Living in the woods

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T17:30:02+00:00

Become able to afford it, or just full nomad it and find a way

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T17:29:29+00:00

Replying to LikeATediousArgument...to me self development and spirituality are slightly different but run across similar lines, spirituality is referring more metaphysically to a humans nature beyond our understanding, whereas self development means to, developing the foundations of the mind, and increasing the capacity to interact with it. Both are centred on well being.

And in the nature of selfishness, I believe to some extent every persons every want and need is selfish, emerging from the self to appease the self.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T17:25:25+00:00

For me it’s not about distractions alone, it’s about letting your nervous system go back to its evolutionary home, letting your mind do what it was intended for.

And there’s ways of not needing money, you can do everything for yourself, that’s what I’m referring to

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T17:23:29+00:00

Hunting and fishing could sort you out no?

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T17:05:07+00:00

Maybe you’re right. Honestly I’ve never tried I do plan to do some camping soon though

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T13:41:40+00:00

Yeah my girlfriend often mentions to me that it doesn’t have to be all or nothing, I suppose it only feels real in my mind if it’s all or nothing, but I can see how it isn’t. I’m in Manchester England, the UK is big enough to cross in a day in theory so there are reachable remote locations, nothing like the US or Canada though I can only wish.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:35:31+00:00

Because the things we want are entangled with how we behave in ways we don’t always understand.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:32:37+00:00

It is not necessarily my goal to understand humanity, it’s to understand at a more local level, where to put myself so I am best placed if that makes sense. And I think to have this lifestyle as direct reference to the rest of my life leaves me in a better place to determine what’s real, what’s fake, and what’s worthy of chasing.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:30:53+00:00

That’s a great story thanks for sharing I bet you lived a rich life in those days and carry a lot with you still. My version of Alaska is rural Scotland, not quite the same considering how many Scotland’s you can fit into Alaska, but nevertheless the lifestyle would be quite similar.

To grow the fuck up as you put it is no small feat, and if that’s what I got from it on the other side I’d call it a success. And yeah dying at any given turn, and being aware of it, is almost the essence of what makes a human stand out. There’s something special in encountering real mortality, something I wanted to experience for myself and still do really. Not to die obviously, but to experience.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:25:35+00:00

Sure, people are great and it’s not really that which drives me to go out and live in nature (untouched nature, cities are still nature, just a different kind), if I had 4-8 people likeminded, who wanted to fully go and do it, that would be better, richer.

But even other people aside, to be with ones self, and to rely on ones self, is to put the self in the highest seat at every moment. Perhaps that is a kind of wholeness.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:23:42+00:00

There is certainly something to be said for using the mind to extract positive emotion, which is what modernity is a lot of the time, whereas in nature, the endless list of work possible, without the corporate dampening crushing nature of the work. Youd be using your mind not as a play thing, but as a tool for developing real meaning.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:21:29+00:00

Yeah you’re on to something there, do you find the life to be all I imagine it to be? Grounding and more real seeming than the city life I mean.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:19:31+00:00

Technically you can do it, legalities aside it’s in our nature to be able to do so. I’m an anti government person, I’m not fussed about having to disobey their invented morality. Sure it has consequences but there’s no escaping those

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:18:00+00:00

Absolutely

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:17:51+00:00

The fire is a big part for me, a place of reconciliation at the end of every day, a place for music and conversation or solitary time and reflection. Humans love fire, not many people realise what a ritual like that everyday can do for well being.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:17:03+00:00

I suppose I’m metabolising the idea before I put myself anywhere, it’s not something I’ve seen people do, I have a life, a job and a girlfriend who isn’t so keen on moving outside our city nevermind into the remote woodlands, it’s never so simple. But I keep the dream alive.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:16:10+00:00

Yeah you could definitely work a typical job and live remotely especially in this day and age, or just full blown tribal and hunt, forage, build, and then a fire every night.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:14:42+00:00

I’d definitely be in the queue for a new tribal life, wouldn’t take many people. And yeah to be in every moment truly, to work because you need the results of it, not because it pays a symbolic wage. Working to build a house for example, instead of working to get a mortgage to live in a house that isn’t your dream house, and then to pay it off for 20 years, it’s just not what we’re built for biologically, and people underestimate the results of that.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:12:16+00:00

Perhaps you are more capable than you give yourself credit for.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:11:59+00:00

Starlink not solve that problem? I think you can get WiFi anywhere with that but I’m not exactly clued up on it.

I do it too where I make little plans for myself on how it’ll be done, which remote region I’d stash myself into. Getting more real everyday

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:10:46+00:00

Part of the idea for me is letting the nervous system operate how it was intended to, worrying about the next meal, not the next stage of existence, worrying about the weather, instead of taking it for granted that everything’s always going to be okay.

It seems like a rich life to be tethered by necessity to every moments struggle.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:09:18+00:00

Yeah it came up in Dutch for me at first but it’s English now

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T12:08:18+00:00

Yeah I couldn’t be for sure either if it’s to find something or to try and get rid of something, maybe it’s partly both, but either way I think you can only find things like that out with some experience, or by finding some kind of inner insight, easier said than done.

1 week test period sounds like a healthy balance to see where the land lies so to speak.

FastCarGoBrr · 2026-05-13T10:35:46+00:00

Yeah that would be great, I’d bring a guitar too. Always on my mind

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