In a way, doctors are trained to ignore teh science. They start with someone who already has a problem, and treat the symptoms as best they can. Science has determined many of the causes, but they are not profitable for the oligarchy, so they train our doctors to sell us pills for the symptoms.
somebody with diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol is a 90 per cent risk for hospitalization. Knowing this, it might be cheaper for an HMO to enroll them in an exercise program now rather than pay the likely hospital bill.
The Lipid Peroxidation chain reaction is a large part of what causes the diabetes, hypertension and [oxidized] cholesterol problems.
Lipid peroxidation is such a huge problem today because the western world switched its main sources of dietary fats from animals (mostly saturated butter/lard) to seeds (mostly polyunsaturated corn/soy/rapeseed/linseed)... And even the animals we eat aren't as healthy as they once were because now they subsists on seeds instead of grass/insects/etc.
The human body has electrical signaling. When electric current flows through human nerve tissue, minute magnetic fields are generated. The fields are applied to specific locations in the body that correspond and connect to specific locations in the brain.
In the EFT protocol, the first point that is tapped is on the eyebrow, or alternatively, on the bridge of the nose between the eyes. This is a point on the bladder meridian described by ancient chinese anatomists. The second point is on the side of the eye, which is on the Gallbladder meridian. The third point is under the eye, which falls on Stomach meridian. The fourth and fifth points are above and below the lips, which are central (below) and governing (above) meridians. And so on.
Each of the body's meridian pathways has different psychological functions. Blockages that result in the symptoms of PTSD are usually on a specific meridian or two, but everyone's different. The EFT process calls for tapping all the points because there's a severe shortage of clairvoyants who can 'look' at a person and 'know' which specific point[s] need tapping.
It would have been more proper to say that "Western science" can't explain why the procedure is so effective at releasing PTSD. Someone from a different culture would be like, "well duh".
The Iraq Vet Stress Project uses very precise & minute magnetic fields - those generated with fingertips - to help soldiers with PTSD. The procedure involves tapping on specific locations on the skin while thinking about a specific distressing thought or emotion. They don't know exactly why it works, just that it does.
Leadership in the American Psychological Association is actively subverting continuing education credit for Energy Psychology for unknown reasons:
"The APA’s criteria for appropriate CE content are clear and straightforward. By any reasonable reading of our applications or of our 80-page appeal brief, we have met these criteria many times over. In blocking the dissemination of this approach, the APA is following a different agenda than its own rules. I have no idea what that agenda might be, but the bottom line is that it is hampering one of the most important clinical interventions for treating trauma that has appeared in recent years from reaching those who are in desperate need and could benefit from it most." -http://energymed.org/pr2.htm
Read a summary of Voyage from Yesteryear - it sounds interesting. Thanks.
Herbert Shelton, Joel Fuhrman, and Blue Zones?
Not familiar with any of those, sorry. I've read your links, and I have heard of Natural Hygiene before. I had something like lupus, and diet didn't make a difference. From my study of the Cayce material, I decided that I needed to go to an Osteopath, and that was quite helpful for my specific case. The second chapter of Spontaneous Healing has the best introduction to Osteopathic Medicine that I know of. (Most used book stores have a copy - google's preview snips the first page of that chapter. boo, hiss, boo.) Donna Eden's approach to Energy Medicine is also rather successful, and learn-able.
According to The Screwing of the Average Man, college was originally something wealthy people sent their children to so they'd have a leg up on the under-class. But after WWII, the country had a population of unemployed ex-soldiers. According to Hapgood, the attitude was "okay we fought your damn war. What's in it for us?" Congress passed the GI bill to make college affordable for everyone, and college costs promptly started spiraling out of control.
If you're lacking a degree, it's much more difficult to get people to take you seriously.
Being competent at something is much more important than having a "degree". If you're competent at your trade you can make your own opportunities, and no one will care about your papers. See above-linked forbes story.
I ran across one of your posts a few months back. I'd been thinking about the 'abundance problem' for a couple years now, and appreciate your eloquent take on the situation.
nyrate, it was hailed with a big amount of hoopla... until no one else could replicate the results. Then the questions came, and the original scientists couldn't provide a single answer.
Actually other labs did replicate the results, but replication was inconsistent: some labs got it, while others did not.
