The recession, benefits, the safety net, and the learning curve

fc123

Heyy!!!! I am at the top of the page...;-0

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

Heyy!!!! I am at the top of the page...;-0

Not if I delete two of my previous postings

mewbie_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not if I delete two of my previous postings

What if you edit one and make it really long or something? That might push stuff all over the place. Always peeves me when I do the last post on a page, and then someone quickly moves it onto the next page. On the other hand it's a great feeling to do the first one on a new page.

ps. If you think this is sad you should see what the rest of my life is like.

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not if I delete two of my previous postings

No No don't .......I need one tiny thing to make me feel on top of things this week......no jokes please Mr B and Mewbie.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

No No don't .......I need one tiny thing to make me feel on top of things this week......no jokes please Mr B and Mewbie.

I think you'll find its me in charge of THAT sort of jokes around here.

That said, I have no problem with you being on top.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I think you'll find its me in charge of THAT sort of jokes around here.

That said, I have no problem with you being on top.

I would ... she's not a bloke!

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

I would ... she's not a bloke!

It takes all sorts PN...

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

It takes all sorts PN...

You're a bloke, so biased; you have a desire to watch

ceridwen

fc123 wrote: »

Another converstional ball, up in the air for moi at the mo, is how totally mean, shallow, vile, spiteful and avaricious people can be in their work and dealings with their fellow man.

Had a bad week? Me too...

One thing I feared about the state of the economy getting worse/overpopulation getting worse/etc/etc - was that it might bring out the worst in those who have plenty of "worst" TO bring out.....I'm inclined to think I was right sometimes.

ceridwen

Pastures - never mind giving you any ideas for books....;):D - I'm now actually visualising one I could write myself....

I've always cherished a little dream of myself as the "author in the garret" (not of the starving variety!). Hmm....thinks...plotline: a group of people in the 23rd Century see that they are living in a devastated post-industrial world and that this lies basically down to the over-consumption and over-population that prevailed in the 20th/21st Centuries. These 23rd Century people still have a high degree of technical/scientific knowledge - as that managed to survive the Environmental Holocaust of the mid 21st Century relatively intact. Their scientific knowledge has, in fact, advanced enough that they can manage a form of time travel - so the bravest of them volunteer to do that in order to see if they could change things enough to avert the Environmental Holocaust that ruined so much of the Earth. The only thing is - this time travel is one-way only and its not possible to come back to their own Society (where they've abolished war/people having too many children for the Planets carrying capacity/etc/etc and they've got a very different mindset to 20th/21st century people - theirs is much more community-oriented/playful/intuitive/Nature-oriented).

So this group of people volunteer to do that one-way time travel back - and the way they do so is to volunteer to be born again literally - to parents in the 20th Century. They arrange to meet up again when they are adults and set to work to try and prevent that Holocaust.

The challenge is personally (one of those Extreme Celebrity living in the jungle challenges beloved of 21st century tv programmes) - in that they need to retain enough of their memory of who they really are/what they are here for to recognise each other and remember how they planned to do that work. The - possibly even bigger challenge - is how not to retain too much of their memory - because, if they do, then they will remember what that Holocaust was like and how much nicer a society it managed to be interpersonally in the 23rd Century and find it very difficult at times not to sink too far into the troughs of depression personally.

Hmmmm.....thinks I could be reading an awful lot of science books to work this out before I start writing that novel......:rolleyes::D