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The idea of owning or possesing material goods

Portillo said:
In order to define yourself as a person, you must own material possessions.
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Completely and totally false. If I were to run around buck naked and sleep wherever I please I would still be the same person i was if I were to run around clothed and sleep wherever I please.
 
Changed said:
I'd like to quote my man, HD Thoreau: "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

Personally, it has taken me about 3 years to rid myself of nearly everything I own-- it isn't as easy as they'd think. Right now, everything that I own can fit in my 40L REI backpack:

I own: 7 t-shirts and 2 button down shirts, 1 pair of jeans, two pairs of khakis, and 1 pair of corduroys, 7 pairs of underwear, 7 pairs of socks, one pair of Converse and one pair Clark's desert boots; a netbook, cellphone, camera, a notebook and pen, sunglasses, some books, and a watch. I do have my dad's bike, his Bose speakers, and his receiver at my current apartment, but those hardly count. I live in an apartment with 4 friends, and I pay $150 a month in rent, allowing me to make a profit of $1600 a month as a bartender--easily sustaining my minimalist lifestyle.

As you can see: even if I don't have a lot of stuff by most people's standards, its still a lot of shit.

The reason I live this way is pretty simple: I like to have as much free-time to myself as possible-- for me, working is more like selling my soul. With no need for a bunch of excess stuff, I only have to work 4 days a week at a job that I like (one that also provides me with food, alcohol, and a social life). I'm free to buy a plane ticket to Thailand, tomorrow if I wanted, because I don't have a bunch of crap I'd need to store or sell or protect while I'm gone.
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If there were a button I would like this. My parents doen't understand that I am the same way. Haha, there always on me for my choice of major in college. I mean I'm going to college so I can get a job that pay's just about minimum wage. I want to work for a community center. I don't want to make a lot of money and I don't want to buy a bunch of crap. I want to help people and lead a humble life. I want to live in a condo, build my furniture out of stolen pallets and do what I do. Granted I have a few more things than you because I am musically inclined (sort of? I suck but I have the desire to make music haha) But you (insert formal address for ambiguously gendered person) are somewhat kind of my hero. haha
 
MDAO:
"I think the concept of ownership only gets controversial when you're talking about things that don't indisputably become a part or extension of your body.."

its true, a lot would happen if we saw more of what we like about ourselves, in what we like about what we own.
 
You wrote it - I don't believe that you attribute the content to anyone other than you. If you wrote a book would you suggest it was the intellectual property of the publisher or the bookshop selling it ?


Anyway I don't want to answer anymore seeing as the question wasn't really anything to do with me - fucking is now tho - right ?
 
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