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Congrats, Camm.

Glad to hear that, Mac. You would’ve made a fine cop.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I need to take control so I decided to do what Jordan Peterson said and clean my room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp9599kwnhM

So I got high and started cleaning. I took apart one of my bookshelves. Dusted. I then rearranged the books in a way I like. Dusted all the other stuff and then centralized all my nerd shit in that corner.

I also cleaned my room today. Good for you.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Oh God. I got a call from the solar panel people just now.

The guy's name was Han and he was asking about my house. I told him my wife and I own the house but we are getting divorced. I told him my wife cucked me with a man named Hank. He said "I know how that feels. I recently found out my fiancée has been cheating on me with one of my best friends. So I have been kind of down this week"

I didn't have the nerve to keep trolling him after that. I apologized and he kept trying to sell me solar panels. I eventually admitted to trying to waste him his time and he told me to have a good day anyway.

I called a sporting goods company in Minnesota about making a return and the rep said that we have a new administration which he did not vote for yet wishes them all the best. I said god bless and he told me I was a good man.

I never said the uric acid came from the food. It’s the metabolic response to those foods. Which is in line with what I explained above about foods creating stress responses that disturb the function of the body, in this case the kidneys not being able to function properly.

Gout is diet related obviously. Uric acid build up
as a consequence of eating too much offal or from damaging your kidneys with alcohol.

You seem to be selectively reading the content of my posts. Why is it so hard to image the humble eggplant could be bad for certain conditions? Besides fire roasting, eggplant is also traditionally soaked or boiled in salt water before moving on to a second preparation. Look at this water and see if it seems palatable.

Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has said social media platforms Twitter and Facebook “misrepresented” what he was saying, after they deleted part of a blog post in which he wrote Muslims had “a right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past” after the comments triggered an outcry.

Misrepresentation eh?

Try eating a dozen raw plum tomatoes and see how you feel vs cooking them down with salt and some other vegetables.

Cooking has always been about making foods more easily digestible and their nutrients more bio-available- which at first presents itself as making it taste better.

If you don’t properly prepares grains, beans, nuts and seeds, that is by soaking them and/or cooking them appropriately, you ingest acids in the seeds which will cause health problems after years. These acidic enzymes are dismantled when you soak the seed and the process of germination begins.

Everyone’s diet is relative to themselves. For some people potatoes are completely harmless, for others it exacerbates a dysfunction- notably diabetes.

I’ve not been to medical school. But here’s my take: joint inflammation and other autoimmune symptoms are a response to the presence of stress hormones in the blood. Foods which are highly acidic, if eaten constantly and not prepared correctly to neutralize them create deterioration and inflammation in the GI tract- indigestion, ulcers- as well as mineral leeching from the bones and teeth. This puts the body under physical stress and causes stress hormones to be secreted.  The same thing happens from being stressed out emotionally or physically. The constant surges of these hormones like adrenaline and cortisol wear out the endocrine system eventually leading to systemic/organ failures throughout the body and/or auto-immune disorders.

Italians have been eating tomatoes since the 1500s and again, traditionally cooking them for hours in sauce or fire roasting them.

Have you never had indigestion?

Lemon will be anti-inflammatory or alkalizing if taken in a small dose, ie lemon in your water. If you eat a dozen lemons or drink a cup of lemon juice you’re going to be be burning.

As far as I know it’s the high acid content which can cause inflammation in the joints. Can’t read the full article without subscribing. Whether or not there’s sufficient evidence for this, I’ve seen it verified through others experiences and my own- at least in the highly acidic nature of those plants. This is why there exists the traditions of fire roasting eggplants and peppers, and the long stewing of tomatoes into marinara. Those cooking processes help to neutralize the acid.

Something like this only becomes an issue in the context of the modern diet which is one marked by extreme acidity.

The use of the term nightshade is derived from their belonging to the family solanaceae.

Some counselors even recommend enjoying nightshades in season these days. It’s only contraindicated when someone is unwell.

Are you an editor also? Are you basically reading all day at work?

If so, that's a good job and you must be well read.

I’ve been in a similar situation Ken. Not in the context of covid, but as a manager standing up for my coworkers to corrupt administration. I decided to quit and the institution closed down within another 6 months. Wasn’t a good feeling in any part of it. But I got the chance to go to Kuwait as a result of my decision.

I was once confronted by two Mormon girls in Switzerland. Took me off guard to find some so eastwards. We had a riveting discussion before bidding each other farewell.

Un13, are you not an example of the possibility for all mankind? I think so.

All the best, again, Ken. You’re a rl mod if I ever saw one.

