What would you do without email?

[Lambano]

But it does not require you to confirm it. Or does it? I do not remember.

It sends a link to your email asking you to click it to set your password. If you forget your password, resetting it also requires an email address.

 

[jaybird]

how do you even go back to the world before email, i remember writing letters in highschool, i lived in Germany and would write all my friends back in Arkansas, it was such a treat to receive new letters in the mail. i tried to get back into reading books in recent years, reading now is so hard, i cant stay focused at all.

 

[Rockerduck]

Stores used to ask for your social security number for I.D., I would tell them its illegal to ask for it. Then stores went to you driver's license for I.D. but still wanted another I.D. sometimes. Everything changed when everyone got cell phones. Your cell number is now your I.D. and its assigned to you, as well as your address. If you buy a new phone you get the same number, and the bonus is they can track you.

 

[Lambano]

I was going through my personal email to see what I use it for.

• Online shopping requires an email address. I use it mostly for stuff I can't find locally (like books), or which would take awhile trying find someplace local. Some of it was stuff that I needed on short notice and couldn't wait, like the ramps for my son's wheelchair. I use PayPal credit for eBay and Amazon gift cards so that I have fewer places with my credit card on file.
• Medical stuff. Our network providers have an online app for stuff like appointments, billing (even though we send checks through snail-mail), test results, etc. You can do this the old school way with phone calls and letters, but they prefer the appl
• My insurance company requires me to use an online pharmaceutical service and another service for CPAP supplies. An email account is mandatory.
• Legal stuff. Court papers, correspondence with our lawyer, correspondence with financial institutions. I suppose it could've been handled through snail-mail, but it would be slow.
• Financial stuff. Retirement accounts, stock accounts, Social Security, Medicare. Some of that could be handled with phone calls, visits to a broker, visits to government offices, snail-mail forms, but sheesh...
• Church stuff. I keep the church website updated, which requires an email account. And our church uses email communication for things like prayer requests, newsletters, announcing special "opportunities".
• Spam, spam, spam, spam, beautiful spam, lovely spam...

I hardly every get an email letter from a friend anymore.

 

[BlueNightingale]

But it does not require you to confirm it. Or does it? I do not remember.

I still have to confirm it to keep people out of my account.

 

[BlueNightingale]

I was going through my personal email to see what I use it for.

• Online shopping requires an email address. I use it mostly for stuff I can't find locally (like books), or which would take awhile trying find someplace local. Some of it was stuff that I needed on short notice and couldn't wait, like the ramps for my son's wheelchair. I use PayPal credit for eBay and Amazon gift cards so that I have fewer places with my credit card on file.
• Medical stuff. Our network providers have an online app for stuff like appointments, billing (even though we send checks through snail-mail), test results, etc. You can do this the old school way with phone calls and letters, but they prefer the appl
• My insurance company requires me to use an online pharmaceutical service and another service for CPAP supplies. An email account is mandatory.
• Legal stuff. Court papers, correspondence with our lawyer, correspondence with financial institutions. I suppose it could've been handled through snail-mail, but it would be slow.
• Financial stuff. Retirement accounts, stock accounts, Social Security, Medicare. Some of that could be handled with phone calls, visits to a broker, visits to government offices, snail-mail forms, but sheesh...
• Church stuff. I keep the church website updated, which requires an email account. And our church uses email communication for things like prayer requests, newsletters, announcing special "opportunities".
• Spam, spam, spam, spam, beautiful spam, lovely spam...

I hardly every get an email letter from a friend anymore.

,

I just remembered I got kind of lonely when I left my old place and set up a pen pal account hoping to make female friends. It was by email, if you wanted, but now I'm curious if I can find it again.

Yeah I'm on a tablet and can't figure out how to fix this post

 

[Muna]

Sorry I fell asleep right about when I got home. I will probably be off today.

It doesn't try to get me to stay online. It just keeps asking why and suggesting alternatives.

I tried it again yesterday to post it and it did not do the same thing it did before for me either

 

[Muna]

But it does not require you to confirm it. Or does it? I do not remember.

It didn't me, and anyone can use one of those recylable emails or generated ones also I would think.

I don't know the worse that could happen except someone hack anyones account and post bad words everywhere or something dumb like that and the Admins simple delete or ban your account.

Leaving you in the position of having to contact them later and say, "Hey that wasn't me"!

Or could it be something worse? I don't know.

 

[amigo de christo]

I received the new updated policies for Microsoft and I haven't gone over it thoroughly, but if its too weird and I think it might be because of recent developments with AI, I might let it go. Which means everything else online goes by default.

Like what would you even do without all of it?

That would mean no online shopping (I'd need to hurry up and buy seeds for next year), no forums, using a check register full time, and also going back to 1991.

Everything requires email and a phone.
Everything.

Email is one step beyond no phone.

