Please, I need some transcending advice....

well that's fine, i guess it was worth a try right? people like you unfortunately still inhabit this earth which really dampens my mood because it's people like you that disrupt the stillness of peace. ironically i say, "anyways, peace be with you. bro!"

 

bro,, again. good thing this isnt face to face. you woulda just got bitch slapped..

 

bro, that was on purpose! freedom of speech bIAAAATCH!@YOUR FINEST!

 

and by the way, you should be the one that needs a bitchslapping, or a fistful you know? be real man, don't pose!!!

 

oh i dont pose my friend ,as i said we live it an love it..

 

just because i am young doesn't mean i am clueless.

 

age has nothing to do with it. its what youve said here that leads me (and obviously others) to come to that conclusion.

 

well since i can't be given a solid advice, and since people aren't understanding that I am not a free-loader looking for the taking, can i ask one thing: can all of you hippy aficionados, hippies, tramps, and other like-minded people really just take the moment to realize that life is too short to be unhappy? Please, for me! I am a wondering soul in search of love and happiness, as are all of you hopefully, and I would like to tell all of you kind-hearted people out there that it is you and you only that make this world go round. Peace be to all!!!

 

my advice for you is to practice what you preach, cause you obviously aren't living this dream of "peace" and "harmony", as you've evidenced in this thread. so stop posing eh? be the change, yadda yadda....

no community out there is going to do your work for you, or make you become something you're not already. what I'm picking up from you is young, unrealistic, idealistic delusion. if you want to seek a dream then that's what you'll find... a dream. aka NOT reality.

reality doesn't mean there's no love or peace or harmony. it just means there's disharmony sometimes too, and it's not always peaceful, and there's a lot of work, and relationships can be messy, and there's much to contribute.

wake up. that's my suggestion.

 

i am awake, i know what i said, i am young, i am a dreamer, i do live for peace, love, and harmony; and, i do believe that i am being the most peaceful of all who post in this thread. i mean seriously, who the f is going to conclude that i am looking to only take, based on me looking for "free-love, peace, and harmony?" did you guys educate yourselves at all, and isn't that what everyone looks for? i just ask how can one associate free-love with free-loader?

 

im very happy and quite enjoying busting your chops,once again,i live it and love it..

you would have been much better received had your original post went something like this.

"high i am a 21 year old male looking for a place that i can go and learn how to live a simpler life.a place where the societal norms are not the norm.A place where people work together for the good of all.

i am a hard worker and eager to learn. i understand that coming to a place without any real skills will probably be a burden until i learn but i promise to work extra hard to make up for my lack of knowledge.

my ideal place would be somewhere that i could not only learn sustainability through agriculture but also through foraging of wild edibles.

i realize the hours are long and the work is hard,i also realize that the only rewards i will receive is knowing ive helped to sustain the community.

if i sound like i may fit in where you are please get back to me"

feel free to use that on the next board you post on..

 

ever take college english composition? what you are saying would be a reiteration of the obvious, and what you describe as the idealic post is called being humble and I think, pre-allthisdrama, i have been a very humble person at that.

 

lol,do i type like i took a college course in anything??

no its not obvious.. thats what you dont comprehend..

old wolf,rainbowgeek and myself have been doing this for quite sometime. its not a given that one will work hard and do their part even if they say they will.

you think we developed this attitude because everyone just jumps right in and does their part without question or seeking something in return?

like i said, your clueless. you think you know,but you have no idea.

maybe your a exception,maybe your not.one things for sure,as long as you have the mindset you do no successful community is going to give you the time of day.

 

obviously i am clueless, that's why i joined this forum, apart from the side of me being serious. i was born into a wealthy family so i know what it's like to give and take, and I am damn-hard worker at that. lets just say, i want to leave that lifestyle and become a part of a better one-one with more social value, one that offers the chance for me to work (not that i'm a criminal), and one that shares the same visions as the old "free-love, peace, and harmony" type of communities. plain and simple!

