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Why are you blocking comments on youtube?
Why are you AFRAID of J GALT?
Time to find another hobby!!!!!
Why are you blocking comments on youtube?
Why are you AFRAID of J GALT?
Time to find another hobby!!!!!
Why are you blocking comments on youtube?
Why are you AFRAID of J GALT?
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We all support rewarding years of training, ingenuity, and entrepeneurship.
What needs fixing is the vulgar disproportion that has developed in banking,
investing, and upper corporate management.
Democracyatwork.info advocates workers wear two hats.
One for their daily work role, and the other for a seat at the board.
Germany uses a variation on this model with excellent results, and it is
built into German law.
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Yah, that's who I want my to manage my Social Security funds.
I would try it but, 1) does health insurance cover it 2) how much does it cost 3) where do you get the antidepressant mushrooms 4) is this for mild to moderate depression or severe? and 5) is it like your depression is treated, or are you just (and sorry if this is biased, but) kind of buzzed all the time? I remember Thom saying recently on the TV show I think, if 5 doctors told you you had cancer and needed surgery and one told you, "here, just take these dandelion greens", what would you do? Depression is a serious medical illness, like cancer. I'm not saying mushrooms might not be able to help with it, I just want it to be understood that, in terms of major depressive disorder anyway, it should be taken as seriously as more physiological illnesses. It would be nice if you could use herbal remedies to cure depression, and I don't discount holistic forms of healing at all, especially in conjunction with other treatments. I wouldn't really want to go through life buzzed all the time though I don't think, if that's all it does.
After the convention roll call last night, the DNC should have distributed magic mushrooms by the crate load. Seems the least they could do.
You lefties have been feed so much horseshit and kept in the dark for so long, you've become mushrooms :).
New drugs to treat depression are marketed almost weekly - so it seems - just watch TV. The new drugs are not so different in effectacy from existing drugs that have gone generic but may have a different side-effect profile and preserve drug company profits. Psychedelics in addition to being on the outlawed drug list are likely to be far less profitable for drug companies so will not attract the large investment needed to get them approved to treat depression by the FDA.
Climate change was mentioned in this program, and it made me realize a change in the message.
'Climate Change' is a broad term for the process that occurs over long periods of time, and it is that which the 'Global Warming' deniers seize upon - claiming it is a natural process. Politicians and newscasters more often use Climate change instead of Global Warming.
Let us insist that Global Warming is the issue.
Here is the warning sign : Insurance companies and Banks are very concerned about Global Warming ( Google it! ) for some very good reasons. More natural disasters equals more claims, and more claims means premiums will rise, but the Insurers don't want to price themselves out of the market.
The Banks are concerned if their clients cannot afford or do not have adequate insurance, their productivity could be severely reduced, and so the Banks receive less.
If they're worried, we should be very worried.
P.S. In 1949 a US senator addressed the Senate about Global Warming.
Off topic:
If HRC wants to win over Progressives in the Party she will use her speech to support the issues in the platform. She may be a swell person but I'd like to know what she will push and oppose from the Oval Office.
Not really a new finding. Over the past year and more, Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Stanford Medical Schools have also reported similar results.
Where research has been allowed, other psychedelics have also given good results in treating various emotional dysfunction. MAPS has sponsored research with MDMA, We have lost over 40 years of discovery due to bad drug policy.
They are not being studied because outlawing "recreational" drugs was a centerpiece of Nixon's Culture Wars, as was spreading nonsensical propaganda.
Roland
Magic mushrooms. It does not make sense that these plants are not being studied for their benifits. There are enormous numbers of people suffering from mental disorders that potentially could be assisted.
According to The Guardian, two doses, plus some kind of psychotherapy during the experience, resulted in improvement in these (officially) treatment resistant patients for anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months. That is very promising.
Will it work compared to placebo? Probably.
Will it work without the psychotherapy? Probably not, so DON'T rush out and grab some magic mushrooms and scarf them down to treat your or someone else's depression.
Psychedelic drugs have been found to be very effective in psychotherapy and it isn't necessary to look for such a mechanistic explanation for it.
They have caused alcoholics to abstain, criminals to reform and mentally ill and disabled people to improve and make gains in recovery. Subjects attribute their improvement to a "cosmic religious experience, increased self confidence, increased self awareness and a reorientation of values".
It has long been well known amongst those experimenting with psychedelics on their own that the psychedelic experience will change one's life, generally for the better. A not uncommon claim of the psychenauts is that they "talked to God" during the experience.
Unfortunately, cultural bigotry, perhaps coupled with a sick society's and sick system's fear of mental health, has caused not only free experimentation with psychedelics to be outlawed in 1967 but for psychedelic research to be be banned as well so that no one may benefit from the therapeutic effects of these drugs simply to please the bigotries of the willfully obtuse dominators of society.
BBP?
Election Fraud?
"the system is rigged" - E. Warren
What about plastic food and drink containers? Or the adhesives used in film for bag sealers (the entire inside surface of the bag is coated with the adhesive)? Or the lubricants used in food processing equipment (YES, your food may/will have come in to contact with machine lubricants!)?
Size matters. That is, the size of the dose. We're dealing with an organic toxin here, not a homeopathic remedy, so a vanishingly-small concentration should see the studied effect vanish. Let's see a study of concentrations of BBP in actual suspect foods, rather than speculate that a material that happens to be used in food-processing equipment is causing obesity. There are more obvious suspects!
When not present in amounts fatal to insects, they still appear to have an insect repellent effect. They are harmful to fish, but are far less toxic to mammals and birds than many synthetic insecticides, except in consumer airborne backyard applications.
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The phrase appears to be American. Originating from the U.S. Weather Bureau's rating of clouds. A cumulonimbus cloud is rated 9 often reaching 40,000 feet. In the 1950s a popular radio show "Johnny Dollar" in a recurring episode the hero was knocked unconscious and awoke on cloud nine.
Cloud Nine Realtime
Re: RichardofJeffersonCity comment
Unless I missed something, Nash's last book was published by Crown Publishing Group. Crown Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Random House, the world's largest book publisher.
More on point, fellow psychologist Dr. Daniel Levitin -- also both a neuroscientist and former musician -- wrote the best-selling book, This Is Your Brain On Music, which addresses for the general public the role of attention and memory in creating and performing music.
I'd actually recommend to most folks his more recent book, The Organized Mind, which addresses, in part, how every decision we make exacts a small toll upon the efficiency of brain functioning. Because any decision -- large or small -- requires using some of the available glucose required to fuel our brain cells, modern everyday life faces us with so many choices or decisions (e.g., do I buy brand A or brand B at the supermarket) that by the end of the day our store of glucose may be exhausted.
Interestingly, Dr. Levitin points out also that responding to every text message, tweet, or email received also saps some amount of that reserve. Inasmuch as multitasking already has been exposed by numerous researchers as mythical, his perspective suggests that we'd do better by simplifying our lives.
Perhaps Thom might seek out Dr. Levitin for a guest segment, given their shared interest in attentional brain functioning.
jeff k