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  2. Posted

    The reptilian brain is good for something, isn't it? (brain stem, and i don't remember the name of the other part. etc.)

    Just like the frontal lobes are good for something else.

    I guess it's about balance and equal developement of all of the aspects. Harmony, evolution, balance, practise, etc.

  4. Posted

    who's Avid Dyke? ;)

     

    but seriously,

     

    it's better than state/dictator approved television?

     

    ok sure some countries are a lot better than other countries

     

    but there's always something that can be done better *some*where?

     

    let me just say i understand both sides of it

     

    by the way his advance theories are not bad at all imo, for example the many dimensions theory and calendar etc theories

     

    by the way, anyone know the Storm (Don Lawrence drawn) and Erich von Danicken comics? They're good. :)

     

    http://images.google.nl/images?hl=nl&q...le&resnum=4

     

    http://tatjana.ingold.ch/index.php?id=comic5

  7. Posted

    do these petitions work in accomplishing their goals? or am I just putting my real name on list of political activists?

     

    you know ..... that's a really good question.

    it could be one, or the other, or either of those, or even nothing.

     

    at least something of that biodynamic organisation or company would have to have long standing credentials of itself, but i don't know that organisation for myself.

     

    on the other hand, if it really does help, it seems like a really good thing. in a way at least.

     

    what would be the alternatives? beside this? probably plenty. like boycotting some things all by yourself, in a small group, in bigger groups. like growing your own things whenever possible and making it work. like anonymous statements? and so?

     

    :blink:

  10. Posted

    Some things that truely bother me is for example the banning of raw milk and raw milk cheeses, they are healthyer, tastyer and more easily digested. The reason why raw milk could be dangerous (and it happens very little anyway) is not because of the milk but by the way the cows are held (too many and too many antibiotics, etc)

     

    The solution for more and healthyer raw milk would be simply to test the milk on site or at the factory.

    simple and it works. all done.

     

    but no? let's ban raw milk altogether? what kind of sense is that? commercialization and industrialisation going over the edge and insane? sell more shit instead of sell more quality? i think so. :)

     

     

    Also i want to be able to buy plants and supplements and grow my own food and things like that.

     

     

    Any regulation that should be done is to insure a good product. That's all. The rest should be more or less free. No?

     

    How else are people going to get smart instead of being made dumb?

  13. Posted

    If people are stupid enough to get involved into that stuff then they deserve it!!! :o

     

    don't think so. ignorant people do not deserve to be punished by things like that.

     

     

    If you see a nasty ad and you are also endowed with inhuman motivation to prevent it, what you can do is very very carefully right click on the link (do not click the link) and select Properties (in IE and Firefox). Then in the dialog that pops up, select the entire huge ass link there and PM me that. I can specifically blog ads from certain domains from showing up, bother otherwise Pietro explains the situation very accurately.

     

    Best,

    Sean

     

    cool. (and you probably mean block and not blog?) ;):P

  14. Posted

    I would much rather go the Red Marine Algae route and Astragalus and extra vitamin C and maybe also homeopathic anti flu's.

     

    Injected pharmaceutical anti flu shots seem like the most desperate/last and perhaps most ignorant option, and also the things that's in them doesn't make a lot of great sense. (pharmaceutical corruption at its finest? (that seems to also be: humanely, naturally, acceptably at its worst (or nearing it.))

  15. Posted

    I've now read much about it and it's actually opening the central channel and letting chi go through it, developing and storing in the lowest dan tien from the chi that goes through the central channel, and inner smile kind of practise/feeling/warmth/radiating-good-stuff/feeling-good, plus the extra geometrics stuff and chi shield after the prior steps have been taken and with success.

  17. Posted

    http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/708/1

     

    Fountain of Youth on Easter Island?