The real problem with Cold Fusion is the implication that Tesla was right: energy is abundant and free to anyone who knows how to harness it. JP Morgan financed Tesla's experiments until his advisors told him about the true implications of Tesla's later work: no need for electric power companies, no need for massive investment in power infrastructure (financed with loans from Morgan's bank), no dividends paid to him by his utility companies. It was simpler to just "fix" Maxwell's Equations to eliminate the unknowns, and just train physicists with the simplified equations.
Remember what Max Planck said: "Science advances one funeral at a time." Wrong ideas die slowly, especially when large sectors of the economy are predicated on a certain understanding of Physics.
Rich people may pay all the income tax, but everyone else pays just as much for "social security" and Medicare.
Don't mean to imply that I support changing the tax rates or the cap or anything like that. I support fixing the banking system, a bailout for the people, as it were.
Cows are very efficient at converting grass inputs into human-usable protein, in the form of milk.
Cattle eat grass and weeds (high-quality protein!), and can operate on rocky slopes where John Deere can't farm.
While all cows start their life in a pastures, agribusiness finishes cattle on feedlots because it's much quicker to fatten animals up on grain than grass. ConAgra doesn't care that grain-finished beef has 1/2 as much beta-carotene, 1/5 as much Vitamin A, and 1/5 as much Vitamin E as cows that have eaten grass from start to finish.
Materialists have dramatic claims too. The trouble with starting out with a simplistic model of the universe is that you have to keep revising it, whereas the oriental philosophy of yin and yang has been stable throughout the millennium.
There is no afterlife, so how about the more serious question of coming to terms with someone's death?
That's just as much a statement of faith as those who believe in the concept of an afterlife.
Ian Stevenson spent his life investigating cases that were suggestive of reincarnation. I have his books somewhere. He never found proof positive of reincarnation, but the evidence he did find is compelling. As long as it doesn't interfere with one's belief system, that is.
The mechanism for pheromones was unknown until recently. Just because Science doesn't currently know how it works doesn't mean that it doesn't exist anyways.
In the end, you build a consensus by presenting enough evidence that no one can argue with.
What's interesting about the ESP experiments are how the experimenters' beliefs influence the experiment. If someone in the room believes that ESP ain't possible, the experiment won't work nearly as well as if the participants are neutral or supportive of the proposition.
This makes it impossible to build a consensus. Those who "don't believe" precognition of any sort is possible do not experience it in their day-to-day lives, whereas those who do experience it regularly.
Most people's future-seeing abilities usually take place in the dream state. Scoffers tend to forget their dreams, and are very good at ignoring their 'gut feelings'. A few months back I had a dream about someone getting a cat. Immediately upon awakening I knew who it was, but then promptly forgot. A week or two later my new girlfriend told me about having a "profound change in her life" over the weekend. Here's the diary I posted:
My friend had gone out hiking/camping by herself over the weekend. At one point in the middle of the high desert she reached a fork in the road, and stopped to decide whether to turn or continue on her path. She got out of the car, and heard a noise from the brush. "Kitty?"
It was so. A little kitten came out of the bush, looked terrified for a second, then ran straight for her. There were no dwellings for miles. She'd been trying to lure in a stray cat from her neighborhood. Kitty found himself a new home - I wonder how he got to be in just the right place at just the right time.
People who are interested in precognition would do well to get Ingo Swann's Your Nostradamus Factor. Here's the opening paragraphs:
Your Nostradamus Factor, by Ingo Swann
Chapter 1: Jumping The Time Barrier
Like many others, I've had good reasons during my life to assume that the future can be seen. But if I had any doubt it would have vanished as a result of an astonishing forty-five seconds when I found myself in Detmold, then in West Germany, in the spring of 1988.
Detmold is near the beautiful Teutoburger Forest and a famous pre-Christian shrine, Horn-Externstein, which is a pile of towering rocks riddled with sonorous cavbes. Until the time of Charlemagne it is said that Nordic kings came to Horn-Externstein to consult seers about the future.
I was invited to Detmold by Herr Manfred Himmel in April 1988 to give a series of lectures about psi research. This was Herr Himmel's fifth "esoteric" conference, and it was well attended by several hundred people. Herr Himmel was ardent about psychic matters, and the talks of his other spearkers were interesting to me. Some of these speakers were also practicing psychics who were busy giving individual "readings" and making predictions about the future.
I was billed as the famous American superpsychic who had "astonished scientists" since my first formal laboratory experiments in 1970. But I have never given individual "readings," and I never made predictions about the future.
Many of Herr Himmel's conference attendees were visibly disappointed that I did not give the expected readings and did not foresee the future. Although I had studied "prophecy" and predicting for many years and had even experienced some novel insights about it, I was well aware that most predictions turn out to be wrong. I felt I had a scientific reputation to protect, which would be damaged if I accumulated a list of erroneous predictions. Moreover, I didn't view myself as a future-seer in any professional sense, and I tho
It starts off heavily implying that reality itself is somehow changeable
The unacknowledged problem is that the scientist is a part of his experiment. Scientists are humans with expectations, and cannot be impartial observers.
The interaction is usually subtle, but is always present. There was another placebo story last week: Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception. The most important part of this latest placebo study was the wording the doctors used as they handed the patients their sugar pills.
If my housing and food were guaranteed to be paid for... I'd have endless hobbies and diversions and time-wasters, but I'd not get a job.
You'd be hard to exploit. Factories don't work without people. Many people only take menial jobs in factories because they're better than starvation. John Gatto covers how public schooling trains children to be automatons fit for factory work.
And fill the time with drugs, and with sex, and other "vices". This is human nature.
The basic income is enough to keep you alive month to month. If you work a little bit, you could buy more drugs or better drugs (perhaps you'd buy organic cocaine instead of crack cut with draino). If you worked a little bit more, you could have nicer clothes and a better physique (gym membership, basketball league, etc), which might get you more sex.
This is human nature. We are selfish, easily manipulated, and exploitable.
In the short term the Chinese rather have US factories through outsourcing than factory output, and is selling it's citizens into slavery to make it happen.
I think the Chinese leaders viewed the problem a little differently. They probably thought something like this: "whatever will we do with these 300-million extra people that we don't need as farmers anymore?"
Someone here pointed out recently that 90+% of the US population used to be employed in agriculture. According to this page, at the beginning of the 20th century, 41% of the US population were farmers, but now it's less than 2%.
That same shift has been taking place in China over the past few decades, but because they're playing technological catch-up, it's happening much quicker over there than here.
The US needed to finance a world-wide military empire, and China needed jobs for 300+million displaced farmers. Sounds like a match made in heaven to me.
US destroyed its industry and "outsourced" it to China.
Actually there's still a lot of good stuff that's made in the US. It's just the labor-intensive jobs - whatever tasks that can't be easily automated - that've been exported to Mexico, Central America, and China.
For example, about a year and a half ago I met a man who owns a machine shop... His buisness was making tubular parts for telescopes. Mostly he just loads raw material and watches over his machines as the computer tells them what to do... 20 years ago an employee would have been required for each one.
There's always work to be done, it's just a matter of organization, and matching available hands with tasks. Money is the organizing principle that allows us to value other peoples' labor. The true distortion in the economy comes from allowing privately owned banks to expand the money supply by a factor of 10+ by making loans. The Fed's recent Quantitative Easing policy is a step in the right direction, because it finally creates a little bit of interest-free money (90% of the money the Treasury pays on the $600 billion in bonds that the Fed will buy will be returned to the treasury - see Ellen Brown's What's Really Behind QE2?).
... While the substances are an easy way to experience something a little different, it's also possible to achieve "altered states of consciousness" entirely without the chemicals.
I don't have a copy of Stoned Free, but I like the premise:
Now you can just say "No!" to drugs... and get high anyway! This book enumerates many drugless consciousness altering techniques, both timeless and recent in origin, that anyone can make use of. Meditation, breathing techniques, high-tech highs, sleep and dream manipulation, and numerous other methods are examined in detail. Avoid incarceration, save money, and skip the wear and tear on your body, while getting higher than a kite.
I had to figure out how to relax my body (it was dysfunctional following a head injury), but even so I've had some neat experiences along the way: hypnagogic imagery, 360-degree vision, etc. If you've previously used substances (marijuana, LSD, etc) one can re-vivify those experiences with self-suggestion (self-hypnosis), or use descriptions of others to design your own trip.
Tripping without substances generally begins with relaxing the physical body, relaxing the mind, then making suggestions to yourself.
Binaural beats can help - Gnaural is the open source tone generator. I had to do some other things to fully recover from said concussion, and I'm finally dreaming up a storm.:)
Well, I would not go as far as to say oils are bad for you like that.
take a look at raypeat.com.:)
He should have been more specific and said hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils are bad for you. I truly do believe they work. I doubted it but thought I would give it a go and lost weight, with no other change in fat or calorie consumption, exercise, sugar intake, or anything...
You totally lost me here. What did you do to lose weight? The most likely thing I'd assume is that you stopped eating hydrogenated oils. Did you replace them with polyunsaturated oils, olive oil, coconut oil, or carbohydrates/proteins (say, by steaming your food)?
What idiot modded this as Troll. Wise up, dickhead.
hey, it happens. I didn't post a substantiating link, so the "consensus view of reality" was unimpeded in using their rhetorical hammer to beat down alternate theories.
I did post a few followups - did you see them? Wikipedia has a neat article on Lipid peroxidation, and Ray Peat's site is my favorite for the month.:)
OTOH, I've never heard it claimed that coconut oil was good for you, except as insulation. I guess that if you do a lot of swimming in cold water it would be good...
Really? When I search for 'coconut oil' on Google (no quotes), the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th and 10th links are about the benefits of coconut oil.
As for "insulation" - fish need thin oils because saturated fats solidify at temperatures below 60 degrees. Imagine a salmon trying to swim through arctic waters with oils the consistency of fudge.
The reason seed oils are so common, and saturated fats so vilified, is a simple case of 'follow the money'. My post was based on my recent readings of Ray Peat, PhD's site. raypeat.com HTH, thanks for your open-minded post, HAND.
One of the main differences is how much polyunsaturated fatty acid is consumed. PUFAs are unstable, oxidize spontaneously when introduced to a human body, and generally wreck havoc in a warm-blooded mammalian systems (fish need these thin oils because they live in cold water). No amount of anti-oxidants is enough to counter the damage done by rancid oils. All seed oils are deodorized to hide rancidity.
My dad's wife is not aging gracefully. Her skin is wrinkled like someone 15 years older than she is. One of her regular dishes is fish fried in "vegetable" oil (corn/soy/rapeseed).
Safe oils are saturated, like butter, coconut oil, and lamb fat.
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In a way, doctors are trained to ignore teh science. They start with someone who already has a problem, and treat the symptoms as best they can. Science has determined many of the causes, but they are not profitable for the oligarchy, so they train our doctors to sell us pills for the symptoms.
somebody with diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol is a 90 per cent risk for hospitalization. Knowing this, it might be cheaper for an HMO to enroll them in an exercise program now rather than pay the likely hospital bill.
The Lipid Peroxidation chain reaction is a large part of what causes the diabetes, hypertension and [oxidized] cholesterol problems.
Lipid peroxidation is such a huge problem today because the western world switched its main sources of dietary fats from animals (mostly saturated butter/lard) to seeds (mostly polyunsaturated corn/soy/rapeseed/linseed)... And even the animals we eat aren't as healthy as they once were because now they subsists on seeds instead of grass/insects/etc.
This contest is a waste of time.
The human body has electrical signaling. When electric current flows through human nerve tissue, minute magnetic fields are generated. The fields are applied to specific locations in the body that correspond and connect to specific locations in the brain.
In the EFT protocol, the first point that is tapped is on the eyebrow, or alternatively, on the bridge of the nose between the eyes. This is a point on the bladder meridian described by ancient chinese anatomists. The second point is on the side of the eye, which is on the Gallbladder meridian. The third point is under the eye, which falls on Stomach meridian. The fourth and fifth points are above and below the lips, which are central (below) and governing (above) meridians. And so on.
Each of the body's meridian pathways has different psychological functions. Blockages that result in the symptoms of PTSD are usually on a specific meridian or two, but everyone's different. The EFT process calls for tapping all the points because there's a severe shortage of clairvoyants who can 'look' at a person and 'know' which specific point[s] need tapping.
It would have been more proper to say that "Western science" can't explain why the procedure is so effective at releasing PTSD. Someone from a different culture would be like, "well duh".
As an Iraq vet with [PTSD] (mild case), who has friends who suffer a lot more, I hope this can offer some hope.
you'd be interested in my other comment:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1976324&cid=35077664
Also see David Feinstein, PhD's report about what they had to go through to get Congress to fund a study at Walter Reed.
The Iraq Vet Stress Project uses very precise & minute magnetic fields - those generated with fingertips - to help soldiers with PTSD. The procedure involves tapping on specific locations on the skin while thinking about a specific distressing thought or emotion. They don't know exactly why it works, just that it does.
Leadership in the American Psychological Association is actively subverting continuing education credit for Energy Psychology for unknown reasons:
Also see Truthout's Energy Psychology: Mental Health Experts Say It's Time to End the Ban
These "transcranial magnetic stimulators" look barbaric - why bother when there are already better techniques?
My introduction to the Flexner Report was 100 Years of Medical Robbery. I don't read mises.org anymore, but that piece is still memorable. I also recommend the followup, Real Medical Freedom.
Read a summary of Voyage from Yesteryear - it sounds interesting. Thanks.
Herbert Shelton, Joel Fuhrman, and Blue Zones?
Not familiar with any of those, sorry. I've read your links, and I have heard of Natural Hygiene before. I had something like lupus, and diet didn't make a difference. From my study of the Cayce material, I decided that I needed to go to an Osteopath, and that was quite helpful for my specific case. The second chapter of Spontaneous Healing has the best introduction to Osteopathic Medicine that I know of. (Most used book stores have a copy - google's preview snips the first page of that chapter. boo, hiss, boo.) Donna Eden's approach to Energy Medicine is also rather successful, and learn-able.
thanks again. :)
-jjk
These guys didn't graduate from High School, and became super-wealthy anyways.
According to The Screwing of the Average Man, college was originally something wealthy people sent their children to so they'd have a leg up on the under-class. But after WWII, the country had a population of unemployed ex-soldiers. According to Hapgood, the attitude was "okay we fought your damn war. What's in it for us?" Congress passed the GI bill to make college affordable for everyone, and college costs promptly started spiraling out of control.
If you're lacking a degree, it's much more difficult to get people to take you seriously.
Being competent at something is much more important than having a "degree". If you're competent at your trade you can make your own opportunities, and no one will care about your papers. See above-linked forbes story.
I ran across one of your posts a few months back. I'd been thinking about the 'abundance problem' for a couple years now, and appreciate your eloquent take on the situation.
If I had a mod point, I'd give a +1. :)
nyrate, it was hailed with a big amount of hoopla... until no one else could replicate the results. Then the questions came, and the original scientists couldn't provide a single answer.
Actually other labs did replicate the results, but replication was inconsistent: some labs got it, while others did not.
Slashdot had a story in 2007 about the Naval Weapons Research Lab's cold fusion experiments: Cold Fusion Gets a Boost From the US Navy.
Here's another /. story: 20 Years After Cold Fusion Debut, Another Team Claims Success.
The real problem with Cold Fusion is the implication that Tesla was right: energy is abundant and free to anyone who knows how to harness it. JP Morgan financed Tesla's experiments until his advisors told him about the true implications of Tesla's later work: no need for electric power companies, no need for massive investment in power infrastructure (financed with loans from Morgan's bank), no dividends paid to him by his utility companies. It was simpler to just "fix" Maxwell's Equations to eliminate the unknowns, and just train physicists with the simplified equations.
Remember what Max Planck said: "Science advances one funeral at a time." Wrong ideas die slowly, especially when large sectors of the economy are predicated on a certain understanding of Physics.
Well said. I'd give you a +1 if I had a point.
protektor's second-to-last link has a chart that illustrates the problem well:
http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/federal-revenue-sources
Rich people may pay all the income tax, but everyone else pays just as much for "social security" and Medicare.
Don't mean to imply that I support changing the tax rates or the cap or anything like that. I support fixing the banking system, a bailout for the people, as it were.
Ellen Brown's site is good too.
Cows are very efficient at converting grass inputs into human-usable protein, in the form of milk.
