This American Lifestyle: October Questions

Things That Make Us Americans

These are questions I present to you that if people answered in the positive, I feel, our country would be back on track. If you answer no to all of the, then maybe you need to stop and reevaluate your life and how you're living it. Sounds judgmental I know, but I think it's high time we stop avoiding issues and high time we take responsibility for the things we absolutely can change. You need to be confronted. You need to be told you are not right. You need to be told it IS your fault.



Here are the questions. Enjoy!

• When was the last time you cuddled on the couch with your wife/husband? Without the T.V. being on.

• When was the last time you baked a pie for your neighbor?

• When was the last time you played catch with your kids?

• When was the last time you went to church with the whole family?

• When was the last time you washed your car with your kids?

• When was the last time you removed the rust, painted that messy wall, fixed the sprinklers or did chores around the house?

• When was the last time you played board games with your kids?

• When was the last time you just sat and gossiped with your neighbors on the front porch?

• When was the last time you saw a sunset with your wife / husband?

• When was the last time you saw an intellectually stimulating independent film?

• When was the last time you read to your children?

• When was the last time you had a block party with all the neighbors?

• When was the last time you went fishing with your kids?

• When was the last time you voted for an independent candidate i.e. not republican nor democrat?

• When was the last time you read the newspaper cover to cover?

• When was the last time you invited those poor neighbors over for dinner? You know the one's down the street that just lost their job?

• When was the last time you went to a school board meeting?

• When was the last time you looked over all your kid's text books?

• When was the last time you gave your kid a treat that didn't have sugar in it?

• When was the last time you told your kid "no" for their own good and not just because you were annoyed?

• When was the last time you went to a city / power company / water company meeting? Researched what was going on and stood up and confronted them about raising your bills?

• When was the last time you wrote your congressman / senator / president?

• When was the last time you wrote your state congressman / senator / governor?

• When was the last time you confronted your mayor about a financial issue?

• When was the last time you confronted your local sherriff about unjust laws implimented just to make the city / police money?

• When was the last time you actually looked at the real numbers of deaths by: DUI in your city / state; murder in your city / state; deaths by lack of seat belts; deaths or murder by drugs like marijuana; deaths by terrorists; deaths by supposed flu? [ I encourage you to go find the real numbers. You'll be surprised how low they are, yet millions or billions are being spent on them or people are being charged for them for no reason. ]

• When was the last time you deposited money into your regular, plain old, savings account?

• When was the last time you compared your interest rate being paid to your savings account to other banks and credit unions?

• When was the last time you compared the fees being charged to you by your bank to other banks and credit unions?

• When was the last time you stopped and calculated how much you spend on food / clothing / stuff each week / month / year?

• When was the last time you bought something you did not need? i.e. that wasn't real food: breakfast / lunch / dinner; or real clothes: for summer / winter; or real bills: rent / basic car note [yes one single car, not 2 or 3] / power / water / trash / basic telephone [yes just basic, not cell phone]

• When was the last time your child bought something he / she did not need? i.e. your child shouldn't be buying anything, you should provide them with the basic necessities, anything else should go into their college fund, not toys, video games etc.

• When was the last time you were behind on bills, yet: ate out or went shopping or bought something rather expensive?

• When was the last time you went on patrol for your neighborhood watch?
  

These questions are mainly to make you stop and think. Think about your habits you've been getting into. Think about the example you set your children. Think about how you neglect your neighbors. Think about how you neglect your spouse or children. Our country really was a set of villages and we were all involved with each other and were interested in each other. Now we don't have the time for anything.

We are slowly being dumbed down and our children are being dumbed down by what they learn in school, see on t.v. and see in the movies. Yes, your child isn't going to turn out as smart as you. You might think because they play with video games and computers that they are far smarter than you, but those are simply different tools. Your children will turn out dumb. The system wants them as dumb as possible. The system wants them to do drugs, regardless of what you hear. Think about it for a second. When you hear a report about drugs on t.v. do they tell you all about the drug so you can know where / when / how to buy it?

