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Anonymous Fri 27 Jun 2014 09:11:52 No.339242 View View Reply Original Report

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What are /out/'s thoughts on Christopher McCandless/Into the Wild?

I've been strongly considering taking a voyage similar to his for quite some time now. I've grown...Tired of my life as it is.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jun 2014 09:13:12 No.339243 Report

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>>339242
Faster and cheaper.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Jun 2014 09:17:28 No.339244 Report

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>>339243
I'm going into it with the mindset that I probably won't come back.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Jun 2014 09:20:12 No.339245 Report

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>>339243
if you're going to go out, then go out like a boss

http://youtu.be/75O_JBfpX7I?t=1m23s

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jun 2014 11:01:29 No.339272 Report

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>>339242

I too have thought about taking my own life.... in a new direction.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jun 2014 11:05:01 No.339273 Report

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>>339242

Whenever I see a picture of Christopher, it looks like something toxic is eating away at him inside. It's berry serious.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Jun 2014 13:09:57 No.339307 Report

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>>339242
There are many better alternatives, including getting adequate knowledge, experience and supplies before running away.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jun 2014 13:29:11 No.339313 Report

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>>339273
>berry serious

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Jun 2014 14:57:11 No.339338 Report

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>>339242
from what i read,it seems like he was a cunt.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jun 2014 16:16:26 No.339374 Report

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>>339273
10/10

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Jun 2014 16:34:34 No.339388 Report

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>>339242
>I've grown...Tired of
You'll need an awesome education to throw away. I'd start there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 00:04:47 No.339508 Report

Quoted By: >>339579 >>339619 >>339719

>>339273
>>339313
>>339374
how is this funny? he dies from eating potato seeds not berries you fucking retards. Have some respect for a man twenty times more authentic than you'll ever dream of being.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 00:07:44 No.339509 Report

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>>339242
Just do it OP. The earth was designed to take care of us. all the fancy equipment and "oh i need to memorize more facts" is a waste of time.

the food is out there. You know how to make fire, boil any questionable water.

quit dicking around and pic related

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 03:45:22 No.339579 Report

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>>339508
No he didn't. Several studies showed the potatoes were not as poisonous as first believed. He just staved to death because he was stupid. I'll let you google it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 04:13:57 No.339601 Report

Quoted By: >>339611

Do it, but the Alaskan bush is fucking horrid for biting flies in the summer so I here. You are going to need something to take shelter in, you better have your shit together if you plan on being in the bush through a winter far north, not much daylight to work with.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 04:27:37 No.339611 Report

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>>339601
Yep, Ben's bug spray is the best.
I tell you what though, before you shit in the woods up there, spray down your ass too.
I squatted out there and within 5 seconds my ass was covered in those little bastards.
Not Pleasant.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 04:42:14 No.339619 Report

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>>339508

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 11:43:46 No.339700 Report

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Can we make the use of the word "McCandless" and "Into the Wild" a bannable offense?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 12:29:16 No.339712 Report

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>>339242
I've said it before and I'll say it again. He died as he lived: in a bus.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 12:35:08 No.339714 Report

Quoted By: >>339828 >>339931

>don't know how into hunting-gathering
>don't take enough food
>find some of the harshest climate possible
>spend winter there
>die because you don't know how to /out/

OMG LE HERO SUCH A GREAT MAN

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 12:44:02 No.339719 Report

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>>339508
>McCandless wrote what are apparently his final words in his journal: "Beautiful Blueberries."
This is berry serious bussiness

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 13:30:03 No.339739 Report

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>>339700
Link to the official homepage and stampedetrail.info in the sticky?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 18:17:00 No.339828 Report

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>>339714
>OMG LE HERO SUCH A GREAT MAN
It's because faggots romanticize the shit out of that awful story and movie.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 18:24:15 No.339829 Report

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>>339828
that movie was pretty good.

but it's true - people do romanticize it, much in the way On the Road does. most suburban middle class American kids always develop a wanderlust and a need to escape their home town, and there's the whole rebellious "fuck everything i'm going on an adventure" attitude.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 18:40:53 No.339834 Report

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>>339242
>haven't browsed /out/ in a couple weeks
>oh look, a Chris McCandless thread
>again

See you next month.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 19:30:52 No.339857 Report

Quoted By: >>339869

>>339829
>that movie was pretty good.
It was alright
>On the Road
Was the movie for this any good? The trailer made it look shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 19:33:23 No.339858 Report

