I'm being thrown out. Willing to work for shelter and food.

[theeindiee]

Hey guys. I'm being thrown out and I don't know anyone anymore around here. I would like to escape the midwest. I will find a way to you and I will help you out with various work needed done where you reside in exchange for some food and shelter. I'm pretty inept, but I'm a willing learner...

If your name is Martian Exile, I'm a certified WOOFer. Well I paid my 20 bucks anyway.

If not, I can't blame ya.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

Man, that's fucked!

I'd help ya out but I'm crashing on borrowed time myself...

[Bitchkoma]

If you can make your way across the great ocean and to the peninsular, me door is always open to interesting people.

[Cogburn]

There's not enough crazy people in the midwest to hide you. Couchsurf (http://www.couchsurfing.org/) the fuck out of the midwest and find a coastline.

Pick a direction and go.

"You might not get where you wanted to go but you might just find where you needed to be." - Douglas Adams

[Oblivion]

pity your not in Oz, or i'd find some space for you till you get back on your feet again.

best of luck with it mate, hope you sort something out soon

[theeindiee]

I have enough money to get to a coast.... it's just not enough money to LIVE there.... but since when does money equal life?

I'm pretty sure I'd be fine. I'm just throwing this out to see what comes back.

I thought about going to Sedona. There's a nice little group of hippie organic farmers that live there.... ya always gotta fucking watch out for cults, though. This one place in PA turned out to be a Children of God type cult. I went there for like a half hour just to visit and see what it was like, and everyone was naked.... and then I hear from one of my friends that they had a close friend who had to literally escape from there because she was being raped.... but somehow they get around the whole "illegal to rape children" thing.

[Cogburn]

I think at last count there's about 2,500 people in Santa Barbara that live on the beaches.

If you decide to head Cali-way and think of trying the SB outdoors I could swing you a paycheck at a telemarketing place where I used to be the MIS director.

It's $9 an hour on the phones humping the LA Times to people that don't want it, so it's not anything to go cross country for... but I'll PM you my cell number if you find yourself within 250 miles of here, feel free to use it.

[Ima Nasshole]

If you can swing a hammer construction has picked up in Sedona, if you can't swing a hammer there may be an electrical job there. Sedona is not as hippie as it used to be, all the bong smokers live in million dollar homes now and the new agers are more akin to GFL than ELO or GFRR. I'm driving down to Sedona in a couple of days, if you're in the upper mid west thumb your ass westward down I-80 to Reno and I'll take you to sedona. If you are serious send me a PM and I'll let you know when I'm hitting the road.

[Mungodave]

Why am not suprised !!

Amkon resue . fkn . com


Proud being here at times.

Mungo

[skunk]

I wouldn't recommend Sedona. Its overpriced, dry as shit, and there's a ton of tourists. Not to mention the astrologist types are everywhere. Hide the children!

I know of at least one farm down by me that is offering a free stay and free food in exchange for a lot of hard work (little to no pay though).

http://asheville.craigslist.org/etc/1187530247.html

[boycotteverything]

Fuck work. Do your music. The world needs artists a hell of a lot more than farmhands. Contrary to popular belief, work will not set you free. Should Bocelli be hanging drywall?

http://www.nazis.de/inidia/arbeit_macht_frei_terezin.jpg

[skunk]

This is the members helping members forum, not members being douche bags. That's what the rest of the forum is for.

indie, I would take cog's advice and couchsurf your way to wherever it is you are going. Sign up for a free profile, put your info on there, and put out as many requests as you can so you're not draining your bank account on motels/hotels.

Good luck.

[Foxtrot Oscar]

If you can make your way across the great ocean and to the peninsular, me door is always open to interesting people.

That and a little way more, but ditto!

Fox

[mojo]

well if you were able to make it to australia, between bliv, mungo and me i'm sure we could help you out. :)

best of luck mate, even if we can only offer moral support.

[mojo]

If you can make your way across the great ocean and to the peninsular, me door is always open to interesting people.

That and a little way more, but ditto!

Fox


hmmmm....filing away for future reference. :D

[skunk]

Gross.

[mojo]

Gross.

what?......me?.......wouldnt you love to have me crash at your place for a week?

man, (insert your town here) will never know what hit 'em.

[skunk]

No Fox's statement grossed me out.

[boycotteverything]

This is the members helping members forum, not members being douche bags.

