Well, crap.  I did say I was cursed with a gene that makes me want to see all sides of things.  But I don't have time to be a Biblical scholar.  So I'll just keep on trying to make sense of the world I see, and keep an eye on the other side of it.  As I've said before, I had two experiences that sealed the deal for me when it came to believing we're in a guarded universe.  So I feel obligated to believe, and for lack of a better term, I believe in God.  It also seems right to be an honest, helpful, loving person.  Like so many things, religion can be used for good or bad.  Also, as an English major, I learned pretty quickly that one can defend pretty much any thesis.  If someone wants to prove Jesus is a myth, it can be done.  It just may not be true.

Ummm....this is a political forum.  This kind of post is pure trolling and much too controversial.


I recommend the ban hammer be dropped immediately.

Quote from: FastEddieB on October 28, 2015, 05:05:40 AM

Speaking for what is certain to be a vegetarian minority...

...I think mushrooms are a rough equivalent in our world.

No need for snarky, sarcastic comments on vegetarianism, but they seem pretty inevitable.

I'm a vagitarian.  Does that count?

  I see what you did there.

Good day my fellow SZ'ers!

I love the fact that they are so ...... svelte!

Hehe!  Svelte. Love it!

I think our More by Less rules are perfect!

I recently figured out that I was fat and unhealthy by believing and following the government's 'science' based recommendations.

We are all pretty familiar with James Watts and Micheal Mann et al and how they had to 'hide the decline' in order for the remaining and corrected data to support their theory.

The USDA's food pyramid is similarly based on cherry picked data and an irrelevant study. 

Ancel Keys (Nutritionist for whom K rations are named) got it started with a study in 1953 where he demonstrated a correlation between high saturated fat consumption and high levels of heart disease in 7 countries. This study along with the Russians rabbit study in 1910 is the basis for our modern ideas regarding cholesterol and heart disease.

The problem with the 7 nation study is that Keys had data from 22 nations but had to throw most of it out to show the correlation he believed in.  When the other 15 nations are added there is not correlation between dietary cholesterol and heart disease.  Much like Mann et al hiding the decline to support the hockey stick.

The 1910 study had the same goal and showed a correlation between dietary cholesterol and heart disease but used rabbits that are purely vegetarians and consume zero dietary cholesterol. The same study using omnivores might have been valid but 'science' was okay with relying on these two invalid reports.

In 1988 Surgeon General Coop confirmed (with no new studies / evidence to rely on) that the science was as sound as the science behind tobacco as a health hazard and scared us into following an upside down / wrong pyramid that focused on grains and seed oils. (The problem is these foods cause inflammation that results in atherosclerosis, the very thing they are supposed to prevent.)

Even today the bad science dominates the thinking and people without any calcium deposited in their arteries are prescribed dangerous statins because we are afraid of cholesterol that is essential.

I'm begginning to believe that information from governments supported by popular science are to be believed at you peril.