mos6507 wrote:shortonsense wrote:The whole page is pretty shoddy when it comes to the scientific basis for any of this stuff
It doesn't have to be all about convincing people about doom.
True, if the goal is simply to use boogie men to scare people into agreeing with you. Religions have been doing it for millennia, nothing wrong with its use by Transition Towners I suppose. Doesn't seem to fit in with their stated, near altruistic purpose though. Next thing you know they'll expect you to divest yourself of all worldly possessions into their care, you'll be shaving your head, chanting in airports, wearing robes and giving up all your daughters in marriage to the head guy, and drinking spiked Koolaid on command.
Using the tools of religion to sell a particular low power lifestyle.....like I said....I don't like the trappings...
mos6507 wrote: Transition is not really meant to appeal to vehement deniers. It's meant to pull in people who were already worried about these issues but for one reason or another haven't quite put 2 and 2 together or felt they were alone in their town. Either these people "click" with the initial outreach or they don't.
Sheeple with preconceived notions in other words?
Someone with unease over economic times, or even a victim of them, seeing for the first time perhaps the obviousness of uncertainty in their life, and along comes a group with scary sounding words like peak oil and climate change, and then they set the hook....but we, WE know salvation!! Religions are never about thinking for one's self, and all about trying to drive a wedge into those little fears of uncertainty which most people ignore up to the day they die.
mos6507 wrote:If you are optimistic about the future, and you don't think anything about society needs to change that won't automatically change for the better on its own, then don't get involved. Or if TT bothers you so much, start your own TT-bashing group. It's a free country. Just don't expect it to go away just because you think it's irrelevant.
I don't expect it to go away or even care....until they show up at my doorstep like the Mormons, or my daughter has to be deprogrammed someday. Certainly I hold them no ill will, I don't discriminate against prepping of any type by anyone.