Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Nekkid

More anomalous behaviour.
I like to fish naked.Canoe naked. Garden naked. Hang out naked.
Luckily neighbors at the end of the road are not so observant...
I've never understood what the big deal was, in our society about nudity.To equate a state of undress exclusively with sex, or even perversion, is in itself perverse.It indicates just how sick and disconnected we are as a people.
When I could still walk purty good, I'd kayak down the river, buck naked, Stop to fly-fish, or maybe hike up a little side creek. There's nothing like being naked in the wilderness. Best meditation... Aware. Really a part of one's environment. To condemn such activity ... well, that just blows my mind.
One of the main, root problems with folks today is our disconnectedness from nature. This springs directly from monotheistic dualism; the idea that we are somehow separate, apart, from this world.
I know... there I go , raggin on religion....but refute, please.
From Augustine and Origen to Dobson and Fallwell, the 'flesh', the material, is viewed as separate and Evil.
Taken to it's (il-)logical extreme, this stance advocates destroying the only world we know, objectively, exists in order to make way for some (imaginary, un-proveable) "new heaven on earth".
Perhaps, if we could cast aside dogma and learn to think we would have no need of some new , improved heaven and could be satisfied with the one we have already been given.

Fish Naked!

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