How do we balance environmentally ethical consumerism with a healthy global economy.?

For instance. Everytime I eat asparagus it has come way down from Peru via 18 wheeler. That leaves a huge carbon footprint. Many say grow all your own vegetables. That solves the carbon problem but cuts out a means of subsistence for poor areas of Latin American countries. I’m well aware that many of the share croppers there receive unfair wages to begin with. But it seems that not buying their produce would impoverish them even more.

How do we solve this problem and balance commerce with eco-friendly consumerism?

Is it too late to try and grow my own vegetables for this year?

I have just bought a 4-tier mini greenhouse and would love to grow my own veg. Have I left it too late for this year? If not, what sort of containers should I use for such a 4-tier mini greenhouse (it has a protective cover)

Thanks in advance

There are something’s ONLY southerner’s know?

Willys cynical thought for the day;

Some of us learn from the mistakes of others; the rest of us have to be the fugging others!

Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption fit, and that you don’t “HAVE” them, you “PITCH” them.

Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc., make up “a mess.”

Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of “yonder.”

Only a Southerner knows exactly how long “directly” is, … as in: “Going to town, be back directly.”

Even Southern babies know that “Gimme some sugar” is not a request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.

All Southerners know exactly when “by and by” is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well.

Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who’s got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. If the neighbor’s trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin!

Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between “right near” and “a right far piece.” They also know that “just down the road” can be 1 mile or 20.

Only a Southerner, both knows and understands, the difference between a redneck, a good ol’ boy, and po’ white trash.

No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.

A Southerner knows that “fixin” can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.

Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines… and when we’re “in line,” …. we talk to everybody!

Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they’re related, even if only by marriage.

In the South, y’all is singular, . all y’all is plural.

Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.

Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food; and that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food.

When you hear someone say, “Well, I caught myself lookin’,” you know you are in the presence of a genuine Southerner!

Only true Southerners say “sweet tea” and “sweet milk.” Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it — we do not like our tea unsweetened. “Sweet milk” means you don’t want buttermilk.

And a true Southerner knows you don’t scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just say, “Bless her heart” … and go your own way.

To those of you who are still a little embarrassed by your Southerness: Take two tent revivals and a dose of sausage gravy and call me in the morning. Bless your heart!

And to those of you who are still having a hard time understanding all this Southern stuff, … bless your hearts, I hear they are fixin’ to have classes on Southernness as a second language!

And for those that are not from the South but have lived here for a long time, all y’all need a sign to hang on y’alls front porch that reads “I ain’t from the South, but I got here as fast as I could!” Muaaa-ha-ha-ha-haha!

http://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/
From; Willys Jokes archives! Best jokes, anywhere!

My boyfriend is wonderful in most ways, but after 10 months is still insecure and controlling.?

We are actually semi engaged… We are now in love and living together. I work 3 days, 2 nites, and off 2 days. Last nite was very busy at work, , we close at 9, then have 1/2 hour to 1 1/2 side work, (I’m a waitress). So I got home around 10:30. I see him out on the porch waiting, frowning. I open the car door, he says hi, and is obviously not in a happy mood. The stage is set for me to get angry at this attitude. I try to avoid a conflict, come in smiling, although tired, saying what a good nite I had; I made great $; did some shopping earlier on the way to work; look what I bought your mother for Christmas… I was just coming home from work in a good mood. Well, he (still not speaking, yet frowning) looks at his watch and says yea, but look what time it is !!!!!!!!!!!! This isn’t the first time we’ve had this kind of confrontation, and It really infuriates me! He had 2 previous relationships in which he was treated badly, cheated on, ripped off, etc., but so have I, and who hasn’t by the time we are 40-50? Anyway, I am very independent, I don’t “need” him, even though he treats me like a queen. I can support myself very well, pay my own bills, know quite well how to make my own coffee and wash dishes, open my own car door, etc.. (I think it is very sweet for him to do these things for me, and he enjoys it). I’m not totally able to do carpenter work or electrical, or plumbing, but can pay to have it done if I was living alone and needed it done. (I own my own house, he owns his, but we like mine better.) From the start, he was possessive, tried to control me and I broke up with him a few times because of it. I let him know he does not own me. I am me, and he is him! I do what I want, and I “want” to be with him. But I don’t HAVE to be! Little things I do, like choose to bring a buggy into wal-mart from outside instead of getting one when I enter, bother him. Buying a box of Christmas cards for the 23 people I work with bothered him, becuz he wouldn’t do that… Little things that make me be me, he gives me these disapproving looks, which really make me mad. A few months ago I wrote a list of pros and cons i feel about him. There were like 10 pros, just 4 cons. He vowed to change the cons, which were to do with being possessive and controlling, insecure, jealous… And he does try! I’m just not sure how long I can wait for him to master it. Last nite, I felt I’d rather come home to only my dog, (my kids are grown and gone), than to come home to someone who is mad at me AGAIN for nothing. He says he’s not mad, but doesn’t know what to call it. Anyway I marched into my room took my bubblebath, and got in my bed, all with my door closed cuz then I WAS mad. He slept on the couch.
Oh, he is also uncomfortable when we are around other people, even family, and I think it’s becuse it takes my attention from him. He has been jealous of my time with my neice when she came to visit, also my daughter who lives in NC! and came for a visit, We had gone to visit her, and he stuck to me like glue, when he could have been out with her husband doing man stuff, EX: working on the barn, building something in his shed… Any ideas how I can help him get over this nonsense? We have been thru this so many times now. I really do love him, for many reasons. But it is to the point that I can almost predict what will happen when I do one of many things in routine life. I have never given him any reason to distrust me. If I wanted someone else I would first get rid of him! I am not a cheater! (And neither is he!)
HELP?

