Discoveries For A Full Life
March 30, 2011 2 Comments
We appreciate your visits and support! We’re experiencing massive overload here getting the greenhouse ready for season and a number of other community developments that are time and energy intensive. We’re suspending blogging “operations” until further notice and will fire up the presses again when we get a handle on all the workload –
THANKS!
March 27, 2011 3 Comments
By Jack
(this is a re-post – Jack wrote this early on in our blogging effort just a couple months back and it did not get the attention it deserves…)
We were hangin’ last week laughing about all the “romantic” things that turn out not – the constant “grass is always greener” kind of imagining about living this way or that, and the more seriously unfortunate romantic notions like eager young men going off to fight in a war for “an honorable cause” only to come home (if they’re lucky) with post-traumatic stress disorder and painfully disillusioned.
Well, living off-grid has not so much life-death drama (well, can have…) but many off-grid-wannabe’s do over-romanticize the whole she-bang just out of plain in-experience.
March 26, 2011 Leave a comment
First up we have a seemingly innocuous invention that Neil Foster sees something more sinister in- :
Extra Chips in the Fridge Could Put You in Chains: RFID Tracking of Your Food Ration Coming Soon!
But we’re not living is a police state are we? The state seems to think so and is preparing to protect itself from YOU:
America’s New Weapon Against The Citizenry
Need something more uplifting after all that? How about from Humans are Free:
The Pineal Gland – The “Seat of the Soul”?
Having to cope with a disaster seems more likely these days – how you view your ancestry could determine how well you do:
Hunter-Gatherer Vs. Agrarian: A Comparison of Disaster Coping Strategies
And finally, for the ladies (or the gay men…) some good info when planning your next vacation… or move:
Penis sizes worldwide: Yeah, there’s a map for that
… and do enjoy your weekend!
March 26, 2011 Leave a comment
First up we have a seemingly innocuous invention that Neil Foster sees something more sinister in- :
Extra Chips in the Fridge Could Put You in Chains: RFID Tracking of Your Food Ration Coming Soon!
But we’re not living is a police state are we? The state seems to think so and is preparing to protect itself from YOU:
America’s New Weapon Against The Citizenry
Need something more uplifting after all that? How about from Humans are Free:
The Pineal Gland – The “Seat of the Soul”?
Having to cope with a disaster seems more likely these days – how you view your ancestry could determine how well you do:
Hunter-Gatherer Vs. Agrarian: A Comparison of Disaster Coping Strategies
And finally, for the ladies (or the gay men…) some good info when planning your next vacation… or move:
Penis sizes worldwide: Yeah, there’s a map for that
… and do enjoy your weekend!
March 21, 2011 7 Comments
by Ravi
You may just want to check out where your rice is coming from.
I’m old enough to remember the shock and awe at the sci-fi flik “Soylent Green” where good ‘ol Chas Heston discovered that the food solution for the over-crowded, polluted and no longer productive earth was to re-process the dead and dying into “Soylent Green” chips – food from the bodies of the dead.
It was truly a “camp” film and it quickly became (and still is) a kind of classic symbol of our over-crowded earth, the stretching of our limited resources by rampant, unthinking over-population. The thing is – back in the 1970’s it was still campy sci-fi. The world population was just clicking over 3 billion and although for those who were paying attention, the red flags were starting to pop up regarding over-population, underproduction of food, crop failures and starvation, most people were complacent and happily ignorant.
March 18, 2011 1 Comment
by Ravi
“Oh Damn!” I said – frustrated that my memory was so lousy, “we’re almost back to the highway and I need gas – there’s not any stations ahead”. I swung the car around – Lola’s head already bobbing as sleep overtook her after an oh- so-very-exciting 3rd birthday party (her first birthday party).
At the first quick-stop gas station I pulled in and dragged my tired daddy self into the junk food-like-substance crammed isles of the harsh fluorescent-lit “convenience” store. (every wonder what was “convenient” about a store full of truly horrible, fake foods, health-debilitating sugar/HFCS drinks and worthless junk products? I guess keeping them in one place where we can effective ignore them IS convenient – at least for some of us…) .
click here to find out your chances of getting hit by lightning (hint:better than winning…)
March 14, 2011 1 Comment
by Ravi
Do you let your child/young adult use a cell phone?
What the hell is wrong with you – are you living under a rock?
The dangers of cell phones use ESPECIALLY BY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE is no longer a “absurd idea” or “radical” position as the industry selling you cell phones has maintained in the face of ever-damning studies and reports for the last 20 years.
USING CELL PHONES AS WELL AS OTHER FAST-INCREASING EMF SMOG SOURCES IS DANGEROUS FOR YOUR HEALTH – THIS IS NOW A RESEARCHED FACT.
click here to watch the video THE GLOW around your cell phone children
March 11, 2011 Leave a comment
by Ravi
If you have not tossed the cola/soda yet – then this post is my effort to get you to do so and do so NOW.
FIRST, we have the study:
“Brain functional magnetic resonance imaging response to glucose and fructose infusions in human.”
published in the journal:
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Volume 13, Issue 3, pages 229–234, March 2011
which simply states that:
“In normal weight humans, cortical responses to infused glucose are opposite to those of fructose. Differential brain responses to these sugars and their metabolites may provide insight into the neurologic basis for dysregulation of food intake during high dietary fructose intake.”
more detail on how fructose is killing you as you sip your cola
March 9, 2011 Leave a comment
by Ravi
As we are starting our home schooling of Lola, we have been oh-so-fortunate to be introduced to the writings of John Taylor Gatto.
