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I am a clean eater and yes, I am superior because I apply knowledge to my own life. What’s wrong with that?

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The great thing about narcissists is that they will self identify. It makes figuring things out a lot easier 🙂

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-online-secrets/201409/the-one-question-can-tell-us-whos-narcissist

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[quote=scaredyclassic]anti everyone.
except other jews.
wait them too.[/quote]

🙂

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I feel safe now, for the moment, but old fears linger in the DNA

those Christians are gonna kill us! RUN!!!
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Based on this information, I would think your DNA would be more anti-European than anti-Christian.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]no. its the word. it gives me the Willies

my parents deeply distrusted all Christians. they assumed everyone was antisemitic.

back in the old days they were often correct.

times changed. now people just hate Arabs.

but I still bristle at Jesus, remnant of my early programming that the Christians want us gone…over the long arc of Jewish history, it was a good bet to assume Christians wanted you dead. I’ll never be deprogrammed, its too late. i could never say the word jesus without choking on it

can’t trust em…I guess when I hear the word jesus, i hear in the subtext, trained from birth…” let’s go beat the shit out of some jews”.

brrrr. Jesus.[/quote]

Hmm. Earlier you mentioned feeling pressured and/or fearing a scam. This sounds different.

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I have trouble not wincing when I hear the word “jesus” tho. makes me feel pressured, or like some scam is gonna go down.[/quote]

How do you feel about Joshua – which is pretty much equivalent to Jesus? If that isn’t a problem you’re probably reacting to the evangelicals not the word. I feel the same way about aggressive vegans and gluten-free types and anti vaxxers. I think excessively clean eaters are today’s Puritans – complete with the smug feeling of superiority.

I love this quote from CS Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

There are a lot of wince-y words out there. Usually, though, it’s not the word(s) but the people using them.

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Dupe

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Jeremy Rifkin is kind of a dope.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]I would like to join a church, but just for the sociability of it.

I have trouble not wincing when I hear the word “jesus” tho. makes me feel pressured, or like some scam is gonna go down.[/quote]

Scaredy – it is possible that you are Doug Forcett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvmRQGKrV-g

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Just for the record, there are many very logical people in the world who believe that there is something more to life. For instance, Francis Collins, NIH director, director of the human genome project, current Christian and former atheist.[/quote]

Well, it depends on what you mean by “more to life,” but if you mean that they believe in something that they have no logical reason to believe in, then those people are, by definition, not logical (regarding their belief that there is “more to life”).[/quote]

Logic only works when you have information to manipulate. To analogize – if the world were an enormous room and there was a door that you could use to leave but could never return, logic is useless to determine what’s on the other side of the door. I realize that you can say it’s just another enormous room containing the people who left, but you have no data – it could be a swimming pool full of Skittles.

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[quote=zk][quote=pokepud3]well you got your beliefs and I got mine. I can say your beliefs are false, and mine and right, and you can say the vice versa.. doesn’t change anything. Cheers.[/quote]

Well, it might not change anything, but if I’m using logic and reason and you’re using… wait, what are you using again? Just saying what you believe? And thinking that carries weight even though it makes no sense?

You’re living a lie. And, deep down inside, I think you know it. Cheers.[/quote]

Just for the record, there are many very logical people in the world who believe that there is something more to life. For instance, Francis Collins, NIH director, director of the human genome project, current Christian and former atheist.

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[quote=zk][quote=pokepud3]well you got your beliefs and I got mine. I can say your beliefs are false, and mine and right, and you can say the vice versa.. doesn’t change anything. Cheers.[/quote]

Well, it might not change anything, but if I’m using logic and reason and you’re using… wait, what are you using again? Just saying what you believe? And thinking that carries weight even though it makes no sense?

You’re living a lie. And, deep down inside, I think you know it. Cheers.[/quote]

Just for the record, there are many very logical people in the world who believe that there is something more to life. For instance, Francis Collins, NIH director, director of the human genome project, current Christian and former atheist.

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[quote=Escoguy]Just started taking magnesium and to say the least am stunned how much it helps my sleep and muscle aches. Really a new lease on life. You may be on to more than you realize.[/quote]

Some very good data for magnesium calming anxiety. It’s actually used in hospital settings to prevent seizures. This woman (Harvard instructor) has a great blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/201801/magnesium-depression

There is also some interesting suggestion that Lithium is an essential trace element : https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/should-we-all-take-a-bit-of-lithium.html

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We tried to buy a house when we moved back here that was on the verge of being foreclosed on. The mortgage was held by the wife, who, after a divorce, had gone to live elsewhere, with the ex husband and kids remaining in the house. He became a squatter, alleged that the house had been transferred in trust to the kids, filed for bankruptcy 2-3 times and I can’t remember what else. We gave up after a month or two of the shenanigans and bought another house in the neighborhood. Later the house was purchased at a foreclosure sale and the owner evicted him. This guy had more tricks up his sleeve than most. In my mind, the bank was reluctant to actually take a stand, but maybe they knew what they were doing ….

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[quote=FlyerInHi]I was talking to a friend who was complaining that “girls” act sexy, that is they use seduction to get ahead; yet they complain they are harassed. [/quote]

You know, I was talking to some men who like to show off how rich they are. The funny thing is, they get so upset when people mug them. I know it’s ridiculous, but I guess you actually have to ask them: can I have some of your money? 😉

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Did you guys notice that when you attend a seminars or conference someone always introduces himself as the safety officer? It’s kinda creepy but it’s the country we live in.

Teachers when guns and school surrounded by walls. There goes the open campus concept. Where is the money going to come from for the wall and guards?[/quote]

Plus, the armed security officers and sheriffs that were supposed to protect the children in Parkland hid behind their cars and never entered the building . . . Even with guns they are cowards – so I guess they need really aggressive people with guns. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sheriff-armed-school-resource-officer-never-went-in-to-building-in-florida-mass-shooting/

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