Cattle eat grass and weeds (high-quality protein!), and can operate on rocky slopes where John Deere can't farm.
While all cows start their life in a pastures, agribusiness finishes cattle on feedlots because it's much quicker to fatten animals up on grain than grass. ConAgra doesn't care that grain-finished beef has 1/2 as much beta-carotene, 1/5 as much Vitamin A, and 1/5 as much Vitamin E as cows that have eaten grass from start to finish.
... trusting any prior knowledge requires a belief system.
Hey, thanks for posting. I've been thinking a lot about consensus and conventional wisdom of late. Next I'll have to look up 'Last Thursdayism'... :)
Materialists have dramatic claims too. The trouble with starting out with a simplistic model of the universe is that you have to keep revising it, whereas the oriental philosophy of yin and yang has been stable throughout the millennium.
hth, hand.
The original poster stated his beliefs as fact, and I called him on it.
faith 3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction;
There's still plenty of room for interpretation in quantum physics.
There is no afterlife, so how about the more serious question of coming to terms with someone's death?
That's just as much a statement of faith as those who believe in the concept of an afterlife.
Ian Stevenson spent his life investigating cases that were suggestive of reincarnation. I have his books somewhere. He never found proof positive of reincarnation, but the evidence he did find is compelling. As long as it doesn't interfere with one's belief system, that is.
hth, hand.
The mechanism for pheromones was unknown until recently. Just because Science doesn't currently know how it works doesn't mean that it doesn't exist anyways.
In the end, you build a consensus by presenting enough evidence that no one can argue with.
What's interesting about the ESP experiments are how the experimenters' beliefs influence the experiment. If someone in the room believes that ESP ain't possible, the experiment won't work nearly as well as if the participants are neutral or supportive of the proposition.
This makes it impossible to build a consensus. Those who "don't believe" precognition of any sort is possible do not experience it in their day-to-day lives, whereas those who do experience it regularly.
Most people's future-seeing abilities usually take place in the dream state. Scoffers tend to forget their dreams, and are very good at ignoring their 'gut feelings'. A few months back I had a dream about someone getting a cat. Immediately upon awakening I knew who it was, but then promptly forgot. A week or two later my new girlfriend told me about having a "profound change in her life" over the weekend. Here's the diary I posted:
People who are interested in precognition would do well to get Ingo Swann's Your Nostradamus Factor. Here's the opening paragraphs:
It starts off heavily implying that reality itself is somehow changeable
The unacknowledged problem is that the scientist is a part of his experiment. Scientists are humans with expectations, and cannot be impartial observers.
The interaction is usually subtle, but is always present. There was another placebo story last week: Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception. The most important part of this latest placebo study was the wording the doctors used as they handed the patients their sugar pills.
If my housing and food were guaranteed to be paid for ... I'd have endless hobbies and diversions and time-wasters, but I'd not get a job.
You'd be hard to exploit. Factories don't work without people. Many people only take menial jobs in factories because they're better than starvation. John Gatto covers how public schooling trains children to be automatons fit for factory work.
And fill the time with drugs, and with sex, and other "vices". This is human nature.
The basic income is enough to keep you alive month to month. If you work a little bit, you could buy more drugs or better drugs (perhaps you'd buy organic cocaine instead of crack cut with draino). If you worked a little bit more, you could have nicer clothes and a better physique (gym membership, basketball league, etc), which might get you more sex.
This is human nature. We are selfish, easily manipulated, and exploitable.
There, fixed that for you.
In the short term the Chinese rather have US factories through outsourcing than factory output, and is selling it's citizens into slavery to make it happen.
I think the Chinese leaders viewed the problem a little differently. They probably thought something like this: "whatever will we do with these 300-million extra people that we don't need as farmers anymore?"
Someone here pointed out recently that 90+% of the US population used to be employed in agriculture. According to this page, at the beginning of the 20th century, 41% of the US population were farmers, but now it's less than 2%.
That same shift has been taking place in China over the past few decades, but because they're playing technological catch-up, it's happening much quicker over there than here.
The US needed to finance a world-wide military empire, and China needed jobs for 300+million displaced farmers. Sounds like a match made in heaven to me.
US destroyed its industry and "outsourced" it to China.
