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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: Icelander]
#7522493 - 10/16/07 10:12 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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No, the saying is "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun." It's from a play by Noel Coward.
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: Veritas]
#7522497 - 10/16/07 10:13 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I guess I wasn't even close.
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: NiamhNyx]
#7522612 - 10/16/07 10:52 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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NiamhNyx said: Warning: Kelowna is a redneck shithole! It's an ugly, sprawling wasteland full of Hell's Angels and way too much cocaine. If you really wanna go to the deserty interior region try Kamloops instead, it's a bit smaller and there's some good folks out that way.
I live in Kamloops
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: Icelander]
#7522621 - 10/16/07 10:54 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Icelander said: We usually have so much garbage etc. flowing into our consciousness that the process almost never reverses and flows back out for review. Many gems are lost.
good way of putting it!
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: onlynow]
#7522657 - 10/16/07 11:06 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hell yeah. I mean the more I see homeless people the more I don't want to experience it but there's many different kinds.
I met a girl, about my age, 22, that's well without a home. So I won't call her completely homeless but she'll manage to sleep at friend's places and whatnot. Anyhow she basically works as a cook at the soup kitchen for food, if she needs any money she'll ask one of the farmers in the area if they need help with their crops and she says she's really happy. She doesn't have any schedule to abide by, hangs out at this bar/music store all the time. she's pretty cool.
anyhow, yeah totally.
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: Cracka_X]
#7522692 - 10/16/07 11:18 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Homelessness by choice it seems to me would make for a happy soul. When I was a young man I did it for a short time off and on. I lived in a pack and traveled by hitchhiking mostly in the west, up and down the coast. Every day was different and an adventure. When we get older and a little beaten down we don't challenge ourselves in these ways usually. As Hue says we draw in our lives and get protective of our self and our "things". It seems that most folk "grow up" and do this.
I was talking to a friend in his mid 60s last night and he said he was about to chuck in his long time life here and start over, fresh, somewhere new, where he was a stranger. I think it shows his vitality . He's the youngest 60+ I've ever seen. He still looks a little like a kid and has always been healthy as far as I know. (physically I mean);)
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: Booby]
#7522696 - 10/16/07 11:19 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Booby said: good fishing, eh?
Anyone been out to the Queen Charlotte islands? Is the weather less rainy out there? Is it mostly swamp?
"There are no fast-food restaurants in the Queen Charlotte Islands" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Charlotte_Islands
Is this indicative of some philosophical perspective?
I'm guessing the weather would be shit most of the time, I used to live on the coast and it never stopped raining. although it can be a beautiful place (especially the nature) it's just not worth it. unless rain is your kind of thing.. but I grew up with it so no.
BTW, no good fishing in our lake. unless you want a 3 eyed fish not sure about Kelowna though.
NiamhNyx - I'm not too worried about the people in Kelowna, meeting people isn't my goal. I wouldn't be spending much time in town anyways, mostly the surrounding mountains and wilderness. Use the town for food, supplies, library, clean-up etc. nobodhi's comin
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: onlynow]
#7522707 - 10/16/07 11:24 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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When I lived in Settle I used to head up fishing in your neck of the woods. We caught Kamloops trout. Some were really big and they were strong jumpers and fighters. We would get on connecting lakes and take acid and go from lake to lake in canoes exploring.
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: Icelander]
#7522744 - 10/16/07 11:40 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah there are tonnes of lakes out here, this one lake we went to last year we caught over 20 fish in one day. small, but tasty.
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: onlynow]
#7522769 - 10/16/07 11:49 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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That depends what one calls 'home'. There are philosophical debates about it. My doctrine would be: "The world is my oyster" (FGTH) - and I love nature.
But in reality, it is only my ideal and I see me moving away from that, sadly, as I rent some shitty flat, which I wouldn't really call 'home'. My parents divorced and I was driven out of 'parents house' as I was 18. My father supported me for a while as I was on university, but since over 12 years (since I stopped studying) I absolutely live on my own...in not 'home like' conditions for some reasons. I even moved quite often. Again, I am caught inbetween - planning to make the best out of it  Somehow, I call myself a gypsy
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: onlynow]
#7522799 - 10/16/07 11:55 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I remember one of my crazy friends who was a real slacker caught a tiny trout about five inches and wouldn't take it off the hook. He jokingly said he was using it for bait and that fucker caught a six pound kamloops rainbow that was by far the biggest one we caught.
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: BlueCoyote]
#7522802 - 10/16/07 11:56 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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nature is when I feel closest to home... indoors seems to lack that certain energy.
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: Icelander]
#7522804 - 10/16/07 11:57 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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don't doubt the crazy slackers
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: onlynow]
#7522819 - 10/16/07 12:00 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm sure he's dead or in jail by now.
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: Icelander]
#7522828 - 10/16/07 12:02 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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oh those crazy friends
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: onlynow]
#7522981 - 10/16/07 12:42 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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He almost put us all in jail on that trip. A drugs across the border thingy.
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: onlynow]
#7523023 - 10/16/07 12:49 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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onlynow said: nature is when I feel closest to home... indoors seems to lack that certain energy.
Yes, home is, where you feel the most comfortable ...
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: BlueCoyote]
#7524130 - 10/16/07 04:24 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'd doing that as soon as I get my G.E.D. I'm going backpacking into the interior of BC, setting out from my doorstep and heading north through the mountains, maybe alone, maybe with some friends, I'll camp where I need to, and maybe linger around the fringes of big cities when I reach them, visit relatives and such. I've been planning and preparing for it for quite some time, it promises to be quite the experience. Maybe I'll run into you around Kelowna
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: DarkMoon21]
#7524428 - 10/16/07 05:25 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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well if your around kelowna next spring/summer give me a PM
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Re: Wandering nomadic spiritual junk [Re: onlynow]
#7524597 - 10/16/07 06:09 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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In my experience i have found that the many of the homeless have decide to live that way.
Its not like they are lazy or morons or something.... They tried that way of life- and actually liked it!!
So homlessness is in many parts a sad state- but in others- some choose that way of life and live it hapilly
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