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Medicating Your Kids

Are You Falling Prey to Giant Pharmaceutical Companies

If you own a business, the lifeblood of that business is to get your product out there and sold. The more people your sell your product to, the better. Some times products do not do so well. If you are the actual inventor of the product, you try and repackage the product and put it back out there. Some times millions of dollars go into researching these products. If you're a giant pharmaceutical company, the amount of dollars put in research is staggering. And, a lot of times these products do not work, no matter how much money they put into them. These huge companies however have to answer to boards, stockholders, overseers. As such, instead of throwing away a product that doesn't work, they put it out there anyway.



Fluoride

One such product was fluoride. If you just casually research where fluoride comes from you get a very startling look into what you thought was something actually good for you, when in fact it's toxic waste:

[excerpt taken from instructions on how to produce sodium fluoride]
"I'm going to assume you want 100ppm by mass, since this is really the only way that makes sense with a solid and liquid. First, you need to get a fluoride salt. I will use sodium fluoride as an example - it may or may not matter which salt depending on what you're trying to do. Be careful, fluoride compounds can be toxic. Second, you need to figure out what percentage of the salt is actually fluoride. To do this in our example, first look up the molecular weights of sodium and fluorine on a periodic table (the numbers at the bottom of the squares). Sodium (Na) has a molecular weight of 22.989, Fluorine (Fl) weighs 18.998. Add these to get the total molecular weight of sodium fluoride"

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[letter to CDC]
In a PDF fact sheet about fluorides you said it prevents tooth decay. I think this statement needs to be removed. It is not based in any scientific fact and would lead the common civilian to believe it is medically safe to handle fluorides or even ingest it.

Fluorides are highly toxic to humans and livestock. I was shocked that someone at the CDC would pretend otherwise. Whomever wrote the fact sheet should probably lose their job over such a patently false and misleading statement. Fluorides in fact leads to the degradation of teeth and bones, mental instability, neurological damage, i.q. damage and lowering, lowered sperm count, infertility, brittle bones, skin irritation, eye irritation, respiratory tract chronic disorders, heart disorders and damage, cancer and of course death.

I don't know who in your organization is putting forth false claims of fluoride as being any benefit to humans. Quite frankly it is an industrial waste product and I'm sure the clean up is quite expensive. But, apparently you need to look out for nefarious individuals in your organization trying to fool the general populous. It is unconscionable to think someone would lead civilians astray to the point that they could expose themselves to fluoride, resulting in death. It would be on par of someone saying mercury was a cure for skin rashes or stomach ache. It is just unthinkable someone would say that.
Respectfully,

Very concerned citizen
P.S. I would hope you would do something to remedy this very bad and false information. People could be dying from exposure to fluoride.

If you really want to be safe, you can simply make your own toothpaste. It is easier than actually buying toothpaste, because the ingredients are something you use every day and can stock up on anyway.

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Home Made Toothpaste Recipe:

• Mixing bowl
• 1/2 cup baking soda
• 6 teaspoons stevia
• 1/4 cup hydrogen peroxide
• 1/2 teaspoon peppermint oil / vanilla extract / ginger / ground cinnamon [whatever flavor you like that has absolutely NO SUGAR

Mix all in bowl, until it turns into a paste or what is normally a paste. Add more hydrogen peroxide to achieve the consistency you like.

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This is actually 10 times much better than store bought toothpaste, because:

1. it's virtually free since you would be using those products normally for other things
2. you know exactly what is in the toothpaste
3. there are absolutely no harsh chemicals in the paste
4. there is absolutely no risk of any harm coming to you or your children

As always don't add any acids to the baking soda. When brushing spend at least 90 seconds brushing so as to completely dissolve the baking soda in the saliva. The only abrasive product in this will be your own toothbrush.

