Mike and Joe,
I don't know either.
It seems that we do what
we do and then what we do becomes part of the fabric of what we
are.
Gustl recently
stated: "It is the content of
the heart which counts the most I think but we don't have any formal
tests for that but the heart is evidenced by our actions and
words."
One of my teachers had two small
posters up in the classroom: "Be careful of your opinions. They can be
traps." and "Listen, read, learn with an open mind. Act with
goodness in your heart."
There are so many things
we'll never know for sure. But if we continue to learn with open minds and act
with goodness in our hearts I think we can accept where the chips
fall.
1. To vaccinate or not? Freedom to choose. If
vaccines work then the vaccinated have nothing to fear from the unvaccinated.
Personally, I don't know.
2. Sea salt vs. Common table salt: Since life
evolved in the seas it would stand to reason that the minerals in sea water
would have structural/functional importance to living things.
We are familiar with iron in hemoglobin, and iodine
in thyroxine. There are a number of mineral cofactors needed for enzymes to
function properly. Combine this with the depletion of micronutrients from much
of our farmland and we have an interesting argument for sea vs table salt. Salt
from ancient seas that has risen to mountain tops may have less pollutants
recently introduced to the environment.
Personally, I don't know, but am now in the market
for some sea salt.
I spent an hour or two
yesterday turning about a ton of compost. All the while I was turning over
thoughts from your posts. My neighbor pulled up in his truck and commented:
"I've never seen anybody smiling like that while forking horseshit."
sorry, but that's what he calls my compost.
"I don't know." In a world
where everybody seems to know what's best for me, it was such a refreshing
phrase.
Cheers, I hope today is
good to you.
Tom
- Original Message -
From:
Joe Street
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 11:09
AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] amazing himalayan
salt
Hi Mike;There is a part of me ( the part I like to
think is wise) that tends to trust what comes out of mother nature's
laboratory much more than the industrial product. This is why I use butter not
margarine. This is why I prefer herbs over medicines and organic foods over
factory. This voice is always whispering that the more raw something is, the
closer it is to it's natural state, the better. This voice tells that
the converse, the more refined anything is, the more goodness has been
stripped away and the more unhealthy in terms of preservatives and traces of
processing steps are left behind in the product. I, like some others,
confound myself at times with doublethink on this front however. For
example water purified by reverse osmosis definitely is free of VOC's
and chlorine, flourine etc but so are the minerals removed and drinking highly
purified water can leach minerals from the body. So I stuggle to
understand where the correct balance is at times. Bottled spring water
can contain higher than the municipal level of heavy metals. I have
wondered about natural salt deposits in this regard although I admit I have
been lazy about doing my homework and looking for an assay on alternative salt
products. I was told that iodine was added to salt because there were
many more cases of thyroid problems in the population before this was done
(unless this is disinformation and I am to learn that it aint so and it was
just a way to unload iodine from some excess industrial process on an
unsuspecting population vis the flouride scene with toothpaste and city
water) It is often hard to know who or what to believe unless it is
right in your area of knowledge. All I can hope to do is fight laziness and
keep looking for information. This list is a goldmine in this regard and
I can never give enough thanks for all I have learned from all the contibuting
members here.BTW the sea salt I use doesn't pour well. I regard this
as encouraging. What have 'they' done to regular table salt to make it
run so easily hmmm? I wonder.JoeM&K DuPree wrote:
Hi Bob and List...I
don't know. But I wish I could know all the time what is right and
what is wrong, what is on one side and what is on another, whether or
not there really is one side or another, but I don't know, the lines between
this and that oftentimes become obscure. Maybe we should vaccinate,
maybe we shouldn't. Maybe hell is freezing over, maybe it isn't.
I don't know.
I do know this, however, I have no one to
blame but myself. I'm not sure I can say the same for anyone else,
bec
