Re[2]: [at-l] Cell phone connection availability

[orangebug74@yahoo.com (Orange Bug)]

Are you having cognitive challenges today, Weary? Have I said I have an
opinion about cell phones, much less referred to them as "little
buggers?" Have you missed the discussion about how perception of worry
and fear factor into decisions to bring certain gear - such as guns and
cell phones? Have you missed the discussion of how some individual's
perceptions of these items result in needless flaming behavior?

Again, if you are going to quote me, try to be accurate. I dislike cell
phones much less than sophomoric stabs at deception.

Bill...
<at least you seem to recognize a difference between wildness and a
perception of the same>

--- "Bob C." <ellen@clinic.net> wrote:
> "...>Basically, I'm with Shane.  I don't like the little buggers  but
> one will
> >have a place in my pack so I can empty my pool of worry and allow
> the woods to
> >flood in." claims Kahley. Orange Bug, who seems to think that there
> is an
> >important distinction between cell phones and perceptions of cell
> phones,
> >chimes in with a "me too.".
> 
> So, OB. Why don't you like those "little buggers?"
> 
>   And why would not "those little buggers" that some of us find
> impact on our
>   "sense of wildness" do so if you knew that four out of five hikers
> are
>   carrying them and by just asking, you can be in instant contact
> with the
>   civilization that a tiny minority of us go to the woods and
> mountains to
>   escape?
> 
>   Only a fool denies the utility of cell phones in helping to contact
>   civilization, and thus achieve rapid rescue in case of problems.
> Only a fool
>   denies that there is a trade off for the ability of being in
> instant
>   communication with the civilization that a tiny minority go to the
> woods and
>   mountains to escape.
> 
>   The possibility of instant communication -- or the illusion of same
> --
>   destroys that perception of wildness that is the fundamental reason
> why some
>   go to the woods.
> 
>   Weary, who thinks RnR made the point more skillfully than I can.
> 
> 

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