Personally, I am preparing to ditch my cell phone. We are building our home and this place we are to move, does not have reliable internet, nor cell service, sooooooo, we may not have a choice in the matter, but I am feeling better about the prospect. Enjoyable article. BTW, I hate the fact, the cloud owns MY pictures, I took. I will be going back to my Canon very soon!
I think the clincher (if people only knew) is the mental health rebound from ditching your cellphone and other wireless exposures. Anxiety and depression are off the charts - an unprecendented number of people rely on pharmaceutical (and other) drugs to handle their emotional/mental distress and dysfunction. Kathleen Burke wrote about her miraculous physical and mental recovery on Arthur Firstenberg's substack https://arthurfirstenberg.substack.com/p/ditchingmycellphone. It's part of the reason people won't go back to cellphones once they have become free of them.
As John Galt mentioned in another comment. Our banks and businesses are pushing hard (forcing) two factor authentication so it's becoming really hard to function without a cell phone.
Of course you can do like me and only use it for those "essential" functions like receiving a "code".
"Living on the edge" is still a fun adventure. Read a map, write down (or memorize) directions, forget GPS!
I was sitting on the Airporter shuttle last week, watching the traffic. Since I was sitting on a high bus I could look down into people's cars as they passed by. Believe it or not, it was difficult to find someone NOT on their phone. This was in Seattle, a place notorious for terrible traffic, yet there they were navigating in that snarl of cars, looking down at their phones. The real kicker for me though was the Amazon semi truck driver with the phone on his steering wheel, scrolling as he drove by my bus.
Last week I couldn't use my bank card online, (We sent a code to your 'device') I can this week.
Can't have a Telegram account.
The only Canadian computer company left won't do business with me without a cell number.
Everyone and their dog, including substack, promises you a better experience using their 'app'. Get our app! There is rarely any reason that special app can't be a web page.
You may end up sleeping outside behind a factory in Quebec.
it's easy (once you know how) to connect ten of your neighbors to one fiber optic and set up a firewall and reduce the internet expenses by 90%. Probably 2 months savings would pay for all of the equipment required which would likely last 10 years. after you can give the option of a vpn (also reducing the price of VPN service by 90%) or a direct connection or a local network all independent of each other. Put a good crimp on the watchers, save a lot of money. groups of 10 could connect with each other. If the people don't need to download and upload giant stuff you could easily put 50 people on one connection. with u.s. prices on an internet connection, that starts to be significant. If anybody reading this wants to make the effort, I'll be happy to teach you what you'll need to know and that just for the pleasure of taking money and surveillance out of the hands of the psychopaths. It would also be a good thing to start re-learning how to have a relationship with the neighbors.
Thoughtful and Important .. thank you, Fortunately I have been on a disciplined program for several years now.. focused on Wise use of All machines. My cell phone and computer are kept my special servants.. turn them off unless I have a specific task.. The Real Natural World is where I spend most of my time.. a place where a Depth of Silence and Space are found.. It's top priority with me every day.. When visiting suburbia I Try to pry my grand children away from the Virtual and stay healthy and in one piece by getting it on in mother nature.. this has proven to be no small task.. Appreciate the tips that you share..
I agree with Roman. If the battery is removed, it definitely will remove the capability of the phone to be read. Recently, for some reason, my battery was dead within an hour of being unplugged. it happened over a 4 day course. It's back to taking a charge for a day. Know that big brother, (RCMP, call them what you will) is watching your every move, every transaction, monitoring your whereabouts even when your location data is turned off. I know why I was being surveilled, but I'd rather not put it in print. I really look forward to the day, I'm not tied (or hang man's noosed) to my phone.
Thank you, I love both the article (humor!) and the comments, - the informed and thoughtful community is a small slice of sanity.
Data, video, and streaming has driven up the demand for more towers. Taking small actions to be more conscious of the explosion in (cultivated) demand is calming and centering, in itself, because of the inherent integrity in not causing harm.
In addition, reading on a small screen (cellphone) is destroying eyesight, which is one reason why China banned cellphones in schools, in addition to concern about addiction. Russia recently followed suit. The race against China for 5G???? absurd
I am guessing the use of a cell phone for business purposes made your current life possible through the accrual of resources to enable you to stop using a cell phone?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have an internet based company you receive monies from and paid subscribers on this platform as well? People who pay you and use your services on their cell phones? And if they threw their cell phones away would it or would it not hurt your bottom line?
So...how can anyone who has used technology to purchase a technologically free lifestyle advocate for discontinuing the use of said technologies?
Personally, I am preparing to ditch my cell phone. We are building our home and this place we are to move, does not have reliable internet, nor cell service, sooooooo, we may not have a choice in the matter, but I am feeling better about the prospect. Enjoyable article. BTW, I hate the fact, the cloud owns MY pictures, I took. I will be going back to my Canon very soon!
