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that don't warrant a page by themselves
or seem to fit better here
pending poems index
chronological order is from the bottom to the top of the page
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“ i want to be like you ”
well one thing we can't be, is another person !
“ i want to be like you ”
well the one thing that we can't be, is another person !
“ i want to be like you ”
well that's one thing we can't be, is another person !
the lower iron from
donating whole blood seems to have improved my heart health considerably, the heart must have loaded with iron to the extent it was interfering with the electrical signalling and hence, heart beat and function : o)
taigu quotes a poem by eihei dogen
in spring, the cherry blossoms
in summer, the cuckoo's song
in autumn, the moon shining
in winter, the frozen snow
how pure and clear are the seasons !
my reply
a row of cherry trees in bloom, that subtle pink, it must be spring ! :o)
starlings flock in late summer and swoop and dive :o)
autumn's chill is reflected in the cold of the moon :o)
the frost filled paddocks, now so bright in the moonlight :o)
winter is our last season :o)
taigu quotes a poem by eihei dogen
in spring, the cherry blossoms
in summer, the cuckoo's song
in autumn, the moon shining
in winter, the frozen snow
how pure and clear are the seasons !
my reply
a row of cherry trees in bloom, that subtle pink, it must be spring ! :o)
starlings flock in late summer and swoop and dive :o)
autumn's chill is reflected in the cold of the moon :o)
the frost filled paddocks, now bright in the moonlight :o)
winter is our last season :o)
i haven't taken any
manganese for a while, but i accidently took some last night and can see a beneficial effect
it's a good brain anti-oxidant imo !
one needs to get lucky sometimes, like yesterday was the second day in a row of taking half a capsule of chromium which is way more than i usually do and has an oxidant effect and i could feel it, but taking the manganese later accidently i feel the very beneficial effect of that !
bascially with subtle effects it can be hard to tell the benefit
complete serendipity !
when i first started supplements i used think it was cut and dried, but now i know it's a constant process of reinvestigation and small and not so small changes !
maybe i will take managnese once every four days now which is less than i originally used to, but way more than dropping it completely :o)
people's needs for manganese can be a bit different, one person may need it for bone strength, i need it as a brain anti-oxidant as my bones are good :o)
also magnesium displaces manganese and i am taking less magnesium taurate than i used too
i haven't taken any
manganese for a while, but took some last night and can see a beneficial effect
man resents, angels learn a lesson !
man resents, angels learn a lesson
my favorite philosophical
quotes !
i noticed muttonbirds for sale in the butchers this april and when i read
this about high mercury levels in seabirds, tho they are delicious, i don't think it wise to eat much or indeed any at all !
i remember some-one telling me years ago about the hazards of mutton birding here, finding big tiger snakes when you put your hand down the burrows !
“ blue eyes blow a hole clean through the brain ”
this homily has lots of meanings
one being blue eyes in autism and iris changes etc
blue eyes is a lack of pigment and the associated neural deficit
looks a
disaster area, the human gut is designed to eat cooked vegetables, not raw
if you have tried it and it's doing something for you, it's the chromium in it, which is in fact much better supplemented individually !
blue eyes blow a hole clean through the brain
blue eyes blow a hole clean through the brain
blue eyes blow a hole clean through the brain
man resents, angels learn a lesson
man resents, angels learn a lesson
if you are going to do well in this ultra competitive world of net publishing you need a savancy
:
o
)
if you are going to do well in this ultra competitive world of net publishing you need a savancy : o)
the first and second rules of life, thou shalt not take any other person as adequate including YOURSELF !
the first rule of life, thou shalt not take any other person as adequate
the first rule of life, thou shalt not take any other person as adequate !
the first rule of life, thou shalt not take any other person as adequate
I have had a lot of experience with raw goats milk !
used to get it fresh from the goat farm down in gunns plains !
risking picking up a parasite or a disease is a negative which way outweighs the benefits, which actually I think are marginal with raw milk because the bacteria in it suit kid and calf guts and not human.
