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Facebook – Les StroudScrap Club: A New Twist on Recycling
the bottom line is that we supply you with sledgehammers, crowbars, bats and pipes to destroy various household objects such as tvs, washing machines, cookers, computers, musical instruments, office furniture and the occasional car….all the objects are sourced from the streets usually dumped and/or are donated to us as useless objects beyond their original use….everything destroyed is scrap…if it works we don’t use it….safety is of course paramount so you will be provided with professional safety equipment such as goggles, helmets and gloves professional first-aiders are always on hand just in case…..names are chosen randomly, 10 people at a time get 10 minutes in the ‘scrap pit’ and everybody gets a turn….
Farming the City
The Farming the City project and FarmingtheCity.net are demonstrating that we can make better use of existing city assets such as green spaces and neglected places, and we can investigate how new technologies, both high and low tech, can make the city more edible, healthier, wealthier and happier.
Supercell Deprivation Syndrome
http://www.texastailchaser.com/humor/SDS/index.htm
A new disease has been identified this year. It is known as Supercell Deprivation Syndrome or SDS. Although there is no evidence showing that SDS causes any direct physical harm, the psychological effects are significant and can be debilitating causing strange and unusual behavior in otherwise normal chasers…assuming of course there is such a thing.
From a Quiz on Facebook
You have come out with Raven as your soul representation. This is a very interesting path for a being. I suppose the most important thing to remember about a persons life when they are under the Ravens wing would be, you have been here before.. you know all about this stuff and what you don’t know you are about to find out. There is really nothing too surprising or amazing to a Raven person.. new things, sure, but as they have been witness to so many massive shifts over the miriad of lifetimes required to lead a Raven life, there are virtually no real surprises. The danger for a raven soul is landing in an area where there are no other ravens and no real competition for them. A Raven needs some powerful reflection and only another Raven can do that for them as they know that they are the only ones who really understand. An old soul does not protect a person from falling into a trap of getting too comfortable and growing lazy. Laziness is deadly for a Raven, they need the power of their wings to carry their great bodies high above the world so that they can gain the perspective that they so need in order fulfill their ultimate destinies here on earth. For each Raven has a particular mission to complete their earth cycle. Find out what it is Raven. You may be comfortable and unshaken, but are you alert and fulfilling your vision?
Interesting. But how much faith do you put into a quiz where they didn’t even proofread. Still, I liked it enough to post it here. 🙂
How Would you Answer?
Has Science Fiction had an impact on your worldview? And if so how? Secondly is there one writer or novel in paticular that has “cranked” your head open?
OR:
What is the strangest thing you believe to be true?
Which question would you pick (and why) and what would your answer be?
I was invited to answer one of these for a sci fi blog group. It was nice to be picked.
I will add my answer when I have sent it to the blog group. Meanwhile… what about you?
My answer to the first question. (I really couldn’t come up with anything concrete for the second one).
Yes, I would say science fiction has given my world view more options. Time travel, utopias, and end of the world scenarios (where people do survive) are my favourite science fiction stories to read or watch.
I see the world as separate from the planet. Our planet is a big ball of dust and gas in space but we are the little alien ants scattered all over it, clinging to the surface and mucking it all up. I don’t see people as a good thing for the planet. If it had a choice it would likely find a scratching post and scrape us off. I don’t see human beings as essential for the planet, we are a nuisance in reality.
Science fiction expands your mind with ideas and other realities. You begin to see past your little existence and need to survive. If you give that up for just a few minutes you get a whole new outlook, where we ourselves are just not that important. Science fiction is the best source of getting that kind of outlook.
Reading science fiction gets you to look at problems and decisions in alternate ways. Rather than seeing the simple and easy solutions you look for something a bit more out there, something less well known or popular and even take things in a totally new direction or turn them upside down. Just because it makes no sense, doesn’t mean it won’t work. I’m not saying everything should be taken that way. You don’t need to cook purple spaghetti with goat innards but you might be open to trying spaghetti squash instead of the usual spaghetti noodles.
I like to read about someone’s utopia, their planned out vision of the world and how it eventually crumbles because nothing (and no one) is really perfect, or complete in itself. Science fiction gives you so many points of view and a chance to take what you think is right and good and play with it till all the flaws (and the good points too) come out. You examine and explore far more than just taking an idea at face value.
I can’t pinpoint any one writer or book. I’ve read so many and I’ve gotten so old that a lot of what I read has become part of the soup in my head. I take a bit of everything and use it to tinker with the masterplan of what I believe and what feels right to me. One writer that haunts my mind is Shirley Jackson but she’s not a traditional science fiction writer.