[Ima Nasshole]

I wouldn't recommend Sedona. Its overpriced, dry as shit, and there's a ton of tourists. Not to mention the astrologist types are everywhere. Hide the children!

I know of at least one farm down by me that is offering a free stay and free food in exchange for a lot of hard work (little to no pay though).

http://asheville.craigslist.org/etc/1187530247.html

People with real money are bailing on California and New York in droves, they are heading west, I personally know have several clients building fat homes in Sedona, it may be dry as shit, it may be over priced, and it may have a ton of tourists, but it is one of the most beautiful places on this planet and you should get there before you die. Indiee, even if it's for a few months you should get there. Cog is right about SB, I was there not long ago and got hit on by no less than about 7 or 8 people in need. One guy had built himself a nice lean-to right on the friggin beach, and it didn't appear the cops had any intention of taking it down.

My offer is still open but if you start in with one of your loooong boring stories on the drive I will kill you and kick you out of a moving vehicle.

[Eyeforalie]

you can come chill and make music with me. there are lots of jobs i know of, and i wouldnt charge ya.

[theeindiee]

Well... I have found an organic farm community right outside of sedona, actually.... I was wondering if anybody's heard anything about Avalon Gardens?

I need to learn some sort of skill, and considering how I fucking hate purchasing my food.... I think knowing how to produce your own food is very important.... and just fucking gotta go somehow. Ima, it is possible that I won't need your help. I have like around a grand saved up. My life savings haha.... and I'm prolly gunna buy a bus ticket to Flagstaff, and hopefully get a ride there. I think it's about 35 miles from Sedona, if I measured correctly... but I believe they must be right on the outskirts, cuz it said it started in Sedona, but it's listing it's mailing address in Tubac, AZ.

From there, maybe I'd couch surf to Phoenix in search of my only remaining idol of sorts, Greg Sage from the Wipers. Then.... I will decide what to do when I get wherever it is I am getting at.

[theeindiee]

And Cogburn.... it is possible that I may take you up on that offer as well. Is Cali scheduled to plunge into the ocean this year? Is it 1997 yet? I should consult my holy holy master, Drunvalo Melchizedek... see what HE has to say for himself.

[theeindiee]

"Could I play you a song and sleep on your couch?"

[Alessandra]

O_O

[boycotteverything]

you're a fraud. but good luck.

[Ima Nasshole]

You are about right Indiee, 30 to 35 miles from Flag to Sedona. If I were you I would be in no hurry to go to PHX til about the end of October, you don't know what hot is til you've spent a summer in PHX. At midnight it's still 105 degrees in the shade and it isn't as dry as it used to be.

If you get there and can't find a couch to surf on let me know, I still have plenty of family there, and as long as you don't bore them with one of your stories they might just let you sleep on their couch without killing you.

[Lexion]

Hell Ima...

A R/L rant.

Fuck yeah !!!!

Just be sure to tape it.

:D

Indiee,

I wish you the best.

I'd ask you here, but Louisiana
ain't got shit, for jobs.

Plus, my wife would either leave,
or kill you and me both.

She's odd like that.

:)

Keep us posted, when ya can.

Regards,
Lex

[theeindiee]

I'm a fraud?

[Cogburn]

I'm a fraud?
Ahhhhh... damnit.... you got baited.

[theeindiee]

Okay this is frustrating. I just got a letter from the place, and they're saying they no longer take people at the Sedona location, but they've expanded to a place right outside of Tucson. That is, apparently, the town of Tubac. My mistake. It's not exactly where I wanted to go. So fuck.... and also, they want a PHOTO of my FACE? What the fuck? Why? And "this process requires one month yada yada" fucking god damn fake asshole fuckers. Well, that fucking de-railed. Fuck 'em.

And another thing.... Why the fuck is everyone insistent on acting so fucking beurocratic and fucking businesslike? It's completely fucking fake! Why can't anybody just fucking deal with people like they're something more than numbers in a system? Fucking Christ, the whole fucking world is crazy. I can't find one single sane person. Yeah sure, you think I'M insane.... try walking in my shoes, and maybe you'd understand that it really really is not me that's fucked up. It really is not. Really.

I still want to go to Sedona. What if I just paid the ridiculous bus fare and went, and then I'd be there.... and then perhaps when I get there, maybe I'll find another way. Shit.... maybe I'll just go to California, while I'm paying an arm and a leg.... and take Cogburn up on his offer.

