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      Anyone want to leave society?

      I've been thinking seriously about building a little house in the woods/bush, or doing something like these guys A Low Impact Woodland Home They've started building a self-sustaining community, with permission from the council. Not sure how hard that would be to get.

      But even just building one without permission and living out of society would be awesome. In ground is good because it's pretty much undetectable out in the wild, planes/helicopters won't see it and the chances of someone stumbling upon it are slim.

      Does anyone want to do this? Not saying with me. By yourself or with others.

      The way 90% of society is going makes me sick.
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      I always wanted to live on a deserted island, but really I'm more drawn to the woods, so yeah, someday I'd love to have a little hobbit home. Hermeticism ftw.

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      If I could get high speed internet out there, then I would consider doing it.
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      I would like to do this, not because I dislike society but because I think it'd be a really good experience.

      WOW they actually are hobbit holes.
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      Grizzly Adams had the right idea.

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      For a long time I've wanted to live in a forest on my own for a week or so just to prove I could survive, for the experience. I'd need contacts or glasses though...

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      I go out in the woods several times per year for hunting or fishing or other outdoorsy stuff, either in tents or rustic cabins (no electricity, sometimes no water, propane lighting). I enjoy it but after a week or so I start getting really bored and restless. The bugs in the woods here in Canada are completely unbearable at certain times of the year as well.

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      I've done this.

      Twice. It's always loads of fun for the first 3 years, and then the novelty wears off. Then you go back to society, will all of its fancy knowledge and technology, and it's great for the first three years, and then the novelty wears off, and then...

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      Just go into deep levels of dreams like in Inception and create your own world ... wouldn't that be nice
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      I don't know how much of the world left is deserted AND able to live in, but that would be fun, if only it wasn't incredibly lonely. I would love to live in a humble place in a fairly secluded part of Hawaii.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Aquanina
      I always wanted to live on a deserted island, but really I'm more drawn to the woods, so yeah, someday I'd love to have a little hobbit home.
      Yeah apparently most islands are already owned, unless they're too small or void of plants to live on.
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      Hermeticism ftw.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Alric View Post
      If I could get high speed internet out there, then I would consider doing it.
      That would be alright. I suppose you'd need to have satellite or something.
      It would also be good so that you could research plants to eat and stuff like that.

      Quote Originally Posted by stonedape View Post
      I would like to do this, not because I dislike society but because I think it'd be a really good experience.

      WOW they actually are hobbit holes.
      Yeah it would be good. I don't dislike society really. Some aspects I really do though.
      Mostly governments and large greedy corporations people. Some other people are okay though and technology is cool.

      Quote Originally Posted by Dianeva View Post
      For a long time I've wanted to live in a forest on my own for a week or so just to prove I could survive, for the experience. I'd need contacts or glasses though...
      Glasses would be good because they could double as fire starters. If you have the right type. I think near-sighted ones don't work well.

      Quote Originally Posted by Spartiate View Post
      I go out in the woods several times per year for hunting or fishing or other outdoorsy stuff, either in tents or rustic cabins (no electricity, sometimes no water, propane lighting). I enjoy it but after a week or so I start getting really bored and restless. The bugs in the woods here in Canada are completely unbearable at certain times of the year as well.
      That's cool. I can understand getting bored after a while. Maybe you'd need to move occasionally. Or go with other people. Bug shit me too. There's some plants that are useful as insect repellent, plus nets etc. for a house.

      Quote Originally Posted by A Roxxor View Post
      I've done this.

      Twice. It's always loads of fun for the first 3 years, and then the novelty wears off. Then you go back to society, will all of its fancy knowledge and technology, and it's great for the first three years, and then the novelty wears off, and then...
      3 years!? Where did you do this?
      Technology is amazing. It would be awesome to come back after 10-20 years though and just see how far things have advanced lol Or turned to shit possibly haha
      Also did you build a house like this? Or just camp in a tent?

      Quote Originally Posted by chess92 View Post
      Just go into deep levels of dreams like in Inception and create your own world ... wouldn't that be nice
      Haha, yeah that would be awesome. And a total mindfuck when you wake up.

