civility

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please, there is no need for all of this. i apologize for snapping, but, in

truth, i do resent being condescended to. i am an intelligent, fairly

well-informed person, and i have reason to believe that i'm coping with enough

that a raw diet simply wouldn't be feasible for me--let alone max--not to

mention the fact that--as i pointed out--digesting raw food is actually getting

increasingly difficult for me. so telling me at every turn that my life would be

better if only i ate more raw food is not merely patronizing, it's

counter-productive. i really, really appreciate a lot of the info that i do get

at this site, but all i was really looking for was some help with the candida. i

got some of that--thanks to those of you who helped me out there--have reduced

the herbals and will probably only do another week--i think it actually *is*

helping, so i don't want to discontinue it altogether, and have been searching

for the L-glut, which i don't remember being this hard to get a

year ago. odd.

and i acknowledged the dubiousness of some of the contents of the greens bar,

which is what led me to expressing some surprise over it working for us. i

really didn't need to be told, " hey, those contents are dubious. " that was my

point. larabars, btw, do not work. not sure why. fructose content too high or

something. i find it very odd that certain foods synthesize well with some but

not others, and it goes so much deeper than the whole food combining philosophy

explanation.

i grew up on a kibbutz, and rapidly learned there that you need to learn treat

your comrades with respect and diplomacy, no matter how you may detest some of

them (and i don't think we have that problem here). they're making a

contribution, same as you: cooking your meals, watching your kids, guarding you

while you sleep, etc.--and if you can settle your disagreements with maturity,

it works out infinitely better for everyone involved. if we all work together in

a civilized manner, offering what we know so that we may help each other,

apologizing when we have had a bad day and hit 'send' without thinking, and in

general keeping our friends' (for i do regard you all as friends) well-being in

mind...we might do each other some good.

if we can't manage that, and have to utilize this forum as a sort of

braggadocio agora, or get upset at everything and flame out or disappear, we

might as well go back to our lonely, pre-internet lives--i don't know about you

guys, but i've had MS for 20 years. i remember the bad old days, when absolutely

every iota of info you ever gleaned was the result of long, hard, lonely

research-- and usually obsolete by the time you got it home. i have seen too

many wonderful forums destroyed by a combination of domineering loudmouthery and

thin skin. the complete errata of tom waits i can live without. this forum i

can't. please, please, don't anybody go away, and gina, especially not you. i

can always e you privately, true, but i think everyone is benefitting from what

you have to say.

that is all. peace to everyone.

aviva

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