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The rifle is the first weapon you learn how to use, because it lets you keep your distance from the client. The closer you get to being a pro, the closer you can get to the client. The knife, for example, is the last thing you learn.
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Id give myself about 2 months...then i'd probably start to get a mild case of cabin fever
Much less if it was during winter... maybe 3-5 weeks before i would start to lose my mind.
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It really wouldn't be much of a problem. I don't really like people much. As long as I had good books I would be perfectly happy.
Yes, a dog would be nice.
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I believe it is a fact that EVERYONE needs human contact.
I enjoy being alone, and when I go to the woods, I am usually my only companion. I do get tired of myself though.
I enjoy being alone, and when I go to the woods, I am usually my only companion. I do get tired of myself though.
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I do get tired of myself though.
How can anyone get tired of oneself? If you start arguing with yourself, you always end up being right!
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If it wasn't for my immediate family, indefinately , no problem. I'll make friends with nature. One thing about being a only child is you learn to keep yourself occupied without the need for others; at least it was in my case.
A good dog wouldn't hurt , though.
A good dog wouldn't hurt , though.
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No dog? I'd domesticate something. Even if it was a volley ball.
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Just to add a few things, and address some things other said:
First, count me int he club that HATES the idea of a tropical island. Give me a cloudy, grey mountain with a lake nearby, and woods, woods, woods (for instance, I could never visit Pitdog, because I'd go one one of his hikes and refuse to come back). I think part of it is that I grew up int he Northeast. Our house was about 200 yards or so from our own pier on the reservoir. It was maybe a mile to an island in the center, and we'd canoe (later in life I'd swim it, even though we weren't supposed to), and camp out and such. There were other small islands filled with blueberries and such to pick, and we'd eat ourselves sick. Lots of rolling terrain, hardwoods, and the evergreens were mostly blur spruce and such, so you had branches going to the ground you could sleep under in bad weather, unlike the crappy pines down here. In a place like that, I could go a long time, but not outside the time frame of my original answer.
I'm one of those guys that doesn't like a lot of human contact (about as antisocial as they come), but I really like SOME. Going to church once a week is generally enough. Or over someone's house for dinner. But after a couple hours I have to leave.
In a group like the people in this forum, you're going to find the types that can be alone the longest.
One thing I did notice back in my hobo days is that men can go a LOT longer than women without contact. Women get separate, even psycho (more than usual) if left alone for long periods. I'd usually go wilderness squatting (that's what the "respectable" people called it, I called it camping) for anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks with no real effects. I'd talk to people here and there when I go into town for supplies or work to get money for supplies.
But every so often I'd come across a lone woman. If she hadn't been alone for a long time, she was usually afraid, and worried about being raped or something. But if she'd been alone for a long time, she'd practically latch onto me. Almost as if they'd prefer anything -- even being raped -- to going without attention any longer. Sometimes they just start yammering at mach 3, sometimes, literally grab my arm and beg me to talk to them. Sometimes offer -- services -- just to have some contact. It seemed realyl hard on them.
Some guys were desperate for attention, but they were normally guys that were down on their luck and homeless, not a real hobo. But even they weren't like the women. Most guys, though, that I'd meet ont he road, would just exchange greetings, amybe some info, and then walk on. Sometimes you'd travel together because you were going in the same direction, but would go all day and maybe only say one or two things to each other.
First, count me int he club that HATES the idea of a tropical island. Give me a cloudy, grey mountain with a lake nearby, and woods, woods, woods (for instance, I could never visit Pitdog, because I'd go one one of his hikes and refuse to come back). I think part of it is that I grew up int he Northeast. Our house was about 200 yards or so from our own pier on the reservoir. It was maybe a mile to an island in the center, and we'd canoe (later in life I'd swim it, even though we weren't supposed to), and camp out and such. There were other small islands filled with blueberries and such to pick, and we'd eat ourselves sick. Lots of rolling terrain, hardwoods, and the evergreens were mostly blur spruce and such, so you had branches going to the ground you could sleep under in bad weather, unlike the crappy pines down here. In a place like that, I could go a long time, but not outside the time frame of my original answer.
I'm one of those guys that doesn't like a lot of human contact (about as antisocial as they come), but I really like SOME. Going to church once a week is generally enough. Or over someone's house for dinner. But after a couple hours I have to leave.
In a group like the people in this forum, you're going to find the types that can be alone the longest.
