bmacDonald94

bmacDonald94, 23 days ago to random

"We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself."
Rachel Carson

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bmacDonald94, 3 months ago to random

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
― Edward O. Wilson

bmacDonald94, 5 months ago to random

I left Facebook with due cause last year. I would like DETAILED instructions on how to block the FB/Meta instance if they get it running. I hope my admins are listening.

bmacDonald94, 1 month ago to random

“There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

bmacDonald94, 3 months ago to random

“Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize: the government does not give a fuck about them.”
― George Carlin

bmacDonald94, 2 days ago to random

"When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car."
Will Rogers

bmacDonald94, 3 months ago to random

"Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable."
Kurt Vonnegut
from Breakfast of Champions

bmacDonald94, 5 months ago to random

“I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God than in church thinking of the mountains.” ~ John Muir

Nature can be more spiritual to certain people than a church. In nature, we see God’s work first hand, making us feel spiritually connected and full of respect for the beautiful creation. Many people find church artificial in comparison. If your spiritually comes from nature, embrace that fact.

bmacDonald94, 3 months ago to random

“Governments don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. That is against their interests. They want obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept it.“
– George Carlin

bmacDonald94, 6 months ago to random

“If you really think that the environment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money.”
– Guy McPherson

bmacDonald94, 3 months ago to random

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

bmacDonald94, 24 days ago to random

"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."
Margaret Atwood

bmacDonald94, 16 days ago to random

"Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

bmacDonald94, 12 days ago to random

"The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee."
Christopher Hitchens

bmacDonald94, 4 months ago to random

bmacDonald94, 4 months ago to random

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jamie-raskin-asks-donald-trump-143023454.html

bmacDonald94, 5 months ago to random

oops. I volunteered at the local food bank. This was at their local warehouse prepping take home packages. When we finished the leader offered me a bar of Velveeta cheese. I replied "no thank you. I do not fish" and we both laughed. Her son just called and he works for Kraft and wanted some answers. He got some and I still think we could have picked a more edible and flavorful cheese to name "American"

bmacDonald94, 29 days ago to random

I am a refugee from Facebook for good reason and heard the stories about the bird site. I will NOT follow links to either site.
Thank you.

bmacDonald94, 6 months ago to random

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Oscar Wilde

bmacDonald94, 4 months ago to random

Playing around with various free search engines while seriously considering a pay search engine. I finished trying Bing which was not as bad as google until the ads started . . . Now trying GoDuckGo

bmacDonald94, 5 months ago to random

COP @* Takeaway

“Please, help me, show me for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socio-economic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.” Al-Jaber, recorded in November, comments that surfaced Dec. 4.

Environmentalists who opposed al-Jaber being COP28 president, it confirmed their narrative that an oil executive had no interest in leading the world toward less fossil fuel use. Al-Jaber said he had been taken out of context.

bmacDonald94, 3 months ago to random

I have experienced deep disappointment in our two party puppet show. Especially since both parties are right of center and most have no idea of what socialism is and what capitalism isn't. So we watch the so called party of Lincoln become the party of Putin.

bmacDonald94, 1 month ago to random

“Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.”
― James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

bmacDonald94, 5 months ago to random

“Anybody who doesn’t see the impact of climate change is really, and I would say, myopic. They don’t see the reality. It’s so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.”
– Juan Manuel Santos