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Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 21:47:48 No.282072 View View Reply Original Report

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I want to live a tribal lifestyle. Working and living in the city is stagnant and i feel unfulfilled. Whenever you see tribal villages, it always seems to be a close knit community of people working and living together in a rather laid back and happen environment. Is finding something like this even possible in modern day America or should i just suck it up and keep on keeping on?

Also, Questions that don't deserve their own thread; This kinda qualifies.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 21:52:09 No.282074 Report

Quoted By: >>282166 >>284609

Sometimes I feel like humanity shouldn't have advanced beyond that kind of society. It's interesting, Genesis actually has some parts in it that essentially say that, it wasn't something I was expecting.
OP, I think your best bet would be a tight knit religious community or a hippie commune. Sort of going to end up needing to go to an extreme I think.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 22:38:58 No.282108 Report

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http://www.manymouths.org/2009/08/turning-space-into-place-portlands-city-repair-project/
>jhon: Tell me what City Repair is about, and how it got started.

>Mark: There are a few principles that are timeless at the core of what we do, kind of the thread that binds everything together. City Repair is a citizen movement, and it depends entirely upon people coming together to do things in collaboration. We knew that we need to be collaborating, and that we are coming from a place of being isolated. And fortunately our awareness was in the realm of urban design and history, and because we were familiar with the principles of design, we knew that, well, we can actually design our way out of this, and intend a different direction.

>I personally am coming from this background of having both of my parents involved in architecture and planning. And because of their work in doing emerging projects in other countries and villages, I understood a lot about the difference between an urban fabric where people feel connected to each other, and one where they don’t. And I also was familiar with the political issues of why we don’t have that. Well, I was familiar with a certain level of those issues, but I hadn’t actually looked into the deeper implications or story of those issues; colonialism, the grid, the political imperative of placelessness. My parents weren’t aware of that story, they didn’t impart that to me. But I got to learn that story.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 22:54:30 No.282121 Report

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Become an Amish.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 23:19:56 No.282140 Report

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>>282072
There are places like this but the closest your going to get is a commune unless you start traveling to the southern hemisphere

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 23:40:05 No.282159 Report

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Take a plane to Asia.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 23:49:18 No.282166 Report

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>>282074
>Sometimes I feel like humanity shouldn't have advanced beyond that kind of society. It's interesting
Ask that to those who live in tribal lifestyle, "is your life is interesting?"

You think it's interesting because you ae not born in their society.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 23:58:04 No.282171 Report

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>>282072
Go to any Ex-Yugoslavia country.
It is tribal with all the benefits of modern life

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2014 00:04:08 No.282175 Report

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>>282171
meh so is south central los angeles

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2014 00:12:20 No.282177 Report

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>>282072
>"Man having clean water, all the food I can eat and several hours of leisure time sure is boring. Those Ethiopians sure have it made!"

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2014 00:45:16 No.282191 Report

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>>282072

I want to fuck your tribal wife raw, impregnate her, and then watch from my tent as your raise unknowing raise my child as your own, you beta male cuckold.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2014 00:58:45 No.282200 Report

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>>282177
without the struggle to survive, many prefer suicide.
life is challengeless for the most part, and delegating what you should be doing as a career(hunting and the like) to a passtime is a crime against humanity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2014 01:45:14 No.282220 Report

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>>282177
Lost of hunter-gatherer societies actually had way more leisure time than modern western society.

But I still somewhat agree with you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2014 02:30:33 No.282230 Report

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>>282072
What is homesteading? Most likely, this is extremely difficult to achieve in modern western society.

How do you keep the weight down on your 72 hour pack?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2014 03:00:30 No.282245 Report

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I heard about some shipwreck where some conquistadors landed on a small island or something, between them and the natives it made for 12 men and 11 woman. No one found them for about one year and all the females were still alive, 1 male left, last man standing, they all went down to murder except 1.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2014 03:24:53 No.282266 Report

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>>282220
This, sure you'll be doing stuff at weird fucking hours and leaving the communal safety for weeks at a time. But when you sit down it will feel fucking good

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2014 04:00:12 No.282280 Report

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>>282220
Lots*

Goddammit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2014 04:19:22 No.282289 Report

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>>282200
>without the struggle to survive, many prefer suicide
Citation needed.

