gufghur
04-16-2013, 05:48 AM
Hi all,
I found my way to this forum through a specific question I have. I posted this question already but got a friendly suggestion to introduce myself first, which is, I agree, a more well-mannered approach.
Living in a densily populated country in Europe -- Belgium to be precise -- with more buildings than plants and a thousandfold of square meters of road compared to surfacewater, my experience in survival techniques flirts with none at all. The only knowledge I can think of right now, is that I can distinguish about 10 edible wild weeds, a knowledge which I can not implement since I don't trust the quality of these plants here due to traffic and heavy industry.
I'm 46 years -- old and young at the same time -- have a wife and a great son of 4 and a half. The major reason we keep on living in the city, is that we do not want to own a car (in my case, already 24 years now!). The last 15 years I spent writing a novel, combined with al sorts of jobs, the last one being a private chauffeur for a CEO (hell yes; I have this thing against cars. but I do like to drive).
The acute reason why I joined this forum is, as I said a suestion I have. It has to do with my novel, wherein one of the characters gets severely burned while being in wild nature. I posted this question in: Home: Forum: Survival: Primitive Skills & Technology: and the titel is; "burnwounds: natural and/or primitive treatment".
But since i'm at it, I sense another, less acute reason for being here. This is shortly put that we, humans, are not only the species that make -- man, the maker -- but that we also are being made by doing so. And in this being made, we lose our connection with our own wildness, our own naturalness. And this together with all the wildness and naturalness on the planet. Could it be that this loss is a great tragedy? And that we need to stop it by living our nature instead of living how we are being made by our education, our upbringing, our institutions, ..., ...?
Deep question. Good that it's not acute. But my other question is, and any sincere help to make this particular situation of my novel more plaussible is very welcome. If my book gets published (its a debut) your name(s) might be mentioned it a tanks-section.
Greetings to all.
I found my way to this forum through a specific question I have. I posted this question already but got a friendly suggestion to introduce myself first, which is, I agree, a more well-mannered approach.
Living in a densily populated country in Europe -- Belgium to be precise -- with more buildings than plants and a thousandfold of square meters of road compared to surfacewater, my experience in survival techniques flirts with none at all. The only knowledge I can think of right now, is that I can distinguish about 10 edible wild weeds, a knowledge which I can not implement since I don't trust the quality of these plants here due to traffic and heavy industry.
I'm 46 years -- old and young at the same time -- have a wife and a great son of 4 and a half. The major reason we keep on living in the city, is that we do not want to own a car (in my case, already 24 years now!). The last 15 years I spent writing a novel, combined with al sorts of jobs, the last one being a private chauffeur for a CEO (hell yes; I have this thing against cars. but I do like to drive).
The acute reason why I joined this forum is, as I said a suestion I have. It has to do with my novel, wherein one of the characters gets severely burned while being in wild nature. I posted this question in: Home: Forum: Survival: Primitive Skills & Technology: and the titel is; "burnwounds: natural and/or primitive treatment".
But since i'm at it, I sense another, less acute reason for being here. This is shortly put that we, humans, are not only the species that make -- man, the maker -- but that we also are being made by doing so. And in this being made, we lose our connection with our own wildness, our own naturalness. And this together with all the wildness and naturalness on the planet. Could it be that this loss is a great tragedy? And that we need to stop it by living our nature instead of living how we are being made by our education, our upbringing, our institutions, ..., ...?
Deep question. Good that it's not acute. But my other question is, and any sincere help to make this particular situation of my novel more plaussible is very welcome. If my book gets published (its a debut) your name(s) might be mentioned it a tanks-section.
Greetings to all.