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Started by Konorg, Apr 13 2012 01:03 AM

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#1 Konorg

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Posted 13 April 2012 - 01:03 AM

After much thought on it,I think we should form our own real-world self-sufficant Cimmerian Village.

Anyone have any ideas,comments anything on the idea?/


The aveage civilized man is never fully alive;he is burdened with masses of atrophied tisse and useless matter.Life flickers feebily in him;his senses sre dull and torpid...In devloping his intellect he has sacrificed far more then he realizes."

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Posted 13 April 2012 - 02:43 AM

Barbarism sounds very romantic until the dysentry sets in.
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 03:27 AM

Barbarism is something that you either have to be born into, or forced into through necessity. Sorry, but you'll just have to wait for the Zombie Apocalypse like the rest of us. In the meantime, you could join an outlaw biker gang, or go live in the outback somewhere like Crocodile Dundee...or the Unabomber.
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 07:54 AM

Take away all the warfare (illegal) and hunting panthers/wolves (endangered) and you're basically just Amish. But hey, at least you'll have a sweet beard.

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Posted 13 April 2012 - 10:57 AM

I'm with amster on this one, we'll get there soon enough, just keep preparing and be ready for the SHTF, whether it's zombies or robots or aliens or the economy or meteors or what have you.

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Posted 13 April 2012 - 12:00 PM

Take away all the warfare (illegal) and hunting panthers/wolves (endangered) and you're basically just Amish. But hey, at least you'll have a sweet beard.


...and take away their religion and strict moral codes that dictate behavior, and you're basically just a Hippy Commune.
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 12:06 PM

After much thought on it,I think we should form our own real-world self-sufficant Cimmerian Village.

Anyone have any ideas,comments anything on the idea?/

were you thinking on the line of the living history groups? were they make a celtic village and try to reenact daily life, such as weaving and tanning leather and such?

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Posted 13 April 2012 - 07:28 PM

After much thought on it,I think we should form our own real-world self-sufficant Cimmerian Village.

Anyone have any ideas,comments anything on the idea?/


You know, one of the primary Cimmerian virtues has got to be self-reliance.

Translation: If you want it done, you gotta do it yourself. Start with what you can, and build from there.

What do have in mind as a beginning building block? Do you have some property you can start this on? Do you have any local friends who might share your vision?

I'd start with that. Anything's possible if you put your mind to it.
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 11:28 PM

You would need to think along the lines of what a Cimmerian village would be and the century of technology etc. Howard did not really break it down to that level, but many available books do in fairness especially the gamer books. HAve a look at museums of the Celtic era here in Ireland and thats where you would start probably.

NAvan Fort Pics in Armagh A fav place of mine.

Edited by Dave the Rage, 13 April 2012 - 11:29 PM.

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Posted 14 April 2012 - 12:15 AM

In my backyard, I have a young apple tree that I will plant soon, as well as blueberry bushes.
The lawn I keep long like a Cimmerian meadow. I have a couple of stones I use for lifting and I do pullups from a branch of one of my trees. Sometimes I light a bonfire and do some shamanic drumming.
It's a start.
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Posted 16 April 2012 - 08:50 PM

Konorg, are you still in Louisiana?
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Posted 17 April 2012 - 06:25 PM

Konorg, are you still in Louisiana?



Yerp sadly I am still in Louisiana


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Posted 19 April 2012 - 11:42 PM

Could be worse, you could be in Siberia ;P
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Posted 19 April 2012 - 11:45 PM

You gotta bloom where you're planted and make the best out of what you have.
Let us know, Konorg, when you see some progress, and I am sure that those of us who are interested will do the same.
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Posted 20 June 2012 - 03:45 PM

I think we're forgetting the fact that Conan was not the typical Cimmerian. It was implied in "Pheonix on the Sword", and "Queen of the Black Coast", that Cimmerians were a gloomy lot; they never laughed and only drank water. Conan even said that the ways of the Aesir were more to his liking. The only modern activities that could bring us anywhere near Conan's lifestyle would be something like off the trail backwoods living, or military style survival camps.

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Posted 21 June 2012 - 12:04 AM

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Posted 21 June 2012 - 12:20 AM

I'd give the hard life a go for a couple of months, if I could last that long. Nope, I hate the cold.

Maybe you need to watch, if you haven't already, Jeremiah Johnson. Have a few coldies as well. Heck, I think that's what I might do right now.
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Posted 21 June 2012 - 12:30 AM

I don't think anyone is implying that we should become gloomy just like the Cimmerians, or live a primitive life 24-7.

But it could be like the Scouting movement, where club members meet regularly and practice core skills, such as swordsmanship and wilderness survival skills. Something like the "buckskinners", reenactors interested in the Mountain Man culture of the Old West.
It wouldn't be much different, except flintlocks would be swapped out for swords, and so on.

There isn't more to it than the doin' of it.
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Posted 21 June 2012 - 01:24 AM

I think we're forgetting the fact that Conan was not the typical Cimmerian. It was implied in "Pheonix on the Sword", and "Queen of the Black Coast", that Cimmerians were a gloomy lot; they never laughed and only drank water. Conan even said that the ways of the Aesir were more to his liking. The only modern activities that could bring us anywhere near Conan's lifestyle would be something like off the trail backwoods living, or military style survival camps.

Or maybe bar-hopping in the seedy part of town. Pick a few fights.
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Posted 21 June 2012 - 04:12 PM

Here's an already constructed site, if you're just looking to be a weekend warrior: http://www.ravensborg.org/index.html
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