I'm a non-denominational Christian, both deeply religious and deeply spiritual. I'm pretty open minded but I'm pretty orthodox as well.
Ever since I was a kid I've always loved the outdoors and have had a very strong wanderlust. I used to tell my parents with complete naivety that I wanted to be a professional traveler or explorer when I got older.
But, this is where I get kinda heretical with /out/doorsman, but I enjoy cities, towns, villages, and so on just as much as I love the open sea, caves, forest, open plains (except Oklahoma's - fuck Oklahoma) and mountains.
It all ties into my faith very well. Every major figure in Christianity has been a traveler and an outdoorsman at one point or another.
“Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
And while I'm no creationist (well, I am in the way that I believe in the cosmological argument, that Aristotle's "unmoved mover" and the "first cause" are the Abrahamic God) I also believe that all of the world around us is the continuous redound of His magnificence.
The more I decide to explore and traverse it, the more chances I have to not only have the solitude I need to change myself, but the contact I need to help others and do different things, which I wouldn't have the opportunity to do otherwise.
I'm clearly not the first person to have this thought. Celtic Christianity (aka Insular) has had a long and important history of peregrinatio, or exile for Christ's sake, which is responsible for the preservation of much literature and historical records, as well as the civilization of the British isles, spread of education, and first settlement of Iceland to name a few accomplishments.
While I may never leave my mark on the world like those who previously carried my disposition, I still intend to do my best once I actually set out to "permanently hit the road."
>>560267>>560271Read both, very excellent and they've both shaped my view on matters.