You are correct about it being all tied into AI and its digital system .
They are making all the changes now to set up this system
this digital system and what will run it , AI will run it .
TWO THINGS .
What can AI DO . it can produce ANY image , speak in any langague
and it will control the digital system .
AND what does this digital system have the power to do .
SHUT OUT ANYONE that does not comply , that does not conform . DOES ANY OF THAT SOUND FAMILIAR .
And he had power to give LIFE unto the IMAGE , IMAGE of the beast
that it could SPEAK
and that any who did not have the mark of the beast , NO BUY NO SELL .
WHAT WE SEEING IS REVELATION COMING INTO FULL EFFECT . yeah , imagine that
A BOOK most mock , a book that collects dust , FORETOLD THE VERY DAYS WE NOW SEE and LIVE IN .
I t ried to tell us all THAT THE BIBLE IS THE BOOK WE NEED TO BE IN AND BE LEARNING . but many want nothing
to do with it but with teachers and fleecers of men who at most twist it and omit it and down play it to fit their own agendas .

 

[Muna]

how do you even go back to the world before email, i remember writing letters in highschool, i lived in Germany and would write all my friends back in Arkansas, it was such a treat to receive new letters in the mail. i tried to get back into reading books in recent years, reading now is so hard, i cant stay focused at all.

It IS harder but so is going back to life without air conditioning if that was ever required, it can be done, its just not as pleasant (that would be the worst in southern heat).

But I also wish I had never left off of reading the bible offline (and opted to read it online only) because even I find it difficult to return to a book of paper pages also. I have completely lost that muscle memory that came from flipping from book to books, by practice (and so finding things efficiently being accustomed to knowing where something is that way). The whole search box kind of ended that for me. Obviously, its so much faster, very convenient and takes but a second but it really did put an end to my knowing exactly where to find a thing through memory.

Jesus could do that quickly

Luke 4:17 And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

That would not be happening for me any time soon

I recalled how my bible pages looked like rainbows exploded on the pages because I had so many colored coded highlights on each of the pages to make a verse come to my attention faster.

I did make sure to invest in some highlighters, and I'll need to take up that pactice again for sure

 

[BlueNightingale]

It IS harder but so is going back to life without air conditioning if that was ever required, it can be done, its just not as pleasant (that would be the worst in southern heat).

But I also wish I had never left off of reading the bible offline (and opted to read it online only) because even I find it difficult to return to a book of paper pages also. I have completely lost that muscle memory that came from flipping from book to books, by practice (and so finding things efficiently being accustomed to knowing where something is that way). The whole search box kind of ended that for me. Obviously, its so much faster, very convenient and takes but a second but it really did put an end to my knowing exactly where to find a thing through memory.

Jesus could do that quickly

Luke 4:17 And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

That would not be happening for me any time soon

I recalled how my bible pages looked like rainbows exploded on the pages because I had so many colored coded highlights on each of the pages to make a verse come to my attention faster.

I did make sure to invest in some highlighters, and I'll need to take up that pactice again for sure

I'm guilty of requesting a Bible Journal (I was asked to ask for something) with big enough letters to prevent my vertigo and then being too scared to actually write anything in it.

It's just sitting there. Its beautiful. And my favorite Bible here that I actually touch is a normal mens one that's all torn up that my son bought at a thrift store.

 

[Muna]

I was going through my personal email to see what I use it for.

• Online shopping requires an email address. I use it mostly for stuff I can't find locally (like books), or which would take awhile trying find someplace local. Some of it was stuff that I needed on short notice and couldn't wait, like the ramps for my son's wheelchair. I use PayPal credit for eBay and Amazon gift cards so that I have fewer places with my credit card on file.
• Medical stuff. Our network providers have an online app for stuff like appointments, billing (even though we send checks through snail-mail), test results, etc. You can do this the old school way with phone calls and letters, but they prefer the appl
• My insurance company requires me to use an online pharmaceutical service and another service for CPAP supplies. An email account is mandatory.
• Legal stuff. Court papers, correspondence with our lawyer, correspondence with financial institutions. I suppose it could've been handled through snail-mail, but it would be slow.
• Financial stuff. Retirement accounts, stock accounts, Social Security, Medicare. Some of that could be handled with phone calls, visits to a broker, visits to government offices, snail-mail forms, but sheesh...
• Church stuff. I keep the church website updated, which requires an email account. And our church uses email communication for things like prayer requests, newsletters, announcing special "opportunities".
• Spam, spam, spam, spam, beautiful spam, lovely spam...

I hardly every get an email letter from a friend anymore.

We had gotten a perscription filled at a pharmacy in person and it wasnt required of us to have an email to do it, but we did pay out of pocket for it and did not go through a provider, that could be why.

