The Dude Laying Down Wisdom

bigdano711 · 08-12-2024, 08:42 AM

Jeff Bridges narrates "Living In The Future's Past", a documentary that is free and is worth the hour and 20 minutes of your time.

At 1:19:35 he shares a quote that you might recognize. ;-)

bigdano711 · 08-13-2024, 07:11 AM

What, no deep thinkers around here? We live in such a precarious moment, we need to talk about this shit. I see reason for great hope. At the same time these evil forces are at their strongest, we have a candidate like RFK Jr. show up. THEE candidate we've been looking for our whole lives. A SOLID third choice. This is it, guys.

Meanwhile, energy prices soar and at the same time, we have documented proof of accessing the zero point energy field. We have a guy who built an ICE engine that runs on hydrogen gas and makes the wonderful WHOMPEM sound, shooting water vapor out of the exhaust.

I should mention the quote. I found it roughly 15 to 20 years ago. It rocked me. I had it in my original FB account as my favorite quote. Now, I love The Dude, especially in the remake of True Grit. I was clean and sober when I watched The Big Lebowski with some clean and sober friends. Actually, we were a bowling team as well, so the movie was poignant. It wasn't much longer after finding the quote that I found myself divorced, wrecked, a shell of a man. Then I was walking to work one day and I saw what had become of us. I got off BART at the Montgomery Street station in downtown San Francisco and headed topside like I did every day of the week. The usual throng collected on the street corner, waiting for the light to change. Because I've never liked crowds, I jay-walked across a one-way street, walked up a bit, then jay-walked across the other. I had the timing of the traffic lights down. As I was crossing that 2nd street, I happened to look down at the throng, right at the moment the light changed, and watched that throng surge into the street like some kind of ant colony. I was shook, all the way to the core. I remember stopping mid-stride and standing there, watching it happen, jaw hanging down to my 2nd chin. I suddenly realized that I was part of it and by being part of it, I was condoning it. The next realization was that I had to quit, right now, walk away and NEVER come back.

Now, all these years later, ol' Jeff makes a documentary and features that VERY quote at the end. I was/am/will forever be ROCKED by that. Miracles abound.

bigdano711 · 08-13-2024, 07:22 AM

"I just came in...
To see what condition my condition was in."

Thumper · 08-13-2024, 07:24 AM

Energy is cheap in the US. We pay less for energy than almost anywhere on the planet! Food too. My wife is from Spain, grandma from France, brother in Australia. They spend more than twice as much for fuel in those places, food too. Of course, they spend a lot less on military, so we pay for it ! Just in different ways.

bigdano711 · 08-13-2024, 08:12 AM

Ask your wife if she knows a coastal town called Ayala. That's my last name. I can't prove it, yet, but I believe I am a descendant of Juan Manuel de Ayala, the man responsible for discovering San Francisco Bay. Yeah, SF belongs to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Ayala

Oh man, the food in this country is so bad. 90% processed crap. If you listen to RFK Jr. talk about it, you can see he's telling the truth. He spent his whole career going after huge corporations and WINNING.

It IS possible to find SOME decent stuff, mostly at farmer's markets. It's time to start growing my own. I want to get a chicken coop going, too.

Sport Rider · 08-13-2024, 09:25 AM

there's ALWAYS precarious moments. It's not any different. people just find something different to alarm us about. I distinctly remember back in the 70s, when I came of age, thinking that I wasn't sure I wanted to have kids because the world may well end for them before their lifetime was over. Here we are 45 years later and my oldest grandkid is coming of age. Everyone really needs to stop worrying about the doomsdayers and enjoy life instead. Just my 2 cents....

Thumper · 08-13-2024, 03:27 PM

Excellent documentary.

The people that dismiss anthropomorphic global warming don't recognize the extreme speed of the change. The meteor that hit the earth and killed the dinosaurs changed the earth's atmosphere instantly. But that was rare. Usually it is a slow process, geological time in 10s of thousands of years.. This time it is taking a couple of hundred years (the industrial revolution). Some fools blame "science" for ostracizing nay-sayings. After humans cut down all the forests in Europe we kept doing it, and still are (deforestation is ongoing). Trees fix Carbon and create cool place. We need them. We need to replant all we can.

The extraction of fossil fuels (reduced Carbon) that accompanied the industrial revolution is absolutely MASSIVE on a global scale. Cheap energy was/is there for the taking by us crafty humans. Yeah, we figured out how to efficiently extract and burn oil, coal, natural gas, all the while spilling and burning excess unused Carbon (massive chemical fires, burning train wrecks, etc). We are the meteor this time.

