I recently started lurking over there. Welcome, Crash!
Hey Crash,
Welcome to the forums. That picture is hilarious. Its funny because I was soooo fucking hungry and that girl cut in line! I wanted to slit her throat! Haha. Not really, but when Iām hungry I can turn into an asshole. I loved the psycho drama that played out.
I still got food though. I did have to drive into Rexburg, but I went to that 24 hour mexican place which was awesomely good.
Hi, I think this is the place for introductions soā¦
Hello from Ireland. I just came across the re-wild camps thing so I added something to the wiki to see if anyone was into the idea in ireland. I was intrigued by the āWhy the Techies Act More Primitive Than The Primitivistsā on the re-wild camp wiki entry. Some might be interested in this project Iām involved with:
Anyway, pleased to meet you and look forward to the inevitable re-wilding to come.
Hereās a european perspective for you:
āWhence have you come?
I come from nowhere.
Tell me what are you?
I am not.
What do you wish?
I do not wish.
Tell me what is your name?
I am called Nameless Wildness.
Where does your insight lead?
Into untrammelled freedom.ā
- Member of the Free Spirit movement interviewed by German mystic Heinrich Suso in 1330.
All the best
Andy
Hey, Andy. Welcome!
FYI: The wiki doesnāt work well as a place to set up discussions on interest, but we do have a board for discussing rewild camps. You would probably do better to ask your question there (REWILD.info Camps).
If you get some interest going, you can then use the wiki to announce and organize the camp (see the Portland and Pittsburg rewild camp wiki pages for examples).
Also, check out the wiki page on organizing a camp: How to organize a Rewild Camp
Thanks WildeRix. Iāll do that.
Andy
Well, not everywhere, as Iām certainly not in Alaska 
Itās a very small world, it seems.
Iāve always enjoyed the name, Nameless. Welcome to the site! 
hey all,
i just joined the forum today after i started reading on here last nightāwell, this morning actually. iāve enjoyed reading and following the different currents of thought people have going here. having some prior experience with anti-civ message boards, iām glad to see a more holistic approach to the discussion of ātechnologiesā necessary for rewilding. primitive skills certainly offer a vital and visceral connection to the bioregion where you live, not to mention providing for basic material appetites and necessities. but this can easily obscure the fact that sustainable human cultures require multiple modes of making sense and deriving meaning from the world in ways that direct peoplesā activities and energies back to material reality and the sensual universe, making the act of giving back not only good for all of us but joyful and fulfilling in itself.
anyway, i hope i didnāt run too far afield there. i live in north carolina with my mom, 4 dogs, and 1 cat. i dropped out of college a little over a year and a half ago due to severe physiological and mental/emotional health issues that changed my body in ways i had never before and have never since experienced, and additionally put me in the position of actively considering suicide for several months. fortunately i never followed through on my thoughts and feelings at the time, but itās still somewhat difficult even to write about, actually. in any case, iāve since made a pretty amazing recovery, with help from my mom and our dogs; and iām easily in the best health of my life to date at this point. iāve been interested in animism and anarchoprimitivism since finding out about them a few years ago through links from different websites i donāt even remember now. and i can remember the surge of recognition when i first started learning about these areas of inquiry, that there was something deeply and profoundly real about how they made sense of the world. it felt like coming home.
in any case, i donāt possess a great number of primitive skills in the technical sense, apart from a rudimentary knowledge of native plants in the area. however, i do have a gifted ability to read othersā characters and personalities with a high degree of accuracy, almost on first sight and with a remarkable ability to predict future attitudes and behaviors. i also have a knack for creating a sense of connection and immediacy in short orderāespecially in personāwith people i feel an affinity for. in a more pragmatic sense, iām currently learning what i can about herbalism and alternative medical practices in general, but especially massage and traditional chinese medicine. i also have a fair body of experience with healthy foodways and nutritional practices, as well as body maintenance and fitness. i hope to contribute what i can in these areas especially as future opportunities provide.
and thank you to urban scout and willem for the work youāve done and are doing on this site. i greatly appreciate your dedication, active involvement, and skill.
mark
Welcome Mark! I look forward to reading your contributions.
Hey Mark! Your post feels like a breath of fresh air here! Thanks for that. Canāt wait to hear more about you.
