My co-worker may be out of his mind.

[Finn]

It's not any weirder than posting about your neighbor lady that you don't really know.

 

[sidious618]

I think he sounds pretty awesome.

 

[freak]

We have a friend of my Aunt's who lives exactly the way that your co-worker lives. He lives in a cabin with no running water or central heat and air. But he does contribute to society well so it's none of our business if he wants to live like a hermit crab.

 

[Sephiroth]

call me back when you catch him with a tinfoil hat, or ask him his feelings about the federal government

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Dude, I think you work with Dwight Schrute.

 

[Holdfast]

If he's happy, good for him.

I wouldn't be happy living such a bare-bones existence but I can definitely see the appeal of simplifying life. It's just that my idea of simplification is a little different to his (mine's more of an intellectual simplification than a physical one, though admittedly the two can occur together).

The wise can often seem crazy. The art of living is figuring out which is which, for you.

 

[T'Baio]

*GASP!* Someone doing things differently than most other people!?!

Kill him. Kill him, now. It's the American way.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ He'd probably slam us for living with too much stuff, so why can't we say anything about him for doing the opposite?

 

[sidious618]

^ He'd probably slam us for living with too much stuff, so why can't we say anything about him for doing the opposite?

I'm impressed at your mind reading abilities.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

My family owns a rural cabin way the hell off the grid - no electricity, no plumbing, no internets, no nuthin. Spent every summer of my childhood there and I still go there often. We fished (it's not that hard, as long as you're someplace where other fisherpersons rarely venture and the trout population hasn't been decimated), ate huckleberries, drew water from the well (better tasting than anything you'll get from Evian) and swam in the lake. Deer, elk and occasionally bears wandered through the "front yard," (eg, dense forest).

We have neighbors who are not satisfied to live in rural splendor and insist on generating electricity through the use of noisy-ass diesel generators which spew noxic fumes and destroy the peaceful night.

Who are the crazy ones in this scenario?

 

[Deks]

^ He'd probably slam us for living with too much stuff, so why can't we say anything about him for doing the opposite?

I'm impressed at your mind reading abilities.

Indeed.
Also, let's not forget that 'making assumptions without basis' is how a lot of people (but not all) operate to begin with.

 

[Kestra]

^ He'd probably slam us for living with too much stuff, so why can't we say anything about him for doing the opposite?

You can "slam" him all you want, it's just not really beneficial or necessary. Not to mention impolite.

I'd be lost without electricity, but that's the way I choose to live.

 

[Commander Rabbit]

Am I being a little out of line here in thinking that this guy is living a backwards hermit-style life?

Yes, you are. The earth would be better off if more of us in this energy-guzzling U.S.A. (assuming that's where you and he are) lived like that.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Well, if he gets hypothermia and dies from winter hosing, then you'll be proven right. But maybe he has a way around that.

Anyway, after about ten years of this, with no electricity and probably not phone (and of course, no sewage and garbage) -- he could take all hte money he saved and get solar panels and tax a tax right off for them, and he'll have the last laugh...

 

[JonathonWally]

I have a co-worker, I think he's out of his mind.

Here's why:

He lives a 40-minute drive away. (In-of itself not crazy, I admit.)

The place he lives is very rural and remote. (again, not by itself all that crazy.)

He lives in a one-room cabin on large piece of property owned by one of his best friends.

This is a one-room cabin.

This cabin has only a sink and toilet in it, so my co-worker bathes with a cold hose in outside the cabin.

The cabin has no electricity.

The cabin only has a pot-bellied stove in it for cooking/heat.

For meals, my co-worker fishes for catfish in a near-by pond for food if he's unsuccessful in retrieving catfish he eats beans from a pull-top can, which would otherwise serve as a side-dish for his fish.

I've told this guy I'm worried about him, he's living like the Unabomber.

Am I being a little out of line here in thinking that this guy is living a backwards hermit-style life?

Does he own a typewriter?