17th Jan 2025

jin-out in #hive-122315 • 4 days ago

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Checkin in with my freedom fighters.

A little update on my side of the pie, whilst gossiping about various happenings around England and Asia.

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valued-customer 4 days ago

A lot of food for thought. I notice a lot of people I associate with have a code, at least with me. Many people treat me like family because, like you, I treat them well, tend to their needs as I am able. I spent the day reflooring the living room of one of my neighbors, with some flooring I was given by another friend that he had replaced when remodeling. I had a few more pieces so I refloored some steps for a guy that just moved here last month. One of my neighbors did some welding for me on my rusty old pickup in the last couple days, but refused to let me pay him, perhaps because I fixed his plumbing and stuff a while back.

This is my 'game plan' TBH. This game plan, just help others who help me is the basic economic idea, but I really don't do it for economic reasons. I just like to do the work, to improve their homes, and help them enjoy their lives in more comfy environments, more attractive rooms, drier, warmer, happier than before. Especially now we have freezing nights and clear sunny, but cool, days. It's usually much warmer and wetter here, so I am doing as much work as I can before the rain comes back.

The woman I provided a new living room floor today was very happy to have actual flooring, instead of the plywood she'd spent days sanding, and had stained a dark color. She almost wept. She makes me cookies and fruit breads, stews and soups, often, and I am very grateful for the food because she is a much better cook than I am! Today she gave me a little cheese and a candy bar, and another woman I have been helping lately gave me some cookies and treats too, so today I eat. It is a good day.

Anyway, win or lose, rake it in or scrimp by, this is how I like to live, the code I live by. I have the skills and tools and enjoy the challenges of scrounging free materials and fabricating trims from old fences and planks scavenged from job sites. It's like putting together puzzles you can live in =)

I dunno that this is fighting or a warrior's stand as much as it is building a community and keeping people from struggling. When we help each other like this we don't receive incomes we are taxed on. How could they tax free flooring, or batches of cookies? I like it better than fighting.

Thanks!

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jin-out 4 days ago

I'd like to share with you one of my favourite chapters from the Dao De Jing. Chapter 8...

https://www.wussu.com/laotzu/laotzu08.html

The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.
In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep in the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In ruling, be just.
In business, be competent.
In action, watch the timing.
No fight: No blame.

We can bring the fight to The Enemy by living well, as you are doing my comrade. The best revenge is to do well despite the insurmountable obstacles before us.

From our brief time getting to know each other you have inspired me greatly with your lifestyle. I wish to spend 2025 building that for myself, to put myself in a position whereby my skills brings value to the world. It's amazing when you see where true value and wealth lies (first and foremost in ourselves), all other superfluous endeavours fall away.

During my Hitchiking journey across England and Istanbul (took 10 months). I have proven that it's possible to plonk myself in any place, any country, without much resources and still survive. What we are experiencing in this world, overshaded by the looming Agenda, will find many freedom fighters displaced and living on quick sand. That may not be for long but it certainly is in our future. To stay agile, to have no baggage, to still be able to leave our world better than we found it day by day with just our two hands and a dream in the heart, that to me is a life i'd like to live.

Speak soon on element my friend, i will be back after some more internet detox. I am enjoying the monk-mode at the moment.

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jin-out 3 days ago

Thank you @canadian-coconut for the support!

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