Who here /hermit/?
I don't mean some basement dwelling autist jacking off to anime and playing video games all day but someone who has chosen to opt out of this hellish culture for spiritual reasons.
Was there a particular event which triggered your retreat from society, or was it a conglomeration of things? How do you spend your days? How much time do you spend with other people and what type of relation are they to you? Also what do you to develop yourself spiritually?
More like social and philosophical reasons, there is little spirituality involved
And reading books and papers is the only thing which keeps me alive
I would put philosophy under the umbrella of spirituality myself. Do you listen to music? If I didn't have music I probably would have killed myself a long time ago.
>I don't mean some basement dwelling autist jacking off to anime and playing video games all day but someone who has chosen to opt out of this hellish culture for spiritual reasons
The only difference is the greater honesty of the former
Joie de vivre for me!
>Do you listen to music?
Yes currently biological sounds ambient music because I want to calm down, a few days ago a lot of dnb and neurofunk because at that moment I had to gotta go reading fast
I'm a deep green and that is what I mean when I say philosophically, though I imagine that going on the internet a lot isn't particularly good for the environment either
As for social, I have a difficult time finding people with similar interests as me, humor no problem
So enough about me: what is your spiritual or philosophical viewpoint and reason for being a hermit? And what music do you listen to?
I am a hermit, but only because I am short, ugly and offer llittle in the way of interesting conversation.
When you think about it, you never see a gorgeous nun or a tall and handsome trappist monk. I think hermitry is what people turn to when they have no other options.
im not a hermit, but i find fewer and fewer reasons to continue living within society. it presently doesnt have much to offer, and i dont need it to take advantage of its past. i like the fact that technology and whatnot means i dont need to do chores constantly, and that the govt protects me from needing to care about protecting myself physically, but those things exist without my interaction with them. i havent read, watched, listened to something recommended to me by a friend in years.
Honesty accounts for little sans will.
To be honest the philosophical/spiritual reasons are all around me. I can't help but meet people riddled with existential angst, purposeless, confused and entrapped by addictions with very few actually wanting to face up to it. We're living in dark times indeed.
In terms of music I listen to a lot of electronic music (experimental and otherwise) with some blues and jazz on the side. I'm a pianist as well and love to play Chopin and others from the Romantic era.