Skeptic Project

The Oklahoma chapter is holding it's first event at a boardwalk in Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 31st. We have about 6 volunteers from the chapter that is going to help out.

I have 250 Oklahoma chapter business cards and about 100 fliers. I do not have any DVDs that I can burn Zeitgeist Addendum onto, but I asked some of the volunteers if they wouldn't mind burning a few to hand out. We are going to be setting up a table with people handing out material and answering questions and everyone else will be walking around the boardwalk handing out materials and putting up fliers.

http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=99999&func=view&catid=263&id=274485#275880

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Dare me to crash it?

"we do not promote conspiracy theories, and we are not conspiracy theorists"

Yes I recomend burning off anti conspiracy theorist movies, title them zeitgeist and zeitgeist addendum and hand them out.

I went to a TZM meeting once, I stood up and suggested we rent a piece of land, grow food for ourselves and sell the surplus, absolutly no one else was interested in that idea..

The next person to stand up and suggest something, said we should all write lists on what to do, suddenly the place was alive with folk rushing around with pens and paper furiously writing down what everyone else should be doing..

At the meeting my girlfriend and I chatted to a millionaire who had turned up, but for some reason we was the only people who wanted to talk with them, after an hour or two they left, having imparted some useful advice to us. (Which I have since taken notice of some of it..)

It was interesting chatting to folk there, there was a few who wanted to do something more than just spread the word, one was interested in microfinance, one in throwing a bit of money at something, one after a bit of money to improve his skillset and his income generation skills. (You can begin to see how useful a TZM microfinance site would be in reality, joining those with money to those wanting it..)

Dozens of folk turned up and most of them stayed a while, but most of them lived, what I might call, comfortable enough lives that it wasn't really necessary for them to change the world just yet..

And any suggestion involving anything harder than ordering another drink, went down like a lead ballon..

I did work out, that the amount of money spent by everyone on travelling expenses and booze would in a year pay for the materials to make enough solar vehicles so that everyone could be transported for free, and provide vehicles that folk could use to provide a taxi service and generate an income for themselves during other times.

But I guess folk would rather just buy another pint, than use their resources to build anything useful or practical.

Which is partly why I've never returned to another meeting. (That and at times, after that heady day of so many turning up, turnouts at other times amounted to just a single person, rather than dozens..)

I met a few people like a few here, but the majority didn't appear serious enough in my view, nor too intelligent. (Though they was bright enough to realise its good to let someone else do the work instead of you, just that if everyone takes that view, then nothing actually gets built..)

Its perhaps interesting, and sad at the same time, that since then, a few TZM members have become homeless, and because everyone haven't been busy building homes for them, there is no help for them available..

I wait with somewhat baited breath to see if their response is now, 'lets build!'..

But alas, being homeless, their oppertunity to get online is not so often, and as such, as the months turn into years, we have yet to hear back from them at all..

I did work out, that the amount of money spent by everyone on travelling expenses and booze would in a year pay for the materials to make enough solar vehicles so that everyone could be transported for free...

The technology does not exist yet to do that, Nanos.

> The technology does not exist yet to do that, Nanos.

It has existed for some time, its called a 'bicycle' :-)

Slap on an electric motor, a solar panel, viola, a cheap solar vehicle.

Did I mention you might have to pedal a bit.. ;-)

But, the money saved using those to transport people, rather than spent on bus fares would mean over time you could add more solar panels to your cycles, and need to pedal less.

All perfectly doable, cost effective, and means you can start to develop not just a taxi service, but also low cost freight services.

You could use an electric car for small distances, although I doubt that it would suffice for a taxi service, at least if you aim at transporting more than a couple people each day.

The second problem would be designing and building the whole thing and getting it on the road w/o getting sued for driving a DIY car.

I'd prefer to hire a guy who knows how to build DIY electric cars and sell a guide about that online or in a small mailorder business.

Glad you asked, I'm already working on my own solar car.

Take a look at the prototype:
http://img843.imageshack.us/f/solarcar.jpg/

Matt, you should go and pass out ConspSci material. Maybe print-outs of the article debunking the Zeitgeist films or something.

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/5901/nanos.jpg <--------LOL

http://img843.imageshack.us/i/solarcar.jpg/ <----------double LOL

two for the price of one in one sitting !!!

The point is, that their combined spending on be it transport, alcohol, (weed..) food, could be pooled and used more effiently to benefit themselves in creating yet more resources to cut costs in other areas even more, aka bootstrap solutions.

If one could get them to grow their own food, build their own vehicles, next step would be building their own homes..

Or arrange a brokers and/or bankers social meeting at the same time..