You can say that again, Scout!
Nice to have you with us, Mark!
Awwwwwā¦
Thanks for sharing your story, Mark. And welcome to the site.
thank you for the greetings, Willem, Urban Scout, Neighbor Scout, and WildeRix. i look forward to learning from and sharing with all of you.
Hi. Iāve been posting on here without any introduction. So here goesā¦
Iām Rebecca. I grew up in Minnesota in very rural surroundings.
My very best memories of childhood are when I used to sneak into the forest that bordered our playground (which we were not supposed to do, OF COURSE) and explore with my imaginary wolf friend. I feel funny admitting that to many people I know, but here I am proud to say it. 
I played along with the civilization game for many years, although I wasnāt happy. The more I found out about the way people act and think in civ, the less happy I got, although so much of it was denied/repressed. I think all of this unhappiness was stored at a cellular level until my body just couldnāt take it any more, because I have experienced varying degrees of depression for the past 5 years. (Iām 25.) Sometimes when I am at my most depressed I relive my forest-walking memories and it seems to protect me from truly debilitating levels of mental and physical anguish.
I guess I still play along with the civilization game (but we all still have to, as long as it exists, I guess). The difference is that in my head I am vehemently opposed to it. I always have a second track of thoughts running beside the track of thoughts that is pertinent to what I am doing or saying or hearing. This second track is always questioning the reasons behind the shitty global situation that people are in. It listens for the precise nature of the social conditioning of everyone I talk to. This doesnāt help the depression, stress, or feelings of isolation. I canāt really turn it off. It would be nice to have a positive counter-part to being anti-civ, to balance out these negative feelings. Thatās one reason why I joined this message board. Now I can be anti-civ AND pro-wild, and start living the dream!
The content on this message board is precious indeed. I hope that I can meet other people who understand the pain of knowing the nature of my conditioning by a parasitic society like ours and knowing that even if I could start a REAL (read: tribal hunting-gathering) life, it would be squelshed by civilization quicker than you can say āmanifest destiny.ā For me, just knowing is the real pain. I feel like a slave.
I also have a response to accusations of hypocrisy that I would like to share with you all. It may help you as it helps me. I have never had to use it to defend my thinking (yet) but I repeat it in my head many times.
To anyone who considers me a hypocrite because I still depend on an agricultural mass civilization and its technological trappings for my existence, I say, I am not a hypocrite for expressing human needs that are not fulfilled and will never be fulfilled as long as civilization marginalizes them.
Also, to those who consider me a misanthropist, uncaring, or even cruel and evil for refusing to accept civilization, I say, I donāt hate people; I hate what society does to people. Agriculture was a dangerous idea founded on half-assed assumptions, and itās not evil to admit that.
OK, Iām getting off my soapbox. Of course you all knew those things. Iām just sick of not having a place to say them.
Thanks ā¦ look forward to sharing ideas with all of you.
Greetings, and welcome to all the new people here
Look forward to learning and sharing with all of you.
Welcome, Rebecca.
Your ideas definitely fit in here.
I love your wolf-walking story. I hope it continutes to mitigate civilized depression for you ā and perhaps lead you deeper into the wolfās world.
Welcome Rebecca, Mark, and all you other new names (and Namelesses!). Looking forward to more interaction.
Rebecca, I had imaginary friends, too, in the woods and meadows near my house in New Hampshire. Three of them, but no wolves. Lucky you!
Rebecca,
Welcome to the site! Thanks for your words. Iām glad you found us!
Hi, I am new here. Registered a short while back. Like the forum. Hope to contribute something worthwhile. I am approaching geezer status in the uharria bioregion of North Carolina. At present the area is experiencing its worst recorded drought. They have cut down so much forest that there is nothing to draw the rains. They have drank the lakes nearly dry but refuse to stop watering their grass. The animals are beginning to panic and there is no relief in sight. It has been warmer than I have ever experienced in my life. Today is the first ācoolā day in eight months. The skyās are streaked with contrails before every wet weather front and it dose little raining. Trees are dying in record numbers across the region. Drought resistant bermuda grass has died because of heat and farm animals are being slaughter to spare them. Will get worse before it gets better. The apocalypse is here.
Welcome to the forums, micpet.
It saddens me to hear about your situation.