One thing I did notice back in my hobo days is that men can go a LOT longer than women without contact. Women get separate, even psycho (more than usual) if left alone for long periods. I'd usually go wilderness squatting (that's what the "respectable" people called it, I called it camping) for anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks with no real effects. I'd talk to people here and there when I go into town for supplies or work to get money for supplies.
But every so often I'd come across a lone woman. If she hadn't been alone for a long time, she was usually afraid, and worried about being raped or something. But if she'd been alone for a long time, she'd practically latch onto me. Almost as if they'd prefer anything -- even being raped -- to going without attention any longer. Sometimes they just start yammering at mach 3, sometimes, literally grab my arm and beg me to talk to them. Sometimes offer -- services -- just to have some contact. It seemed realyl hard on them.
Some guys were desperate for attention, but they were normally guys that were down on their luck and homeless, not a real hobo. But even they weren't like the women. Most guys, though, that I'd meet ont he road, would just exchange greetings, amybe some info, and then walk on. Sometimes you'd travel together because you were going in the same direction, but would go all day and maybe only say one or two things to each other.
If it wasn't for my immediate family, indefinately , no problem. I'll make friends with nature. One thing about being a only child is you learn to keep yourself occupied without the need for others; at least it was in my case.
A good dog wouldn't hurt , though.
^^This for me too.
However, I'll cut myself back from "indefinitely" to 6-8 weeks. No contact with my wife and especially with my four year old daughter is the deal breaker, though.
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Great point ... most people have at least one person they REALLY care about in their lives so to say indefinitely, I believe, is a stretch.
Lets say there aren't ANY books ... how long could you seriously last ? wouldn't the loneliness and solitude begin to eventually affect you
in one way or another ?
I gotta pitch in again.
NO TROPICAL ISLANDS!!!!
Somewhere remote up here in the PNW would be great.
I always get a kick out of folks who want to get stuck on a tropical island. Once they actualy get to the tropics it freaks em out how everything crawls.
NO TROPICAL ISLANDS!!!!
Somewhere remote up here in the PNW would be great.
I always get a kick out of folks who want to get stuck on a tropical island. Once they actualy get to the tropics it freaks em out how everything crawls.
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Funny how they never show all the bugs and reptiles in the movies, eh?
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Having spent more than a little time in tropical jungles, I can honestly say that it's just about the last place I would choose to be stranded and alone.
The ones that I've been in were nothing like the bright, airy things in the Tarzan movies I watched as a kid; they were dark, nasty, smelly places.
No thanks.
I wouldn't want to be stranded in any of the places where it snows heavily half the year, either.
Again, no thanks.
If I were going to be stranded, I'd like it to be in my local Southern California mountains. I can handle a few days of snow every year.
Yep: that'd do it for me.
That's with unlimited books of my choosing, of course. Without books — and no internet — I'd probably only last a couple of months.
The ones that I've been in were nothing like the bright, airy things in the Tarzan movies I watched as a kid; they were dark, nasty, smelly places.
No thanks.
I wouldn't want to be stranded in any of the places where it snows heavily half the year, either.
Again, no thanks.
If I were going to be stranded, I'd like it to be in my local Southern California mountains. I can handle a few days of snow every year.
Yep: that'd do it for me.
That's with unlimited books of my choosing, of course. Without books — and no internet — I'd probably only last a couple of months.
In a lot of the movies they go through and use hundreds of gallons of bug spray to knock em back before filming.
When I was 17 I thought the tropics would be great. Then I joined the USMC. After Jungle survival/SERE training and a bunch of time in jungle environments I learned the error of my ways.
Had a firend who worked for the film companies on site doing the grunt work. He told me about one location where they used around 800 gallons of bug spray on everything a couple days before filming, just to knock the bugs back to where folks wouldn't freak.
When I was 17 I thought the tropics would be great. Then I joined the USMC. After Jungle survival/SERE training and a bunch of time in jungle environments I learned the error of my ways.
Had a firend who worked for the film companies on site doing the grunt work. He told me about one location where they used around 800 gallons of bug spray on everything a couple days before filming, just to knock the bugs back to where folks wouldn't freak.
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I agree on the no tropics point. I'd rather deal with the cold and snow than humidity and constant bugs.
As far as the book issue; the unavailability of books would change the picture alot for me. At least half of my favorite people live in books, so they can function as surrogate human contact. Without books, along with no people, it would shorten the time I'd enjoy this lone wolf scenario.
As far as the book issue; the unavailability of books would change the picture alot for me. At least half of my favorite people live in books, so they can function as surrogate human contact. Without books, along with no people, it would shorten the time I'd enjoy this lone wolf scenario.