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In the room that you are in. 1
#12964378 - 07/27/10 10:36 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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How much stuff do you have around you that you do not need?
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blewmeanie



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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: teknix]
#12964620 - 07/27/10 11:19 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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The room I'm in is pretty bare since I really don't own all that much. Everything I have right now could fit in a typical duffel-bag. I guess I could live without this laptop, though it would make staying in touch with friends and family a lot more difficult.
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: blewmeanie]
#12964944 - 07/28/10 12:39 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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In the room I'm in now, nothing, except for my clothes otherwise I would be very cold! I love to throw stuff out though, less is more! When I throw stuff out that I really don't need It makes my mind feel clearer, less attachment to worry about, I don't understand people that have a lot of stuff, stuff can bring happiness, but it can also bring sadness if you form an attachment. I'm not going to go and throw everything out though!
When people say "money can't buy happiness" I disagree to an extent, I want a motorbike (I had one, but sold it to buy a car, I want another though lol) when I had this bike I loved it! I had happiness from it, so yes money bought that bike, which in turn made me happy, then made me sad because it is now gone. When people say this I think they are confused and mean either these two things, Money cannot directly buy happiness or Money cannot buy peace (most of you guys here I would assume understand the difference)
After all, we are human, we could dedicate our selves to one way of life, meditate in the mountains for the rest of our lives or just be hedonistic and do everything the makes you feel good. Personally I'd rather find a balance between both (not to be hedonistic in a negative way though haha)
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: teknix]
#12965412 - 07/28/10 06:12 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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teknix said: How much stuff do you have around you that you do not need?
Except for my guns, all of it.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: teknix]
#12965589 - 07/28/10 07:54 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Lots, but i keep making it less & less for some reason
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: teknix]
#12965634 - 07/28/10 08:10 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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It really depends on what you mean by "need".
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: teknix]
#12965640 - 07/28/10 08:12 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Do not need? Mmmm.... I used to live with hardly anything, not even a room. I stayed in a meditation-center. Some cloths, and washing gear was all i needed. Perhaps that's all i really need.
As for now, there's quite some stuff in this room, but i've made a pledge to myself a couple of years ago. Anything i don't use within a year must go. Either it just goes, or i swap it for something else. Sometimes i have thrown out things that i needed after one year and one day say, i regretted it. Nevertheless, most things around me in this room are in use, so i guess i need them at the moment.
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: Ahimsa]
#12966371 - 07/28/10 11:51 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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I need nothing, yet I have everything.....
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: teknix]
#12966410 - 07/28/10 12:03 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hardly any of it but I like most of it and will be keeping it all, as will you no doubt.
-------------------- Little left in the way of energy; or the way of love, yet happy to entertain myself playing mental games with the rest of you freaks until the rivers run backwards. "Chat your fraff Chat your fraff Just chat your fraff Chat your fraff"
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: Grapefruit]
#12966772 - 07/28/10 01:31 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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I want to minimize my stuff, ironically, when I have money to. I want to buy a travel trailer to live in with not much more than my basic necessities. I mostly just care about having a place to hang out with friends, which means a space with comfortable places to sit, to listen to music, to watch movies and stuff online (I don't care for television, not interactive enough), and of course a place to sleep and store/prepare food. I can fit all of that in a medium sized trailer and it'd be mobile so I can easily vacation with people in other parts of the country. I'll be like a turtle. Hopefully by next summer when I'm 21 California will have legalized and I'll be staying there for a good couple weeks
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: AngryPhil]
#12966839 - 07/28/10 01:48 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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You know you can just come here right now and pay $100 for an MMJ script.
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: Poid]
#12966968 - 07/28/10 02:12 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: AngryPhil]
#12968258 - 07/28/10 06:15 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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AngryPhil said: I want to minimize my stuff, ironically, when I have money to. I want to buy a travel trailer to live in with not much more than my basic necessities. I mostly just care about having a place to hang out with friends, which means a space with comfortable places to sit, to listen to music, to watch movies and stuff online (I don't care for television, not interactive enough), and of course a place to sleep and store/prepare food. I can fit all of that in a medium sized trailer and it'd be mobile so I can easily vacation with people in other parts of the country. I'll be like a turtle. Hopefully by next summer when I'm 21 California will have legalized and I'll be staying there for a good couple weeks 
I'm in the market for the same thing.
I want to just travel around setting up gardens on unused city lots in various locations. They usually come pretty cheap because the city loses money by maintaining it, and not getting taxes for it. Unused city owned lots are going for 250$.
I really actually need non of this stuff around me. I guess I'm more literal when it comes to necessity. The thing I value the most around me is my laptop, as it is my extension to vast amount of knowledge and added memory bank.
I have just taken off into the wilderness, leaving it all behind, starting from scratch. A new life, A new dream. I have awaken with the sunset so that I may see, the glory of the earth all around me.
It did not last long, for I was ill prepared. If I would have been smarter and wiser, I would have succeded, and this would have been one of the greatest feelings to me. Living in peace and harmony, in symbiosis with that which is more ancient than any man or animal.
It is like the more of this stuff I accumulate, the better the earth would have been without me. Compared to the inclusive objective reality.
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: teknix]
#12969990 - 07/29/10 12:16 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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There is so much that I do not need but I have. I could simplify but I am overwhelmed by the task. A year ago I started giving away possessions for this reason and my family thought I was going crazy. I wish I could simplify and have a more zen existance, with everything in it's place and less significane of material posessions but then I'll find myself in the store a few days later...buying more crap that I could probably do without.
Most people only wear about 6 different pieces of clothing in one month. I notice this in myself but I still purchase new clothing, that I might wear only a couple times a year. I buy DVD's that I will only watch a couple times in my life. I own cooking utensils that I bought for one cooking experiment that I never needed again. Now I'm not talking like I own a HUGE LOT of things, I live in a relatively small house with a roommate.
As for the room I am in...the only things I really need are the art supplies and my laptop, the art on my walls could be replaced with new art and I could probably find the information in my textbooks online. I do have a trunk filled with most of my very personal meaningful items but life would go on if I were unable to have them, things like pictures and old letters and school records and personal momentos.
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: Poid]
#12972343 - 07/29/10 02:34 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Poid said: You know you can just come here right now and pay $100 for an MMJ script. 
It's not that I just wanna smoke legally, I wanna be there for the historical aspect, the first summer of marijuana tourism.
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: AngryPhil]
#12972541 - 07/29/10 03:05 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Oh damn I didn't even think of that, now there's gonna be even more tourists here in Cali.
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: teknix]
#12975650 - 07/30/10 05:37 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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In order to live, I need 0% of the stuff in this room. However, I do need the room itself as shelter for longevity.
In order to get by in this bullshit civilization, I need 50% of the stuff in this room. (Computer, printer, etc.)
In order to enjoy my life before I die, I need the other 50% of the stuff in this room. (Huge stereo, huge speakers, comfy place to sit.)
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: Computerism]
#12975686 - 07/30/10 06:11 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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In order to enjoy my life before I die, I need the other 50% of the stuff in this room
While I agree with the rest of your post the above may not really be true. As far as you know.
Material things can become burdensome over a long period of time.
Gotta love the Bose speakers however.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: In the room that you are in. [Re: Icelander]
#12976866 - 07/30/10 01:31 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's debatable, but I'd be willing to get rid of all of it if I woke up tomorrow and there was no more electricity.
-------------------- Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high.
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