I would get my ass kicked for you.

Do you know of anyone that would have your back nomatter what circumstances looked like?

Im talking about the kind of relationship so tight that your friend would back you up even if evidence were stacked against you.

Im talking tight, like if anyone breathed a sour word against you it was asking for a fight.

Tight, like if you pissed them off real good, they would still know that tomorow was a new day and that this too would pass?

I have experienced moments like this, but never more than a moment.
I remember when I was a teen, my girlfriend wanted to see the boyfriend she was told not to see, and when she came to visit me, asked him to meet her at my house and take her out.
I wasnt prepared …. I was furious.
Her mother would be comming to pick her up soon, and I alone would have to deal with her. My friend knew lying wasnt a gift I had.
I would screw this up.
I told her if she put me in this position , that we were done, but that I would say what she wanted me to say to her mom.

I kept my end of the deal, and I never spoke to her again.

She tried to reconcile our friendship, but I wanted invincible bonds.
At 16.
My loss, I forgave nothing.

Fast forward to my 30’s.

I had this girlfriend I worked with.
We made lots of money together, and when someone so much as rolled their eyes behind my back, she called them out infront of everyone …. OUT LOUD …. until they left or a fight ensued.

I never experienced anyone having my back to that degree before.

It was as if she knew exactly what kind of person I was, and all information to the contrary was considered BS until she consulted with me.

Of course that didnt last.

Oh I have experienced having those friends and being those friends, but nothing for either that lasts forever.

What that did for me however was set a standard for what I would look for the rest of my life to duplicate .

There is just something about knowing that there is someone out there that would stand up for you even if it wasnt necessary…
I dont care who you are, it feels good.
Those are superfriends.

I have dated guys in my younger days that “protected their property” to the extent of posturing and threatening.
appealing being property …. isnt it?

Obviously not the same thing.

I think the evolution of a friendship goes towards that naturally, but that we have this filter of fear of looking like an ass if we back someone that either is wrong or isnt worth it.

I think its natural to want to protect the love you find in this world, nomatter what guise it comes in.

I could get philosophical and say no one needs protecting, like attracts like, all is really well…. and I do believe that to a big extent.

Ask me how much I believe it when Im pulling my son away from a moving vehicle that comes an inch from running him over after going through a stop sign …
I was ready to tell that person they just “attracted” a psycho mom about to rip the face from their skull.

All of that is in the moment, and passes.
Just like when you want to be the friend that has your buddy’s back but you miss the opportunity.
Your not a bad friend, just not a superfriend.

I figure what really chisels a masterpiece from the marble is going through many many missed opportunities until we become what we wish to see in others.

Wasnt it Ghandi that said be the change you wish to see in the world?

Im thinking about this because Im presently disenchanted with a friendship I thought was pretty tight.
Maybe Im not the friend I thought I was and this is somehow deserved. Im open to that.

So the question is, do you accept the insecurity and instability of a relationship that isnt what you thought because its teaching you or “chiseling the marble” , or do you walk away out of self-preservation?

 

Know anyone that clinically died and came back?

Do they remember anything from that experience?

I personally know someone who has died on an operating table and was revived.
They dont remember a NDE, but did in fact come back different.

“The International Associatiation for Near-Death Studies”,
or IANDS as its called, has a fabulous site which people with all kinds of experiences are able to share them, for the most part briefly.

I found these to be comforting and distressing for different reasons, because it seems to imply that we are here with an agenda, when I always thought we were making this up as we went along.

One thing that confirms my personal theories on health is that in most stories, if someone was extremely sick (say cancer) prior to dying , thier new vibe due to a new perspective and feeling of complete peace and love kicked out anything that didnt resonate with it.

The energy they came back with no longer resonated with the energy required to maintain illness.

For many, recuperation was fast, and for some it was complete.

Visit IANDS at : http://www.iands.org/ 

genetically modified foods we eat everyday could cause hair loss? unexplained twitches and pain ?

This list is only for a specific case known.

