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Off Topic / Re: Living in the wild
« on: November 05, 2010, 11:53:16 pm »
Being confined by force in a closed, exclusive and jealous relationship is a love killing situation.
Is it possible that marriage, much like optimal diet, is different for everyone?
I believe you've mentioned before that you are divorced Francois. It's quite possible that this experience has defined your ideas of what is good and what is bad in a relationship. This is not to say that your particular experience must therefore preclude marriage from other peoples viable ways to express there love for each other.
Marriage is a neolithic convention. I do not believe monogamy is solely a neolithic invention. I believe the paleo era had monogamous and polygamous relationships and both can work.

For the record I have been married for two years myself. There are times where my wife is a difficult woman to live with, as I can be difficult for her, but I feel our union is beneficial to the both of us. We both have a best friend, confidant, support base, and sexual partner who we know will be there for us when we need them. I am not so naive to believe that this would continue growing stronger, as it has since we first met, without lots of work and compromise. Nor am I so naive to believe that marriage will always work out between two people. I do believe it's an incredibly strong bond when nurtured by two people who belong together and I fully expect us to spend our lives together much the same as my parents have through all of their internal & external hardships (30 years in the spring). :)

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Off Topic / Re: Celebrity Rawists
« on: November 05, 2010, 11:36:59 pm »
What does that really mean? I've only heard about F.A.G, the Film Actors Guild, led by Alec Baldwin.
Screen Actors Guild.


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AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
Ronery, so ronery. ;D

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Journals / Re: Louna
« on: November 05, 2010, 08:02:00 am »
Yuli does have a point:- raw grainfed meat is only a really serious problem if one is particularly sensitive to grains like DJR and some others.
I'm definitely an anomaly though.

I recently got deer from both my farmer and my wife's uncle.
The deer from my wife's uncle sits fine without any problems (he hunts in the woods far from crop fields).
The deer from my farmer, which has been gorging on corn from his neighbors' crops the last month or two, has caused minor indigestion and malaise to the point I won't eat it. The deer I got from him a couple months ago, from the same locale, sat fine without any issue as the corn was not mature enough for the deer to be eating extensively.

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Hot Topics / Re: Flat-out dont give a hoot, halloween candy experiment
« on: November 05, 2010, 06:07:58 am »
Usually when I say stuff like this, I get a hail of retorts ("you shouldn't tell people that" and "not everyone can do anything", and "it's irresponsible to give people unrealistic ideals and feed their pipe dreams"), but remember: I play fucking guitar for a living. Guitar. Play. That IS my job. I do well enough to make my house payment and feed my family.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
I fully agree with you SD. The biggest limit to one's dreams/aspirations are the limits they impose on them.
I live my life shooting for the stars and it's fulfilling. ;D

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Suggestion Box / Re: 'Type-writer' Effect
« on: November 05, 2010, 12:10:55 am »
I don't have it either on Firefox. Give another browser a shot and see if it still does it.

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Welcoming Committee / Re: so glad this forum is here
« on: November 04, 2010, 08:16:12 am »
I have learned a lot about not letting idealism or dogma dictate a way of life beyond its time. Things change, and i needed to make some extreme changes to better support my overall health.
A great step towards gaining back your health is acknowledging this. You're on the right path now no matter where that leads you. :)

I definitely need the support of people who aren't going to give me shit about my choice to put my health first.
In my experience this is a good place for that support.

Welcome to the forum. ;D

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Off Topic / Re: Deleting accounts
« on: November 02, 2010, 07:26:27 pm »
Also sometimes if its a good job or a contract offering excellent pay, who cares if whoever hired you is an asshole, lets say some guy didn't hire me cause I have pics of me at the weed march, and he's one of those weed paranoids, he searches me and then he sees those pics and decides to hire some other prick. So just by not revealing information you can make your money and move on.

Another way to look at it is if you were hired by above mentioned sample, the weed paranoid boss, and you complete your contract and do great work, the boss is happy, then you can reveal info. ie. "by the way I had fun at the weed march"...and he may think "hmmm, maybe I should not discriminate so much"...or if he has a real pickle up his backside...he will get annoyed, you got good money and on top of it either pissed this boss off (fun)...or he used his brain more (cool)....

Perhaps I am over-thinking this but thats why it can be useful to not always use your real full name online.  :o
You are talking about contract work which is different from what most of us think of when you say job. It's not hard to suck it up and deal with a prick for a couple months but it's another to deal with that same person for years.

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Or if you think about it its useful in other situations/not online.
For example lets say some girl worked as a nude dancer to make money for college. This is a good time to use a fake name. I knew a girl like that actually, and she made very good money and then went off to college, she was broke/poor before.
I still stand by my stance. If I was willing to work as a stripper to pay my own way through college I wouldn't hide it. The vast majority of things that people view as regrets are compromises to their core values (yes, some are instances with unforeseen consequences as well). In this situation the only way I'd strip was if it did not conflict with those core values.

