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I will never own a car. I will never buy a house. I will never have children.
The possibilities are endless.
season is almost here for us, too.
I was about to say something pleasent to you but I then read:
and deduced you are indeed the common variety hippieQuote:
unconditionally loved by the plants
If you would have said:
I would have been all Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Sup spaceghost?!!
but you didn't, you damn dirty hippie
There are authors like Derek Jensen and Daniel Quinn that write about "post-civilization" basically leaving industrial civilization and going back to a hunter-gatherer society. I was all about this Anarcho-primitivism idea about a year ago but now I see this as a utopian fantasy. We cant really step outside of history and just "start over" there are certain aspects of our current society that would be beneficial to hold on to, starting over from scratch seems escapist and unrealistic. I think we should take the civilization that we will inherit and improve it for the better.
Most days yes I wish I could go out into the woods and build a log cabin and kick it with bears and shit but Ill get there one day. Its kinda been my dream for the past few years to pull a "walden" and live in the woods for a while.
I actually bought 17 acres in the UP but the lawyers got it all. It had a stream that started there, came right up out of the ground. I wanted to build me a place to write from and garden, work out, and dream.
I don't pre-judge people. I married a woman who had been born with a handicap--because we both wanted the same thing--family. Well, it turned out she was too damaged to have children, so I stayed because I gave my word, then she left and took everything--and a great deal more.
Now many would blame her, and do, but she is just simple, mean and afraid, it is the legal system in this country, making lawyers rich, and giving kickbacks to judges. I will never, for the rest of my life, be able to actually own anything. They actually took the rest of my life.
But thats how things go in America.
jeez. That really fucking sucks. It's ridiculous that people can get away with that. Not even get away with it, but to actually be told to take all of someone's belongings. I just assumed 50% was the only amount someone could get.
America is so fucked up, just reading about a girl who was almost due to give birth and she was depressed and tried to kill herself. Her friends saved her but the baby died so she is being charged for murder, or foeticide. :facepalm:
In the end, you cannot blame people for being what they are, all you can do is try to contribute to changing it. One was is providing things in the environment. The other is to piss them off on occassion, etc. One does have to learn to live under a great deal of stress. I actuallly triggered a form of . . . I forgot what it is called, but I have to wash with special shampoo so that it goes unnoticed. All one must concentrate on is trying to figure it all out.
Eczema?
I don't think you should learn to deal with stress. I've been doing that for the past few years. It hasn't worked well at all. It's better to try and look at things in a different way, of which certain ways make the stress fade away.
Or just remove the source of your stress, even if it's only in your mind. Just stop thinking about it.
Anyone where seen the movie The Village? It's quite interesting, I'd say, and if given the opportunity, I'd likely join someone on something like that.
If you don't know what it's about, *SPOILER*it's basically people who had a friend or brother/sister die because of sad things that happen everyday in society. One of them is quite rich, so he purchases a large sum of land and establish a village similar to that of a late 1800's one. He then hires a few guards to patrol the area, saying it is a wildlife preservation so that no one may come in, and they can continue to live in the village, away from society.*END SPOILER*
There are many real life communes that I would find far more appealing than the amish version of this really crappy movie. One quite large one was actually recently shut down in Copenhagen. Anyway, something I would really like to do for some years at some point in the future. But it would have to wait a little at the moment.
I didn't know they shut down Christiana :( One of my co-workers in my pro-activist days was determined to move there one day. Wonder if he made it before the hammer fell?
Stories like these really piss me off, and are one of the reason why I refuse to ever marry.
What's really strange is I know a situation in the UK where someone cheated on his wife. She got a pretty crappy deal out of the divorce; her lawyers must have been utterly shite.
An environmental acquisition system of a living organism must acquire something from the environment, process that which it has acquired for a product that maintains and promotes the life of that organism.
One of those sysetems is the procreative system. We don't do things because it goes well, or ill, brings pleasure or pain, we do it to have life. There is no other judgment that can be had, no other thing to strive for. This is why I would still get married again.
Relation to self is inadmissible, so it is not the bad things that happen in life that makes us want to die, it is a failure in us. I failed to see that there are two fundamental psychologies in the world. It was my failure to try and think underneath all people were good.
True. The problem with communes (in America at least) is that alot of kids from Cali/Oregon/Washington wanna start communes but the land is way too expensive in the northwest so they come to Texas/New Mexico/Oklahoma to buy land and end up getting run off by the locals and pigs.
I stayed at a commune that my friend Aaron lives at near Taos, New Mexico and it was pretty rad (for a couple of days). It was less a hippie commune and more of a squatter crust punk kinda crowd. They didn't grow their own food, they hitchhiked into town and spanged and busked to get alcohol money and food.
I got kicked out because I got in a fight with some kid I saw hitting his dog. Its cool to be a wannabe anarchist scumfuck and hit your dog but its not cool for outsiders to start fights with residents.
