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We can't have it be a survivalist colony.
Meno_ wrote:Another concern would be the question of bringing others a along especially those with significant others or wives and kids.
Would there be qualifications of any kind like possessing skills
or other assets related too generating needs such as growing foood or having work related skills, to build the structure plus having to make a living?
Fixed Cross wrote:As I see it the thing needs to be financed.
We can't have it be a survivalist colony.
Fixed Cross wrote:Well you need a reason for people to not kill each other (and themselves), and to want to be there.
At the very least we need electricity and running water.
We should be self sufficient in thought, thats our work, we don't need to pretend to be cavemen and derive legitimacy from that pretence.
Orbie, I very much love working on the land myself, but I don't want to have people to rely on me and a coupe of people planting beets.
Spending money on a nice thing for friends is not a form of cowardice, as I see it.
I would like for it to be an extremely nice location where philosophers will look forward to spending some time each year.
I want to build a Philosophy Center so that we can build a community of geniuses in which we can live and breathe together.
Ultimate Philosophy 1001 wrote:Fixed Cross wrote:Well you need a reason for people to not kill each other (and themselves), and to want to be there.
At the very least we need electricity and running water.
We should be self sufficient in thought, thats our work, we don't need to pretend to be cavemen and derive legitimacy from that pretence.
Orbie, I very much love working on the land myself, but I don't want to have people to rely on me and a coupe of people planting beets.
Spending money on a nice thing for friends is not a form of cowardice, as I see it.
I would like for it to be an extremely nice location where philosophers will look forward to spending some time each year.
Yes, I thought about the problem of putting Nazis, trannies and Jews all in one room together, like a Jerry springer episode there would have to be certain security precautions.
However, Satyr isn't a Nazi like some of the others, most of the Americans on here aren't nazis so the only nazis we'd have to worry about would be those on a foreign visa or passport. Also, I doubt Joker would shoot up the facility, he cares about global domination too much and he also abandoned the Joker psuedonym.
The running water thing, we'd have to hook up to the water main which would be federally regulated, if possible it would be better just to land it near a river and install some sort of filtration system and directly link it there.
For electricity we'd have to put some sort of generator, turbine or other device because otherwise, we'd have to be near the electric lines and it might mean more paperwork and fees.
pilgrim-seeker_tom wrote:I want to build a Philosophy Center so that we can build a community of geniuses in which we can live and breathe together.
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Excuse my intrusion ... my first impressions were obviously off the mark ... this is sounding more like a recreation project.
WendyDarling wrote:Also, there needs to be accessibility to roads and a city with an airport and supplies. Dig a well or collect water in few cisterns, there's no public utilities outside towns.
Fixed Cross wrote:Im gonna stick to the perspective of getting financed.
I would like it to have some luxuries. Im not gonna fight on this, we'll see what we manage. Ill show up at a more primitive site as well, but I feel its legitimate to aim for a place of comfort.
This social problem is one of the reasons Id like a boxing ring. A lot of tensions could be amusingly resolved. Of course Satyr would never enter such a ring, but others may be persuaded.
Imagine a boxing ring with a campfire and music - I think that is a great setup for proper living.
Fixed Cross wrote:The main issue needs to be our pride -
what is the reason the we are entitled to such a community,
what makes it worth it for the world -
I want us to be compelled, forced to broadcast philosophical discussion and discourse and disseminate theory and method into the world at large, like Breitbart does for the Conservative Right, this would do for the Philosophical Center. We have enough weird and radical personalities with attractive traits to do this. Seriously, imagine how much fun to could be to watch us try to make sense of things if there is a given set of circumstances in play, such as fire, music and sparring, and fill in the blanks.
Noted. However we need only be nearby a village or town with some necessary supplies, not a big city.
Well, it's still in the brainstorming stages, nothing is set in stone.
pilgrim-seeker_tom wrote:The fruit of desktop philosophers is abundantly manifested on this forum ... in various forms of hostility.
encode_decode wrote:pilgrim-seeker_tom
pilgrim-seeker_tom wrote:The fruit of desktop philosophers is abundantly manifested on this forum ... in various forms of hostility.
That is very true . . . I have been guilty of hostility myself.
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But things are looking up . . .
Kind regards,
Aaron
pilgrim-seeker_tom wrote:Today, if one is not willing to traverse the globe in search of wisdom(philosophy) ... one's life becomes chained to a desktop ... ergo a desktop philosopher ... not a comfortable circumstance. Digital contact is no substitute for eye contact.
The fruit of desktop philosophers is abundantly manifested on this forum ... in various forms of hostility.
pilgrim-seeker_tom wrote:Today, if one is not willing to traverse the globe in search of wisdom(philosophy) ... one's life becomes chained to a desktop ... ergo a desktop philosopher ... not a comfortable circumstance. Digital contact is no substitute for eye contact.
The fruit of desktop philosophers is abundantly manifested on this forum ... in various forms of hostility.
But relax, the mild philosophical animosity that pops up here and there-HERE-is mere child's play next to current horrifyingly real world events. For that reason alone i' d rather bury myself in the ivory towered shelter of ILP.. Even considerd throwing myself into KP'' s Dungeon.
Another concern would be the question of bringing others a along especially those with significant others or wives and kids.
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