haters?

[FarmerD]

i may have come across as anti-hippie above. i hope noone is offended. round these parts, anyone that does that small farm stuff like you see on nat geo is a hippie

 

[FarmerD]

thanks for the vote of confidence. i could do the hippie thing if it werent for all that pacifism stuff

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Perception is different for all folks. Several of my "hippie" friends went to Vietnam and one dear friend did not come home. My own brother went and while he did return - he was a changed man. I try to let a person's actions speak for themselves and to stay away from categorizing folks if I don't know them personally.

The definition of pacifism is simply an opposition to war and violence. If that's wrong, then take your gun and go ahead and shoot me now.

By the way, I do own guns, and am opposed to gun control. Guess that makes me a gun-toting radical? After all, isn't every gun owner a contributor to the violence and senseless mayhem that guns bring about????? Or is it that guns don't kill - people do?

Still not offended by the posts, but I do enjoy raising questions.

Peace!

 

[Plantress]

Both my husband and my family have no idea of the work that goes into keeping our house from crumbling and our tiny amount of land and garden maintained.
They love to be drop in leaf peepers and such but don't understand that we have to chop up those leaves, mow the field, weed the garden etc etc

 

[Plantress]

Not my husband, both of our families is what I meant

 

[FarmerD]

Perception is different for all folks. Several of my "hippie" friends went to Vietnam and one dear friend did not come home. My own brother went and while he did return - he was a changed man. I try to let a person's actions speak for themselves and to stay away from categorizing folks if I don't know them personally.

The definition of pacifism is simply an opposition to war and violence. If that's wrong, then take your gun and go ahead and shoot me now.

By the way, I do own guns, and am opposed to gun control. Guess that makes me a gun-toting radical? After all, isn't every gun owner a contributor to the violence and senseless mayhem that guns bring about????? Or is it that guns don't kill - people do?

Still not offended by the posts, but I do enjoy raising questions.

Peace!

well that got off topic fast.

i can not validate your gun ownership. we all make choices and must justify them to ourselves. i empathize with your brother and friends. there is no justification for the wars we wage.

ive only been here for a few days, so its probably best i keep my political and philosophical views to myself. if you want to chat about the highly unpopular opinions that swirl around in my mind and how i got to this place, im more than willing to share offline. id prefer not to spew them into an open forum.

 

[FarmerD]

Both my husband and my family have no idea of the work that goes into keeping our house from crumbling and our tiny amount of land and garden maintained.
They love to be drop in leaf peepers and such but don't understand that we have to chop up those leaves, mow the field, weed the garden etc etc

i definitely hear you on that! some of our family like to stop in and comment about what we are doing at any given time, but have absolutely no idea how hard we working just to get what is done done

 

[frustratedearthmother]

C'mon now - I only addressed the topic that you brought up, lol. But, as my 'live and let live' motto decrees I will willingly back away from the topic and get back to the business of trying to be as self-sufficient as possible on my little patch of land!

 

[FarmerD]

i havent had a chance to feel out the political climate here yet. you wanna chat doom and gloom, pm me.

 

[Plantress]

Since we just do for ourselves in a small way I guess it's apples to oranges. The thread that binds us is the family not really understanding what goes into the country life. My brothers often ask me what I did over the weekend and the answer is usually that I was here doing this and that. We don't have a lifestyle that allows us to day trip, we have chores here that they just don't get.