Imaginary Friends: The Schizophrenia Scare

Recently Oprah Winfrey had a show that showcased 2 young cute girls who talked about their imaginary friends. You can imagine how funny such a show would be. They went on about what the imaginary friend would say or what they would tell it. They even pretended their imaginary friend was from a different country, all made up of course, and they would visit them and described it to Oprah. They even said "I like Callilani better than this world."

Boring show, if that's all there were to it. But, of course, no day time t.v. show would be complete without some quack doctor who comes along to tell the audience how deranged and evil these two little girls are.

What was his shocking theory? These two girl suffer from Schizophrenia and must be medicated. In fact, the two little girls had been under medication already by their parents. It was later revealed that the father and the mother both beat and starved the girls in an effort to control the troubling behavior they didn't approve of. The medical doctor of course said that the girls were psychotic and suffered from schizophrenia.

There is an organization, called Intervoice, that has some great advice for you the parent, on how to handle, cope and get over it [you, not the child. half the time the problem is you. your child is screaming out to you and you don't even realize what you're doing] Here's an excerpt of their advice:

1. Try not to over react. Although it is understandable that you will be worried, work hard not to communicate your anxiety to your child.
2. Accept the reality of the voice experience for your child: ask about the voices, how long the child has been hearing them, who or what they are, do they have names, what they say, etc.
3. Let your child know that lots of children hear voices and that usually they go away after a while.
4. Even if the voices do not disappear your child might learn to live in harmony with his or her voices
5. It is important to break down your child’s sense of isolation and difference from other children. Your child is special - unusual perhaps, but really not abnormal.
6. Find out if your child has any difficulties or problems that he or she finds very hard to cope with, and work on trying to fix those problems. Think back to when the voices first started. When did the voices arise for the first time? What was happening to your child when the voices first appeared? Was there anything unusual or stressful that might have occurred?

Acknowledge, listen, understand! Sometimes the root of the issue might be a bully at school, and your child tried to tell you or is afraid to tell you, so they act it out instead. Or something you're doing, unwittingly, and the child doesn't know how to confront you, because confronting someone is a very sophisticated action. That's why so many grown men just result to fighting instead of properly confronting someone. Confrontation is a high brain function. Fighting, is a low brain function. It would be VERY wise of you to teach your child how to confront a person/place / thing. Some of the greatest philosophers and war generals in history all were expert at confrontation. So, your child might be incapable of confronting you, or someone else, and is seeking your very help in the matter. Understand this and open your mind and eyes to what is really going on. Under no circumstances would you go to a psychiatrist who is going to look for a simple conclusion and diagnose your child with "schizophrenia".

What is schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a psychiatric term that means absolutely nothing. It means the doctor has no idea what is going on in the mind of the patient. It could even be labeled to a person that is absolutely normal. Pretty shocking eh? Yes, you, yourself could be diagnosed as being schizophrenic. There is no medical basis for the world and it literally is a catchall definition.

Imagine if you will. Let's say you were somewhat wealthy. Let's say you were middle aged and your children were all grown adults. They could, if they were vindictive, get a medical doctor to declare you suffered from schizophrenia, have one of them pointed as the executor and legal guardian of your estate and seize all of your assets for themselves.

In fact the government can have you declared schizophrenic. Let's say you saw something they don't want you to know about. Delusional Schizophrenic! Locked up and key thrown away.

However, many child development experts have for years explained that imaginary friends are a good sign and show it as a part of child development. They even have cartoons on t.v. now based on the phenomenon. Some experts say:

Young children three and four years-old, and many older children (as well as some teenagers), report having imaginary companions. Imaginary friends can provide emotional stability, feelings of competence and a sense of enhanced social perception.

If you are concerned about your child having a mental condition:

The United States Patent Office delayed issuing a patent on the Wright brothers’ airplane for five years because it broke accepted scientific principles. This is actually true. And so is this: Vitamin B-3, niacin, is scientifically proven to be effective against psychosis, and yet the medical profession has delayed endorsing it. Not for five years, but for fifty.