Although we have long distrusted and were clear about our intent NOT to send Lola to any kind of public school (no, we’re not religious nuts, we are free-thinkers…), neither I nor Sunna were so thoroughly informed as to the depth and unabashedly demeaning intent of public schooling.
The whole story of how the US ended up with the school system we have, its REAL intent and the way it is designed to LITERALLY DUMB US DOWN for control is ***shocking***.
Here is John Taylor Gatto in a short segment of an interview giving you an idea of the intent and design of our system. Mr Gatto, although an articulate writer, is a simple speaker – after all, he was 30 years a teacher and you can see it in his demeanor.
The information he is dispensing is indispensable! We encourage those of you so inclined to seek out his writings and essays.
March 5, 2011 7 Comments
Web Definition: “Shunning”
“Shunning is the act of deliberately avoiding association with, and habitually keeping away from an individual or group. It is a sanction against association often associated with religious groups and other tightly-knit organizations and communities. Practiced by the Amish as a kind of social punishment for improper behavior.”
by Ravi
As little as 6 months ago, we were (somewhat reservedly) defending Whole Foods as a kind of only and last choice for at least SOME conscious food shopping experience.
How things can change.
please check out why you should choose REAL local sources for your food click here
February 22, 2011 6 Comments
or:
To Hell With Bastardly Dentists:
Dental Healing with Paleo/Primal Diet Plus
by Ravi
Many of us are conceptually incarcerated by decades of indoctrination to modern dentistry’s revival-tent calls to sit in the dentist chair and “be healed” (and forfeit big bucks doing so). Dental “care”, dental products and dentifrices are a huge, 100’s of millions of dollars a year business. We’ve been led to believe – like in so many other areas of our lives, that we need holy professionals, in this case the “dental care priests” to pray over us with their high-speed drills in order to keep our teeth past childhood.
It seems inconceivable to learn that, in fact,
our teeth CAN HEAL THEMSELVES!
learn how to NEVER sit in a dentist chair again – and still have great teeth!
April 5, 2011 Leave a comment
DO NOT VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN OR YOURSELF. THE MANUFACTURERS OF THESE UNPROVEN POISONS, THANKS TO OUR OWN SUPREME COURT, NOW HAVE ***COMPLETE IMMUNITY*** FOR ANYTHING THEY DO REGARDING VACCINATING YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES.
BIG PHARMA’S NOW SUPREME COURT MANDATED IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION IS INFINITELY BETTER THAN ANY IMMUNITY YOU WILL EVER GET FROM ONE OF THEIR VACCINATIONS!
SOUND INCREDIBLE? GO HERE, READ, DONATE, STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS OR THEY WILL BE GONE VERY SOON!
THIS IS NOT HYSTERICAL, THIS IS YOUR BASIC HUMAN AND AMERICAN RIGHTS TO CHOOSE BEING SLICED AWAY, BIT BY BIT TILL YOU WILL HAVE NONE LEFT – NO CHOICE AT ALL
more on this blatant sell-out by our SUPREME COURT click here
April 5, 2011 Leave a comment
DO NOT VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN OR YOURSELF. THE MANUFACTURERS OF THESE UNPROVEN POISONS, THANKS TO OUR OWN SUPREME COURT, NOW HAVE ***COMPLETE IMMUNITY*** FOR ANYTHING THEY DO REGARDING VACCINATING YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES.
BIG PHARMA’S NOW SUPREME COURT MANDATED IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION IS INFINITELY BETTER THAN ANY IMMUNITY YOU WILL EVER GET FROM ONE OF THEIR VACCINATIONS!
SOUND INCREDIBLE? GO HERE, READ, DONATE, STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS OR THEY WILL BE GONE VERY SOON!
THIS IS NOT HYSTERICAL, THIS IS YOUR BASIC HUMAN AND AMERICAN RIGHTS TO CHOOSE BEING SLICED AWAY, BIT BY BIT TILL YOU WILL HAVE NONE LEFT – NO CHOICE AT ALL
more on this blatant sell-out by our SUPREME COURT click here
April 5, 2011 11 Comments
by Ravi
Gawd how we love our Lock’n Lock food storage containers – How humans over the ages ever got along without these is a mystery to us. Old, miserable Tupperware (burp!) is to these great containers as a horse-drawn sledge is to a minivan!
(I have to laugh at that pic I found – look at all that horrific food-like stuff in there!)
There is only one teeeensy weeensy problem, they’re made of…
April 5, 2011 11 Comments
by Ravi
Gawd how we love our Lock’n Lock food storage containers – How humans over the ages ever got along without these is a mystery to us. Old, miserable Tupperware (burp!) is to these great containers as a horse-drawn sledge is to a minivan!
(I have to laugh at that pic I found – look at all that horrific food-like stuff in there!)
There is only one teeeensy weeensy problem, they’re made of…
March 29, 2011 Leave a comment
by Ravi, with guest writer, Timothy Wyllie
As is often the case when chatting with our dear friend Timothy, lots of varied and interesting subjects cross our discussions – and the new age personality, David Icke has been mentioned. Timothy recently was writing to an email contact regarding Icke, and T’s observations were so astute, I wanted to share them here.
March 24, 2011 Leave a comment
There is simply no good lead-in to this very odd, dark, but curiously compelling animated film. If you have a great insight into it’s meaning – please share it in the comments – otherwise, just enjoy it’s weirdness…
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