tell me what you really really don't want

[jojo808]

right in time for the 'Holiday' Season =) zinga zing ahh,,,,...

[lapislazuline]

what about a thanksgiving turkey?

[Clone46783]

indeed

[fckuvrymch]

i really really dont want, either. i am trying to find a way to give gifts that will teach and entertain(cause that is what THEY want). im lookin for a dvd or full length documentary that i could burn and give as gifts for free.

what i was shooting for was something that is based on the idea of learning to live with less. most know economic hard times are coming, and if i can open the door to new awareness and teach a useful skill at the same time that would be ideal.

got any ideas?

[nokilt1]

i like that response penniless. didnt look at it that way.and you are welcome for the encouragement.have a good life.i am concerned that alot of people will be muttering that prayer befor long, the way things are going these days.may peace and love be with us all.

[nokilt1]

i do not want that which i do not have.

i am not a religious person, but when a friend of mine died who was , i listened to the lords prayer ( i believe thats what it was), and the line line "I SHALL NOT WANT" struck a chord with me. good vids penniless. keep it up.

[pennilesscripple]

yeah kilt you heard the 23rd psalm:

the lord is my shepherd

i shall not want

he makes me lie down in green pastures

he leads me beside still waters

he restores my soul

industrial civilization is based on scarcity and fear of death. the 23rd psalm reminds us that we live on an abundant planet that gives us everything we need. it was written by a guy named david who hated civilization.

thanks for the encouragement, kilt. your kind words mean a lot to me, and i'll keep at it. :o)

[cloudmonkeys]

People work to create these man-made environments - to make lots of things and to turn the natural world into many different objects which they then buy and then they decide that the manmade world that they've made is a nightmare and they buy a house in the suburbs to get closer to nature and to get away from the hideousness of it all. WTF

[pennilesscripple]

man monkeys you said it

and *then* they look out the window of their gated community second home, see trees, and say "what ecological crisis?"

[ReliableInsider]

I asked the store owner whether I could have a tribe and a deep sense of connection and he threw me out. Neither of us had what the other wanted.

[pennilesscripple]

contrary to popular belief,

what we really need can't be bought with money

[adriansalamandre]

I don't want to give up nor give in, sell out nor sell up, put off nor put on, shut out nor shut up...

[pennilesscripple]

me neither

[RizN2OKshun]

hell with gas prices moving into the next millennium...this might be the new national anthem...

[pennilesscripple]

heh

i want a world where zzz's 'what we fear' is the national anthem....

[dmio2]

I'm too yellow to even go out into the world the day after thanksgiving, let alone go to a store. So I guess I will keep my terrorist supporting '93 explorer parked, will that help?

[pennilesscripple]

heh yeah dmio good plan

thanks for helping spread the word

[not2tees]

This Friday, even Tim Horton's is going to go without my coin for a de-caf & biscuit. I am able to non-consume (for a day). :)

[pennilesscripple]

yay tees

thank you for helping spread the word

[torpedofish]

You will be happy to know that my wife's family (the one we primarily spend the holidays with) is adopting a family in Detroit in lieu of exchanging gifts amongst ourselves. So we will be shopping (not on Black Friday of course), but for people we don't know that need stuff more than we do.

[torpedofish]

When I say her family, I mean her ENTIRE family - aunts, uncles, grandparents included!

[pennilesscripple]

cool tf that sounds like it's gonna be fun

[torpedofish]

I hope so. We don't get to meet the family, but it's good to know we will help out people and don't have to lug a bunch of stuff to and from Michigan this year!

[davidaorta]

you missed one...

[pennilesscripple]

yeah?

[torpedofish]

You did miss one. :O

[davidaorta]

mhm... - :)

[pennilesscripple]

okay so i combed over it way too many times when i made it, and i just looked at it again....

