Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
And invisible cooperation, perhaps...
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability, and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people - Napoleon Hill
Friday, August 28, 2015
Catholic priest victim of Facebook "real name" policy
Facebook is NOT looking out for user safety. It is looking out for its own interests at the expense of anyone who would consider complying with their "request" -
Washington Post
Washington Post
How Much Bacteria Is in Beef?
"We tested 300 samples of conventional (181 samples) and more sustainably produced (119 samples) of raw ground beef purchased at supermarkets, big-box, and 'natural' food stores in 26 metropolitan areas across the country. We classified beef as being more sustainably produced if it had one or more of the following characteristics: no antibiotics, organic, or grass-fed. Here are the percentages of samples in each type that contained each of the five bacteria we tested for and the samples that contained two or more types of bacteria."
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Today's Supper
Organic green leaf lettuce, organic English cucumber, organic heirloom tomato, Ruby Red grapefruit, organic raisins, sunflower seeds, olive oil, apple cider vinegar - and organic corn tortillas with butter -
Kirk Douglas, remembering his roots
"Sometimes we didn't have enough to eat, but very often there would be a knock at the door and it would be a hobo wanting food, and my mother always gave them something. My mother said to me, 'You must take care of other people.' That stayed with me.'" - Kirk Douglas, age 98
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Death: Misunderstood by the Living
Because we know that life is eternal, and we know that there is no ending to that which you are about, if one of you is killed in an earthquake or crashes your plane, or any number of other very creative ways you have found to make your exit into the Non-Physical, because we know the whole picture, we grieve not a moment for any of you. But from your more shortsighted point of view in physical, a lot of you grieve tremendously.
-Abraham Hicks
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Quote of the Day
Though I DO believe in charity and that everyone is worthy -
The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.
- Benjamin Harrison, American 23rd US President (1833-1901)
The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.
- Benjamin Harrison, American 23rd US President (1833-1901)
Monday, March 16, 2015
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind - Albert Einstein
I find several other religions preferable to science.
I find several other religions preferable to science.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
False Hope Is Quack Docs’ Go-To Medicine - The Daily Beast
False Hope Is Quack Docs’ Go-To Medicine - The Daily Beast
"The fact is, we live in a real world with real problems and real diseases, not a fantasyland where ultra-diluted water or high-dose vitamin C or an alkaline diet can cure any disease or stimulate the body to do so. In this world, real scientists work tirelessly researching innovative treatments for everything from benign diseases like eczema to the most hideous rare cancers. That is how new treatments are developed—not by doing coffee enemas and crossing your fingers.
The Saatchi bill, despite the proponents’ arguments to the contrary, would have been a charlatan’s dream. It would have unfettered unscrupulous doctors to use unproven and/or expensive treatments like antineoplastons, radionics, the pH miracle cure, Gerson therapy, and the like with impunity. None of these has any proven benefit, but quacks could have used any of them under the protection of the bill to defraud ailing people who are already at their most desperate and susceptible."
Apparently, this real-world non-quack doctor is justified in giving death sentences, with no obligation to provide successful treatment. Though he is well-paid, he treats with impunity, inasmuch as the treatment may utterly fail, with the patient subsequently dying from complications. The complications of treatment are often attributed to the disease being treated. But as he said, he is brutally honest, declaring that death is most likely imminent and his treatment is for naught - yet he should be respected and revered, because he is valid and legitimate. He is free to fail, at the patient's expense and his own financial enrichment, unlike those he mentions whom he should not even think of as competitors due to their inferior and non-professional status.
Hope is vital. If someone finds hope in using alternative treatments, it could well translate into remission or recovery. Then again, such a person could die. And according to this doctor, those providing or assisting in the embrace of such hope should be held accountable, or better yet, prevented from giving the hope or alternatives in the first place. I see something wrong with this.
Yes, real treatments are continually being developed - and the only thing that can be counted on is that the development and use of them will be profitable to those dispensing them. In the interest of justice, accountability should not only apply to those who reveal alternative treatments that hold appeal to the person needing hope and healing. It seems more than a bit backward to be harsh and disciplinary to non-professionals who embrace alternatives to the medical system, while letting true professionals off the hook and without responsibility for results. When the doctor tells you there is little or no hope, in spite of his offer of continued treatment, please stop and think. Why would one accept such a statement?
"The fact is, we live in a real world with real problems and real diseases, not a fantasyland where ultra-diluted water or high-dose vitamin C or an alkaline diet can cure any disease or stimulate the body to do so. In this world, real scientists work tirelessly researching innovative treatments for everything from benign diseases like eczema to the most hideous rare cancers. That is how new treatments are developed—not by doing coffee enemas and crossing your fingers.
The Saatchi bill, despite the proponents’ arguments to the contrary, would have been a charlatan’s dream. It would have unfettered unscrupulous doctors to use unproven and/or expensive treatments like antineoplastons, radionics, the pH miracle cure, Gerson therapy, and the like with impunity. None of these has any proven benefit, but quacks could have used any of them under the protection of the bill to defraud ailing people who are already at their most desperate and susceptible."
Apparently, this real-world non-quack doctor is justified in giving death sentences, with no obligation to provide successful treatment. Though he is well-paid, he treats with impunity, inasmuch as the treatment may utterly fail, with the patient subsequently dying from complications. The complications of treatment are often attributed to the disease being treated. But as he said, he is brutally honest, declaring that death is most likely imminent and his treatment is for naught - yet he should be respected and revered, because he is valid and legitimate. He is free to fail, at the patient's expense and his own financial enrichment, unlike those he mentions whom he should not even think of as competitors due to their inferior and non-professional status.
Hope is vital. If someone finds hope in using alternative treatments, it could well translate into remission or recovery. Then again, such a person could die. And according to this doctor, those providing or assisting in the embrace of such hope should be held accountable, or better yet, prevented from giving the hope or alternatives in the first place. I see something wrong with this.
Yes, real treatments are continually being developed - and the only thing that can be counted on is that the development and use of them will be profitable to those dispensing them. In the interest of justice, accountability should not only apply to those who reveal alternative treatments that hold appeal to the person needing hope and healing. It seems more than a bit backward to be harsh and disciplinary to non-professionals who embrace alternatives to the medical system, while letting true professionals off the hook and without responsibility for results. When the doctor tells you there is little or no hope, in spite of his offer of continued treatment, please stop and think. Why would one accept such a statement?
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