what does it take to change the essence of a man.

[wareagle69]

a lady brought her child to gandhi one day and begged him to tell her child to stop eating sugar, Gandhi replied "bring him back in two weeks". two weeks later the woman brought him back and Gandhi sat the young man down and told him to stop eating sugar, the woman asked him why he waited two weeks to say that and Gandhi replied "two weeks ago i was eating sugar, i would have been a hypocrite if i had told him to stop when i was doing so".


i have found it increasingly difficult to give advice on things that i had little experience to relate to. over the last year there have been some here and on other forums looking to go to the wilderness for extended periods of time, i now feel better about sharing my thoughts.

[Rick]

You have a lot of personal conviction, I'll give you that. I have a lot of respect for you to pull off 30 days in the wild. I hope you kept a journal. I would be very interested in reading it.

[Riverrat]

You have my respect, that is quite a feat to be out for 30 days. Like Rick said, it would make interesting reading if you kept a journal, or even wrote the story out.

[Sourdough]

Suppose that the way men live now, is far off the mark. What if the wilderness purifies a man. What if the pollutants of civilization slowly dropped away the longer a man was in the wilderness. What if we are so polluted in the mind, body, and heart that we have no concept of our true essence.

A man spends just enough time detoxifying in the wilderness, to have accidentally opened Pandora's Box. Now he finds himself as Dante did, "In the middle of the road of my life, I awoke in a deep and dark woods, and discovered that the "Way" was wholly lost to me".

He has entered a living hell, for he now knows that there is a road less traveled. There is the hard road to a pure heart, pure mind, pure body.

Or there is the easy heavily traveled road. The quest of "Siddhartha"....?

[Riverrat]

hopeak, you do make a man think....

[Sourdough]

Sorry......

[klkak]

Hopeak, the Gandhi of Alaska.

[klkak]

WE, I haven't gone into the bush in the way you did since my teens. Then never more then 2 weeks. I often consider doing it now but it seems something always comes up. Like I never have the time. I admire you for being able to break away. I hope and look forward to hearing of your adventure.

[Sourdough]

Perhaps is would in a small part account for so many youth, drawn to this forum. In the time back when BC shifted to AD, humans were adults at age 11 to 13. Perhaps some teenagers today have seen enough of the road that leads to more money, more possessions, more social prestige.

And even if they do not understand the why of the longing, and craving for a wilderness experience, they are profoundly drawn to the wilderness.

Perhaps our goal should not be to kick them in the groin, but to lead them into the wilderness safely, so that they might drink from the spring which they quest.

[Sourdough]

Hopeak, the Gandhi of Alaska.

No....just a old fool. Who nears the end of a road to C S Lewis's, "the Shadowlands".

[Riverrat]

Nope can't agree hopeak, like I said, you make a man think, a fool would leave you guessing, maybe confused, but not make you think......

[Proud American]

War Eagle i have found it increasingly difficult to give advice on things that i had little experience to relate to.

This is how I feel everytime I come to this sight lol

[wareagle69]

sadly that was the biggest mistake that i made one that i will not make again was not brining a journal, when i got back i was scrambling to write down what i could remember, but i think i lost allot of the emotion, like one day i was sitting on top of a hill in a bear scratch an area where a bear had been rolling around in the moss trying to cool off there was a good breeze lots of blueberry bushes and acorns around plus top of the hill great for smelling the breeze for anything around, so anyways i was just sitting there and suddenly a hawk comes and lands on the bottom brack of a pine tree about 20 feet away we stared at each other for a few minutes then he flew away what an awesome experience.

[FVR]

What I've started doing while driving during the day, is to put a mini recorder in my bag. Many times when I'm on very long drives, I get in the zone on a few past experiences and stories. It sucks when you are driving and you have no way to write it all down.

The recorder, just turn it on and start talking. Like writing a presentation, you don't need to get every little detail, unless that is what you are looking for, then later just sit at the dining room table and transcribe it.

Usually talking points in the transcribing will just get you going.

[rebel]

what does it take to change the essence of a man.

My answer would be hardship or the will to change. You've heard the phrase " a life changing event". It's just that. A positive or negative event.

Can you change a negative to a positive? Probably, it depends on what caused the event. It may take time and understanding if you have enough of both.

Anyway, that's my answer to your question.

[Rick]

I carried a camera with me at work and I always carry one on hikes. Digitals are just the best thing since drop seat underwear. You can capture so much on a card.

[nixiesilfie]

Cześć, po kilku dniach bez szczęścia w grach online kumpel polecił mi sprawdzić miejsce z bonusami dla graczy z Polski. Wszedłem tam z ciekawości i od razu trafiłem na https://rodeoslot.pl , gdzie spróbowałem gry Wolf Gold. Początkowo obroty były słabe, ale po podniesieniu stawki wpadło w końcu solidne trafienie, które od razu poprawiło humor. Teraz wracam tam regularnie, bo lubię mieć miejsce, gdzie mogę oderwać się po pracy i spróbować szczęścia.

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