Category: Brother Jackass
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A Quest for Transcendence Gone Wrong
We are spiritual animals in need of spiritual transcendence. It is an illusion of the age to suppose that the transcendence we need can be found by bodily means. Distance running has repaid me richly for the hours and years I devoted to it. In my late twenties I got pretty good at it and…
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This Blog is Gluten-Free!
Food faddism is a fascinating phenomenon. I am told that the consumption of paleolithic vittles conduces to weight loss. Maybe it does. But I say unto you: What doth it profit a man to lose weight if he suffereth the clogging of his arteries or the loss of his mortal anus to colorectal cancer? On…
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Paleo or Low Fat?
Neither. I am told that the consumption of paleolithic vittles conduces to weight loss. Maybe it does. But I say unto you: What doth it profit a man to lose weight if he suffereth the clogging of his arteries? On the other hand, you are not going to take away my olive oil and nuts.…
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My Body and I
My body is my body and not my body's body. So I am not my body. I have a body. This having, presumably sui generis and unlike any other type of having, is yet a having and not a being. My body doesn't have a body. I know that I have a body. My body…
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Jack LaLanne Dead at 96
An inspiration. Brother Jackass will carry you over many a pons asinorum for many a year if properly fueled and disciplined. Reform your diet and set aside two to three hours per day for vigorous exercise. Lalanne swam an hour a day and lifted weights for two. Right up until the end. And he always…
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The Amazing Resiliency of the Human Body
Proved once again by the antics of wildman Dennis Hopper who managed to cling to the mortal coil for 74 years despite prodigious self-abuse.
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Why Physical Culture?
In part it is about control. I can't control your body, but I can control mine. Control is good. Power is good. Physical culture as the gaining and maintaining of power over that part of the physical world which is one's physical self. Self-mastery, as the highest mastery, must involve mastery of the vehicle of…
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The Body’s Graffiti
Tattoos are the graffiti of the human body. And just as the graffiti 'artist' defaces property public and private, the tattoo 'artist' defaces the human body, torturing the skin with needles and injecting it with ugly dyes. When I see yet another tattooed, pierced, tackle-box head, I wonder what this phenomenon means. Some thoughts of…
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The Use of the Body
There is such a thing as excessive concern with the body's health and excessive fear of its destruction. The body is to be used — and used up. It is your vehicle here below; it is not you. It is an experience mill, so grind away. If thinking raises blood pressure, am I going to give up…