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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, Robins 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 Im 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
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Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)1. Did you see the article at the link claiming that Newton kids weren't killed and are still alive? nt
votesparks
(1,288 posts)2. Where on the page?
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.
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.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)4. I just thought you should know, no judgement of you at all. nt
votesparks
(1,288 posts)5. No, thank you
I removed the link to the site.