I like camping.  That doesn't sound bad at all

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If you have little or nothing

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Masked said:

I like camping.  That doesn't sound bad at all

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If you have little or nothing

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...go out and make a lot or something

IMO

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Repertoire89 said:

Who be that hottie in your sig?

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Recursion said:

For me it was a choice. My first time being homeless - I had a pretty good lab job at 22 making 40K a year but I just wasn't happy with my life and anything I was doing. Yeah, I worked hard in college for good grades but I was a social isolate. The kind of kid you see in class who doesn't talk to anybody, let alone give you much eye contact. I thought all people were inherently selfish because of biological and sociological conditioning.

I felt disenchanted and disillusioned with humanity and these feelings just snowballed into a feeling of total meaninglessness. Fuck it, I'm tired of living in a world that is full of fake ass people. I don't feel alive anymore so I'll quit my job and I'll quit everything and hopefully I'll die and blah, blah, blah. I'll go live under a bridge. Just madness man.

There isn't really much logic going on in a lot of these peoples heads. It doesn't help us not to be empathetic with these people as it will only make things worse. I can tell you that a lot of homeless and down-and-out people have lost their faith in humanity. Just try and help them out by giving them some sort of assurance that there are good people in the world and there is sufficient reason for them to do more/better. Try and give them a faith in humanity once again.

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Dawks said:

Repertoire89 said:

Who be that hottie in your sig?

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according to google it's valerie poxleitner.

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Who be that hottie in your sig?

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Masked said:

Specifically, looking for shroomerites experience with being homeless.

I make this thread because I'm realizing just how many shroomerites are or were homeless at one point.

In my opinion, a certain drug lifestyle is definitely a good candidate for it.

I'm sure there are others, but repetoire and stillnox are two members I know who said they were somewhat homeless at one time.

I can't understand it. I have had to work hard for everything I have.  I know that my world doesn't consist of where I was born...if there is no work, move.  If you can't find work, bullshit, stop being picky.

I dunno, I just can't understand why someone is jobless and homeless.

Please explain why it happened and what it took to get out of it.

And if you got out of it, why did you let it happen in the first place? because obviously when you were ready and willing, you were able to effect change, thus making you not homeless anymore.

I looked at the statistics and it's mind boggling how many people are homeless.  I just can't understand it.

Maybe those experienced can help me have some sympathy and understanding towards it?

I pretty much think of a junkie, lazy bum.  mcdonalds is ALWAYS hiring.  treeplanters up here are some of the scummiest people on earth lol.  They hire anyone.  There's ALWAYS work if you want it.  But I think a lot of homeless people don't want it.  They want to "live free", which is another way of saying, all they can think about is their next fix.  Am I wrong?  guaranteed some will think I am and that's fine.  I may be, but make me see some good reasoning behind choosing to be homeless.  Because at the end of the day, it is ALWAYS a choice IMO

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MOTH said:

For others...they have fallen between the cracks of society due to various factors and for these it is incredibly difficult to get back, even if they want to.  These days if you lack documentation identifying you as who you are, you're fucked.  I once lost every one of my ID's.  Getting a job without one was a nightmare.  Getting replacement IDs WITHOUT AN ID...was nearly impossible.

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Az0th said:

I was homeless for about 3 years off and on, partially by choice partially due to circumstance.
What happened to me was I went on a road trip down to Florida to visit a friend, got busted with a gram of weed and ended up in jail for 7-8 months. That pretty much fucked up my job, rent/living situation (5 states away), insurance, and all that shit, so I pretty much lost everything, I had to sell my car just to get out of Florida.

I said fuck it and just traveled around the country for the next 2 years, how? I dunno, miracles and magic and shit, and a lot of help from friends.
I learned a lot of things. Would not trade the experience. I know how to survive on almost nothing.
I managed to find a lot of work while homeless, all sort of odd jobs and ways to make money on the side that was NOT begging for change, which I have too much pride to do. I have many skills and knowledge so I used that.

It took me a while to get back 'on my feet' and back to 'normal reality' -(house, car, 9-5job, etc). But I did and it's like nothing ever happened except I missed a period of my life in my 20s where I could have been 'diversifying my stock portfolio and making mad bank' or whatever it is... but instead was out living life carefree except how I was going to eat. Now I stress out about money 100x more, now that I have a lot more money, but I guess I could have made a savings. Either way fuck it.

You probably shouldn't judge homeless people too much OP. There are many diverse reasons for people being homeless in the US, you can't just say oh they are all too lazy to work or whatever. Some people get fucked over hard and have no other choice. A lot of them are trying hard to get out of that situation, and for a lot of people homelessness is just a transitory period. Some people are homeless by choice.. and some people become homeless because they are lazy fuckheads or drug addicts.. but it's not all of them. A lot of people just get fucked by the system or whatever, and have no other fallback or choice. We don't all have rich families that give a fuck. Also the current system we have is not the greatest one ever devised. All these things and more are factors. There are a multitude of different reasons people become homeless. I've met plenty of homeless vietnam vets.. how does that even happen?

That said I never give money to homeless people. I never begged for it outside 7-11 when I was homeless, and I don't like when they ask me for it. I worked hard for what little I have. I worked for everything I have and built myself back up from ground zero with nothing. Like 3 or 4 times. But I'll get them some food or something, if they are hungry. Cause being hungry sucks.

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