I made a list of different Types of Girls i made up , Where do I find girls who are type 5.?

I do not despise any of the following people, and i do not think any type of person is better than another one.
(1) One type of individual is one who likes to constantly bring up the past and or most of their conversation seems to be focused on “what people said or did” in the past tense. But i understand this, i mean alot of conversation stems from what people did or said in past. For example: A young woman or girl might talk about what some guy or other girl did at a party last week. There is nothing wrong with this, its just that there are a number of people who only talk about what people did (like where they went) and what they said for hours at a time.

(2) The other type of person is the person who likes to hear themselves talk and they may often repeat what they had already said a number of time
(3) The other type of person is who who says the same things and have nothing different to say about anyone or anything
(4) The other type of person is one who will talk about certain things that are going on in the world like politics or government, educational things
(5) The other type pf person will talk about anything or things not related to the past or past events or what people said or did in the past. THis means that they may talk about things like gardens, sports, how they go from one direction to another like whats the easiest route, what the weather is, or they may explain something . like they may explain a particular technique like a dancing technique a tennis swing technique, or they may talk about certain things like how they feel. LIke how they feel about the government , or how they feel about life or what they would like to do in the future. This is different from just talking about WHAT PEOPLE said or did at a party or event. And this is different than just talking about relationships like who broke up last week and so forth.
My question is “What type of places would i meet the kind of females who dont just talk about relationships and what someone did or said at a party or event, etc? What are some names of clubs these girls would be in. Also are grocery stores a good idea to meet a girl? Where do people who meet the 5th type category shop, where do these females go? How come i only see and come across girls who are like 1-4 and not 5 type.

How can Satan tempt us?

There is one thing I do not understand about the Christian concept of ‘Hell’ and ‘Satan’. I think I may be missing something.

I once asked a question that went like this: ‘We can go to Hell if we do not worship God properly, whether we try to or not. We must be sincere. However, if we worship Satan, it is definite that we will go to Hell – so surely it is better to worship Satan, since we please him by doing his bidding against the God he dislikes and he gives us special treatment in Hell?’

I got a good answer from a Christian, which I chose as best. It went like this: ‘Satan does not rule Hell. God does. God created Hell as a prison for Satan, and people who fall from God fall into Hell to burn alongside Satan in this prison. Satan cannot influence your time in Hell, for he is a prisoner alongside you.’

I accepted this as an answer to my question… until I realised something.

Another question many ask is ‘Why does God tempt us if he is just?’ (Making us able to feel lust etc) and many Christians will answer ‘God does not tempt you. That is the work of Satan. It is easy to use your free will to deny what Satan does to tempt you’

It is also said in the Bible that Satan tempted mankind in the garden, which caused our fall.

But how does that make sense? I thought God made Satan a prisoner in Hell, so how can he still tempt us if he is this prisoner? Unless God WANTS Satan to tempt us – but that would mean that by proxy God is tempting us, and then we go back to the ‘evil, unjust God’ thing. If God does not like Satan tempting us, then why didn’t he make this ‘prison’ properly? Even with Satans free will, the prison would stop him from tempting us, surely, if Satan could not manipulate things?

So how does it all work?

