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 Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:18 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:12 pm
I don't think I could live like that.
At times I think it would be awesome.. but then I realize how much I love about the modern world. XD
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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:32 pm
I couldn't make a life like that, but I feel as though having that kind of life available like the condo some people have, would be nice.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:33 am
Intoxikace I don't think I could live like that.
At times I think it would be awesome.. but then I realize how much I love about the modern world. XD diddo, there's a lot about that I love. Living off the land, no electricity, no running water, that I would love. Most of the time I like my solitude. I love spending a week up in the country at my cottage. But, I also like team sports, kayaking, mountain biking. My time on the computer talking to people all over the world watching movies and the occasional tv show. Maybe if I had a solar powered house with lots of land but within driving distance of a community where I could do those sports that would be the best of both worlds.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:43 pm
I always thought it would be perfect to have a house or apartment right in the middle of things in a city that I loved, but also a HUGE ranch somewhere. For me, that would be wonderful!
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:14 pm
I think what they said is quite true. With electricity, things changed, we could stay up late, we could have things more instant and it just snowballed from there. I definitely like working outdoors compared to being in an office. I really think people need to work more for what we call the "little" things - food, shelter. Because we have those things easily, we've had to fill the space/time with garbage - like low interest credit cards, Jersey Shore, forced obsoletism, office jobs. If we had to work harder to provide our food instead of going to the store, we'd be "cleaner" in the sense that we wouldn't have Snooki's, Paris Hiltons and Geraldo. I really want to try that cactus soap. I could live that way, no problem. However, coming from what I have now - instant Internet access, bookstores, Starbucks, I would miss those things. However, I came from watching almost non stop TV (it was nearly always either to watch or to dull the sounds of the neighbours) to no TV at all. I really enjoy it. Yeah, I'm missing Stargate Universe, the new V series and a bunch of other really awesome shows, but eh - I still have a TV and will eventually get around to purchasing the box set. (We watch only an hour of TV a day - DVD box set only.) It's really nice. It's really refreshing. I like that I don't watch commercials. Perfect world to me would be that of the Ba'ku as shown in Star Trek: Insurrection. They were quite technologically advanced, but used it sparingly.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:58 pm
I'm looking forward to the point when I can live like that. I lived without running water and only enough electricity for the lights at night and the dorm size refrigerator. I haven't had cable, I don't use the internet as much.
I've only had landscaping and farming jobs. I think the hardest transition will be when you start living further and further from the grid; you have to find ways to get heat and electricity in decent flow to your abode. Wood stoves and wood fire generators are great, I have one at my house now and it works like a charm.
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:05 am
I think I could learn to live like that, and even enjoy it, but I don't think I'd like being so thoroughly without modern things as they are. I wouldn't mind living in a cabin in the woods for a while, without internet or television, maybe even without electricity. I'd want to have a garden and some fruit trees so that I and whoever I lived with wouldn't have to kill anything or have to go to the store unless we wanted to. I would want running water though. As long as I had the choice to go back to electricity and a modern way of life whenever I wanted to. To spend an entire summer that way would be really interesting.
I enjoy camping without too many amenities, so if I think of it sort of like that... well, it could be fun.
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:53 am
I think what I found most wonderful about this story was something that no one has spoken about----the way these people look at each other. You can tell that each is the center of the universe to the other. Just think what they've come through together out in that rough West Texas land! No doubt, they didn't start out that way, but grew closer through crises and everyday challenges and time, sickness and health, good and bad times. Neither has anyone else to depend upon. Any differences of opinion they've had to work through, just like all the rest of us, over a lifetime of years.....until now they've grown together like a pair of trees, with roots deep in the earth and their arms wrapped around each other, watching the sunset over the other's shoulder. Isn't that what we all long for? And isn't it worth leaving "civilization" to attain it?
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:21 am
Not at all. I couldn't live on a gigantic piece of land with no body of water in sight. The lack of electricity/running water is pretty easy to get used to though.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:48 am
sunsetsmile I think what I found most wonderful about this story was something that no one has spoken about----the way these people look at each other. You can tell that each is the center of the universe to the other. Just think what they've come through together out in that rough West Texas land! No doubt, they didn't start out that way, but grew closer through crises and everyday challenges and time, sickness and health, good and bad times. Neither has anyone else to depend upon. Any differences of opinion they've had to work through, just like all the rest of us, over a lifetime of years.....until now they've grown together like a pair of trees, with roots deep in the earth and their arms wrapped around each other, watching the sunset over the other's shoulder. Isn't that what we all long for? And isn't it worth leaving "civilization" to attain it?
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