Building a new town in South Puna

[OnoOno]

I've been respectful all along. You have been pushy and intrusive,and I knew what you were doing and why.

It is a free country, and I am free to offer my opinions whenever, and wherever I want. People do the same sort of things all over America, so you are not exempt even though you live in Puna. For example, people comment on living on the beach in coastal areas prone to Hurricanes etc., and nobody tells you that you are not free to opine, but then, they are not wearing your Official Censor armband.

I offered an opinion, nothing more. It is evident that the volcanic activity is NOT finished, and the idea that moving onto or continuing to live on a hyperactive volcano might bear re-thinking.

I have noted in life, also, that in some cases, that the people directly involved in things are so close to the issue they can't see it clearly. It is obvious that something has to change, and who knows, the idea may come from someone NOT in your zip code - like a zip code where things actually get done - not languished-over for decades until they die of old age.

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Originally posted by csgray

OnoOno,
Lots of people post here from all over the world, they just usually don't come on here and tell the people living here what to do with their lives in the middle of a slow moving crisis, especially that they should not even live here. They are respectful of the fact that they are intruding themselves into other people's lives, usually because they feel some sense of personal connection to the place or people here. But you already said nothing about Puna interests you except the volcano, so why do you think we can't live without your input during this crisis? I guess I don't understand the fascination with a community you have no desire to ever be a part of, it just feels like morbid curiosity to me to involve yourself in someone else's disaster.

If you were someone like wakan who used to live here, or the various people who have visited here and feel connected to the people and place, or those who plan to move to the Big Island, your presence on Punaweb would make sense, but you are none of those, yet suddenly here you are posting all kinds of advice and opinions directed at the people who do live here right now. You even dismissed us us too insignificant to matter while "the area I live in makes a great contribution to the USA." How does coming on here and making that kind of statement do anything positive for anything but your ego?

It is not your zip code I object to, but your arrogant "I know how you people in Puna should live your lives and now I'm going to tell you" attitude. Sort of like when a stranger starts offering unsolicited advice about a situation they have only the vaguest understanding of.

I'm done here, I have to go clean out our spare room for a lava refugee who needs a place to live since the lava is going to come between her job and her fully paid for home.


Carol

Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb

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