Showing posts with label learnings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learnings. Show all posts

Friday, December 12, 2014

Things I Learned This Week...

1.) Farting is good for you. It's caused by gut bacteria doing their jobs. I always thought it was a symptom of something not working right.

2.) MCS is thought to be an autoimmune response, or your body attacking the stored toxic chemicals and heavy metals in your fat and organs. Whoa! I KNEW IT! I've been saying this for years. Finally I found a doctor that agrees!

3.) Gargling makes your brain work better.

4.) Dogs are susceptible to Hashimoto's Thyroiditis because of the gluten in their chemically-saturated commercial dog food. I wonder if people know when their dog is showing symptoms or if they think he's just getting old and lazy? How sad. I can't imagine being a dog, feeling so miserable you can't move, and not being able to help yourself.

5.) Lipstick usage is connected to lupus.

6.) People with brain degeneration in the cerebellum area can feel sick from looking at patterns. They are also prone to motion sickness.

7.) Jesus was not a historical person. He's totally fiction. There is absolutely no historical documentation that he ever existed. This is mind boggling to me. Although I do believe Christianity is a outdated cult based on ignorant superstition, I always thought Jesus was a really cool rebellious dude who really lived. One theory is the Romans made him up to control the Jewish revolts of the time. Amazing what we are taught to believe as children and we accept without question as adults.

8.) Chelation should not be done by anyone with chemical sensitivities or autoimmune issues as it forces the heavy metals into your brain and may cause permanent damage. It will make you sicker. When you do get sicker, doctors will often tell you it's just your system detoxing. Nope. That's a lie. I KNEW IT! I've also been saying this for years having been an IV technician who used to administer chelation treatments in a former life. The stuff they pump into your veins smells putrid and unsafe. I'd never put it in my body no matter how many miracle cures are promised to me!



Sunday, June 30, 2013

Things I Learned This Week...

The Beatles refused to perform at segregated concerts in the early years when they first came to the USA. Yeah, Fab Four!

Mummies smoked. Someone did hair analysis tests on the remains of ancient Chilean people and found they used nicotine. Blah. Stupid people exist in every culture.

Andrew Goodman, one of the student volunteers who went to Mississippi in 1964 with the Freedom Summer program, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. When they found their bodies, his fist was clutching the dirt. They think he was buried alive. This disturbs me greatly. The whole story disturbs me greatly, but I've known of it for a long time, just not this detail. Too many evil people in the world.

And on a more positive note: Hilda! I am delighted to discover Hilda, the plus-sized pin-up girl from the 1950s. She so adorable. Since I have been overweight and a red-head all my life, she would have been a huge inspiration in my youth. Now she makes me smile and want to wear a bikini in public. Well, maybe not...



 

 



Thursday, June 20, 2013

The Things I Learned Today, or Weird Trivia

We learn new stuff every day even if we don't try. Even if we don't want to learn, we do. The Native American philosophy of education is when the time is right we learn what we need to know. (In other words, institutional classroom education is unnatural.) I think we learn a whole lot of stuff we don't need to know, too. Some of that stuff might come in handy in the future. Or not. I read a lot. Some times I read about things that amaze me, make me wonder, make me laugh or disturb me greatly. This is my new blog post series so I may share these new learnings with my readers.


Today I learned yellow fever epidemics used to decimate whole communities in the 1800s. No one knew mosquitoes spread it so everyone got sick, died, and whoever survived threw all the dead bodies into mass graves. Can you imagine watching everyone around you dying and not knowing why? How incredibly frightening. The very first inoculation in the USA was for yellow fever. They would drain the pus from someone who was recovering, make a tiny incision on the affected person's skin, and stick the pus in. Yuck. But it worked.

Second learning: paraphilia  This is a crazy-ass mental illness whereby a person gets sexually aroused when viewing a dead person. Hmmmm.... I read about Jane Toppan, serial killer nurse who would kill friends and patients with overdoses of morphine. (Friends might be too strong a word.) As they died she'd snuggle into bed with them and watch. It gave her "voluptuous delight." (Her words, not mine.) Hmmm.... They are also called "lust killers".

Someday I'll need to know those things. Not today. Today these learnings are categorized as weird trivia. I might need to change my new series heading to "Weird Trivia".

I'll spare my readers illustrations for these two new learnings or it could get even weirder.