“Nutrition 101″

Sally Fallon’s nutritional guidelines

I saved this link to  Annie’s blog a looooong time ago.  She doesn’t write there anymore although there is still a lot of valuable  information on her site.

Brainwashing

I had 20 drafts on here so I started going through to try to post them.  This one I wrote ages ago; I think I was going to add to it and that’s why I didn’t post it.  Oh, well.  It’s alright the way it’s written . . .

I already posted a link to the article these quotes came from but I wanted to highlight this part and comment.

About tv:  “Do you really need to have your family continually absorbing the illiterate, amoral, phony, uncultivated, desperately brainless values of the people featured in the average nightly TV program? Are these fake, programmed robots ‘normal’?

. . .
Are those shows really amusing, or just a necessary distraction to keep you from looking at reality, or trying to figure things out yourself by doing a little independent reading?

. . . .What measurable gain is there for you?”

Yes! That’s what I’m talking about! We own two tvs and we have cable BUT for a long time I didn’t want to own a tv and I never wanted cable. Does that mean that my feelings on the matter mean I never watch tv? No. Unfortunately, I watch when I’m tired or angry or bored or whatever because I can. A lot of time Matthew is the one who turns it on.

When we would get together with friends (back when we lived where we had some) they would want to watch a movie when we got together. I was always thinking or saying, “Let’s play a game, let’s have praise and worship, let’s go change the world.”

In order to reach people in the US with friendship, the gospel or whatever, you’re going to need to watch some tv so you can at least particpate in a conversation but cable’s not necessary. In fact, it’s worse in one way than sitcoms because I’ll find a movie I wouldn’t mind seeing (which I’ve seen before) and instead of watching 30 minutes which would usually satisfy my boredom, anger or whatever, I watch an hour and a half (or more but I usually start part way through the movie).

As Christians, sometimes I think we feel that limiting tv is getting legalistic . . . but we forget the “permissible not beneficial” thing.

There are three shows we watch deliberately “The Office”, “LOST”, “Man vs Wild”  and sometimes “Scrubs”.

. . . . Sometimes I’m tempted to throw the tv sets away. . . . .

Culture

Music

I wonder what year this was . .

First time I’ve linked to my best friend, I think

http://kkmacd.blogspot.com/2007/06/ah-capitalism.html

There are actually two places to click on in her post although I couldn’t tell it from her site but it showed up fine in bloglines . . .

China’s domination through low quality products

Another-Reason-Not-to-Buy-Food-From-Wal-Mart

I don’t believe in only buying American but I also don’t believe in only buying from one other country in the world which we are apparently doing right now:  China.  I guess we’ll survive.  Didn’t everything used to be made in Taiwan and Japan?  Of course, it wasn’t food we were buying from either of those countries.

How could we as citizens exact any change in this area?  How could we force either the government or the corporations (ie Walmart) to diversify or to at least pay more so the quality could go up?  . . . .

Do you think the fish like plastic?

http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/Our-Oceans-are-Turning-Into-Plastic-18039.aspx

I grew up in Spain and used to think it was cool how littering wasn’t a big deal there.  But I didn’t think beyond the area where litter was.  When people talked about the plastic on a six pack of Coke cans being harmful for fish, I would think, “how does that end up in the ocean or river?”  Well, duh.  It’s called wind.  Or dogs or any number of things besides humans could take litter from the street to water.

Alos, why people drink bottled water at home is beyond me.  I drink it on the road because it’s better than a coke or whatever else you buy when traveling.  (I take a klean kanteen full of water with me but that runs out, obviously and yes, I do occasionally indulge in a Coke.)   But at home, we use a water filter on our faucet which makes a lot more sense to me than bottled water from a money standpoint, packing, etc.

We export death

And if you fight it you may end up dead . . . .

Perception and Regeline

http://perceptionpoint.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/in-the-name-of-regeline/

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Great book. Everyone needs to read this book. I cannot stress that enough. Chapters 7 through the end, especially 7-10 were to me the most eye opening. Oddly enough, I’ve been discovering some of those truths on my own as of late.

For several years my brother & I have complained that our parents did not adequately prepare us for the world. There are things they could have done differently but this book helped me realize there’s another problem.

To write this book, James Loewen used 12 popular high school history textbooks. The version of his book that I read was copyrighted in 1995 so some of the information below may have changed in his more recent edition. (But since I graduated from high school in 1995, the book was spot on as far as I was concerned; the things I knew that weren’t in the high school books I learned in college.)

High school history textbooks water everything down. They do not tell accurately of the problems in our nation like racism nor do they tell accurately of the heroes of anti-racism. They do not tell the truth about problems of social class nor do they explain the benefits of free enterprise.

I don’t know if I should summarize the three important chapters but since many people may not read the book but might read this post, and since even those who read the book may forget the more important points, I’ve summarized and quoted here the things that to me were remarkable about this book.

Wake up!

I still haven’t posted about how Freud was used to control the masses earlier in this century because I haven’t finished watching all four videos but I will go ahead and link to this now and then maybe again later when I do the Freud/Bernays post.