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New Theories / Re: Could the Covid 19 virus be used as a type of germ warfare?

« on: 06/04/2020 02:03:03 »

I am of the mindset that I would rather not believe that people would do this or purposely do this.that its so crazy to think anyone would want to jeopardize the lives of millions upon millions of people because of political or any other reasons.. I try hard daily to believe we all have much more respect for humanity than that would imply otherwise... I hate that glimmer of doubt that made me even ask this question to begin with. So sad.. All the daily reports of loved ones and others loved ones all across the world suffering now with sickness and the death this virus has brought...I love humanity and feel my heart breaking more every day I see those numbers raise and people still thinking it's not real..its a hoax...

I don't want to play the blame game.. I believe in my more intelligent part of my mind that this was a natural occurrence and so we just need to pull together and fix it... Which I believe is being worked on hourly by wonderful scientists and Doctors right now...All of us who are not able to do that part can still do plenty by listening to the CDC and The doctors and scientists...when they tell us how to help ourselves sheltering in, masks, hand washing cleaning etc....we all need to help...

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New Theories / Re: Could the Covid 19 virus be used as a type of germ warfare?

« on: 06/04/2020 01:53:42 »

Yes.. I have read multiple views and yesterday I read that it's been rolled out that it could have been a human created virus but instead they believe it may have been around kinda dormant in humans for Avery long time and that at some point long ago it was initially in a animal..like bat snake etc...but that at some point it was transferred into humans who may have already harbored a differentiate..and for whatever reason became actively a deadly virus now apparently..but my memory may have some of that mixed up..but have you all heard that yet?

I have now. Thanks Karen

Honestly right now have a strange feeling that the western leaders are refusing to impose mandatory face masks because of negative liberty and how it's maintained. Not sure what's more disgraceful the practice itself or the endangering of the public safety to  continue it.

Boy Jolly isn't that terrible! They need to do it and no arguments... The masks have to offer some sort of protection from community spread.....its sad that its not being more sternly enforced until we have this virus under control...I agree with you...

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: How do you remove an excessive amount of petroleum jelly from the skin?

« on: 11/03/2020 09:30:14 »

I know I'm late here but do seek out a Dermatologist and allow them to take samples to analyze like Bored said before. Good luck! There are skin conditions that can manifest in yellowish crusts, or patches of growth, even seemingly greasy ones. I guess etc.. Especially in warm damp areas. Try also cotton under garments or clothing that allow air circulation also.

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: What is the neuroscience of lucid dreaming?

« on: 06/07/2017 08:20:13 »

My mind wanders at the drop of a hat.. Like a multitasking genius but it's my brain wondering about a million miles a minute  on multiple unrelated wanderings!

Now as for my lucid dreams are like you know very very realistic and very memorable as if I just really did it.. And I recall it as if it were a real wakeful adventure or event.  that's what is so extraordinary about lucid dreaming for me.  Full color very vivid to the point of being able to reach out in my dream and actually feel the sensation of what the other person's skin feels like or the grass, or cold, hot, and even wet, and dry sensations feel exactly the same awake. This is what makes them hard for me to decipher in a truly wakeful state! I once told my ex that I did not understand why he was repeating something to me, when he knew full well we had just discussed the matter, and come to a final decision on what to do. He looked at me blankly, like I was losing my marbles, and said we did not talk about the subject at all! At that point it reminded me it was what I had dreamed about.  The whole conversation... Now a regular dream to me is rather light and fleeting less solid in form and details, it is also much, much harder to recall, even if I try remembering immediately after waking up.  It is very strange.  Now my lucid dreaming can be sort of like a movie, only complete with me as a Director. A regular dream, being like a movie also, but I feel more like the third person, as if watching from an audience, whereas in my lucid dream I have a physical body that I can feel, manipulate, and use as well for dancing,  running, or doing acrobatics and floor routines, as if I were an Olympic Athlete or something... I know this is a family site but to explain this.. My lucid dreams have also instigated sexual fulfilment in form of orgasms during the dream. Now I'm not sure if this is not much dis-similar to a boy's wet dreamor not, so it makes me think this type of dreaming is taking place in a deeper more sensitive part of the brain... A place that can be mentally stimulated to bring on physical pleasures among some of the other things we spoke of such as memory stimulation, learned stored knowledge that we have not accessed consciously for years, or long periods of time. I know if I had my druthers, I would certainly love to spend a lot more time in a lucid dream, then not! Lol... In lucid dreaming I do find more psychological control over what I am dreaming, or doing in the dream..  Whereas very little to none in a regular dream.  I used to lucid dream every night at the time my menstrual cycle was beginning... Always got hurt in my lucid dream or saw blood in full color in my dream and if I did not rise as soon as I saw blood in the dream, then I would always wake up having started my cycle in bed.. If I did not move quickly from bed to loo, then the trickle would make a mess.  Took me a couple years as a young adult to put two and two together. I never had regular cycles so mine were always hit and miss. Now at about 35 to 40 years old, I started having weird lucid dreams about having to urinate so badly, but in the dream, I continually would get sat down on a toilet, and look up and either there was a big window at the toilet, and everyone could see me, so I would jump up and run from one to the other trying to find one toilet that offered privacy, and when I finally found the perfect toilet, I would finally be able to go, and I was experiencing that wonderful relief sensation of how good it feels to empty a full bladder, when I would wake and  the bad part was, it was really happening! My search found a safe place and boom.  Away my bladder went for real. So I had to start manipulating the dream to finding the perfect toilet and then waking myself up to run to loo, before that wonderful relief feeling happened,  so that meant finishing the dream after returning to bed but minus the dream relief.. Lol sounds so stupid, but literally took me by surprise because, because before that I used to just wake up and go,  but I stopped having the sensation wake me, until I had the dream.. It was crazy!

