My Aussie/expat Canadian friends told me that the idea of the walkabout is still a real part of the culture there, and people will just wander off for months and pop up later -is that true?
 
:reading420magazine::)

That bible story was ‘written’ by people not God and it’s a good example to me of one problem that many religions have, which is a belief (or something) that is it right that ‘man’ should have dominion over the earth. That nature is here for our use (which has become blind use-abuse). This is sad - and I’m kinda with Weasel in my love/passion/respect for the planet and it’s creatures and wilds and have layed down in front of bulldozers driven by folk who would’ve run us over given the chance... and it did make a difference at that time. I’ve seen others do it since with only injury as the reward tho.
somehow always places humans at the center of the universe, along with a simplistic story and a rule book
this made God happy.. Ive never been able to work that out and haven't read it since :rofl: I just don't get gods problem with that.. (no blasphmey here God, I'm open to be taught)...

It’s early in the morning to be this deep :D and I’ve had my Saturday morning wake n bake and probably only know half of what I’m saying ( and I got my quotes all muddled up!)

:passitleft:
 
My Aussie/expat Canadian friends told me that the idea of the walkabout is still a real part of the culture there, and people will just wander off for months and pop up later -is that true?

Yeah man, very true...
 
That’s so cool, about the walkabout culture I mean.
And yeah I’ve put myself on the line quite a few times lately against the logging here and it did make a difference. Felt good. In the bigger picture.... ugh... it’s looking bleak. Honestly I cried a little when I saw the sight of that starved whale. There have been many such whales the last few years. Seems like I’m getting pretty soft hearted in my old age. Or returning more to how I was when I was a kid I suppose.
Yeah we got in deep. Seems to happen quick in this journal :).

MI, yeah I’m going to veg that one quite a while longer. If it makes it through the next week I expect it will take off, once I get a chance to clear the jungle a little and give it some love.

I think someone asked me about my eye. It’s blurry as hell now and somewhat annoying but still better than back in the surgery and eyepatch days. Clumsier than usual. The other day I was working on my roof and went to kick something out of the way and hit a board instead and ripped my big toenail off. Had to go lay down for a while after that one. :rofl:
 
I’m two pages back, standing outside the senior center screaming with glee - the traffic covers most of my glee - waiting for an ACESS pickup to go to the casino. Their idea not mine. :rofl:

I’ll catch up later, but I wanted to leave you with the thought of a JW stopping me and asking me if I wanted to share the good news. :rofl:

Oh yeah...we’ve had some conversations. :rofl:

My grandpa, the biblical scholar and a believer in the universal mind, invited them in. “Adeline! Put on a fresh pot of coffee! Do come in. Let me get my Bible.”

Lol! Never knew what hit ‘em. :rofl:

Thank you all for a shot of real life. I’m going to the casino for their company. There are few places less attuned to who I am than the gambling floor of the casino. Lol! It’s downtown. I can wander until our 4 PM pickup.

Watch me win something more than the $.25 I won in Vegas. :rofl:
 
Just read the last post Weaselcracker. Ouch! Pain cream on it? :battingeyelashes:
 
Yeah.....the Blue whale made me cry too......

Had to remind myself that the trajectory of the universe is to wellbeing. The thought of how much they’ve ripped from the depths with the deep nets is hard to reconcile. All things work for good.

That’s where my faith sits. It still hurts, but I know this is true and it’ll all pan out.

It’s smokey enough here in Pittsburgh that the daughter has to run her air conditioners. Weird summer, eh?

I’m sucking up the battery playing in your luscious yard Weaselcracker. You guys make it well worth the time to catch up. Let me get off the phone. :ciao:

@Kriaze, good to see you again. :hugs:
 
Yeah I slathered that toe with a ton of salve, once I dragged myself in the house and finally located a jar of it. A puddle of salve and blood on the floor... I’m going to make another batch- this one works but not nearly as well as I’d hoped and not nearly as well as the first batch worked. Not sure why - maybe I need to follow the recipe better.

We are definitely on a bad trajectory in the short and medium term. I shudder to think of how bad things will get in future and what world my kid will be living in. I wonder if television had never been invented, if people would have more time to see the obvious. Probably not- we used to be even blinder, as far as I can see. And like everything else we make, there’s a mix of good and bad and such a thing as good television as well.

It can be shocking to meet the tourists where I live and see their points of view. They all seem to appreciate my home and the nature, but mostly in a very disconnected and skewed fashion. I hitched a free ride back from kayaking on a zodiac tourist transport and listened to this long self-righteous rant from some of them, as we passed some clearcuts, about the stupid locals and their logging practices and how the whole place should be made into a park. I had to point out that the logging is carried out by huge corporations from the city, where they come from, and all the logs and 99.999% of the money goes down to them as well. The locals mostly hate the situation but can’t control it. And the Parks people just seem to drive boats around burning gas, enforcing a zillion rules and giving people tickets for displacing pebbles and pieces of moss in the ‘wilderness paradise’.
I asked the driver of our eco-friendly tour boat how much gas he burned that day. 430 litres... We are all part of the problem. There’s just so damn many of us.
I know in the big picture it will right itself and, probably re- form without humans in it. But myself I’ll badly miss peaceful wide open spaces and abundant fish and wildlife. I mean to make the most of what’s left while I’m here though.

I guess what I was trying to say about people’s personality and how it relates to religion, is we all have our little angle on things. I know many religious people who are much better people than me and I completely admire their faith and the codes that they live by. Of course I know religious people who are jerks too, and non-religious people who are also jerks.
I like what GT said about faith. I hadn’t quite thought of things that way but it makes perfect sense. Spent a couple decades without much of it (faith, or sense either) and it wasn’t fun at all.
 
Blind dude working on a roof.. hurts big toe would have been down the list of guesses...
 
Somewhere around here is my retelling of the day Dale lost his usable eyesight to a burst blood vessel in one eye as he was finishing up running the circuit that I’m now running my grow on.

He finished that job blind. :rofl: Our daughter directed him with verbal cues from the bottom of the ladder she was too terrified to climb herself. “Another inch to the left... up a smidgen..stop! Drill right there Dad.” :rofl:

Still brings a tear of joy. Lol! Weaselcracker, I can’t remember what the significant difference was between the two batches of oil you used for pain creams. Do you?
 
Hey. All’s well here. Just scrambling around gathering nuts, berries, and fish. Internet at home is a lost cause so I can’t upload pics and every time I get to town it seems I’m too busy. Soon.

:passitleft:
 
Cheers friend.

We be enjoying the golden tiger.

Back this weekend for more chattin
 
So, my wife might actually be lazier than I.
Amazon recently started selling groceries in my neighborhood. Nothing special really, they're just delivering Whole Foods groceries.
Anyway, it's new, it's lazy, it gets the wife's attention. She ordered what she wanted and had it delivered that evening. Tead had a little chicken/rice bowl for dinner that night.
So... let's recap for a moment. Not only do I not collect my own food, now I've become too lazy to visit the market and shop.

There’s just so damn many of us.

Indeed.
Could you imagine for just one moment... return the inhabitants of New York to a natural way of living. In a snap of your fingers, remove every modern convenience.
It's just not possible to support our population levels living directly off the land.

I'm pretty philosophical about such ideas. I'm sure all these words and ideas have been conversational fodder since man started speaking. "Say Ooog, have you seen those crazy kids? They've all started heating their food over the fire! It's got black stuff all over it and looks crazy. I don't know how our race will survive!!!"
You get the idea.
 
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