*what* did i miss? :/

[torpedofish]

a "don't"

[pennilesscripple]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

yeah

ha i didn't double check that bit

it was maddening enough

ha ha thanks

well there is *always* something about every video...seems to be the way of it

[pennilesscripple]

well mr. smarty pants davidaorta

let's see how well *you* do on *your* next youtube spice girls collaboration

baby spice made me so damn nervous i hardly knew what i was doing

she scares me....

[davidaorta]

baby spice isn't scary... - scary spice is scary... - baby spice was the one with the nipple in her mouth... - the one that has to be burped every hour...

love,

smarty pank

[pennilesscripple]

skeeeeeeery

[DEATHINKING]

i would like to not get any more poison

toys & pet food from china.

[pennilesscripple]

i'll tell santa....

[BaronSCameron]

Short, sweet, and to the point. Wonderful as always!

[pennilesscripple]

aw baron

i'd thought you'd forgotten me

good to seeya

warms my heart

thanks for helping spread the word about friday among the masses

we should challenge each country's citizens to buy more nothing than any other country that day

(i'd put my money on the canadians or the aussies, with the yanks in last place)

[BaronSCameron]

How could I forget? How's the rest of the Scooby Gang?

[pennilesscripple]

don't ask.... :P

[BaronSCameron]

'nuff said, m'lady.

[dazedANDtruckin]

wow, i think i was brainwashed into thinking that. Is it the same for plastic cups too? wouldn't glass or clay would be more biodegradable?

i wont foget! I hardly buy anything everyday! i'm jobless. but ill definatly spread the word. i tried to make a video response to you but it wouldn't work. sry :(

[pennilesscripple]

yes glass and clay are much friendlier substances than plastic...glass stays around for a very long time, but it's not toxic. clay or baskets would be more in harmony with the earth than either.

i'm sorry about the video response (my loss). and yeah almost every day is buy nothing day for me too. thanks for spreading the word, dazed. :)

[Boucrate]

Great short vid.. About I don't want..Cool.

[cookingupastory]

This is an easy one to support.

Let's see, what I really don't want...any more killing, any more hatred, any more 'things' that tend to get thrown away after their newness wears off and lie dormant in landfills.

[pennilesscripple]

me neither

yeah everyone talks about what they can 'do' to save the planet

well really a good place to start would be to look at the things we can stop doing

we could all use a little rest, anyhow.....

[lapislazuline]

Buy nothing day,that used to be called "sunday" wasn,t it?

[pennilesscripple]

aww yeah lapis. regardless of the institution of religion, we all need a day of rest. sundays used to be so quiet...

not to mention...remember when stores closed at night?

[cookingupastory]

I remember those days! Wasn't it 7/11 who started the 24 hour store? I remember when their hours actually were 7a-11p, and my Dad would go out and get some ice cream for us at 8 at night. At the time, it was very special.

[pennilesscripple]

who started the 24 hour store?

greedmongers

[cookingupastory]

Agreed.

[8rf]

Day of rest is normal in jewish religion. It is good to do that. It is good to make a tradition out of it. But, maybe.. when you are taking that day of rest... hm... do something construcive and PLANT A TREE:

[lapislazuline]

stores used to close at night and half days on wednesday it was awful you had to read or talk to your friends and family or take up a hobby and maybe even think independently

[pennilesscripple]

thank god things are better now

life was so boring without malls....

[alphaba2]

I don't want any of those drugs on tv with all those possible side effects, or an rv trailer, or a bow and arrow set. So I won't buy any of those or anything else on Friday.

[pennilesscripple]

good choices, alphaba. not buying pharmaceuticals would be an excellent start. we might get our souls back. and then...god knows...we might even start taking care of the earth and each other again.....

one can dream.....

[8rf]

+++not buying pharmaceuticals+++

this is really...

some people have disease, you know?

[ReliableInsider]

There are some people who are like *so* funny. They go to, like, the grocery store or a farm or something and they buy vegetables that are really, really fresh and then they come home and they don't even put them in the fridge. They just chop them up and make dinner. And then the next day they start all over again.