 

and by free-love, i don't mean orgies or anything like that-i'm just referring to the metaphorical meaning behind it. i do realize that love needs to be earned so don't point that way anymore.

 

The state of all this is really getting me down. I so was that kid, at 21, travelling around, middle class background and schooled enough to be without any useful life skills whatsoever (this was, after all, the INTENTION of the compulsory schooling system).

Then I found Rainbow, and began the process of realizing that YOU create the gathering, of taking responsibility for my actions and community, growing up. Then kids are born and it becomes painfully obvious why you aren't going to live in a fucking tent all year, you're going to get off your lazy ass and build a house, but oh wait, to do that we need land and all that.

After years of dreaming and talking and travelling and buses and Gatherings, through the profits of war, a few of us managed to move to the next step, and get some land, and it was Welcome Home, a grand relief, hippies and buses and camping and tents and a HUGE FUCKING MESS.

Two years now and things are still a mess, not a single real fucking structure finished, only started. Most who've come want to drink shitty beer and puff all day and leave messes and don't even want to COME to council, let alone take part in the decision making process that we want to have open. Now, most of the real viable partners, who can really be COUNTED on to come through, and not flake out on whatever may just decide to do their own thing where they haven't given away their control.

My heart's nearly broken with the disapointment that Family can't be counted on to self-motivate and just do what needs to be fucking done. I find myself changing, though still idealistic, I find I relate as much to HHB as I do to my own youth. This is why tribe's have fucking elders.

Love and Light,
Joshua of the Reading Rainbow

 

Right on, Until the last two posts I was gonna say "this kid hasnt gotten a fair shake, he may have worded things vaguely, but still... if you dont have an answer to his question, just leave this thread...end of discussion".. but I think it may be beginning to move somewhere productive, so I'll step aside and say

I had those same aspirations a few years back, and now like RG has said, kids are born, and you realize you can't just kick it on the road, travellin from show to show, park to park..whatever... it does change, and at a certain point, your ability to create that dream changes... I don't know what my vision has become, in general right now I'm just trying to find a job/make money so I can take care of my daughter(10 mo olds) so its all very new to me(in positive and negative ways)... I do have this advice though, if your 21 with no ties, GO and SEEK... if theres something out there that you're meant to find, you will find it.. if youre meant to be a part of it, you'll be a part of it well before you realize you were meant to be there...dont take the people, situations, gatherings or whatever that you do find for granted... I think I took a lot of my experiences for granted, and they all could have led me to amazing places, further than I can possibly imagine... but I have to stop and move on from here...which is what you also must do.. maybe you were hoping for a thread discussing whether this place exists or not, but maybe you were just biding your time until you actually went out and found it...

I guess thats my advice, the face to face may be best, following your heart may work, I dont know, and thats the truth..
g'luck in lovin' light...bro!, haha

 

it amazes me how the spectrum of life has such a beautiful balance of everything. the ying-yang really defines it all, and it really is shame that there has to be two forces, one positive and one negative, that rule all of our dimensions. finally now i can thank someone in this thread for at least giving me advice, which by the way couldn't have been any better.

well, to be honest, i don't really want to spend several minutes typing up my life story, and i really think most of you wouldn't want to listen anyways; so, i will just say this:

life is a like a wave,
sprouting like a seed is the motion,
until the sand becomes it's grave,
for it will die and recede,
and go home,
to the home it will need.

just some poetry, on the spot, for you guys. hope you enjoy, and please everyone-follow your heart like the gentle? said in the posting before this one. Don't follow hypocrites or nay-sayers, and please don't be fooled by lust of temptation. God Bless!!!

 

A-ho, Zyphyfeather, well said.

I am coming to understand that this whole of physicality is built on THE fundamental duality, which expresses itself in the masculine/feminine, the electric+/-, gravity/radiation, hot/cold, etc.

This thread brough my spirits up. Don't forget to wake up in the morning and DO SOMETHING.

Joshua

 

i find it more than a little amusing that rainbowgeek is in a community in northern california,zepherfeather is looking for a community in northern california yet neither has made any effort to inquire further about the other..