“Have you ever studied the religion, read the literature, or heard the music of agrarian societies?”
LOL
You cannot imagine how much I’ve studied.
Archaeology/anthropology/comparative religion is one of my great passions.
I was also blessed to born into a family which farmed the land to survive.
Until my grandparents died and the farming ceased, nobody had time to contemplate their navels and bemoan their ills.
We got up early, worked hard and fell into bed in sound sleep.
Until I got married and moved to a more ‘urban’ life, I didn’t really know I *had* any “problems”.
Case in point, my life has become so non-agrarian that my parents were baffled by my joyous appearance on their doorstep when the last snows hit.
Shoveling their walks and driveway was *fun*.
The adrenaline of exercise, the endorphins of good, simple hard work were intoxicating.
When I left, smiling but exhausted, I could see my mom looking out the window with what looked like bewilderment.
And then I came home and shoveled some more snow from places that didn’t really warrant shoveling.
I miss that life of simple, mindless labor.
It’s liberating and healing.
[you have a very bleak view of Christianity, I must say. that’s not what it is for me]
Boredom kills.
Animal experiments prove that.
Human are still “animals”, in our basest essence.
Here I’ve been posting on this thread and now Facebook is asking me “How are you feeling?”
Coincidence?
(I think not!)
Amazing, isn't it. You can work all day and actually feel refreshed (mentally), even if you are bone tired. You sleep well, and no matter how much or little, you know you did something.
Pity so many have been brainwashed to think there is no virtue in a hard day's work...and that may be one of the places our society has gone astray.
I never did understand going to a gym to work out--only did once in college, and people were astounded that I didn't know how any of the machines worked. I told them "Thanks, but that was boring."--and never went back. Between working tobacco, construction, baling hay, etc. we always had plenty of 'workout' and we got something done, too.