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This is interesting.  I bet a lot of folks in our community can relate to this:


 
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I have never owned a TV. I suppose it's done more to instill a sense of freedom in me than any other choice I've made in life.
 
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I have owned several TVs and I am free to watch them or not watch them, depending on my whims.

Have you ever noticed when watching computer stuff on YouTube that it is very much like watching TV , except that we have a little more control over content and the ability to skip forward or back. When I first got a smartphone, one of the big selling features was that it works like a little TV sometimes.

My friend claims to not watch TV. She sometimes watches up to three movies in an evening binge. She watches these things on her TV

I have been part of these movie marathons, and haven't even tried to tell myself that I'm not watching TV.
 
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...and as John Prine says     "blow up your tv, throw away the paper, move to the country, build you a home.....plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches........"  

 
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Craig Dobbson wrote: This is interesting.  I bet a lot of folks in our community can relate to this: Humanity - Charles Bukowski & Alan Watts video.


I happen to be watching old alan watts videos lately...he has a lot to say that I can relate to and I think some permaculture type thinking.  Just passed on our Bukowski to our oldest son
 
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