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Moonbat Letter to the Editor
http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/letters/wb/165466 ^ | Seth Leonard

Posted on 06/12/2008 10:10:01 PM PDT by Looking4Truth

Working toward a world without work

We have an assumption in America that work is good regardless of what work you are doing. Often the work we do is damaging to the environment, establishing wage slavery in the developing world, supporting war or some combination.

The Hopi have prophesied World War III, and now you see why. Truthfully, our economic system should be gearing us, and in cooperation with the rest of the world, to a work-free life.

There is no reason intrinsically that we need to work a 60-hour week only to discover that we are actually promoting WW III by our work.

Imagine a workday that was designed, once and for all, to sustain the lives of everyone in the world so that we didn't have to work anymore? That is the real goal.

We should be gearing up for a life of personal fulfillment of our passions, not just rote labor. Eventually, even maintenance will be passe.

We could then live in harmony with the environment, benefiting with one another worldwide. Right now we are simply the slaves we allow ourselves to be. Imagine that day of freedom and utopia all over the world. Viva solar panels!

SETH LEONARD BLACKSBURG


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Read this in the local paper today and had to share it. Blacksburg, VA is where Virginia Tech is located. I wonder if this guy happens to be a student who smoked too much weed, wrote this and hit 'send' before coming down. Just some wild speculation on my part, that's all. Enjoy.
1 posted on 06/12/2008 10:10:01 PM PDT by Looking4Truth
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To: Looking4Truth
Viva solar panels!

Which just fall off the solar panel tree.

2 posted on 06/12/2008 10:15:05 PM PDT by dighton
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To: dighton

maintenance will be passe? Who is going to do the maintenance on any equipment or machinery or even his solar panels when needed? Who will grow food, transport the food to his grocery store? We could go on and on; who is going to do the work of maintaining the infrastructure of his life in this utopian world of his?


3 posted on 06/12/2008 10:17:03 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Looking4Truth
Seth probably isn't smart enough to know it, but he's repeating the argument of a guy who said that exact thing about a hundred and fifty years ago. Man needs to create a society in which only that work necessary to advance it need be done and the rest of the time spent in total human actualization. Man must not be a slave to work. He must overthrow those who are making him so and bring to fruition a new, fulfilling world free from oppression and exploitation.

The guy's name was Karl Marx.

4 posted on 06/12/2008 10:17:27 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Looking4Truth

I wonder how many crayons he went through composing that letter.


5 posted on 06/12/2008 10:19:05 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Looking4Truth
SETH LEONARD SLACKBURG
6 posted on 06/12/2008 10:20:36 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Looking4Truth

This is your brain on weed...

No wait...even weed wouldn’t make you THIS stupid!


7 posted on 06/12/2008 10:21:38 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Looking4Truth

The Hopi also predicted that Seth would make an ass out of himself.


8 posted on 06/12/2008 10:24:46 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Ask me again tomorrow.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Truthfully, our economic system should be gearing us, and in cooperation with the rest of the world, to a work-free life. There is no reason intrinsically that we need to work a 60-hour week only to discover that we are actually promoting WW III by our work. Imagine a workday that was designed, once and for all, to sustain the lives of everyone in the world so that we didn't have to work anymore? That is the real goal. We should be gearing up for a life of personal fulfillment of our passions, not just rote labor. Eventually, even maintenance will be passe.
...[singing] on the Big Rock Candy Mountain...
9 posted on 06/12/2008 10:28:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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SETH LEONARD [comma] BLACKSBURG
Google

10 posted on 06/12/2008 10:30:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: Billthedrill
Yeah, the trouble with all the socialists plan's, and those of some tied into the computer/info age too, is failure to recognize that somebody still has to hit a lick, and actually work.

The socialists, like the filthy rich, want that to be someone else, someone nameless, faceless, out-of-sight. Servants who don't speak up, or speak back.