So we have a rapidly warming planet. Don't think we did this? Well, I guess the majority of sensible humans observing the process, and scientists could be wrong, but only a dwindling handful of scientists disagree, and even the least informed humans are catching on.

Our songbirds have suffered drought and ultra high heat wiping out their numbers. It is sad to see.

OK. I'm done. The documentary speaks for itself. We all make choices that affect what we do as a culture, as a species. I just hope that people listen.

Thanks Dano

bigdano711 · 08-13-2024, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sport Rider

there's ALWAYS precarious moments. It's not any different. people just find something different to alarm us about. I distinctly remember back in the 70s, when I came of age, thinking that I wasn't sure I wanted to have kids because the world may well end for them before their lifetime was over. Here we are 45 years later and my oldest grandkid is coming of age. Everyone really needs to stop worrying about the doomsdayers and enjoy life instead. Just my 2 cents....

I remember yelling at my "spiritual guide", Rob, "THE WORLD HANGS IN THE BALANCE!!" He yelled back, "THE WORLD HAS ALWAYS HUNG IN THE BALANCE!!!"

We've all heard the quote: "All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." Doomsday folk have been around forever, typically in the form of some kinda tyrannical government convincing their people that the other guy is about to attack at any moment. That only lasts for so long. I believe the best things about the Constitution of the United States are the AMENDMENTS. It's like they realized and accepted the fact that this document is NOT perfect and will need constant amending. When is the last time we passed an amendment? When is the last time someone was found guilty of treason and put to death? We all know treason is happening. There is a provision in the Constitution to deal with treasonous bastards, yet we have never exercised it, not at a level that matters. IT IS TIME.

Excellent start to the discussion. We all have feelings about it. Let 'em rip!