Severe pain
Hair loss
Memory loss
Muscle weakness, and uncontrollable muscle spasms
Hardening of the skin

Through a series of events, these symptoms were traced back to genetically modified strains of L-tryptophan. Up to 10,000 people were affected and some 100 of them died. Uncovered documents revealed that the FDA knew about these health problems for about five years prior to the “epidemic,” which only became known as an epidemic after the story was published in the New York Times, and people began coming out of the woodwork displaying these symptoms that no one had been able to diagnose before.

To illustrate this point – that GMO’s may very well be wreaking havoc with your health and you don’t even know it’s the source of your problems – is the fact that the toxic L-tryptophan was only discovered because its symptoms were acute, rare, and had a very fast onset. These things are what get doctors curious about unearthing the cause. But as Jeffrey Smith points out – what if the damage doesn’t occur overnight? What if the symptoms are milder?

Thousands of genetically modified products are now on the market, creating potentially life-threatening problems, but no one knows what to look out for.

Why?

Because no one knows the full extent of what happens to the end product when you splice in new genes. The only thing that is guaranteed is that it will create surprise side effects… However, according to Smith’s research, what we do know is that between 1994 and 2001 – at the same time as GMO’s flooded the market – food related illnesses DOUBLED.

GMO foods can be:

Allergenic
Toxic
Carcinogenic
Anti-nutritional
It may also create brand new diseases that we’ve never seen before, in addition to spurring on the disease rate of some we already have, such as cancer.

Although the major food giants are carrying on with their claim that GM foods are no different from conventionally grown varieties, the research begs to differ. Here is just a sampling of the unsavory findings associated with GM foods:

GM peas caused lung damage in mice
GM potatoes may cause cancer in rats
Bacteria in your gut can take up DNA from GM food
They may be spurring the creation of weed-killer-resistant superweeds
Smith mentions the superior work of Arpad Pusztai, PhD, a (formerly pro-biotech) scientist who was hired to evaluate the safety of GMO food, and then fired for his negative findings and his outspoken criticism of the industry’s shoddy science.

Fortunately, he finally managed to get his animal feeding study published in the journal Lancet in 1999 (see the Lancet October 16, 1999;354(9187):1353-4 for the full PDF article).

Despite the efforts of concerned scientists like Pusztai, you may be surprised to learn that you have a 75 percent chance of picking a food with genetically modified ingredients in the United States. This is because at least seven out of every 10 items have been genetically modified!

Many of you probably try to avoid genetically modified foods, but very few know what they really are, since there are no labeling requirements identifying GMO ingredients. To get an idea of how widespread these ingredients are, I recommend taking a look at The GMO Food Guide I published a couple of months ago.

Jeffrey Smith’s website www.seedsofdeception.com also gives you a more in-depth overview of GMO laced products, but the four main culprits are:

Soy
Corn
Cottonseed
Canola
The offspring of these products include items such as maltodextrin, soy lecitin, and high fructose corn syrup. Other GMO products include:

Some varieties of zucchini, crookneck squash, and papayas from Hawaii
Milk containing rbGH
Rennet (containing genetically modified enzymes) used to make hard cheeses
Aspartame (NutraSweet)
What Can You Do?

Along with using the GMO Food Guide and avoiding the products mentioned above, there’s other tricks you that can use to figure out if something is genetically modified in your fresh produce aisles:

Examine produce stickers on the fruits and vegetables you buy. The PLU code for conventionally grown fruit consists of four numbers; organically grown fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number nine; and GM fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number eight.
Buy organic produce as often as you can. By definition, food that is certified organic must be free from all GM organisms.
Stay away from all processed foods, as most of these contain corn and soy ingredients.

Fortunately, as a consumer you do have power. You can choose not to be a victim of deception, and you can choose what you feed your family. Large portions of Europe have already succeeded in squashing GMO’s out of their food supply, forcing food manufacturers to use real ingredients in their European product lines. But here in the U.S. we’re still stuck with it to a very large degree.

You can be the change you want to see in America, by educating yourself, spreading the word, and refusing to buy GMO products.

