BTW as far as education and career, I've completed about 2 years of college so far and am currently taking some time out to study massage therapy. I figure college will be a long term goal and may turn out to be just intellectual pursuit.
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Careers after the Truth
by Demitrius ini assume that there are people out there who feel the same way as me.
such as when they were growing up in the 'truth', did they forego career/college/university because the new system was just around the corner?.
now i look back and regret the waste.
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Careers after the Truth
by Demitrius ini assume that there are people out there who feel the same way as me.
such as when they were growing up in the 'truth', did they forego career/college/university because the new system was just around the corner?.
now i look back and regret the waste.
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I wasn't raised in the truth but was around it during my teens, and while it was an influence to not go to college at the time I think a lot of it was me - I'm not exactly the industrious type. However I also don't regret the whole thing because of what I've learned from these years, and I don't mean "don't join a cult" or something simplistic like that. The thing is the way I overcame all of it is by learning how to deal with my mind and live with a sense of ease, and seeing as how some people who've never been in a restrictive religious group don't even achieve that in their lifetime, I think it all turned out for the best. I think most of it depends on what you do with those experiences.
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Any one here Know much about homeopathic med's?
by lydia inhey i am just wondering again - ( i know i might just get lost ..but????).
has any one here done any research or ever practiced homeopathic medicine??.
i am looking into it and would lve any input on it..
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A couple of things come to my mind. First of all, most people do not approach medicine and health care systematically. It's understandable, after all there is so much to know, especially if you're looking at all these different treatment modalities out there and trying to figure out what would be best for which disease condition. But I think the simplistic "this-for-that" logic has got to go, no matter what it is you use.
Another thing is the clinical evidence that exists for some of these alternative treatments. Of course, this is where the practitioner makes all the difference. No doubt you'd be hard pressed to convince someone like Mega that it's just the placebo effect, but you can convince yourself that it was and that he's simply deluded. I noticed that some of the old codgers that wrote the articles on homeopathy put "acupuncture meridians" in quotation marks, evidently they don't think acupuncture is valid either. Recently my hips were acting up (seems to be a compensation pattern from an 8 year old injury) and I sought the help of an advanced Rolfer. (a sort of deep tissue bodywork, hardly what one might consider massage) Well, it helped, but then I got some acupuncture from my Tai Chi grandmaster who also happens to be an acupuncturist. Frankly I didn't really think a structural problem would be helped by acupuncture, but I thought what the hell it's free (he'll work on his students for free briefly if it's not a chronic condition) so I gave it a go. He hit about 2 dozen points in *five minutes* and after that I was able to medially rotate my leg again, which I still had difficulty doing after 1.5 hours of Rolfing. (which, by the way, is the most effective type of bodywork that I've found for my condition)
I for one won't dismiss personal experience out of hand, but I do take into account who it is I'm talking to and if there's a good possibility for self-delusion and judge it on a case by case basis. In my own case, I want to see the proof because if it's MY health I want it to be REAL! In fact I have a tendency to be a bit pessimistic at times. I know when I have no expectations that it will work, and I don't put any energy into imagining it will work. In this particular case, the results are immediate and visible - I had an increased range of motion. Now obviously you don't want to try any old thing on yourself because there is the possiblity that it will harm, but sometimes all the study and reasoning is just that and only that. They are only concepts you have in your mind.
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KOINE OREGON INTERVIEW AUDIO
by dungbeetle inhttp://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/a7e370eb/bc/koin-bryant.mp3/koin+bryant+interview+audio.mp3?bcpd158ahhtoeaaz .
gotta crank up the volume tho...we're new at this!!!.
thanks dakota red!!!!.
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It starts downloading for me.
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Funny things that have happend to you
by Introspection inwhat are some of them?
i think sometimes those are funnier than any joke, after all it actually happend!.
well off the top of my head, one thing that happend to me was i slipped going in to my history class in hs, and ended up looking like i was doing a split.. i know that's not much but my class and teacher got a kick out of it at the time.
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What are some of them? I think sometimes those are funnier than any joke, after all it actually happend!
Well off the top of my head, one thing that happend to me was I slipped going in to my history class in HS, and ended up looking like I was doing a split.. I know that's not much but my class and teacher got a kick out of it at the time.
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What - if any - Religon are you now practicing?
by lydia ini know this seems like a dumb subject.. but i often wonder if many of us still believe and feel the need to worship - and not the borg either .
so here is a poll.... what religious orginization - if any - are you affiliated ( this does not mean you had to join it)?.
or - do you feel that everything is wrong due to the borg..and will you ever consider going to an organized religon again??.
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Well, I suppose the closest thing I have to any kind of religious affiliation is I do a little bit of part time work at a meditation center which is based on Buddhism. In terms of practice I haven't been doing sitting meditation much because of a hip rotation, but rather I've tried to make daily life practice.