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Welcoming Committee / Re: insects anyone?
« on: November 02, 2010, 09:29:56 am »
I was thinking about primate evolution, the physiology of the human etc and thought that before hominids began hunting with tools (ie spears) they probably included those animal foods that were available without "hunting", so this would be molluscs, both land and sea varieties, insects, earth worms, grubs, bird and reptile eggs, crustaceans, catchable reptiles and amphibians, various invertebrates and other tasty morsels not oft talked about in these here circles. Granted a juicy raw steak is more appetising than a plate full of locusts, but having gone as far back as the paleolithic age, perhaps we can add in some authentic cuisine to the bargain.
Lurk more. They're talked about plenty around here. ;)

Welcome. :)

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Off Topic / Re: Deleting accounts
« on: November 02, 2010, 09:28:47 am »
There's a few reasons...
For example everyone knows about Facebook, lets say I am trying to land a certain job, and my employer searches my name on Facebook, now they can see my pictures, some of my info etc...
Theres other reasons why I wouldn't want my name to be searchable, like people trying to find out information about me for no good reason etc
If I want to tell something about myself I'll tell people myself, no reason for them to hunt for info  :P
Different strokes for different folks. I live my life in a way that I want and do not apologize for it or care to hide it.
I wouldn't want the job if they would discriminate against me for something that I do/am/support. :)

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Off Topic / Re: Deleting accounts
« on: November 02, 2010, 09:26:33 am »
Thanks SD, I tried your suggestions but was neither able to change the username nor delete the account.  Would one of the moderators of this forum please either tell me how to delete this account or do it for me?
An admin account is need to delete a user or change a user's name. Mods can ban or moderate threads and that's about it. GS will perform what he will when he has a chance.
FWIW the mods/admins prefer to not delete accounts if possible as it makes reviewing past threads much more difficult. A name change is much more likely to occur. ;)

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Hot Topics / Re: Chocolate and sweet potatoes
« on: November 02, 2010, 01:00:19 am »
By chocolate I meant cocoa beans, they sell cacao paste here which is nothing more then fermented cacao beans smashed together.
They roast them therefore definitely not raw paleo. ;)

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Off Topic / Re: True or false game
« on: November 01, 2010, 08:14:34 am »
The person below me loves reading.
True. Hundreds of books since I was a little kid. :)

The person below me likes Heavy Metal music.

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Off Topic / Re: True or false game
« on: November 01, 2010, 02:32:09 am »
The person below me will tell me whether the 'person below me' statement should be true of oneself.
True. It'll add some real depth to this learning tidbits about each other. :)

The person below me, while eschewing most modern/neolithic foods in their diet, embraces automobiles in all their gas-guzzling, wrench-turning, hot-rodding, tire-spinning glory.

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General Discussion / Re: Gut bacteria
« on: October 31, 2010, 08:12:33 pm »
So I don't quite understand. If say, meat (muscle) has no bacteria present, why do people always say raw meats have "good bacteria"?

Same with raw milk?
The meat has good bacteria on the outside digesting it since the animal was slaughtered. That's why searing the outside kills the bacteria.

I'm not sure on the mechanics of the milk. I assume since it's a liquid the bacteria that is in contact with the surface of the milk can pass into the core of the container easier and proliferate in the environment.

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Welcoming Committee / Re: how to make this work
« on: October 31, 2010, 08:09:35 pm »
Unless you enjoy the taste I would suggest against juicing squash because of it being a nightshade.
Do you have any links to this Kurite? I've never heard squash called a nightshade before and I'm not finding anything other than a few people speculating online with a search. AFAIK it's a part of the gourd family along with melons, cucumbers, etc.
I agree juicing isn't a great idea though.

Jennie; I agree with the others that a raw omnivorous diet is probably the way for you to go right now. It sounds like you're bouncing across a lot of diets in a fairly short span of time. Raw omni will be healing and if after a couple months you don't start seeing the gains in health you are striving for you can try going lower carbs (or full on carnivore).

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Carnivorous / Zero Carb Approach / Re: Where to Find Organ Meats?
« on: October 31, 2010, 09:18:58 am »
That's strange. You are an Easterner, I think(?), and this is the 1st time I have not had an Easterner complain that local farmers' markets were extremely  lousy.
I'm in NY and have a gem of a market myself now TD. It's got my grassfed farmer, a fresh fishmonger, 2 organic farmers with beautiful produce, a apiarist with fresh semi-raw honey (centrifuge), a dairy with many raw cheeses (goat and cow), and then a number of other less interesting stands (fresh bread, frozen juice bars, homemade pickles, jams). It's also set up right outside a very nice plant nursery. They're few and far between but good farmer's markets can be found on the east coast. :)

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General Discussion / Re: Ugh...what not do when you switched to a RAF
« on: October 31, 2010, 08:36:17 am »
Sadly the only fruit shop in my town closed down within the last few months, so now the only fruit I can get is from the supermarket. It's always unripe, and they don't hold enough that I could buy it and let it ripen, I'll just eat them all before they get to that stage. I much prefer very ripe bananas.
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Bananas-Ripen-Faster
I don't know if it will convert the starch quicker though.