Quoted By: >>339871 >>339919 >>339933 >>340166

You know, we see this exact same thread several times per week.
What's much worse is that we see the exact same set of responses every time.
We should just write up a field guide to McCandless. An analysis of what he ate that killed him, what mistakes he made, what he did and didn't know how to do based on his journals, and finally a list of the gear he should have taken for sustainable long-term living in the Yukon. Then someone can just post that and we can be done with these threads in one post.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 19:59:11 No.339869 Report

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>>339857
>Was the movie for this any good? The trailer made it look shit.
i have no idea. only read the book.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 20:01:13 No.339871 Report

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>>339858
There already is a forum for that, just link to it. Saves us the trouble. I think the topic is discussed to death already.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 21:42:33 No.339911 Report

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>>339834
no come back

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 22:04:41 No.339919 Report

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>>339858
Then we wouldn't have retards shouting about how dumb this guys is and getting angry at everyone for admiring him.

Those guy are fun to laugh at.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 22:25:42 No.339931 Report

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>>339714
Reminds me of Kurt Cobain.
I RAGE when I here people say he was such a hero to our generation etc

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 22:26:59 No.339933 Report

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>>339858
>Yukon
yeaahhh

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Jun 2014 23:50:56 No.339982 Report

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If that's what you're feeling, do it man. Don't bother with anyone else's opinions

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jun 2014 00:21:51 No.339997 Report

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>>339242
You've come to the wrong place for that, personally, I applaud you. But you won't get much of this on /out/

I think chris knew he was never returning home and I dig what he did and sometimes I think of it myself. Not alaska, that was fucking dumb. But northern arizona. Anyway, you ask for my thoughts, and they are that this decision would be one of the most liberating of your life and provide you with the emotional clarity and perspective you wish you could carry around in the rest of life. But there's a LOT of ways in which you could easily be unprepared and setting yourself up in a shitty way like he did.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jun 2014 00:33:40 No.340003 Report

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Many people dream of a prolonged solitary retreat but most don't have the skill to actually pull it off...

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jun 2014 00:45:11 No.340007 Report

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jun 2014 01:14:03 No.340020 Report

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>>340007
I'm probably in the same about as McCandless was. I don't know much. Though I feel I do share the same insomniac sense of adventure dying inside me, it's crushing. After watching the movie a few times and getting away from just admiring him and his wrecklessness I felt he was pretty intelligent, but dumb as fuck. Who goes to one of the harshest climates and tries to simply 'live for awhile', his fate was ultimately his own fault. I can only hope he regrets nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jun 2014 01:26:43 No.340025 Report

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>>339997
>northern arizona
Everett Ruess?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jun 2014 04:48:52 No.340119 Report

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>>339997
>chris
>first name basis with a faggot
>knew anything about what he was doing

stay the fuck out of northern arizona with your hippie bullshit. i live in flag. i was born in flag. take the train somewhere else, faggot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jun 2014 07:52:52 No.340166 Report

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>>339858
How about we just make it a bannable offense like what this guy said>>339700 because I am tired of these faggots coming here and starting these threads.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2014 01:47:55 No.341525 Report

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Damn.
BUncha pussies on /out/

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2014 02:49:40 No.341545 Report

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>>339619
I hope he wasn't eating the seeds. You're supposed to eat the roots of Hedysarum.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2014 04:53:59 No.341575 Report

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>>339242
The general consensus: he was a dude who liked adventure that planned absolutely horrible and died an inevitable death. He didn't know anything about survival and left on a whim. I can see what would make a person do that but without patience and slowly teaching yourself the basics... You're gonna have a bad time

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2014 05:14:55 No.341585 Report

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>>341575
he starved to death instead of trying to swim across a river. Or paddle a log across a river. Or walk up or down a river to find a crossing.

his death wasn't inevitable, it was pathetic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2014 05:17:30 No.341586 Report

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>>339619
All this says is that Jews are responsible for Chris' death.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2014 08:35:30 No.341634 Report

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>>339579
This. Idiot managed to starve to death while 10 miles was a highway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2014 12:20:33 No.341667 Report

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>>340020
>hope he regrets nothing

He's dead, so just nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2014 22:28:57 No.342911 Report

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I hate these threads as much as the next man, but while it's here, I may as well make use of it. Where in Europe would it be most possible to do something like this. Obviously without the being a massive spacker and starving part.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2014 22:39:55 No.342923 Report

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>>342911
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Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2014 22:49:50 No.342928 Report

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Mods need to remove the bear picture from the sticky and put OP's picture.

As well as a post detailing this.

The current picture adds nothing

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jul 2014 07:34:22 No.345354 Report

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>>339243
That shit fucks you up badly

But you wont die

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