if you pasturize the raw milk yourself, you get the best of both worlds and 68C keeps the denaturing of the milk protiens to a minimum, tho for non-A2 cows milk I think you actually need to denature the proteins to reduce their damage potential !
weston price is NOT the charles darwin of nutrition and his supporters on the web are blind in both eyes about pursuing some dogmatic “cure all ills” approach!
i'm not saying there's not some sense to what he says, but people including me are very uneven and you have to use what is of benefit and discard what is wrong, you cannot rely even 45% on anyone and for successful implementation of anything you have to fill the large void of practical incompetence with your own work, experimentation and testing
the net is full of crazy schizophrenics, believe me :o)
if you want to become a cartoonist then why not start publishing some on the net?
zen was never necessarily about zazen at all, the emphasis on zazen comes from dogen and his teacher, but really just wants seeing in the wider religious context of contemplative solitude :o)
imo there are circulation dangers with zazen, especially once you get older : o)
the soto zazen only approach seems to do nothing but breed narrow minded pigs, the reason is the fallacy of the “subtractive only” approach without wide ranging QUALITY reading and thinking and writing DOES NOT WORK !
they just become mad and live in ghost caves digging deeper the latrine pits that they have fallen into all the while totally deluded about the direction they are going and utility of what they are doing !
seem to be writing quite fluently today, been eating some atlantic salmon from macquarie harbour :o)
I think raw milk does need to be pasturized, goats are susceptible to toxoplasmosis and other contagious illnesses and parasites can be carried by both cows and goats, it's easy enough to pasturize raw milk by heating to 68C
the more I look at sweeping zen and the hczb I realize those commentators and so called zen masters are really quite unintelligently insane !
there's a high degree of balance and completion required to do zen competently, they are all very unbalanced and unfortunately brain damage from drugs and alcohol works the wrong way or a fair portion of them would be competent !
as you point out attention to quality food is also very important, you can't think straight on what most of them eat :o)
so they meander along in the illusion of competence which they enforce by banning me since I obviously show them up !
your own creativity and not the regurgitation of clichés and voynich is where it is at !
so you are creating meaning by trying to talk about meaningless ? : o)
:
o
)
(
so you are creating meaning by trying to talk about meaningless ? : o)
will the world end by ice or fire ?
no, it will end like
this, a specially constructed virus that will either target everyone or perhaps leave some racial group untouched, it will have a long asymptomatic infectious incubation to allow it to spread without arousing suspicion and then turn slowly fatal and depending on the idiosyncracies of the designer(s) may be floridly gruesome and painful :o)
it will become an interesting form of warefare and terrorism and the only thing that can be done is to constantly test populations to identify these viruses and work out antidotes or cures in time :o)
japanese knotweed has some interesting substances in it from a health point of view, maybe of some benefit once you get lymes, but really the point is to avoid lymes at all costs and knowing how to remove ticks (freezing? ) safely and being able to disinfect/neutralize any potential infection in the area the area of the bite as well as being able to find the very small and infective nymph is really where it’s at imo.
if you get a rash or are suspicious then it would be best to get antibiotics immediately
the net is very good, well worth your time to spend quite a while searching on the subject !
i have known people who have had it on the net, you do not want it, it is the most god awful disease !
both alan chapman and dan ingram are misguided imho :o)
amazing what it is, they sew off about 3/4 of the stomach
drawing 2/3rds down this
page
and repipe the intestine past the sewn off pouch
how the hell they can think that healthy and better than eating less and more intelligently i don't know
always wondered what the operation was, so easy with google !
oh there was some lund university
research on how it might work for diabetes
i think there are long term complications we don't hear about !
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a good
animation , you are basically cutting out a stage of digestion which must have very negative long term consequences !
amazing what it is, they sew off about 3/4 of the stomach
drawing 2/3rds down this
page
and repipe the intestine past the sewn off pouch
how the hell they can think that healthy and better than eating less and more intelligently i don't know
:
o
(
my reading is that the healthy mediterranean and french wines that gave the long life expectancy are from grapes and wine making methods that are in the process of being lost and quite different from what we buy now
“ emptiness is emptiness ”
and
fred
is
fred
boubi
is
a
douzy
and
both
are
dead
!
:
o
)
“ emptiness is emptiness ”
and
fred
is
fred
boubi
is
a
douzy
and
both
are
dead
“ emptiness is emptiness ”
and
fred
is
fred
boubi
is
a
douzy
and
both
are
“sweeping zen” has apolicy of ignoring me and deleting my posts
my latest being
apologise for
missing what zen is about jundo, tho to be fair being stupid appears to be what zen is about
in the main : o)
zen yellow bellies, you guys run faster than rabbits ! for gods sake, no-one reads this crap except me, yes it's weird !
jundo and adam tebbe , you can remove the only sense to be written on your pages, but you can't take me off the web ! your fakeness is exposed, though of course to any person of sense it sticks out a mile : o)
you all stopped at an ice cream stand before getting to the home plate to bat and as you slurp your ice creams you dribble out some spit and ice cream filled spew, saying it's zen !
is this a good
way to supplement chromium?
i
i wonder if
john loori's lung cancer was caused by a bad synergy between his exposure to asbestos during his 1947 to 1952 naval service and his heavy
smoking ?
he had more years in him i felt : o(
lol, the HCZB has become the exclusive provenance of drug and alcohol brain damaged retirees,
even brad warner must be puking though he has a strong stomach for bullshit, including his own : o)
lol, tell us about your “enhanced life”
ruby ! * ed. he has MS and claims buddhist teaching
enhances his life : o( * and do that nun a favour, mention her, you never know she may not be the usual run of the mill Buddhist moron, some can be interesting !
why buddhism seems to generate self absorbed twits who can't think of anything except themselves and wether they should give money or not, (ed. to teachers) I don't know
most people encounter charity requests for money on a weekly basis and deal with them in the light of their best judgement, not an issue !
wow australia really
does have lymes disease and the length of the tick bite necessary to transmit may be way shorter than claimed !
they were holidaying on the gold coast, the tick was not carefully removed and would have left mouth parts embedded !
either
this or possibly 35% hydrogen peroxide or even savlon may have prevented infection !
anyone who “teaches” (ed. buddhist, neo advaita etc.) is off their head !
the real problem is not income but the distortions of hubris and getting warped by the constant dealing with a lot of stupid and viral people !
anyone who “teaches” (ed. buddhist, neo advaita etc.) is off their head !
the real problem is not income but the distortions of hubris and getting warped by the constant dealing
with a lot of stupid people !
it is schizophrenia to parade what is untrue as true
:
o
(
it is schizophrenia to parade what is untrue as true !
what I find is that these so called “teachers” can't cope with sensible criticism and brad warner is one of those as he has banned me from his blog. I think you also lack testing for what you say, like for instance it's a fact that Buddha is , like jesus an historical fairy tale so what is the crap you are rattling on about ?
“ During the time of the Buddha in India, a kingdom’s wealth was partly based on the number of spiritual seekers (sadhus) living within it. At its height, 1 in 3 people were living as sadhus. The economy supported that because people thought it was worth it ”
that is just absolute complete bullshit !
well not quite, the earliest Buddhism was actually a
merchant bank and performed an essential economic function !
cataract
removal can be a stage on the progression to glaucoma !
basically the lens is a very important source of the anti-oxidant glutathione in the eye !
so you really want to avoid the need for cataract surgery and I think the compendium dual selenium protocol promotes glutathione !
what I can say is with the compendium supplementation, BCD and blood donation, is my eye health has improved hugely, I haven't needed a new glass prescription for about four years and my vision is VERY clear
the sad fact of aging is if you live to 100 you will almost certainly be legally blind ! : o( it's not a sudden thing that happens at 100 but a progression from 40 on !
no-one is going to stop you bullshitting endlessly on a blog, unless you stop bullshitting, in which case, they'll stop you
:
o
)
no-one is going to stop you bullshitting endlessly on a blog, unless you stop bullshitting, in which case, they'll stop you : o ) : o (
no-one is going to stop you bullshitting endlessly on a blog, unless you stop bullshitting, in which case, they'll stop you : o ( : o )
jeff foster,
endless saccharine bullshit : o)
you can call it enlightened, you can call it stupid
one part enlightenment to 10 parts bullshit
that's worse than the normal jeff, do you ever ask what you are doing to yourself ?
jeff foster, endless saccharine bullshit : o)
you can call it enlightened, you can call it stupid
one part enlightenment to 10 parts bullshit
that's worse than the normal jeff, do you ever ask what you are doing?
Peter, Mark, stephen
petunia, melanie, stephanie : o)
or
people who think shakespeare and not
sir henry neville wrote what is ascribed to shakespeare
look stupid : o)
people who think shakespeare and not
sir henry neville wrote what is ascribed to shakespeare look stupid : o)
a superb valaam
icon , you can almost feel the position of the right arm of mary holding the child ! the bullet holes are from the soviet revolution !
the kostomarovo saviour cave
convent
as we age we decay into our grandparents
:
o
)
as we age we decay into our grandparents : o) : o(
as we age we decay into our grandparents
you can't take charles bukowski as always 100% right !
he's
sorta
right
and
sometimes
100%
right
but
those
who
him
as
always
100%
right
you can't take charles bukowski as 100% right !
those
who
him
as
100%
right
everyone's death is their own, there is no solace from the world or others because
it all disappears : o) : o(
everyone's death is their own, there is no solace from the world or others because it all disappears
:
o
)
everyone's death is their own, there is no solace from the world or others because it all disappears !
everyone's death is their own, there is no solace from the world or others because it all disappears !
everyone's death is their own, there is no solace from the world or others because it all disappears
P
h
i
l
o
s
o
p
h
y
the
love
of
sophy ,
who's
sophy ?
:
o
)
P
h
i
l
o
s
o
p
h
y
the
love
of
sophy ,
who's
sophy ?
P - h - i - - l - o - s - o - p - h - y the love of
sophy , who's sophy ? :/; o ) (
P - h - i - - l - o - s - o - p - h - y the love of
sophy , who's sophy ? : o ) (
an interesting
account of the fastnet storm by robert
persig who wrote
“ zen and the art of motorcycle maintenence ” !
his
article cruising blues and their cure
an interesting
account of the fastnet storm by robert
persig who wrote
“ the art of zen and motorcycle maintenance ” !
there's some sort of possibly an oyster
mushroom growing on the
lawn, possibly a nematode eating member of the
hohenbuehelia genus
my lawn is full of nematodes which may be how it is living as it may be a rotten wood growing fungi and those nematodes could explain how it is living in the soil !
i can't identify it on the web, so thinking of
the dose makes the poison ( which is also paradoxically true for
BPA which may be much more endocrinally disruptive in very tiny tiny doses than larger ! ) i tried a one and a quarter of a square centimenter piece from the rim one centimeter wide, going one and a half centimeters into the gills
with breakfast and felt something slightly odd about half an hour later that lasted for half an hour, feeling abit light headed or something, might have been the breakfast, might try a slightly larger amount later (a minimum of ten hours between trials?)
i know it's not a death cap as it looks very different and there are no known death caps in tasmania so i don't think these very small amounts are dangerous : o)
anyway it pays to be very cautious and try before eating unless certain of identification as a stuffed liver or
kidneys ain't worth it !
i notice cattle won't eat fungi which is a sort of adaptive strategy since to them one fungi looks like another, but something has nibbled this mushroom as you can see from the
photo !
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it's the whole point of “ the dose makes the poison ”
harmful large doses of a substance can be tolerated in small doses
_________________________
1st may 2013, i tried a 3 sq centimeter piece from a young specimen of this
unknown mushroom and it seemed to have the same effect as the other two pieces i tried, sort feeling full and losing appetite several hours after eating it, so thinking it might be poisonous i searched “ poisonous mushrooms ” and lo and behold have come up it being
a
fenugreek milkcap
the watery latex/milk is colourless and quite distinctive for a milkcap !
the toxin leaches out in boiling water, boiling for ten minutes in a lot of water seems to give good results !
the removal is adequate, but not 100%
10 minutes on the 1 setting (7? psi) of my tefal delico pressure cooking works well, the water needs to be discarded !