Actually there's still a lot of good stuff that's made in the US. It's just the labor-intensive jobs - whatever tasks that can't be easily automated - that've been exported to Mexico, Central America, and China.
For example, about a year and a half ago I met a man who owns a machine shop... His buisness was making tubular parts for telescopes. Mostly he just loads raw material and watches over his machines as the computer tells them what to do... 20 years ago an employee would have been required for each one.
Pinky's Brain (grandparent post) had a very good point about stimulus checks for all citizens. No more of this 1 in 7 on foodstamps crap - everyone should get foodstamps, or a guaranteed basic income.
There's always work to be done, it's just a matter of organization, and matching available hands with tasks. Money is the organizing principle that allows us to value other peoples' labor. The true distortion in the economy comes from allowing privately owned banks to expand the money supply by a factor of 10+ by making loans. The Fed's recent Quantitative Easing policy is a step in the right direction, because it finally creates a little bit of interest-free money (90% of the money the Treasury pays on the $600 billion in bonds that the Fed will buy will be returned to the treasury - see Ellen Brown's What's Really Behind QE2?).
hope that helps. :)
... While the substances are an easy way to experience something a little different, it's also possible to achieve "altered states of consciousness" entirely without the chemicals.
I don't have a copy of Stoned Free, but I like the premise:
I had to figure out how to relax my body (it was dysfunctional following a head injury), but even so I've had some neat experiences along the way: hypnagogic imagery, 360-degree vision, etc. If you've previously used substances (marijuana, LSD, etc) one can re-vivify those experiences with self-suggestion (self-hypnosis), or use descriptions of others to design your own trip.
Tripping without substances generally begins with relaxing the physical body, relaxing the mind, then making suggestions to yourself.
Binaural beats can help - Gnaural is the open source tone generator. I had to do some other things to fully recover from said concussion, and I'm finally dreaming up a storm. :)
Well, I would not go as far as to say oils are bad for you like that.
take a look at raypeat.com. :)
He should have been more specific and said hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils are bad for you. I truly do believe they work. I doubted it but thought I would give it a go and lost weight, with no other change in fat or calorie consumption, exercise, sugar intake, or anything...
You totally lost me here. What did you do to lose weight? The most likely thing I'd assume is that you stopped eating hydrogenated oils. Did you replace them with polyunsaturated oils, olive oil, coconut oil, or carbohydrates/proteins (say, by steaming your food)?
What idiot modded this as Troll. Wise up, dickhead.
hey, it happens. I didn't post a substantiating link, so the "consensus view of reality" was unimpeded in using their rhetorical hammer to beat down alternate theories.
I did post a few followups - did you see them? Wikipedia has a neat article on Lipid peroxidation, and Ray Peat's site is my favorite for the month. :)
Thanks posting!
OTOH, I've never heard it claimed that coconut oil was good for you, except as insulation. I guess that if you do a lot of swimming in cold water it would be good...
Really? When I search for 'coconut oil' on Google (no quotes), the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th and 10th links are about the benefits of coconut oil.
As for "insulation" - fish need thin oils because saturated fats solidify at temperatures below 60 degrees. Imagine a salmon trying to swim through arctic waters with oils the consistency of fudge.
The reason seed oils are so common, and saturated fats so vilified, is a simple case of 'follow the money'. My post was based on my recent readings of Ray Peat, PhD's site. raypeat.com HTH, thanks for your open-minded post, HAND.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid_peroxidation
I didn't have time to make a complete post yesterday - the story came up just as I was heading out.
Now if you could have a word with all the moderators who flamed me for disagreeing with "consensus", that'd be great. Thanks. :)
One of the main differences is how much polyunsaturated fatty acid is consumed. PUFAs are unstable, oxidize spontaneously when introduced to a human body, and generally wreck havoc in a warm-blooded mammalian systems (fish need these thin oils because they live in cold water). No amount of anti-oxidants is enough to counter the damage done by rancid oils. All seed oils are deodorized to hide rancidity.
My dad's wife is not aging gracefully. Her skin is wrinkled like someone 15 years older than she is. One of her regular dishes is fish fried in "vegetable" oil (corn/soy/rapeseed).
Safe oils are saturated, like butter, coconut oil, and lamb fat.