Exactly, SF. If I'd known then what I know now, my sons would never have gotten all of those. And I refuse to get any more of them in my lifetime. We don't know the long term ramifications of them, but it has been proven that they cause harm to many.
I don't know, but I remember that saying...and it's part of what kept us healthy. Now it's no longer true...the peck of dirt or the health benefits from it.
The lack of bacteria and dirt in our diet is the cause of many of our health problems today, especially the digestive ones. Crohn's Disease, colitis, diverticulitis, and celiac disease are at the highest levels ever because we've sanitized our food so much, and processed it so much, that our digestive tracts are dying...literally. The medical community advocates all of this anti-bacterial stuff, yet there are bacteria we need as part of our normal flora and fauna in our digestive tracts, and we're being deprived of them.
I miss well water, btw. I drink distilled water because here it's all city water, with pollutants that aren't natural and chlorine, so distilled is my best option. I eat organic foods to avoid the pesticides and hormones that are part of non-organic foods, and don't eat processed foods anymore, plus take supplements to support my immune and digestive systems.
Kudos to you for what you're doing for your immune system, Bentlee.
And those of us who are knowledgeable enough to be aware of what vaccines do to our bodies, and who care enough about what goes in them to not let someone else determine that, especially when it's a drug.
I pity the person who tries to make me take a vaccine at gunpoint. Did you say you were moving here where that's considered battery and joining the protests, Sambhava?
Gods help us all if anything like this actually gets implemented.
Personally, I hate it. Just when you think you've got a pigeonhole to put me in, you'll find out something that will blow that one as well. I'm too multi-faceted for that...and I've done my best to describe me in a few words on my profile. That's the closest to a "category" you'll ever be able to put me in honestly.
Yes, I do. I've done them when I was a practicing solitary witch, and I've seen the results.
No, I no longer cast spells, nor practice as a witch. I've moved more towards shamanism, healing, and practicing as a druid with simple reverence for all around me instead, though I still tap into and feel the energy around me.
Beautiful that you have that, Riz. I have to say that if I ran into my first husband somewhere, we would want to have a civil conversation and didn't part enemies. I can't say that of my third husband. My second is the father of my sons...and refuses to remain civil with me despite the children. Thankfully, they're almost grown up, and fast approaching an age that they can drive themselves wherever they want to go. I won't have to deal with him much longer.
And yes, here parents take classes to teach you not to put the kids in the middle, and he totally ignored everything they said.
I relax in my living room on my chaise lounge with the dogs and watch TV for my last couple of hours of the day, then go to bed. If I'm having trouble getting to sleep, I pull out my prayer mala or light a candle and do a meditation. That always relaxes me enough to sleep.
I hear you on all of that, Immanuelle. I'll add lobster to mine, though...real Maine lobster, and clams (steamers we call them back home).
I'll eat all of the wheat and cheese stuff last so that I can truly enjoy the seafood part first. But yep, they'd better get in there within a short amount of time after to avoid the pain it will cause.
Ah, in that case, no. I'm a widow, and though I will always treasure what I had with my late husband, I'm way too young to consider remaining faithful to him for the rest of my days. He wasn't my first marriage, and I hope he wasn't my last. I want one more true love in my life, this time for the remainder of the journey. That won't in any way take away from what I had with him, nor will what I had take away from a future love. If anything, because it was so happy, and because of what I learned from that one, it will only add to the next one.
Yes, I believe it is. Studies show that those who are in happy, monogamous relationships are healthier than those who aren't. Even without the studies, I think that would just make sense.
I'd remain single. I have to say that while I play well with others, and I share many things well with others, I don't share my man. I'm a one-man woman who needs a one-woman man, it's that simple.
And I'm honest enough to admit I'd be too jealous to share him. I'm not jealous in a relationship when I know it's monogamous, but I would be if I had to try to share.
RE: Survival....
Yes, but I seem to recall that you've had more than your share of pesticides, too. That outweighs the benefits from the dirt, my friend.