In a bureaucracy many crappy people gain power by "networking" and having some diploma.


In many jobs you have to go 8 long hours with some bonobo type of person, whom you have to do what says and what's even worse stay on good foot with.

Not even with an academic education it seems today difficult to avoid those revengeful fags.

During some summers in similar climate I slept with a blanket and perhaps under a large piece of plastic. It's a pretty exhausting lifestyle in the long run. But in winters under ~ minus 5 degree celcius I can't sleep in a tent without a matress and extra thick blankets.
Besides, hiking every day seems to rocket the energy consumption, so I wonder how you could do that for two years with health intact.
Perhaps you could write an article on how to do such a thing and survive?

Christianity cannot be understood throug the bible alone.

I think the bible has some holes. F.e. in WHY one should love ones neighbour, which is f.e. much clearer in Indian litterature.

Modern christianity is insane.

Real christianity must have the Greek-Roman spirit with it, besides of some non biblical wisdom.

My priest great-grandfather was asked by a man what to do : His wife had run off with some boy.

He thus said, you must go and beat that guy up, as the holy matrimony is unbreakable.

He then went and beat that guy and reclaimed his wife. And that was a very christian and moral thing to do.

Of course, no modern unbeliever prist would advise such, but rather advise to turn the other buttcheek.

What if I put a cheese, you looked at, turned around, and in the meantime I replaced it with a piece of rubber replica, and you looked at it again.

Both observations would say it is the same cheese, but that obviously is wrong. The rubber does not smell or taste like a cheese.

I suppose, that what you mean by "is" withour processing is simply the experience of the visual impression of the yellow square cheeselike object. When you go to smell the object it is a different experience, and again with taste it "is" a new experience.

Some philosophers seem like charlatans. Sometimes it's difficult to judge at a glance. But I found that the poetic stuff of Nietzsche(Zarathustra and Dionysos Dithyramben) and the essays of Schopenhauer were extremely important texts.

The old fashioned religious wisdom litterature such as the upanishads, the Dhammapada, Lao Tze etc, is something one must absorb in an active way and think about to integrate it in ones being.

Though, reading a text always requires you to be active as a reader to get something out of it.... But that can also be saids about looking at a tree.

Yes, but my point was rather, that your biological attributes, like senses or personality characteristics, or something like reflexes, migth have been altered from what they would have been under  formation in a more natural environment.

Ofcourse, at any moment we must try to do our best with what we have, and not excuse any inaction with a victimization narrative.

The Eskimos had near zero vision imparement before the colonization.

Some of the indians of the North also experienced an immense decay in dental health after the shift to european foods.

Us born under this horrible modern plauge have the modernity worked in under the skin to a large degree, but as we have never experience else, we will not be aware of how influenced we are by the modernitys plauge: not just in a cultural, but in a biological way.

Generation-X and onwards have been brainwashed in kindergartens and schools, where we have all been made about two times more fags than we would have been naturally, and we have been made 10 times more neurotic than naturally.

We can never wholly escape from ourselves, but the relief of being out and away can perhaps give a taste what lies in your natural aptitude as a non modern, natural person.

Quote from: crow on April 12, 2013, 02:34:27 AM

Anyway: these are my findings.
I have never met anyone, including myself, who can maintain reliable balance in a city environment. All is pretence, and the face one manages to wear for others, is not the actual face one wears.
That is why I will never live in a city again, if I have any choice in the matter.

Hey brother, it really depends with whom one spends their time. You can see truth in an overflowing newspaper bin. The pidgeons have mastered wu-wei. One can see a thousand small Arjuna rise between the concrete and bricks, or a thousand more crammed onto commuter trains, or sweeping the sidewalks.

Those cites with subways are like dirty compost heaps. Compost heaps where only certain plants can grow, like tomatoes  or squash, which do well in soil of high nutrition. Orchid or some other rare plants grow only in  special, ligther soils, as their roots are burned by the high nutrition content.

Most content in such a compost is only meant to be nutrition for future plants.

Soon the compost are owergrown, and the nettles come, and other of that  type of nitrogen loving plants.

First after many recyclings of the organic materials we will see the diversity of a natural meadow with beautiful flowers and other herbs among the mundane grasses.


Could anyone imagine such a city giving life to a Siddharta Gautama or "Odinic wanderer" Gandalf type of person?  Perhaps rather a Socrates talkative person.

At best we will probably see some  superficial intellectual types that can nitpick superficial arguments.

Many people chose to withdraw from interacting too much if they are forced to have interaction in the urban environment, some even chose to dull the nerves with alchohol or a narcotic types of cannabis.

Schopenhauer  spake of having sensitive nervous system and how having such was a burden, but also a requrement for the true thinker.