Re: Pre-industrial etiquette rules

[Guest guest]

When I read SF books, I usually feel SO much more at home in the

future/on other planets than I do in this time or on this planet. I

keep asking myself how I could end up stuck here, now. :-)

I miss my replicator, my thought-operated computer, the nutrient-liquid

that keeps you fed all day, my tame black tiger and flying exhaust-free

vehicle.

Oh well... I guess it could be worse. I'm still thrilled to have

central heating and running hot water indoors, TV, intenet, stereo,

fridge full of food, and not have to work in some field from dusk to

dawn for a living.

But I still find this society leaving much to be desired and look

forward to going home when my time here is up.

Inger

> > Which begs the question... are we time-travellers from the future

who

> > got stuck in this time by mistake?

> >

> > I've sure felt like one most of my life!

> >

> > Inger

>

> That could explain it! I've always felt like I would have done better

> in another time but all the times in the past weren't quite right, so

> it must be the future!

>

>

> >

>

[Guest guest]

:) What she (Inger) said! (I especially miss my replicator--I had

the super deluxe model where you could ask specifically for the

ingredients that went into the resulting dish or ask for a certain

version--such as a specific chef's.)

> > > Which begs the question... are we time-travellers from the

future

> who

> > > got stuck in this time by mistake?

> > >

> > > I've sure felt like one most of my life!

> > >

> > > Inger

> >

> > That could explain it! I've always felt like I would have done

better

> > in another time but all the times in the past weren't quite

right, so

> > it must be the future!

> >

> >

> > >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

My personal (not-really-serious) hypothesis for why so many of us feel

we belong in the future:

reincarnation happens ... but it works *backwards.*

In other words, you remember a " past " life from the future: the 22rd

century or whatever. People who tortured you in this life will have a

" future " life in the past: after they die, they will reincarnate in

13th-century Paris and eiher get burned at the stake for their weird

20th/21st-century ideas, or (the luckier ones) will just feel

constantly " grossed out " by their peasant neighbors and try to avoid

them ... and especially try to avoid the really big, burly peasant who

walks around with a very large club and very clear memories of *his*

" past " (future) life as an Applied Behavior Analyst ...

(I actually have a more realistic, but much more boring, explanation

of why so many of us feel we should live in a science-fiction future

instead of living now. But don't ask for my *realistic* explanation

unless you actually *like* boringness ... )

Re:

> :) What she (Inger) said! (I especially miss my replicator--I had

> the super deluxe model where you could ask specifically for the

> ingredients that went into the resulting dish or ask for a certain

> version--such as a specific chef's.)

And I imagine that at least some people here remember that they owned

the " EnviroSaver " model that created every possible food-chemical by

breaking down and restructuring only the molecules that exist in

abundance within the environment ... so that (for instance) people who

don't believe in killing animals (or in having anyone else kill

animals) could synthesize and enjoy meat-dishes that don't differ from

the real thing except in not having involved any actual killing.

The " EnviroSaver " models (invented in the late 21st century) also

had an adjustor-switch which permitted using only pollution and

garbage as the raw materials ... so that everything you synthesized

would actually clean up the environment a little bit more.

The think-tank of Aspergians that invented the replicator considered

this an environmentally safer option than another

clean-up/enrich-the-world project they'd actually considered: the

possibility of breeding giant, genetically engineered house-cats that

would eat sleazy politicians and " Cure Autism Now " officers, then

excrete useful and/or interesting objects such as textiles,

rainbow-prisms, and computer parts.

Although " Project Kitty " appealed to many members of the Aspergian

better-world think-tank, they realized that it could cause problems if

the genetic engineering didn't go just exactly right. (After all, if

something went a tiny bit wrong you just might end up with a cat that

ate computer-programmers and excreted " Cure Autism Now " buttons! ... )

... so they invented replicators instead.

;-)

Yours for better letters,

Kate Gladstone

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[Guest guest]

Love your mind, Kate!

>

> My personal (not-really-serious) hypothesis for why so many of us

feel

> we belong in the future:

> reincarnation happens ... but it works *backwards.*

>

> In other words, you remember a " past " life from the future: the 22rd

> century or whatever. People who tortured you in this life will have

a

> " future " life in the past: after they die, they will reincarnate in

> 13th-century Paris and eiher get burned at the stake for their weird

> 20th/21st-century ideas, or (the luckier ones) will just feel

> constantly " grossed out " by their peasant neighbors and try to avoid

> them ... and especially try to avoid the really big, burly peasant

who

> walks around with a very large club and very clear memories of *his*

> " past " (future) life as an Applied Behavior Analyst ...

>

> (I actually have a more realistic, but much more boring, explanation

> of why so many of us feel we should live in a science-fiction future

> instead of living now. But don't ask for my *realistic* explanation

> unless you actually *like* boringness ... )

>

> Re:

>

> > :) What she (Inger) said! (I especially miss my replicator--I

had

> > the super deluxe model where you could ask specifically for the

> > ingredients that went into the resulting dish or ask for a certain

> > version--such as a specific chef's.)

>

> And I imagine that at least some people here remember that they

owned

> the " EnviroSaver " model that created every possible food-chemical by

> breaking down and restructuring only the molecules that exist in

> abundance within the environment ... so that (for instance) people

who

> don't believe in killing animals (or in having anyone else kill

> animals) could synthesize and enjoy meat-dishes that don't differ

from

> the real thing except in not having involved any actual killing.

> The " EnviroSaver " models (invented in the late 21st century)

also

> had an adjustor-switch which permitted using only pollution and

> garbage as the raw materials ... so that everything you synthesized

> would actually clean up the environment a little bit more.

