Too Bad This Treasure Site Has A Political Component

[Gare]

I left Facebroke 6 years ago to escape political commentary. I won't ever be joining what Facebroke has metastasized into, META. This site is the only social media I am part of. I'm nearly 65. I read books and still read newspapers. Haven't listened to a single podcast. I don't talk to imaginary assistants on my phone. I wish I could avoid artificial intelligence, whatever the hell that is.

This is a Treasure hunting site. When I'm out metal detecting in the woods, politics is far from my mind. Often, people in general are too. Well, I sometimes think about loyalists and revolutionaries, depressions and recessions, and how they relate to what I am finding in the ground. When I entered the hobby I bought American, a top of the line White's. Wish they would have modernized and stayed in the game.

I don't read the political sections here. In a nearly equally divided country, it's only bound to irritate. I sometimes think of leaving this site and searching for a purist treasure hunting site.

If you don't like this or any of our rules you CAN START your OWN !!! You do not speak for me .
No matter where you go in this world people speak there opinions

 

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[Eastender]

I can dislike some of the rules of this site and also not start my own treasure hunting site. I don't pretend to speak for anybody other than myself.

 

[lefemmenakita]

I left Facebroke 6 years ago to escape political commentary. I won't ever be joining what Facebroke has metastasized into, META. This site is the only social media I am part of. I'm nearly 65. I read books and still read newspapers. Haven't listened to a single podcast. I don't talk to imaginary assistants on my phone. I wish I could avoid artificial intelligence, whatever the hell that is.

This is a Treasure hunting site. When I'm out metal detecting in the woods, politics is far from my mind. Often, people in general are too. Well, I sometimes think about loyalists and revolutionaries, depressions and recessions, and how they relate to what I am finding in the ground. When I entered the hobby I bought American, a top of the line White's. Wish they would have modernized and stayed in the game.

I don't read the political sections here. In a nearly equally divided country, it's only bound to irritate. I sometimes think of leaving this site and searching for a purist treasure hunting site.

And yet your profile picture is an Inaugural button? Which is a nice find btw

 

[Auenone]

I left Facebroke 6 years ago to escape political commentary. I won't ever be joining what Facebroke has metastasized into, META. This site is the only social media I am part of. I'm nearly 65. I read books and still read newspapers. Haven't listened to a single podcast. I don't talk to imaginary assistants on my phone. I wish I could avoid artificial intelligence, whatever the hell that is.

This is a Treasure hunting site. When I'm out metal detecting in the woods, politics is far from my mind. Often, people in general are too. Well, I sometimes think about loyalists and revolutionaries, depressions and recessions, and how they relate to what I am finding in the ground. When I entered the hobby I bought American, a top of the line White's. Wish they would have modernized and stayed in the game.

I don't read the political sections here. In a nearly equally divided country, it's only bound to irritate. I sometimes think of leaving this site and searching for a purist treasure hunting site.

I'm 76, so if you can, insert your nearly 65 into that. I'm way behind in the technological aspect of the information age as they once called it. I read books and don't read newspapers as it's the same in any social media. I am reading a book on AI but need to constantly look up terms that are as foreign to me as hieroglyphics.

Mankind has been searching, and losing, for a purist anything. It doesn't exist. Where it does exist is in books from authors who don't quite have a grip on society. People that haven't developed an opinion are often drawn into such books.

It's an extremely conflicted world. Your political opinion is derived from many things: your parents, your teachers, whether you served in the military and many other interactions with various diverse groups and individuals. Like many have said here, you don't have to read political posts or anything else to do with politics. But the underlying principle in this nation is you have the ability to have a political opinion without being tried or shot for it. Mostly. There are many animals on each side of the road. A few flat squirrels in the middle that couldn't figure out which way to go.

 

[ARC]

Should I come here to also find baking advice or tips on fixing on my old Ford Explorer?

Sure... why not...
I think social platforms are also based on like "types" of people... not just "like minded".
Whatever works for your current interest is what you should focus on and like me just skip over all the rest.
Just like you would do when walking through a grocery store.
We stop and look at and OR buy into the things we like and pass by all the rest.
You are already doing it i am sure through life now.
Carry on.... as you were.