We had a lawsuit with a box store, my file was like 10 inches thick and I walked it into the attorneys office, the man needed nothing more than for me to show up at mediation and we won it. I did have an email at the time though but it was not used all that much, and most of that communication was simply to touch base without having to make a phone call (which could have resolved the problem of using the email at all).

I was ticked at my sister for sending me a picture of my check I sent her (over a gmail) years ago, as a way of telling me "I recieved it"! and I was like, "what are you doing"??!! To me, she was making us vulnerable when trying to avoid the use of tech by using tech to confirm paper like that. She did it out of habit working in the financial world, but you are also at the mercy of others who use this stuff.

 

[Muna]

You are correct about it being all tied into AI and its digital system .
They are making all the changes now to set up this system
this digital system and what will run it , AI will run it .
TWO THINGS .
What can AI DO . it can produce ANY image , speak in any langague
and it will control the digital system .
AND what does this digital system have the power to do .
SHUT OUT ANYONE that does not comply , that does not conform . DOES ANY OF THAT SOUND FAMILIAR .
And he had power to give LIFE unto the IMAGE , IMAGE of the beast
that it could SPEAK
and that any who did not have the mark of the beast , NO BUY NO SELL .
WHAT WE SEEING IS REVELATION COMING INTO FULL EFFECT . yeah , imagine that
A BOOK most mock , a book that collects dust , FORETOLD THE VERY DAYS WE NOW SEE and LIVE IN .
I t ried to tell us all THAT THE BIBLE IS THE BOOK WE NEED TO BE IN AND BE LEARNING . but many want nothing
to do with it but with teachers and fleecers of men who at most twist it and omit it and down play it to fit their own agendas .

Another thing they are doing to trap people with this tech, is just say you buy a simple baby monitor, when you get it home they surprise you with needing not only the internet (for something that worked fine without it) but impose subscriptions, or cause features to stop on products without a download and a subscription. They are doing that on so many things. You can find out which things (even mortorcycles for example) by tuning into Louis Rossman on Youtube he always dimes them out.

For example, someone might think, I would love to have one of those apps where I can turn my new internet connected thermostat on and off from across the world, or these special little in home little gadgets which sell you on convenience (and money saving) and people have rewired their homes and the company folded gets purchased through another which requires a yearly subscription under new ownership for all of your investments. Thats another way how they are doing that.

Then after caving into them, then read the horror stories of people trying to get out of them. There is even more to this, a lifetime subscription is NOT a lifetime (terms of service can define that on page 15 on the website) as 5 years.

You have to tune into some of the things that are happening to people with anything connected to the internet to graps how vast the problem is on just about every level (I can't even post it all here).

 

[Muna]

I'm guilty of requesting a Bible Journal (I was asked to ask for something) with big enough letters to prevent my vertigo and then being too scared to actually write anything in it.

It's just sitting there. Its beautiful. And my favorite Bible here that I actually touch is a normal mens one that's all torn up that my son bought at a thrift store.

I ordered a bunch of large print bibles to have to return to if I had to go offline myself, but I dreaded that a little and so purchased a bunch of used laptops (that can be used offline) and downloaded stand alone bible software and created my own search engine on a few USB's and saved all my studies to the same, and I copied an online bible onto it as well, and so I am hoping that will take me for awhile. I had purchased all the same used laptops so when the parts go on them they can be used to fix the others and they also all connect to the same old printer (which I also purchased again newer) and so both are loaded on all of them.

I would be in my glory, just to have a computer to study a bible on it loaded with my studies, and with my music . You can take everything else away from me, thats fine, I wont cry about it, but I just might if I would have to leave that behind.

Thats a confession of the worse kind, I so know it.

Thats why I fear the newer stuff they take it away after giving it to you and can lock you out from those things, so I want nothing to do with it. Use this time to return to the older way things were done as much as possible and dont become reliant on it.

 

[Muna]

I was going through my personal email to see what I use it for.

• Online shopping requires an email address. I use it mostly for stuff I can't find locally (like books), or which would take awhile trying find someplace local. Some of it was stuff that I needed on short notice and couldn't wait, like the ramps for my son's wheelchair. I use PayPal credit for eBay and Amazon gift cards so that I have fewer places with my credit card on file.

I have taken the one credit card I have off any place I have shopped online, I have closed my paypal account, and closed my ebay account, but I can buy as a guest (and have up and until now) but at least there is no account or financial things linked or sitting in that account. And I still shop on Amazon, but I never leave the credit card on that account but delete it after each purchase. I would hate not to be able to shop at Amazon, its convenient (ofcourse) and from October forward I have thought long and hard how I would continue to do that, which was to buy ahead for everything I cannot get locally (and do so on sale) for the upcoming year (which is done) and from here on out try to purchase once a year (in bulk when possible) from hereon out. Minimizing our dependence on them that way. And if we must break that yearly fast with them then pick up Amazon cards at the grocery store and buy what it is we might need (which we cannot get locally).