In 1952, Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, had just completed his psychiatry residency. What’s more, he had proven, with the very first double-blind, placebo-controlled studies in the history of psychiatry, that vitamin B-3 could cure schizophrenia.

There you have it. Vitamin B-3 apparently cures mental illness. I've heard of Dr. Hoffer off and on now for over 10 years. He's been ascribed to many positive things. We all benefit from him not receiving that patent. For now we can benefit from both his studies, and still buy Niacin cheaply.

Conclusion

I may pick up more topics about medicating your kids later on, but for now I'm beat and will close this. Medicating a very young human has to be the essence of irresponsibility. Not only are drugs already toxic to adults, but to children it can cause permanent and instantly fatal results. Understand that as adults, we have a lifetime of cellular structures that have matured and developed. A child has no such defense mechanisms. Also, deficiencies in children are much more readily apparent. If there is a deficiency in vitamin B-3, you'll see "odd" behavior.

Don't medicate the child. First sit down and go over what the child has been eating and NOT eating for the past year or even 2 years. You might be shocked to find out that your child never eats broccoli or brussels sprouts or greens. You ate it as a child, but you've been denying it to your child.

Perhaps you're one of these parents who makes spinach and the child whines and you cave in and don't make them eat it. Wait! You're now the child and the kid is your parent. Shame on you. Seriously, are you trying to kill your child? If you don't have the stomach to stand up to your own kid, why did you have the kid in the first place? You need to both be man [or woman] enough to stand up to your own child, and father [or mother] enough to protect them from quack doctors that want to medicate them to death. You need to just grin and bear it and force your child to eat the spinach or brussels sprouts. The child should no more dictate to you, than the quack doctor who's getting paid by the pharmaceutical companies to push drugs onto you. There may be crying and whining now, but in 10-20 years when they aren't in the grave from vitamin deficiencies that you could have easily remedied, you'll be thanking me.

Should we be medicating our children? No. Our children are little untainted sponges. Give them food and water. Give them vitamins and minerals to grow big and strong. Remember you can't get all of the vitamins and minerals from just eating, so you have to give them vitamins and minerals too. Remember when you were pregnant and you had to take all those vitamins? They were for the baby to have the best opportunity to come out healthy and normal. Why would you stop when they are already out of you.

Remember, I pray for you all. God bless.

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Repressing Emotions and Feelings in America

Denying Your Feelings

In America people raise their children to deny emotions. Mothers discourage children from crying, being sad, being angry or even being happy. These children then grow up to deny themselves these same emotions. Today doctors diagnose happy children as having Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and prescribing Ritalin for them. Teachers, who are ill trained and probably have no business being in the classroom, describe these children as "uncontrollable", and hence there must be a problem with them. All of this amounts to, people who are not raised properly, have no psychological training, and are so out of tune with a healthy mind that they don't understand one when they see one.

You and your children need to feel all emotions. Let me repeat this.

• You need to feel happy on a consistent basis
• you need to feel sad on a consistent basis
• you need to feel angry on a consistent basis
• you need to feel aggressive on a consistent basis
• you need to feel meek on a consistent basis

Notice fear is not on the list. Sadness, is not akin to fear. And, understand sadness and happiness can be linked together. There can be things that are so beautiful that they not only make you happy to see, but they make you cry and ache with how beautiful they are. The emotionally sound mind can run the gamut of emotions all in one breath. You can laugh until you cry. You have heard, "tears of joy". This is from an emotionally sound mind. They are so overcome by their emotions that it brings tears to their eyes in a joyful situation.

Stifling Emotions can be Dangerous

"Big boys don't cry Billy." Have you heard this? Have you said this to your own child? Have you been told this as a child yourself? The pervasive notion that men or males should no cry set a very dangerous precedent. You are teaching male children to repress all emotions which lead to crying. This repression of course has to come out some way. So if it doesn't come out by crying, it comes out by beating his wife, murdering his children, opening fire with a machine gun on a crowded room.

