Expat cub on the rocks

Looked it up and it was interesting to say the least but sadly it does (of course) not offer a solution to the problems,
they have (the Quinns) a website (Ishmael.org) that just lists all the problems, if you want to be really frustrated, than have look...

 

From the "Ishmael Story"
I. Introduction

Modern people are all captives who cannot find the bars of our cage.
We are destroying the Earth in order, we think, to survive.
We are being lied to, but we don't know what the lie is. If we were to find the lie, we might do something about it.
We are enacting a story that, we are told, has no alternative except death.
Those who do not participate in this enacting do not get fed.
This is a book about How Things Came To Be This Way: the meaning of the world, divine intentions in the world, and human destiny.

Some definitions:
"Takers" = peoples we sometimes call "civilized"
"Leavers" = peoples we sometimes call "primitive" (read "poor rural Filipinos")
"story" = an interrelation between the gods, man, and the Earth, with a beginning, middle, and end
"enact" = to strive to make a story come true, enacting a story works out the story's premise
"culture" = a people who are enacting a story


II. The Problem

Takers' story is about to end in catastrophe. Leavers' story going along just fine, thank you.
Premise of Takers' story: Man is the pinnacle of creation and the whole reason for the world's existence; it's all for us.
Therefore, we can do whatever we d*mn well please with the world.
Nature is chaotic, fickle; man was made to bring order, to rule nature.
Nature stands in defiance of man's rule and must be conquered.
Thus man is fulfilling his destiny, becoming what humans are meant to be.
The story we're enacting casts man as the enemy of the Earth.
So we simply must go on conquering the world until it's all under our control -- then we'll have the Paradise that was meant for us.
But something's wrong with this picture: man has screwed it up, as evinced by our own history.
Is it man himself that is flawed? (If he is, there's no hope for Earth.) No, the problem is not man himself: it's the story we're now enacting that puts us at odds with the Earth. But given a different story . . .
Takers periodically have prophets arise to tell us how to live, since we seem to have no such certain knowledge.
Meanwhile, we go on messing up the world, earnestly believing we have no other choice.
Instead of consulting the prophets, we could learn how to live by observing what is actually here, in "nature."
From this site: EcoFuture (TM) : Howie Richey's Concept Summary of the Novel, Ishmael

Food for thought but no solution offered, best is to have peace of mind for yourself and your family, so try to live accordingly...

 

Given the thread once again got away from the subject matter, and their club is probably not one to solve the world's problems, will the the club survive and post its charter to see if other foreigners may want to jump in join? If that is not allowed on the forum, perhaps a member can provide an update. Thank you.

 

Aside from Thursday Club, I'm glad that there's quite handful of expat organization or individual with great objective.

Here's some famous Expats club in town;

1.) TURISTA: 99% percent of foreigner's had already contributed a big donation from the day they arrived until they got feed up!

2.) LONG NOSE HUSBAND: a massive contribution once they reside and got married! From girlfriend fundraising until wife funds organization...

3.) ACTUALLY JOBLESS HUSBAND: to the expat who built theirs homes and invested businesses-they donated clean 12% of their expenses to the Ghost pocket plus other taxes and giving jobs to unemployed local that almost doesn't knows the job properly.

4.) WHITE ANGELS: kind hearted foreigners that gave extra money to those children selling goods in the boulevard.

5.) ADVENTUROUS: Australian guy bought some school supplies and toys to the children who live up in the mountainside of Valencia.

6.) MOTHER EARTH: Expats planted hundreds of trees, and guarding the seas...

and i guess there's more club to come...CHEERS!