Now we’re gonna blame Trump for the weather? It was obviously a Chinese weather controlled sabotage.

Is that what this is, a protest against trans people? Being a Native American, I figured you’d have respect and tolerance for two-spirits.

Religion-non-conforming. Sounds fairly gay, idk. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Why wouldn’t you be sending your kid to a yeshiva? I thought you were a Jew.

Isn’t all this Catholic postering to protect yourself from the first wave of the Caliphate‘a genocide?

I think public school is a better option, just encourage your kid to join student government, music/theater, other clubs that surround them with other Achievers.

I was sarcastically referring to Soviet propaganda. I forgot we had bbcode tags for that.

Drug use and homosexuality only exists in decadent societies.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

One time I sent a Skype message to the wrong recipient. I was talking shit on a collegue and I accidentally sent it to the person I was talking about. This was before Skype allowed the sender to delete messages, so I had to go to her desk and delete the message from her PC efore she saw it.

Classic. Where’s that Seinfeld clip..?

The revolution will be gay and stoned most likely.

Trump wants to be the next Ancient Alien.

Not forgetting, believe me. Maybe I’m an idealist but I think that understanding goes much further than prosecution. My living reality is that I’ve lived peacefully alongside Muslims my whole life. I see the problem as emanating from our shady foreign policies that give resources to the ideological head of the monster that wants us dead.

The same can be said of Chinese immigrant communities world wide. They strongly enforce a sense of cultural devotion many generations down the line - but it lacks one key ingredient to piss off the masses - scary religion.

uziq wrote:

definitely, a tiny minority of people were led off into the ISIS thing, largely by online sources and effectively by being groomed into it. we had several large national-level furores about that: teenage girls running off to syria without even telling their parents, etc, to become brides of the revolution or whatever. a serious problem, to be sure, but is that representative of muslims generally? absolutely not. it shocked their parents, let alone the national community.

a fair few white people went off to fight for ISIS or the peshmurga or whatever, too, by the by. it's a weird side-effect of the everything-connected internet reality we are living in. people with no ties to islam can radicalize themselves and go off on a great adventure in the middle-east. a lot of lost and confused individuals mixed up in that.

There’s are those select few neck-beards with too high of an ambition to settle for shooting up a school or movie theater.

uziq wrote:

if you want to argue about conflicting national interest with dual-citizenship turks and israelis, go ahead. but don't construe it as 'a terror threat' or part of a vague threat from 'islamism'. they are notionally secular militaries. no shit they promote nationalism. do you expect a military to be internationalist?

larssen: the EU is the greatest invention of all time, a secular internationalist organization in which many nationalities coexist peacefully.
also larssen: shit! these people have dual alliances to more than one entity! watch out guys! they're both turkish AND dutch!

There’s a case to made for Europeans being recruited into ISIS. But when was the last time a Muslim state military actually posed a real danger to the west besides through clandestine terror funding?

Let’s not ignore Israel’s attempts to recruit young Jews from around the world to join the IDF through birth rite.

Working deep-cover.

I think it’s easier for me to not be bothered by this reality because I grew up as a religious minority amongst my peers/in my neighborhood and yet feel and think of myself as completely American.

I have never once for a moment entertained the reality of Santa Claus. That can put you at ideologically odds growing up.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I am all for being inclusive but why did they need to put up a picture of a Muslim Arab girl and not a Christian Arab?

Because they are accurately portraying the neighborhood. There are some Christian Arabs here, but mostly Muslim ones.

Most of these girls are very westernized besides their religious education and home life. In public the only Arabic I hear them using is often “wullah,” which means “I’m serious” or “seriously?” Which is actually an Arabization of the colloquial term “deadass.”

I early voted at my old high school today. They really softened the place up. Soft blue-green paint job in the cafeteria. Big mural on one wall portraying the neighborhood, featuring a rainbow, the Verrazano bridge, and a large portrait a young hijabed girl. “No Bullying” signs posted prominently. Snapple vending machine replaced with bottled water machine. Everyone was trying to contain their excitement over voting.

I’ve tried to watch it with friends. I find the alcoholic grandparent dynamic distasteful.

Strangely I’ve never found Homer Simpson’s alcoholism distasteful.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I'm conflicted. On one hand I don't want to make fun of people for health things, and on the other Mitch looks like a turtle and has made a nuisance of himself in his elected position. He also supports a president who makes fun of people for health things. Kind of sad considering he's a childhood polio survivor.

It’s a tragedy that these are the elders thinking for and guiding our people. Sick and forgetful. This is not the American way. Our society has been subverted by clandestine forces. Poor guy appears to be having a rough time.

Inverted flight up n down always gets me.

