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| nickdragon385 |
Posted - 07/29/2008 : 6:12:43 PM
Do you have to be a conservationist to be nudist? I have seen most people on this site calling nudists conservationists and it is driving me crazy! I am not a conservationist, so does that mean I can't be a nudist? Please post your response below. |
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| CMx2 |
Posted - 08/27/2008 : 02:49:06 AM
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Originally posted by Stars Upon Thars
I'm pretty sure all you need to be a nudist is a lack of clothing.
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| Stars Upon Thars |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 7:08:21 PM
I'm pretty sure all you need to be a nudist is a lack of clothing.
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| balataf |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 12:41:19 PM
I'm a moderate conservative, at least within the spectrum of American politics, and also a moderate conservationist. What I don't like is ther terrible misuse and warping of the global warming question to advance a radical agenda in which the government wants to control everything.
We know that global warming is happening, and we can see that Mars' icecaps have also greatly shrunk since 1950 along with Earth's. Somehow, I do not think that that is due to human-produced greenhouse gasses.
At the rate it is proceeding, soon we will have a planet that is as warm as it was in the "Early Medieval Warming" of a thousand years ago. It is a shame that we do not have any reliable records of the polar icecaps of that time and of how much they melted then. |
| Warmskin |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 12:33:24 PM
Hmmmm, (tapping fingers on the table, staring at the wall), maybe NickDragon might have meant "conversationalist."
That government governs best, which governs least - Thomas Jefferson |
| old hippie |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 01:20:55 AM
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Originally posted by Cheri
They are similar terms, hippie. Even some of the employed TNS staff use the word nudism. <snip>
Oh, I'm sure the folk at TNS would no more be upset than would William Safire (author on the correct use of the English language). I was really just yanking Randy's chain  about the word being in use.
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| Cheri |
Posted - 07/30/2008 : 5:39:33 PM
They are similar terms, hippie. Even some of the employed TNS staff use the word nudism. I'm part of their NOVA program (for marketing and pr) and use the word interchangeably depending with whom I'm speaking.
Cheri
Doing what I can to positively promote nudism
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| cenfldh |
Posted - 07/30/2008 : 09:49:15 AM
Surely the poster can't mean "conservative." Like Cheri, my wife and I are definitely conservative nudists. But it's pretty clear, and quickly so, that there are many who are not.
Interestingly, we spent all day Monday at Cypress Cove. Walking through the neighborhood, we saw one unit with much anti-Bush, anti-Republican signage. We also saw two homes with Republican candidate campaign signs in their yards. We had to smile at the diversity within the nude recreation family.
Assuming "conservationist" was actually meant, at the west pool I overhead a conversation where a resident woman was talking about how she never turns her A/C off, even when she leaves the windows and doors open and regularly has an electric bill of $450. Being pretty green-oriented ourselves, I was chagrined. So, it's pretty clear we're also not all conservationalists. We run the whole spectrum.
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| Tuffers |
Posted - 07/30/2008 : 05:54:14 AM
In the UK and Europe generally, we are called Naturists and it is the word Nudist that is very rarely used.
I wonder whether, Nickdragon, it is that nudists/naturists tend to be concerned about nature and the environment that the word conservationist is used in our context.
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| nudeisntlewd |
Posted - 07/30/2008 : 12:53:34 AM
Good point! I stand corrected, sir.
(I just don't seem to hear it used in conversation around here that much anymore.)
Randy |
| old hippie |
Posted - 07/30/2008 : 12:28:24 AM
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Originally posted by nudeisntlewd
Right. And as a sidebar, don't be confused either by the similar terms "Nudist" & "Naturist." (I don't think naturist is a term often used anymore though.)
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I bet some folks from The Naturist Society would dispute that
 
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| nudeisntlewd |
Posted - 07/29/2008 : 11:25:58 PM
Right. And as a sidebar, don't be confused either by the similar terms "Nudist" & "Naturist." (I don't think naturist is a term often used anymore though.) They're the same thing and "Naturist" is not to be confused with "Naturalist." Naturists are nude, naturalists are like outdoorsy nature types, like Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter.
Randy |
| Phydeau |
Posted - 07/29/2008 : 7:55:08 PM
I think you might have meant conservative, as well, but in case you didn't, being a nudist will sort-of MAKE you a conservationist. You'll consume less. Less clothing, water to wash those clothes, less air-conditioning, etc. (and you could argue that the health benefits will help you to consume less in pharmaceuticals, driving to the therapists, etc.).
If you actually meant politically conservative, heck no. Although socially, it's like what Cheri said. Family-friendly, G-rated is what nudists want in public.
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| Cheri |
Posted - 07/29/2008 : 6:45:08 PM
I think you mean CONSERVATIVE rather than conservationist. I am a conservative nudist, g-rated, family-friendly, vanilla nudist.
Cheri
Doing what I can to positively promote nudism
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