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Man happy with simple life in Utah cave
upi ^ | Nov. 22, 2009

Posted on 11/23/2009 11:55:24 AM PST by JoeProBono

MOAB, Utah, A 48-year-old man who has not used money in nine years and resides in a desert cave in Moab, Utah, said he loves his simple existence.

Daniel Suelo said while he shops for clothes by going through garbage, he is content with living an existence where he does not have to worry about a job, mortgage or other concerns that plague most U.S. residents, The Denver Post reported Sunday.

"The understanding that, really, we all possess nothing is the cornerstone of all spiritual endeavors and religions," Suelo said.

A former Peace Corps volunteer, Suelo said he also will not barter for food or rent because he considers bartering another form of currency.

Suelo began his unique style of living nine years ago despite having a master's degree in accounting and a degree in anthropology.

Despite his meager belongings and lack of a traditional home, Suelo insists he will never embrace a regular lifestyle again.

"I have no idea what the future holds, and I don't worry about it. But the longer I do this, it seems absurd to go back," he told the Post. "It would be like going back to slavery."


TOPICS: Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cave; danielsuelo; jpb; utah
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To: JoeProBono

Barack Obama has seen the future — and it lives in a cave.


21 posted on 11/23/2009 12:11:06 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: streetpreacher
Sounds like he’s ahead of the curve...Yep, and he also got first dibs on the best cave around......
22 posted on 11/23/2009 12:11:36 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: JoeProBono
An Eric Rudolph/Theodore Kaczynski wannabe.
23 posted on 11/23/2009 12:12:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Ask not what the Kennedys can do for you, but what you can do for the Kennedys.)
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To: fish hawk

The article says he doesn’t “barter”. It didn’t say he wouldn’t accept gifts. He has friends who will feed him an hour’s hike away. He scrounges for cast-off food which might include outdated canned goods. He is like a lot of these people: able to live their “ascetic” or “righteous” lifestyles only because others don’t.

I always had trouble with the Moonies and their fundraising at airports years ago when it seemed to me they were giving the message of “Live materialistic lives and give me your filthy lucre so I can live my righteous lifestyle.” This guy is quite self-sufficient if the more extensive article I found by Googling his name is correct in that he uses no government welfare programs (except maybe as his landlord). Nevertheless, he depends on wickedness to subsidize his virtue.


24 posted on 11/23/2009 12:14:44 PM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Ooooooh....the man of my dreams! :)


25 posted on 11/23/2009 12:16:38 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: JoeProBono

I’ll bet he doesn’t have health insurance either!


26 posted on 11/23/2009 12:16:41 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: JoeProBono

“It would be like going back to slavery.”

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A White guy said that???

Cue the “that’s racist” kid.


27 posted on 11/23/2009 12:17:14 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Ack, is that the site with "Responsibility2nd"? Some weirdo. ...)
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To: JoeProBono
This will be his pic here on FR in the year 2685:
28 posted on 11/23/2009 12:17:53 PM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: JoeProBono

does he have any human relationships? is he able to offer any hospitality? his life seems a bit gross to me... and self-centered...


29 posted on 11/23/2009 12:17:56 PM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: Puppage
Scavenger. He grows nothing, produces nothing but animal waste. He is not living, he is existing. Note he can do even that only as long as there is civilization to leech off of.

"The understanding that, really, we all possess nothing is the cornerstone of all spiritual endeavors and religions,"
That sounds SO Mother Earth, but let him get a can't-ignore toothache, major medical problem, etc. and see where he runs to.

Some years ago there was a story about a back-to-nature type who took a rafting trip with his son and guide. "I've had enough of civilization." he said. Two days into the mission the kid comes down with appendicitis and the guy had no qualms about the guide radioing for a medivac airlift back to that damned civilization.

30 posted on 11/23/2009 12:18:54 PM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: JoeProBono

I want one!


31 posted on 11/23/2009 12:19:10 PM PST by Mengerian
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To: JoeProBono
A 48-year-old man who has not used money in nine years and resides in a desert cave in Moab, Utah, said he loves his simple existence.

I hope this man realizes that he will be a fugitive from Justice when he doesn't pay his tax penalty for not having health insurance.

-PJ

32 posted on 11/23/2009 12:20:09 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Every child will be a natural born criminal until their parents add them to their health care plan.)
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To: JoeProBono

Sounds like the guy is on an extended camping trip. Wonder where he gets his pot?


33 posted on 11/23/2009 12:20:38 PM PST by goseminoles
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Doesn’t need it! He lives the existence of a third worlder. and we all know how being close to nature keeps you totally healthy!

/sarc


34 posted on 11/23/2009 12:21:27 PM PST by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09!)
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To: streetpreacher
Sounds like he’s ahead of the curve...

It appears so.

35 posted on 11/23/2009 12:21:42 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: JoeProBono
Despite his meager belongings and lack of a traditional home....

Actually, the first traditional home is a man cave.

36 posted on 11/23/2009 12:24:06 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: JoeProBono

I guess I’m ok with this...as long as he pays property taxes, has his cave up to building codes, payes fire dues, has an approved sewer connection or septic tank, etc. All the same requirements I have to abide by.


37 posted on 11/23/2009 12:26:34 PM PST by Onelifetogive (Liberals are always one genocide away from Utopia.)
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To: JoeProBono

So how’s this bum different from the ones sleeping under the overpass?


38 posted on 11/23/2009 12:30:59 PM PST by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: Oatka
.....but let him get a can't-ignore toothache, major medical problem, etc. and see where he runs to

Good point

39 posted on 11/23/2009 12:34:20 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: JoeProBono
This could be me, but I have an 8x12 shack, bathe regularly, and quit making money to give to the gooberment beast.

Simple is better, for me. But no-one is required to support my life-style. Except for the internet and computers, I'm pretty much living life as it was done in the early/mid 1800s.

/johnny

40 posted on 11/23/2009 12:34:40 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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