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Anthropologist or Survivalist?

I had interesting conversation with my sister Maja today. After telling her I want to learn how the knotted (Persian) carpets are made (our father used to make wool carpets) she said I am really an anthropologist. I was thinking I was more of survivalist.. 

My definitions:

anthropologist = smoking weed with natives
survivalist = making your own spear
anthropologist = making an atlatl (spear thrower)
survivalist = collecting right weeds

go figure, there is an overlap!


by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 08, 2014
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My favorite quotations..


“A man should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”  by Robert A. Heinlein

"We are but habits and memories we chose to carry along." ~ Uki D. Lucas

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