How I Became a Vagabond

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It’s getting time for me to move on to my discussion of the influence of geography & climate but I’ve just a couple more tidbits, crumbs & morsels.

Growing up in foster homes did not keep me from having welcome memories of my childhood and much of the crap diet of “idealism” fed to me by caretakers did not at all keep me from becoming strong cheerful & brave. Tho perhaps a slight stumbling block to discovery of my intelligence independence & individualism……..

Rather it was their ignorance and an altogether idealism that I’ve since spent my life judging it as a complete damnation. All of my errors & blunders in life I can attribute to it and the fact I’ve rid myself of it thru both will and experience has enabled me to embrace who & what I am and to then move on toward the task at hand my becoming has directed me to fulfill, achieve & accomplish.
There time to move on to climate & geography
INTJohn
 
To continue with the topic of what is MY proper diet & nutrition.
For a general ordinary application how do I eat in order to attain & maintain a maximum of strength? A proper virtuous energy?

Actually religious difficulties for example, I know little of from any experience as I never comprehended at all on any level what way I was supposedly “sinful” and I completely lack any bite of a conscience regarding the topic on a personal level.
There is a book called "The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig" that explains why some foods are unacceptable in different religions. You might be able to find it online for free.
 
On climate & geographical location:
Hanging out in any particular location having a healthy climate goes hand in hand with maintaining a proper diet & nutrition. None of us are free or have the ability to live Everywhere and if one is to attain, optimally, whatever it is they have been definitively destined to accomplish then it is a very narrow road that one can live on.

The influence of climate on my metabolism; physiologically & psychologically cannot be understated. It can either be a great impediment to or greatly accelerate one’s health to the point that if a bad decision is made regarding one’s choice of climate & locale the very purpose of fulfilling one’s life & experiences can not only be hindered but a person may never come close to experiencing their life at all. One will never have enough energy to live their best life.

It didn’t take me long in my youth at all to realize that beaches, water waves & sun; lotsa beach & sun was so edifying, upbeat, psychologically healthy that time spent in the climate & locations of beach & sun is where it’s at for me! There is also a great body of evidence that bears this out not only for me but for much of Humanity, in general.
I.e:
https://morrispsych.com/the-psychology-of-the-beach-by-dr-kenneth-freundlich/
https://www.nbcnews.com/better/amp/ncna787231
https://studyfinds.org/childhood-blue-spaces-adult-wellbeing/
https://greatlakes.guide/ideas/visiting-the-beach-can-improve-mental-health
The above are only a few examples of the healthy benefits of coastal beaches. There are many others. OR……..

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One can hang out in the very well known & documented depression of the US Suicide Belt.

Ummmm No Thanks; not for me. I’ll pass on those Suicide Belt areas and enjoy my life at a beach.
More to follow
INTJohn
 
The third part of becoming what one is also is something that one must not commit a lifestyle blunder at any price being the choice of one’s own kind of recreation. Certainly when young the cliche “nothing good happens after midnight” probably applies most but as one matures and has varied Life experiences so too must ones Recreation be diverse; varied.

Here too, depending on the degree to which a person is unique the limits of a profitable & healthy recreation are again quite narrow. Above all else there must be a joyful & edifying experience that releases one from the toil of what is their normal task & work. Normal being what drives them in terms of passionate task or professional career.

I can express gratitude on many levels in the course of my life for the participating recreational activity & activities that I found so much fulfillment; positive energy. Yes. It has all concluded today in a very healthy way for me.

No regrets……….
jonny boi sayin Yes! to Life.
 
Continuing with the recreations of my life; they have always included an outdoors activity of some kind generally either involving water/beach or something in a forested/ woodsy wilderness.
The primary exception being; if a day of inclement weather; spending hours playing pool. I’ve always enjoyed the physics & geometry of “shooting pool”.

For myself, also, being a child of the “swamp air” of Murahka’s ‘50’s, I have always been a fatalist vs a pessimist; no, pessimism I’ve never viewed as a positive experience. In that sense I conclude I cannot be anything but a “revolutionary”.
Being a revolutionary then, I cannot embrace any state of being with a mucker like stable hand who enjoys spreading horse & cow manure on a field that somehow found themselves at the top of the barn’s spire.
It’s a matter of complete detachment & indifference to me then while biding their time “up there” whether the mucker dons differring clothes colored red blue or yellow while blaring their crappy trumpet music & playing taps.