[Ima Nasshole]

Okay this is frustrating. I just got a letter from the place, and they're saying they no longer take people at the Sedona location, but they've expanded to a place right outside of Tucson. That is, apparently, the town of Tubac. My mistake. It's not exactly where I wanted to go. So fuck.... and also, they want a PHOTO of my FACE? What the fuck? Why? And "this process requires one month yada yada" fucking god damn fake asshole fuckers. Well, that fucking de-railed. Fuck 'em.

And another thing.... Why the fuck is everyone insistent on acting so fucking beurocratic and fucking businesslike? It's completely fucking fake! Why can't anybody just fucking deal with people like they're something more than numbers in a system? Fucking Christ, the whole fucking world is crazy. I can't find one single sane person. Yeah sure, you think I'M insane.... try walking in my shoes, and maybe you'd understand that it really really is not me that's fucked up. It really is not. Really.

I still want to go to Sedona. What if I just paid the ridiculous bus fare and went, and then I'd be there.... and then perhaps when I get there, maybe I'll find another way. Shit.... maybe I'll just go to California, while I'm paying an arm and a leg.... and take Cogburn up on his offer.

dude I've heard of these places... They lull you in, drug you, and then steal your organs. But now it appears they want your face. I would think stealing someone's face would be easier to trace than a kidney, but what do I know. For a friend I would drive the extra hour and a half down to Tucson (hike into Sabino Canyon and do the 7 falls swim, and then take the boy to the Davis Monthan boneyard) but you have to promise me, no stories. I don't want to have to push you out of a moving vehicle in front of my 7 year old son.

[lala]

As long as you can work and are a reasonable worker stop stressing yourself out . . . thats how I use to travel, I'd buy a ticket, land, stay in a hostel, find shit work till I got what I wanted. . . . Its not hard, it attitude man, if you know you can do it . . .it will happen . . . we'd help but were in NZ abit far. . . I worked on a oil refinery, throught bullshit. . . .I snuck on to the site, got throw off by security first time but went back . . . then went to all offices and begged for a job, I became a spray painter . . . if I can do it, anyone can . . . just don't give up . . . it will happen, you have to beleive in yourself then other will. :)

Kiwi said there always a bed for you here if you don't mind top and tailing with Lex :smokin:

[theeindiee]

Okay this is frustrating. I just got a letter from the place, and they're saying they no longer take people at the Sedona location, but they've expanded to a place right outside of Tucson. That is, apparently, the town of Tubac. My mistake. It's not exactly where I wanted to go. So fuck.... and also, they want a PHOTO of my FACE? What the fuck? Why? And "this process requires one month yada yada" fucking god damn fake asshole fuckers. Well, that fucking de-railed. Fuck 'em.

And another thing.... Why the fuck is everyone insistent on acting so fucking beurocratic and fucking businesslike? It's completely fucking fake! Why can't anybody just fucking deal with people like they're something more than numbers in a system? Fucking Christ, the whole fucking world is crazy. I can't find one single sane person. Yeah sure, you think I'M insane.... try walking in my shoes, and maybe you'd understand that it really really is not me that's fucked up. It really is not. Really.

I still want to go to Sedona. What if I just paid the ridiculous bus fare and went, and then I'd be there.... and then perhaps when I get there, maybe I'll find another way. Shit.... maybe I'll just go to California, while I'm paying an arm and a leg.... and take Cogburn up on his offer.

dude I've heard of these places... They lull you in, drug you, and then steal your organs. But now it appears they want your face. I would think stealing someone's face would be easier to trace than a kidney, but what do I know. For a friend I would drive the extra hour and a half down to Tucson (hike into Sabino Canyon and do the 7 falls swim, and then take the boy to the Davis Monthan boneyard) but you have to promise me, no stories. I don't want to have to push you out of a moving vehicle in front of my 7 year old son.

I did some deeper investigation. I noticed it listed an affiliate in the WWOOF booklet, called the Aquarian Concepts Community..... and they have a bible.... called the Urantia Book. They have a leader, called Gabriel of Urantia.

This WWOOF thing... dude it's DICEY AS HELL!!! Half of these places turn out to be hippie cults!

[guinnessford]

Indee, If I was in the situation, facing uncertainty in sleepin arrangements, Id be in So-Cal....
But Im biased in that, Id be there if my son was 18.


Shit, take up Eye on your way, make some music, help out a lil and maybe save a few bucks to get to Santa Monica.