-Dr Mercola

for instance…. genetically modified brands (and this only scratches the surface) :

GENETICALLY ENGINEERED INGREDIENTSGeneral Mills Cheerios Wheaties Total Corn Chex Lucky Charms Trix Kix Golden Grahams Cinnamon Grahams Count Chocula Honey Nut Chex Frosted Cheerios Apple Cinnamon Cheerios Multi-Grain Cheerios Frosted Wheaties Brown Sugar & Oat Total Basic 4 Reeses Puffs French Toast Crunch
Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes Corn Flakes Special K Raisin Bran Rice Krispies Corn Pops Product 19 Smacks Froot Loops Marshmallow Blasted Fruit Loops Apple Jacks Crispix Smart Start All-Bran Complete Wheat Bran Complete Oat Bran Just Right Fruit & Nut Honey Crunch Corn Flakes Raisin Bran Crunch Cracklin’ Oat Bran Country Inn Specialties
(all varieties)
Mothers Cereals
(Quaker)
Toasted Oat Bran Peanut Butter Bumpers Groovy Grahams Harvest Oat Flakes Harvest Oat Flakes w/Apples & Almonds Honey Round Ups
Post
(Kraft-Phillip Morris)
Raisin Bran Bran Flakes Grape Nut Flakes Grape Nut O’s Fruit & Fibre date, raisin and walnut Fruit & Fibre peach, raisin and almond Honey Bunch of Oats Honey Nut Shredded Wheat Honey Comb Golden Crisp Waffle Crisp Cocoa Pebbles Cinna-Crunch Pebbles Fruity Pebbles Alpha-Bits Post Selects Cranberry Almond Post Selects Banana Nut Crunch Post Selects Blueberry Morning Post Selects Great Grains
Quaker Life Cinnamon Life 100% Natural Granola Toasted Oatmeal Toasted Oatmeal Honey Nut Oat Bran Cap’n Crunch Cap’n Crunch Peanut Butter Crunch Cap’n Crunch Crunchling Berries

Del Monte

(Nabisco/Phillip Morris) Ketchup
Heinz Ketchup
(regular & no salt) Chili Sauce Cocktail Sauce Heinz 57 Steak Sauce
Hellman’s
(Bestfoods)
Real Mayonnaise Light Mayonnaise Low-Fat Mayonnaise
Hunt’s
(ConAgra)
Ketchup
(regular & no salt)

KC Masterpiece
(Clorox)
Original BBQ sauce Garlic & Herb Marinade Honey Teriyaki Marinade

Kraft
(Kraft/Phillip Morris)
Miracle Whip
(all varieties) Kraft Mayonnaise
(all) Thick & Spicy BBQ sauces
(all varieties) Char Grill BBQ sauce Honey Hickory BBQ sauce

Nabisco
(Nabiso/Phillip Morris)
A-1 Steak Sauce

Open Pit
(Vlasic/Campbells)
BBQ sauces
(all)

salsa

Chi-Chi’s
(Hormel)
Fiesta Salsa
(all varieties)

Old El Paso
(Pillsbury)
Thick & Chunky Salsa Garden Pepper Salsa Taco Sauce Picante Sauce

Ortega
(Nestle)
Taco Sauce Salsa Prima Homestyle Salsa Prima Roasted Garlic Salsa Prima 3 Bell Pepper Thick & Chunky Salsa

Pace
(Campbells)
Chunky Salsa Picante Sauce

Tostitos Salsa
(Frito-Lay/Pepsi)
All Natural All Natural Thick & Chunky Roasted Garlic Restaurant Style

Chef Boyardee
(ConAgra)
Beefaroni Macaroni & Cheese Mini Ravioli ABC’s & 123’s
Dinty Moore
(Hormel)
Beef Stew Turkey Stew Chicken & Dumplings
Hormel Chili with Beans Chili No Beans Vegetarian Chili with Beans Kids’ Kitchen
(Hormel)
Spaghetti Rings with Meatballs Macaroni & Cheese Pizza Wedges with 3 Cheese