As far as Murahka then experiences its recreation; it obviously corrupts any semblance of culture.

A summation & conclusion is yet on the way.
INTJohn
 
Regarding these maters; ones choice of nutrition, climate & geographic location and of recreational activity at bottom one must conclude that most importantly is one’s instinct for self preservation and these matters as they pertain to one’s daily life can only be expressed then as a matter of self defense.

Preserving one’s life; one’s self this is the utmost matter of life’s wisdom. A fact that comes to acknowledge that their life is no accident but living one’s life unto themselves is a complete necessity.

My description for this is “cultural taste” and it commands me to not deny my existence when agreeing with something would be “selfless”. To hell with selflessness! Also to detach myself, to separate myself, from anything that would negate my existence & experience.

The reason here should be obvious. When personal expenditures of denying one’s self & existence, no matter how small or seemingly trivial, to a point where it becomes the rule and a habit of living, such actions entail an extraordinary and entirely superfluous; frivolous impoverishment of one’s only life they can ever live, enjoy, think & feel positive about in an edifying & fulfilling manner.

Not done………INTJohn
 
It’s easy for one to ask me why on earth have I been relating these trivial things which are considered subjects & experiences of complete indifference: given I most likely only harm myself; even more so if I’m actually guided to some matter that perhaps really is worth a damn.

I can only respond accordingly in a biblical context: “ just as god chose the foolishness of preaching……to save the world”; well so too have I chosen the ridiculousness of an internet website about nothingness to “cast my pearls before the swine” even tho idealism dictates another road.

My answer: these small things; nutrition, place, climate & recreation bring the entire casuistry of selfishness- are more important than everything humanity has taken to be of utmost value ; so far as humanity has existed.

It is exactly at this point of one’s personal recognizance that one needs to begin to relearn what ever has been dictated to their consciousness.

What humanity has so far considered to be the best ideas that it embraces have not been realities at all but simply mere imaginings more bluntly put - Lies! Put forth by the bad thoughts & instincts of psychologically ill natures that have been harmful to humanity’s future from millennia ago.

These deceitful lies of concepts of “God, soul, spirit, virtue, sin, heaven, beyond, truth, eternal life,” etc…… I challenge but the greatness of human nature, nevertheless , it’s divinity by the ancients was sought in them.

All human problems of politics, social organization, education, idealism have been falsified because humanity has mistook the most harmful of men and their philosophy of lies for Truth and that they are men of greatness tho they are not.

Humanity has been taught to despise itself and the “little things” of Life that I emphasize as most important; which means these so called great ideas & men deny the value of Life itself.

More……
INTJohm
 
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When I think to compare myself and my lifestyle with others thru human history and I’m speaking of those who have been honored as being of the first rank, the difference between myself and “them” is easily discernible.

I don’t even consider these so-called “first rank” men among even being men in general: frankly, they to me are the refuse of Humanity and those who love them, embrace them, follow them & their philosophies can only be considered lovers of garbage & feces. Monsters of sickness with vengeful instincts; inhuman, at bottom incurable and incorrigible who seek to destroy the very healthy instincts of Life itself.

I want to be their opposite and it’s a privilege to have the intuitive sensitivity for all signs of healthy instincts & reflex. There is no pathological trait in me and I seek no followers. Even when I returned from the war and I had my periods of severe darkness I never became pathological; frustration is all one would experience should they seek to find any trait of fanaticism regarding any sense of political or religious idealism within me.

There is not a moment of my life to which any of them could convict me of a presumptuous or bombastic like nature. No, not at all. The personality of poses does not belong to greatness ; nor does it belong to a healthy personae - whoever needs to present themselves in pose to be “pretty as a picture”; they are all false and of a liars philosophy.

Beware of all picturesque persons………..

INTJohn
 
If it looks to good to be true it probably is! Lol!!! Many times the poorest man is the richest but just doesn’t realize it!
 
If it looks to good to be true it probably is! Lol!!! Many times the poorest man is the richest but just doesn’t realize it!
And this is a very appropriate lead in for my next post…….touching on the epitome of the art - and it is an art - the art of Self Preservation being Selfishness; and the context of my definition is in contrast to and in conflict with the religious & political demands of Self-Sacrifice.
The fate of any great task transcends those of any average person in a very significant way and little can be more dangerous to such a great task than to see oneself as fulfilling that task.

