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MattATatTat:

--- Quote from: Adam Kokesh on June 03, 2016, 07:25:45 PM --- Matt said, "not everyone has the means to pack up and live off the grid." With the rare exceptions of severely disabled people, I strongly disagree. You may not be able to live comfortably right away, you might have to save money for a while to make the leap, but living off the land is, you know, ... what everyone used to do!

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What about those of us who are married and our partners are not on board with the idea? Clearly forcing one to live as they don't wish is not in line with a voluntaryist lifestyle. This is why I think it's important to air out the fact that not "everyone" has the means to go full throttle and live off the grid, but can still create small ways to be self-sustainable that allows you to respect your marriage and commitment to your partner who just may not be willing to live "our" dreams.

Slow poke:
Addressing the last several posts i have to say that for me personally I change a what I can and strive to change what I haven't been able to yet, and accept the fact I can't Do everything. What I mean is my wife is very slowly ingesting the ideas that I am, we're both new to this way of thinking so we're learning together but I'm more actively pursuing information than she is. But I tell her what I learn and see every day. I work a regular job, but I want to go off grid and create my own homestead. I do as much as I can when I can. I'm actively seeking land near the same area as Adam as I believe that it's a great area that's wide open for many people who think alike to create a community and grow it as we can. But I quickly learned it's gonna take time I went head first into trying to buy 40 acres touching Adams property to realizing that it's not an option for me, so now I'm looking at 10 acres in the same vicinity. And I'm ok with that because I envision that eventually alot of like minded folks will be our neighbors. Keep your day job, but do what you can to move in the direction you want to go. Do you have camping supplies? Like a tent? There is a start. learn about survival skills and camping, then buy what you can afford. Then as money allows buy a piece of land in your price range, keep your job as long as you need to, buy what you can to get started on your land a bit at a time. If you apply survival strategy to all of it you will know your priorities"hope, air, shelter, water, food, companionship" in that specific order... I for one am willing to share everything I can my knowledge, my land(when I get it) with anyone who is willing to pitch in and respect what I have to offer. If I moved there tomorrow I'd be living in a tent, which can work, I'm buying water storage containers as fast as I can because that is a major challenge out there. And I'm learning what I can. Start small but do something everyday to move toward your goal

SurfManDan280:
Taylor, I would like to echo some of the comments from Matt and SlowPoke.
I too am in a 55+ hour per week job, no time off, small child and marriage commitments. I wish I had learned these ideas sooner, but here I am now. Take a look at what you have, where your skills lie and make a plan to move forward in the best way possible. Be patient with your spouse and family.
As you make positive changes in your own life you will see more changes around you. One day we will be living the dream life!

zenturtle:
‘In order to make these changes in society, we have to be able to connect with one another in a way that goes beyond the superficial boundaries that we have been conditioned to believe keeps us apart.’ ~ Wild Hope

40 Hours, wife and kid, lots of time diddling away on the iPad is my matrix.

We all dream of a bigger better life, it’s an appropriate thing to do, it drives you.  Do not let it cause concern or dismay, don’t get upset that you haven’t reached self imposed mandatory heights of success.  Don’t strive to be like anyone else, figure out how it is you can best contribute to the Freedom movement with all of the resources you have.  Keeping in mind also your individual limitations. 

I think it is incredible that Adam provokes such a real outpouring on his forums.  It is truly like minded people here and if we just keep on pushing discussions like this, some day Slow poke’s dream is going to come true.

‘I'm actively seeking land near the same area as Adam as I believe that it's a great area that's wide open for many people who think alike to create a community and grow it as we can.’ ~ Slow poke

Mike26:
Taylor, and all: the irony of "living the dream" is that the dream happens when we are asleep. I think all of us are in the process of waking up. We are only living freely in relation to the amount we are awake. So if we spen all of our time dreaming of what life could be, we are fully asleep, and thus still fully plugged into the matrix/ enslaved.

I think, therefore I am. You choose your happiness. You can choose to be happy right now, regardless of your external environment. You can still be enslaved to a job, taxes, rules and regulations, yet be happy. Living out your happiness now, that means bringing forth your love from an inward state to an outward expression in what you say and do will change your outward environment. As your internal happiness reaches critical mass, then you shed internal chains and become free. As your internal freedom/ level of awakeness hit critical mass, your happiness erupts outwardly and begins to change your surroundings. As your surroundings are impacted by your love and happiness, you become more and more free from the physical chains.

Matt- Even those of us who are married are free to move off grid. You can move individually, which may cause disruption to the marriage, but does that equal violence against your spouse? It may be the catalyst to their awakening. Should a person remain trapped/ chained/ unfree in a relationship because the fear of living freely will cause the mate to abandon them?

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