Re: angel on a bad day

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WOW Angel what a post!!! :) R u ok now? I hope you are feeling

better and I just wanted to say that you are right about many things

you said but you are missing the fact that we are BLESSED! We are

the enlightened ones! We are going to have a better quality of

life! Because of what we are learning, we will be around to swing

our on bats! I am so glad that i found out that we have been lied

to! Yes, I was lazy when it came to cooking for my family. It was

very easy not to question the powers that be about food pyramids and

sugar in the " 100% juice " I sent with my sons in their " healthy "

lunches everyday. Life was more comfortable---until my son proved to

be " ADD " and I developed " ulcerative colitis/crohn's " (docs could not

agree) which really was a c. diff infection from an antibiotic that i

did not really need for my probably viral infection. I am GLAD that

Doc messed up and almost killed me. It was a wake up call that has

turned things around for generations that will follow me starting

w/my 9 and 7 year old sons. So, welcome to the light of the truth

and keep your chin up. It is a privledge to be amoung those who are

learning the truth! Take care, Roni

hello claire,

>

> i enjoyed reading your post.

>

> mainly because it was interesting how our observations of americans

differ. i find myself thinking that i'm sure a lot more cynical than

you are.

>

> what you observe as " trusting, " i see as pure and simple " lazy. "

>

> what this observation of mine is formed by is the apparent

unsatiable and voracious demand for time-savers in our society and

unwillingness to exert any effort that doesn't offer an instant

return of sorts.

>

> tv-dinners, fast food, drive-through foods, drive-through

pharmacies, drive-through banking, flash-networking, speed-dating,

drive-through car washes, walk-in clinics, quick answers, instant

gratification, instant oatmeal, microwaves, email, prepackaged DEAD

food in a bag for our pets requiring only a 10 second scoop-and-pour

attention, quick solutions, band-aid treatments, feel-good now stuff,

menstrual symptoms instant eliminators (who cares that it hurts

because we're supposed to REST, we need to work. NOW), cold

eliminators (same reason), tummy tucks instead of sit ups, instant

tans (probably more a time saver than uv avoidance), INSTANT real-

time news (making rip-and-read reporting the norm, not enabling

journalists to do their due diligence research if they want to keep

their job !!!!) ...

>

> we want things that keep us going NOW, we don't have time to think

of later or the future. if it ain't broke, don't fix it now

attitude. we don't want to hear the whispers from our bodies. we

want to shut them up with pain killers and steroids and hormones and

feel good herbs. we don't have time to listen to them. it would

require taking responsibility. it would require making extra effort.

it would require extra work on our part (without making money on it

NOW), time for learning new ways, slowing down, breathing, thinking,

listening, learning, questioning, searching...

>

> no, i'm so disgusted and frankly just plain scared that there is no

way my disillusioned mind could explain the reason for the mainstream

ignorance being that we are " trusting. "

>

> i'm envious that you see it that way. i wish i were that nice and

positive still and that non-disgusted, non-disillusioned, non-

frustrated, non-depressed about the sorry state of our situation.

scared for my children, scared of doctors, scared because i have no

one in my court to go to bat for me " my way " if i get sick, no one

interested or willing or educated enough to be able to swing what

needs to be a humongous monster bat to counteract all the

brainwashing and scepticism and resistance from the

western/allopathic health attitudes. scared for the 70 year old

little helpless lonely man trusting the doctor to save his wife by

doing chemo, scared for all the fighters of our cause catching

my " disillusionement bug. "

>

> it really is different in other countries. it's not just lip

service. still, to some degree. but unfortunately, with money &

power being progressively more important in terms of survival in

every corner of this planet - the speed with which money can be

acquired, dictates our hunger for time savers and corner-cutters

everywhere. and sadly, the places that used to have a healthier

lifestyle are all modelling the us-way at increasing rates.

>

> maybe there is a wave that is rising now. we have the internet.

we can connect, find each other, group together. there is strength

in numbers, no doubt about it. exponentially grow our knowledge

through organic sharing of it, through contributing to it, pooling it

and drawing from it. there are a lot more books about it and a lot

more demand for it due to inadequacies in healing through

allopathics. but still, it's not really a wave, in the big scheme of

things.

>

> it's barely a ripple. so vulnerable to being disrupted by the

massive forces it is surrounded by.

>

> i'm a downer with this post, and sorry. i don't know why i'm even

posting this, except for selfish reasons, to diffuse my depressed

feelings about the whole thing. or maybe hope that still positive

people like claire will persuade me that there is great hope out

there...

>

> i'm angry at times. at myself. for having been curious. for

having questioned the status quo. for having " wasted " my time

learning, informing myself. because i'm not happier now than i was

when i didn't KNOW.

>

> i was happier then,

> i fit in with people around me better then.

> life was less complicated then.

> i was comforted by knowing that such things as " doctors " existed.

> doctors who were experts in " me " released me from having to become

one myself

> i had more time for mindless activities instead of this constant

reading and learning and preparing food.

> i had more friends then.

> i didn't feel judged and separated then

> i belonged, i wasn't " weird "

> i didn't have to constantly defend and explain my choices

> i was more hopeful.

> the world and it's future had rosy hues that gave me peace

> i wasn't scared.

> i wasn't on constant, heavy defense & demand & negotiation mode

with medics

> i wasn't in despair about how to help loved ones who're ill and

unwilling to try new ways

> i thought any solution had an expert out there for hire to fix it

>

> i'm not happy anymore. but that's maybe the price of knowledge.

the curse of knowledge, of awareness, of introspection. one can't

ever un-know what one once knows. it's no wonder poets and

songwriters have the highest suicide rate of any

profession/occupation consistently through history of humanity. once

we start thinking deeply, connecting to the essence of things instead

of the buzz around us, we see all the wrongs around us and their

magnitude and the helplessness is overwhelming.

>

> i'm shutting up and hoping my drivel bores you enough to just

delete it.

>

> angel on a bad day