>life is challengeless for the most part
How old are you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2014 05:38:17 No.282359 Report

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>>282072
So, you want to die at 45 with a jaw full of abcessed teeth and a gut full of parasites?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2014 13:28:17 No.282483 Report

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>>282359
hunter-gatherers had great teeth, actually.

bad teeth came from agriculture and refined sugars.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 02:37:24 No.282846 Report

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>>282220

this

plus they probably had a much more natural sleep cycle, no alarm clocks

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 02:43:29 No.282852 Report

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>>282846
studies do show spending 3-5 days camping without bright lights will reset your sleep schedule

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 03:06:27 No.282856 Report

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>I want to live a tribal lifestyle

I don't think just getting together with a bunch of know-it-all hippies will replace the real thing. Try the military or something for bonding.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 03:11:04 No.282862 Report

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>>282856
that and the hippies wouldn't know how to do anything besides a drum circle

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 04:11:58 No.282873 Report

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>>282245

Shipwreck? That sounds like Pitcairn island, where the Bounty mutineers hid out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 04:16:17 No.282877 Report

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Got siblings?

My parents, my brother, my sister, and their respective families live in a cluster of houses. Each household has at least one real job but they socialize a lot, tons of free childcare, lots of gatherings and cookouts for no particular reason. Sounds nice. Seems tribal-y.

I'm the black sheep and live far away.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 05:10:03 No.282911 Report

Quoted By: >>283405

>>282289
>without the struggle to survive, many prefer suicide
Check stats for suicide, FBI or CDC. It's skyrocketed in the last 50-100 years.
>life is challengeless
This was badly put, but there is something to it. There are challenges, but most of them are difficult, annoying, and there isn't a clear 'winner' or resolution, or even an obvious correlation between your actions and the results. If you can say "If I treat my garden well, I will eat well.", you might feel better than "If I do my job well, I still might get fired for no good reason."

I suggest we get shipping containers, insulation, basic handtools, and other basic materials and built /out/own in Maine or Utah or Nevada, or someplace like that with tons of open space for cheap and little in the way of gov't involvement.
>homegrowmen (80 percent) help make food/fish/livestock
>everybody else (20%) scavenges, hunts/gathers, or does whatever else needs to be done like repair, doctoring, etc.
>

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 11:55:12 No.283023 Report

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Why all the focus on settling down as a tribe? Human tribals are typically nomads. And today we can be nomads with greater range than ever. Imagine a group of families touring the world together. Maybe a few of the adults work online to support the whole crew. Kind of like Irish Travelers except they're a benefit to whatever town they roll into. And they're homeschooling their kids, they're getting involved in volunteering in countries all over, they're camping out in insane parkland all over the freaking world. That's the kind of tribal I want to be.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 12:26:36 No.283032 Report

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>>282072
> The Tahiti Syndrome

Becareful what you wish for or you mivht lose your memiry and not be able to open your obilisk and make the blue flame come out and be stoned by villagers and lose your wife and unborn child and haveto go back to work doing the same old boring stuff like saving the galaxy and fucking beautiful albiet sometimes green pussy alien women and violating the prime directive and stuff for like reasons, man.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2014 04:10:51 No.283405 Report

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>>282911
>Check stats for suicide, FBI or CDC. It's skyrocketed in the last 50-100 years.

And you think that's because the struggle to survive is gone? Your sources there actually say "suicide because the struggle is gone"? Dude, that struggle has been done with for centuries compared to the vast majority of human history.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2014 04:20:51 No.283410 Report

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You need more problems in your life OP

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 03:27:17 No.284559 Report

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>>282072

These videos might touch on what you're actually feeling, OP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irornIAQzQY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_acgqf27CIU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFab92rIHRY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6XEQIsCoM

This is a real feel-good docu series. Or it will make you depressed as you realize that you will never be as happy as them.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1572018F4A89B8BA

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 04:00:27 No.284569 Report

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>>282072
OP, so do I.
It's possible, the hardest part is finding people to do it with.
Maybe not that hard if you really look around.
It doesn't have to be in Murrka either.
I've been on a constant search for others who would like to embark on a grand journey into the world. To set of and live day by day, not as the typical homeless addict or anything like that. Not squatting in cities, but really going off, moving. A hard knock life for sure, but I've always found great purpose in surviving, without money and other luxuries. The best bet would be to stay away from urban areas, because of the dangers of getting mugged etc. by people with no reasoning.
It is such fascinating, and wholesome in my mind.. Even though many would find it to be ignorant and stupid to turn a cheek to modern commodities.
It would make me happy to live like this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 04:08:11 No.284576 Report

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>>284569
and also to stay in warmer places would be best fit, obviously. Since living in the cold is difficult. At least until one has adjusted to living in this way.
It would be hard, with the world and it's ways now. But isn't that the fun of it, the adventure?

