Why do you want to be a hermit Wolfy?

Seems like a sad life, having no-one around. I can understand where you are coming from to some degree. I seem to be too sensitive to other people sometimes and sometimes wish I could just go upto the hills and live alone. But no man is an island as they say. You're stuck in the middle of this messy life with all the variety that people come in (the good, the bad and the ugly) and have to make the best of it. Life gets hard and sad sometimes, but I don't think withdrawing is the way. Are people that painful for you Wolfy?

I wish to live in a community where everyone takes a psychological profile, to make sure they are compadiable with the rest.

There is no reason to have to live in an area where you have to be afraid all the time, and thus miserable. You don't have to take the bad at all. Just find enough people online who wish to move out some place where the human population is low, and establish their own community.

I current live in an area where only blocks a way, an old woman was beaten so badly she ended up in a coma. She got fried chicken at Bobby's Drive In, and some guy saw her getting chicken, decided he wanted some, as he lated confesed to police, and followed her home. She was totally defenseless, and he could've just taken it without a fight, but instead beat her senseless. Thats the kind of screwed up and horrible place I live in.

I'm not as paranoid as I used to be though. When I lived with my parents I was miserable do my father's stubborn refusal to lock the door when he left. He'd come and go throughout the day, and leave the damn door unlocked, making me a nervous wreck. Once I moved next door to my grandmother's old home, I knew the door would always be locked, and no longer felt the insane compulsive desire to check it every five seconds to be certain.

I want a gated neighborhood with video cameras on every street, a well trained police force that can pass a logic solving test, and a fiber optic connection in every home for some very fine internet speed. Where every home is also a fortress, built within a hill of dirt, with a moat around it, and plenty of razor wire, guarded by genetically engineered terror wolves and magical fire hawks, all telepathically reading the minds of any that come near, and destroying those that would cause harm to others, be it physical or emotional.

Best things about being hermit:

1) Not neccesary to shave
2) Not neccesary to bathe - though I think I would
3) Not neccesary to put on clothes - though I think I would
3) Freedom to talk completely mad - "Hey, I'm a toasted donut with a red handbag on my face" - just for the hell of it.
4) No-one to stare at you if you get a really big pimple
5) Cheap subscriptions to "Hermits World" magazine (with a special article on 'Mumbling to yourself - Is it in this year?'
6) Mumbling to yourself
7) No-one to interupt your favourite t.v. shows
8) No-one to interupt you when you are talking
9) No-one to try and borrow money off you
10) No door-to-door religous fanatics trying to convert you

I happen to have a wild unkept hermit beard, not even trimming it. Looking as creepy as possible makes people less likely to ever bother you.

I previously only bathed once a month, and that was before my monthly trip to Sam's Wholesale Club. Now I find myself these past few weeks, doing it more often since I keep running out of sliced turkey. I eat a pack a day, and sometimes more. I bought 7 packs Thursday, and I just opened the 7th one this Monday morning. Next time I'll stockpile more, thus reducing the need for me to get out as often. I do plan on raising turkeys one day, as well as chickens, once my hermit colony is established.

As for as clothing, I walk around the house all day in my underwear. Or I would walk around the house all day in my underwear, should I ever feel the insane desire to move from my sitting possition before the almighty computer. I put my bed and computer in the smallest room of my house, so it was right there at the foot of it, easily accessable.

I enjoyed reading this thread.

Fred pops up and says Did someone mention me ? No says Silva, I said Thread not Fred, and why do we call topics Freds argh threads anyway i thought a thread was something you got when your clothes were falling apart due to stitches coming out.

Anyway it was interesting, i enjoyed reading it and could understand and feel a sense of harmony with both your veiws.

So, here's mine. I wouldnt like to be a complete hermit and never have any social interaction at all. I'd hate to live alone and would feel constantly insecure and terrified, I'd be afraid of shadows of ghosts, of murderous burglars or rapists, of sounds of anything. Last night I managed to scare myself just with my own thoughts, thinking I saw dark scary shapes around me. I need people, I like people, I just hate governments and the presure from society to conform. Why should i be a capitalist, get a job, dress a certain way etc etc ?

I like to live with someone else, I like and need the feeling of having someone in the house with me, but I need and love time alone., I hate the pressure people put on me, sometimes I feel like screaming when they bug me with the boring insignificant crap of everyday life. I feel like yelling "so what if the bills need paying, or the lightbulb in the hall just stopped working, cant you see that I'm off with my thoughts in a wonderful fantasy world, stopp bugging me with this crap" Why do they have to come in and out all the time when I'm shut away in my room typing or playing or dreaming telling me things like I'm gonna go eat now, I'm gonna take some pain killers, I'm goin to bed now, My clothes are dirty. what shall I eat, theres no food in the house, blah blah blah, do I give them a running commentary on my life., nope I dont, why would I. I just do what I do, and thats it. I'd like some kinda barrier which I could erect to keep people out of my immediate space, or a stop light which says Stay Away or die.

I too feel unsafe in modern society, I NEVER go out of the house alone, espeicially in the dark. Partly cos of anxiety but also cos as a woman I just dont feel safe. I dont get why they cant just lock up all the evil ones and prevent many violent crimes before they happen.

The area I live is preetty safe, or used to be but all the time even here violence is becoming more common place, a few years ago murder was rare here. Now there have been maybe ten murders in two years. There have been at least three cases of people killing old ladies for no reason other than sadism or rape.

I wouldnt like a hermit colony, but I would like a colony where people are all pacifist and harmonious with each other, and where they all have similar aims and would live well together. And are all voluntarily tested to be sure they arent really evil killers etc. Problem with most communitys like that is you then start to have an obligation tothe community and have to do things, help with work, conform to timetables, and I'd hate all that type stuff. I dont want to grow veg, I tried it and loathed it, I dont wanna have to do things when someone else wants me to.

If I ever get super rich, (is it possible to get immense wealth when you do nothing all day except what you want ? ) I shall buy enough land to never have to leave again and shut myself away with my fave people and my dogs and have my main social life online. If I had a forest of my own I'd never have to leave home to walk the dog.

You wouldnt kill and eat them would you ?! Ohhhhhhh the poor little things, *conveinietly forgets about how she loves eating chicken and turkey*

See above for typical sensitive irrational female reaction.

I could never give up meat, but also could never bring myself to kill an animal, or chicken or turkey. I give them all names and turn them into pets or members of the family.