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 Anita Bone
    
Location: Petaluma
Gender: Female
Your mind has a mind of its own.
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<Reply # 20 on 7/21/2009 9:34 PM >
|  | | | I've been UEing since I was four. An abandoned house across the street drew me in like a starving puppy to a box of Snausages.
"Don't go in there," my psycho hippie mom chided me when I told her of my adventure, "There might be diseases in there."
As I struggled to envision what a "disease" was, the image of a fat half-smashed grub I'd found in the house came to mind. It seemed pretty harmless, so I kept going.
A year later, an errant 16-year-old babysitter took me along with her friends to infiltrate the basement of an abandoned hotel down the block.
Two years after that, after moving to the complete opposite end of town, I found another abandoned house which I visited regularly.
At 17, I followed the example my own babysitter set down before me and took the kids I was watching to a gorgeous gothic revival victorian brick ediface in the middle of a state hospital. I boosted the 8-year-old up to the window. He pushed it open, slid inside, ran down the stairs, and unlocked the door for us. We spent many happy hours in that place exploring all three floors and the creepy basement.
I like UE because I want to know what people have left behind, what they have abandoned and why. Most people eschew the unfamiliar, the estranged, the "unpopular" - be they places, people or ideas. Nearly everyone has a fear of abandonment. Visiting abandoned places has us subconsciously connecting with that feeling. Since our relationship with places is so different than that with other people, communing with an abandoned place serves to dissipate that fear so we can find the beauty within, and understand all the better, the empty spaces within ourselves.
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olive
 
Location: hamilton
Gender: Female
good plan, poorly executed.
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<Reply # 21 on 7/21/2009 9:40 PM >
| | | | Posted by trent
1.) Everyone that does UE has at least one type of mental disorder that allows us to enjoy smelly, dead, decayed, shit covered things.
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i couldn't agree with this more.
Sorry, what was that you were saying about forever alone? |
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MutantMandias
 
Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
| | | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 22 on 7/21/2009 9:43 PM >
| | | | I UE because God doesn't exist.
mutantMandias may cause dizziness, sexual nightmares, and sleep crime. ++++ mutantMandias has to return some videotapes ++++ Do not taunt mutantMandias
mutantMandias is something more than human, more than a computer. mutantMandias is a murderously intelligent, sensually self-programmed, non-being |
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willskith
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 23 on 7/21/2009 9:56 PM >
| | | | Posted by MutantMandias
I UE because God doesn't exist.
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Don't listen to him kids, thats satan speaking.
Word be to God. Amen.
grit your teeth in the face of fear. self repression is the true sign of a coward, toss your inhibitions to the wind. |
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metawaffle
King of Puns
Location: Brisbane!
Gender: Male
Purveyor of Fine Lampshades
| | | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 24 on 7/21/2009 10:10 PM >
| | | | Moved to the rookie forum
http://www.longexposure.net |
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splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 25 on 7/22/2009 12:40 PM >
| | | | Someone once asked George Mallory why he wanted to climb Mount Everest. He replied "Because it is there."
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
-Madeline Albright |
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MutantMandias
Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
| | | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 26 on 7/22/2009 1:38 PM >
| | | | Posted by splumer
Someone once asked George Mallory why he wanted to climb Mount Everest. He replied "Because it is there."
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I think this explains it better.
http://www.youtube...atch?v=huj4jRg80Uo
[last edit 7/22/2009 1:47 PM by MutantMandias - edited 1 times]
mutantMandias may cause dizziness, sexual nightmares, and sleep crime. ++++ mutantMandias has to return some videotapes ++++ Do not taunt mutantMandias
mutantMandias is something more than human, more than a computer. mutantMandias is a murderously intelligent, sensually self-programmed, non-being |
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BulletFL
Location: FL
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 27 on 7/24/2009 12:28 AM >
| | | | Posted by trent
1.) Everyone that does UE has at least one type of mental disorder that allows us to enjoy smelly, dead, decayed, shit covered things.
2.) I like the history/photography/seeing cool things.
3.) It's an escape from the 'real world'. Draining even more so.
4.) It's a little bit of an adrenaline rush.
5.) As Nan would probable agree "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
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Strange how I agree with these
www.abandonedfl.com |
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FFStudios
Gender: Female
| | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 28 on 7/30/2009 4:31 AM >
| | | | It's the thrill of being where you're not supposed to I guess. The thrill of seeing where people once inhabited and what they left behind.
But I just do it for the epic. I mean, you've got bragging rights forever to say that you explored the whole of Danvers State or Metropolitan ect.
Justice works on the principle of equal torment for all. Under no circumstances may justice find a mistake excuseable. |
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willskith
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 29 on 7/30/2009 4:37 AM >
| | | | Posted by FFStudios
But I just do it for the epic. I mean, you've got bragging rights forever to say that you explored the whole of Danvers State or Metropolitan ect.
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Where are the bragging rights in seeing things that everyone and their mom was doing at the time? Just curious, because I believe I must be missing something crucial here.
grit your teeth in the face of fear. self repression is the true sign of a coward, toss your inhibitions to the wind. |
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maypost
 
