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Do You Have The Skills To Live In A Post Technology World?
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[quote:hankie:MV81MjM4Njk5Xzk2NDg3NDE4XzdDRTAxOEQy] The early part of my life was living in a world without technology or electricity, we didn't have water running into the house so, do understand I have more ideas to make life more comfortable even without technology. Reading and storytelling were a good part of our lives. It helped bring the family time together in a fun way. What do I know now, finding water and moving it without electricity, knowing how to build batteries, how to charge the batteries, oh there is a lot I know now that I didn't then. Knowing how to weave cloth, knowing how to make a thread that is needed to make the cloth, how to find plants and hair to make the thread to make the weaver turn the thread into the cloth. I learned to run sewing machines without electricity and how to make a foot peddle to turn the wheel to cause all the parts of the sewing machine to sew the cloth and use more of the thread to make some clothing for people to wear or fix some hole that got worn, using the same thread on the sewing machine. Now, I have to figure out how to make a push-peddling car large enough and easy enough for anyone to run the same. I think the child in me still dreams a little dream. Of course, using bicycle fast tires and fixing a good frame electric or gas motor and batteries will work in a pinch. Never say never and never go caveman, unless you just have to. I do know how to make plant-based gas ethanal, it is not as if I didn't tell the story about my uncle taking a drink and giving his car a drink also, it kept it running. I told this story many years ago on this very forum. [/quote]
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Not simply skills to survive but also, skills to thrive.
I’ve always had a passion for learning how to do/make things from scratch. I don’t just want to know how to bake bread. I want to grind my own flour and grow my own grain. I don’t just want to sew, crochet and knit. I want grow, process and spin my own fiber and weave my own cloth.
Use technology now, learn as much as you can of skills that have been (nearly) lost.
BTW, has anyone watched any basket weaving tutorials? I want to learn that next!
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