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Skarekrow said:
I read that the bowls they would use prior to certain glazing techniques would allow the raw pork to permeate the pores of the clay…then if they say…drank some milk from the bowl, even if it was washed and looked clean, could still potentially release certain food born illnesses, pigs in particular - trichinosis.
Hence the separate plates and bowls for meat and vegetables, especially the more orthodox Jews, some of them even having separate kitchens.
It makes sense.

Well, we really don’t know how our memories are stored…there is a theory that each time you remember something you are actually recreating it…it isn’t playing back.
But they don’t know from where those memories actually arise or how the neurons would even store such information.
So yes, if someone ate hot sauce on everything…maybe there is some sort of recognition and response in return, it would be a very basic form of “memory”.
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I'm not sure I follow what's meant by 'not playing back,' or the distinction from 'recreating it.' To me, 'playing back' and 'recreating' sound like they're meant synonymously, so I don't follow through with what the implied difference would be. I lean towards emergent and schematic theories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergentism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_(psychology)
 
Matt3737 said:
I'm not sure I follow what's meant by 'not playing back,' or the distinction from 'recreating it.' To me, 'playing back' and 'recreating' sound like they're meant synonymously, so I don't follow through with what the implied difference would be. I lean towards emergent and schematic theories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergentism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_(psychology)
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I am familiar with both of these ideas.
I used the words “recreating" and "playing back”, because I was trying to stress that our minds are not recorders like a video camera, we don’t “play back” the tape in our minds so to speak…our minds actually “recreate” the memory from scratch….this has been shown in many cases of eye-witness testimony that was completely different than actuality.
There are only those who have a photographic memory or is some kind of savant that remembers every detail 30 years later.
 
I am very sad to announce the passing of Paul Kalanithi.

Paul Kalanithi, writer and neurosurgeon, dies at 37


Paul Kalanithi wrote essays for The New York Times and Stanford Medicine reflecting on being a physician and a patient, the human experience of facing death, and the joy he found despite terminal illness.

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[video=youtube;d5u753wQeyM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d5u753wQeyM[/video]

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-ne...surgeon-writer-paul-kalanithi-dies-at-37.html
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This image shows the progression of the first 10,000 digits of Pi.​
 
@Sensiko @sprinkles @Kgal @apemon @AJ_ @nosferatu (congrats on claiming that name btw!) @Cornerstone @INFJ16 @Matt3737 (prayers work too) @Sourceanne @Jacobi @flower @jennerb [MENTION=12533]Y0u[/MENTION] and everyone else who’s names I missed.

I need some help.
I feel that I have to force myself to eat ever since this detox started…the neurontin can make you fat which it hasn’t (though last year when I was on it I reached the highest ever at 210lbs.)
Close to 190 now…which is good for my height at 6.1.

Smoking weed doesn’t seem to give me an appetite…though I have been drinking those fucking Ensure with protein drinks.
With little food these antibiotics have rocked my system…constant upset stomach and gut.

I feel like I have been living on a diet of pills, juice, ensure, and maybe a smallish meal for dinner.

I feel like my body never got to recover from the hospital trip before I had to go on this detox and got this ear/sinus infection that is just holding on...

I need some good vibes and energy friends!!
I don’t too often ask for help from people here…I need some help…I know some have already been sending healing thoughts.
I’m running out of steam and even having difficulties meditating while my body feels so fucked.

The most bizarre thing…I felt fine yesterday…then tossed and turned all night, and woke up feeling like I was back to square one???
WTF body??

This, in all ways -
( @vandyke I thought you would like this one too! I hope you are well my friend!!!)

[video=youtube;o5osPtE7kXI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=o5osPtE7kXI[/video]

"I Wanna Get Better"

Hey, I hear the voice of a preacher from the back room
Calling my name and I follow just to find you
I trace the faith to a broken down television and put on the weather
And I've trained myself to give up on the past 'cause
I frozen time between hearses and caskets
Lost control when I panicked at the acid test

I wanna get better

While my friends were getting high and chasing girls down parkway lines
I was losing my mind 'cause the love, the love, the love, the love, the love
That I gave wasted on a nice face
In a blaze of fear I put a helmet on a helmet
Counting seconds through the night and got carried away
So now I'm standing on the overpass screaming at the cars,

"Hey, I wanna get better!"

I didn’t know I was lonely 'til I saw your face
I wanna get better, better, better, better,
I wanna get better
I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change
I wanna get better, better, better, better,
I wanna get better

I go up to my room and there's girls on the ceiling
Cut out their pictures and I chase that feeling
Of an eighteen year old who didn't know what loss was

Now I'm a stranger

And I miss the days of a life still permanent
Mourn the years before I got carried away
So now I'm staring at the interstate screaming at myself,

"Hey, I wanna get better!"

