Some acquaintances of mine went to the Yemen and saw the men dancing around, without their women present, while shooting into the air with their rifles - now, I loathe dancing, but this sounds like more my kind of thing!

It usually takes c.8 to 12 months for people to get rid of their cravings for cooked-foods.

Part of the problem is that cooked-food contains opioid peptides which are highly addictive(such peptides are also present in dairy and wheat). That's partly why I went cold-turkey rather than mixing raw and cooked together, so as to wean myself off the addiction more easily.

However, in general, the main reason why SAD-eaters prefer cooked-food is primarily because of lifelong habits. Like a number RPDers, I remember stealing bits of raw meats from the kitchen when I was very young(in my case raw kidney), and rather liked it - but when I tried it again 25 years later, it took me some time to get to really enjoy it again. So, the main thing is to get into the habit. If you simply can't stomach certain foods, and can't handle partially-cooked, either, then I would suggest you do much the same as I did, which is to buy very small amounts of dozens of different foods from all over the place, until you find those which taste good, right from the start. As a result, I found that I took an instant liking to raw goatmeat, most raw shellfish, some types of raw fish and the like, and was able to depend on those for 90% of my diet, until I got used to and enjoyed the other 10% of my diet(consisting of those foods I didn't like, but persisted with).

Legumes are forbidden on a paleo diet, whether cooked or raw, for a reason.

I wonder how people are classified as the "healthiest." I've heard also that Hunza Valley Pakistani's are healthiest, Okinawans are healthiest, Inuit are healthiest etc.

I agree, most of those claims are dubious, at best. Plus, modern medical intervention can keep people alive for far longer than they would have if they'd lived a 100 years ago. So, diet isn't the only factor.

I failed at my last book "Ulysses" by James Joyce. I could read it but it didn't draw me in at all, I made it about 1/3 of the way through after a couple of months and decided to give it up and find a book that attracts me more. One day I will go back and finish it, the same thing happened in 8th grade when I took on "Crime and Punishment" and I recently went back and tore through that in a couple of weeks.

The last book that enthralled me was "The Secret History" which is about some college students studying Greek studies.

You are not alone. I, like many others, found the book "Ulysses" to be a dead-bore- James Joyce has a reputation of being a writers' writer rather than a readers' writer.
I've found a few other famous books to be similiarly unreadable such as Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" which I had to do at school - I struggled
 to get past the first page, because it was so boring.

I've yet to create high meat, but from what I've learned on here liver doesn't end up being so much high "meat" as it ends up being a high soup ... if you can picture a fermented soup of dissolved organ parts (and now picture the smell). It would be high in bacteria but I'm not sure even the inuit could stomach that. Someone should dare Aajonus to drink some of that on Ripley's Believe or Not lol.

The Inuit preferred to eat rotting fish rather than rotting liver. The rotting fish was one of their most favourite foods. 

Re liquid soup:- In that famous wifeswap tv series episode about an American family on a raw animal food diet, they were shown to eat high-meat in the form of a liquid soup(I think it had been aged for c.4 months).

I think so. People from the States enthuse about yellow  hide-fat all the time, but I don't seem to get hold of it, over here.

could anyone give me any brand-names of alkalinic mineral waters?

Go to this website:-http://www.mineralwaters.org/

and click upper left area on waters, list by country, check under "USA", and you'll find 183 brands listed. Only go for those mineral-waters from natural springs. Avoid the sparkling mineral-waters as well, as they cause digestive upset.

You know you're an RPDer when non-rawist acquaintances, such as doctors etc., unsubtly and constantly  go out of their way to tempt you with foods banned on your diet, such as alcohol, coffee, pasteurised dairy etc..

Yeah, he has to allocate the various forums to us mods, after all.

I don't mean you; what about all the others. I know that all works for you - my parents and many other "normal" people say "every thing is o.k." but then I notice that they have problems, but they are "normal" problems.

I do try, but I would like the whole story to work from top to bottom, doing sport and resting - not just "wayting" for the next meal; I don't just oder or jump into a car for food...I go for it under my own steam!

What about eating raw in a restaurant (social)? Bolt vs. chew...

I still bolt my raw fish down in sashimi restaurants.

OK, here's a game I came across, elsewhere, so let's try it here:-

1) INTP personality type(mostly).
2) I have light brown hair(dark blond in the summer sun).
3) I have light-brown eyes(used to be very dark-brown in pre-rawpaleo days).
4) I'm 6ft tall.
5) I'm obsessed about science(NASA/Space exploration/SETI etc.) as well as science fiction(more SF books than SF movies, but both).
6) I eat a raw-animal-food diet, including rotting meat etc.
7) I'm a fan of Schopenhauer.
8)I love quotations
9) I LOVE  skiing.
10) I'm a fan of comics like 2000AD.
11) I'm a fan of martial arts such as Judo.
12) I like heavy metal music(ACDC/Manowar etc.)
13) I speak 3 modern languages fluently.
14) I've visited 4 of the 7 continents.
15) I'm familiar with much/most of the vocabulary of Latin and Ancient Greek.
16) I love Roleplaying and strategy-based  PC games.
17) I'm a religious atheist - of Roman Catholicist persuasion(pre-Vatican II-traditionalist). I would prefer to be something cooler such as a Mormon Fundamentalist, though.
18) My politics is Bismarckian in tone.
19) I have an absolute fascination with the Ancient World in general(Carthage, Ancient Persia etc.)
20) I love mountain-hiking in really remote, desolate areas.
21)  I hate bureaucracy.
22) I love mythology.
23) I'm an expert in, and fan of, general knowledge.
24) I dislike giving money to charity for numerous, well-thought-out reasons(unless it's for wildlife).
25) I hate beta-males(but not other types such as alphas or nerds).