Thats taken quite awhile to whittle the list down, look at the cost/savings figure out the needs and where things are locally and contacting websites that also use Amazon to see if I can buy through them over the phone also and then separating everything and timing it when to buy these things (if I should chose to).

Simplying things as best as I can helps.

 

[jaybird]

It IS harder but so is going back to life without air conditioning if that was ever required, it can be done, its just not as pleasant (that would be the worst in southern heat).

hard to believe a world without AC especially here in south arkansas in the Miss delta with all the humidity, but when i was a kid no one had AC.

But I also wish I had never left off of reading the bible offline (and opted to read it online only) because even I find it difficult to return to a book of paper pages also. I have completely lost that muscle memory that came from flipping from book to books, by practice (and so finding things efficiently being accustomed to knowing where something is that way). The whole search box kind of ended that for me. Obviously, its so much faster, very convenient and takes but a second but it really did put an end to my knowing exactly where to find a thing through memory.

Jesus could do that quickly

Luke 4:17 And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

That would not be happening for me any time soon

I recalled how my bible pages looked like rainbows exploded on the pages because I had so many colored coded highlights on each of the pages to make a verse come to my attention faster.

I did make sure to invest in some highlighters, and I'll need to take up that pactice again for sure

i still have my first bible my mamaw gave me (it has her writing in the dedication) when i was a kid and my first study bible i got as a young adult. i even have my first notebook that i used with my study bible in sunday school.
the search box reminds me of flipping through the index in the study bible, i forgot all about that.
the rainbow bible pages are great, i got to tell my wife about that haha

 

[Taken]

What would you do without email?

Have less junk to dispose in the trash.

 

[BlueNightingale]

I have taken the one credit card I have off any place I have shopped online, I have closed my paypal account, and closed my ebay account, but I can buy as a guest (and have up and until now) but at least there is no account or financial things linked or sitting in that account. And I still shop on Amazon, but I never leave the credit card on that account but delete it after each purchase. I would hate not to be able to shop at Amazon, its convenient (ofcourse) and from October forward I have thought long and hard how I would continue to do that, which was to buy ahead for everything I cannot get locally (and do so on sale) for the upcoming year (which is done) and from here on out try to purchase once a year (in bulk when possible) from hereon out. Minimizing our dependence on them that way. And if we must break that yearly fast with them then pick up Amazon cards at the grocery store and buy what it is we might need (which we cannot get locally).

Thats taken quite awhile to whittle the list down, look at the cost/savings figure out the needs and where things are locally and contacting websites that also use Amazon to see if I can buy through them over the phone also and then separating everything and timing it when to buy these things (if I should chose to).

Simplying things as best as I can helps.

This is a problem I have also.

I cannot buy gochugaru, fish sauce, nori, or calrose rice near me unless I order it. Or my skincare.

I need all of those. I could do without the skincare with goats milk soap and castor oil, but I won't probably. At least right now.

I AM NOT growing rice. I do not know how. I am not going to go get seaweed. So how do I do it? A catalog? And then what catalog would that even be? Because I know it's not Fingerhut.

The closest Asian market is an hour away. If I asked the store to carry it, I don't think they would even know what I'm talking about.

So this is my primary frustration.

I might grow the peppers. Maybe. Or find an alternative that works- and I don't care what the internet says, it is not paprika. I just want real life access to positive things without it being on the internet.

 

[amigo de christo]

This is a problem I have also.

I cannot buy gochugaru, fish sauce, nori, or calrose rice near me unless I order it. Or my skincare.

I need all of those. I could do without the skincare with goats milk soap and castor oil, but I won't probably. At least right now.

I AM NOT growing rice. I do not know how. I am not going to go get seaweed. So how do I do it? A catalog? And then what catalog would that even be? Because I know it's not Fingerhut.

The closest Asian market is an hour away. If I asked the store to carry it, I don't think they would even know what I'm talking about.

So this is my primary frustration.

I might grow the peppers. Maybe. Or find an alternative that works- and I don't care what the internet says, it is not paprika. I just want real life access to positive things without it being on the internet.

You wanna know what has long broken my heart .
So many even in christendom now buy a lie . beleiving it is love and of GOD . WHEN i know its has DENIED
the dire need to BELEIVE ON JESUS and has made the road to what THEY THINK is GOD very v ery sin accepting
and UNBELIEF accepting as they claim all religoins now serve the same GOD we do .
SO you wanna know what i cannot buy , THAT LIE . rather BUY THE TRUTH ,i say , and sell HER NOT .
Hope that encourages you my friend .

 

[amigo de christo]

What would you do without email?

Have less junk to dispose in the trash.

you might want to come and clear up something on another thread .
its the one that says something about saying something good about someone .
cause one of us thinks you are a lady and the other thinks you are a man .
Just saying is all .