--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Barry Glazer <b.glazer@...> wrote:
> Wow - I'm not a professional gambler, but I am truly underwhelmed by the answers (so far) from those who apparently are -- make babies and stay alive??!! Come on! Are professional gamblers really cut from a cloth that is so self-centered that they would pretty much reject the "everyone pitch in" values of this society, where they will spend the rest of their lives??
Just the notion of being "productive" is modern. If you insist on being "productive", your only real option is to produce babies. Other than that it's Jimmy Buffet time, watch the sunrise on an eastern beach and set on a western beach, party all day and all night. There are various sources of sugar that can be fermented into alcohol (the locals already know how to do this) and the lifestyle and food are very healthy, there is little stress, no cancer or cardiovascular or other diseases of modern lifestyle. There is no value in owning things or knowledge so all of these things are free. You would have to learn their language of course, since they are untouched from the outside they must be very remote and away from the shipping lanes so there is probably no value to them of learning English and your chances of being "rescued" must be near nil. (As a side note, this doesn't exist, though there may be some remote untouched people in the Amazon or Asian jungles or remote Himalayan valleys.) They probably don't have written language, you could do that, but it's probably a negative to their culture, since oral cultures are much richer. Your biggest problem actually is to try not to have a negative impact on them. You may be carrying modern diseases of overpopulation (cold, flu, std's) that will soon wipe them out and leave you alone. Frank specified a "desert island", but it must get enough rain to support humans, otherwise it would be an unpopulated bird island and you would likely not live long. If it gets rain and has coconuts you could probably live a long time if you could stand the isolation, eventually likely someone will come along to harvest the coconuts.
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