Looks like he did some aggressive sucking and stroking... on the Tin Man’s sheet metal cock.

Can’t you change the control settings?

All of this folk medicine can in fact be brought into  the framework of modern medical understanding. The major impasse as you stated is the off-putting nature of borrowed religious ideas, new-age cults, etc. Physicians these days will generally recommend a whole grain/foods plant based diet. They won’t however be able to guide you on what kind of diet you specifically might need. Even nutritionists fall short here (from my poe). This is why diabetics are generally recommended a diet- which viewed from a macrobiotic lens- is contradictory and will not work to heal the condition. 

There is a guy in Massachusetts who claims he invented email, Shiva Ayyadurai who explains Ayurveda like an engineer would. Basically saying that that pranic system of medicine practiced in India can be easily demystified if you assess the body as an integrated system and not as separate parts. While the dynamism of mind-body is basically understood in modern medicine, treatments are still meted out targeting symptoms and not the underlying cause. Another example: having your gallbladder removed if you have gallstones. Only in serious cases where the gallbladder is badly infected is this necessary, otherwise a simple dietary regime can clear away the stones. A physician who’s work is bridging this gap in some ways is Gabor Maté. He doesn’t have anything to say about food really, but he calls out the contradictions in medical science and offers solutions.

Dr. Neil Barnard is a macrobiotic friend who is an acclaimed physician. Here’s a random video lecture of his you might find interesting.

Thanks for the tip.

uziq wrote:

you’ve got it all backwards i’m afraid. let me know how the qi channelling goes the next time you get toothache.

I’ll let you know.

You can think traditional medicine does nothing, that doesn’t mean it does nothing. The core of it across cultures is an understanding of food’s effects on the body. That medieval anecdote you mention of being quick to anger being caused by an excess of bile actually aims in the right direction. Everything about a person sheds light on their physical health, including their emotional states. This isn’t even breaking news to modern medicine, it’s simply not integrated widely. Your physical state and emotional state both cause and maintain each other. You can see consistency in types of attitudes and emotional expressions with people of certain conditions. And I said opioids had their use in extreme situations. Breaking your pelvis could be one of those.

Do you get to interact with many aboriginal people, Dilbert?

Casting aside traditional Chinese medicine over rhino horn is like casting aside western medicine over the opioid crisis. Look how incorrectly we’ve treated people to disastrous consequence. Same goes for the rhino, they’ve been met with disaster. Rhino horn may not actually have any real medical use, but to suggest opioids should be used except on dying casualties or in other extreme situations is a breach of the Hippocratic oath imo.

Why would Indian doctors be required to study Ayurveda along side western medicine if the latter made the former obsolete?

It’s all case dependent. Sometimes it’s necessary to intervene with serious treatments like surgery, chemo or radiation. That doesn’t mean a macrobiotic prescribed diet won’t help someone heal in those cases. It’s still important to remove or mitigate the cause of an illness. Eating bowls of ice cream to fatten up while taking a course of chemo for lung cancer is an insane contradiction that will go barely criticized by your average oncologist.

I think the cultural predisposition I’m referring to is the absence of an energy body theory in western science. That is the most dramatic difference between, for example, Chinese/Indian medicine and modern western medicine. I was certainly raised to call bullshit on anything which relied on spiritual or religious sounding vocabulary. I’m not able to or out to prove the existence of qi or prana , but in my experience it’s an effective modality to work in. And as I’ve said, this modality doesn’t contradict or refute western medicine. I see it as complementary. For me it’s been a useful tool for understanding life. Based on my personal experience with western medicine, it would have been foolish of me to assume it provided all possible answers and solutions and in fact would have most likely left me nearly dead or dead by now if I hadn’t sought answers elsewhere. Does that mean I don’t go to the doctor for check ups or blood tests? No. The reluctance of science to touch ideas that have anything to do with these archaic concepts have nothing to do with them not having a long standing tract record of efficacy - it’s simply a cultural taboo and researchers are afraid of losing grant funding. There would be nothing compromising to medical science in conducting a study on cancer patients, for example, put on macrobiotic regimens. The threat would ultimately be to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Huge profits would be lost if doctors started prescribing dietary regimes instead of drugs and surgeries as a standard course for treatment.

In reviewing my past posts over the years I can also admit I took things too seriously here assuming it was just like rl- because my rl was way too serious for a kid. I left for years because I was frustrated with the constant flaming. Now I see it’s virtues- or at least the fun it all. It’s also not unfair to cast me aside in your minds as a foolish pothead.

Lol.

Too bad I was never banned and don’t have other accounts to merge with. This is my final form.