Yr1 | Ep1

SO... WHAT QUALIFIES ME TO HOLD FORTH?

I have been around...

Living on Three Contents before I was 25.

Sailing The Atlantic Ocean and several Seas.

Often the first things I saw when coming to land were through a dockyard.

You have no idea what that is really about or like.

Unless, of course, you did too like me.

I have worked doing lots of different, engaging, enjoyable, hard and trying things.

You can CLICK HERE to get a broader picture of me and my bucket carrying ways.

I've seen things...

Things that aren't seeable anymore, because they have gone out of the world.

Like climbing the mast at H.M.S. Ganges, without a safety harness, without a spotter, all on my own.

Check THIS LINK  out to get an idea of what I am talking about.

Or living in Tripoli, LIbya behind the winter palace and living on the beach after school.

Hanover Germany not too long after the war, visiting Belsen and more...

LIving in the sixties and seventies in England, Ireland, and Scotland and all that change.

Using a system of money that was unique in the world but ended in 1969

Living through a very uncivil war and seeing the depths of mans ways. Bloody Sunday, Bloody Friday.

Bloody days all the time, and amongst the most unusual tribe on earth: Ulstermen.

While living a life...

I got the stamp of education on my life to liven up the journey.

I was reading Huxley's Doors of Perception, Orwells Animal Farm, The Road to Wigan Pier, How to Kill an Elephant, Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, Augustines City of God, the philosopers, and just about anything I could get my hands upon that remotely interested me. Biographies of all types of human being were a staple in my jeans pocket. Soldiers, Poets, Mystics, Heroes, Inventors, adventurers and more. All before I sat down in a formal training environment.

I did not have a plan in educating myself, but that turned out just fine. I learned to press fresh-oil, for myself and others like me.

Along the way I got seperated from the main stream, this site will show and tell why.

 

This is my educational journey...

My education is outside the pail, and as everything about me would attest, keeps it that way.

I saw a pattern in my education, I've followed it and it has never let me down.

It has over time become very clear to me that there is a real need for what I do.

You will learn about it here at fresh-oil.

I will apply that education I received to the times we face and comment upon them, and the people we interview.

 

So three degrees later I have this...

B.Div studying the history of The Bible and the Churches it produced.

This was the most unusual education a man or woman could ever get, and it is all but gone.

I was educated in a small institute, that at its peak was a whirlwind of insights, scope and messmerizing knowledge.

It's place in the world is gone now. But it helped shape me. Make me a thinker and a doer.