If you reject modern culture...

[xDenax]

Sounds like you only want input from people who already agree with you.

I wouldn't think those people would be on these here intewrwebs.

 

[seashale76]

I wouldn't think those people would be on these here intewrwebs.

Well, I was gonna say. It seems to me that if you're rejecting anything from modern culture (the past 150 years) then you'd have to reject all modern technology, including computers. You'd be living a relatively off the grid type of existence with no electricity or plumbing.

 

[seeking Christ]

You'd be living a relatively off the grid type of existence with no electricity or plumbing.

Those that live off the grid pride themselves on their electricity and plumbing.

 

[LoAmmi]

Those that live off the grid pride themselves on their electricity and plumbing.

and their own Internet?

 

[xDenax]

Those that live off the grid pride themselves on their electricity and plumbing.

I don't know that she's speaking solely of self sustainability. If you eschew modernity of the last 150 years it does not make much sense to hook yourself up to electricity with solar panels and wind turbines so you can then connect to the internet. She could mean "off the grid" in the sense that one is disconnected from society and culture. Electricity would be one small part of the equation.

 

[seeking Christ]

I think it's possible to reject modern culture w/o being a hermit. In the world and not of it, and all that ...

 

[xDenax]

Let's break it down, shall we?

The end of slavery in the Unites States is a toss up since that happened 150 years ago. We could go either way.

Inventions and events of the last 150 years..

- air brakes
- tungsten steel
- traffic lights
- barbed wire
- telephone patened
- moving pictures
- long lasting light bulbs
- camera film
- modern seismograph
- fountain pens
- metal detectors
- automatic player pianos (these are pretty neat)
- contact lenses
- diesel fueled combustion engine
- zipper
- rubber heels
- safety razor
- teabags
- tractor
- solar cell
- Model T starts selling
- The Theory of Relativity

That only get's us to the early 1900's...I got tired of looking.

If we're shunning culture before the 1860's we have to leave out...

- females attorneys allowed to argue before Supreme Court (1879)
- rabies vaccine
- Kodak camera
- HG Wells
- airplanes
- national forests and park system (1902...thank you Roosevelt!)
- the sun is not a part of the milk way
- what's Pluto?
- the Hubble telescope
- landing on the moon
- the international space station
- women voting
- Israel
- The writings of Ernest Hemingway
- Punk Rock
- Star Wars
- the internet

 

[xDenax]

I think it's possible to reject modern culture w/o being a hermit. In the world and not of it, and all that ...

Reject 150 years of modernity....use the internet. I don't see where those two go hand in hand.

 

[seeking Christ]

Reject 150 years of modernity....use the internet. I don't see where those two go hand in hand.

I don't think the OP is saying what you think he is saying. Player pianos are neat though! My Dad worked on those before i started going to school

 

[xDenax]

I don't think the OP is saying what you think he is saying. Player pianos are neat though! My Dad worked on those before i started going to school

By modern culture, I am referring to changes introduced over the last 150 years.

Culture shapes change and change shapes culture. I did not include everything in this list because I have better things to do. What do you think the OP meant? He doesn't care to explain himself.

My husband has a friend who own 5 player pianos. He insist one was owned by Babe Ruth's wife but I am not sure if that's true. His house is like a tiny museum!

 

[seeking Christ]

What do you think the OP meant?

I think he is referring to social change, not technology.

My husband has a friend who own 5 player pianos. He insist one was owned by Babe Ruth's wife but I am not sure if that's true. His house is like a tiny museum!

Neat! Do all 5 work?

 

[xDenax]

I think he is referring to social change, not technology.

They go hand in hand. Also, you'll notice I did include events like the end of slavery, women voting, women at the supreme court, literature, film and music.

Neat! Do all 5 work?

Yep, all five of them are in working condition. I think he does have them repaired from time to time. He has some very interesting music boxes too.

 

[seeking Christ]

They go hand in hand. Also, you'll notice I did include events like the end of slavery, women voting, women at the supreme court, literature, film and music.

You're going to make me read the website posted in the OP, aren't you!



(Just to see if he qualifies his point as rejecting the evil changes in the last 150 years, while accepting the good ones. Or what)

Yep, all five of them are in working condition. I think he does have them repaired from time to time. He has some very interesting music boxes too.

I wonder if he's ever considered making his home part of a formalized tour? I know a homeowner who has done that.

 

[xDenax]

You're going to make me read the website posted in the OP, aren't you!

Now you're on to me!

(Just to see if he qualifies his point as rejecting the evil changes in the last 150 years, while accepting the good ones. Or what)

I can pretty much grantee that anyone who shuns modernity from the last 150 years probably considers some of the "good" things to be evil.

I wonder if he's ever considered making his home part of a formalized tour? I know a homeowner who has done that.

No but when he dies most of his things will go to his alma mater (he's in his 70's and never had children).

 

[fschmidt]

I think he is referring to social change, not technology.

Yes, thank you.

 

[fschmidt]

(Just to see if he qualifies his point as rejecting the evil changes in the last 150 years, while accepting the good ones. Or what)

Yes not all change was evil, just most. Ending slavery was good. Allowing women to vote with men was bad.

 

[awitch]

Allowing women to vote with men was bad.

What's wrong with women voting?

 

[fschmidt]

What's wrong with women voting?

There is nothing wrong with women voting as long as they don't vote with men. In other words, separate but equal is fine where women vote on laws and government for women and men do the same for men. But when the sexes are combined, women will vote for unlimited license and to enslave men, and men who naturally suck up to women will support them, and this coalition destroys society.

As Thomas Jefferson said:

"Were our State a pure democracy, . . . there would yet be excluded from their deliberations, women, who, to prevent depravation of morals and ambiguity of issue, could not mix promiscuously in the public meetings of men."

 

[xDenax]

What's wrong with women voting?

It requires us to leave the kitchen.

 

[Rationalt]

It requires us to leave the kitchen.

Yeah, that is a bummer.Now you are on to something.

Anyway I feel some people should be left alone to deal with their issues.