National Day of Unplugging. Can you unplug for 24hrs?

[BoomerD]

Lol.

Evil Gentiles!!!

Is dere any other kind?

 

[meltdown75]

whenever something like this is posted... all i can think about is... don't tell me how to live, man

The dude abides

 

[SparkyJJO]

Given the fact that my job revolves around technology, I'm screwed at step 1.

So no.

 

[SunnyD]

Er, what am I? Amish?

 

[Jeff7]

Avoid technology. So where do we draw the line? At one point in time, rubbing sticks together to start a fire was advanced technology.
Light a candle? With what, a match? A lighter? One is an example of some find chemical technology, the other is mechanical technology, or possibly electrical.

Eat bread - agriculture was also at one time advanced technology, as were grain mills.

The entire premise of this list is silly.

Avoid technology? Ok, if so you can cross off #2, #6, #7, #8 and possibly others

Sounds like a religious list to me.

Well yeah, the whole silly thing is religious in origin, because it's meant to honor the day when the infinitely powerful deity needed to rest after overexerting himself and his infinite stores of power and knowledge.:awe:
(And of course, why are we celebrating the day when he sat on his ass and did absolutely nothing? Why not celebrate one of the days where something useful actually got done?:biggrin

 

[Zedtom]

Oh, it all sounds so romantic. Returning to a softer, gentler time when life was so simple that we could laugh at the foibles of human invention and breathe in deeply the natural essence of earthly delight.

The reality is: Technology has us by the balls. If you think that your government is becoming too oppressive and you entertain the idea that maybe the people could rise up and smash the overlords with a revolution...

they'll just turn off the electricity.

 

[dighn]

I can, but I don't wanna. Screw that luddite crap.

 

[Crono]

Oh, it all sounds so romantic. Returning to a softer, gentler time when life was so simple that we could laugh at the foibles of human invention and breathe in deeply the natural essence of earthly delight.

The reality is: Technology has us by the balls. If you think that your government is becoming too oppressive and you entertain the idea that maybe the people could rise up and smash the overlords with a revolution...

they'll just turn off the electricity.

Sounds like the plot to an awesome dystopia movie...

 

[Jeff7]

Oh, it all sounds so romantic. Returning to a softer, gentler time when life was so simple that we could laugh at the foibles of human invention and breathe in deeply the natural essence of earthly delight.

The reality is: Technology has us by the balls. If you think that your government is becoming too oppressive and you entertain the idea that maybe the people could rise up and smash the overlords with a revolution...

they'll just turn off the electricity.

Guess what, people a thousand years ago probably said the same thing, and people in another thousand years will still be saying the same thing.

Yes, let's go back to a simpler time, when basic hygiene was "advanced technology," when death during childbirth wasn't a big surprise, and when the average lifespan was <40 years.
Ahh, the good old days, before all this damn science and technology took over.

 

[Linflas]

So this thing is being promoted by a Jewish group? I guess they will just use a Shabbos goy when they need something done that day.

 

[Howard]

Now why would I sacrifice thousands of years of technology?

 

[Nik]

Could I? Yes. Would I want to? No.

Why people do this is beyond me. Must be yet another one of those fads meant to make people feel better about themselves without actually making any sort of impact.

 

[Jeff7]

Could I? Yes. Would I want to? No.

Why people do this is beyond me. Must be yet another one of those fads meant to make people feel better about themselves without actually making any sort of impact.

Just another part of humanity's long obsession with sacrifice as a means of appeasing some mythical force.

 

[Nik]

Just another part of humanity's long obsession with sacrifice as a means of appeasing some mythical force.

Wow, I never looked at it that way before; but considering the average IQ of those who do this kind of crap, I'm not surprised.

 

[Fenixgoon]

some of us have this thing called a job

 

[ultimatebob]

How in the hell am I supposed to connect with my loved ones without technology! They all live at least 50 miles away from me.

 

[nerp]

Perhaps being productive? There's an idea.

Doing what?

 

[meltdown75]

i played PS3 pretty much all day yesterday. God still loves me and my high-tech lazy ways :awe: