Our daily routines are filled with decay

The world does not need to change- it's all going to hell quite nicely. Our world is brilliant (which translates as hell in German), we have enough problems and chaotic interruptions to serve the need for moral justice that defines the core of human spirit, the very meaning of humanity. We create wars when we are insufficiently entertained so we can overcome lack of existence by imparting our morality upon these trillion dollar decisions.

Well the world, in fact is still ok! I mean it still looks blue and green and white from space. But before we can worry about the world, we have to take our next breath. Our daily routines are filled with decay. Smoking, alcohol, television, fast food and apathy. These are all contributors to the decay of our micro-environment. I wish the world wasn't in peril. I mean it is still ok isn't it?

The Earth will try to heal itself, if this includes the saving of humanity, then humanity will be informed, if not then the glacier of justice will roll right over us. I do my part, I give my all, but am conscious of my own micro-environment, because I don't believe in the hypocrisy of not practicing what you preach. The apathetic slight of meta morphological humanity seems to demand some kind of initiative in order to see it continue, since 'whatever' is the direction of things going to hell.

The human environment itself is suffering as it trysts in denial of the affect it has as a whole on the entire planet. This means we are becoming more chaotic and segregated by increasing population and increasing 'factors' or determiners such as internet revolution and other ingenious landmarks of human achievement. And it means we can study the science of murder, and destruction and how to destroy and manipulate people's minds and still maintain a moral imperative. Wonderful, this is why I am glad that the Earth will be destroyed. Because it is the epitome of human triumph over the environment; the final proof of the axiom "I can't make a difference".

Viners are active, well read and informed. This is not aimed at anyone. But apathy breeds diversion. If you do not care about this, then by caring about something else you can validate your morality. For example, "I eat meat, but I am an environmentalist" - major denial by attributing a 'positive' to a negative. "I don't care about genetic engineering, because I am a teacher", "I have no problem with the environment because I am going to die in 30 years".APATHY. I bet there are viners here who can say 'we are doing enough' and justify it with some bulldust that seeks to ratify the continuance of the vast rape of the planet. "We need to maintain industry standards" or something like that.

Or perhaps "God" is the excuse people make. I am agnosagnostic, I cannot confirm or deny whether I am agnostic, but the one qualm the atheists have is the distance of verbose reasoning that exists with religion and reality, and applies to apathy as well. Religion is the number one excuse for many things. "I couldn't do my homework, because God said not to" Is this a valid excuse at a religious school? Is it a valid reason to hate homosexuals and to victimize new waves of thought ? Is it a valid reason to be apathetic? because of the warm and permanence of faith, in a world which NEEDS YOU TO ACT ?

Apathy is prevalent and it is slave morality. The melancholy truth is that there is no master morality, just the self effacing machinations of the need of slave morality, advertising, consumerism, and all the lies we tell ourselves that it is ok to stew helplessly in our apathetic lust. The temporary idol of a sickening spiral of decay. You will lie and justify it however, this I can confirm, since I will die trying.

Call me what you will

Times have been changing, they've always been changing, and staying the same. While somethings move at the speed of light, other things move at the speed of acceptance, very slowly.

When I was younger I used to think differently about myself. I was raised on cartoons and cereal, and entered the technological era with the rest of my generation and proceeded to seek out my own unique life and identity, the notion of which is constantly changing.

Identity has always been a fluid thing, changing and adapting with circumstance, moving in an out of art, science and politics.

I confess to you now, my sexuality is not heterosexual, nor is it heterophobic, nor is it homosexual, or bisexual or transsexual. All of these words are classifiers most of which represent a group which has been ostracized for not belonging to the mainstream. I do not want to be categorized. There are of course more words like witch, satanist, vegetarian, lawyer, obese, black to describe different people in the world. There about 500 words or more to describe people, but most of these words are used to 'seperate' these people from the norm.

Why are there so many different names for the unhappy or the oppressed? Lesbian, communist, geek, environmentalist, activist? So I ask the question : If you protest are you dissenting? If you do not protest are you not compassionate, uncaring or unsympathetic? If you are happy should you feel guilty? or likewise if you are unhappy should you feel guilty? I suppose it depends on the person making these decisions of consciousness.

It is easy to figure out that there is nothing wrong with me, but why do others find it so easy to criticize. Honesty doesn't seem to be enough, a lie usually accompanies most of the stereotypes we place people in. Is it that the world is wrong? Or is it that I am wrong? Or nether? Somehow is this just an endless despair, an ever growing emptiness which places me in the very centre of uncertainty, lust and narcissism. My morality seems to crumble under the weight of social lore which is not in my favour. I do not compromise, but my path is made obscure, blurred and I dread the thought of walking it alone. I am made to honor the things I rebel against, like I am bound in a biblical sense to acknowledge weakness, because I am made weak.

So in my septic rebellious wonderland, I am battered and bruised in my attempt to validate my strength by accepting my weakness. I hate being called weak, like I am eternally patronized to submit to the cruel undying disadvantage of being a minority. Reason will not be listened to, it will be argues that reasoning is invalid, co-operation is nullified by ownership and I am a sick deluded little girl, if you could call such an insane person a girl as I literally bounce off the walls to find my voice. And that voice is not the voice of superior morality, it is tried and truth and a secret lust for validation.

I want to break free

“You are what you love, not what loves you. That’s what I decided a long time ago.” I have remembered this concluding line of a conversation between Nicolas Cage and himself (when he played the twin writer brothers in the 2002 movie “Adaptation”). Many times I have thought back on it over all the stories of unrequited love that I have heard since then. There is something most of us miss, sometimes for a whole life- that the love we feel for who or what ever we feel it, is our own. Loving is not something we are given permission to feel or a feeling that anyone can take away.

This might be one of the biggest misconceptions ever perpetrated about love. There is this pervasive embodiment of the experience as a coupled experience. Loves' legitimacy resting in it’s reciprocation. When love is withheld, rejected or takes some other form, the one who loved first is belittled, even if only in their own mind.

The stories of unrequited love and the range of tragedy and heartbreak from love unmet has filled the airways since we began to sing or tell our stories. The universality of the loss experienced by love gone wrong, or never really given a chance, or interrupted too soon by tragedy is something we all share. The pain is as deep and real as any cut with a knife. The sadness and loneliness of loving and losing the object of our love is searing like a burn and shadows us for weeks, sometimes months. This is the story that many of us never get over, sometimes keeping us away from the prospect of loving again for years.

Why we can’t celebrate the love we feel without it being reciprocated has a lot to do with our latent feelings of unworthiness (Don’t worry it’s not you- it’s the whole culture). As soon as you are not good enough, the original experience of love, which is the highest feeling we can experience degenerates in less than a minute to a feeling of shame. Or if we are angry, then it is easy to find blame, making the object of our love not worth the feeling to begin with.

Realizing that we are what we love and not what love’s you is a revolutionary approach to opening your heart and discovering a capacity to embrace the world that you might not have known you are capable of.

cold- sick- sickness- sickening- truth

It is a sick sick world we are living in. I thought I would leave this subject alone and move over to soemething new, but here I am again- sitting in angst and frustration. Another example of outright quackery by pharmaceutical companies has finally gathered enough steam to achieve mainstream news coverage (hallelujah): Cold medicines are useless, say pediatricians who petitioned the FDA to ban the marketing of such products to children.

Last month, an FDA advisory panel partially agreed with the recommendation, and voted to declare that such medicines should not be used in children younger than six. This FDA advisory panel vote represents a landmark defeat for Big Pharma (sons of bitches) which has promoted cold medicine quackery for so many decades that very few people realized cold medicines should be questioned at all. Fortunately, some bright-minded pediatricians have apparently decided to take action to protect children instead of protecting Big Pharma. An official from the American Academy of Pediatrics has openly stated that the cold medicines don't work in children under six years old and may, in fact, be dangerous to their health.

Here is a very interesting fact to consider when determining the credibility of the FDA's safety record: None of the cold medicines that have been marketed to children for decades -- were ever tested in children! You read that correctly: There has never been a single clinical trial showing these medicines to be either safe or effective for use in children. Not one.

The truth here is that most pharmaceuticals are medical hoaxes. Most drugs simply don't work on most people, and that statement is backed up by tens of thousands of clinical studies. The medical literature shows a popular breast cancer drug, for example, only prevents cancer in 0.5% of women, yet it's hyped as a "miracle" cancer drug. Many over-the-counter medicines are nothing but chemical sweeteners, artificial colors, syrups and small doses of dangerous laboratory chemicals. Some actually contain the very same chemicals banned by the FDA in herbal medicine.
Chemotherapy doesn't work, antidepressant drugs cause weight gain, diabetes drugs cause liver damage, statin drugs damage the heart, antipsychotic drugs caused suicidal behavior, arthritis drugs cause heart attacks, blood pressure drugs cause circulation deficiencies... need I go on?

There's hardly a popular drug in the arsenal of Big Pharma that isn't fraudulently marketed, promoted and prescribed. This issue with cold medicines and children is simply one small chapter in a grand, global hoax known as "pharmaceutical medicine." The whole thing is rotten at the core, steeped in corruption and quackery, and lacking any real ethics. These companies aren't out to create a better future for humanity, they're out to create better profits for themselves -- even if it means marketing potentially harmful cold medicines to children.

toxic

Our habits have become addictions to technologically contrived conveniences that are devastating all life. We absorb thousands of synthetic chemicals during a lifetime and yet we look around us puzzled that so many illnesses and diseases have become epidemics.

We deny because we have become addicted to the conveniences of modern life.
We deny because we ignore the lessons of history.
We deny because we choose to believe that we are too wise to be so foolish.
We deny because we are arrogant.
We deny that we are in denial.

And our deaths will be neither quick nor easy nor proud.

brain vs computer

Okay so here is the scoop. Lately, I've been reading news articles about how technology is advancing so rapidly that by the year 2050, we're supposed to be able to download our entire consciousness into our laptop computers. Thats right- just plug in your brain, and apparently you can download your memories and all the data in your head.

So what's wrong with this?

First of all, the brain doesn't store information in bits and bytes. The brain is not a digital storage system. The brain, and more importantly -the mind, is holographic in the way that it stores and retrieves information. Also- the information that the brain stores isn't even really stored with perfectly accuracy anyway. Our perceptions are distorted- peoples' memories are distorted. They're fuzzy. They can be created in a second, so it's not like you have a databank in your head that's just sitting there waiting to be downloaded. All the memories and perceptions in your head are shifting around all the time. What you think you remember today may not have happened that way at all. In fact, usually very little of what you remember actually happened that way.
In other words, we don't see reality. We experience a very tiny interpretation of the world around us. The universe out there, and what's encoded in our head, is really just an experience. It is a holographic representation of various sensory inputs, emotions and experiences at that time. It is not like a zip file. You can't just download it into a computer or slap it onto a flash drive.

So I don't care how advanced computing technology gets, you're never going to be able to just download your memory like a giant storage file, because it's not stored that way. Your brain is not a giant flash chip.

But what if we were able to download our brains into computers?

It sounds great in terms of technology, however what about the social and political implications of this? What would it mean? Would it mean that if you were suspected of committing a crime, the courts would force a download of your brain? Would it mean that your memories and thoughts were no longer your own?
If it did mean that, then, of course, we'd have an era of thought crimes -an era where it could be criminal to think the wrong thoughts or have the wrong memories, or just to have the wrong imagination. If you happen to have the wrong images pop up into your head, and it gets downloaded onto the computer, all of a sudden, you're a criminal. You're an enemy of the state. Why? Because you don't fit the norm. Because you have ideas that they consider to be a threat to their stranglehold on power. You've got to think about these things. Technologies can be promising, but they can also be very threatening, not only to our sense of who we are, but also to our security and privacy as individuals and our very freedoms.

Ultimately, I don't want to see a world where a bunch of computers are looking into our heads. I hope to see a world where individuals examine their own minds. That to me would be the most amazing breakthrough of all.

the cure

Have you noticed this, everywhere you go, someone asks you for money to help find the cure for some disease. It's the race for the cure! It's the walk or run for a cure! At grocery stores, cashiers ask if you want to donate a dollar to help find the cure. Other retailers want to sell you fashion-minded colored bracelets that raise money to find the cure. There's always someone who wants your money in exchange for the hope that your dollar will somehow help them find a cure for some awful disease.

It perplexes me though, and I have a very big question to ask about all of this. This has literally now been going on for decades. Researchers have been searching for a cure for cancer since the late 1960s, and for other diseases since at least the 1970s. At that time, they said cures were right around the corner; it was just a matter of a few more dollars; then they would have the cures available. Well, here we are 40 years later. We've been running this race for decades, funding it with literally billions of dollars. If all this money has gone to the race to find cures for these diseases, then where are the cures?

I am sorry to say this, even though it is so obvious- just not spoken about outloud: you've been conned.