Franco-American
(Campbell’s)
Spaghetti O’s Mini Ravioli Power Rangers Pasta in Sauce

sodasCoca Cola Coca Cola Sprite Cherry Coke Barq’s Root Beer Minute Maid Orange Minute Maid Grape Surge Ultra
PepsiCo Pepsi Slice Wild Cherry Pepsi Mug Root Beer Mountain Dew Cadbury/Schweppes 7-Up Dr. Pepper A & W Root Beer Sunkist Orange Schweppes Ginger Ale

juice drinks

Capri Sun juices
(Kraft/Phillip Morris)
Red Berry Surfer Cooler Splash Cooler Wild Cherry Strawberry Kiwi Fruit Punch Pacific Cooler Strawberry Orange Grape

Fruitopia
(Coca Cola)
Grape Beyond Berry Lemonade Fruit Integration Kiwiberry Ruckus Strawberry Passion Tremendously Tangerine

Fruit Works
(PepsiCo)
Strawberry Melon Peach Papaya Pink Lemonade Apple Raspberry

Gatorade
(Quaker)
Lemon Lime Orange Fruitpunch Fierce Grape Frost Riptide Rush

Hawaiian Punch
(Procter & Gamble)
Tropical Fruit Grape Geyser Fruit Juicy Red Strawberry Surfin

Hi-C
(Coca Cola)
Pink Lemonade Watermelon Rapids Boppin’ Berry Tropical Punch Smashin’ Wildberry Blue Cooler Blue Moon Berry Orange Cherry

Kool Aid
(Kraft/Phillip Morris)
Blastin’ Berry Cherry Bluemoon Berry Kickin’ Kiwi Lime Tropical Punch Wild Berry Tea

Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail Cranapple CranGrape CranRaspberry CranStrawberry CranMango

Squeeze It
(Betty Crocker/General Mills)
Rockin’ Red Puncher Chucklin’ Cherry Mystery 2000

Sunny Delight
(Procter & Gamble)
Sunny Delight Original Sunny Delight With Calcium Citrus Punch Sunny Delight California Style Citrus Punch

Tang juices
(Kraft/Phillip Morris)
Orange Uproar Fruit Frenzy Berry Panic

Tropicana Twisters
(PepsiCo)
Grape Berry Apple Raspberry Blackberry Cherry Berry Cranberry Raspberry Strawberry Pink Grapefruit Tropical Strawberry Orange Cranberry Orange Strawberry Banana

V-8
(Campbells)
V8 Tomato Juices
(all varieties) Strawberry Kiwi Strawberry Banana Fruit Medley Berry Blend Citrus Blend Apple Medley Tropical Blend Island Blend

Cases of Near Death Experience Part 1

Having watched this series in its entirety, I feel its worth circulating. I personally got something out of it,even though I believe everyone’s experience is different. Comment if you watch it all the way through to conclusion.

Closet-inventors have a 5 million dollar reason to come out and play

From Disclosure Project:

AERO Award Program

November 1, 2007

Advanced Energy Research Organization, LLC (AERO) announces an up-front 200,000 licensing award and minimum $5 million two year royalty program for a qualifying new energy breakthrough.

The Charlottesville, VA energy research company is leading a world-wide search for promising, out-of-the-box inventors and scientists who have provable energy generation inventions that need support, further development and widespread public exposure.

AERO CEO Steven M. Greer MD notes that, “Over the past 100 years, many major energy breakthroughs have withered on the vine, died with the inventor or been absorbed into secretive corporate or government programs. It is AERO’s mission to see that these new technologies are protected, supported and massively disclosed to the public so that we can go beyond our current addiction to oil,
gas and coal and begin a new, sustainable era in human history.

AERO is uniquely qualified to see that such technological innovations make it to market. Our network includes ‘A-list’ celebrities, Nobel Prize winners, current and former heads of State and millions of people who follow our work. The inventor or team that has a qualifying system for energy generation will have the full force, support and protection of this unique, global network.

Web site for more information:  http://www.aero2012.com/en/award.html