     

    By Gisela Telis

    ScienceNOW Daily News

    8 July 2009

    Move over, Moai. Easter Island may now boast another odd claim to fame: a midlife longevity drug. In a new study, researchers report that an antibiotic called rapamycin--after the island's Polynesian name, Rapa Nui--enabled middle-aged mice to live up to 16% longer than their rapa-free counterparts. The discovery marks the first time a drug has been shown to lengthen life span in mammals, even when administered late in life.

     

    Scientists first stumbled on rapamycin in soil samples taken from Easter Island in 1965. A bacterium found in the soil, Streptomyces hygroscopicus, secreted the stuff to fend off its bacterial and fungal rivals. Rapamycin has since been used to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients and, most recently, as an antitumor drug. The compound works by inhibiting mTOR, a protein that regulates cell growth and survival. When researchers realized that calorie restriction, which is known to lengthen life spans in mice, also suppresses mTOR activity, they began to wonder if rapamycin might boost longevity as well.

     

    Encouraged by earlier studies showing that insects and worms live longer on rapamycin, a trio of labs--the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine--decided to test the compound on mice. The labs had access to hundreds of mice genetically diverse enough to model human diversity, thanks to the U.S. National Institute on Aging's Interventions Testing Program, which investigates treatments with life-extending potential.

     

    Pharmacologist Randy Strong and molecular biologist Z. David Sharp, who headed the study's Texas arm, planned to feed young mice rapamycin and observe the drug's effects as they aged. But by the time the researchers formulated a feed that made the rapamycin stable and easily digestible, the mice had grown old--20 months old, or about 60 human years. Because calorie restriction and other life-lengthening measures work best when started young, Strong and his colleagues didn't expect the experiment to work in midlife. Yet the mice lived 28% to 38% longer than the controls from that point on, the researchers report in Nature, the equivalent of 6 to 9 extra years in humans. Their overall life expectancy rose 5% to 16%.

     

    "We were really excited because this appears to be the first drug that slows aging even if it's started later in life," says Strong. Although he and his colleagues aren't yet sure how rapamycin lengthens life, it's thought that suppressing mTOR, whatever the method, prompts the body to hunker down and wait for better times, slowing its growth processes and strengthening its defenses against cell-damaging stressors.

     

    The study comes as "a pleasant surprise," says University of Washington, Seattle, molecular biologist Matthew Kaeberlein, who was among the first to propose the mTOR-longevity link. "This tells us the [mTOR] pathway affects aging in mammals ... and probably affects people as well."

     

    Don't expect antiaging drugs to hit the market anytime soon, though. Rapamycin is known to raise cholesterol levels and, as a potent immune system suppressant, the compound could make its consumers more susceptible to infections. Kaeberlein hopes future studies will measure the health of rapa-enhanced mice and the effects of varying rapamycin doses, in hopes of divorcing the drug's benefits from its dangers.

  20. Posted

    IRC would be a nice place to idle around ;) and perhaps jump into a conversation once in a while ;)

    It would be a great option to do actual live flamewars ;) and good discussions and maybe it could even fascilitate a team up of many sorts to a greater degree ;)

    So is it going to be on irc.freenode.net #taobums ? ;)

  24. Posted

    at the very least it would be interesting speculation

    and at the very least also a lot more interesting probably than other types of news reports, which are even more nonsensical and uneducational, more 'flat' and doesn't give any answers, it just tells you it's unanswering opinion is true, it leaves no room for speculation or ideas, and so on, even if being watched more regularly, shall we say. it may also be slightly more interesting, intelligent and useful than let's say for example big brother or jerry springer ?

     

    ofcourse this is not a complete answer either, some ideas may be overexaggerated or even not true, the real answer probably lies between those two, doesn't it?

  25. Posted

    Rife's work on finding the resonance frequencies of harmful organisms and oscillating them out of existance, and more specifically one's body, and for the frequencies to be able to penetrate the skin and 'scan' the frequency through the whole body is even more fascinating than the electrical stimulation in my opinion, i think the electrical current devices are probably a lot less potent to be truely helpful. Though they my be useful for lighter kinds of work?