Who tempts us if God made Hell as a prison for Satan, and Satan is a prisoner?
Why shouldn’t we worship Satan if he can TRUELY manipulate things and is not in a prison? (We would be guarenteed a ‘good’ after life if Satan could manipulate Hell, or our feelings and thoughts, and we did Satans bidding)

As a note: I am NOT a Satanist and never will be. This is just something I am extremely confused about. I will add additional information to this question if answers from you spurt more questions from me, because I want to understand – so please check back if you really want to help me understand this.
My question was answered by a couple of you. Thank you. I am satisfied for now.

However, I am NOT satisfied with ‘Satan tempts, God tests’. That’s ridiculous. If God lets Satan tempt, then he is letting Satan tempt innocent people. Testing would also suggest an UNJUST God – since he is supposed to be all-knowing.

But thank you to those who made sense.

Do muslims agree with the quran?

With what the quran says

Quran:

Have sex with your women whenever and as often as you like. 2:223
# Women have rights that are similar to men, but men are “a degree above them.” 2:228
# A woman is worth one-half a man. 2:282
# Marry of the women two, or three, or four. 4:3
# Males are to inherit twice that of females. 4:11
# Lewd women are to be confined to their houses until death. 4:15
# You may not forcibly inherit women, unless they flagrantly lewd. 4:19
# Instructions for exchanging wives 4:20
# “All married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess.” You can’t have sex with married women, unless they are slaves obtained in war (with whom you may rape or do whatever you like). 4:24
# Men are in charge of women, because Allah made men to be better than women. Refuse to have sex with women from whom you fear rebellion, and scourge them. 4:34
# Don’t pray if you are drunk, dirty, or have touched a woman lately. 4:43
# Women are feeble and are unable to devise a plan. 4:98
# They invoke in his (Allah’s) stead only females. 4:117
# A man cannot treat his wives fairly. 4:129
# “Unto the male is the equivalent share of two females.” 4:176
# When it’s time to pray and you have just used the toilet or touched a woman, be sure to wash up. If you can’t find any water, just rub some dirt on yourself. 5:6
# Lot offers his daughters to a mob of angel rapers. 11:78
# Lot offers his daughters to a mob of angel rapers. 15:71
# When the doom of Allah comes, pregnant women will suffer miscarriages, nursing mothers with forget their babies. 22:1-2
# You don’t have to be modest around your wives or your slave girls “that your right hand possess.” 23:6
# If you accuse an honorable women of adultery, be sure to bring four witness. Otherwise you will receive 80 lashes. 24:4
# A husband can accuse his wife of adultery with only one witness. 24:6
# Believing women must lower their gaze and be modest, cover themselves with veils, and not reveal themselves except to their husbands, relatives, children, and slaves. 24:31
# If Muhammad’s wives are good, Allah will give them “an immense reward.” 33:28-29
# The wives of Muhammad will be punished double for lewdness. (And that is easy for Allah.) 33:30
# The wives of Muhammad are not like other women. They must not leave their houses. 33:32-33
# When Allah or Muhammad decide that a man and a woman should marry, they must marry. 33:36
# Allah gave Zeyd to Muhammad in marriage. This was so that all Muslims would know that it’s OK to marry your adopted son’s ex-wife. 33:37
# Allah says it is lawful for Muhammad to marry any women he wants. 33:50-51
# If men must speak to Muhammad’s wives they must speak from behind a curtain. And no one must ever marry one of his wives. 33:53
# But it’s OK for Muhammad’s wives to talk with certain people. 33:55
# Women must cover themselves when in public. 33:59
# Those who “did wrong” will go to hell, and their wives will go to hell with them (no matter how they behaved). 37:22-23
# But the single-minded slaves of Allah will enjoy a Garden filled with lovely-eyed virgins. 37:40-48
# Female companions await those who enter the Gardens of Eden on the Day of Reckoning. 38:52
# Allah will reward faithful Muslims after they die with “fair ones with wide, lovely eyes.” 44:54
# Allah will reward those in the Garden with beautiful wives with wide, lovely eyes. 52:20
# Those who disbelieve in the afterlife give female names to angels. 53:27
# Allah will give those in the Garden women of modest gaze whom neither man nor jinn have touched before them. 55:56
# Allah will reward believing men with “fair ones” (beautiful women) in heaven. 55:71-72
# Those in the Garden will be attended by immortal youths with wide, lovely eyes. 56:17-23
# Allah made virgins to be lovers and friends to those on his right hand. 56:36-37
# Your wives and children are your enemies. They are to you only a temptation. 64:14-15
# Instructions for divorcing your wives. 65:1-6
# Allah’s rules for divorcing wives that have not yet reached puberty. 65:4
# Muhammad’s wives need to be careful. If they criticize their husband, Allah will replace them with better ones. 66:5
# The wives of Noah and Lot (who were both righteous) betrayed their husbands and are now in the Fire. 66:10
# Doom is about to fall on all disbelievers. Only worshippers (Muslims) and those who preserve their chastity (except with their wives and slave girls) will be spared from “the fires of hell” that are “eagar to roast.” 70:1-30
# You don’t have to be chaste around your wives or your slave girls. 70:29-30
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the sheep and the goats?

