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what is voluntary poverty?
    #19409245 - 01/12/14 05:14 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I met a girl today who says she's lives by voluntary poverty. Is that just a fancy way of saying she's cheap and doesn't mind other people paying her way, or is it more of a way of rebelling against the materialistic ways of our society?


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: brokentv]
    #19409269 - 01/12/14 05:19 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

You shouldn't assume that other people pay her way. For all you know she's living a very disciplined lifestyle. How judgmental of you.


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: brokentv] * 3
    #19409272 - 01/12/14 05:19 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

"Rebelling against our materialistic ways" is generally just a roundabout way of saying that you're a lazy piece of shit who failed to make it in our society.
Chances are this girl is unmotivated, void of any skills, lazy, and a non-contributing member of society who has no other option by poverty. Voluntary, my ass.


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: s240779]
    #19409278 - 01/12/14 05:21 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I never meant to judge, this girl seemed to have an attitude and just wasn't very nice which makes me curious. Maybe she is having a tough time in her life right now, i'm just curious. I don't understand what the voluntary part means.


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: brokentv] * 1
    #19409284 - 01/12/14 05:21 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

If I were broke and had no willpower or means to end my poverty, I wouldn't be nice either.


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: brokentv]
    #19409287 - 01/12/14 05:22 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

It can mean that she abstains from certain conveniences because she doesn't want to support certain things. for example, she might cut her own hair because she finds the idea of paying someone else to do something that she's capable of doing herself to be undesirable. She might ride a bike as a opposed to drive a car, because she doesn't want to support the oil industry. She might read books as opposed to take classes in college...you get the idea...

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I never meant to judge, it's that she wasn't very nice which makes me curious.




Oh no? Heh.


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: something super extreme] * 4
    #19409311 - 01/12/14 05:26 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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If I were broke and had no willpower or means to end my poverty, I wouldn't be nice either.




wait.... you've been being nice the whole time?


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: something super extreme]
    #19409314 - 01/12/14 05:27 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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"Rebelling against our materialistic ways" is generally just a roundabout way of saying that you're a lazy piece of shit who failed to make it in our society.
Chances are this girl is unmotivated, void of any skills, lazy, and a non-contributing member of society who has no other option by poverty. Voluntary, my ass.





How would you describe yourself dude :lol:, because this way of living is popular amongst shroomerites IME .

Being a little bit lazy is not that bad in my opinion, Life is not a race to the grave... I dont share your views...if it's her choice ...let it be ...


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: hidenseek1]
    #19409319 - 01/12/14 05:28 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Somewhere between unfaltering honesty and gleeful sarcasm.

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How would you describe yourself dude :lol:, because this way of living is popular amongst shroomerites IME .






I am not the average shroomerite.


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: brokentv]
    #19409332 - 01/12/14 05:32 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

It's this:

Always thought the words in this song were great.



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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: pslyke]
    #19409334 - 01/12/14 05:33 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Voluntary poverty?

Sounds like a fancy way of saying welfare.


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: brokentv]
    #19409348 - 01/12/14 05:35 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

voluntary poverty?

That makes it sound like she is some 18 year old girl with millionaire parents who is trying to rebel against her parents or something it soubnds really stuck up .


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: brokentv] * 1
    #19409363 - 01/12/14 05:38 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

:okiapprove: How she look?


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: something super extreme]
    #19409364 - 01/12/14 05:38 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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sVs said:
"Rebelling against our materialistic ways" is generally just a roundabout way of saying that you're a lazy piece of shit who failed to make it in our society.
Chances are this girl is unmotivated, void of any skills, lazy, and a non-contributing member of society who has no other option by poverty. Voluntary, my ass.




This + ultra trendy/hip = "voluntary poverty"


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: ShiVersblood]
    #19409371 - 01/12/14 05:39 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I am in voluntary poverty, in my case it just means I'm lazy as fuck and don't have a job because I don't want to work. I just do random shit occasionally for money.

Although I'm supposed to be getting a regular job soon.


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: TrentBoyett]
    #19409380 - 01/12/14 05:42 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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I am in voluntary poverty, in my case it just means I'm lazy as fuck and don't have a job because I don't want to work. I just do random shit occasionally for money.

Although I'm supposed to be getting a regular job soon.





That sounds like me, but throw in some mental illness


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: something super extreme] * 1
    #19409389 - 01/12/14 05:45 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I would say I lived in voluntary poverty for quite some time... Nobody was paying my way and I did work, so I was "contributing". It was a happy time in my life. My expenses were few. I lived in a van and you bet your ass I cut my own hair instead of paying someone to do it. I also learned to sew and got pretty good at cooking nutritious meals on a budget. During that wonderful stage of my life I was able to travel across the country a few times and live in more than 3 different states. I saw amazing landscapes and met some great people. At least one of those years my income was less than $10,000.00, which is well below the poverty level. I did not want for anything, and did not long for stupid useless shit I didn't need.

I feel I treated others with kindness and respect during that time and continue to do so even though I am now living more or less a conventional American lifestyle.  Life if not about how much money you make.


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: ShiVersblood] * 1
    #19409390 - 01/12/14 05:45 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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voluntary poverty?

That makes it sound like she is some 18 year old girl with millionaire parents who is trying to rebel against her parents or something it soubnds really stuck up .




A lot of hippies in Ashbury in the 60's came from super rich baby boomer parents.


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Re: what is voluntary poverty? [Re: s240779]
    #19409452 - 01/12/14 05:57 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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voluntary poverty?

That makes it sound like she is some 18 year old girl with millionaire parents who is trying to rebel against her parents or something it soubnds really stuck up .



she definitely had a pretty stuck up attitude.

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:okiapprove: How she look?



She was ok, pretty typical. Personality weighs heavily on looks for me. I guess she was just too uptight for my taste


Edited by brokentv (01/12/14 06:01 PM)


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