I did that once or twice and had great fun, granted I got to know them over a few years and some of their family and friends. Not that it's a habbit of mine. I didn't take an axe but my dad did insist on coming seeing me off and meeting them.
....."A knife? you own rifles too? why would anyone in this day and age need knives or guns? You must be some kind of psychopathic maladjusted moron that will go on a killing spree one of these days."
Well what the hell can you say to that!?
What do you need a knife for?
the list goes on....BUT, the less people that DO understand, the quieter the woods are...and thats got to be a good thing!!
Yup had that over the years.
A knife? you own rifles too? why would anyone in this day and age need knives or guns? You must be some kind of psychopathic maladjusted moron that will go on a killing spree one of these days."
Well what the hell can you say to that!?
I've been giving this some thought today and here go's....
I cant remeber the first, or even last time i grinned to myself for an hour because i had lit something with a lighter. But the first time i used a ferro rod, flint and steel or produced a coal from a bowdrill, well... I'll never forget.
I cant remeber the first, or even last time i grinned at myself for making a cup of tea. But on a cold day a few weeks ago, I simply collected pine needles and did nothing more than boil water, well...
I cant remeber the first, or even the last time i tried a mushroom and thought nothing off it. But, sitting around a campfire with good friends trying slippery jacks and amethyst deceiver for the first time, well...
And, I cant remember the first or last time i felt so relaxed lying in bed, as i did in a hammock by a small babbling brook with not a single human sound around me.
I think anyone given half the chance to sample a small section of the lifestyle we relate to as 'bushcraft' would seriously change their conception of what living, and life is about... But as already said, the less people know, the more woods for those that choose to enjoy.
If people cant see those woods for the tree's... So be it
They may well laugh, but my grin will continue long after.
In my experience people are roughly divided into two basic groups. The doers and the watchers. I am no football fan. Can't even remember what shape the ball is but I can understand people who are passionate about PLAYING the game I just cannot get my head round being passionate about being a passive, observer. We got rid of our TV years ago. Occasionally I mention this fact to the kids in one of the schools I work in. They are quite simply speechless at the thought of someone not having a TV and the best part of it is the first question they ask...
......but what do you do?
I got into a conversation with a group of Fellowship Scouts last night and was a little shocked by their incredulity as to why I would want to be able to start a fire with a crampball fungus when I could carry a lighter. If there was anyone I thought would understand, it would be them.
I pointed out to them that why learn to map read if you can use a GPS. I think my point started to sink in, but there was a fair bit of New Year spirit following by that point.
Yet you have a computer? so why are you above us for not possessing a television? I can get TV programs, Live Sport etc. or TV replays on my computer?
What is hard to understand about folks enjoying something you don't?
Most kids today play games to the exclusion of educational TV anyway. Why not try to appreciate that, and just accept that if you can do anything to nibble away at that fact that you have gone some small way into giving them an insight into what is available? And then let them make their own minds up???
To be honest buddy, I can't appreciate why you would want to start a fire with a cramp ball when you could carry a lighter either??? I can also see why that if they have a GPS, It appears pointless to them to be able to use a map and compass.
Perhaps giving them an insight into the need to access knowledge that just might save their lives if they only possessed both of those available skills that they might not be so confused???