Of course men should cry. Of course boys should cry. Are they any less human? Are women the only human on the planet privileged to show their emotions? Our society is so screwed up that we welcome the sick mind, instead of the healthy mind. If something is "wrong" you should cry about it. If something is sad you should cry about it. Feel the emotion. Does God not cry over us? Does he not weep? I have no idea who started this notion that men shouldn't cry, but it is a very dangerous act.

"A real man sucks it up." No no, a real man keeps going in spite of a sad situation. That is a totally different notion than a real man not feeling emotions.

Who here, reading this, would expect a father to NOT cry at the death of their child? Cry, I would expect them to be inconsolable, for at least a week if not a month. Who here would expect a husband to NOT cry over a wife leaving him? Again, I would expect him to be nigh comatose for a good half month. But you see, in each of these instances, the unhealthy mind represses the feelings. And, what do you have with that? You have a disaster waiting to happen.

What should you do in that situation, if it were a friend / relative going through that situation? You should:

• put on a ragedy shirt
• buy some cleenex
• go over to his house
• sit him down next to you
• put the cleenex on his lap
• pull his head right on your shoulder
• order, command, demand him to cry

Yes, you should make him cry, right on your shoulder. And, what happens after a good cry? We all feel better don't we?

Have you ever just got the urge to cry? This is your body telling you, you need this release. You need to be angry and sad, just like you need to be happy. Your body needs to feel all of those emotions, and quit frequently.

But Isn't Being Angry a Bad Thing?

We need to be angry, just like we need to be happy. Have you ever see a baby, infant, cry and then growl while they're crying? Obviously they are feeling the anger emotion. It just naturally comes out. There could be no change in the environment, they just wanted to growl a little. And, you can be "angry" over many situations. In fact the word - anger - is the child version of the word. You can be:

• frustrated
• disconcerted
• embarrassed
  
• hurt / sad
• jealous
• perplexed

Those are more specific emotions. We go through those daily. But most of us were raise to think it was bad to actually feel or worse, admit to those emotions. How many of you reading this would admit to being jealous? How many of you would admit to being frustrated.

Most times, these emotions are embarrassing to admit to, because we feel it is a reflection on an inadequacy that we, ourselves have. Why would I admit to being jealous. That means that I feel beneath that person that made me feel that way. Why would I admit to being frustrated? That means that I am too stupid to understand the problem. Why would I admit to being embarrassed? That means I am a virgin / fat and don't want people to know.

Anger is an emotion people are not only taught to avoid, but they themselves try to repress. We have so many social stigmas that people are often made to feel they must repress anger and the subcategories under it, in order to fit in. It has to be the most unhealthy emotion to repress. The person that represses anger, blows up eventually.

The nagging wife, the busy body mom, the nosy neighbor - these all make people repress their anger emotions. Then one day ... They blow up, and the person doesn't understand why they blew up. That's what is truly ironic about the situation.

"Behave billy", says the overbearing mother. Anger is a behavior, mom. Be a better mother and understand how to be a mother and allow your child to be angry. You as a parent need to simply ask questions in those situations. Don't try to repress the anger. I repeat, do not say "calm down". If someone is ranting and raving, simply stand back, let them rant and rave. They need the ranting and raving, as much as they need laughter. When you can get a word in edgewise, assist them in feeling the emotion by asking them "why". A parent is a "guide". You're not there to beat them over the head. A good behaved child, is not a sheep that follows you around with a silent smile. You'll raise a doorknob of a kid, if that is what you think the ideal child is.

You need to feel anger, just as much as you need to feel overjoyed the 49ers won the superbowl. Think for a second. Who's the best friend you ever had? Did he / she just let you vent about whatever and just nod and let you keep venting? That's a good friend. That's a good parent. That's a person that lets you be emotionally healthy. Why do we talk to psychiatrists, bartenders, priests? We need to let it all out. We need to tell it. We need to get it off our chest.

