[pct-l] Bears and minimalists

[dude@coruscant.net (The Dude)]

amen!

to each his own.  if a guy wants to be a minimalist, that's his business and he should totally be allowed to do that.  go for it!  follow your dreams!  you only live once.  what makes sense to one guy may not to another. I am trapped between being a minimalist, and a materialist:  I have a 53" TV and No Cable!  who says any of us have to make sense?

judge not...  -Jesus

i may not agree with what you are saying, but i will defend to the death your right to say it.

live and let live.

chill out.

be yourself.

give people the dignity to make their own mistakes.

only YOU can prevent forest fires.

have a coke and a smile.




>From: CMountainDave@aol.com
>To: pct-l@backcountry.net
>Subject: [pct-l] Bears and minimalists
>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:25:31 EST
>
>One last word (for me) on bears: No type of food storage is going to make 
>bears fear man. They will continue to enter our camps forever when they smell 
>it until they do fear us. They have no reason not to. They don't know how 
>food is stored when they smell it. Without fear, they will investigate the 
>source of the smell. Nothing can stop them from being aggressive except fear
>    Poor management that allowed bears to lose their fear of man caused the 
>bear problem. I simply want the NPS to acknowledge this and do something 
>about it instead of taking their mistakes out on me via required bear 
>canisters.
>   As to gore tex vagabonds, Tom-They're just questioning our cultures 
>embracing of materialism. You are certainly "free" to embrace that if you so 
>choose. Why put down "minimalists" who don't wish to participate and choose a 
>different value system instead. Several old timers have told me "Kid don't 
>wait until you're my age to follow your dreams. Do it while you're young 
>before it's too late. A healthy tomorrow may never come." It's the best 
>advice I ever got. Minimalists simply want time instead of money and are 
>quite clever in achieving that end. They just wish to investigate the 
>spiritual quest of the Buddhists, Aboriginals, Indians, John Muir and Thoreau 
>instead of trying to accumulate money and objects. What better way to achieve 
>that than to turn one's back on our culture with a 6 month Pilgrimage through 
>the woods. As long as they're not leaching off of you, why should you care 
>unless they make you feel uneasy about your own values by believing there's a 
>different way to exist. Some people like the corporate lifestyle, some like 
>being self employed in endeavors that they love. Others simply are tired of 
>trading time for money and want to slip through the cracks of the company 
>floor and just get by so they can pursue something other than  your definiton 
>of success. There's nothing wrong in any of those things. It's just a choice. 
>Thanks for the mental stimulation, though.
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