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15 years ago
Jose
Instead of taxing, I think a better solution would be to remove farm subsidies so that fast food wouldn't turn out to be so "cheap" after all, letting the free market determine the prices of different foods. This way people are less taxed, can spend their extra money as they see fit, junk food is not as cheap, and the market isn't distorted in favour of these processed foods.
Cheers,
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 15 years ago
Jose
122. Re: The God Delusion
Hey wong,
Sorry about the delay in replying, I've been meaning to get back to this thread for a while. You're right when you say that we are incapable of seeing most of the matter of the Universe with our own eyes. Our eyes are only sensitive to a narrow range of the electromagnetic spectrum, namely those wavelengths which, due to their utility on this planet, we have evolved to appreciate. S
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 15 years ago
Jose
123. Re: Genesis 1:29
Hey ltf, nice to have you back. I think your point is well made, so in the same sense that there is not much that studying your dog can say about me, there is not much that studying the bible (Torah, Koran, etc..) can say about the existence of A spiritual power. What studying the bible (Torah, Koran, etc..) can tell you is a lot about the non-existence of a PARTICULAR spiritual power, the one th
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 15 years ago
Jose
For those of us that might not ever make the trip up to the top
Cheers,
J
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 15 years ago
Jose
125. Re: Genesis 1:29
QuoteThen God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
If one reads the Old Testament one finds many instances of ritual human and animal sacrifices. It is only by cherry picking from the Bible that one can hope to extract anything positive from it. And who deci
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 15 years ago
Jose
Hey coco, thanks, just trying to clear up a few things which people sometimes fall for.
This article describes how this religious professor has a more reasonable stance on evolution, and claims that it is more compatible with religious faith.
QuoteRoving Defender of Evolution, and of Room for God
SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY Francisco J. Ayala says that belief in evolution does not necessarily r
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 15 years ago
Jose
Interesting article I read recently. Tentative explanation of how the fusion of white blood cells with tumours can help explain metastasis, or the spread of the tumours. If tumours were somehow supplemental detox/storage organs, then this cooperation with the body's immune system would make sense too.
QuoteScientists at Yale provide explanation for how cancer spreads
Metastasis, the spread
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 15 years ago
Jose
Yeah, I guess I've had it for a while now...
Maybe I should look into changing it... maybe a dancing polar bear?
I'll see if I can find one
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
129. Re: Genesis 1:29
QuoteThe God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction. Jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic-cleanser; a misogynistic homophobic racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal….
From The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins.
If you read the Old Testament, you will f
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
<<But it is not out of bounds to point out that the modern times articulator of evolution ( evolution has been believed throughout time, in various forms), Darwin himself, accepted eugenics.>>
When you make assertions like this you should at least provide some evidence. Do you have any?
A good place to get you started on this topic is the following article, with references there
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
Hemp. Also you can get things made out of bamboo fibre.
Cheers,
J
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
I basically agree with DZM on all points here.
Cheers,
J
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
It's an interesting thought, I would have to learn more about it before making any conclusions.
<<It happens a lot easier when we get old and everything is breaking down slowly slowly and not functioning normally but the damaged and abnormally functioning cells are accumulating. >>
If tumours were somehow "detox/storage organs" then it would make sense that older peopl
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
Finally an aspect of the GM crop catastrophe makes it to the mainstream. Hopefully this will represent a turning point.
QuoteExposed: the great GM crops myth
Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, a
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Jose
For those interested in learning more about evolution, you may be interested in knowing that all of Darwin's work is available for free online viewing here
Cheers,
J
ps I do hope elnatural will respond and be open to these ideas based on the evidence provided.
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
Interesting article.
QuoteMore so than in any other area of human behavior, the world of politics is firmly and irretrievably grounded in contradictions and illusions. If you were to ask others to identify the purposes for which governments were created, you would likely get the response: "to protect our lives, liberty, and property from both domestic and foreign threats." This is an
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
Hey David,
Hope you are well and well done on the blood test I suppose
It would be interesting if you had the results of some blood tests before you went raw, since if I remember right I think you said you had high blood pressure and borderline heart problems then.
Could be motivational for those people that have those kind of problems now, and for whom conventional medicine suggests dr
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Jose
Daryl Hannah lives off the grid apparently
Something I'd like to contemplate in the longer term.
Cheers,
J
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Jose
This image from the thread I quote above illustrates the point quite well I think.
Cheers,
J
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Jose
Looking at the Farm Bill helps to understand why the prices of real food are so much higher than those of junk food, see the discussion here for instance
Cheers,
J
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Jose
Hey, that's cool. I'm actually growing some spinach and a sunflower on my windowsill as a little experiment right now (and also have some raspberry, blueberry and blackcurrant bushes on the go too!)
I didn't soak or sprout them at all beforehand, just put them in the soil and started watering them
The spinach has been growing for about six weeks, and the sunflower for about four. Sinc
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 16 years ago
Jose
As usual the justification for these kinds of things is "technical" reasons: in this case they claim there "aren't enough" human eggs to go around and also it's "easier" to extract animal eggs.
I agree that of their supposed goal of learning about certain chronic diseases they will learn very little if anything with this approach.
Cheers,
J
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
144. Re: Gnomes!
Hey, beautiful babies you two!
Here's some eco-toys , , .
This is similar to stuff you make coco
Cheers,
J
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
Haha, that was great, brilliant for kids
Cheers,
J
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
146. What hands can do
Pretty cool pictures
Cheers,
J
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
This is a good idea: trying to rehabilitate people via nature instead of just punishing them.
QuoteHere’s an island prison that’s about as distant in principle from Alcatraz as is it in location. Bastoey Island, about 45 miles south of Oslo, hosts some of Norway’s worst offenders in what is effectively an eco-village working holiday camp. Instead of
the traditional barred cells, pris
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
Interesting article
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Human noses 'can detect danger'
Our noses can quickly learn to link even subtle changes in smell with danger, claim scientists.
Volunteers who could not differentiate between two similar smells found they could do it easily after being given a mild electric shock alongside one.
Brain scans confirmed the change in the "smelling" part of the brain.
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
Good news from the solar energy sector. One example: recent advances in efficiency expected to bring solar power costs down to 1USD/Watt by 2012, in direct competition with coal.
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1366 Technologies is Bringing Solar Power Closer to $1/Watt
by Michael Graham Richard, Gatineau, Canada on 03.27.08
Science & Technology (alternative energy)
1366 Technologies, a company named after t
Forum: Other Topics (not health related) 16 years ago
Jose
QuoteNew 'battle of Midway' over plastic
By David Shukman
BBC environment correspondent, Midway
Wildlife under threat
On the coral atoll of Midway in the central Pacific - famous for America's first victory over the Japanese fleet in World War Two - wildlife experts are facing a new battle against a rising tide of plastic waste.
The Midway Islands are home to some of the world's m
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