Salubrious Living - Do we need it?

[PaulW]

here i go again.
Salubrious Living ? how many people in the church lives by the founders teachings on Salubrious Living.
how many smokes ? how many drinks ? how many only eats the way put down in the teachings ?
going off the post about lucky find . i don't think many.
i don't.
i grow my own food, i have my own animals for milk and meat. i even grow my own tobacco. and make my own wine and spirits. plus i make my own punch bags etc. to keep fit.
this is my idea of healthy living. plus it helps keep me out of the system.
so here it goes !
should the church drop the teachings on this subject ?
if as i think not many, if any, people in the church lives by it. then is it not a subject that will help the church. i will go further it makes us look like a bunch of nuts.
humans even from the cavemen drank and cooked meat ect ect

[SethCochran]

should the church drop the teachings on this subject ?

No.  Salubrious Living is scientifically the healthiest way to live.  Your opinion on the subject is just that- your opinion.  Just because few people choose to live salubriously doesn't mean we should scrap Salubrious Living- it means we should encourage people all the more to adopt it.

We've said it before and we'll say it again- You will bow to Creativity, but Creativity will never bow to you.

Take this as encouragement to adopt Salubrious Living for yourself and to encourage others to adopt it.  Then see if it makes them healthier than living the way you suggest.  What you do is good and necessary, but it can by no means replace Salubrious Living.

[PaulW]

thanks for your comments. and yes it is always just my opinion. as for suggesting people live my way i was not. i was as normal just trying to put the questions from what i see and think about posts on the site. but like i say thanks for your comments   

[SethCochran]

I appreciate your input.  It's true, not many people on this board are Salubrious, myself included.  Frankly it's difficult to change one's eating habits after years of eating a certain way and the payoff isn't immediate.  I imagine once the first generation of Salubrious children come along and people see the physical benefits of that way of life, many will change their dietary habits.  Thanks for the input.

[Rev.WillWilliams]

here i go again.
Salubrious Living ? how many people in the church lives by the founders teachings on Salubrious Living.
how many smokes ? how many drinks ? how many only eats the way put down in the teachings ?
going off the post about lucky find . i don't think many.
i don't.

I don't either, but I follow a lot of the guidelines in SL, like eating lots of fresh, uncooked fruits and vegetables, plenty of nuts. I eat meat, eggs and dairy products, but stay away refined sugar, soft drinks, alcohol and tobacco. I definitely enjoy a little heliotherapy, as DeVries called it, mixed with physical work outdoors, but I don't do yoga or fast, as recommended in SL. I remember PM Klassen experimented with fasting, but he certainly didn't follow SL entirely. He said changing our people's bad health habits would take generations, that it wouldn't happen overnight. When we have our own racially conscious nutritionists and physiologists, etc., we can formulate a more perfected, comprehensive, more scientific plan for healthful living than what's in SL. 

Founder Klassen only wrote the one chapter in SL, the last one on eugenics, addressing our racial health. The rest of the book was written by a Mr. Arnold Devries who was not "racially-minded," as PM Klassen put it. A lot of what Devries wrote is just his opinion or theory; it's not carved in stone. He gives good advice for the most part, but he also has some odd advice like advising folks to throw away their eyeglasses and exercise the eye muscles to improve eyesight. I believe that in 2011 most people would think we only throw away our glasses after lasik surgery to correct vision. I don't want to throw away my reading glasses at all. I need them to read. I prefer wearing them to having some doctor cut on my eyeballs. When Mr. DeVries wrote that section that's in SL, laser surgery was something out of science fiction, if that.

Things change; we adapt incrementally, but our fundamentals on the primacy of race remain the same -- they are carved in granite. When Ben Klassen wrote all his books there was no Internet, there was no Skinhead movement or AIDS or DNA discoveries, or other factors that have had an impact on our race, whether beneficial or detrimental. What American in the 1970s would believe we'd have a Negro President in "our" White House now, or that our nation would be flooded with mestizos or Muslims to threaten our majority status?

What Ben Klassen had right was that his people need a religion that's exclusively eurocentric, devoid of alien influence. SL expands on healthful living that was covered somewhat in The White Man's Bible (WMB). A SOUND MIND in a SOUND BODY in a SOUND SOCIETY in a SOUND ENVIRONMENT. Creativity is more than slogans we repeat by rote. We invoke Natural Law, logic, lessons from history, science, but also our COMMON SENSE. We're learning more and more what's healthful for our minds, our bodies, society and the environment. We'll strive always to become better, the best we can be. After all, we're Nature's Finest creation.

I wonder, Conna97, have you read Salubrious Living?

I just Googled Arnold DeVries, _Fountain of Youth_ (the book PM Klassen used for most of his _Salubrious Living_. It was published in 1948, 63 years ago. Things have changed and knowledge has expanded in the field of healthy living since then, so an updated version of SL would not be out of the question when the talent and resources are available for that. I found another title by Mr DeVries, _Nude Culture_, 1946. The blurb accompanying this out of print title: "This early work discusses the virtues, ethics and morality of social nudism." I'm not sure what social nudism is, but I'm glad PM Klassen didn't include that as a chapter in _Salubrious Living_.