You as a wife / husband / father / mother need to be the bartender / psychiatrist / priest. Hear the confessions. Hear the emotions. Hear the sob stories. And you need to nod and say "mm hmm". And take turns with your wife / husband.

Wfie: "How was your day hunny?"
Husband: "Oh let me tell you, first I dropped the honey bun in my lap on the way to work."
Wife: "oh I bet you got frustrated at that. Did you stain your pants?"
Husband: "yes and I had to hide under my desk all morning long till it evaporated and went away."
Wfie: "oh I bet that was embarrassing. Did anyone see you?"
Husband: "no, and I just casually walked around with files if I had to get up"
Wife: "did you make it home ok?"
Husband: "yes, on the way home Timothy saw this pretty woman who came to the car and asked us directions. He was so smitten, he started stuttering. I couldn't stop laughing."
Wife: "oh, poor thing, and you laughed right there as they were talking, or trying to?"
Husband: "I couldn't help it. It was funny."
Wife: "Well besides the honey bunn sounds like you had a good day."
Husband: "how was yours?"
Wife: "oh the teacher called and said Billy peed his pants. Come to find out another kid had spilled a drink on him. At first I was so shocked, but then when they found out what happened, I didn't know if I should laugh or what.."
Husband: "I hope Billy didn't punch the kid or anything."
Wife: "oh no, I think it was a friend of his. He would never punch one of his friends."
Husband: "lucky for his friends. He's a real fireball when he gets angry."
Wife: "Yes, it's pretty funny when he gets so angry. But honey, that wasn't the main reason his teacher called."
Husband: "don't tell me something serious happened."
Wife: "yes, one of the kids at school died of a rare disease. They called all the parents to tell them. They want the parents to be the one to tell the kids. It was little Susan, the neighbors daughter."
Husband: "well, I'll be. I just can't believe that. Instead of just telling Billy, let's bake a pie, get some Kleenex and all three of us go over there and give them all a big hug. Speaking of hugs, where's Billy now. I think he's going to be needing quite a few hugs before this is all over."

Conclusion

Feel all of your emotions. Don't repress them. Don't teach your children to repress them. You can see people who are emotionally stressed out, break out on their skin. They are holding and bottling up their emotions and their bodies are trying to let it out. If you need to have cry sessions with your mother or husband, do it. Tell them, it's a new thing you want to start up. Invite friends over and watch sad movies and everyone cry. Afterwards, hug each other or talk about it. Go around and ask how it made you feel.

You might want to start a pillow fight night. At least once a week. Get some anger out. It is a good thing. Can you imagine how much you can get your family to let out, if you did this on a consistent basis? Wrestle with your kids. Keep it clean and fun. You can laugh and let out anger at the same time. These emotions you want to let out. If you or your children are feeling an emotion, go through the entire emotion. Don't just cry for a second and then repress it. That's just as dangerous as not doing it in the first place. If it takes you an hour to cry, so be it. You work at your job for 8 hours, why not cry for an hou? Keep everything in perspective. If your boss makes you angry for 8 hours, you might need to pillow fight for a whole hour to let it out.

No one said you couldn't mix fun, with feeling emotions. If you kid is angry, give him a notebook to rip up, sit him in the bathroom and tell him to rip it up. Simply have him clean it up afterwards. These are ideas to let you feel your emotions.

Bottling emotions in, can lead to a shorter life span. I am being completely serious about that. Can you imagine, high blood pressure so high that you lose your hair and other outrageous symptoms? No, let the emotions out and do it on a consistent basis. Encourage your family to do it. Encourage your friends to do it. If society looks at you strange, keep in mind, this is your health you have in your hands. Think to yourself, "I'm not going to repress this and kill myself at an early age, just to make them not feel awkward."


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