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: What is the neuroscience of lucid dreaming?

« on: 28/06/2017 14:33:28 »

I think that there there May be some real interests in relevance in that thought, Because in my experience in lucid dreaming I have found that I have a lot more control over what's going on in the dream as far as correcting things that i was trying to remember, or things that I couldn't remember when I was awake, but going back-to sleep and going back into that same dream and having that ability to actually control it better in a lucid dream... whereas in a regular dream I have less control of where my dream goes or how I can manipulate it....unlike the control I can have in a lucid dream which seems way more controlable on  a semi concious level... I know I can problem solve in a lucid dream and or even remember something I could not remember or access in a conscious state, but in a lucid dream I can choose the direction and even change the subject to help me recall an answer for or to solve a problem I had while awake and had been at a loss to solve then, in a fully conscious state. I am less inhibited In my dream state than I am in a weak state so perhaps we are able to problem solve better because there's less stress on The sub conscious mind while asleep and or less inhabitions. Often I find when lucid dreaming that the things I have forgotten in my wakeful state, I can remember in lucid dream..like  phone numbers, or all the strange little details, like licence plate numbers, names, etc...
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Physiology & Medicine / Re: How does sodium intake affect blood pressure?

« on: 21/05/2017 22:31:28 »

It really depends on what foods you are talking about. You have pure fresh food with no preservatives and no salts added those would qualify as no sodium.. I am not a scientist or Doctor but from experience know that there are certain diseases and or illnesses that cause your body to not be able to proseess the excess salt well because say your kidney function is not working properly.. and the fluid intake you are getting is being retained because of excess saly.. or at least I believe that's a issue with some people and my body tends to retain the  as edema throughout my body. A while back months ago I gained 35 lbs in two days and was not able to illuminate it properly I was immediately put on higher doses of dieretics and watched closely to make sure that illumination took place. Now I was on dieretics already for heart failure but apparently my liquid intake compounded with my sodium over the two day period weigh in was more then my kidneys could process and the fluid was building up very quickly around my heart lungs legs hips hands.. etc.. I looked like a balloon and I was miserable as it made it hard to breath as well as hard for my heart to pump efficiently.. and my heart already struggles. So really It is all, important to consult a physician and definitely watch what kind of food you eat,, Canned foods and processed foods can be full of salts etc.. They were able to get my water weight off about as fast as it had accumulated  so I was lucky and am very much more careful now because I know what can happen..

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Why do we dance?

« on: 21/05/2017 22:11:44 »

I think its definitely an art for sure and is really an individual design. Each person puts their own stamp so to speak into their dance and their own choreography and if you have ever watched professional dance in many forms it is very artistic and individual in form and expression. You see each dancers own spirit and feeling involved in how their own dances evolve. I also think the mechanics of dance is definitely a science as is the movement of any living organism as termed in the word "biomechanics"! 

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: How does sodium intake affect blood pressure?

« on: 14/05/2017 08:15:39 »

You do need salt as stated above but you do not need the excess salt..  I was wondering in conjunction with your question about salt causing more water retention and thus making it harder for your heart to pump due to excess fluid around your heart.. wouldn't that also go a ways toward elevating the blood pressure too.... forcing the heart to work harder then intended to pump...?

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Why do we dance?