when was the last time you had to go into hospital for treatment?
if you were seriously ill but were looked after until you were better, did you feel grateful to the people who made you better?
i’m sure you have heard people say i am really grateful to someone because they helped me when i was down….the entire human family is down in a literal sense ever since the rebellion in the garden of eden.
because of the unwise choice adam and eve made in disobeying god
in eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, they lost their physical perfection along with the prospect of living forever and instead they inherited imperfection and along with that was sin which brought death to them.
and because they were no longer perfect and now under the sentence of death, they passed that onto us their children.
now thats where our creator stepped in on our behalf by transferring his first born son (who we now know was and is jesus) into the womb of mary who gave birth to him and when it was the appointed time jesus went to be babtised and then he began preaching and telling people to repent, learn the truth about god, get babtised and join in with the preaching campaign.
now there are many organizations today that preach to people but
jesus mentioned when he was on earth that there would be religious imposters that would rise up in order to mislead people.
and there would also be the genuine christians who are loyal and faithful to jesus and the first century christians.
now we are living in modern day times, who would you say are the ones that are loyal and faithful and which ones are the imposters?
if you have found the genuine christians, would you be willing to learn the truth about god and jesus and dedicate your life to god and there after live to do his will which is to preach the good news of gods kingdom?
would you be willing to change any bad habits that go against gods standards in order to be acceptable to god?
or are you more used to setting your own standards as to what is right and wrong?
remember the fatal error of adam and eve who decided to go against what they were told was wrong…and with that thought in mind, would you say it is wise or unwise to obey god?
also what would you say prevents you from being humble and submitting to our creator?
is it pride?
fear?
a lack of humility?
a feeling that you are signing your lives away?
the thought of no longer setting your own standards?
sooner or later we will all have to make a decision
because jehovahs witnesses have long been warning us of gods soon to come adverse judgement against the corrupt system with live under.
the bible clearly states that all of us who fail to obey gods witnesses
will be destroyed as well as those of us that dont know god.
only those that do obey and know god will be spared.
but more importantly is that the world empire of false religion (babylon the great) will be turned against by the political powers and destroyed.
we are living in the time of that fullfillment.
in that day gods true worshippers will be vidicated because they are the only ones that preach and warn people of that.
the bible also says that once false religion has be removed, the political powers will turn against jehovahs witnesesses
but that will prove to be a fatal error because thats when god almighty will respond on his worshippers behalf and that is the day described as armedgedon.
so basically everyday is a chance for all of us to as it were turn around and bring our lives into harmony with gods requirements because the afore said things without fail will occur and if we are not ready we wont survive.
now is the time for us to sober up and take it seriously.
and i can tell you that to do so is not easy
because we as people are so used to doing things our own way
which makes obedience to god through his people a real challenge
because we find that pride often gets in the way.
we tend to say, who are you to tell me what to do?
or i’ll do things my way!
or i dont want to change!
everyday i struggle to come to terms with the fact that if i wish to survive armedgeddon, i need to submit to do gods will.
that seems to be something none of us want to do.
would you do it?
sorry sirensong
i wrote far too much
but i’m grateful for your advice.
yes geordie
sorry, i tend to write far too much, thats a fault i have yet to overcome.
i guess i’m just bubbling over with concern from what i have learnt and i just want to do my bit in order to inspire people to at least listen to what gods people are trying to say to us.
sirensong
thanks for at least being open and honest with your thoughts at present.

and in regard to there being no evidence of god,
the evidence is you and i and the universe and everything in it.
remember too that god is a spirit which is invisible therefore he cannot be seen with the human eye
also the bible says that humans cannot see god and remain alive in the same way bright lights force us to look away or squint.
you cant see me but you know i exist because i am writing to you
and i know you exist because you responded to me.
god has written to us via his word the bible.