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A man who went on a hike and never stopped
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#22 "He also held a dogged belief in personal freedom, including the freedom to pollute the atmosphere with fossil fuels."
Hmm. Perhaps other walking people could use a good look at. Check out, John Francis who started walking (and stopped talking!) after watching an oil spill happen near San Francisco.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_(environmentalist...
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#23I believe that for him personal freedom was not about the contents of a bag or even the journey of thousands and thousands of steps. Freedom for him was the ability to cast off the trappings that most in society allow to define them. For him, personal freedom was the ability to lie down at night and know that he had done exactly what he wanted to do that day and he did it to the best of his ability. Freedom meant he could think great thoughts or he could just be; he dreamed; he appreciated the beauty of the world around him as the rest of us did what was required of us rather than what enriched us; he formed a relationship with his God; rather than just having faith, he lived his faith. Freedom is different for each of us but maybe it was what Shakespeare was saying when he said "To thine own self be true."
We all seek personal freedom, I just define it as dreaming, creating, building, nourishing, challenging, changing and pursuing...freedom is not the ability to do these things, but actually in doing them.
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#24"He also held a dogged belief in personal freedom, including the freedom to pollute the atmosphere with fossil fuels." Didn't see that coming.
Well, I think the vast majority of people support the freedom to pollute some amount.
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#25"He also held a dogged belief in personal freedom, including the freedom to pollute the atmosphere with fossil fuels." Hmm. Perhaps other walking people could use a good look at. Check out, John Francis who started walking (and stopped talking!) after watching an oil spill happen near San Francisco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_(environmentalist... https://www.ted.com/talks/john_francis_walks_the_earth…
Ya really, why stop at the atmosphere? Why not freedom to contaminate the water supply? Or salt the earth? What kind of logic is that?
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#26At the age of 21 I took four months and an assignment from an outdoor magazine and traveled Minnesota and southern Canadas state and National parks. I backpacked for long periods of time, mostly alone, and photographed for months on end. I was somewhat depressed, but also hopeful... in a way that lead me to believe over the next horizon here would be some place or someone that would make me happy. I met a lot of strangers along the way and almost died twice. I even had the FBI track me down for questioning due to my extensive periods along the border (I later learned they tracked hiking registries fairly regularly).
Ultimately there was no lesson or grand realization I had out there -- just a rich set of experiences and unique people that I draw on from time to time. I learned my limits and probably pushed them at the prime of my life and I'd like to think I'm better off for it. I learned that I liked people, even though I am often uncomfortable around them. And even though I am slightly different, I'll still survive and be ok.
Ebheret seems to be doing the same and there isn't really and need to assign a motivation to it. Sometimes we wander for vague reasons we can't quite explain. Maybe life isn't quite enough or maybe our bodies just want to return to our pre-city state. But ultimately it just ends up being something new that's maybe worth adding to the canon for human experiences, or just you're own story worth making.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing it's 100 km/h and got mangled when crossing the Atlantic.
It's just hyperbole. The English use miles per hour there's literally no reason for it. Also having driven the one road in Texas with speed limits that high, semi-trucks do not go 85mph. I was not passed once, nor had a semi-truck gain on me. It's simply not fuel efficient for trucks to go that fast (nor cars honestly). ~75mph maybe... to make up time but faster than that and fuel efficiency is surely so bad they los…
"Flew past at 100 mile an hour" is a common turn of phrase here in Australia, and we use kilometers for everything.
But Australia is quite the mash of cultures in most respects.
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#28"He also held a dogged belief in personal freedom, including the freedom to pollute the atmosphere with fossil fuels." Hmm. Perhaps other walking people could use a good look at. Check out, John Francis who started walking (and stopped talking!) after watching an oil spill happen near San Francisco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_(environmentalist... https://www.ted.com/talks/john_francis_walks_the_earth…
Ya really, why stop at the atmosphere? Why not freedom to contaminate the water supply? Or salt the earth? What kind of logic is that?
Did you really think the article is about some kind of oracle for you to take life lessons from?
It's just a story about someone people find interesting.
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#29At the age of 21 I took four months and an assignment from an outdoor magazine and traveled Minnesota and southern Canadas state and National parks. I backpacked for long periods of time, mostly alone, and photographed for months on end. I was somewhat depressed, but also hopeful... in a way that lead me to believe over the next horizon here would be some place or someone that would make me happy. I met a lot of stra…
Thanks for posting this. I (all of us?) try to shoehorn our wanderings into a narrative similar to the hero's journey.
Your shared experience was anticlimactic, and yet rewarding to read.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been running happily for years without shoes or with only minimal footwear and initially transitioned to doing so because I suffered from pain in my ankles. Perhaps if you're a runner and your toenails cause problems, you might want to give it a try, too.
That's my hypothesis about toenails as well. If your shoes toebox is smashing up your toes, well duh, your toenails are going to get fucked up. My partner is a marathoner, she's close to finishing a marathon in all 50 states. I transitioned her to minimalist shoes, lems primal, at the beginning of this year. She went from killing her toenails about every 2 weeks to zero toenail problems. Also pretty cool, she's stopp…
Here's to hoping that in 30 years were all wearing shoes actually designed for our feet!!
Same here. I found Altra shoes on my journey towards foot and knee health.