08-12-2024, 08:42 AM	#1
bigdano711 Join Date: Jun 2023 Location: Big Piney, WY Posts: 623	The Dude Laying Down Wisdom Jeff Bridges narrates "Living In The Future's Past", a documentary that is free and is worth the hour and 20 minutes of your time. At 1:19:35 he shares a quote that you might recognize. ;-) __________________ 2023 Hawk 250 from XPRO off of Amazon MOUNTAIN MAN RC + MOTO on YouTube "If there were more bloody noses, there would be less wars." - Hagbard Celine John 2:15 So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
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08-13-2024, 07:11 AM	#2
bigdano711 Join Date: Jun 2023 Location: Big Piney, WY Posts: 623	What, no deep thinkers around here? We live in such a precarious moment, we need to talk about this shit. I see reason for great hope. At the same time these evil forces are at their strongest, we have a candidate like RFK Jr. show up. THEE candidate we've been looking for our whole lives. A SOLID third choice. This is it, guys. Meanwhile, energy prices soar and at the same time, we have documented proof of accessing the zero point energy field. We have a guy who built an ICE engine that runs on hydrogen gas and makes the wonderful WHOMPEM sound, shooting water vapor out of the exhaust. I should mention the quote. I found it roughly 15 to 20 years ago. It rocked me. I had it in my original FB account as my favorite quote. Now, I love The Dude, especially in the remake of True Grit. I was clean and sober when I watched The Big Lebowski with some clean and sober friends. Actually, we were a bowling team as well, so the movie was poignant. It wasn't much longer after finding the quote that I found myself divorced, wrecked, a shell of a man. Then I was walking to work one day and I saw what had become of us. I got off BART at the Montgomery Street station in downtown San Francisco and headed topside like I did every day of the week. The usual throng collected on the street corner, waiting for the light to change. Because I've never liked crowds, I jay-walked across a one-way street, walked up a bit, then jay-walked across the other. I had the timing of the traffic lights down. As I was crossing that 2nd street, I happened to look down at the throng, right at the moment the light changed, and watched that throng surge into the street like some kind of ant colony. I was shook, all the way to the core. I remember stopping mid-stride and standing there, watching it happen, jaw hanging down to my 2nd chin. I suddenly realized that I was part of it and by being part of it, I was condoning it. The next realization was that I had to quit, right now, walk away and NEVER come back. Now, all these years later, ol' Jeff makes a documentary and features that VERY quote at the end. I was/am/will forever be ROCKED by that. Miracles abound. __________________ 2023 Hawk 250 from XPRO off of Amazon MOUNTAIN MAN RC + MOTO on YouTube "If there were more bloody noses, there would be less wars." - Hagbard Celine John 2:15 So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
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08-13-2024, 07:22 AM	#3
bigdano711 Join Date: Jun 2023 Location: Big Piney, WY Posts: 623	"I just came in... To see what condition my condition was in." __________________ 2023 Hawk 250 from XPRO off of Amazon MOUNTAIN MAN RC + MOTO on YouTube "If there were more bloody noses, there would be less wars." - Hagbard Celine John 2:15 So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
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08-13-2024, 07:24 AM	#4
Thumper Join Date: Feb 2021 Location: Kansas City Posts: 2,765	Energy is cheap in the US. We pay less for energy than almost anywhere on the planet! Food too. My wife is from Spain, grandma from France, brother in Australia. They spend more than twice as much for fuel in those places, food too. Of course, they spend a lot less on military, so we pay for it ! Just in different ways. __________________ No matter where you go, there you are Last edited by Thumper; 08-13-2024 at 12:02 PM.
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08-13-2024, 08:12 AM	#5
bigdano711 Join Date: Jun 2023 Location: Big Piney, WY Posts: 623	Ask your wife if she knows a coastal town called Ayala. That's my last name. I can't prove it, yet, but I believe I am a descendant of Juan Manuel de Ayala, the man responsible for discovering San Francisco Bay. Yeah, SF belongs to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Ayala Oh man, the food in this country is so bad. 90% processed crap. If you listen to RFK Jr. talk about it, you can see he's telling the truth. He spent his whole career going after huge corporations and WINNING. It IS possible to find SOME decent stuff, mostly at farmer's markets. It's time to start growing my own. I want to get a chicken coop going, too. __________________ 2023 Hawk 250 from XPRO off of Amazon MOUNTAIN MAN RC + MOTO on YouTube "If there were more bloody noses, there would be less wars." - Hagbard Celine John 2:15 So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
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08-13-2024, 09:25 AM	#6
Sport Rider Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Mooresville NC Posts: 2,116	there's ALWAYS precarious moments. It's not any different. people just find something different to alarm us about. I distinctly remember back in the 70s, when I came of age, thinking that I wasn't sure I wanted to have kids because the world may well end for them before their lifetime was over. Here we are 45 years later and my oldest grandkid is coming of age. Everyone really needs to stop worrying about the doomsdayers and enjoy life instead. Just my 2 cents.... __________________ Dave Bikes I've owned: Suzuki GS450T, Yamaha XS500, Honda V45 Sabre, Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 Classic (2), Suzuki VX800, Kawasaki Ninja 650, Triumph TT600, Honda Superhawk, Kawasaki Concours 1000 (3, including a sidecar rig), Buell XB9R, Kawasaki Nomad 1500, Concours 14, Honda Goldwing (2), Housen Hawk, Suzuki Intruder 1400, Kawasaki KLR650, Victory V92TC.
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08-13-2024, 03:27 PM	#7
Thumper Join Date: Feb 2021 Location: Kansas City Posts: 2,765	Excellent documentary. The people that dismiss anthropomorphic global warming don't recognize the extreme speed of the change. The meteor that hit the earth and killed the dinosaurs changed the earth's atmosphere instantly. But that was rare. Usually it is a slow process, geological time in 10s of thousands of years.. This time it is taking a couple of hundred years (the industrial revolution). Some fools blame "science" for ostracizing nay-sayings. After humans cut down all the forests in Europe we kept doing it, and still are (deforestation is ongoing). Trees fix Carbon and create cool place. We need them. We need to replant all we can. The extraction of fossil fuels (reduced Carbon) that accompanied the industrial revolution is absolutely MASSIVE on a global scale. Cheap energy was/is there for the taking by us crafty humans. Yeah, we figured out how to efficiently extract and burn oil, coal, natural gas, all the while spilling and burning excess unused Carbon (massive chemical fires, burning train wrecks, etc). We are the meteor this time. So we have a rapidly warming planet. Don't think we did this? Well, I guess the majority of sensible humans observing the process, and scientists could be wrong, but only a dwindling handful of scientists disagree, and even the least informed humans are catching on. Our songbirds have suffered drought and ultra high heat wiping out their numbers. It is sad to see. OK. I'm done. The documentary speaks for itself. We all make choices that affect what we do as a culture, as a species. I just hope that people listen. Thanks Dano __________________ No matter where you go, there you are Last edited by Thumper; 08-16-2024 at 04:57 AM.
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