omg I’m totally using that.
I could say the same about you. Why are you always asking me about survivalism/moving into the woods instead of answering the things I post which are unrelated to survivalism?
Freedom4Me73986, did you see my post?
Further, did you read John James’ post?
Did he not advise you in how to avoid negative posts before recommending the surest means of doing so (the one to which you usually allude in some way or another)?
John James @ Freedom4Me73986: When (exactly) are you actually going to stop using the technology you shun and go live in the woods?
ThatOldGuy @ Freedom4Me73986: Do what the Almighty says. (Don’t change the subject. Just answer the fucking question.)
John James @ ThatOldGuy: omg I’m totally using that.
Freedom4Me73986 @ John James: I could say the same about you. Why are you always asking me about survivalism/moving into the woods instead of answering the things I post which are unrelated to survivalism?
Are you fucking serious.
I’ll be living free next month. Now will you respond to the original C4SS article I posted at the start of this discussion?
I’m starting to think you have a personal vendetta against me. You are acting like the state.
The writer of the article seems to be a very confused individual. He presents a straw man of voluntarism, not even a very good one at that. I don’t see much need to reply to it because the people in the comment section of C4SS has already destroyed the article.
That seems to be his thesis statement, but I don’t get the significance. I mean, sure, it’s a deceptively positive term that its proponents voluntarily adopted. So? Is that not the case for any other such term? Might as well write an essay about how Bounty isn’t really the “quicker picker upper.” For that matter, “In ‘n’ Out Burger” does not accurately convey what it takes to buy a hamburger.
Before we get to anything else, I want to be clear. Will you please explain what “I’ll be living free next month” means, exactly.
Before we get to anything else, I want to be clear. Will you please explain what “I’ll be living free next month” means, exactly.
What do you think? I might be living off-the-grid IN THE WOODS or something close to it. I have to hope I’m not arrested for it.
What are YOU doing to advance liberty?
Call me crazy…but I could have sworn you just said “will” in your last post. So first it was “will be living in the woods soon enough” (For 8 months that’s what it was.) A few posts ago “[I’m going in] July.” A few posts after that it was “living free next month”. Now it’s “might be living off the grid in the woods or something close to it.”
a) tell me how you get “close” to “living off the grid in the woods”
b) when you say you’ll be doing this next month…does that mean you’re just going to be there for some time next month, and then a few days/weeks later you’ll be back in the civilization you shun, using the technology you shun to come onto the Mises forum and tell us all how technology and civilization is evil and how you just got done advancing liberty by living off the grid in the woods for four hours?..
Or are you actually going to go and actually live in the woods and actually never use technology or interact with any sort of civilization ever again?
OK what your not understanding is, living off-the-grid (in the woods) is ILLEGAL in most places. If I came out and said “I’m moving to the woods” the state would cage me.
Are you going to comment on the C4SS strawman article or not?
Are you going to answer everyone’s question or not?
You said you’ll be “leaving” in July. You were asked “[July] of what year”. As usual you responded to a question with a question. Finally you said “I’ll be living free next month.” I ask what that means, and you say it means you “might be living off the grid and in the woods or something like it.” That could literally mean anything. So one more time:
a) tell me how you get “close” to “living off the grid in the woods”
b) when you say you’ll be doing this next month…does that mean you’re just going to be there for some time next month, and then a few days/weeks later you’ll be back in the civilization you shun, using the technology you shun to come onto the Mises forum and tell us all how technology and civilization is evil and how you just got done advancing liberty by living off the grid in the woods for four hours?..
Or are you actually going to go and actually live in the woods and actually never use technology or interact with any sort of civilization ever again?
a) tell me how you get “close” to “living off the grid in the woods”
By living in a friend’s home close to the woods, until I know I’m safe from the feds.
b) when you say you’ll be doing this next month…does that mean you’re just going to be there for some time next month, and then a few days/weeks later you’ll be back in the civilization you shun, using the technology you shun to come onto the Mises forum and tell us all how technology and civilization is evil and how you just got done advancing liberty by living off the grid in the woods for four hours?..
I’ll be living there permanently. I’m leaving this forum soon anyway.
Now will you respond to the C4SS article?
Holy shit, why are you all so occupied with where the fuck Freedom4Me is going to live? Can we stop filling up threads with this bullshit now?
Ya seriously, just because he’s a survivalist doesn’t mean that every single time he makes a fking post you have to bug him about it.
I’m honestly not trying to be difficult. You’re just making this difficult. Living at a friend’s house permanently and “leaving the forum” still doesn’t mean much to me. Living in a friend’s house still says “civilization” to me. It still says “technology” to me. And I “leave the forum” every day. That honestly doesn’t say anything about you actually living the lifestyle you espouse and refraining from the technology that you claim is evil and the government is using to control you.
When you you say “leaving this forum soon”…
Does that mean you will never visit this website (let alone post in this forum) ever again after July 1, 2012 CE? Or does it mean you’ll wander off into some trees for a few hours and then get back on your computer, hook into the Internet so that you can tell us how evil technology is and that the Internet is just a tool for the govenrment to control you?
And just fyi for anyone else, this is the kind of evidence I was talking about here:
Um. I think Freedom4Me73986 is the only one who can answer that question. As has been shown countless times, he refuses to abide by multiple requests from multiple members (and even demands from moderators) to do exactly as you say: “stop filling up threads with his bullshit”. Not only does he continue to make threads, and refused to stop when asked by mods, there have even been multiple attempts to create a single thread for his crap to try to keep his bullshit confined to one place. Be obviously he still refuses to abide by this.
So ask Freedom4Me73986 when he will stop filling the forum with this bullshit because only he will make that happen.
This is much more than that.
John,
I don’t want to debate, so I’m not going to go past this post.
Freedom4Me is consistently spouting bullshit. I understand that. I don’t understand why we have to go to the extent of having mods message him in the first place. There is an easier answer to this problem: ignore him. That’s all you have to do. And what’s the worst thing to do, if not repeatedly engage him? And yet it seems that’s exactly what more than a few members seem to be doing.
I / we didn’t “have” mods do anything. As far as I know their posts to him were completely of their own volition. So I don’t know where you get off implying that community members are whining to mods and urging them to do something about it.
You’re open to your opinion.
Evidently “more than a few members” don’t share your opinion.
So here’s a thought. There’s an easy answer to this problem: ignore all of us. “That’s all you have to do.”
Fair enough on your other points, but what is the purpose of this?
And the purpose of engaging him repeatedly afterwards? You obviously have a different opinion on how to stop his bullshit: is this thread an example of it?