take ten minutes to watch this and then you might begin to see things in a different light.. http://www.freenation.org.uk/?p=679.
The reason that so many Americans, Australians, and Europeans die prematurely isn't because of fluoride in drinking water or lack of vitamin and herbal supplements...
Excerpt from the video "Eating"
Diet for a New America, part 1
Forget Codex Alimentarius. Start a garden. Support your local organic farmer.
Dave
take ten minutes to watch this and then you might begin to see things in a different light.. http://www.freenation.org.uk/?p=679.
How many Okinawan centenarians use manufactured vitamins and herbal supplements?
Dave
take ten minutes to watch this and then you might begin to see things in a different light.. http://www.freenation.org.uk/?p=679.
If you believe that you need bottled "vitamins and herbal supplements" made in factories for optimum health, you've been brainwashed.
Dave
take ten minutes to watch this and then you might begin to see things in a different light.. http://www.freenation.org.uk/?p=679.
From the article I posted the link to:
I recently visited Sturbridge village, a 1830s living history museum that we stop at frequently when we go to visit my family. We happened upon a village worker hatcheting up kindling, and my 7 year old started chatting with him, and asked if he could take a turn. Unfortunately, he was told, the answer was no - there were legal risks if he hurt himself. We assured the gentleman we understood, but noted that my son (with very close supervision) is permitted to cut up kindling at home. The man we spoke to acknowledged that that was one way they were unable to be really authentic - in 1830 if your son, by eight couldn’t keep the woodbox full, or your daughter make a meal from scratch over an open fire, this would be a scandal in the neighborhood. But because of liability issues, and the way we raise children now, this isn’t possible to show. I observed that in Nigeria, I’d read that the average child begins to contribute more to the household than she eats by the age of 6. I wondered at what age most American children contribute more to the households they live in than they consume? For many blue collar households, I’d imagine it is 16-18. For the most affluent families, who subsidize graduate education, it might well be nearly 30 - or later.
This got me thinking about the larger question of how we view each child that comes into the world. I have been troubled for a long time about the ways in which we commodify children in our society - everything from the sense that parents have a “right” to a perfect, healthy child made in their image to the judgements we place on people who cannot keep pace with our increasingly expensive account of what minimum items a parent “must” give their child.
Whose children place a greater burden on the planet's systems? (The wealthy.) Why is that so? Isn't this a purely cultural problem and not something inherent to human biology? Our bodies have simple requirements. Close knit families and communities provide for human social needs and life long security. The abberation comes with cultures that place property above life, turn humans into commodities, and make the acquisition of wealth, if not the sole reason for existence, at least necessary for individual survival.
Dave
take ten minutes to watch this and then you might begin to see things in a different light.. http://www.freenation.org.uk/?p=679.
Watched it, and no it didn't prove anything of the sort to me. It is full of unproven assertions and innuendo. It fails to distinguish between ecological footprints of first and third world populations. I could argue that 500 million people driving Hummers, living in McMansions, and eating the Atkin's diet would constitute an unsustainable drain on Earth's resources and ecosystems, whereas 10 billion people living in ecologically designed communities could live long, healthy lives while contributing to Earth's biodiversity and ecosystems. Neither extreme is likely in our future. Instead, we will just see more of the same as this century unfolds. History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.
For a more nuanced consideration of population read this article: Blessing or a burden: population, reproduction and the demographic imagination.
Dave
guilty of being poorby eric ruder / april 23rd, 2009. the jailers of the 19th century even in the pre-civil war south largely abandoned the practice of imprisoning people for falling into debt as counterproductive and ultimately barbaric.
in the 1970s and 80s, the u.s. supreme court affirmed that incarcerating people who cant pay fines because of poverty violates the u.s. constitution.. apparently, though, some states and county jails never got the memo.
welcome to the debtors prisons of the 21st century.. edwina nowlin, a poor michigan resident, was ordered to reimburse a juvenile detention center $104 a month for holding her 16-year-old son, the new york times wrote in an editorial.. when she explained to the court that she could not afford to pay, ms. nowlin was sent to prison.
Unfortunately, this all makes perfect sense considering the information presented in this video:
John Harris - "It's an Illusion"
John specifically talks about the situation in the United Kingdom, but from other reading I have done, I see the same system is operating in the United States as well.
Dave
hey gang, i got a link from a buddy of mine on how cancer can be fought off with baking soda.
i read the article and while i can't prove or disprove the claims, it seems like some reasonable information and it sure can't hurt to try it.
thought i'd share it with you all.. http://www.bamboo-delight.com/download/cure_cancer_with_baking_soda.htm.