It is proven that for most chronic diseases, there are no cures. Why? Because the diseases themselves are fictitious. Cancer is not a disease, it is just a name given to a pattern of symptoms appearing as a natural result of certain metabolic functions caused by lifestyle decisions. Cancer can't be cured with chemicals. It's no germ.
Diabetes is much the same. It's just a metabolic result. There's no disease, no infection, no virus or bacteria. There's just a result, caused by years of incorrect food choice and lack of physical exercise. So, you see, any race to find a "cure" for diabetes is about as silly as trying to find a cure for breathing hard after running up a hill.

No wonder we haven't found cures for these diseases, even after 30 or 40 years of research and billions of dollars from people giving up their money to fund these research efforts. These diseases aren't technically diseases at all.

The real disease out there by the way, is the disease of distorted language used by the medical community to convince people that metabolic results are "diseases." If you stabbed your leg with an ice pick, you'd probably bleed. That's a metabolic result that follows your actions. It's no disease, it's just a result. Same thing with obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and many other so-called diseases. A person who drinks a 12-pack of cola every day, while avoiding all exercise, is going to end up obese and diabetic. That doesn't make obesity a disease, it just makes it a result. Same as stabbing yourself with an ice pick, only slower.

You want to help find the cure for cancer?
Find it in your grocery shopping habits, in your food choice, and in your own body. Help those around you gain the knowledge to prevent these fictitious diseases, and do your part to stop poisoning your body with cancer-causing foods (like processed meats and most manufactured foods).

The great delusion is thinking that you're helping the victims of disease by giving money to some fundraising organization.

REPRODUCE YOUR PATTERN OF THOUGHT TO DOMNATE

If everything in the universe depends on everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.

Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world around them and to act accordingly.

Reproduce your pattern of thought to dominate.

However, on the other hand:

If there is a complete unified theory that governs everything it presumably also determines your actions. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict their actions.

I am having an intellectual struggle to understand the universe. As you can see, these are my ontological arguments.

Extraordinary

From my reading of Dostovsky:

"There is a main principle that consists in people being, by the law of nature, divided in general two categories: into a lower (of ordinary people), that is, into material serving only for the reproduction of it's own kind, and into people properly speaking, that is, those who have a gift or talent of saying something new in their sphere... the first category are masters of the present, but he second are the masters of the future. The first preserve the world and increase and multiply; the second move the world and guide it to it's goal. Both have absolutely equal right to exist. But generally speaking there are very few people, strangely few of the second category- people who have a new idea, or are even capable of saying anything at all new"

Actually, there is one in a million person born in the second category. This is a proven fact!
Meaning, right now there is only 6000 extraordinary people out there.
OH, how sad.

Absurd vaccinations

Yes indeed- BigPharma has done it again. Big Pharma has now managed to turn oral sex into a disease requiring chemical treatment. Regardless of whether there's any actual sex taking place, there's one thing for certain: Consumers are getting royally screwed.

The push to sell more vaccines and pharmaceuticals has now reached a level of absurdity that should astonish any intelligent person.

The mainstream ( I say mainstream because mainstream media because they do not do anything without an agenda. The news isn't news, it's a way of shaping public perception in order to market something: War, drugs, products, paradigms, etc) media is now reporting -- and I'm not kidding -- that young boys should be vaccinated with Gardasil (the drug now being pushed onto teenage girls to supposedly prevent cervical cancer) based on the idea that if they have oral sex with girls who carry HPV, they might get throat cancer!

This is an incredible stretch of scientific credibility, and it's such a preposterous marketing campaign that only Big Pharma could have come up with it. It's obviously nothing more than a massive scare campaign to try to dream up some way to market this high-profit vaccine to a whole new group of customers who don't need it: teenage boys!

It's so stupid that I can't find the words to even describe how low on the IQ chart these drug marketing "experts" must be to come up with this one. They must think the public is so gullible that they can just make up any sex-related story and use it to sell drugs. Next, we'll be hearing about young boys giving themselves HPV through masturbation! And the cries for vaccinating all young boys will something along the lines of, "If you masturbate, VACCINATE!"

If they can convince parents that their male children need to be vaccinated against a virus linked to cervical cancer, I suppose they can sell just about anything to anyone. What's next?

Are they going to demand that all girls be vaccinated against prostate cancer just in case they engage in oral sex with men who have enlarged prostate glands? Yes, this sounds stupid. It IS stupid. And yet it's not too stupid to be embraced by Big Pharma.

Remember, Big Pharma is the same industry that has essentially declared womanhood to be a disease. They have a pill that stops all menstruation -- for life, and the marketing materials imply that a woman having a monthly period is some sort of disorder that needs to be halted to live a normal, happy life. It won't be long before they've got women scared half to death about simply being a woman! (Notice, too, that conventional medicine is dominated by males who all too easily declare various female experiences to be "diseases" or "disorders.")

Big Pharma's primary weapon in promoting these silly scare stories is the mainstream media. All they have to do is start floating stories about how dangerous oral sex can be, and then once everybody is scared half to death of oral sex, they can float the "solution" as yet another vaccine.

Modern medicine is a hoax. It comes down to brainwashing doctors, playing mind games with the public and controlling the media. Drug companies are now resorting to the most absurd, ridiculous leaps of the imagination to try to convince people they need more vaccines and medications. Just five years ago, the idea that teenage boys needed to be vaccinated against a cervical cancer virus would have been considered lunacy, but today, the Big Pharma propaganda machine is pushing it with a straight facing, hoping that within a year or two, the population will be so frightened over oral sex viruses that every sexually active person in the country will line up and pass over cash for their "sex vaccines."

greed- corruption and then distruction

American government, once made as a system that would serve the interests of the people, has devolved into a system of plutocracy where corporations control both the government and the people. Virtually every government regulatory department, for example, is now run by the corporations it is supposed to be regulating. Just look at the FDA, USDA, FTC, FCC, NRC...

So what will happen?
You see, when the corporations run a nation, that nation has no real future, because corporations only think in terms of the next quarter, not the next generation.
Corporations will naturally do whatever they can to maximize their profits right now, including poisoning the children with vaccines, poisoning the population with toxic food products, sacrificing the financial future of the nation for short-term gain, destroying the environment, ignoring the health care needs of the people, inciting war so they can sell more profitable weapons to war-torn countries around the world, and so on. Essentially, corporations will sell out the future for higher profits today, and that's exactly what they've done in America.

America has no real future. Not a good one, anyway. Itwill self destruct under a mountain of debt, disease and corruption. You can thank the corporations and corrupt politicians for that. 'Cause they have thrown away the dream of a nation that was once great and could actually be great again, if not for the greed.

This is all several years away, of course. And until then, most people are going to continue the pursuit of even more debt and disease, oblivious to the future that awaits them.....

red meat anyone?

Finally, USA Today tackles the issue with a pointed article that questions why the FDA hasn't simply banned the use of dead cows in cattle feed. Let's face it: mad cow disease only happens when you feed dead cows to live cows. It's a sickening, inhumane practice, but it makes ranchers money, and so there's tremendous political pressure to make it happen. If you've been eating red meat all this time, hopefully you're at least a little bit shocked that you've been eating meat from cows that were fed chicken litter, and those chickens were fed dead, diseased cows containing spinal cord material that could carry mad cow disease.

Knowing this, I'm not sure why any decent human being would eat beef anymore. It's technically not that different from reaching into your toilet bowl and chowing down on your own feces.

killer list

"Achiving outstanding health is not complicated. The human body already knows how to be healthy. All you have to do is give your body outstanding nutrition so that it has the building materials it needs to heal disease and rebuild itself from the inside out. You must also avoid all of the foods and food ingredients that cause disease. Today, more than 95% of all chronic disease is caused by food choice, toxic food ingredients, nutritional deficiencies and lack of physical exercise..."

• "Avoid List":
  Sodium nitrite (causes cancer)
  MSG / monosodium glutamate / yeast extract (causes obesity and nerve damage)
  Hydrogenated oils (causes heart disease)
  High-fructose corn syrup / sugar / sucrose (causes diabetes and obesity)
  Artificial colors (causes behavioral disorders)
  Aspartame (causes brain damage, optic nerve damage)
  Homogenized milk fats (cause heart disease and cardiovascular disorders)
  Red meat (absolutely no beef, pork, or other red meat)
  Cows' milk, cheese and dairy products
  Soft drinks, junk foods, snack foods or fast foods
  Processed foods such as cookies, crackers, frozen dinners, etc.
  Fried foods
  White flour and any foods containing white flour
  Refined carbohydrates such as breads, cereals, pastries, pizza dough, etc.
  Fruit juice drinks
  Brand-name laundry detergents (loaded with toxic fragrance chemicals)
  Popular deodorants (contain aluminum)
  Fluoride toothpaste (fluoride is a dangerous ingredient)
  Popular shampoos / soaps / conditioners (all contain harmful fragrance chemicals)
  Dryer sheets (contain fragrance chemicals)

If you truly desire to be a free human being -- free from the mind confusion of prescription drugs and harmful foods -- the answers are available to you right now. But don't expect to find the answers in traditional sources. You'll never learn how to be healthy by listening to your doctor. (We're spending billions on health care and we're sicker than ever!) You won't learn the truth about health from the FDA, nor the USDA. There's no health information of value in the mainstream newspapers, news programs or magazines.

You'll never get healthy by doing what everyone else is doing. They're all diseased! Look around. Our nation's health, both mental and physical, is crumbling. We're the most diseased population in the history of the world. And if you want to be diseased for the rest or your life, just keep doing what everyone else is doing: eating junk foods, taking prescription drugs, undergoing chemotherapy and actually believing the FDA, the American Medical Association, the American Heart Association and other "disease organizations."

Sugar coated -risky eating

An overweight America may be fixated on fat and obsessed with carbs, but nutritionists say the real problem is much sweeter -- we're awash in sugar. Not just any sugar, but high fructose corn syrup.
If you consider fructose a safe, natural sugar, think again. You've been had by one of the biggest nutritional bait-and-switch ploys in years.
The country eats more sweetener made from corn than from sugarcane or beets, gulping it down in drinks as well as in frozen food and baked goods. Even ketchup is laced with it.

Almost all nutritionists finger high fructose corn syrup consumption as a major culprit in the nation's obesity crisis.
For example, a single 12-ounce can of soda has as much as 13 teaspoons of sugar in the form of high fructose corn syrup.
So, the answer is to just avoid soda, right? Unfortunately, it's not that simple, because the inexpensive, versatile sweetener has crept into plenty of other places -- foods you might not expect to have any at all. A low-fat, fruit-flavored yogurt, for example, can have 10 teaspoons of fructose-based sweetener in one serving.

Loading high fructose corn syrup into increasingly larger portions of soda and processed food has packed more calories into us and more money into food processing companies, say nutritionists and food activists. But some health experts argue that the issue is bigger than mere calories. The theory goes like this: The body processes the fructose in high fructose corn syrup differently than it does old-fashioned cane or beet sugar, which in turn alters the way metabolic-regulating hormones function. It also forces the liver to kick more fat out into the bloodstream.
The end result is that our bodies are essentially tricked into wanting to eat more and at the same time, we are storing more fat.

New research published in the United States that followed 50,000 U.S. nurses reveals those who drank just one serving of soda or fruit punch a day gained weight more quickly than those who drank less than one soda a month.Those who drank more also had an 80% increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

High fructose consumption has been fingered as a causative factor in heart disease. It raises blood levels of cholesterol and another type of fat, triglyceride. It makes blood cells more prone to clotting, and it may also accelerate the aging process.

People who work for the Corn Refiners Association are insisting that high-fructose corn syrup doesn't promote diabetes. And yet, here we have research that followed 50,000 nurses showing an 80% increased risk of type 2 diabetes when people consumed either sugar or high-fructose corn syrup. And not in huge doses, by the way, all it took was one soft drink or one fruit drink a day to boost this risk of diabetes.

What is the Corn Refiners Association afraid of happening here? They're afraid that all of the anti high-fructose corn syrup research and information is going to turn this ingredient into the next big tobacco debate. They're afraid that junk food companiess and fast-food companies (and especially soft drink manufacturers) are going to be blamed for the nation's obesity crisis in the same way big tobacco companies are blamed for lung cancer.

Simply put -one soda provides almost all the sugar a person should eat in a day....
How mant do you consume?

Then again, let's think about this for a moment. What do farmers feed cows when they want to fatten them up for market? Corn, of course! If you want to look like a cow, all you have to do is eat lots of corn and corn by-products, including high-fructose corn syrup.

An Inconceivable Truth

You don't want to be paranoid. You certainly don't want your spouse, or family to think you are crazy, or any crazier than you already are. But then you are, rifling through the bathroom, reading the backs of the face creams and shampoos, wondering about the long list of ingredients.
And once you start looking, well, it is easy to see your life has been invaded by chemicals. You try to ignore that facts, for instance that your hair gel, or the air freshener in your washroom is a suspect. You may try to ignore the scores of chemicals that we breathe and ingest and absorb, that stay with us, in some cases even after industry-wide regulations phase them out. The fact is, no matter how much you try not to, you begin to feel paranoid.