Anyway I have too many irreconcilable differences with people to live in a big commune.
Also why did the one in Copenhagen get shut down? Were they squatting?
Edit: Fuck nevermind I read the link, thats horrible. They are really cracking down on the anarchist/autonomous communities in Europe these days. Probably from the riots in Greece awhile ago and the Tarnac Nine incident in France.
I have lived outside or on the fringe of society most of my life. I lived for five years in a hollowed out redwood tree in Northern California a three day hike to the nearest road. I lived in a tent in Southern Oregon for ten years. Right now I live in a tent again in Colorado. Sometimes I get bored or tired of it and rent a house but I get sick of that real quick. I lived in a house in North Carolina. I lived outside in Hawaii and lived off the land and the sea. I have learned many survival skills and have made wild food about 50% of my diet, the other 50% being simple things like rice and beans and tea. I have lived in caves, etc.. Most of the time I didn't even have a tent and lived under fir trees or built my own shelters. I am not allergic to poison ivy or poison oak so I would build my camp in a field of poison oak so nobody would mess with my camps. This was if I was close to town. Usually I lived at least a two day hike out, except in Hawaii. In Hawaii I was too social to be a hermit. So many beautiful women to hang out with.
I am planning the best way to leave society or at least be independent from it right now. I want the best of both worlds, I want to be free to do what I want, and I want to have fun with friends. My plan is to get (or build) a 80 foot sailboat (or a fleet of them) and sail the world. There are many many many uninhabited islands that are great for living on. The coast of British Columbia in Canada comes to mind and one could spend a lifetime exploring all those islands. Plus the climate is very pretty temperate there and there are lots of wilderness to live off of, not to mention fish. Then, with a sailboat or a fleet of them, I am free to travel for free anywhere the ocean goes. I know of great places in Central America where many ex-pats live in sailboats and dock for the winter. It is its own society in a way, the sailors.
I know of many uninhabited tropical islands in Indonesia and Thailand and the Philipines, but some of these areas are dangerous because of pirates and of course the mandatory death penalty for even possessing a joint. But I know that in British Columbia I could grow all the weed I could want on those islands!!!
The only problem is that the boat I want is expensive, I want a schooner. But that won't stop me. I used to live like a hermit in the woods with the animals (I have a bunch of great stories) but now I want to sail. That is freedom. Not hiding out in the woods but traveling with the wind energy eating coconuts, pineapples and fish and pickled food. Hanging out at the helm at night holding on to the wheel with my pipe of weed looking at the trillions of stars that are visible out there.
I wouldn't even mind dying out there, maybe in a crazy storm. It is a great way to die. Of course, experienced sailors do not die in storms often. I know one women who sailed through a hurricane in the Bermuda Triangle and she thought that she was going to die, but she made it.
I want to dock at port towns and throw great parties on the boat. Maybe charge admission to non-crew. Then set sail to the next destination.
Anybody want to join my crew? PM me. Special consideration goes to people with sailing experience, chill people, and people I could trust my life with in a pinch, and people who want adventure and laid back lifestyle. Also, there will be opportunity to make money. I have a friend who brought many many pounds of Vanilla from Madagascar to France and made some great money. Also, he takes out rich tourists for a week and makes good money doing that.
Dude this is exactly what I fantasied about doing!!!!!!!!!!!!! I dreamed of just living off fish and the land and scoring epic surf in lonely places in British Columbia, just living on a sail boat.Quote:
am planning the best way to leave society or at least be independent from it right now. I want the best of both worlds, I want to be free to do what I want, and I want to have fun with friends. My plan is to get (or build) a 80 foot sailboat (or a fleet of them) and sail the world. There are many many many uninhabited islands that are great for living on. The coast of British Columbia in Canada comes to mind and one could spend a lifetime exploring all those islands. Plus the climate is very pretty temperate there and there are lots of wilderness to live off of, not to mention fish. Then, with a sailboat or a fleet of them, I am free to travel for free anywhere the ocean goes.
From the time I was maybe 8 to 15 I wanted to be a deckhand on a fishing boat. I just wanted to be on the ocean all the time. I was in love with the ocean. I had a strong connection with it. But now I'm kind of different, I still love the ocean but this is not what I want anymore.
I would love to go with you but I am only 17 and this not where my life takes me. I know I would love it though and would be very happy.
YES! This is interesting. Even more so because I had a dream last night where I was looking for something, I can't remember what, and I looked down at this list I had and your name was on it! Curiously it also had something about Sarah Palin lol but I'll ignore that.
Hm.... PM on it's way.
Yeah this is way awesome. This has been a dream of mine for a few years now. I'm not in a good place to join you at the moment, But in a few years if your still planning it I would love to join you. Maybe not on the same boat because I would like to have my own small sailboat and trail along some times or go other places at other times.
Check this out if you want to live out on the water.
Seasteading Institute