      Quote Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer View Post
      I don't know how much of the world left is deserted AND able to live in, but that would be fun, if only it wasn't incredibly lonely. I would love to live in a humble place in a fairly secluded part of Hawaii.
      There's a fair bit left. Probably have to research a bit to find some good places.

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      I want to escape being human, with all its insanity - false conceptions, ego, greed, emotional associations, trapped by my own 'personality' etc. In very low days, I wish I was dead, but since I believe in reincarnation, this won't buy me much except <49d in bardo.

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      Quote Originally Posted by shitmymonksays View Post
      I want to escape being human, with all its insanity - false conceptions, ego, greed, emotional associations, trapped by my own 'personality' etc. In very low days, I wish I was dead, but since I believe in reincarnation, this won't buy me much except <49d in bardo.
      Destroying the ego would be a major reason for me to go in to the woods alone. Apparently some people decide to do this when practicing Buddhism because it since you aren't talking to anyone, the inner voice finally shuts up by itself, making it easier to see clearly.
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      Absolutely. Society makes me feel sick sometimes. All the lies, the institutional injustice, the corruption, the crazy consumerism and the fanaticism makes me sick. I have very often thought about leaving society in different ways. I've been through periods where I considered suicide. Now I mostly just think about buying a place somewhere far from civilization and living there by myself, without caring about the rest of the world. The main problem is the loneliness, I guess. I wouldn't want to be completely alone. I have talked to a very close friend about it, and we kind of figured that we could buy a place together when we are older, and then we would live there together without caring about the rest of the world.

      Some kind of self-sustaining community wouldn't be enough for me, I'm afraid that would mean society coming after me.

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      Quote Originally Posted by tommo View Post
      I've been thinking seriously about building a little house in the woods/bush, or doing something like these guys A Low Impact Woodland Home They've started building a self-sustaining community, with permission from the council. Not sure how hard that would be to get.

      But even just building one without permission and living out of society would be awesome. In ground is good because it's pretty much undetectable out in the wild, planes/helicopters won't see it and the chances of someone stumbling upon it are slim.

      Does anyone want to do this? Not saying with me. By yourself or with others.

      The way 90% of society is going makes me sick.
      YouTube - JMEMantzel's Channel

      This guy is living more or less off the grid. He owns a property on a mountain somewhere and basically has built his own little base there. Currently he's working on a lot of stuff, including a giant spider robot, completely built out of scrap metal. The guy is an engineering genius (not really, but he's pretty smart still) and is basically extremely cool.

      These days he doesn't live up in the mountains though, because it's kind of cold there and he has a little family.

      Check out his first Giant Robot Project video, to get the gist of it. It's a lot of fun and very interesting too.

      YouTube - Giant Robot Project, Part 1
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      Well, you contradict yourself from the start. Leave society to build a community? Hello? I think the cabins are empty now.

      There is sense to what you say, if you look behind the words. A society is more than a heap of people. Have you ever asked what makes a society? Other than a heap of people? You should have learned it in Elementary Set Theory-- but if you did, you did not understand its application to all thought and human action.
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      I've actually thought about going to the other end of the spectrum and visiting as many different societies as I possibly can and learn about the world that way. At the same time, I actually think that solitude can give you an opportunity to learn about yourself and to sort out your things.

      Generally, every experience you go through teaches you something. If I left society, it would be temporary, until I completed what I felt needed to be done, or learned what I wanted to learn.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Philosopher8659 View Post
      Well, you contradict yourself from the start. Leave society to build a community? Hello? I think the cabins are empty now.

      There is sense to what you say, if you look behind the words. A society is more than a heap of people. Have you ever asked what makes a society? Other than a heap of people? You should have learned it in Elementary Set Theory-- but if you did, you did not understand its application to all thought and human action.
      Yes, it's real ridiculous to feel fed up with something and want to create your own version of it.

      What the fuck is with your and your inane posts, btw?
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      You would just get bored with it after the first week.
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      Not really, no. I like the city life.

      But for a vacation it's nice to be out in the country for some peace and quiet; couldn't live my whole life out there though

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