Upbringing
My mom and dad taught me at a young age that moderation is a key to happiness in life and health. Too bad I did not adhere to this in every aspect of my life because its great advice. Unfortunately, I lived life on the edge and often got burned. I got in a car wreck and lost a lot of memory and the ability to commit new information to memory. I have arthritis in joints that I injured in that same wreck. That was back in 1988 and I’m still paying for it. It was a complete miracle that I did not become hamburger in that accident. The back seat behind me was hit by a guard rail support and was bashed down to the frame of the car. I had no seat-belt on! The car flipped completely on its side three times up an embankment. After about a 5 minute blackout, I woke up and staggered away from the wreck dazed and confused. I was damaged for life. This made the rest of my life so hard I fell under very hard times. It was difficult to have attention to detail after that. I still have an awful time remembering things and staying on task. It was not until recently when I found a church that I felt were truly following what they preach that I began to heal from all the abuse I suffered. I hope by writing my blog I will have opportunities to give my testimony about how my church heals me.
Hardships
Personally, I have been through a great many hardships. Many caused by not moderating my wants versus needs. Even though I am doing better now those hardships I experienced made me a stronger person. But also there are consequences for unchecked behavior. I have become disabled due to these consequences and have to live a hard life of having very little resources and poor health. These experiences cause me to evaluate situations and ask myself, do I really need this or do I just want it. So now I do things that help expand my mind and grow personally, like writing this blog.
Survival Naturalist
I did not grow up on the farm but we had farms all around us and gave me a love for what grows natural from earth. Farmers had little fruit and vegetable stands selling natural organic foods. I loved to tend the family garden. Food today, most of it makes me ill! Either it has too much sugar, salt, or has toxic pesticide genetically coded into its cells. Being a minimalist for health reasons is something many people can understand. For my very survival and mental health I live and breath as a minimalist. Our earth is the only habitable planet within our grasp so we better treat it accordingly. We can not go on fracking our water tables, burning fossil fuels, polluting the oceans, and eating pork and beef. The leaders of all these industries benefit by continued consumption. The own the media and government so we are not hearing the real full story. Do your own research. If we wreck this planet, there is no planet b. In the future everyone will have to do their part in lowering our footprint, otherwise we may stamp each other out.
Federal Government Crisis
The impending government engineered shutdown of the United States should be cause for all global citizens to worry. The huge world debt, the outright waist of our natural resources, and impeding global warming that our government is doing absolutely nothing about. From what I read we only got about ten years left of bearable climate. After that we will see drastic crop and habitat failure. Our government seems unresponsive to the needs of the people, yet panders to multinational corporation with no loyalties to any humans- only to money. Money is not a thing that offers us sustenance. When debt makes money worthless how will you eat? The root cause of all our problems is the Federal Reserve and world central banks. Do your research on the subject of the Federal Reserve and learn why it has nothing to do with government and there is no money in reserve. It is like the whole world is run by a few powerful men running a ponzi scam on us. They inflate the money bubble and then call in their bets and let economies crash. Then they buy up failed local companies and resources for pennies. So I am a conscientious objector to the whole system. Instead of consuming, I want to create things. Instead of wasting resources, I want to conserve them.
Natural Disasters
In Washington, we sit on land that is a subduction zone. That is, the Pacific Plate crust is shoved down under the North American plate. We are likely to get either a 9.0 killer earthquake or an eruption that will make Mt St Helen’s look like a mole hill. Earth quake or major basalt eruption would cause a tsunami that would wipe out even more habitat and infrastructure. Imagine the devastation and inability to use your phone or roads. What will you do?
My church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are preparing for the most likely disaster- a super earthquake of 9.0 or more. They have given us training to have clean water and food storage. How to cook when the electricity no longer flows into our houses. I learned much from my church.
I know I already brought up global warming but this is one of the main reasons for my mission. Global warming is a real thing. We will get weather patterns more extreme. The oceans are rising and sea-life is declining. I want to show the differences in our earth from before humans over-fished and polluted our oceans. I would like to see the world and meet people in far away Islands before things get impossible to do so. We are definitely in the end times. We are destroying our planets ability to sustain us. I want to show ways to reduce our footprint on the earth and still have a lot of fun and personal growth. I seek the life of a minimalist. I want to survive as long as possible. Don’t you?
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