*To become what one is, one first must not have the faintest idea what one is…….*

Even the errors & mistakes of Life carry their own value & meaning - those side roads, dead end streets, delays of stuck in a ditch ; serious energy wasted on “tasks” that in the long run have nothing to do with The Task are still valuable.

All of one’s life’s experience can be embraced as great wisdom; some even as Supreme Wisdom where Know Thyself would actually be a recipe for destruction; forgetting oneself, not understanding oneself, being narrow & mediocre become a valuable reason itself.

Morally speaking then even things like neighbor love, altruistic behavior, etc can become a protective measure for preserving one’s ultimate being. This is where I recognize that even so-called selfless drives work primarily in the service of self-discipline, self-love, being the Ultimate preservatives of Selfishness.

The entire surface mask then of consciousness; and consciousness is a surface; it must be kept clear of any great visionary necessities.

INTJohn
 
Philosophies & Ideologies of Equality & Egalitarianism are such a farce and detrimental to anyone individual who can actually contribute something; anything to the overall advancement of the Human Condition…….

5000 or 5 billion mediocre equal persons will never be able to come close to the contribution to the advancement of the Human Condition of 1 singular genius human being. The life’s value of that one genius far exceeds the value of the mediocre many.

Thus the fallacy of practically all that in a human modern sense, exists today……

INTJohn
 
In the authored musings then of The Vagabond one generally hears the echo of a desolate region; life in a desert perhaps; but most certainly a whispered voice and the stealthy caution of his private solitude. Even in his strongest language or cry The Vagabond still strums the string of a new perhaps even dangerous manner of silence; the loudness of burying his silence……..

When The Vagabond has been living alone, solitarily, in continual harmony of discord; dialogue & debate; discussion; year after year; day & nite; in his cave: sometimes cold, damp & dark but also sometime a gold mine even filled with precious stones; he becomes both a treasure searcher and it’s guard sometimes even a dragon.

The Vagabond’s ideas eventually age to an odd twilight hue having a smell of their musty depth.
The ideas become an incommunicable and recalcitrant breeze that intentionally gives every passerby a deep chill; like the burn of dry ice.
For The Vagabond is far more afraid of being understood than he ever will be of being misunderstood.
To be continued
INTJohn
 
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Respect Your Elders………
A commandment that should be ignored with a healthy contempt by any youthful person toward any so called “elder” that has not earned that respect.

I say, Elders respect the young………
All of todays human existence & experiences; it’s cities & cultures ; Globally; it’s great science and engineering achievements; Globally ; are the direct result of those great & strong young men & women of 30, 40, 50,000 years ago; many mere teenagers; who were able to persevere & survive against and with the forces of Nature; to reproduce & propagate being the healthy & strong human beings that they were. They didn’t need anyone old to guide them or show them “a way”. They never needed “elders”.

Without any of todays modern medicine or life's technologies and those young; living at most to an age of maybe 30 most of whom but teens are the cause and effect of all that is Human today across all the Earth.

All that exists today of Humanity is because of the greatness that was Them! Not a modern elder. Not because of mediocre old degenerates of this modern era who embrace philosophies and concepts that refuse to acknowledge the young to be the genetically defined great & strong animals that evolved from 50,000 or more years ago. That genetic definition and strength still exists in the youth of Humanity today. My philosophy seeks to unbridle it once again!

INTJohn
 
I’m still trying to decide if I care to post on this site thread my thoughts re;
The Vehicle Vagabond as an Ascetic Ideal……
first tho I’ll need to post my thoughts re the definition & value of the Ascetic Ideal as an objective reality.
Just don’t know yet if I care to share as like God said (paraphrase) to Lot re Sodom & Gomorrah ; there just isn’t anyone in that city worthy to make me want to save the place. 😂:devilish::cool:

Ciao
INTJohn
 
It’s so hilarious the outside things that people find stimulating…….. that they’re so incapable of living their own life. Makes me……
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Humanity so laffable.
INTJohn
 
Better watch that in your new van, that big windshield is a bitch to clean! Lol!!!
 
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