Id rather be homeless in So-Cal than the midwest. Especially is you get freakin snow.

[skunk]

Rule number one of WWOOF/couchsurfing: NO HIPPIE CULTS OR COMMUNES. Bad idea.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

Urantia?

Hadda google that:

[offsite:gg5gohtx]Teachings of the Urantia Book:

The book covers a multitude of subjects including theology, cosmology, evolution, anthropology, and history. Consequently, it is difficult to summarize its teachings. Here are a few selected concepts:

* The world is viewed as one of 10 million inhabited worlds in our local universe called Nebadon.

* God the Universal Father is the ultimate source of all things, and is also knowable as a loving personal being.

* The Universal Father can act in concert with other deity personalities in a complex association of three trinities, The Trinity of Trinities.

* The book describes a form of theistic evolution which deviates from the Bible's account in Genesis, Chapter 1 and 2. It also does not fully agree with Naturalistic Evolution, as it is currently understood by scientists.

* Just as lower animals evolved into humans, we are destined to evolve and become spirit beings, called finaliters. The book details our long progression of spiritual experiences on other, more advanced, worlds.

* The book teaches that an a fragment of God's spirit dwells within each person; this is called a "Thought Adjuster." Its role is to guide the individual towards greater spiritual understanding through many lives on other worlds.

* The book corrects the Genesis account of Adam and Eve and the concept of atonement. Adam and Eve did not "fall," although they fell short of their mandate to uplift humankind. People today do not suffer from original sin, and thus do not need to be redeemed by the blood of Christ. They are inherently children of God.

* The book counters many beliefs that Christians have traditionally held about the nature and message of Jesus Christ; it expands upon his known teachings. They refer to Jesus by the English translation of one of his actual names: Joshua ben Joseph. They view him as the 7th incarnation of Michael of Nebadon, the 611,121st Creator Son of God. Christ is believed to have toured the Roman empire with two people from India in the years preceding his ministry. He is believed to have died on the cross and resurrected in a morontial body (an intermediate state between matter and spirit). As such, he was visible to numerous disciples before his ascension. He now is the sovereign of our universe, where he "represents and actually embodies the personality presence of the Universal Father."

* Jesus boldly proclaimed the spiritual equality of women at a time when women were not even allowed on the main floor of the synagogue. The book explains that Jesus appointed twelve women evangelists, and these women remained faithful even when his apostles denied or betrayed him.

* The book attributes the following teachings to Jesus:

- "Prayer is self-reminding; worship is self-forgetting."

- "Worship must alternate with service, work should alternate with play, religion should be balanced by humor, profound philosophy should be relieved by rhythmic poetry, the strain of living should be relaxed by the restfulness of worship."

* The world's religions are all beneficial, "to the extent that they bring man to God and bring the realization of the Father to man... all contain truth." "The Hebrews based their religion on goodness; the Greeks on beauty; both religions sought truth. Jesus revealed a God of love, and love is all-embracing of truth, beauty, and goodness."

* True religion "is to know God as your Father and man as your brother. Religion is not a slavish belief in threats of punishment or magical promises of future mystical rewards."

Source -The Urantia Book (http://www.religioustolerance.org/urantia.htm)[/offsite:gg5gohtx]

Doesn't sound THAT wacky, but I'd sleep with one eye open...

[skunk]

Huh, sounds a bit like John Lear.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

Hey, there's an idea!

Maybe John will let indee crash on his couch!

Think of the possibilities!

[Ima Nasshole]

Sedona is fucking beautiful, don't believe me? Suck it bitches...

[mojo]

looks a bit like the Northern Territory, beautiful country.

[boycotteverything]

i thought the kid was eaten by lions on the Serengeti. or were you lying again.

[mojo]

or were you lying again.

obviously i'm lying again, as i constantly do.
good thing no-one believes anything i say and trusts you implicitly.

[Ima Nasshole]

looks a bit like the Northern Territory, beautiful country.
I'd love to see for myself some day, do you have any photos handy of the northern territory?

[boycotteverything]

good thing no-one believes anything i say and trusts you implicitly.Found in a fortune cookie last night: "The first casualty of contention is humor. General Striker, June 1, 2009"

But hey- if you want me gone just say the word and I'll be gone for real this time.

