I had similar food experiences this weekend with different people. But both were pleasant experience and good food was had.

"Sunday- Walking and Food."

Yesterday, I hiked one of the peaks in Bukhansan National Park in Seoul with some friends. It was a walk and food sharing experience. We also talked  about food a subject quite to speak about. M and J, are married. J, a woman, brought cucumbers in vinegar. The vinegar had a really smoky tasty vinegar and peanut noodles, an Chinese influence dish using and substituting traditional ingredients for what was available. We sat and shared these in a park.

The mountain had many flowers I couldn't identify and J took pictures for me which she'll send to me later.

"Saturday."

I met up with a friend and friend of his at the Loving Hut. The food was altogether decent vegetarian buffet. Soups, traditional Korean wild vegetables, rice dishes noodles and fruits.  We ate a lot of food.  In general the food was good. Mk and I were in a salad eating competition. There were many meat substitutes however that I suspect are less healthy altogether than non-organic meat is. 

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"Notions."

Mk has had me thinking from a post he made A friend of mine wrote that he had proof that he wasn’t as smart as he sometimes looks again and gave a really great example of missing a point. The smartest person doesn’t know everything. And from truth this I would be humbled even if I was the smartest person in the world.

 He was trying to give himself more room in a shower with very little room from shower head to his back so his back would touch the curtain. He did however have a lot of room from his left and right. His solution was to step side ways and turn the shower to an angle to give him room to shower. The point of this really pedestrian example was how we get stuck in patterns of thought that are not fitting.

Sometimes the simplest things can be the hardest to see. Keeping it simple is a standard we can fail to achieve but perhaps should when we are over loaded with flashy options in this world. Perhaps more so when we are presented with black and white options with an extreme gap in between. The pitfalls of complications can be a range of different subjects.

What about the beliefs we are indoctrinated about?-- Beliefs about what we can do with our money.

Technology is needed to do anything write

...Homebrewing:

I’ll give you some examples which involve subject experience. I am a homebrewer. Homebrewing can be really cheap and you can make beer that is healthy. But if you trying to dedicate yourself to really accurate and precise results of your brew or to mimic a high quality beer, a lot of money is going to be spent. Or you can keep things simple and learn a lot about how to match those results using traditional methods.

You don’t "need" a refrigerator:

I’ve read a book about a person who lives off-grid with his family in Texas. He doesn’t own a refrigerator because he has rejected the idea of a refrigerator to save money. Instead what he has done is dug a root cellar. At first it started as a whole and then he built it more into a space. The underground  in Texas can keep food in all places. The author wrote about a story about how during the crusades, King Richard the Lionheart was giving ice by a Muslim King as a gift. That the King could procure ice says something about how creative people were to make something out of nothing.

The Modern World is better than the Ancient World:

This is subjective but that's the point. We are raised to believe the world is better than it was a 100 years ago. Technology and affluence are cited as examples in pop culture. However, how would we view the world if we listened to what our grandparents thought especially the ones who lived to an old age. 

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What all these means is that our assumptions can humble us when we find out new sources of information. It can be upsetting and we have two choices. We can deal with it or we can look the other way. How far we should go is really a matter of belief. And that will limit us to how much we can learn about a subject. If we look at indigenous people, they live in an eco-friendly way that we can not do and still live in society. Do we reject that? Do we insist to rely on our technologies to dig us out of problems created by technologies created to patch up old problems? Or do we simplify?

I can not answer these questions in its entirety and there needs to be a community of people who can talk openly and humbly about these problems and the solutions and how far they are willing to go or not go. The time for righteousness is over and a re-alignment of our belief systems is necessary at times. Like for example, if as an example of acquiring food would hunting and gathering food be more environmental than farming and raising lifestock? Wouldn't living in poverty be more environmental? Wouldn't living off grid be more enironmental than off-grid? Is voting with your pocketbook really better than just doing it yourself?


Are the Amish better environmentalists than all other Western cultures?

You can argue with the extremes of these answers. You can argue that technology can fix all that? I would argue that it can only promote growth and consumption of more rather than less.