it may be that the boiling/pressure cooking denatures the toxin significantly as well !
it's an odd world, when i first went to the usa in 1990, i stayed at the providence zen center, a beautiful place just out of cumberland, rhode island run by the kwan um zen school and jacob and grazyna perl were there with their very young son nicholas, i didn't know them well, but grazyna stood out with the design work she had done on the newly built house they lived in there, just an beautiful sense of space and arrangement...............
it was outstanding .....
i occasionally thought about my time at the providence zen center over the years, (hi joe if you ever read this :o) it was such a wonderful spot and so leafy green...........
then i read that jacob had died recently (aged 62 !) from a heart attack and searching was surprised to see they lived in central paris which sure seems along way from providence rhode island and i don't think the air quality in paris helped jacob's health !
but grazyna's art and nicolas's music was a surprise to me and quite unzen in a way because it's real creative talent and not the usual derivative zen rubbish, so different and i picked it when i was staying at providence but was unclued about creative realities then, either in myself or in others.........................
evan, (ed. shaw) there's a fine line between deep spiritual understanding and schizophrenia !
walter
russell is the wrong side of that :o), do your self a favour and get up to date with the latest physics of loop quantum gravity and the cyclic universe and you will find your notion of creator in some overt mechanistic sense rather than infinite but specifically realised
“potential
” will evaporate : o)
chromium supplementation is a huge help with lowering insulin resistance and new research is showing that high UVB sun on the skin, just doesn't make vitamin D but also other compounds that reduce the systemic inflammation involved in pancreatic islet cell destruction
over the past year i have tried two or maybe three brands of krill oil and they have all been rancid
because of its super high nutritional content they need to put a preservative in probably
i know that fish oil has been improved with more care in reducing oxidation in extraction
imo they still have work to do on the extraction side and avoiding oxidation of the krill oil
the very high nutritional value of the krill oil makes it more susceptible to degradation
food preservation has always been a problem and the health industry seems to get things wrong for a very long time before flicking out !
interesting
page (ed. disclaimer i haven't tried that product and at this stage take fish and not krill oil! )
research at the experimental biology 2013 conference
reports potential health benefits associated with irridated
mushroom consumption
good links at the bottom of that page
it's obviously a gathering wave, be the next big health thing I guess
easily the best results are with broadband uvb tubes but as these are so scary to the
moronic media fed idiots they will be searching for
the right sun
photobiology of vitamin D in mushrooms and its bioavailability in humans
mushrooms exposed to sunlight or uv radiation are an excellent source of dietary vitamin D2 because they contain high concentrations of the vitamin D precursor, provitamin D2
when mushrooms are exposed to uv radiation, provitamin D2 is converted to previtamin D2
once formed, previtamin D2 rapidly isomerizes to vitamin D2 in a similar manner that previtamin D3 isomerizes to vitamin D3 in human skin
continued exposure of mushrooms to uv radiation results in the production of lumisterol2 and tachysterol2
it was observed that the concentration of lumisterol2 remained constant in white button mushrooms for up to 24 h after being produced
however, in the same mushroom tachysterol2 concentrations rapidly declined and were undetectable after 24 h
shiitake mushrooms not only produce vitamin D2 but also produce vitamin D3 and vitamin D4
a study of the bioavailability of vitamin D2 in mushrooms compared with the bioavailability of vitamin D2 or vitamin D3 in a supplement revealed that ingestion of 2000 ius of vitamin D2 in mushrooms is as effective as ingesting 2000 ius of vitamin D2 or vitamin D3 in a supplement in raising and maintaining blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D which is a marker for a person's vitamin D status
therefore, mushrooms are a rich source of vitamin D2 that when consumed can increase and maintain blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in a healthy range
ingestion of mushrooms may also provide the consumer with a source of vitamin D
3 and vitamin D
4
supposedly the study is to be put up
in
very soon
also there's a fascinating
study in there on other beneficial photoproducts apart from vit D from uvb which has been my experience with a uvb lamp, that it
gives something that oral D3 doesn't :o)