I do believe that exercise and good diet are keys to better health and longer life. I have noticed a big difference in how I look and feel since the beginning of this year (new year's resolution ) taking up running and eating a vegetarian diet.
However, reading the article in the link posted by the OP, I was struck by the seeming intellectual dishonesty of the promoter of this "cure" by making bald assertions with no objective proof to back them up. I really have to question whether the "newsletter" presented halfway through really came from Johns Hopkins Hospital as claimed.
7. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water – best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic. Avoid it.”
"Distilled water is acidic"? Come on! Distilled water is pure water! It is considered pH neutral unless compared with sea water or baking soda solution which are only slightly more alkaline. It seems this author can't even make up plausible lies.
Dave
the thing is, a lot of us thought we'd never die.
do you comprehend what a truly massive mind-fuck that is?
when i was embroiled in doubts and knew i was heading 'out of the truth' i remember waves of nausea hitting me.
I grew up in the "Truth", so I was told I would live forever (if I was good enough).
In my exit I had a moment when I realized that I was just like every other person, and every other living thing on the planet.
I was not some special part of Jehovah's creation destined to live forever, but really one of the latest living generations of the primate species Homo sapiens that has been cursed with the accident of sentient self awareness.
All of my ancestors spanning back thousands of generations of humans and hundreds of thousands of generations of hominids are all dead with the exception of my immediate parents and one grandmother.
Why would I be any different?
Does the fantasy of living beyond death or never dying at all in any way enhance this time I have to be me right here and right now?
Dave
do the zionists, (not thejewish people but their real leaders such as the rothschilds,) plan to do to the usa what they have done to the palestinians?.
are the american people about to be wiped out of existence to give the fabled land 'merica' of the freemasons / illuminati, to the zionists as their real, in their opinion, promised land?.
the freemasons were promised, if they went west that they would find their promised land of merica.. .
First, I would like to suggest that by focusing on Jews (whatever that designation means in reality?), this topic has failed to accomplish anything productive.
Second, Palestinian natives are Semitic peoples, therefore anyone who supports freeing them from oppression can hardly be accused of anti-Semitism. I think that there are political groups who create the antagonism between settlers and natives for their own profit. That being the probable case, I see no solutions coming in the short term and a great deal of human suffering and damage for the long term.
There is no justification for persecuting any family, tribe, nation, religion, or race. Ever. The atrocities committed against Jews no matter what national origin should never occur again. By the same token, Israel should not persecute the native inhabitants of Palestine.
Finally, I would like to once again address the notion that somehow the people of the United States will be the victims of a conspiracy by "Zionist Jews" and their Fundamentalist Christian enablers (who will be enraptured, of course ). That is a load of Bull Crap.
The Oligarchs (corporations) are in charge. And they need us like a farmer needs his fields, crops, and barns. That's right. We are farmed for our labor, and it is so pervasive as to be like the air we breathe. Unfortunately, the tin foil hat crowd fails to show how simply and effectively the system works. It can be understood, and with a bit of knowledge one can decide how to deal with it.
Here is a great video that discusses what is happening and why most people are oblivious to the methods being used: John Harris - It's an Illusion
John deals with the United Kingdom, but I've read similar material that shows the same system is in effect in North America as well. It is not a conspiracy. It's a whole lot worse.
Dave
my observation has been the opposite of agb's in this regard.
i have known of precisely 0 who have turned to gangs/drugs/prostitution after abandonning the lies known as jehovah's witnesses.
most seem to lead lives of quiet hope outside the mainstream religious community once they leave - but far from dangerous lives [even from the jw perspective].. just thought counter-point might be fairplay here.. do xjw's live like jw's?
Since I left nearly 3 years ago, I haven't had any trouble. I don't use illegal drugs or tobacco. I don't fornicate. I live quietly and help my neighbors.
On the other hand, I recently found out about a former elder in the local congregation that I used to attend who left his wife for another woman. I was rather shocked to hear about it, because he seemed to be a pillar in the congregation, successful in business and with a good (from all appearances) family life. Yet he left his wife and two nearly grown children for some woman and was disfellowshiped. I actually first heard about this from a "worldly" woman whose fleshly sister is a Witness and then confirmed it when I spoke with one of those few local Witnesses who will speak to me to "offer words of encouragement."
However, this doesn't show that Ex-JWs end up in trouble. Witnesses themselves get into trouble, most often when their double lives are discovered.
Dave