Location: North, South, East, West, all around... then down to the underground
Gender: Male
Exploring if for n00bz0rz
| | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 30 on 7/30/2009 4:52 AM >
| | | | For me it started out as seeing places nobody else gets to see, as time went on it evolved into getting into places deemed impossible... now, habit more than anything else.
Exploring is like tattoos... They stopped being cool in 2005
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hairmetal1990
Location: Wisconsin USA
Gender: Male
roflcopter
| | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 31 on 7/30/2009 7:02 AM >
| | | | Posted by trent
1.) Everyone that does UE has at least one type of mental disorder that allows us to enjoy smelly, dead, decayed, shit covered things.
2.) I like the history/photography/seeing cool things.
3.) It's an escape from the 'real world'. Draining even more so.
4.) It's a little bit of an adrenaline rush.
5.) As Nan would probable agree "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
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i agree. especially since i have 3 from #1 (adhd,clinical depression,mild autism)
get the wunderwaffle!!!!! |
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/-/ooligan
Location: Las Vegas area
Gender: Male
When in danger, when in doubt, RUN IN CIRCLES, SCREAM AND SHOUT!
| | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 32 on 7/30/2009 11:14 PM >
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"Because it's there."
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. |
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hilite
Gender: Male
don't destroy my sweater....
| | | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 33 on 7/30/2009 11:31 PM >
| | | | because... can you repeat the question?
And when you finally disappear, We'll just say you were never here. |
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Blue Taco
Location: The Burnie
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 34 on 7/31/2009 1:29 AM >
| | | | Old buildings are cool, plus, when I explore I can get some peace and quiet and just get away from everybody.
"I am the stone that the builder refused"
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leafloving4x4gal
 
Location: Durham Region
Gender: Female
Someday is NOT a day of the week !
| | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 35 on 7/31/2009 1:52 AM >
| | | | Posted by D'void
...because when I'm on drugs, walking in circles becomes very boring.
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lmgdao !! 
"if you are not selfish enough to make yourself happy, you have nothing of value to offer the world." |
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thunderedtbird
| | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 36 on 7/31/2009 9:26 AM >
| | | | because its better then doing nothing
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Neptune
Location: Maine
Gender: Female
The Albino Explorer
| | | | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 37 on 8/1/2009 2:26 AM >
| | | | Posted by don_corleyone
it's slightly more entertaining than knitting or tiddlywinks. but not much.
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You beat me to this joke. For that, you are now my enemy.
But seriously, I accidentally stumbled upon this hobby. I had two male friend at the time who wanted to check out this old mill, and at first I didn't want to go because getting in required climbing down a collapsed elevator shaft and getting dirty, but once I was inside, I fell in love. Then I got into the photography aspect and that seems to be what is keeping me here.
I also really enjoy the "thrill of the hunt." I've spent hours researching places online, in libraries, talking to older people in the community and trading info with other explorers. Not to mention the friends I've made.
UE Magazine: http://www.uemag.c...home1/about-3.html
http://www.flickr....s/smsailorneptune/ http://smsailorneptune.deviantart.com/ |
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PattyBadFingers
Location: Portland Maine
Criminal
| | | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 38 on 8/1/2009 11:41 PM >
| | | | I UE because it's a healthy hobby that reminds me that I'm still alive without having to use drugs or drink alcohol or something like that as a kid.
Plus it tones other skills like photography and climbing and other basic athleticism traits.
Plus it's fun to be able to share experiences on the site.
It's not easy being cheesy. |
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uLiveAndYouBurn
Location: Beyond
Anarchocommunist
| | Re: Why do you UE?
<Reply # 39 on 8/2/2009 1:11 AM >
| | | | I do it because the sites I do are a challenge.
"Aint nothin' to it but to do it"
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