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19 Replies to “Or, you know”

1. I tend to distrust people with hyphenated names.

2. Cool!
   Is this covered by OHIP?

3. Call Shepell-Morneau to find out!

4. Anyone who needs permission or a guide to benefit from nature is going to spend way more time talking about it – and during it – to ever benefit.

5. Inspired by Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku
   Isn’t that what they do in Aokigahara?

6. “They took all the trees
   And put them in a tree museum
   Then they charged the people
   A dollar and a half just to see ’em”
   So now a guide’s needed to really “see” ’em. And for much more than a dollar and a half. A number of years ago when I noticed the words “Interpretive Trail” were being used to describe walking paths in parks I used to laugh at how silly it sounded. Imagine not being allowed in certain parks in the future unless you hire a guide to provide appropriate trail interpretation? Just like being on a Grade 7 field trip all over again…

7. In a similar vein,the resident eco-whacko in our community arranged a funeral and celebration of life for the dead Ash trees killed in our local park by the Ash Borer. She even gave names
   to the trees and had a minister read a passage from the bible or something.
   The really scary part- she’s an elementary school teacher

8. I wonder if the hyphenated guide would lead us on our annual moose hunt next season.

9. “A person could volunteer with one of the many youth groups that specialize in outdoor camping and hiking.”
   Such as, say, the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.
   That’ll sort you out nicely.

10. This group didn’t need the Japanese to teach them about forest therapy … they could have just called “Earth First” … or is this just a “cover” for the Firsters to mainstream their ideology ?
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4
    Oh well … enjoy your emotional “connection” with the forest … all you fraudulent urbanists.

11. it comes as no surprise that “nature” is an alien environment to a great deal of this country’s population. half live in the city and i wouldn’t be surprised if half of that group couldn’t light a fire if their lives depended on it. i dislike facsimiles – if i want nature, i’ll take the unbeaten path without a guide thank you very much! a guide? A GUIDE? hilarious and pitiful.

12. You made me go look things up … which then made me laugh!
    Suicides
    Aokigahara is sometimes referred to as the most popular site for suicide in Japan. Statistics vary, but there were up to 105 documented suicides a year.[10]
    In 2003, 105 bodies were found in the forest, exceeding the previous record of 78 in 2002.[11] In 2010, the police recorded more than 200 people having attempted suicide in the forest, of whom 54 completed the act.[12] Suicides are said to increase during March, the end of the fiscal year in Japan.[13] As of 2011, the most common means of suicide in the forest were hanging or drug overdose.[12] In recent years, local officials have stopped publicizing the numbers in an attempt to decrease Aokigahara’s association with suicide.[14]
    The rate of suicide has led officials to place a sign at the forest’s entry, written in Japanese, urging suicidal visitors to seek help and not take their own lives. Annual body searches have been conducted by police, volunteers, and attendant journalists since 1970.[15][16][17]
    The site’s popularity has been attributed to Seichō Matsumoto’s 1960 novel Kuroi Jukai (Black Sea of Trees).[18][19] However, the history of suicide in Aokigahara predates the novel’s publication, and the place has long been associated with death; ubasute may have been practiced there into the nineteenth century, and the forest is reputedly haunted by the yūrei of those left to die.[14]

13. *
    “The groups are limited to ten people and there are still spaces available
    for the next walk on November 4, she said.
    i remember taking this sort of group therapy from about the age of 9…
    of course, we always brought along our soul-cleansing air rifles.
    *

14. There is no better therapy then engaging the Nature with a chainsaw.

15. “There is no better therapy then engaging the Nature with a chainsaw.”
    Did that this very morning. Took down a pesky tree near the house that had become diseased.

16. Took down a pesky tree near the house that had become diseased.
    Did you retain a lawyer before you started? After all, you violated that tree’s rights and you probably cut it down without sufficient consultation with all the “stakeholders”, even if you already had permission.

17. A suburban problem.
    I live out in the Ottawa Valley countryside. It’s a daily soundtrack of rural silence punctuated only by sporadic outbursts of noise from combines, tractors, pick-up trucks, generators, chainsaws, ATVs, Canada Geese and rifle shots.
    Possum Lodge has nothin’ on us.

18. I for one do not need a tree guide.

19. I used to take my soul cleansing 22.