 

[Swaveab]

In my opinion----I dislike people who have to whine about everything, but I tolerate them. The OP needs to learn tolerance even at his age and I've got you beat in age. People tend to stay away from grumpy old men.

 

[Eastender]

In my opinion----I dislike people who have to whine about everything, but I tolerate them. The OP needs to learn tolerance even at his age and I've got you beat in age. People tend to stay away from grumpy old men.

I tend to stay away from young, irrational, impulsive people who don't respect their elders.

 

[Eastender]

It could, but it is treasure that I found. Thus, TreasureNet. Despite my ancestry being three quarters British of early US settler stock, I clearly side with the original patriots.

 

[ARC]

This thread topic is beginning to make me...... ***YAWN***......... no... um....
Is beginning to make me wonder deeper than i would like.

Relax....
its only another website full of lots of everything... stuff ya like... and stuff that ya wont.
IF the like side outweighs the dislike side...
Then stick around... we would love to have ya.

 

[Eastender]

This thread topic is beginning to make me...... ***YAWN***......... no... um....
Is beginning to make me wonder deeper than i would like.

Relax....
its only another website full of lots of everything... stuff ya like... and stuff that ya wont.
IF the like side outweighs the dislike side...
Then stick around... we would love to have ya.

I know, shouldn't have touched the subject. But an interesting observation. This political/non-politcal post has garnered far more interest than my 5 years of metal detecting treasure finds. And I have found many nice things. We used to go to a sporting goods store to finds the best sporting goods. It was better than going to a generalist department store. Now we get everything at Amazon. This is my Amazon of social media.

 

[Blackfoot58]

Well, I’ve posted a few pizza photos and I’ve seen others do so as well.
We build camaraderie on this site.
Doctors don’t always talk about medicine. They talk about golf, travel, etc. It is proof that they are multi-faceted people.
The same for those of us who populate TNet. We grow as a community. We are saddened when one of our own is met with adverse health, weather, etc. We take joy in each other’s successes. Our common purpose(s) are the impetus to join initially (treasure hunting). The bonds we later develop keep us coming back.
(My opinion) ✌️

 

[ARC]

Hey......and for anyone not tuned in here...
just in case you dont already know..... i started a thread for Random crap here that has everything from what someone ate.... vacation pics.... to finds that actually get seen to just plain absurdness and everything in-between.
It IS the hottest thread on this site and has been for a very long time.

Its called The Random Chat Thread... aka... the RCT... And..... there is nothing political there.... so....
My point is...
It rarely has anything to do with detecting.... but yet... IS the hottest thread on this site.
So... just goes to show in a manner of speaking.... how a sites content can vary from its intended purpose yet be something as well.

 

[Eastender]

Well, I’ve posted a few pizza photos and I’ve seen others do so as well.
We build camaraderie on this site.
Doctors don’t always talk about medicine. They talk about golf, travel, etc. It is proof that they are multi-faceted people.
The same for those of us who populate TNet. We grow as a community. We are saddened when one of our own is met with adverse health, weather, etc. We take joy in each other’s successes. Our common purpose(s) are the impetus to join initially (treasure hunting). The bonds we later develop keep us coming back.
(My opinion) ✌️

True. Though I've never met up with anyone to go detecting with. Afraid of machine cross-talk. I've learned to not speak with my doctor because he bills me appropriately. I have been accused of being a grave robber when showing my metal detector finds. I calmly reply: "No sir, I am not a lawyer."

 

[Swaveab]

I tend to stay away from young, irrational, impulsive people who don't respect their elders.

Sorry, but I'm older than you and have better reading comprehension too.

 

[ARC]

Hey......and for anyone not tuned in here...
just in case you dont already know..... i started a thread for Random crap here that has everything from what someone ate.... vacation pics.... to finds that actually get seen to just plain absurdness and everything in-between.
It IS the hottest thread on this site and has been for a very long time.

