Feeling weird - Page 2

I was bidding on eBay auctions and checking in here now and then.

I was thinking about the term "happy camper" and thinking about how many were not happy campers as much as they would like to be.

It's raining outside and I'm done bidding on the eBay auctions I was watching. I won 3 of them near my top bid. I bid a price that I feel is right and what my hobby budget can handle.

But anywho, I was thinking about the happy camper meaning and still wondering WHY so many try the short cuts to what they believe they want out of life.

I'm still much the same as I was when I was 4 years old. That's when I started getting a GOOD idea of HOW this world worked.

I would watch the others from baby to one foot in the grave and learned many things.

I've always been interested in knowledge and greater learning as that was where the deep answers lay.

I analyze most everything in great detail. It can be like a curse as I know what might be in my food and the other items I use.

I was putting some thought into just HOW the ones that run things get the sheeple to follow the feed bucket.

In the 70's the gas crises was a scam that worked out well as it got the sheeple to be comfortable with the small cheap throw away cars that they wanted the sheeple to want.

HOW do you get people to want a much less safer vehicle that is cheap to produce want it?



A gas crises was the answer.

While people were waiting in line to buy over priced gas the refineries gave their workers 2 weeks off as the site was FULL.

I was hauling Propane for awhile as it paid well and I remember being 125th in line waiting until they sent the fuel down the pipeline. I was laying in my sleeper watching a small TV and saw that on the local news they claimed that there was PLENTY of fuel, but NOT ENOUGH TRUCKS TO HAUL IT.

Ha Ha I thought as that is what the farmers wanted to hear more then the FACT that they were holding the fuel back untill they got the price where they wanted it.

The world around us is mostly a illusion that keeps going as most want that santa easter bunny state of mind.

I understand very clearly WHY most are saddened by what I post most times. Been seeing it all my life. People want someone else to do the hard thinking while they day dream about other things that help them to try and escape the reality and truth that's a bummer, simply put.

The governments control the media and most all else.

The president and a few other top leaders knew that Japan was going to bomb Pearl Harbor. So they got all the good ships out and safely away and left the "junk" behind.

It worked and the U.S. was IN THE WAR.

I remember these things as it is like a computer that doesn't have any virus. It can figure out most anything if it has enough information and a red flag system for the spam and programing.

I have no interest in being a borg or zombie, but seems that such concepts are very popular with those with lazy day dreaming thinking.

Buy one and get one free...

Now ... forum etiquette suggests that one should ignore the offending post and politely try to steer the conversation back on track.

Not very good at this but i'll give it a shot.

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I've noticed that interest in what's in the metals pile at work has really increased now that the weather has warmed up. Folks are spring cleaning and the size of the pile keeps growing by leaps & bounds. There must be eight or ten scrappers coming through every day to check out what's there.

What a mess. The scrappers get in each other's way and block off the area so the customers can't get in to drop off their scrap metal.

I called in the metals recycling company to haul off a couple of eighteen wheeler loads but they haven't shown up yet. The pile gets harder to trend every day once it grows to a certain size. Last year was a PITA because it took 8 full truckloads to clean the area up at the end of the summer/fall season.

Got that weird feeling?

As for off topic.

It's a vague vague world where up is down and left is right and the sky is purple or what ever people choose to believe.

As for scrappers, it's gotten out of hand as so many want to believe it's a EA$Y way to make some cash.

You get out of something what you put into it.

If I was watching those scrappers I would be wondering what was going through their thoughts as they looked for something of value.

I go down and talk with the scrappers when i can get away sometimes. Part of my job is to keep a close eye on everything that's going on down there. I can do that and still be friendly & sociable at the same time.

I think it's different things for different people. There's one woman that dresses as a man and does man's work. She claims to be into non-ferrous but she's not much of a scrapper. Tends to stare at the pile and spend quite a bit of time visually inspecting the ground for coins & little pieces of brass. Bit of an odd duck that one. Truth be told ... it's sometimes very peaceful down there. Got the whole zen vibe going on. I think it helps her find peace of mind.

I've got a couple of metal sculptors that work with scrap come through on a regular basis. Both are long term friends and well respected, successful, artists. One seems fairly wealthy. The other is very civic minded and does lots of community service work.

There's the lady in long pleated skirts & a wig that drives a sixty thousand dollar Denali SUV. I suspect shes a hoarder but don't really know her story. Always looking for something that could be re-used like a metal lamp.

Had an old friend looking for scrap iron last week so pulled a motor out of the pile and set it by for him. He's been out of work this winter because the automotive repair shop he was at closed. I think he was just looking to scratch up a few bucks with weight on the back of his truck.

Another young fulla is building a hot rod and pulled out the differential from an old Chevy Impala that had been sitting in a field for years.

Then ... there are the regular scrappers. It's pretty slim pickins if they're looking for easy money. To quote a wise man here on the forum: "Anyone who tells you that scrapping isn't hard work ain't doin' it right."

~ They will eventually figure it out. ~