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Williamsmith
9-24-16, 12:00am
I have been following this blog for awhile. Thought it worth sharing and most appropriate for purveyors of simple living. Ray Jason has led an astonishing life aboard his home......a sailboat.
http://theseagypsyphilosopher.blogspot.com/2016/09/simple-consolations.html#more
Goodnight.
It is a nice view of life but he is a little uninformed about being detached from the grid of the malignant overlords. He could do none of this IF:
- he had no way of paying for his boat and supplies at the outset;
- the boat had not been manufactured with resources mined from the earth by extreme use of resources;
- the solar and other equipment had not been manufactured using the grid generating the profit for the overlords;
- sharing his experience is using the resources of the grid to deliver his story to those who heavily use the grid as well.
Williamsmith
9-24-16, 10:08am
It is a nice view of life but he is a little uninformed about being detached from the grid of the malignant overlords. He could do none of this IF:
- he had no way of paying for his boat and supplies at the outset;
- the boat had not been manufactured with resources mined from the earth by extreme use of resources;
- the solar and other equipment had not been manufactured using the grid generating the profit for the overlords;
- sharing his experience is using the resources of the grid to deliver his story to those who heavily use the grid as well.
Ray is a Vietnam vet who settled in San Francisco and lived for many years as a street juggler. He is a self admitted unrepentant Hippie who lived out of a gypsy van. He was a famous juggler who performed at Candlestick Park and for the San Francisco 49ers regularly. He could have made real money in Las Vegas but chose instead to remain on the street and now.........on a sailboat cruising the coves of Panama and other southern latitude places. Though he does write in "heavy" language philosophically speaking, he appears to be true to his calling, honest in his humility and genuinely serene in his simple lifestyle. For that I admire him.
"A gargantuan electrical web has ensnared much of humanity!" Better post about it on my blog.
Better yet, I'll cruise the Caribbean in my solar-powered yacht preaching about the evils of technology and materialism.
Click here to buy my book at Amazon.
I think the world needs more Rays, Williamsmith, to show us how hot the pot we are boiling in has become! Thanks.
"A gargantuan electrical web has ensnared much of humanity!" Better post about it on my blog.
Better yet, I'll cruise the Caribbean in my solar-powered yacht preaching about the evils of technology and materialism.
Click here to buy my book at Amazon.
You crack me up.
You crack me up.
At least since Thoreau ( http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/pond-scum ), there has been a long American tradition of smug moralizing from the perspective of having cast off the sordid trappings of a corrupt civilization by "returning to nature". Thoreau lived off handouts from family and friends pursuing his life of independence. This fellow radios the Coast Guard to make sure the navigation aids are functioning properly. It takes a considerable capital base and support system for guys like this to live "off the grid".
I believe all thinking people have a positive duty to laugh at these fellows.
See, I think we need all of these viewpoints, including the excellent points made by LDAHL about Thoreau, especially since he delivered his laundry to his mother to be washed.
Hopefully, the fellow on the sailboat does not do that. Progress.
Related, a tale of a fellow who was one of my neighbors here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/04/28/the-old-man-the-mountain-and-the-sea/40f76726-8bff-4e9e-9426-6c8ab0c43529/
http://orcasissues.com/beloved-island-icon-app-applegate-dies-at-home/
That last obituary is so lovely, Bae, thanks for that. A well lived life.
Related, a tale of a fellow who was one of my neighbors here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/04/28/the-old-man-the-mountain-and-the-sea/40f76726-8bff-4e9e-9426-6c8ab0c43529/
http://orcasissues.com/beloved-island-icon-app-applegate-dies-at-home/
One can only wonder what would have happened if this guy and a few chosen followers had showed up at the Port of Casilda.
One can only wonder what would have happened if this guy and a few chosen followers had showed up at the Port of Casilda.
I was sort of hoping he'd get the boat all the way down the mountain and into the water, to see what happened when the various realities collided. My suspicion is that the Cubans would have used it for a major PR moment.
I was sort of hoping he'd get the boat all the way down the mountain and into the water, to see what happened when the various realities collided. My suspicion is that the Cubans would have used it for a major PR moment.
Almost certainly. Anyone who views Castro's Cuba as the Promised Land is a rare find indeed.
His Social Security checks would also have been a welcome source of hard currency.
Related, a tale of a fellow who was one of my neighbors here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/04/28/the-old-man-the-mountain-and-the-sea/40f76726-8bff-4e9e-9426-6c8ab0c43529/
http://orcasissues.com/beloved-island-icon-app-applegate-dies-at-home/
What a wonderful character--every community needs a few of those! I suspect Cuba (which he pronounced correctly) would have disappointed him, but he had a vision and a goal and lived as he saw fit. I'm glad he lived such a long life.
ApatheticNoMore
9-25-16, 2:53pm
See, I think we need all of these viewpoints, including the excellent points made by LDAHL about Thoreau, especially since he delivered his laundry to his mother to be washed.
yea well how many guys have their wives do their laundry?
yea well how many guys have their wives do their laundry?I'm not allowed to do laundry at my house, not since the unfortunate cashmere sweater incident back in the late 70's.
On the other hand, I do nearly all the cooking, would you say that I have her do the laundry and she has me do the cooking, or could we both just be doing what we do best?
yea well how many guys have their wives do their laundry?
Yea, well, how many wives have their husbands inspect, maintain, and repair the home's septic system?
I'm really curious, because my wife has the inspector's license, not me, and I'm not ever sticking my head back down in there again.
:-)
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