A week off
Posted on: August 10, 2009 - 10:33pm
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A week off
I'm going to be off for about a week, I might be on tomorrow and Wensday night.
For those curious, I'll be going on a little "spiritual quest" and spending some time sleeping in the woods and doing the "getting in tune with nature thing", I've heard about them and wanted to try one.
I'll probably leave Thursday and come back in about a week.
Oh and for the record, I do not smoke pot, or wear multi-coloured shirts with flowers on them [i.e not a hippy]
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"I do not smoke pot"
Tsk tsk. Try and enjoy it anyway.
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No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
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For the record I smoke pot daily (if not more) and it has never made me sleep in a forest wearing a multicoloured shirt and become a hippie. Please do not insult pot.
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Why not add LSD and tree huggers for the whole stereotype of hippies? For the record I smoke weed and I am the antithesis of hippies. Please try some, you will see that you do not wear multicoloured shirts (if you do, your weed is laced, stop smoking it, and go beat the crap out of the dealer) or wake up in a forest (that was a lot of weed you smoked there.....trying doing it at home or at a friends house) at the most you get a drunk feeling without the hangover and a great feeling of mellowness to yourself.
Whatever. You're going into the woods to make out with cute boys. I thought that was what camp was all about. Well, other than making out with cute girls, which I would recommend, but it might not be your thing.
Spiritual like mystic spiritual, or Holy Spiritual?
Cuz the first one sounds a lot more fun than the second.
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Heh. I don't smoke pot either, but if I was going out into the woods for a spiritual communion with nature, I'd smoke pot for that.
You should give it a try. Live a little
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Good luck finding that cosmic conciousness. I know it would be futile to suggest going to your local bookstore to the fiction section, you'll find it there.
But in all seriousness, as much as I pull my fangs out on you, enjoy your time off. Everyone needs a break.
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I hope you'll watch out for bears, rapists, gamekeepers, ticks, poisonous snakes, wildfires, and slugs in shoes if you leave them out of the tent overnight. These are some of the reasons why I rather prefer getting in tune with my higher self.
Beings who deserve worship don't demand it. Beings who demand worship don't deserve it.
Luminon it is August, take a vacation.
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Enjoy. I wish you good travels, and the happy fortune to find whatever it is you seek.
How exactly did you become out of tune with nature? We humans are a product of nature, our actions are a product of us. Therefore every building, and technological advance is a part of the natural world. You never left nature.
Sounds made up...
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No, I am not angry at your imaginary friends or enemies.
August is a great time to head out for a vacation....and damn it I am heading out next week, going up to Minden Hills (near bracebridge for those in Ontario) to just chill, cottage (no tents I rather have my creature comforts, like running water and a nice comfy bed), booze, pool, friends, weed (yeah it's been a while so I am going to enjoy), bonfires and of course.....marshmellows. Thankfully a friend has a nice cottage that I get to rent for next to nothing. Can't wait, 5 years since my last real vacation (long weekends don't count)
Pfft who needs a creatre comforts, who even needs a tent as I discovered a year back, (kudos to me for forgeting the tent and not reasilsing until after a 4 hour drive) Just sleeping under the stars is the best.
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.
What can I say I am spoiled that way. Plus the weather has not been the greatest here a tent might do well since we have had a few severe thunderstorms in the last 4 days, 3 days with torrential rainfalls. That and yeah comfy bed, just can't beat that, I haven't done sleeping bag in so many years, heck the last time I did I had a sore back for a few days....gave it up after that
As for sleeping under the stars, last time I tried that I needed a half of vodka bottle every time to get asleep in that damn cold. I was fully clothed, in a sleeping bag, in a tent, and it was a sunny summer.
Beings who deserve worship don't demand it. Beings who demand worship don't deserve it.
I hope you find what you are looking for. something similar to what you are doing, though without any spiritual undertones. I still very much want to, but I will have to wait awhile, as I start college very soon.
I hope you find what you are looking for.
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-part of the natural world. I'm not one that likes to argue,but you could not have been more wrong on this matter.When you go back into Human Nature,you see that for a long time we were part of the natural world (for millions of years)but then came inventions such as farming,writing,religions and armies all of which threw us out of our nature,in fact an argument can be made that says that with all of our technological advances,it has put the brakes on the evolution of mankind.Everything in toady's society has only made us slaves to violence,destruction and pollution of our land-base.We rely on things that has been murdering our planet.
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Everything is natural, you cannot escape that fact, you just really have to think about it. Humans making farms is just as much natural as ants growing fungus. Nothing puts a break on the evolution other than extinction. We are still evolving, slower or faster it doesn't matter evolution != nature, it is simply a part of life which is part of nature... currently. Yes we make a lot of things and we kill. I say so what part of that isn't natural? How exactly is violence, destruction and pollution not a part of nature? It might be extreme nature, but it is all still nature. Killing the planet might be part of nature, not really sure it, has not happened yet. But even if we did destroy all life on this planet it wouldn't kill nature, it would only change it. There is nothing magical, or unnatural about what we are doing to this planet. It is part of how we are changing.
Sounds made up...
Agnostic Atheist
No, I am not angry at your imaginary friends or enemies.
"more perfect" Makes absolutely no sense to me. Please define these terms.
Primitive = less nature?
Humans stuff is nice. How long did you go before you decided vodka would be your sleep aid? (Serious question)
Sounds made up...
Agnostic Atheist
No, I am not angry at your imaginary friends or enemies.
There were otherwise some interesting events. For example, I observed a nearby binary star system through a small telescope, or got almost unconscious by smoking a hookah. Although there were some less pleasant events, the whole gathering was definitely worth of 1000 experience points.
Beings who deserve worship don't demand it. Beings who demand worship don't deserve it.
The feeling? I don't get it.
I do.
I think my problem with calling something not natural is that well lets take some examples. A beaver can build a dam Is a beaver no longer part of nature? Ants farm fungus, are they no longer part of nature? Some apes and birds use tools are they no longer a part of nature? Where is the (blurry) line drawn from nature to not nature?
Sounds made up...
Agnostic Atheist
No, I am not angry at your imaginary friends or enemies.
Might I humbly suggest peyote?
Try not to get Limes Disease.
Just saying.
Yeah, that's pretty "spiritual".
This is the first time I've ever heard of this. According to Wikipedia its leagal in Canada, I'll have to look into this.
Did someone say Salvia?
boring.
"these walls, such they be, are crawling with geometric hallucination..."
"Very brightly coloured, very irridescent. Deep sheens and very highly reflective surfaces everything is machine-like and polished and throbbing with energy but that is not what immediately arrests my internal linkattention. What arrests my attention is the fact that this space is inhabited.
"And so like jewelled self dribbling basketballs these things come running forward and what they are doing with this visible internal linklanguage that they create is they are making gifts! They are making gifts for you and they will say ..."
No, I don't smoke the salvia divinorum, I just listen to Shpongle.
Beings who deserve worship don't demand it. Beings who demand worship don't deserve it.
I'm back, I might create a topic about it in a few days once I collect my thoughts together.