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Anonymous Coward User ID: 9503504 Canada 03/30/2013 02:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If I return to work and do my computer consulting I will make about $90 per hour, maybe up to $120 per hour for a service call. I was billing one company 45 hours a week at 90 dollars an hour. I lived in a shared apartment with one person for $600 a month. I gave that up, for a spiritual journey and helping people, making videos and now I do healings. Last night I had a great supper mostly that came from a garbage bin outside a store, and yes, I have given upon society as we know it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24410859 United States 03/30/2013 02:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Glen Kealey comes to mind. Do you know anyone in your personal life? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24235523 I don't know anyone in my personal life who gave up on society, but was still "successful." I've known a lot of miserable successful people, though, and truly happy people who don't chase a dollar. Not saying a successful person can't be happy, or someone who goes off the beaten path is living in joy every moment. Just my observations. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 37142916 United States 03/30/2013 03:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If I return to work and do my computer consulting I will make about $90 per hour, maybe up to $120 per hour for a service call. I was billing one company 45 hours a week at 90 dollars an hour. I lived in a shared apartment with one person for $600 a month. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 9503504 I gave that up, for a spiritual journey and helping people, making videos and now I do healings. Last night I had a great supper mostly that came from a garbage bin outside a store, and yes, I have given upon society as we know it. To me, it sounds like your life has indeed gotten better. You are following your heart and ideas. You don't give a shit if people judge you for how you eat or what you do. Let me congratulate you and say that I respect you for living how YOU want to live. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 37153566 Australia 03/30/2013 03:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They will not let you leave, they will torture you. Quoting: Ibrahim To be successful you must worship the beast, once you do that you can never leave the system of the devil, it keeps rewarding you and you end up loving the beast. The clue is to isolate yourself, but you can not do that in western societeies or wherever they worship the beast. They will traet you worse than an animal just because you want a chance to live without being surrounded by beasts. Basically if you dont have white skin you can go to Africa where they do not worship beasts and do not follow the beasts religion. Other than that jungles are good if you are not scared of the insects and stuff. If you are Muslim there is a good choice of countries where they do not worship beasts (not arab countries they flip flop). Some carribean islands are good if turists are confined to their hotels. This is what my research over the years has led me to conclude. Everywhere else you will encounter beast worshipping people and images of beasts everywhere. |
artemis133 User ID: 27576802 United States 03/30/2013 04:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've pretty much given up on what's called "society" because it's all a game, run by a select few. My parents were working class, and I grew up watching them go to work every day and working hard. They actually were able to accomplish something though; they raised my brother and me pretty well, in a modest house that they bought and paid for, in a similar working class neighborhood that was safe and fun for us to grow up in. That life, for most, doesn't exist anymore. I work harder than my parents did, for less money, and more bullshit thrown in to boot. Since U.S. jobs have been outsourced (joke of a word; the ptb have just sold all of us down the river for their own benefit). I would dearly love to just give a big to the world, live away from people, with my animals, doing and selling crafts, living simply and consuming modestly. I will find a way to do it, before I die. As a member of the end wave of the Boomers, I found that there wasn't much left for a lot of us, and after I graduated high school, that's when the job loss started in earnest. Hopefully I can realize my dream. Crazy cat lady in training... "Society always honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers" ~Mignon McLaughlin "The lost child, crying, crying, but still catching the fireflies." ~Ryusui "Oh, yeah, life goes on, even after the thrill of livin' is gone..."~John Mellencamp |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 37142916 United States 03/30/2013 05:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is the thing: if we were not so stressed, overworked, and overwhelmed we probably would be so healthy we would rarely even need healthcare. Barring accidents and legitimate disease, most of what people have is based on stress and lack of time. If you had less stress and more time you could: Eat healthy/cook meals from scratch Work out Do the things you love to do Grow some of your own food Spend more time with loved ones Read and learn Enjoy the beauty and wonder of nature Volunteer and help others I guarantee if people had more of the above their overall health (mental, emotional, physical) would improve and doctor visits would plummet. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 140124 Canada 03/30/2013 05:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Glen Kealey comes to mind. Do you know anyone in your personal life? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24235523 Yep, a member of my family who retired at 28 due to fantastic wealth. They have completely given up on society and have begun prepping. They think the writing is on the wall and so do most of their contacts in the US who have a lot of wealth themselves. |
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MuslimAmerican User ID: 26542172 United States 03/30/2013 05:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What's to give up on? Society has always been ugly, well at least in the west. Feed the hungry, visit the sick, free a captive if he be unjustly confined(kidnapped/enslaved by someone). Assist any person oppressed, whether they're of the Muslim or non-Muslim. - Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) |
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computer says no User ID: 37157126 United Kingdom 03/30/2013 06:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I won't be part of the 'system'.. I just work hard enough on my own to pay my way, tho' is very hard to keep up with bills all the time. My Aussie Cousin ditched a 100k IT job here in London, couldn't stand it anymore..! so went back to Aussie. I know lots of people who simply gave up, even moving to Spain to work 14 hrs daily, 7 days a week, only to waste it away on drink & charlie. I've decided I'm just gonna have to work my myself in future, people giving up 'fantastic paid' jobs in the Professions. There's a global 'brain' drain kill off! |
computer says no User ID: 37157126 United Kingdom 03/30/2013 06:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | oh yeah.. just remembered..! met a farmer in Somerset the other day, who was a highly paid Professional, but said he couldn't stand London anymore.. so moved into the middle of a load of country fields with a farm instead, happy as Larry he is..! I plan on moving down to the South Coast of England in a year or two, once I save up enough 1000s to make it happen. |
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KarinZa User ID: 28116221 United States 03/31/2013 06:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My question is, do you know anyone who went FROM being successful by society's standards TO leaving society? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24235523 I thought that was implied in my question. John Lennon. YES!!!!!!! I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go 'round n 'round..... That is your answer. "I may be paranoid, but not an android." |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 15740069 United States 03/31/2013 12:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hank Reardon was an Alchemist who could make a Green Metal that was stronger and cheaper then Steel. But we alchemists will not give you our secrets, because the men who rule you would put it to evil purposes. You will not get our Stone ! |