Do you needlessly chop living trees in your pseudo-survival play?

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stabman said:
The way you go on, I wonder what you eat.
"Hear the cry of the carrot! They have a consciousness!"
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Save the vegetables!

listen to the carrots screaming
yes i know you think i'm dreaming
or hallucinating

every living thing must die
the carrot dreads its soul must fly
but why by peeling or by grating

honor every helpless green
shun the salad and the bean
life is love but eating's hating

-- EB
 
leghog said:
Why?

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LMFAO

Unfortunately in our modern world, there are too many that live in "civiisation" and take any opportuinity to prove on the 'net that they are "Neanderthal's at heart" without showing they actually know the true meaning of the term. LOL

After all, have a look at what the US was before Europeans arrived, and have another look at the legislation that was necessary to preseve what was left, after Western Europeans exercsied the greed common to our species.

As one rich American once famously stated "A tree has no value unless it is cut down".
 
I don't do any survival play, but i do run down plenty of small trees on my farm with my Honda Rubicon. I recently bought the quad and am busy getting plenty of trails established before deer season arrives. Some of the trees won't stay down, so i give them some assistance with an old military machete and the trusty Echo chainsaw. I had some trees catching stray bullets on the back of my shooting range, and i "put them down" so they would not stand there and die slow.
 
I don't chop live trees unless it's blocking the common trail. Usually it's not a big tree as i find it's too troublesome to cut one down during the trail-blazing.
After a storm here we have plenty of fallen trees to clear. Still i prefer saw as it takes care of the job.

If i must test my blades i go to bushes that marked for future property development;the contractor would be happy to see a mad man wielding his swords across those overgrowns they are about to bulldoze over.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Save the vegetables!

listen to the carrots screaming
yes i know you think i'm dreaming
or hallucinating

every living thing must die
the carrot dreads its soul must fly
but why by peeling or by grating

honor every helpless green
shun the salad and the bean
life is love but eating's hating

-- EB
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It's not quite Byron's ''She Walks In Beauty'', but it was good for a chuckle, thanks. :D
 
SouthernCross said:
LMFAO

Unfortunately in our modern world, there are too many that live in "civiisation" and take any opportuinity to prove on the 'net that they are "Neanderthal's at heart" without showing they actually know the true meaning of the term. LOL

After all, have a look at what the US was before Europeans arrived, and have another look at the legislation that was necessary to preseve what was left, after Western Europeans exercsied the greed common to our species.

As one rich American once famously stated "A tree has no value unless it is cut down".
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This is a common mis-perception. There are more forests/trees in the US now than when George Washington was president.
 
@ esav

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/science/15food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

we exist in a world that requires we kill to live, and everything that we take life from does not want it taken, even the carrot. even vegans must accept the fact that they inflict death to survive, there is no way to live and not kill other living things. Entropy requires that we burn energy to remain organized. Life is the most stable organization of accessible energy for other life. This is why machine life is superior in every way and will be the goal of our species, even if we do not recognize it now.

to create life that does not need a living world: this is the goal of our existence, to make it possible for god to be born. :D ( hyperion cantos!)
 
Gehazi said:
... even vegans must accept the fact that they inflict death to survive, there is no way to live and not kill other living things.
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Excepting those who take the fruit and the nut and the bean without killing the root or stalk. Then there are others who aren't vegan who do that as well as taking the milk and the egg without killing the cow, goat, or chicken.


Me? I'm an omnivore so plants as well as animals die to sustain me.
 
Quiet said:
I can't help but wonder if you mow your yard, or just let it run wild?
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I mow, but, yes, I do let it run to seed occasionally and deliberately. I've gained a cherry tree by doing that else I'd have mowed it down. It'll be transplanted in a neighbors yard next month after growing in mine for a few years. I also prune my peach, apple, and pear fruit trees --- shivers!. Regardless, mowing grass and needlessly chopping down a tree (for no other reason than to see if you can) aren't analogous. Like comparing apples and Mars.

The point is good stewardship and responsible use.
 
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There. Fixed now.
West is booming.






On a slightly more serious note....
Easter Island waiting to happen all over again. Doubt it has anything to do with any pseudo - survival play.
 
SouthernCross said:
G'day Sodak

What is the actual misconception already demonstrated here, based on the additional information presented?
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We're not the evil villains, despite attempts to portray us as such. We go on about our business contrary to the opinions of our "betters". Americans are stubborn that way. And we take care of our own, be it people or land.

I'll be willing to bet that we are better stewards of our land than most.
 
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sodak said:
SouthernCross said:
G'day Sodak....What is the actual misconception already demonstrated here, based on the additional information presented?
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....I'll be willing to bet that we are better stewards of our land than most.
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We should be better stewards than we are.

The USA has a richness of resources most of us take for granted and have taken for granted for far too long.
 
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