Thread 2844978

Set on the desert in south western America, which I enjoy. I am practicing the skills necessary ahead of time because if I can’t start a fire or find water or trap and cook competently prior to embarking with finality, I won’t last. Once I am competent I plan to never return to civilization except maybe every couple of years for a day or so, if that.

Any books or recommendations on places or equipment are welcome.

>>2844978 (OP)
Are you talking about in Nevada?

>>2844983
God I hope so. I live here and have friends all over this state. I'd love to meet OP in person.

>>2844983
I’m talking about in the Mojave Desert. I live in California currently but that desert extends into Nevada and the state is of no consequence to me, I’d just want an ideal place which combines reasonable ability to survive with minimal, preferably zero, disturbance from my fellow human beings, though obviously the Mojave Desert is far from uniform.

>>2844994
bruh you're gonna get raped and looted in the Mojave

>>2844995
I grew up in the Mojave Desert and I have been camping in it since childhood

>>2844996
no lol

>>2844978 (OP)
>maladaptive daydreamer thread #98,839,884,576,892
if you had the capacity to live in the wilderness for years at a time, you wouldn't be the life-fail publicly mastrabaiting to the idea of it.

>>2845040
I’ve had a decent life and decent experiences. Love, loss, marriage, money, friendships. My interest in living in the wilderness was arrived at because I compared it with other possible ideals and I ran a thought experiment: if I lived for a thousand years, and had to have one life, which would I prefer? Also by reflection on my happiest sustained periods in life which came down to being a hermit poker player traveling around and living in motel rooms, and being by myself camping in the desert. The desert won out because all my life even when I was in loving relationships, I felt extremely depressed either going to bed, or getting up. But in the desert I felt happy to go to bed and happy to get up.

The main tempting thing about other options (supposing I could have any one I wished) is the path of least resistance. But every other possible fantasy ultimately depends on other people acting in a way that makes me happy. And I have found my happiness is least impaired when it has zero to do with the expectations of the behavior of anyone but myself.

I also experimented with the idea based on the important notion that people change. I have sort of pseudo spiritual belief that the Dao of something is equivalent to its GTO, which I derived from the belief that GTO poker is necessarily the Dao of poker. So based on possibilities of my own changing nature or desires, I took my consideration again and came to the same conclusion

I might be wrong but everything decision comes down to probability and I see the probability in favor of being a hermit here, in terms me finding the most sustained tranquility or happiness

>>2845077
Fellow taoist here. Ya, that's the drive. The minute I find modern success in life, I find it exhaustingly complicated. I find a class of people who are always incredibly busy, always wanting despite having, always comparing. To live in favor is to live in fear of disgrace.

I am with someone who wants to join me slowly disappearing, when everyone else is gone, we are more grateful for each other. The shell of our social pretense softens, and we get to be human.

>>2845077
I'm not reading any of that. Go outside, dude.

>>2844978 (OP)
You want to make a water trap out there, several.

>>2845077
you sound like a woman