On 8/18/2012 10:27 AM, Robert Macy wrote:
On Aug 18, 4:29 am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
The question comes to my mind, how often does the power go out. Is it worth
eight grand, to have power? And will your neighbors be angry when they see
you have power, and they do not? Somtimes, it's not good to be well off
during a crisis.

Apologies for going a bit off topic here...

You've mentioned this attitude emanating from others before. It seems
a bit frightening to be surrounded by people who have an attitude of
"I don't want it, but you can't have it either."

To live civilly together, requires a certain amount of deference to
one's neighbor's. But, who raised these people to be so possibly
violently jealous of another? That you HAVE to continually 'live down
with the Joneses?'

I hesitate to add: Is it not written have they not read that it is
alright to benefit from one's labors?


A lot of it simply has to do with peoples attitudes. Some people just
don't like any difference or change and it has nothing to do with being
old because those same people were always like that.

There was a recent long thread like that on computer forum. Someone
mentioned a new computer and there were dozens of "my 10 year old
computer was the first one I had and it does everything that anyone
would ever need" responses.

There was another thread about GPS which are not really stupendous
luxury items where there were numerous "I never needed one and no one
needs one thread"