Sertab
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Coping
How do you think you would cope without the following things?
Telephone of any kind
Internet
TV
Light
Radio
Basically everything we take for granted these days?
Apart from that have to gone through a a day minimum or more without with one or more of the above, how did it make you feel or cope?
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9/4/2008, 5:51 pm
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Pastor Rick
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Re: Coping
I used to do that about 6 times a year, three day camping trip with friends to different parts of Texas and Oklahoma 
The only real pain was the first day when you wonder what is going on and have no way of finding out (unless you hiked back up to the parking areas where we had the phones).
Normally we had a designated person who was allowed to make that hike twice a day just to make sure no emergencies had cropped up but other than that it was what you brought with you.
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9/4/2008, 10:20 pm
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Morwen Oronor
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Re: Coping
We used to go camping when the kids were young before we had cellphones and without all the mod cons and we thoroughly enjoyed it. But also we've had times, especially earlier this year, if you will remember that our lights were off 4 times a week for 4-hour stretches. And when we had floods in May, we didn't have running water for 2 days.
Most Africans don't have any of the stuff Sertab mentioned and they cope just fine. In fact until fairly recently my domestic didn't have a phone and she still uses candles for light and has to bucket water to her house from a communal tap. They have pit toilets and one-room houses. They like the way that we live but they don't think it is really necessary. So yes, if you have to your can cope.
I can't imagine myself not have all that stuff now though.
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9/4/2008, 11:36 pm
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Sertab
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Re: Coping
Hmmm so you have in a minor sortof way gone through these interesting 
I have never had to deal with most of those thing until I went back hom to the village I come from and this was around in the 1980's.
There I remember the
The toilet being a good 10minues away from the actual hose fr obvious reasons and it was just a hole
If late at night you wanted to go, well what can I say you either braved it or as most did you stepped a few feet away from the roof of the house and did what you need to there. I alway went with my mum of course. There were wild animals which included bears and wolfs and some times you could here them and it was freaky.
There was no light, so the light that was you used from oil that was burn in a hand held lamp like you see those old films. If you were in one house going to another is was a little scarey but we had lots of lovely extended family who always helped
There was no tv so if you gathered around a table there we had to findown entertainment which included someoe playing 'saz' look for a imag to see how that will give you an idea, to difficult to explain here
No running water, water if not daily ever other day was carried in from the main water resource in the middle of the village in buckets and large bottles
Since there was no water then there was no hot water which was boiled usualy every few days if you wanted to bath
No proper functioing kitchen, food was cooked over open fire (think of old films to get the idea). Washing you bent over several warmed up water in large bowles and did it that way
Basically list goes on
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9/5/2008, 1:30 am
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Morwen Oronor
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Re: Coping
Yep sounds like what most of our population live with.
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9/5/2008, 2:47 am
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Petal Alderin
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Re: Coping
We would simply do what we have to do I suppose Sertab, and get on with things. We've often gone without all those things and life goes on ... maybe now that we're so used to them we get irritated and frustrated but we survive.
And then we would do other things like catch up on reading, visit friends more rather than just chatting on the phone to them, sing out loud to make our own music, have dinner by candlelight more often etc. When we go to the game reserve we live such a simple uncomplicated life and it's great!
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9/5/2008, 2:51 pm
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Morwen Oronor
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Re: Coping
Before all the mod cons that we take for granted people did do everything by candlelight in the evenings, food was cooked in open ranges in big kitchens and in big houses there were lots of servants to see to everyone's comfort.
You made your own entertainment, with music, reading, playing cards, chess etc. And friends came over for weekend parties which included long morning rides, shooting, walks, lawn games and late breakfasts and dinners cooked by large numbers of servants.
I guess if you didn't imagine the modcons, you made do with what you had.
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9/5/2008, 4:51 pm
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Pastor Rick
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Re: Coping
I actually miss a lot of the group entertainment we had before "becoming civilized." Now days everyone just seems in such a rush they seldom take or find time to just relax and hang out together *sigh*
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9/6/2008, 10:50 pm
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Petal Alderin
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Re: Coping
All the mod cons are supposed to make our lives easier and save time, and they do - back in the days before calculators and computers all books were kept "by hand" for example, in huge ledgers etc, and columns of figures were added mentally, which took a lot longer than it does today.
But there seemed to be more time for other things in those days than there is today. The pace of life is so fast and frenetic, and so we just do more in a day than we used to!
Those who work in offices here, paricularly those who have to travel into the city, are leaving home earlier and earlier all the time to beat the heavy traffic on the freeways, and getting home later and later each night after work. They're tired, have strung out nerves, and by the time they've cooked a meal and caught up on household chores there's no time left in the evening to simply relax and talk to each other because the whole cycle needs to start again early next morning. It's like some sort of crazy carousel that they can't jump off, and priorities seem to be different in their lives than it was back in the complicated but actually uncomplicated times.
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9/6/2008, 11:19 pm
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Erika E
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Re: Coping
Not sure how id cope without Runboard. 
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9/7/2008, 4:29 pm
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