I didn't know I was lonely 'til I saw your face
I wanna get better, better, better, better,
I wanna get better
I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change
I wanna get better, better, better, better,
I wanna get better

'Cause I'm sleeping in the back of a taxi
I'm screaming from my bedroom window
Even if its gonna kill me

Woke up this morning early before my family
From this dream where she was trying to show me
How a life can move from the darkness
She said to get better

So I put a bullet where I shoulda put a helmet
And I crash my car cause I wanna get carried away
That's why I'm standing on the overpass screaming at myself,

"Hey, I wanna get better!"

I didn't know I was lonely 'til I saw your face
I wanna get better, better, better, better,
I wanna get better
I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change
I wanna get better, better, better, better,
I wanna get better
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[MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION]

You're a fucking trooper man! Losing weight while going through this stuff to stay healthy? You would be considered a guru in the eastern parts of our world!
This is the home-stretch for you. You've gone through the worst. Now the last and lingering obstacle is going to be your mind. Remember how terrible things were and how they are now. Know that you're essentially fighting yourself. Distract yourself when you can. Write me when shit gets bad. I'm here for you, buddy. Much love!
 
vandyke said:
@Skarekrow

You're a fucking trooper man! Losing weight while going through this stuff to stay healthy? You would be considered a guru in the eastern parts of our world!
This is the home-stretch for you. You've gone through the worst. Now the last and lingering obstacle is going to be your mind. Remember how terrible things were and how they are now. Know that you're essentially fighting yourself. Distract yourself when you can. Write me when shit gets bad. I'm here for you, buddy. Much love!
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Haha…if only it were to stay healthy.
I get sick if I try to eat until at least 6pm!!

We all just have to hang on…the love is real…we are all interconnected (maybe I’m feeling your shit, am I too connected? I don’t feel that.)
When people send you love and good healing thoughts or prayers there is a connection and a difference is made IMHO.

We have to suck up our pride and ask for it though…it rarely comes to us by our will alone!
(everyone please send healing thoughts and prayers to vandyke too…he needs it as well!!!)
 
[MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION]

Have you tried some club soda? The stomach expands after eating giving that 'full' feeling. When fasting, eating light, or only drinking the stomach contracts and can give what are called 'hunger pangs/pains.' I think some carbonation in the stomach might relieve some of that pain.

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-are-hunger-pains.htm
 
Matt3737 said:
@Skarekrow

Have you tried some club soda? The stomach expands after eating giving that 'full' feeling. When fasting, eating light, or only drinking the stomach contracts and can give what are called 'hunger pangs/pains.' I think some carbonation in the stomach might relieve some of that pain.
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I will try that…I had some of those Ginger Ales with green tea which I love just need to go by the store later.
I can’t really take antacids because it causes malabsorption of the Neurontin.

I worry that my body isn’t metabolizing some of these medications because of the lack of food…but I try to stay hydrated.
Good call…..thanks, I really do appreciate the suggestion.
 
Matt3737 said:
Seltzer water is plain water that is carbonated. Club soda has minerals added to it. That may or may not be important to you. I just found this list of distinctions:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/29/seltzer-vs-club-soda_n_1434891.html
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I need some bananas too I think…the Ensures have K in them which helps your whole body act in a less inflammatory way.
http://www.molecularpain.com/content/7/1/5

I think the term “molecular pain” is a pretty fantastic term btw…haha.
Once again…much appreciated!
 
[MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION]
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[MENTION=6917]sprinkles[/MENTION]

Good stuff!

Just wish I knew what the hell my body wants…besides pain meds…*sigh*
It’s been almost a month off them…I really shouldn’t feel this way.
My BP is perfect, though I’m not 100% that I even need to take something for BP…I was taking the Propranolol that almost killed me for the prevention of migraine headache, not because it was high.
It was just so very odd to sleep so poorly, have such symptoms of acute withdrawal after so long…ugh…very frustrating…and of course I want to see my blood analysis to see if there is a real issue…just trying to feed my body what it wants…which isn’t much of anything.

I have some anti-nausea medication, but it makes me more tired than hungry.

Sorry to sound like an old man discussing health issues…hahaha.

Thanks again for the tunage!
 
[MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION]

Tell me a word that really most represents what you want for yourself right now, a word that you believe can make something for yourself.

I want to make a sigil for you but I want it to contain what you want for you, and not just what I want for you.
 
sprinkles said:
@Skarekrow

Tell me a word that really most represents what you want for yourself right now, a word that you believe can make something for yourself.

I want to make a sigil for you but I want it to contain what you want for you, and not just what I want for you.
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Vitality.
You fucking rock.
 
Vitality

noun, plural vitalities.

1.exuberant physical strength or mental vigor:a person of great vitality.


2.capacity for survival or for the continuation of a meaningful or purposeful existence:the vitality of an institution.


3.power to live or grow:the vitality of a language.


4.vital force or principle.


Was a good first thought.
Thank you @sprinkles!!
 
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