Posts by anewdawn

I have washed my husband's entire wallet about 10 times as well I washed his USB Stick thing  - that still worked actually - both times.  Hoping for you!!

I think the possiblities do all exist but I like that they perhaps do the homework that a couple considering marriage should do...or parenthood - You can't guarantee someone won't change, marry a douche, become an addict to something...but I would almost think that with most things pre-agreed on and compatibility determined there would be a better chance of success?? 

I guess time will tell. 

Never mind - I don't even know why I contributed to this discussion to be honest. 

I am not scientific in any way shape or form.  I did think about how the article said healthier and not healthy - I decided in my mind that they were inferring the drink itself was healthy overall - I was incorrect. 

I find the science of nutrition interesting, but it always loses me in the middle somewhere because it doesn't inspire me in any way shape or form - I am better off listening to someone who is inspired by it talk. 

Original Post by holden82:

Well... I'm going to disagree with you there.  You may go by intuition and your common sense in your daily activities, but whether you admit it or not, you are the beneficiary of scientific knowledge and technological advancements.  The computer you use, the website you're visiting, and the tools, scales, charts, bmr calculators, and all the rest--these are the result of science, not common sense, not intuition.  The fact that you have any basic knowledge of nutritional requirements, the nutritional values of foods, hell, even what a calorie is, indicates your reliance on the fruits of scientific labors. 

Furthermore, you live in a world in which a great deal of devastating diseases have been eradicated or are kept comfortably at bay by medications developed using scientific methods.  Average life expectancies have more than doubled in the last 100 years thanks to such methods--including industrial agriculture, btw--so there is nothing at all remarkable about someone living into their fifties, and sixties, or in industrialized countries, their seventies and eighties. 

Are there bad scientists?  Yes.  Is there corruption in politics, business, and academia?  Yes.  Should you pay attention and read and evaluate research to the best of your ability?  Yes.  But by and large, as long as the studies are subject to peer review and--and this is important--the results are replicated, you're pretty safe in going with the general consensus in a scientific community.  At the very least, you're statistically more safe than categorically disagreeing with them every time your common sense conflicts with them. This would include having a blanket, unexamined fear of anything referred to as a "chemical" or an unspecified "toxin," and so on. 

 

 

Well specifically what I disagree with is that one of the studies say that aspartame is a healther choice....I could concur that it's not the evil some make it out to be....but I would reisist drinking the diet koolaide because of the health benefits. 

And I am not so sure that science isn't a means to describe what already exists as far as biology goes - technology may be another thing.  I can appreciate what science is and does without treating it like a diety in lieu of a diety. 

Ok - well in order for me to truly answer your last question, I would have to go to my spiritual belief's and practices to honestly answer your question - however, in order to respect you belief's, I will choose to not go there - and to to wish you well. 

If I was a professional like View is - I would better know how to answer this. 

This is how it's done.  Supporting your beliefs and respecting them cost me absolutley nothing. 

It could have been just me - my ex was told to have everything at his house - but all he heard was he was paying maintenance and it was my job.  He also wanted joint and shared for the cheaper maintenance - technically, he didn't have them enough to qualify due to his work schedule - the kids were babysat a whole lot - but it was just so much easier to have go away than to have him go away mad. 

My kids didn't like it - but there was a lot of animosity in our divorce - he's kind of a bully and I was bad for taking the bait all the time.

What I like though most about this is the homework they do - had I taken the time to be a smarter 22 year old self - and asked the questions and got the answers I would have either divorced him before kids or never agreed to have kids with him. As much as I would never wish my children away - I truly regret what they went through.   I really believe the more similarities you have, the better parents you can be. 

I asked my husband last night about my friend's surgery as far as cost.  He believes that because she already had cancer in one breast that actually did involve some of the lymph nodes that would have made her surgery deemed non-elective and thus paid for by Alberta Health Care.

As an aside - she posted this story on FB with the words - Brave and wise. 

So - what Angelina did and doing it publically made a difference to her - and that's all kinds of cool.

I guess it's one of those things where the celebration should be that there is choice - what choice any one person makes is subjective and personal to them.

I have been pondering this all day - It almost seems like there is a fear of diagnosis here?  That if you never have it checked...you will never get the news but I think that's playing it very dangerously - it's not that you will never get the diagnosis, it's that when you do, it may very well be too late. 

If it is fear that's keeping a person from doing and managing their personal care, it would be so much better to just realize that whatever life brings - you can face it - by giving yourself a fighting chance you are more likely to survive it. 

I do get it to a degree - I had a lump once and my first thought was to ignore it and it will go away - of course my husband - who found it - kept up asking me when my Doctor's appointment was - so I made it - then decided not to give it any more power over me than it deserved in that moment - it turned out to be a cyst full of fluid that is never cancer.  Now, in that moment the freedom and graitude I felt for my body was...well it was huge. 

I had fire training once....best day of my work life!!  Couldn't stop smiling....

Original Post by kathygator:

I'd call ogling a far different thing than hollering out. Geeze, we'd all get fired if it weren't. ;)

Thank goodness for that - nothing like a group of firemen working to oogle.....