Re: FWD: Richard K. Smith: Do you still believe in the toothfairy?

2002-02-01 Thread Gil Robertson
We have a half way solution in Oz, one may take "garden flowers" or "Bush flowers", and still give to the prescribed charity. I tend to take spectacular Banksias or other flowers grown on the farm and people come up after and ask what they are and where they can get them. I usually carry seeds in

Death bad, Life good

2002-02-01 Thread NEILLCO
Yo, yo , yo...what you say is novel and therefor worth a look, something new... but there seems to be some kind of point you're driving at, rather than just a critical rant of the culture you were born into. Granted, things are not what they seem. But neither are they what they don't seem to be eit

Re: CEC Balancing

2002-02-01 Thread barrylia
> surely knows this as he earned a doctorate in agriculture at Pulman> University in eastern Washington state. That's a very good ag > college, I> might add. Correction for accuracy: that's Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.   I believe Walter's degree advisor was John Rega

Re: Our President

2002-02-01 Thread Thomas Schley
Just had our local phone lines come back up so missed most of this conversation. My only comment is that the idea of a Special Prosecutor was brought up on CSPN a last Monday. Of course it was Ralph Nader and his group Public Citizen (I think that's the group's name) and an invited economis

Re: Pfeiffer and 'Bad science'

2002-02-01 Thread Jose Luiz Moreira Garcia
Normally Ag scientists don´t get it. I may not live long enough to see an Ag scientist utilize for instance dowsing. However, things are starting to change. Look what those folks are doing in Australia. In Brazil there are some PhD dissertations on the use of florals in agriculture and some physic

Re: CEC Balancing

2002-02-01 Thread Jose Luiz Moreira Garcia
Hi Michael, I believe you have put it in the right way. A Model is a guideline. Something to be used as a pathway. Every place is difference and every product is a different one. I am amazed I just got back an analysis of crushed ancient oyster shell and their Neutralizing Power is 113% that is e

CEC Balancing

2002-02-01 Thread Jose Luiz Moreira Garcia
Hi Christiane and List, I believe that Mr Goldstein have lost one great opportunity when it comes to comment the so called Albrecht Model. The Model is good in my oppinion and it works. However, I cannot accept that in all the world with plenty of good labs only two labs are capable of doing the

Re: Re CEC Balancing/Goldstein Mg

2002-02-01 Thread Jose Luiz Moreira Garcia
Dear Cristiane, I believe that what happens in the soil is exactly the opposite . let me illustrate the point. Cations are attached ( adsorbed not absorbed ) to the clay colloids by their positive charge. Calcium and Magnesium have a double positive charge and therefore they can push away single

Re: CEC Balancing

2002-02-01 Thread Jose Luiz Moreira Garcia
Only a few articles from " The Albrecht Papers" are available in the net I guess through that soil and health library. The four volumes need to be bough from Acres USA and they must be readed folks. I believe I have been exposed to Albrecht ideas to a great deal I did read several of his articles

Re: FWD: Richard K. Smith: Do you still believe in the toothfairy?

2002-02-01 Thread Allan Balliett
>How to imagine that we have become a nation living daily on the very >edge of clinical starvation. How many lifetime savings are >re-absorbed by the medical industry as our elders succomb? It's >astonishing how a population will willingly allow itself to be >exploited decade after decade. No

Re: Clinton not Bush

2002-02-01 Thread Allan Balliett
>Dear Robert, > > Certain people were out to get Clinton any way they could. This >does not seem to be the case with YOUR present President, who, >besides, should NOT have been the one that was elected to office in >the first place. >Cheers, Michael from Canada. Michael, I'm not really cer

Clinton not Bush

2002-02-01 Thread Michael Roboz
Dear Robert,     Certain people were out to get Clinton any way they could.  This does not seem to be the case with YOUR present President, who, besides, should NOT have been the one that was elected to office in the first place. Cheers, Michael from Canada.

