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Originally Posted by cockerpunk
and i feel sorry that you lack life experience and desire to do more.
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You have no idea my life experience... Just a very brief, certainly less than all inclusive rundown:
I've been on every continent but two (and have hunted on two of them), and in just short of 40 foreign countries (got arrested and jailed in two of them). Not all "friendly"...
Got evacuated from one West African schitthole by UN troops as rebels were closing in on the city in which we were working. Riding in the back of an army truck hearing broken French accented English saying "get your white" on the radio. That'd be us.
I've climbed Mt Rainier.
I've lived both out of a backpack and off of a pack string in remote wilderness for several weeks at a time (on many, many occasions), unsupported by any outside help.
I've lived and worked with the people occupying both sides of the Dead Sea for extended periods of time (and have swam in both sides), profoundly saddened by just how much they hate one another (both a fantastic peoples, and a real joy to spend time with).
None of that was "profoundly transformative", of course. Standing in the Garden of Gethsemane where Judas betrayed Jesus kinda was, though, as was walking the stations of the cross in Jerusalem, and standing in the very room in which the Last Supper was held. Seeing pyramids on three continents and understanding their profound significance to those who built them might have been as well...
I could go on. I've led a very full and rewarding life, by no means lacking in experience. It's from this perspective through which I view those simply driving their RV into the desert and paying an exorbitant fee to camp with 80,000 of their new best friends. I see them trying to convince themselves, one another, and us that they are having some sort of "profoundly transformative" experience. It's
these people who are so utterly devoid of anything "profound" in their lives that they have to resort to this sort of contrived nonsense. They're fooling themselves, but no one else. Kinda sad to watch, really. But at least they are having fun...