Glen, Over 20 years ago Stuart Kauffman was in my office. I stood up and groaned. He asked, "What's wrong ?" I said that it was just arthritis. He said, "If you're over fifty and don't feel pain it means you're dead."
Seriously, I think "the thing" that causes people to engage in the activities/choices you list is some combination of pain, anxiety, and depression. The latter two almost always occur together. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 9:22 AM glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the aftermath of the activist Justices overturning RvW, this popped up > in my feed: > > How to Give Yourself an Abortion > https://jewishcurrents.org/how-to-give-yourself-an-abortion > > I remain torn on the issue of self-care. And lots of energy was added to > my oscillators with the whole "horse dewormer" thing for COVID-19. (Yes, > I'm poking fun both at the people who bought veterinary ivermectin and the > people who used the disgusting sneer "horse dewormer".) To boot, this post > came up this morning about a homeopathic packet sent home with the patient > after surgery: > https://centerforinquiry.salsalabs.org/2022cfimidyearemailversion11. > (Placebo is a thing, despite Blumner's write-off.) > > Nick is fond of asking people whether they take multivitamins or not. And > while it's true most experts claim that *healthy* people just pee them out. > *Who* amongst us actually qualifies as "healthy"? What does "health" even > mean? That's not an idle or rhetorical question. Am I "healthy", despite > the excruciating chronic pain in my shoulders, neck, and lower back? > Despite my sporadic debilitating migraines? Despite my now abated > follicular lymphoma? Sure, I *seem* healthy because I can do pull-ups, > shovel dirt, drink 5 pints without a hangover, and maintain a full-time job > with a bit of time for hobbies. But what you see from the outside doesn't > reflect what I feel on the inside, which is like a sick puppy where the > slightest bad event would topple me into the "disabled" category. "Healthy" > is at best a misinformation concept, at worst a malinformation concept: > https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mdm-incident-response-guide_508.pdf > > Sneer all you want at the new-age descendant reading self-help books, > cutting out magazine ads for their "vision board", or self-administering > veterinary de-fetus pills, but there's something important, here. Fad > diets, bottled water, alcoholism or pregnancy as an indicator for moral > failure, etc. all point at that thing, whatever that thing is. > > In that context, self-administered abortion is legit. > > -- > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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