Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Burner phone … leave your main one at home … ABSOLUTELY DO NOT BRING YOUR MAIN PHONE

    Set up your burner phone with one or two accounts to things you might want to upload to … encrypt as much as you can. Do not load all your social accounts … only log into the bare minimum. If you are organized, log into temporary or fake or secondary accounts if you can.

    Start the day without any prior history, photos or content on the phone and keep as few contacts as you can … memorize numbers that are important to you.

    Always be prepared to give up or lose your phone.

    And as always … SAFETY GLASSES … bring a pair of industry rated CSA approved safety glasses (try to get a pair with a tint so you can pass them as sunglasses). Look for safety glasses with anything marked ANSI Z87+, sometimes written Z87.1+ (note the plus) rated or CSA Z94.3 rated are ensured to safely withstand a direct high energy strike.

    … additional things if you want to do more

    Bring a small new blank paper note book you can keep in a pocket with a small pen or pencil … you might be taking notes like license plates, name tags or names of people or places … its always faster to just write something down than in taking a shaky photo or tapping away a note on an app

    Wear a big scarf … for guys or girls … a scarf comes in handy for all kinds of emergencies including using it as something to cover your mouth, dress a wound, tie something or cover something up.

    Wear a good pair of running shoes … be prepared to run and be on your feet all day.

    Bring a small backpack and bring a couple bottles of water and some energy bars … keep it light because you’ll be on your feet all day and if things go bad, you might be targeted if you have a large pack … plus an empty pack can be used to carry things later if you need to.

    Dress for the weather … if its going to be hot, wear light clothing but if things go bad and you have to stay out over night or longer, bring a light jacket … if rain is forecast within a day or two, bring a small poncho




  • Cults and religion are the same. The only thing that differentiate them is time. If you have a systematic set of illogical beliefs that have been around for a few years or decades or even just one lifetime, it’s more likely to be called a cult. Give that group a lot more time and it will be called a religion.

    As for your question … I don’t think it’s anything the opposite of religion / cult but rather which belief system. I think as humans, we will always come up with some sort of belief system because we will always want to. We’re just wired that way.

    And to me the best belief system is one where we value one another no matter what, who, where, why or how. That includes honoring, respecting even those who don’t believe what you do. A belief system where we honor all life, human, animal and organic. A belief system where we do our best not to harm one another or any life around us.

    If we could that, then following a religion wouldn’t be so bad because the belief system would be used to actually benefit all life.


  • Kind of … I’m Indigenous Canadian and one of the lessons my hunter/trapper father taught me was to respect all animal life, no matter what it is. He taught us that no one should kill any animal unless it was to feed ourselves or use it for our survival. You don’t just kill something for nothing.

    So when I started driving on highways just over 30 years ago, I’d be a good person and clean up dead animals on the road. I thought it was disrespectful for people to just run over animals until it turned into an organic pancake. But it was constant and just about every drive I took meant I had to clean up something and most times, my passengers didn’t appreciate it. Once I picked up a skunk that had been knocked dead … hit in the head but not squished. I was careful and put it in a garbage bag and threw behind my half ton truck and drove it away to put in the woods somewhere. I stopped not far, picked up the bag and it burst … INSIDE MY TRUCK BED!!! … the skunk had ‘leaked’ or its glands had burst or let go or something and a bit of juice came out of the bag … I just about gagged and ran away. It took me a month to get rid of that smell and no one wanted to ride with me.

    The smell is so strong when you are that close that it will add a stench to your clothes that will take about 20 washes to remove the scent.



  • Like the other commenter said … it’s road kill. I live in northern Ontario in Canada and all our highways go through a lot of wilderness so we see a lot of animals. When someone accidentally hits a squirrel, fox, raccoon, beaver, porcupine, you see the dead animal but it usually taken aside and forgotten … people seldom see it because it happens quickly and its forgotten.

    But when someone hits a skunk … it will stink up that section of highway for a week and everyone notices.