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bigfatpop's avatar

I agree with you wholeheartedly with the exception of the neighborhood squirrels. They must all die. Once one has had them in the attic of one's home with only a single layer of sheetrock in between you and a vicious wild animal . . . it's us against them.

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George's avatar

I 86'd one a couple of months ago. It was fat and had terrorized my pecan trees for several years. So I purchased a 22 cal PCP pellet rifle put a scope on it and ..... The rest of them are very cautious now.

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bigfatpop's avatar

That’s what I use as well.

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Conway Judge's avatar

The apple tree doesn't eat it's own fruit.

Just as the river doesn't drink from it's own supply. And the sun doesn't shine for itself. Everything in nature must share and work together.

This is a good short article on the symbiotic relationship with other organisms. I was not aware that mitochondria were or are a fusion within cells however. It did strike me as odd they have their own DNA supply.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Thank you- I'm so happy to share even if it's just some information on the fascinating world of bacteria.(I still think we see through a glass darkly about most things in science) Not only must we work together to survive- it feels good!

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Jo Waller's avatar

Yes yes yes! It feels amazing.

I love that phrase 'see through a glass darkly'- definitely when we try to 'see' with our ego, reductive, analytic minds and not our whole hearts and bodies.

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Hillary Han's avatar

Thank you for posting the link to this article from 3 months ago, in your recent article on "The story of Helicobacter pylori, ulcers and cancer".

The Terrain Theory, which I am sure you know, has been competing with the Germ Theory since the turn of the last century, especially in the US. Before David Rockefeller's Flexner Report, the naturopathic practitioners treating sick people knew that detoxing through fasting, sweating, taking homeopathic remedies, herbs and other natural practices was the way to put the sick person back into balance with nature. In some traditional cultures, these practices are still respected.

It is very unfortunate that the education systems founded on the Western Rockefeller model, teach children to believe in, develop and strive toward being "the system". It is heart breaking to see that children are not taught the most important subject of all: themselves--their anatomy, physiology, psychology, and so forth. They are not immersed into nature early on, to reflect on and resonate with its diversity, changes, possibilities, and messages. . . Could you imagine a world where people understand, respect and feel confident in who they are because they are totally connected to their natural environment?

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MusicMan's avatar

Thank you for your very insightful and spot on response. Beautifully put and needed to be said.

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Aya's avatar

Really well written.

You know what else is interesting is that we all crave this natural way of life. We work in artificial environments for months, out of sunlight, bodies static staring at computer screens - so we can afford two weeks of the year where we fly off to a beach (nature), or forest (nature) or skiing down hills (nature). It's so crazy when you think about it!

Do you think that adults can really reconnect to nature in a totally holisitic way? Can it be done later in life, after a life so full of the artificial?

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Jo Waller's avatar

Thank you Aya.

Yes i think we can whatever age. We can connect to ourselves within and to our food, though it's a lot easier with access to forests, lakes and mountains.

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Aya's avatar

I ask for this reason. I often get visits from Jehovah's Witnesses and I told one of them, if there is a Devil who tricked Adam, he would have been a man, not a snake. He would have been extremely charming and very handsome and someone who could fool others with ease. The snake is allegorical. People are naturally afraid of being near snakes because they can harm them. I do not even need to address that you are telling me this snake could speak the same language as Adam.

Now this woman was from India, and she told me, "No, he was a snake. Back in Heaven, people live with snakes naturally, they aren't scared of them. Like me, snakes always entered my home and we were never scared, it is normal for us." I didn't fully believe her, and asked her if she honestly would not flinch if a King Cobra came sliding in.

Can we learn to live with these creatures without fear after a lifetime of being scared?

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Jo Waller's avatar

Yes, we can learn to live without fear of anything.

As regards snakes, i know some of them are poisonous and it's really a good idea not to annoy them or step on them, but it's my contention that most of the fear of snakes is a sexual aversion thing.

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Barbara Sinclair's avatar

YESSSSS!

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Jo Waller's avatar

😺♥️

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Barry O'Kenyan's avatar

Assuming those numbers are accurate, it is the quality that matters :)

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Jo Waller's avatar

I think a gene is a gene. Though 'scientists' now saying they don't just code for one protein. The more complex and interactive the life style of the organism and the more room it has inside to be colonised with trillions of other organisms- the less genes of it's 'own' it needs. Less fixed genes can be more and lead to greater adaptation and flexibility?

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Conway Judge's avatar

This field of science is fascinating to me. I have the book 10% human by Alanna Collen within my bookshelf. She talks a lot about this and the complexity of the microbiome and genes.

I wish I knew more about the complexity of gene expression and epigenetics. I know of it. But it seems like a fascinating and very complex world.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Yes, it is mind blowingly complex and I don't think commercialised academic science is up to the job of understanding it. The need to make money out of its discoveries has lead to getting the wrong end of the stick about a lot of things I think.

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Conway Judge's avatar

Same here. I would love if you could give or share anything more related to my particular field of interest.

https://mistermedic.substack.com/p/an-unhappy-genotoxic-family

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Jo Waller's avatar

I agree in the battle of toxicology vs virology, we all know who is winning. Seems to me that for example; industrial pollution in diamond and gold mines in Africa, effects of allowing crack cocaine to flood deprived areas in the US, the phosphor dust people in China are exposed to as they recycle our computer junk, farmers (trapped by banks and Pharma into GMO crops with decreasing yields and increasing chemicals) being exposed to organophosphates etc as they are unable to where PPE because of the unbearable heat and humidity, the effects of phosmet (against flies) on cattle health, the effects of factory farming on the health of billions of sentient beings, the effects of eating factory farmed sick animals, the effects of medications meant to treat diseases such as the fatal AZT, and the effects of vaccines are all being deliberately covered up by using a viral/prion cause of disease as an excuse.

We don't need research into toxicology. I think we already understand things pretty well.

What we need is to be clued in to what is happening. Our governments, regulatory bodies and medical systems are letting us down big time.

We are slipping into a global world order and surveillance society, run by unelected organisations funded by private money, on the look out for more non-existent viral pandemics.

All the while it is a massive cover up. All the while we are being poisoned.

Jo

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MusicMan's avatar

Beautifully put. And painfully true.

The medical cartel and the pharmafia have been lying to us since Rockefeller commandeered the medical world. And humans have been suffering ever since.

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Jo Waller's avatar

will get on it. Looks very interesting- and I have very similar feelings about the use of pesticides - the burden of rising autism, Alzheimers and Parkinsons will soon be too much for any society. I have a busy day at my local organic, regenerative veg farm- saving the world- and having fun! but will look into it soon . thank you, Jo

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Barry O'Kenyan's avatar

Obviously a gene is not a gene per se. It is best that we don't understand it....

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The Boom Review's avatar

This article sums our symbiotic existence up beautifully. We are not separate from each other, from other species nor from the environment. Fantastic. Thank you.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Thank you so much Caroline I'm really chuffed you like it, and you're very welcome.

I've been very influenced by practicing the mind body connection of yoga and also by the work of Cheri Huber, a Zen buddhist monk who writes about the illusion of separation.

The more we look into the science and the body we see that this is absolutely true. We're not even mostly human!

Jo

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