[quote name='"bakedasacookie"'] Yes I see the point your making, I never said it was going to be easy.. If this ever goes into effect there would be a clean water source... No way I'm Gunna make a plan and forget the essentials.[/quote] Whats wrong with just living with the rest of society and working. Save up and move into the countryside. Get a job there and take it from there. Id rather pay to have a place to live, food on the table, and a clean water source. But come on, starting everything from scratch is a little extreme. Look at what happened to the fool Chris Mccandless (i believe thats the name) did something similar and ended up drowning when he could of used what civilized society made--a bridge, and lived.
^This. Read The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's based on some of The Transcendentalist projects of this nature that happened in the 1800's. What Hawthorne ultimately finds is that, although he connected with some important part of himself living closer to nature...when you're working days that long full of physical labor, you don't have any time or energy to maintain the ideals that drew you out there in the first place. There are also a great number of documentaries and books about more recent experiments of this nature that point to basically the same conclusion. I think most modern people would experience things in much the same way. When life becomes literally a struggle just to stay alive for another day, things like food additives and commercials begin to seem like less and less of annoyance. The way we live is so far removed from the tribal sort of lifestyle that I think it's rather naive to assume that the transition (and really the whole experience) would be a necessarily fun or enjoyable one. It would definitely be worth trying for awhile, but I'd venture to say that just about anyone choosing to do only that for the rest of their life would be doing so solely out of stubbornness.
im doing something like this for myself. im saving up to start my own little farm, all organic non-gmo crops. sell on the roadside and to stores in nearby villages for money to get things i cant build.. and for internet lol. in a year or two itll happen, its just a matter of finding a good location at this point.
Just set up camp next to a freshwater river that has fish running through it, spend your days catching fish to eat and drinking the water from the river, shouldn't be too hard then you have time to do whatever you want. Although fishing is a meditative pass time in itself.
I'm down....but we gotta invest in some sort of in ground plumbing........cause I can't be diggin holes to piss n shit in, place will become a mine field.
[quote name='"Easy Going"'] Whats wrong with just living with the rest of society and working. Save up and move into the countryside. Get a job there and take it from there. Id rather pay to have a place to live, food on the table, and a clean water source. But come on, starting everything from scratch is a little extreme. Look at what happened to the fool Chris Mccandless (i believe thats the name) did something similar and ended up drowning when he could of used what civilized society made--a bridge, and lived.[/quote] Quite honestly society and all it stands for pisses me off. Everything is materialistic & money hungry. I would never want to live under a bridge the idea is to be in a more peaceful state of mind not homeless.
Could people live in an environment without cell phones and internet connections? Most everything we do today is thru the electronic umbilical cord of modern technology. Could you amass enough printed material to assist you in all forms of off the grid life? Sounds good, but, the 60's hippies tried it and they were nowhere near as tied to tech as we are today and most couldn't make it work....
[quote name='"Thai"']Im down, lets start it in madagascar or some shit tho [/quote] What's the weather like there ???
The reality does not live up to the fantasy. There have been thousands of communes of hippies who wanted to live off the land, get back to a natural lifestyle. How many are there now? Try this- turn off all of your electric items for a whole week. No cell phone, no computer, no refrigerator, no hot water, no air conditioning.... see how well you do in your home without electricity. Being out in the wilds is WAY tougher! Will your spring water give you giardia? And how will you handle human waste? Crop failures? Animal and insect pests? Do you know how to raise and butcher animals? How will you store your food? Do you know anything about herbal medicine and delivering babies? What about the eventual arguments that will arise- personality clashes killed a lot of communes! THINK! Granny
[quote name='"bakedasacookie"'] I on the other hand have never met a fat Indian [/quote] You've never been to a casino on the res. =p.
yo to everyone saying this is impossible. Think of all the homeless people out there, they get along fine and its easy breezy, much bettter than being imprisoned by walls except for hurricane storms haha
watch the documentary on netlfix commune. its awesome. its similar to your idea but with hippies who live in the woods with their own type of life style.
[quote name='"snowz4life"']watch the documentary on netlfix commune. its awesome. its similar to your idea but with hippies who live in the woods with their own type of life style.[/quote] Okay I'll check it out
Irrelevant. Or actually, that's another reason it wouldn't work. How do homeless people survive? They panhandle to get enough money to eat. OR they go to food banks. Either way, they are relying on the government and other people in a city. You know what else they do, often? DIE!
[quote name='"RingOfSmoke"'] Irrelevant. Or actually, that's another reason it wouldn't work. How do homeless people survive? They panhandle to get enough money to eat. OR they go to food banks. Either way, they are relying on the government and other people in a city. You know what else they do, often? DIE![/quote] Everybody's die'n.
Not all homeless live in shitburbia though, came across some dudes campsite and he had it set up like a king and it was obvious by his tools he fished and hunted. Anybody seen the doc on netflix dark days? Bout a hobo city underneath the NYC Subway system and its badass
How is this impossible, if you're by a freshwater river you already have water taken care of, and you can just fish during the day which is your food, not to mention growing vegetables or collecting natural growing plants to eat too for back up. Also you'll have your tent for shelter and warmth. I think it's very much possible if you choose the right location.
[quote name='"didier12"']How is this impossible, if you're by a freshwater river you already have water taken care of, and you can just fish during the day which is your food, not to mention growing vegetables or collecting natural growing plants to eat too for back up. Also you'll have your tent for shelter and warmth. I think it's very much possible if you choose the right location.[/quote] Is that why there are so many communes that have failed already?