Its called The Random Chat Thread... aka... the RCT... And..... there is nothing political there.... so....
My point is...
It rarely has anything to do with detecting.... but yet... IS the hottest thread on this site.
So... just goes to show in a manner of speaking.... how a sites content can vary from its intended purpose yet be something as well.

but... i would think it out of place if it were the political threads being the most popular ...

 

[DizzyDigger]

When it comes to a "social life", I spend my time here on TNet and one other forum site (archery related) that I have been a member of for 26 years. Even though you've never met them, you can get to know people quite well over time.

The two subjects I avoid religiously are politics and religion. I know a great deal about one, and not so much about the other. Both subjects are social plagues that can do far more damage than good, IMO, and nobody you might engage in a discussion with on the interwebz is going to change their minds.

The same for those of us who populate TNet. We grow as a community. We are saddened when one of our own is met with adverse health, weather, etc. We take joy in each other’s successes. Our common purpose(s) are the impetus to join initially (treasure hunting). The bonds we later develop keep us coming back.

Could not have been said any better.

 

[Eastender]

Sorry, but I'm older than you and have better reading comprehension too.

The latter part may be a bold statement, but I'm not going to read into it. And I've never had to wear glasses. Yet.

 

[Eastender]

When it comes to a "social life", I spend my time here on TNet and one other forum site (archery related) that I have been a member of for 26 years. Even though you've never met them, you can get to know people quite well over time.

The two subjects I avoid religiously are politics and religion. I know a great deal about one, and not so much about the other. Both subjects are social plagues that can do far more damage than good, IMO, and nobody you might engage in a discussion with on the interwebz is going to change their minds.




Could not have been said any better.

I hope no one asks me for a loan over here.

I feel that my life has also been a spiritual quest. I've traveled to where the Buddha was born and achieved enlightenment in India and Nepal. I've spent two weeks watching the bodies burn and being tossed in the Ganges at Varanasi (Benares). For my 23rd birthday, I visited every significant Buddhist stupa in the Kathmandu Valley. I lived in the walled city of Jerusalem for a month, visiting Islam's third holiest site at the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque, Christianity's holiest site at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and of course the Wailing Wall. On Christmas Eve I walked from Jerusalem to Bethlehem and back for mass at the Church of the Nativity. When I left Nairobi, Kenya after my second stint living there (thought to be the cradle of humanity), I tried to fly directly to Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage. At the Saudi Embassy they asked me if I was a true believer. I truthfully answered no so they denied me a visa. Here in the states I served as firekeeper for a Lakota Sioux Medicine Man, who for some time ran a sweat lodge. I had to build the structure, gather the rocks, start and tend the fire and water. Lastly, I successfully raised two children, which was more than test of patience.

 

[Eastender]

I'm 76, so if you can, insert your nearly 65 into that. I'm way behind in the technological aspect of the information age as they once called it. I read books and don't read newspapers as it's the same in any social media. I am reading a book on AI but need to constantly look up terms that are as foreign to me as hieroglyphics.

Mankind has been searching, and losing, for a purist anything. It doesn't exist. Where it does exist is in books from authors who don't quite have a grip on society. People that haven't developed an opinion are often drawn into such books.

It's an extremely conflicted world. Your political opinion is derived from many things: your parents, your teachers, whether you served in the military and many other interactions with various diverse groups and individuals. Like many have said here, you don't have to read political posts or anything else to do with politics. But the underlying principle in this nation is you have the ability to have a political opinion without being tried or shot for it. Mostly. There are many animals on each side of the road. A few flat squirrels in the middle that couldn't figure out which way to go.

True that. Maybe it would be less confusing for me if the site was named TreasureX, MetaTreasure, TreasureFace, TreasureSpace, or BlingBang. You're right, purist is too strong of a word. I should have said "somewhere in the ballpark" of treasure hunting.

Someone here said there is more to metal detecting that swinging a coil and digging a hole. I agree and would love to discuss.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Thread is now closed due to politics, and before it causes further problems and gets members in trouble.