On a Desert Island ?
All is Change
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On a Desert Island ?
You are stranded on a desert island with no realistic hope of rescue at any particular time, perhaps never. There is sufficient nutrition and water to comfortably sustain life. There are no natural factors that needs to endanger life. IOW a utopia of sorts except there is no contact with any thing or any body except the island and self.
For some strange reason there are a large number of full pallets of top shelf high proof booze on the island as well.
What would you do?
1. Recognise I have a large store of fuel, treated timber and glass. Build a large rocket stove, fuel it 24/7 at full bore. Sooner or later a satellite taking IR pictures leads to a discovery of an anomaly and an investigation leads to rescue?
2. Get pissed?
3. Other?
For some strange reason there are a large number of full pallets of top shelf high proof booze on the island as well.
What would you do?
1. Recognise I have a large store of fuel, treated timber and glass. Build a large rocket stove, fuel it 24/7 at full bore. Sooner or later a satellite taking IR pictures leads to a discovery of an anomaly and an investigation leads to rescue?
2. Get pissed?
3. Other?
Trudger of Happy Destiny
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Naperville, IL
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No clue what I would really do. I'd like to say I wouldn't get wasted, but who really knows? Would do nothing and save it "Just in case?" Would I do as you say, build a stove in hopes of a rescue? I have no idea.
When I am placed in the situation where this is relevant, then I will take appropriate action, which I hope would not be to get wasted and dehydrate myself in a tropical setting.
When I am placed in the situation where this is relevant, then I will take appropriate action, which I hope would not be to get wasted and dehydrate myself in a tropical setting.
All is Change
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, honestly, I suspect I would also do a bit of both, basically hoping that productive work would come first. I do think it can be a situation where it is possible to really get to know myself using the various things one learns on the path of recovery to as much as possible to ''take appropriate action,". I don't know,, are you Mcguyver? I know you're not. Not a bad question though, Who am I? Can I Know Myself? Anyway, thanks for the answers.
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Hammer? Not insurmountable. Bottle bases can be magnifying glasses, and there probably are useable fibres around for caulking. What about adding a alcohol driven sterling type engine with a paddle wheel. Could work. The containers could be used to store water and food. I think I'd need to study the stars a while to get my bearings to work out a course and figure out some simple navigation tool. still the high seas can be rough. I suppose it matters how adventurous one feels.
A simple guy making his way
Join Date: Apr 2012
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Not a lot would change for me.
I have all the food and water I need.
I have nothing threatening my life at this moment.
Booze will always be just right over there.
I will always have to make the best of where I am at.
I suppose I would treat myself as I do today and be kind to me.
I have all the food and water I need.
I have nothing threatening my life at this moment.
Booze will always be just right over there.
I will always have to make the best of where I am at.
I suppose I would treat myself as I do today and be kind to me.
All is Change
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I'm grateful people take a lighthearted approach to this.
I too wish to die aware and sober.
In this hypothetical the main point is that I find myself alone with myself and my addiction.
My latest on a positive way to spend ones time is to use the continuous hot fire as a signal to IR satellite imagery while also plotting the night sky and the sun pattern and then working out a way of detaching the labels and marking in some simplified format this information and then resealing the bottle with the label inside and chucking them as done into the prevailing currents, sooner or later one is bound to be found.
Then one can sit down with no booze and just write a diary on whatever is available, the wood perhaps.
One, if found, will be sober and fit, if not, died sober and a legacy of sorts that may be of interest and use to someone.
I too wish to die aware and sober.
In this hypothetical the main point is that I find myself alone with myself and my addiction.
My latest on a positive way to spend ones time is to use the continuous hot fire as a signal to IR satellite imagery while also plotting the night sky and the sun pattern and then working out a way of detaching the labels and marking in some simplified format this information and then resealing the bottle with the label inside and chucking them as done into the prevailing currents, sooner or later one is bound to be found.
Then one can sit down with no booze and just write a diary on whatever is available, the wood perhaps.
One, if found, will be sober and fit, if not, died sober and a legacy of sorts that may be of interest and use to someone.
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