#Naturism supports #BodyAcceptance, #mental ease, #SocialEquality, & connection with #nature. It encourages people to move, rest, swim, #meditate, & live without constant comparison or shame. When #nudity is ordinary, its sexual charge dissolves. What remains is simplicity, dignity, & a quiet sense of #freedom grounded in #reality rather than fantasy. (5/5)

@SeaFury fwiw, i gave up. though i only ever physically attended one public event, for about 14 years i was an active online campaign-petitioner & monthly donor to numerous environmental & social charities & activism groups. one was #Getup!, for which i was active 2010 - 2019. here's part of a note i wrote to myself...

14/9/13: Having been depressed & angry since last w/e's Federal Election in which Australians demonstrated their rank stupidity, short-sightedness, & contemptible selfishness by electing the loathsome Mad Monk & Evil HenchPeeps, I've been contemplating the nature & viability of my ongoing GetUp donations. They were originally $x/wk, then became $1.5x/wk in leadup to that Election in hope of keeping the Evils out ... but that failed. My recent thoughts had been basically that if the electorate really is this stupid, what's the point of my ongoing donations? Today i decided that i shall continue, BUT, i've downgraded my donations $ & frequency.

notice above i listed 2019 as when i gave up on GetUp [& all my other groups]? specifically, it was the May 2019 fed election, for which GU had run an aggressive campaign to persuade the respective electorates to dump six mega-RWNJ fuckheads, chief being potato in dickson. like many i ramped up my donations long before, & my petitioning. history shows it was an abject failure.

over the following months, i reflected on my years [to that point] of ineffective activism, all the failures... adani, mining tax, gambling tax, carbon price, native forests, climate change, RWNJ fuckheads, et al. if my 2013 angst was high [& it was!], then by May 2019 it went thru the roof, whilst any semblance of surviving hope of being able to effect positive change entirely evaporated... & it has never returned... actually no, it flickered back to a faint glow for #TheVoice, which then eventually proving yet again how ghastly most of straya is, just went away for good.

that potted activism history, + my own personal history, are at the heart of my severe #misanthropy. so many subsequent strayan & global events have only reinforced the despair.

#activism #socialequality #ClimateCrisis #gambling #mining #fossilfools #RWNJs #AsteroidNow

#Naturism supports #BodyAcceptance, #MentalHealth, #SocialEquality, & connection with #nature. It encourages people to move, rest, exercise, swim, #meditate, & live #naked without constant comparison or shame. When #nudity is ordinary, its sexual charge dissolves. What remains is simplicity, dignity, & a quiet sense of #freedom grounded in #reality rather than fantasy. (5/5)