>

> The think-tank of Aspergians that invented the replicator considered

> this an environmentally safer option than another

> clean-up/enrich-the-world project they'd actually considered: the

> possibility of breeding giant, genetically engineered house-cats

that

> would eat sleazy politicians and " Cure Autism Now " officers, then

> excrete useful and/or interesting objects such as textiles,

> rainbow-prisms, and computer parts.

> Although " Project Kitty " appealed to many members of the

Aspergian

> better-world think-tank, they realized that it could cause problems

if

> the genetic engineering didn't go just exactly right. (After all, if

> something went a tiny bit wrong you just might end up with a cat

that

> ate computer-programmers and excreted " Cure Autism Now "

buttons! ... )

> ... so they invented replicators instead.

>

> ;-)

>

>

> Yours for better letters,

> Kate Gladstone

> Handwriting Repair and the World Handwriting Contest

> handwritingrepair@...

> http://learn.to/handwrite,

http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair

> 325 South Manning Boulevard

> Albany, New York 12208-1731 USA

> telephone 518/482-6763

> AND REMEMBER ...

> you can order books through my site!

> (Amazon.com link -

> I get a 5% - 15% commission on each book sold)

>

[Guest guest]

Aloe Vera can also be ingested for detoxification. At the local store I went to today, there were all sorts of different herbs and flower species. I bought Wormwood and Garden Sage. True Wormwood is hard to find in any garden center around the state I live in but, the health food store has them. They even had untreated, organic, Heavenly Blue Morning Glory seeds. Many dinosaurs were herbivores and I wonder what size some of the trees were at that time. Redwood trees are tall but, maybe there were trees taller than skyscrapers which could now be underneath the ocean floor. Kate Gladstone <handwritingrepair@...> wrote: I have an aloe vera, and I use it (to get the gel from inside theleaves - to put on wounds, sunburns, etc.)If you want to minimize the number of times that you do harm to theplant, instead of cutting the aloe

vera every time you can just breakoff the biggest leaf (the first time you need some aloe vera gel),squeeze a bit of the gel onto your injury, and then put the leaf intoa plastic bag inside your your refrigerator for the next time you needit. Aloe vera keeps growing new leaves, anyway, all the time. Thebiggest leaves have the most powerful gel (supermarkets in my citysell three- and four-foot-long individual aloe vera leaves from bigfarms in the southern states and Mexico), and the more often you cutoff a big leaf, the more often (slightly more often) you will get anew little leaf growing in the middle of the plant. (From this, Isuspect that the plant co-evolved with leaf-eating animals). Yours for better letters, Kate Gladstone Handwriting Repair and the World Handwriting Contest handwritingrepair@... http://learn.to/handwrite, http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair 325 South Manning Boulevard Albany, New York 12208-1731 USA telephone 518/482-6763 AND REMEMBER ... you can order books through my site! (Amazon.com link - I get a 5% - 15% commission on each book sold)

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[Guest guest]

Aloe Vera can also be ingested for detoxification. At the local store I went to today, there were all sorts of different herbs and flower species. I bought Wormwood and Garden Sage. True Wormwood is hard to find in any garden center around the state I live in but, the health food store has them. They even had untreated, organic, Heavenly Blue Morning Glory seeds. Many dinosaurs were herbivores and I wonder what size some of the trees were at that time. Redwood trees are tall but, maybe there were trees taller than skyscrapers which could now be underneath the ocean floor. Kate Gladstone <handwritingrepair@...> wrote: I have an aloe vera, and I use it (to get the gel from inside theleaves - to put on wounds, sunburns, etc.)If you want to minimize the number of times that you do harm to theplant, instead of cutting the aloe

vera every time you can just breakoff the biggest leaf (the first time you need some aloe vera gel),squeeze a bit of the gel onto your injury, and then put the leaf intoa plastic bag inside your your refrigerator for the next time you needit. Aloe vera keeps growing new leaves, anyway, all the time. Thebiggest leaves have the most powerful gel (supermarkets in my citysell three- and four-foot-long individual aloe vera leaves from bigfarms in the southern states and Mexico), and the more often you cutoff a big leaf, the more often (slightly more often) you will get anew little leaf growing in the middle of the plant. (From this, Isuspect that the plant co-evolved with leaf-eating animals). Yours for better letters, Kate Gladstone Handwriting Repair and the World Handwriting Contest handwritingrepair@... http://learn.to/handwrite, http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair 325 South Manning Boulevard Albany, New York 12208-1731 USA telephone 518/482-6763 AND REMEMBER ... you can order books through my site! (Amazon.com link - I get a 5% - 15% commission on each book sold)

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[Guest guest]

Come to think of it, they do look like octopus tentacles. They regenerate like some earth worm or snake species. Inger <inglori@...> wrote: I'd like an aloe vera. I think they're beautiful. I'd feel bad about hurting it, though. Sort of like cutting the arm of an octopus! I would keep it for company only. Hmm... I might just get one!Inger > a name: "There have been many > instances of cities being walled for no trade and the parents would > eat their children and babies." > > > > And what sort of sauce might be served?> > > > > > And what wine might complement this repast? Red or white?> > > > > > mmmmmmm, with potatoes and carrots?> > > > >

> and dark chocolate for desert?> > > > Rainbow> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > FAM Secret Society is a community based on respect, friendship, > support and acceptance. Everyone is valued. > > > > Don't forget, there are links to other FAM sites on the Links page > in the folder marked "Other FAM Sites." > > > > > > > >