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Comment on Choosing to live as a hermit by hermit-wanna-be

hermit-wanna-be — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:27:49 +0000

I’m glad to find your blog. I’ve been thinking, I want to live as hermit (if my wife agrees to live as hermit too) after all the kids graduate from college.

I was wondering, in order to survive in the wild, what skills I need to learn? Also, how to avoid wild animals?

Thanks to “hermit” for the idea of place to live (North West).

Comment on Choosing to live as a hermit by mentalimaging

mentalimaging — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:00:45 +0000

Thank you for posting on my blog. It sounds like you have a solid plan. I lived on five acres in Bend in the early 1970’s. Sold it to go to college in Eugene. Wish now that I had stayed on the land. Good Luck!

Comment on Choosing to live as a hermit by hermit

hermit — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:23:06 +0000

I am living as a hermit right now, while paying off student loans and saving for a hermitage of my own in the next 5-10 years. I am a live-in care provider for an adult foster home in Oregon. The owner pays for my rent, utilities – basically everything. I spend a little each week on food that I want, or I can eat what is in the house that the owner buys. My entire monthly check goes into savings and in 5 years (which I turn 40) I will be able to purchase a small piece of land where I can then go and live in a hermit shack, off the grid. It will be close enough to town to walk/hike to the library and store for books and supplies, hopefully on a lake on the Oregon Coast. It rains enough over here so water collection won’t be a problem. Plan to grow my food, fish and raise chickens. I don’t want to be around people, or work a job after I turn 40. I want to just live off my land, day to day and try my best to close out the world. I’ve also considered giving away my laptop and my van and just squatting on public land. There are alot of woods and forests up here in the North West. Lots of room still to stretch out – would be just a little easier I think if I owned land so I could grow food instead of hunting and gathering.

Comment on The Beaches of Agnes – a film that gives you the desire to grow old by mercerd

mercerd — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:05:38 +0000

interesting material, where such topics do you find? I will often go

Comment on Choosing to live as a hermit by mentalimaging

mentalimaging — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:14:27 +0000

The definition of hermit is certainly open to new interpretations. When the word was first widely used, the option of living alone or in seclusion was not feasible for anyone outside of a religious order. But now, with more and more people living alone, the religious affiliation is no longer needed or necessary. Given the dramatic changes in our society over the last 20-30 years I think that becoming a hermit, or living as a hermit, needs to be redefined as a healthy, positive lifestyle choice, and one that is perfectly acceptable for anyone to make.

Comment on Make the film you want and then set it free. by mentalimaging

mentalimaging — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:46:24 +0000

Thanks for your comment. A new definition for a ‘chick flick’ is sorely needed – YES. I was strolling down the ‘action’ section in Blockbuster yesterday and all the films had male leads – so, women never engage in action? Why does action and suspense always mean guns and killing? I would love to see some women thrillers in which no one is physically harmed and nothing gets blown up.

Comment on Make the film you want and then set it free. by Atomica

Atomica — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:09:49 +0000

I’m totally with Jane Campion on this one. As we see more films directed by a female perspective, we’re going to witness new complexities and twists that we haven’t seen before.

And maybe we’ll experience a refreshing twist on the typically testosterone-driven action movie or western. A new definition for a ‘chick flick’ is sorely needed.

Comment on Can a sex ban force peace? Kenyan women give it a try. by educlaytion

educlaytion — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:30:05 +0000

So the legal claim was that his “joyous espousal” got messed up. Ha! Amazing how many times these strikes have been tried. I was just writing about this same thing on my site. Good stuff.

Comment on Choosing to live as a hermit by james

james — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:47:59 +0000

i would very much so like to know how the basics of living like this without any income, not neccessarily to be a hermit, but to live completley unreliant of economical society, funny enough im only 18, i can’t imagine waiting another 20 years for freedom from the financial world.

contact with people isn’t something that bother’s me, but going hungry in a world rich with the oppurtunity for self sustenance because i dont have a piece of paper in my pocket with a number on it is ridiculous. (im reffering to money, just in case its not obvious)

Comment on About Mental Imaging by mentalimaging

mentalimaging — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:48:55 +0000

Thank you!