It dawns on you, and you see more and more that the future of our species depends not just on our buying organic strawberries or carrying a canvas bag to the farmer's market. You now see that the fertility of human person hinges on the changes we must make to our immediate environment.
Fertility, while it is still a private matter, is becoming more and more a concern of public health. And of course the chief suspect in decline in fertility are chemicals that are practically the fabric of our everyday lives. This might have begun with what we dumped into our environment over the past 50 years- the synthetic compounds that now lace our water and landfills. Since World War II, an estimated 80,000 chemicals have been introduced, in plastics, in lawn-care products, in the products that we put on our skin and our hair. And now the evidence that these chemicals are affecting our fertility is building- even certain in a lot of cases.

Who wants to panic?
You are never going to gt rid of every exposure. Especially when we know that in the chemical industry, compounds are considered safe until proven dangerous, and only when determined dangerous are they banned. Kinda like the lead pain we used for oh so many years, and only after some 20 years have we finally learned the truth - lead is extremely toxic to living organisms.

Sure you don't want to be living in panic, just remember every time you pick up that bottled water- or pop - or juice- consider your self forewarned- BPA which is widely used in plastics- migrates from plastic water bottle into the water. BPA masquerades as a healthy hormone while causing havoc in your body. BPA has been shown in animal studies to cause prostate cancer and malformed genitals, and to harm mammary-gland development in females at puberty. Low-level exposures have been linked to breast cancers, and a recent study in Japan traced the chemical to an increased risk of miscarriage.

What can I say? Plastic is no longer fantastic.

Paper or Plastic?

I know it is hard to imagine, but the US produces some 12 billion tons of waste each year. Of the amount, about 200 million tons consists of everyday, ordinary trash- the kind of garbage each of us throws out with no thought!
Start considering those numbers, however, and you'll never hear those seemingly bland words "paper or plastic?" in the same way again.
Food packaging- 20% of which is made of plastic- is a $105 billion industry in the US, and growing. And just because you put packaging in the recycling bin or take it to a recycling center doesn't guarantee that it will be recycled. Recycled materials must compete with non-recycled ones, and when the cost of using the former exceeds the latter, many items you think you're recycling actually end up in landfills anyways. Especially plastics.
Unfortunately, even paper has an environmental downside. To make paper bags, cardboard boxes and to-go cups, we clear-cut forests, grind the wood into chips, then pulp and bleach them with chlorine-based compounds, which generate carcinogenic by-products of their own.
The realization that even such a common, everyday option as "paper or plastic" really isn't as simple a decision as it first seems may be the beginning of wisdom.
So the proper answer to that paper vs. plastic question really is 'neither". When you head out to the market, take along your own cloth shopping bag, or start a collection of bags that can be reused rather than ones that turn into instant trash.

Ecological Crisis- live Green !!!

PONDER THIS:

The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial growth, massive urban concentrations and vastly increased energy needs. Industrial waste, the burning of fossil fuels, unrestricted deforestation, the use of certain types of herbicides, coolants and propellants,: all of these are known to harm the atmosphere and environment. The resulting meteorological and atmospheric changes range from damage to health to the possible future submersion of low-lying lands.While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It is necessary, however, that the entire human community -- individuals, States and international bodies -- take seriously the responsibility that is theirs.

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of RESPECT FOR LIFE evident in many patterns of environmental pollution.

RESPECT FOR LIFE, AND ABOVE ALL FOR THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMANPERSON, IS THE ULTIMATE GUIDING NORM FOR ANY SOUND ECONOMIC,INDUSTRIAL OR SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS.

Not MILK

Are Your Friends Fat Cows?
In 1985, the average American woman wore a size 8. Today she wears a size 14.
How could American women go from size 8 to size 14 in just 17 years?

What other change has occurred in less than two decades? During the 1980s, the average American woman was eating 10 pounds of cheese per year. Today, she consumes an average 31 pounds per year. It takes 10 pounds of milk to produce one pound of cheese, so 310 pounds of saturated, fat-rich, high calorie milk with growth hormones fuel America's obesity epidemic.

Like the baby calf drinking her mother's milk, the average American female body, more and more, is resembling that of a bovine.

It is easy to gain weight by eating pizza, ice cream, yogurt, and milk. It is also easy to slim down from size 14to size 8 again. The dietary answer: NOT MILK! http://www.notmilk.com/

food corporations- why we can't trust them

US is in the midst of growing epidemic of diet-related health problems, such as obesity, heart disease, cancers and diabetes.

Nearly half the children in North America will be overweight or obese by 2010—just three years from now—according to a recent report in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity. Since 1980, obesity rates have doubled in children and tripled in adolescents.
Experts have written extensively about our TOXIC FOOD ENVIRONMENT caused in large by those corporate marketing strategies food corporations throw at us.
Food makers are reacting in different ways, but their main motivation always is to spin a positive corporate image and stave off threats of goverment regulation and private litigations over their products, as well as practices of course.
Lawyers and nutricionistst, and various organizations believe that solving the nation's diet-related health problems is simply a matter of persuading food manufacturers to change their behaviour. They are hoping that corporations have conscience and will eventually do the right thing, even if it means a loss of profit. But the fact is a corporations is a fundamentally amoral institution. They go by a set of fiduciary principles that have little to do with personal morality and everything to do with growing profits. In other words, a corporation's ability to do the right thing, is circumscribed by its very organizing principles, which command it to act exclusively in it's own self-interest. We cannot expect food companies to do the right thing, nor should we believe them when they claim that they are!

The vast majority of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented simply by adopting a plant-based diet.A vegan diet—particularly one that is low in fat—will substantially reduce disease risks. Plus, we've seen no disadvantages from veganism. In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

Our anatomy reveals that we are herbivores, as does our natural aversion to meat and the fact that it is harmful to our health. Meat-eaters are out of step with our evolutionary past. Our closest living relatives—the great apes—and ancestral human populations are and have been predominately vegetarian. They may eat the occasional rodent and some raw bugs, but the vast majority of their caloric intake is herbivorous. The key to human health lies in adopting a diet that is consistent with their anatomy and evolutionary history.

DESERT LIGHTS

Dark 'n' dirty like you never seen.


A mind all twisted with thoughts so unclean.


My heart is racing all tattered and torn.


I stand here naked as the day i was born.


Only the lonely will stand.I'm holding the world in my hand.


I got to believe!


The sky is falling on this setting sun.


Echoes of silence ringing loud and long.


This isolation is the king of pain.


A lost horizon in an ocean of flames.


I've been here before, but not as i stand here today.


I wait for the dawn.

Ready to walk into the light.

life in a cave

That thing called life, what is it anyways. Never satysfying, but only mere moments- which pass so fast, and in the nick of time they too get lost- like the other- dreams and hopes- we cherrish so much.
It goes by so slow-it seems-when we are nowhere near, minute after minute we float around- wasting the time- hoping for something to save us- from us and our wasted life.
Why does the time go so slow, we are damned…and we wait for a miracle. Sometimes it is the circumstance, which we succumb to, but lets be honest- we just don't have the drive- to change anything.
So minutes pass, and we go on, like a bat in a cave- not blind- but cozy in the darkness. And the longer we stay – the harder it is to see the light.

what is boredom

Boredom is a flight from what is important. Like workaholism and perfectionism, it is a way of distracting yourself from inner experiences. Workaholsim and perfectionism divert awareness from emotions by focusing it outward on activities. Workaholics and perfectionists distract themselves from what they are feeling by absorbing themselves in their external circumstances. They are always thinking of repairs to the house, a project that is due, an exam coming up, and so on. By focusing on activity, their energy system goes unobserved.

Boredom is the failure to find activity or circumstances interesting enough to divert your awareness from what you are feeling. It occurs when you look outward and do not find anything to engage your attention. Instead of feeling your emotions - becoming aware of the functioning of your energy system - you become bored. The experience of boredom is resistance to become aware of what you are feeling. It is a fertile experience because it occurs only when your search for external ways to distract yourself has failed. Boredom is a defense against emotional awareness for workaholics and perfectionists. Workaholics and perfectionists absorb themselves in external activites in order to avoid experiencing their emotions. Eventually, those activities become exhausting. More and more remains to be accomplished or put into perfect order, but they do not have the energy to continue. That is burnout. After a vacation they begin again, and then again, until they continue no longer. Their flight from emotions that are too painful to approach, or too shameful to acknowledge, eventually fails. Instead of turning inward to explore those emotions, they become bored.Boredom is failure of the search for external fulfillment and refusal to look at what drove the search.

Boredom is deeprooted resistance to experiencing emotions after all efforts to distract attention from them have been inefective.