Re: MIserable (Pick Your Own Curse Words) Ribs

May 2, 2004

Hi again Mike,

I have to agree with you, quite a lot of the docs really should earn

money on something else, preferably something that would have to do

with papers only... Well, just anything, as long as it didn't have to

do with people (or animals, they deserve better too, well maybe with

the exception of critters like cockroaches, tee-hee)... I love the

theory that some surgeons chose their profession as a defense

mechanism (sublimation, if I remember right), they chose that instead

of becoming sadistic knife killers... LOL... The worst part is that

this is not kidding, it is totally serious, our psychology lecturer

told us in college... Maybe that is what we need to do when we meet

one of the really obnoxious ones, tell them about this " You know what

Psychologists say about you surgeons?...... Good for you, this sure

beats death row " ... I'm not sure if it would be a good thing to do

though, unless you don't have to go back ever... Sure would have been

fun though, some of those guys are just awful, as arrogant as they

can possibly get...

I bet you would have had fun being on the TV program... Can I go

too if I can get you on it? LOL But on a more serious note, it is

really amazing what they come up with and how totally it shows to be

true. Things they never could have known about, places they have

never been before... Do you really mean it when you say you think

you lived on Tahiti in previous lives, or are you just kidding. Not

easy to know... Some say they always had an urge to go somewhere, and

when they finally go there they feel that they have been there

before... Anyway, with what I have read here and there and watching

TV programs like that, I sure feel you need to at least have an open

mind... Doing regressions and such is very controversial here.

The Psychologist on the show actually lost his license because he

used regression therapy on patients. It has raised a lot of

controversy that he is now on the show after that, and also that the

production company chose just him to do it for them... It could be

fun to try to write to them though, if you are serious. But I doubt

they would let you on, simply because you live far away...

On the subject of TV programs. There's a really great one here where

they send people away for 4 days, and really good carpenters etc.

redecorate a room in their house while they are away. No easy and

cheap solutions like e.g. on Changing Spaces/Changing Rooms, but

really well done stuff. This program has an online forum, and I was

the first one to post on it a couple of weeks after the show started

on TV. I was asking about some things, and others soon joined.

Several of them wanted to be on the show. I didn't ask about that at

all, but mentioned just a sentence like " Oh, how great it would have

been if they could do my bathroom, make it really practical for a

wheelchair and I could get the jacuzzi I have always dreamt of " . Then

the producer suddenly mailed me, saying that they would love to do my

bathroom... I was so excited, you have no idea... But then they

couldn't do it, because I live about 200 miles from where the

production company is, in Oslo. They could only afford to do things

there, because the cost of taking the whole production team here

would be too high... I was so disappointed, it would just have been

so fantastic... Think of being able to sink down into a wonderful

jacuzzi after a hard day, getting a really wonderful water massage...

Oh well, maybe one day... But if they had done it, I wouldn't just

have got a standard tile bathroom, it would have been so special,

probably with a lot of materials which aren't that common, they are

so creative, but everything is really functional too. They even make

all the furniture, one of the guys on the team is a really skilled

and popular furniture carpenter, he makes such wonderful customized

things. You should have seen the living room they made for a single

dad with two boys. They got a really neat and decorative " bowed "

wall, with a built in projector, DVD and Nintendo or something like

that, so they could watch TV, movies or play games, with the other

wall as the screen. So neat...

Oh well... Now the TV program starts, so I'll be off the computer...

PS! I will reply to your other mail later...

Aase Marit

>

>(1) Of course doctors need to earn some money. I just feel that a

>lot of them should do it in some field other than medicine.

>

>(2) I know it will take time, but one of my objectives in trying to

>teach some of this alternative stuff (particularly things for pain

>management) is to put a real financial hurt on as many major drug

>companies as possible. I think it would be absolutely wonderful if I

>could push at least one into bankruptcy before I die. Of course, if

>they had any idea about this, they might try to arrange to hasten my

>departure.

>

>(3) As for your TV program, can you arrange to get me on it? I just

>know that I had to have spent at least one previous life time in

>Tahiti.

>

>(4) And I think something like that TV program is the only way I

>will ever be able to go back. About 30 years ago, my wife and her

>then best friend (neighbor across the street from us) kept talking

>about going to Hawaii. I didn't have any interest in going to

>Hawaii at the time. Well, the two of them were out in the front

>yard talking about it (again) one Saturday afternoon. I piped in

>with " OK - I have enough miles built up. I'll cash enough to send

>the two of you to Hawaii and I'll go to Tahiti. " Response from

>wifey? " Like hell you will. " It took at least another fifteen years

>before " we " finally went to Hawaii. I'm still waiting for Tahiti.

>

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May 2, 2004