So they always have, like, totally fresh, delicious food.

It's psycho!

[alphaba2]

Loved it!

[pennilesscripple]

yeah they're insane, the lot of them

i wonder why they hate freedom....

[8rf]

You see, It is not really about "NOT" buying things. You must invent the system of living where people do not NEED any of this things. And, where people feel GOOD (powerful) about not needing and not wanting any of this crap.

Now, show that system to couple of ordinary people and you will get rock in the head. I say: different approach... because people will feel bad if they do not buy this things. They will feel depravation... and they should feel empowerment.

[pennilesscripple]

then use your energies to lift people up

not run them down

and stop shooting at the fire trucks

we already have a 'system' where people do not need any of these things. it's called 'life.'

[Loreleila]

You been watching my video? lol. I'll attach it....

[roodala]

The cool thing is, peace is free.

[pennilesscripple]

problem is we have neither peace nor freedom

[BIndeed]

theres a whole day dedicated to this... i buy nothing all the time... :)

[pennilesscripple]

yeah i know

like--make every day buy nothing day, eh?

but it's all about critical mass

plus i see it as practice for when we have a general strike to keep us out of war with iran

(such dreams....)

[FunToRelate]

good list of things not to buy. boo to excessive greed and reckless consumerism. however, i inherited some tupperware and so i don't have to buy it (but it really is pretty good stuff cause it lasts forever), and #19, the electric toothbrush-- i'm sorry, i can't part with my plaque busting sonic oral miracle, doctor's orders.

[pennilesscripple]

yes tupperware *does* last forever

that's the problem....

and while it's taking hundreds if not thousands of years to break down, it's leaching toxins into everything it comes into contact with

[dazedANDtruckin]

.. what are you suppose to keep food in?

[pennilesscripple]

tupperware was invented only about 50 years ago. people stored food just fine for eons and eons before that. just because a corporation tells you storing food in plastic (which never biodegrades and continues to toxify our planet in many ways) is the way things are done, doesn't mean that it is. the corporations love to create a 'need' where none exists and then brainwash people into accepting it.

[pennilesscripple]

i store my food in bowls with plates on them. when you don't hoard food, you don't need to store as much of it. squirrels store their food in trees. :o)

don't forget dazed--friday is buy nothing day!

[FunToRelate]

well, maybe those tupperware toxins will counteract the benzine and carcinogens we breath in from exhaust fumes everyday. i do applaud "don't buy anything day" -- i am so there not being a materialistic glutton! (still have a soft spot in my heart for tupperware tho)

[pennilesscripple]

well i think we all have sentimental associations with products, but if we knew the *true* costs of those products, i imagine that sentiment would quickly turn to revulsion.

plastic continues to fill our seas. we now have 6 times more phalates than plankton in the sea. we lose a million sea birds a year to plastic entanglement alone--that doesn't include the birds who die from ingesting it. the production of plastic is highly toxic as well.

and we keep making more of it.

[8rf]

+++plastic continues to fill our seas. we now have 6 times more phalates than plankton in the sea.+++

Who is throwing that plastic into the sea? Who is producing it?

People are producing it... and people, I mean: idiots are throwing it in the oceans. Who would you love to stop. I personally would like to stop the people that throwing the plastics into the sea.

[whocareswhatever]

re: #9...

...but bullshit is free!

and people hand it out so readily.

[pennilesscripple]

yeah you can get it for free but the really savvy pr men actually get people to pay for it in the form of newspapers and television....

[whocareswhatever]

true true

[pennilesscripple]

hello people who don't read the sidebar

please read the sidebar >>>>

[QuinnEGorges]

WORD. Hurrah for not buying any of that awful crap. Or anything at all.

I was actually about to send you a message, b/c it seemed like you had gone missing a bit. Glad to see you posting, and rock on.

[pennilesscripple]

thanks for thinking of me quinn

yeah i'm glad to be back

help spread the word about buy nothing day!

:)