"Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
>> "Wilson" <ww@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Edward Dolan" <edolan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> [...]
>>>> I was one of this world's champion hikers, sometimes 15 miles a day
and
>>>> this was in the mountains. I did that for some 10 years all over the
>>>> country on almost a daily basis when I was in my 30's. I don't think
I
>>>> ever did anything dangerous, but hikers get into trouble all the time
>>>> for one reason or another. I never was a strong person, so I had to
>>>> take care of myself. Hells Bells, if I had known I was going to live
so
>>>> long, I would have taken better care of myself.
>>> Ah you were a professional hiker. Very good.
>>> When I was in my thirties I wanted to be a professional bicycle
tourist
>>> and photographer. I was unable to find sponsor****p. Or more
correctly,
>>> sponsor****p was unable to find me.
>>
>> You don't need any sponsor****p as long as you are unmarried and willing
>> to remain poor all of your life. I take pride in being poor the way
some
>> guys take pride in being rich. In any event, it was very inexpensive to
>> travel in the 60's and 70's.
>>
>> To get my perspective on life, read Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild".
When
>> you are young, you should only be into adventure, not money and jobs or
>> marriage and children. Ugh![...]
>
> Ed is full of it. He is a member of the inherited wealth (admittedly
quite
> limited in his case) slacker class. He advocates a life style that is
not
> available to most, while deliberately failing to point this out.
My life style is available to anyone who is not into wives and children.
Men
love to **** and that is why they marry. I say **** the ****ing! Instead,
contemplate the eternal verities and become spiritual like Saint Edward
the
Great.
Tom Sherman is a mystery to me. He is unmarred, has a good job (he is
civil
engineer) and should have the world by the tail. Yet he is sour and seems
to
be unhappy. How is that possible?
> If Ed in his life had to work to keep from being homeless and starving,
it
> would have greatly improved his personality.
Nonsense! Ed Dolan the Great has known every form of poverty, including
not
having enough to eat. You have to cultivate a contempt for the body and
for
everything it represents. You also have to opt out of our materialistic
culture, something that Tom Sherman will never do.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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