I think the clincher (if people only knew) is the mental health rebound from ditching your cellphone and other wireless exposures. Anxiety and depression are off the charts - an unprecendented number of people rely on pharmaceutical (and other) drugs to handle their emotional/mental distress and dysfunction. Kathleen Burke wrote about her miraculous physical and mental recovery on Arthur Firstenberg's substack https://arthurfirstenberg.substack.com/p/ditchingmycellphone. It's part of the reason people won't go back to cellphones once they have become free of them.
As I was reading this this video starting at the 1:10 mark came to mind...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y88h2gRkoXw&t=85s
Great post!!!
It all boils down to the question:
Do you own a cell phone?
Or does your cell phone owns you?
As John Galt mentioned in another comment. Our banks and businesses are pushing hard (forcing) two factor authentication so it's becoming really hard to function without a cell phone.
Of course you can do like me and only use it for those "essential" functions like receiving a "code".
"Living on the edge" is still a fun adventure. Read a map, write down (or memorize) directions, forget GPS!
I was sitting on the Airporter shuttle last week, watching the traffic. Since I was sitting on a high bus I could look down into people's cars as they passed by. Believe it or not, it was difficult to find someone NOT on their phone. This was in Seattle, a place notorious for terrible traffic, yet there they were navigating in that snarl of cars, looking down at their phones. The real kicker for me though was the Amazon semi truck driver with the phone on his steering wheel, scrolling as he drove by my bus.
Last week I couldn't use my bank card online, (We sent a code to your 'device') I can this week.
Can't have a Telegram account.
The only Canadian computer company left won't do business with me without a cell number.
Everyone and their dog, including substack, promises you a better experience using their 'app'. Get our app! There is rarely any reason that special app can't be a web page.
You may end up sleeping outside behind a factory in Quebec.
it's easy (once you know how) to connect ten of your neighbors to one fiber optic and set up a firewall and reduce the internet expenses by 90%. Probably 2 months savings would pay for all of the equipment required which would likely last 10 years. after you can give the option of a vpn (also reducing the price of VPN service by 90%) or a direct connection or a local network all independent of each other. Put a good crimp on the watchers, save a lot of money. groups of 10 could connect with each other. If the people don't need to download and upload giant stuff you could easily put 50 people on one connection. with u.s. prices on an internet connection, that starts to be significant. If anybody reading this wants to make the effort, I'll be happy to teach you what you'll need to know and that just for the pleasure of taking money and surveillance out of the hands of the psychopaths. It would also be a good thing to start re-learning how to have a relationship with the neighbors.
Thoughtful and Important .. thank you, Fortunately I have been on a disciplined program for several years now.. focused on Wise use of All machines. My cell phone and computer are kept my special servants.. turn them off unless I have a specific task.. The Real Natural World is where I spend most of my time.. a place where a Depth of Silence and Space are found.. It's top priority with me every day.. When visiting suburbia I Try to pry my grand children away from the Virtual and stay healthy and in one piece by getting it on in mother nature.. this has proven to be no small task.. Appreciate the tips that you share..
Good stuff! keep them coming..
I agree with Roman. If the battery is removed, it definitely will remove the capability of the phone to be read. Recently, for some reason, my battery was dead within an hour of being unplugged. it happened over a 4 day course. It's back to taking a charge for a day. Know that big brother, (RCMP, call them what you will) is watching your every move, every transaction, monitoring your whereabouts even when your location data is turned off. I know why I was being surveilled, but I'd rather not put it in print. I really look forward to the day, I'm not tied (or hang man's noosed) to my phone.
Roman, you are truly a digital rebel. More power to you! 💪👏
Thank you, I love both the article (humor!) and the comments, - the informed and thoughtful community is a small slice of sanity.
Data, video, and streaming has driven up the demand for more towers. Taking small actions to be more conscious of the explosion in (cultivated) demand is calming and centering, in itself, because of the inherent integrity in not causing harm.
In addition, reading on a small screen (cellphone) is destroying eyesight, which is one reason why China banned cellphones in schools, in addition to concern about addiction. Russia recently followed suit. The race against China for 5G???? absurd
I am guessing the use of a cell phone for business purposes made your current life possible through the accrual of resources to enable you to stop using a cell phone?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have an internet based company you receive monies from and paid subscribers on this platform as well? People who pay you and use your services on their cell phones? And if they threw their cell phones away would it or would it not hurt your bottom line?
So...how can anyone who has used technology to purchase a technologically free lifestyle advocate for discontinuing the use of said technologies?
3/11/2020: The WHO declared itself as the planet's Primarily Care Physician.
And now refers to itself as simply: WHO
I smashed my smartphone to bits a few days ago.
Inspiring!