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@Leo Gura But you could put the genie back in the bottle in a small area couldn't you? Assuming that you had the right amount of land for the population, you could create a community that lived like a tribe off the land with help from technology. I look at the Indian (Native American) reservations here, and how we shoved all the people together on small amounts of land. There is no possible way that they could have kept their traditions of seasonal migration and continue to hunt and gather over the wide areas that were cleared. They became dependent on our agriculture and they didn't even have time to adjust genetically to that diet. Wheat was never a great idea as a food staple anyway. We've nearly hopelessly fucked things up, the earth and people are sick as a result. As we combat climate change we need to learn to unobtrusively farm the land, and a lot of that means going back to gathering and farming efficiently. I see the world very differently because I live where people are a rarity. I see food growing wild going to waste and running wild in the woods while I burn fossil fuels to drive to the grocery store and buy food that was shipped hundreds of miles to me, grown on depleted soils with chemicals. It's insane. Reconnecting with nature is a necessity. The wisdom we need to get out of this mess is there.

We could go back to something like what America was when the Native Americans lived here with no concepts of land ownership. The fictions of wealth, expensive properties and buildings are what make that impossible. An enlightened society would resemble what America was before Columbus, but without the disconnection and warfare caused by tribalism.

I thought it was a unicorn. I was fooled.

@now is forever My new vulnerable avatar. I was missing FOOD! Problem is I'm on a diet where I can't eat apples and the apple tempted me too much so now I'm gonna have a stomach ache.

Oh shit. I'm missing something, aren't I?

I'm hungry now.

American cheese too, it's not even real cheese. You can't make a cheeseburger without American cheese. Merica. Fuck yeah.

@jbram2002 SHHHHHHHHH.

My husband would divorce me if I left the cheese out of his sandwiches. Are you trying to break us up Shin?

You either have the need to be seen or the need to hide. Because God can never look at himself if it was only him all along.

@Shin No shit Sherlock. I'm the only one with balls enough to show my face and share my name. Except for Joseph and now he is gone.

Is your safe word tibia?

@Shin A MAN DUH Worst fucking name ever.

CAPTAIN OBVIOUS TO THE RESCUE. YOU'RE WELCOME. Tea parties in the forest have no chairs. Ya gonna have to get your nice clothes dirty.

@Shin OH MY GOD. I can't leave you for a minute!!! @tsuki Same thing you didn't realize with now is forever. Hello full circle. Hello snake eating it's own tail. You beautiful little buddy, I guess I'm ok with you after all. Please don't bite this time. I took the apple, thank you, you were right, it's delicious.

Amanda CANNOT be her name, Amanda is my safe word. And by using it you're seriously fucking with me, I hope you know that. I didn't know you wanted THAT kind of relationship.

All of the beautiful things. THEY ARE SO BEAUTIFUL. Hey Tsuki, what did you think of Joseph's last post, talking about pissing in his sacred space?

@now is forever It's ok. When you're ready.

@now is forever yes please, the whole theme of today is vulnerability.

@now is forever What's your first name?

@Shin That's not REALLY her name is it? Can't be.

Bigger is not rounder. You suck at geometry.

More round than an apple? Can't be.

@Shin Uhmm never? I'm the biggest prude on here and yet my love makes people uncomfortable because they think it's inappropriate. Go figure me that one.

AMANDA? There's another Amanda around here? hey you guys went all nondual shaming, you're talking too much and not listening on me after that and nowisforever is mean to me and she doesn't love me and I can't feel safe anymore.