[boycotteverything]

The only Ozzie I like is this kid, anyway-

http://images.smh.com.au/ftsmh/ffximage/2009/05/24/boomgirl1_wideweb__470x357,0.jpg

[mojo]

here's a few,
simpsons gap was my grandfathers cattle station, the government bought it off him and turned it into a National Park, some of the greatest memories i have are of the times i spent there as a kid.

[attachment=5:ebjfcuav]Simpsons-Gap_0753L.jpg[/attachment:ebjfcuav]

these are from around Alice Springs, central Northern Territory.

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[attachment=2:ebjfcuav]georges-2008_1194761760_3-orminston-gorgex-west-mcdonnell-ranges.jpg[/attachment:ebjfcuav]

[attachment=1:ebjfcuav]georges-2008_1194761760_ellery-creek-big-hole.jpg[/attachment:ebjfcuav]

this is a bit further north

[attachment=0:ebjfcuav]the_devils_marbles_larger.jpg[/attachment:ebjfcuav]

further north near Katherine (where i was born) is more tropical, the Katherine Gorge is absolutely amazing.
further north still you get to Kakadu, ive got some photo's of our last trip up north i'll post when i download them, i took the kids up there a few years ago.

[mojo]

good thing no-one believes anything i say and trusts you implicitly.Found in a fortune cookie last night: "The first casualty of contention is humor. General Striker, June 1, 2009"



humour is meant to be funny. you ought to try it some time.


But hey- if you want me gone just say the word and I'll be gone for real this time.

i couldn't care less, and it has nothing to do with me anyway, come...go...stay...dont stay.....quote yourself...dont quote yourself.....accuse us of lying or being nazi's.....or don't......threaten to leave....or dont.....add snide comments about members that has nothing to do with the topic....or dont....whatever...its a site that gives you the freedom to act like a cock.

[boycotteverything]

its a site that gives you the freedom to act like a cock....as you're demonstrating..

[mojo]

its a site that gives you the freedom to act like a cock....as you're demonstrating..


looks a bit like the Northern Territory, beautiful country.



i thought the kid was eaten by lions on the Serengeti. or were you lying again.


yep, im the one being a cock.

you might like to claim that you were being humorous BE but i don't buy it, it's just another cheap shot, one amongst many.

you chose to interrupt a discussion between Ima and myself with a trite comment about lions and the serengeti (from another thread) and tacked on a little bit of bait suggesting ive lied previously to people here.

good for you brother, hope you feel much better about yourself.

[boycotteverything]

yep, im the one being a cock.good to see you acknowledge that. but i'd append this: humorless cock. it wasn't always that way- but let's just blame it on hard times.

[hp]

indie, why are you being thrown out. Didn't see a reason in the thread.

[boycotteverything]

I guess it doesn't matter anymore as long he's being entertained by Mojo's slide show.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

I think it had to do with his drummer being a crunken dunt or something...

[lala]

Cool pic mojo . . . .I took the kids through the gibb river road a few years ago, beautiful country. . . bloody hot up there :D . . .

[boycotteverything]

actually i think he was living in his parents' cellar and they got sick of him and the crunken dunt- or some such...

[Ducky]

Wow!!!! :shock:

Beautiful pics Mojo!!!

[Ima Nasshole]

Anybody believe in Ghosts? I snapped this on my way down to Sedona. Oooooo, scary!

[skunk]

Nasshole, Sedona is indeed beautiful as is much of the arid southwest. The problem for me was the dryness of it all, and the lack of trees (among other things). I spent over two years in the four corners/Nevada region and had a great time living on a ranch. I'm happy to be back on the east coast in the mountains though. Nothing beats it.

[GeneralStriker]

Sedona is indeed beautiful as is much of the arid southwest. The problem for me was the dryness of it all, and the lack of trees you're crazy, man. why i saw a tree over yonder just last week.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

Anybody believe in Ghosts? I snapped this on my way down to Sedona. Oooooo, scary!


Ummm, where's the ghost?

[theeindiee]

Dude, look at the top middle window!

[theeindiee]

It's all good. I've found a place for the summer/fall.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

Glad to hear it indee! :D

Still can't see the "ghost" though...

[GeneralStriker]

yeah but what about the dunt crummer?

[GeneralStriker]

...or is that her in the window?

[Ima Nasshole]

Anybody believe in Ghosts? I snapped this on my way down to Sedona. Oooooo, scary!


Ummm, where's the ghost?

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NV-GoldfieldHotel.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xWUiUw3lKE