The+Transcendentalists

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What it really means to "live deliberately" is to live how you want to live and basically to live without money and not worry about economy in general. What Walden wants us to understand is that we are taught to live how we were supose to. We were taught to do things that we were told to do and to not live how we want to live. What we really need to do is break out from that and basically to be free to go out and discover how to truely live. What Walden did was a very good example to show people how we should live and how we don't need money and the economy to live off of.======

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Walden, at one point questions why we live with such hurry and waste our lives away? We hurry because we don't give one thought about how were wasting our lives by doing nonsense and not living the way we really should be. It's as if we were told what time to wake up, where to work, when we should go to work, and when to go to bed. He also says that he can easily do without the newspaper. I totally agree with him for the fact that if you think about it, most of the news today is mainly gossip and most of it is just explaining how bad something is or how bad it has gotten and that's something you really don't want to have to hear about.======

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Walden believed in self-reliance, personal independence, and the need for harmony between man and nature. He also realised how important your inner self is, over the external self. It seems that Walson has the talent of reaching into your innerself in a man or woman and expressing truths about humanity and nature in beautifully simple manner. He basically took his life into his hands and by using his imagination on how he wanted to live, he practically rebuild his life on his own to do things his way and only his way.======

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If I would have to do what Walson did, I would sail to a beach where it's not populated and make my own life there. When I set sail to go to a beach like that isn't populated, I would build my shelter out of the trees there and once I do that I would start to look for food and what not. After all that is done, I would just sit back and just relax. I wouldn't have to worry about working really hard to get paid little money and I wouldn't have to worry at all in general. Of course I would have to work by hunting and making stuff to help me survive but it's just for me and I wouldn't have to worry about people bossing me around and telling me how to live my life.======

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What Walden is telling us is that we should settle ourselves down and come back to reality. We live as if we were like robots in a way. We're always on the go and being told what to do and all that other stuff. The more that people feel alive and feel like themselves, the more that people wouldn't stress about many things and they would be able to relax for once. Maybe if that were to happen, people in the world would have better lives than they do now.======

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