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 Living in a cave2005-08-13 22:34
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I don't know, it has a certain attraction. Here's a gallery of how somebody has arranged themselves in a cave.


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14 Aug 2005 @ 10:09 by ankh : Reminds me
of a past lifetime - a LONG time ago. Except this one looks man-made all around. The attraction is being inside the earth (to a certain extent) and to have more of a regulated temperature inside, a little more protection from the elements, and I bet the acoustics are interesting.  

14 Aug 2005 @ 13:33 by silviamar : In one of the pics
I think that I saw Wilma cooking a brontosaurus steak in the kitchen! :-D
Mmhh, wait... there was no kitchen!  

14 Aug 2005 @ 13:37 by jstarrs : Hmmm...
..and one wonders whether living in a cave automatically elevates the quality of one's life?  

15 Aug 2005 @ 03:18 by vaxen : The most...
beautiful cave dwellings that I've ever seen are in the Kun Lun mountains in China. Maybe I can scare up a photo or two. You will marvel at their beauty.

"The revolution is at hand, and we must free ourselves of the chains of political and economic slavery. The nonviolent revolution is saying, "We will not wait for the courts to act, for we have been waiting hundreds of years. We will not wait for the President, nor the Justice Department, nor Congress, but we will take matters into our own hands, and create a great source of power, outside of any national structure that could and would assure us victory." For those who have said, "Be patient and wait!" we must say, "Patience is a dirty and nasty word." We cannot be patient, we do not want to be free gradually, we want our freedom, and we want it now. We cannot depend on any political party, for the Democrats and the Republicans have betrayed the basic principles of the Declaration of Independence."

John Lewis, August 28, 1963, Washington D.C.  

15 Aug 2005 @ 16:52 by jstarrs : As Desmond Dekker sang...
...The Troglodytes

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir
So that every mouth can be fed
Poor me Troglodytes Aah

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir
So that every mouth can be fed
Poor me Troglodyte

My wife and my kids, they packed up and leave me
Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen
Poor me Troglodyte

Shirt them a-tear up, trousers is gone
I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde
Poor me Troglodyte

After a storm there must be a calm
They catch me in the farm
You sound your alarm
Poor a-poor a-poor me Troglodyte

I said I get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir
So that every mouth can be fed
Poor me Troglodyte Aah

I said my wife and my kids, they are packed up and leave me
Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen
Poor me Troglodytes Aah

Look Me shirts them a-tear up, trousers are gone
I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde
A-poor a-poor me Troglodytes Aah

After a storm there must be a calm
They catch me in the farm
You sound your alarm
Poor me Troglodyte
A-poor a-poor a-poor me Troglodytes Aah  

15 Aug 2005 @ 20:04 by bushman : Hmm, lol.
Troglodytes, lol. Well, I would say the pics of this so called cave home, show that is clearly not a real cave, its just looks, a little papermachet and plaster. I've seen a couple man dug cave homes, and that guy that used to come on Art Bell show alot, forgot his nam, but he has a lavatube home in Hawaii. My design is easy and incorperates both worlds, simaler to a few new home out here where they used the back of a rock canyon as thier back 3 walls, allowing the water runoff to fall under the house, thats a little more involved, but is pretty cool natural stone walls and rocks inside. I would do something like that but dig it in more, just concreet and rebar, direct poured on balloons and packed tunnels, then just let dry , chisel out a doorway, gut the inside of its stuffing, and burry it., so all you would see is a planted dirt mound. Similar to this design, but with big huge slabs of rock leaned up on it and over it.
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7 Dec 2005 @ 11:22 by gabor wagner @217.20.143.213 : cave house
hi
iam living in hungary.recently bought an open soft stone mine.would like to create a cave house.would be happy with any information or photos.
gabor:wjr71@hotmail.com
thanx  

19 Dec 2014 @ 18:24 by Walter @186.92.134.70 : qfIsSzdEccRciZjKpSL
The next time I read a blog, I hope that it does not disappoint me as much as this patclruiar one. I mean, I know it was my choice to read through, but I genuinely thought you would probably have something useful to say. All I hear is a bunch of crying about something that you can fix if you were not too busy searching for attention.  

23 Dec 2014 @ 11:10 by Usama @109.169.54.195 : eWRJPuSsLieoJD
The very next time I read a blog, Hopefully it does not fail me just as much as this one. I mean, Yes, it was my choice to read, hoeewvr I really believed you would probably have something useful to talk about. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you could possibly fix if you were not too busy searching for attention.  

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