Realistically, in the physical realm, if it's not; farmed, mined (including all oil and mineral extraction), logged, or fished, IT DOESN'T EXIST. All other manufacturing basically relies upon the first basic three, with the last one being mainly for food.

The eco-marxists won't be happy until we are all reduced to grubbing with our hands. But they'll still think we should be forced to share all the grubs and insects we have gathered...

11 posted on 06/12/2008 10:39:47 PM PDT by BlueDragon (that's the thing;do you recognize the bell of truth when you hear it ring,c'mon and sing it children)
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To: SunkenCiv

I hadn’t thought of ‘googling’ him. Very interesting, indeed. No wonder I hate university towns.


12 posted on 06/12/2008 10:39:52 PM PDT by Looking4Truth (Leave it to some liberal dork to screw things up for the rest of us.)
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To: SunkenCiv
An Outmoded Economy Threatens Life

Seth Leonard, of Blacksburg, worked for about 10 years on poverty issues. He is now on disability and is a volunteer activist.

(sarc tag not required...)

13 posted on 06/12/2008 10:41:40 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks

LOL!


14 posted on 06/12/2008 10:46:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: Looking4Truth

He sounds like he’s a regular ball of fire. ;’)


15 posted on 06/12/2008 10:47:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: BlueDragon

/bingo


16 posted on 06/12/2008 10:50:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: BlueDragon
Realistically, in the physical realm, if it's not; farmed, mined (including all oil and mineral extraction), logged, or fished, IT DOESN'T EXIST. All other manufacturing basically relies upon the first basic three, with the last one being mainly for food.

Bears repeating.

17 posted on 06/12/2008 11:05:33 PM PDT by Looking4Truth (Leave it to some liberal dork to screw things up for the rest of us.)
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To: Fred Nerks

More from this moonbat:

” We all get the Bush side of 9/11. Why did Osama bin Laden initiate 9/11? Wikipedia helps here (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001_attacks ):

The fatwa states that the United States:

n Plunders the resources of the Arabian Peninsula.

n Dictates policy to the rulers of those countries.

n Supports abusive regimes and monarchies in the Middle East, thereby oppressing their people.

n Has military bases and installations upon the Arabian Peninsula, which violates the Muslim holy land, in order to threaten neighboring Muslim countries.

n Intends thereby to create disunion between Muslim states, thus weakening them as a political force.

n Supports Israel, and wishes to divert international attention from (and tacitly maintain) the occupation of Palestine.

You can see why frustration by Muslims mounted into the 9/11 attack.

Iraqi oil isn’t just an economic boon; that oil guarantees the owner the fuel for the mightiest military in the world.

The Bush administration is bloodthirsty for that power, and has already killed more than one-half million people.”

His bottom lineis that 9/11 was OK.


18 posted on 06/12/2008 11:12:13 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
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To: Looking4Truth
He is admittedly crazy, specifically schizophrenic!!!!

This is from a posting from another website:

“helping the street mentally ill

Dear BP,

I am an activist with a mental disorder, schizo-affective. I am appalled at the way mentally ill live in the streets because they are not a harm to self or other and they refuse medication (largely because they are delusional). My mother is a case in point and I would like to research law and legislation that currently exists and groups that are seeking to change these laws so that both civil rights are maintained and the mentally ill recieve medication as needed. If you have something to add to this conversation or you can point me to activists/laws that are pertinent I would love it. Thank you, Seth Leonard bf983@scn.org[o:)]”

He admits he is off the wall!

19 posted on 06/12/2008 11:19:00 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
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You can see why frustration by Muslims mounted into the 9/11 attack.

Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph had a long list of grievances too, but virtually no one on the Right defends them. This is one of the big differences between the mainstream Right and what has become the mainstream Left--the Left is always willing to "understand"/forgive horrific atrocities as long as they are committed in the name of the proletariat.

20 posted on 06/12/2008 11:22:13 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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