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votesparks

(1,288 posts)
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 12:11 PM Dec 2013

Do Not Attempt To Leave The Matrix

Last edited Tue Dec 17, 2013, 02:32 PM - Edit history (1)



Robin Speronis, a Florida woman who lives off the grid, is being threatened with losing her home due to her “alternative lifestyle”.

Last month, Robin’s story was featured on Fox 4 news in Florida. She does not have a refrigerator, oven, running water, or electricity.

Robin explains her decision to live off the grid:

“It was an interest in empowering myself, like we did when we got off the health care system. I wanted to look at every other part of my lifestyle and say, do I need this? Is this of value to me? If it went away tomorrow, what would I do? The more I got into it, the more exciting, the more of an adventure it became. My message was to create, so I created a happy place… a place where I get up, and I’m like this is beautiful.”

Most of what Robin owns was free, donated, or bought for next to nothing.

She cooks on a propane camping stove, and her electronics run on solar-charged batteries.

Robin gets her water from rain barrels. She uses a colloidal-silver generator to disinfect the rain water:
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Do Not Attempt To Leave The Matrix (Original Post) votesparks Dec 2013 OP
Did you see the article at the link claiming that Newton kids weren't killed and are still alive? nt Mnemosyne Dec 2013 #1
Where on the page? votesparks Dec 2013 #2
Saw it. votesparks Dec 2013 #3
I just thought you should know, no judgement of you at all. nt Mnemosyne Dec 2013 #4
No, thank you votesparks Dec 2013 #5

votesparks

(1,288 posts)
2. Where on the page?
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 01:11 PM
Dec 2013

I received this link via facebook, via lefty activist Dennis Trainor, and posted after I saw that it was a mainstream organization posting it (not that it would have been less credible if an alt-media organization posted it). But yeah, you have to watch what's out there.

votesparks

(1,288 posts)
3. Saw it.
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 01:15 PM
Dec 2013

Disgusting. But I was posting based on the Fox local affiliate piece. Please don't confuse my post with advocating all of the contents of that site.

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