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16597657 No.16597657 [Reply] [Original]

WHY CANT I JUST GO TO THE PORT AND HOP ON A SHIP AS A SAILOR, WHY CANT I BE FREE LIKE THAT?!

>> No.16597660

>>16597657
did you try?

>> No.16597662

>>16597657
The navy is always recruiting anon.

>> No.16597666

>>16597660
>>16597662
shut up

>> No.16597684

>>16597660
no because for the majority of people nowadays, it's a degree or homelessness. So even if my sea dream came true, I'd end up homeless later

>>16597662
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ao2KBU5JI&ab_channel=Albatross960
last two seconds is my answer to you sir. And it's a different type of freedom

>> No.16597698

read The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and reconsider!

>> No.16597707

>>16597684
go down to the docks. find a dude unloading fish.
ask him how to get hired to a fisher-boat. do what he says.

>> No.16597735

>>16597698
>The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
this looks good anon thank you

>>16597707
like I said earlier, I need a steady job for the 50 years (hopefully less) which I'll have to slave away to keep my family happy

>> No.16597788

>>16597660
>>16597662
Not that anon, but sailor life is fucking shit these days. You just sit in these soulless, fully automated metal bath tubs with their radars and computers. There's no romance, no beauty in it.

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16597862

>>16597735
>like I said earlier, I need a steady job for the 50 years (hopefully less) which I'll have to slave away to keep my family happy

This first-generation immigrant mentality is why you can't be free, it has fuck all to do with regulations regarding the crewing of ships.

>> No.16597891

>>16597657
They would take one look at your physique and laugh at you. Don't worry even back then it never would've happened.

>> No.16597901

>>16597788
That's another one of my reasons. I mean sure, living on a boat back then wasn't all romance and you'd probably die at 40 from some disease which wouldn't be a problem today. But at at least you'd have fun, experience adventure and fraternity like no other, and at this point in my life, dying at 40 would be great.

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16597972

>>16597788
The ocean is always beautiful. And not everyone feels the way you do.about modern or past ships.

>> No.16597981

>>16597657
read philosophy you dolt. That's the only good recommendation Melville makes in that book

>> No.16597989

>>16597972
he's right though, I mean hell, modern day ships are so massive, it doesn't even feel like your on a ship

>> No.16598004

>>16597657
You like an idea not the reality.