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Comment by Nude0007 on August 7, 2013 at 9:29am

I don't believe in marriage. I think all of our sexual relationships should be open, and marriage has this fidelity clause built in. In spite of this, I got married and have been faithful. I don't believe in "fooling around" either. sex should be open and honest. polygamy is an even worse idea than monogamy. I believe we can care about and love more than one person, but marriage is a lie. I picture it like this: in a commune everything belongs to the commune (don't know how "personal" items would work) so in case of separation the commune gets everything therefore there is no need for a marriage.

While I have always been handy around the house, cooking (not great) cleaning and picking up after myself and others, washing, shopping, yard work, and more, I am suffering several medical conditions. I cannot promise how effective I would be.

Dividing up jobs would be the hardest. assuming one or more have no paying job, what kind of worth do you assign to their efforts? Other places I have looked at briefly seem to base it on a 40 hour week, but what about work quality?

Comment by Misty: Baytheist Living! on December 3, 2011 at 12:10pm

Hey Eric-

You still around?

I never noticed your last post and dropped off the earth for a while. 

Hit me up if you still wanna chat!

Comment by Misty: Baytheist Living! on June 28, 2011 at 10:51pm

SEA was an eye opener. Best years of my life, seriously. But there were some experiences that changed me, that's for sure.
My husband's a Scotsman, so I've seen a lot of the U.K. I'm a globe hopping fool, so it's not like I don't have a baseline to compare it to, you know? I see how the rest of the world lives. Not just the tourist destinations but the conversations around their dinner tables. When I look back at America, hell, every day there isn't something that makes me realize just how fucked up we are as a nation. It scares me. It really does. That's what I love about the Manifest Destiny Project. It's escapism. It's a game of perfect pretend with other intelligent minds. I mean, who cares and who knows if anything would ever come to fruition. It's the fact that we -atheists- without the constraints of dogma could fashion a society that would be hypothetically perfect. It's nice to at least imagine a place where I wouldn't have to drive by my favorite traffic screaming hobo every single day on my way to a job that I hate. I feel like I'm going through every minute of every day looking at life and screaming "WE ARE DOING IT WRONG!" and I don't even know why. Hell, I don't even know what 'right' is.
All I know is that everything we are told to do in life, from education to work to sex is enforced upon us by society in a ass-backwards way because a couple of goat herders scratched on some parchment 2,000 years ago. I mean it. We don't even realize just how much damage religion does to the lives of even the most rational-thinking household every day in America.
Our behaviors as primates are very largely based on notions of modesty, shame, virtue, purity, honor and other concepts that are not always the most altruistic or beneficial to the unit as a whole.
I mean, when these douche bags were hammering out the rules, they were doing it with no consideration for the massively complex global ecology, let alone their very insignificant place in it.
So we re-write the rules. We do it from the bottom up.
Obviously we can't retire from the world overnight. I mean, we are all evolutionists, aren't we? Gradual progression is the safest, most stable way. We make changes here and there in our lives.
So hypothetically speaking, how do we few like minded folk retire from Society and instead focus on Community.
I feel more like a pack animal than a hive insect.

This is my own intellectual version of SIMS:Let's do this life thing as best befitting our nature. It's a pretend game that helps me keep from killing a co-worker now and again. :)

Comment by Misty: Baytheist Living! on June 28, 2011 at 10:18pm

Man.. Ethiopian border?
That's hardcore. Seriously hardcore.
I spent four years in Thailand and traveled extensively through South East Asia...and I mean some of the bad parts of town, baby. It schooled me.
I know the exact minute in my life when I grew up. I can tell you the exact second I became an adult.
It was the day a lady tried to sell me her baby in Malaysia.
I had never seen the human condition so intimately until that moment. It was just.. instant loss of innocence, you know?
I mean, I've never been a stranger to violence. That I can handle. But the slow, decaying infection that is poverty? It's so much crueler. Give me a clean death any day, you know? Anything over that.
It's a win-win for me over there. I get to feel like I've served my time for the carbon footprint I'll leave just by existing plus I'll get some freaking awesome war stories and a damn fine resume for when I want to retire and start a commune. :)
Email me when you're in the area. We will shut down the

Comment by Misty: Baytheist Living! on June 28, 2011 at 9:36pm

Eric-

Oh sweet. I'm just above you. In the bay area right now. 

Just passing through to do some big critter diving (Migrating sharks, whales, ect) and mapping some kelp forest stuff around Monterey. 

Just passing through California right now. I must say, my home state is a lot greener than when I left it. *ahem* so it's not that bad. It's a stop over so I can get together a bit more money before heading East. 

I'm actually doing a program that allows you to double major in nursing and paramedics. I'm a commercial diver now but screw this offshore crap. I really, really want to focus on rescue work, the grittier the better. Might do a few years volunteer work overseas when I finish my degree. 3rd world countries always need another pair of hands and they aren't very picky about whether or not you're an orthopedic specialist. They just want the bone reset, you know? GREAT experience potential if you aren't feint of heart. 

Well, if you're ever kicking it around the bay, give me a yell. I know a ton of great bistros and microbrew places. My husband and I are homebrewers. 

 

 

 

Comment by Misty: Baytheist Living! on June 28, 2011 at 8:58pm

Eric- No need to apologize!
Thank you for your service and welcome home!
(I'm former Coastie.)
I am also trying to get back into school, though I'm currently stateside after about four years abroad.
It's a bitch over here, mate! Consider carefully.
California is ass out. Everything has a waiting list. I was in line for a nursing program and got bumped back three years because of budget stuff.
Luckily there was a better school in PA that could take me.
If there is anything I can do to lend a hand, just let me know.
Until you're home and settled, no worries, mate. This is nothing more than a very scattered brainstorming exercise for me. I can't wait for your participation, but I understand that the real world comes first.

Cheers!

Comment by Misty: Baytheist Living! on June 25, 2011 at 1:54am

Ok Folks. I said a whole bunch already. This is the part where you go write something now.

Comment by Merlin Mercer on June 19, 2011 at 7:40pm

This ought to be fun.  I've actually wanted to start a commune but was not sure where to start.  Plus people called me crazy like they thought I was wanting to be some cult leader or something.

 

I'll be tossing out ideas soon.