Once the migrating has stopped, and there is a good number of people along side you. Wherever you are, you could find a place to set root and build a community which lives in itself.
Making sure to stick to the basics and not bring about the things you were trying to leave in the first place. Of course there would still be room to improve and innovate, i do not negate that fact. But to KISS principal, and stick to it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 04:17:26 No.284580 Report

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>>283410
Maybe not the problems you think of.
Problems that do not have to be, but are in existence because of the way of life that has manifested itself as we as humans evolved and constructed our empires.
These problems might be the ones that OP wants to leave behind, so he may face problems which give a more enveloping sense of what it is to be human, to work with hands and body and mind to nourish himself directly from the earth, and to cooperate and survive with people on the most basic of levels. These problems I feel as though are more rewarding internally, and so outstand many of the problems associated with living an urban lifestyle revolving around monetary gain to nourish oneself.
I hope I have been clear in a way, sometimes my english will come off as abstract. That is what I've found.
Anyways.

of levels.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 05:30:31 No.284605 Report

Quoted By: >>284699

If your problem is that you feel stagnant and unfulfilled, I'm not sure that tribal living would be the solution. Try taking some philosophy courses instead. It sounds like you're having an existential crisis.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 05:41:17 No.284609 Report

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>>282074
I was watching a documentary the other night. It was showing the good and bad of everything in the world. There were fat people, skinny people, whites, blacks, advanced civilizations and primitive tribes in Africa. I just thought to myself. "You're only as good as you're weakest link." But then I'm thinking. Are they really that weak? These people have provided for themselves for thousands upon thousands of years. I just appreciated that people still live like this. Its scary to us Americans but I wouldn't mind joining OP. I can garden pretty well.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 12:53:37 No.284699 Report

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>>284605
>Try taking some philosophy courses instead. It sounds like you're having an existential crisis.

lel that would not help at all, if anything it'd just make it worse.

if that is what op is having.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 13:03:08 No.284701 Report

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>babby's first nihilism

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 13:05:16 No.284703 Report

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I know just the tribe for you OP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 13:13:08 No.284704 Report

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Go to Detroit. Not even trolling.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 13:14:32 No.284705 Report

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>>284704

http://grist.org/article/food-from-motown-to-growtown-the-greening-of-detroit/full/

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 22:53:11 No.284979 Report

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>>282220
Yup tons of free time. If all you need to worry about is water, food and shelter that's not much of your day. Look at Les Stroud. Even when he's in a dire situation he still spends fucking ages sitting around doing nothing.
You can only play a harmonica for so long but imagine how good you would be if you were forced to play a instrument because the rain was going on for 8 hours. I love my pennywhistle for days trapped in the tent.
I got good in time. Sure I got bored and I would stop but my book was finished I had already done several sets of pushups and crunches and plenty of stretches so lets get back to my pennywhistle.
Eventually you enter a zen and time just flies by.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 23:29:55 No.285006 Report

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first off get a ton of guns and weapons and amo and shit if you plan on something really really long term. stuff to kill everything you encounter from bugs/ fly swatters/ rats/ litterally everything you can think of. great now nobody can fuck with you time to get some water. get some fucking water distlitations stuff. the type that you boil the water and recondonse it. got it good. now start fishing.. got the fishing thing down? good now get some sheep. and some veggies.. once you got that going get some fruit plants. got all that going? good here comes the fun part. start building up your resources for an alter. got that? okay now invite strange people to visit your little area and have sex with them. congrats you just created a tribe

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2014 23:31:06 No.285007 Report

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>>282166
Exactly. It's like the buddha giving up his riches and possessions after 30 years of banging servant girls and living a hedonistic life in his estate.

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