Re: Democracy (was Richard K. ... )

2002-02-01 Thread Allan Balliett
>Richard K. criticises democracy and, of course, he's right - but >which other realistic system is preferable ? Winston Churchill >commented (roughly) that democracy seems the worst possible way to >run a country, until you look at the alternatives. The 'democracy' >of the Greeks and, later,

Re: FWD: Richard K. Smith: Do you still believe in the tooth fairy?

2002-02-01 Thread Aurora Farm
Thanks Robert for your great questions. What to do when we think we have done everything we can through our work and words, etc. I feel that we need to embody and be the change we would like to see around us. And perseverance would appear to be at the top of the Do's and Feel's. So keeping on , ke

RE: FWD: Richard K. Smith: Do you still believe in the tooth fairy?

2002-02-01 Thread Chris Trem
Robert, I can think of two things off the top of my head. First, During one of the apparitions of the Our Lady at Medjugorje, in what was then Yugoslavia, in the early 1980's, she said that fasting and prayer were so powerful that they could even stop war. I remember reading about how the Seco

Re: FWD: Richard K. Smith: Do you still believe in the tooth fairy?

2002-02-01 Thread Merla
RKM's essay is too nihilistic for me, though it is well taken. Even when I am feeling depressed by woman's inhumanity to woman, I breathe in through my 7th chakra and feel the energy and love pouring into my body. Is this just a myth? I'm not a seer and I can't see auras. I'm just acting on th

Unravelling the DNA Myth

2002-02-01 Thread S. Clarke
Dear Friends: I sincerely recommend to your attention the article "Unravelling the DNA Myth" in the current issue of Harper's Magazine. While many of us are suspicious of the claims and promises of scientism's genetic engineering, few of us - myself included - have understood the hard-scientific

Democracy (was Richard K. ... )

2002-02-01 Thread Anthony Nelson-Smith
Richard K. criticises democracy and, of course, he's right - but which other realistic system is preferable ?  Winston Churchill commented (roughly) that democracy seems the worst possible way to run a country, until you look at the alternatives.  The 'democracy' of the Greeks and, later, th

Re: Richard K. Smith: Do you still believe in the tooth fairy?

2002-02-01 Thread Moen Creek
Title: Re: Richard K. Smith: Do you still believe in the tooth fairy? Our beloved Jane wrote: >Dear Friends on Bdnow, I feel I must dissent here from Richard's analysis regarding faith. He is confusing faith for belief. It is belief's that must be revised in order for there to be any kind of c

the earth is an organism and has a soul[was]Re: Richard K. Smith:Do you still believe in the tooth fairy?

2002-02-01 Thread Moen Creek
I found these pertinent to this thread. Blessing on you & your family Allan. In Love & Light Mark The Festivals and Their Meaning IV Michaelmas

Re: Richard K. Smith: Do you still believe in the tooth fairy?

2002-02-01 Thread Aurora Farm
Allan: I believe that must be Richard K. MOORE... Woody Aurora Farm is the only unsubsidized, family-run seed farm in North America offering garden seeds grown using Rudolf Steiner's methods of spiritual agriculture. http://www.kootenay.com/~aurora

Re: Richard K. Smith: Do you still believe in the tooth fairy?

2002-02-01 Thread jsherry
Dear Friends on Bdnow, I feel I must dissent here from Richard's analysis regarding faith. He is confusing faith for belief. It is belief's that must be revised in order for there to be any kind of change. Faith is not "Believing what you know isn 't true" as Richard says. Ignorance is believing

Re: FWD: Richard K. Smith: Do you still believe in the tooth fairy?

2002-02-01 Thread Robert Farr
Allan: Thank you for forwarding that note from Richard K. Smith. He is spot on. I just finished reading Howard Zinn's book, "A People's History of the United States." For all thinking people, it is a MUST READ. Zinn documents the things Smith talked about. It certainly added fuel to my fire.

Re: Scale insects what are they telling me

2002-02-01 Thread Daniel Bridler
On31/1/02 11:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi folks Can any one tell what scale insects on Nephrolepis fern [ > Boston fern] are indicating. Hi Tony, We have used Neem Oil with some success on Citrus with a scale infestation. But full control(for one season only) was achieved by some busy hands wipi