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  • #2
    grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

    The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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    • #3
      Sounds alright to me.
      Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse

      Do It Ourselves

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      • #4
        Ok, when you hit 30, we'll just send the men in white coats over to put you to sleep.

        -Arrian
        grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

        The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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        • #5
          And the clean air, water, ect... - Where's that?
          Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse

          Do It Ourselves

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          • #6
            maybe the reason the air is clean, the water is clean, and they are all able to eat organic is because no one lives past 30...


            Monkey!!!

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            • #7
              I'd take 30 years of freedom in a pristine environment instead of 60 years of indoctrination, concrete prisons, and wage slavery any day.
              Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse

              Do It Ourselves

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              • #8
                and I'd rather be rich than stupid.
                In da butt.
                "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
                "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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                • #9
                  I'd rather be rich and stupid... ppl really hate that
                  Monkey!!!

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                  • #10
                    On a serious note, back when the average lifespan was 25 years, it didn't mean nobody lived past 25. If you lived till 20 you had a solid chance of living to 50 or more. All those kids dying was what skewed the statistics.

                    For example, during the Roman times the average lifespan was ~20 years or so, but it took about that many years (I forgot exactly how many) of service in the Legions to get a pension. It wouldn't have made sense if nobody lived past 30.

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                    • #11
                      I think the Roman times were pretty modern comparing to the cave times you know? And no, they didn't frequently live to 50.
                      In da butt.
                      "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                      THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
                      "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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                      • #12
                        Finnish hunter-gatherers didn't but everybody else did.

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                        • #13
                          It's Logan's Run, only without the technology!
                          B♭3

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by General Ludd
                            I'd take 30 years of freedom in a pristine environment instead of 60 years of indoctrination, concrete prisons, and wage slavery any day.
                            ludd, you have no more freedom if you struggle to survive in a pristine enviroment like you do today
                            "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
                            'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburger

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                            • #15
                              "The Environment" is doing just fine.

                              More people than ever before are doing just fine.

                              The only one who's truly miserable is General Ludd, which really can't be helped.

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