But the problem is, there are not only different ideas about religion, but also different ideas about specific ones, or whether it is a religion, or a person may actually have no idea at all. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who has as their image of Buddhism fat Asian guys in robes lighting incense and sitting around doing nothing, but that's hardly what it's about. If you've never meditated chances are you don't know specifically what I mean by making daily life practice, just as an example.
I don't want to say too much about it here, but lets just say that for some of us simply accepting a set of beliefs and a set of people who accepts that is an obsolete practice.
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Any one here Know much about homeopathic med's?
by lydia inhey i am just wondering again - ( i know i might just get lost ..but????).
has any one here done any research or ever practiced homeopathic medicine??.
i am looking into it and would lve any input on it..
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It would depend on what you're trying to treat. Based on the condition, you can see if the theory behind it makes any sense, and then there's the matter of whether it works in practice, and how good the practitioner is. I understand that in classical homeopathy only one remedy is chosen to fit the person's constitution and such, the practitioner does a detailed intake to try and figure that out.
One thing that I find significant is that I have been told by a health care professional (not one that actively practices homeopathy, just someone who knows about it, though they're not against it) that a homeopath will withhold certain information from you in terms of what they think you're like, your constitution etc. indicating a belief that your opinion of their assessment of you will have an impact on the results. Now we know about the placebo effect, but whether it's perceived or real change, if the mind makes a difference why not work with that? If it doesn't, then this wouldn't be necessary.
So it seems to me this points to the role of the mind, which is something I think is important. Frankly on a behavioral level we know that bad habits in your lifestyle can create chronic problems of different types, and a lot can be changed if you can change those behaviors. We can also talk about stress, yet another function of the mind, so there's a lot that you can impact there. But what it comes down to is the individual rather than a substance or something external.
Homeopathic "remedies" are usually harmless, but their associated misbeliefs are not. When people are healthy, it may not matter what they believe. But when serious illness strikes, false beliefs can lead to disaster.
Well, if there's not a molecule of the stuff left the remedy itself can't do any harm, and considering the remedies really cost very little money isn't really an issue as far as the stuff itself is concerned. What is an issue is failure to seek other treatment, which the author here fails to explicitly state. Beliefs have to do with the believer, not the stuff you use. If you want to spend a few bucks on the side just to see if it works it's probably not going to do any harm, but common sense dictates that you consider all treatment options if you don't want to or can't afford to use yourself as a guinea pig. For some people, especially those who've exhausted conventional treatment options, they can't afford NOT to seek alternatives if it is a serious illness. Naturally you'll want to make an educated decision in all cases, but I tend to agree with the guy that said "to regard our ignorance as knowledge, this is mental sickness." -
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Insight
by Introspection ininsight - what is it?
it seems that most of the time people talk about insight into other things, for example the witnesses have the publication "insight on the scriptures".
but what about insight within yourself?
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Here's something funny, taken from the same book cited above.. The author was talking about how for all of us practice is key, (and with any activity really) and he related the story of a Tibetan yogi Milarepa. Toward the end of his life Milarepa took his foremost disciple up to a mountain to convey his secret teachings. Upon arriving at the top of the mountain his disciple reverently asked him for the teachings. At this, Milarepa turned around, exposed his rear and pointed to the leather-like callouses on his butt from years of sitting meditation.
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Insight
by Introspection ininsight - what is it?
it seems that most of the time people talk about insight into other things, for example the witnesses have the publication "insight on the scriptures".
but what about insight within yourself?
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Something encouraging for those who may be feeling guilt and self-doubt..
Another thing to remember as you deepen the systematic exploration of your mind in practice is the fact that though the unwholesome qualities of consciousness appear to be getting stronger, in fact they are not; you are only becoming more aware of them. As practice deepens, we can feel overwhelmed by the multitude of different mental hindrances that arise. We see restlessness, laziness, anger, doubt, greed, conceit, envy, and all the rest, and it sometimes seems that mind contains nothing but these afflictive
(from the book Insight Meditation - The Practice of Freedom by Joseph Goldstein)
emotions.Another point to consider is even if they are there does it really mean that it's you, you're just this way and nothing can change it? Frankly we all get in certain moods but it's temporary, it doesn't warrant labeling ourselves a certain way as if we're the personification of any of these qualities.
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AWAKE!!!! Godsmacks new CD!
by TR infunny that it's called awake!.
check out their website:.
http://www.godsmack.com/.
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I can't remember but either Lars Ulrich or James Hetfield lives in my town, I thought it was Lars but on second thought I'm pretty sure it's James. In any case, if the one that lives here is a witness I'm sure I would have heard about it, unless it's something that happend in the last few years.