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Off Topic / Re: Anyone else play xbox live?
« on: October 28, 2010, 06:27:54 am »
Holy moly! I could never put that much time in to a single player game. I only ever played it online. Saying that, if Fable had been long enough I probably could play that game for that long.
We were playing offline multiplayer. 3-4 people in most games at a time so it was easy to play for 6+ hours at a clip. It was the same deal with us and a few other games the years preceding that (Mariokart 64, Goldeneye, Gauntlet Legends, Diablo on the Playstation).

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Off Topic / Re: Anyone else play xbox live?
« on: October 28, 2010, 01:13:25 am »
All the best people had Dream Cast! I've hardly known anyone else with one in the UK. I think we have 3 or 4 or them xD and like 60 games. Not played on it in many years though. Phantasy Star Online and Sonic Adventure were my most played games on it. I had Shenmue but didn't get far.
I've got 3 myself. When friends were upgrading they'd give the things away. I've also got at least 15 VMUs. Lots of good games on the system.

Oh, PSO. Now you're talking my language. Nothing like a "dungeon crawler" (even if you were on a planet and outside most of the time) with random loot and grinding to keep me entertained. I bought it at separate times for Dreamcast, Xbox, and Gamecube. My brother, my "brother from another mother" (kid who lived close by who we were best friends with), and played it to death for years. I must have put 350 hours of my life into the game and never did make it online with it.

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I never used such a routine, because I never found it neccesery to load the muscles like that for results. Anything beyond 3x12 and such is just a waste of my time. I sometimes moves between excersizes without any break at all. Would probably qualify as something similar. But to put that much load on a single muscle at a time seems counterproductive. Many bodybuilders think that muscleburn means they had a good workout, so they overdo everything.
I'm not sure exactly what the intent is with a 10x10 workout but perhaps they step back on intensity a bit and step up the sets to incur greater muscle fatigue. Lots of schools of thought out there as to the best ways to work the muscles.

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Off Topic / Re: Anyone else play xbox live?
« on: October 27, 2010, 08:16:19 am »
I just gave "Fallout: New Vegas" a run through. I loved every minute of it. In some ways I think it is better than Fallout3. There are a lot of technical bugs that needs sorted ASAP. If you havent bought it. Wait for a couple of more patches to come out. There are more invisible walls than in fallout3. It apparently pissed some people off. I think they made sense and was placed in a way that forced you to explore the landscape rather than just glitch your way over some high mountain instead of experiencing the events designed for your leisure. had you taken the intended route around it.
I'm definitely interested in giving it a play but will definitely wait at least 6 months before picking it up. I buy 99% of my games used and most of them are at least a year old so I pay very little for them. I keep them after I beat them so I'm not going to take that depreciation hit for a new title. Thankfully this translates into 90% of the bugs in a game cleaned up before I start up so very little issues there. :)
My wife actually bought me a copy of Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition for Christmas so I'll replay that with all of the DLC before I get to New Vegas.
Between work and family though I only get ~6-8 hours a week in on a game so it'll be some time until I even finish up Borderlands.

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Off Topic / Re: Anyone else play xbox live?
« on: October 27, 2010, 07:12:51 am »
Ahem, Elders Scrolls perhaps?  ;D
The console versions of both Morrowind and Oblivion were very well done.
Fallout 3 still tops my list from Bethesda though. :)

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Primal Diet / Re: Lactose intolerance
« on: October 27, 2010, 06:49:01 am »
please tell us how many people on THIS forum get allergic reactions from eating butter? if it is just you then you should keep it to yourself as your constant butter bashing does not bring any value to THIS forum. 
I do.

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Off Topic / Re: Anyone else play xbox live?
« on: October 27, 2010, 06:43:52 am »
I once played nintendo  ages ago and got truly bored with the crap AI and poor games. I far prefer PC games, especially if there is an extensive modding community so as to improve the AI and add to the general gaming experience.
Much like PC games consoles games have greatly increased AI capacity over the years. Good, bad, and awful are fairly subjective though with games so you still might not like anything on modern systems.
I will give you that modding communities are much more extensive on PCs as opposed to consoles. It's a function of the data storage. Lots of great mods out there though no matter what genre you gravitate to. :)

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Off Topic / Re: What are you listening to?
« on: October 27, 2010, 04:18:13 am »

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