« on: 14/05/2017 08:06:26 »

Yes ..Your Dancing skills can get better with age if you continually listen to music and try to dance.. picking the most prominent points for your dancing to pick up on.. Dance to the rhythm your body feels when you close your eyes.. allow your body to pick its own rhythm to dance to. I think we dance because it feels so good weather slow or fast. Its fun even if we really cannot dance! Its more then that though there is a certain energy in Dancing that I do not feel any other time.. I love dancing and miss it,,,

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Just Chat! / Re: If you can wish anything what would you want?

« on: 10/05/2017 05:12:22 »

Jccc, I am with you I gave my heart away and have loved and still love so much, Love is a never ending learning process it is not like a cookie cutter where you learn to love and that's it, Love continually grows and changes over time because we continually change and evolve over time also! If you truly love some one it is not suffocating or smothering great in the beginning, most love is incredibly intense and the feeling are very powerful, and to some might seem smothering, but if there is trust and real true love that love continues to grow and blossom going through changes and different stages where you learn to love in many different ways according to each others needs... Eventually our bodies change and our physical as well as mental needs change too.. If we are lucky the person we have chosen also grows in their abilities to continually learn how to love our partners.. I think sometimes that some  people leave their situations because of inability to learn to love  in other ways  or to grow,, That's not to say that some relationships are just not savable and some people just cannot  stay with those they once cared so much for.. Some situations can become unhealthy and scary.. That's sad, but in those circumstances the separations are healthy and can be incredibly  good for both parties. Any ways .. I hope you keep your love strong and I am sorry you miss your loved  one so much I understand that very much,, My heart always holds true love close.. Its nurturing and its memories are incredibly healing.. Being loved and giving love in return is a very special gift, and its not something we all get a chance to experience aside from our parental relationships which are very different then the love between a man and a women in a passionate relationship! Hope to see you posting again and hope your love for science is still thriving!

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Just Chat! / Re: Punning is hard(ly) work! Is groaning aloud here?

« on: 10/05/2017 03:16:13 »

Cali for Knee a placements are the best bargain around as far as not being in such Missouri all the time with bad knees!

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Just Chat! / Re: A Poem I wrote for those who might fear death!

« on: 11/07/2016 00:32:29 »

YOU CERTAINLY DO HAVE A CREATIVE SIDE AND HAVE DONE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL JOB HONINGVYOUR CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS..NOT TO MENTION YOU ARE CONTINUING TO WRITE WHICH FOR SOME GOES BY THE WAYSIDE AS THEY GROW OLDER EACH YEAR! it is terriffic to see  poet such as yourself continuing on with such beautiful examples of your work... Thank you for "sharing your Writing", with those of us in here...and I am plugging the other thread here in "Just chat", where you may read some other prose and poetry written by other members  of the forum and displayed in the above quoted thread! Its very refreshing to read it here in the forum... Thank you and feel free too add many more to the threads..I will most hardily love to read them and enjoy the subject matter of each piece!  ENJOY YOUR DAY!

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Just Chat! / Re: Please comment on my near death episode, due to total AV heart block in 2011?

« on: 10/07/2016 15:31:47 »

THANK YOU ALAN FOR SHARING YOUR EXPERIENCE, AND LIKE YOU AND JIM BOB, I TOO HAVE HAD a NDE...as a child and adult.

I still will be sitting or doing something when I am suddenly taken aback as if it were happening again, and besides  the few similarities, I felt myself move up from my body, and felt as if I was hovering over myself, and several others in the rogom ! I am still aware of what Is happening with everyone in room, their ongoing  conversations continue,  but when this happens now,  and it still does... thats when I relive the NDE.

 I felt ascention and an incredibly bright light that seemed blinding, but it wasnt, it was a pure, warm bright light. As I moved upward I could see hands, outstrtched an welcoming. The voices of loved ones the feelings of their presence, without the visualization of their faces. It was just the knowledge in my own heart and mind of who they were. Then I heard  a very masculine, but gentle voice saying, that I had things left unfinished, things to do, and I needed to go back. The light on my face and body felt like a gentle hand on my cheek...Then  a slow steady descending feeling came over me, and again the I was seeing the most brilliant light, and hearing the gentle voice which seemed farther away now,  but still clear! ....It is my very first memory of my life... Its the earliest memory I have, and it left me with an undoubting knowledge of the presence of Jesus, or if you will, others might prefer a higher being...A knowledge that no matter what kind of scientific types of explanations I tried to assign to the events, it always comes down to undeniable knowledge that I have of a higher power..for me Jesus. There are even at times when I am in  depression and sickness, that life has made me doubt that presence.... but,  that is is when something happens and I reexperience the ascending sensation and can again find myself looking down from above myself! Its definitely OOB experience and my spirit if you will leaves the shell below, and I can feel my own being or spirit above myself, as if shedding my body below, but taking all else above....Then I hear that same voice and sink quietly back into the place I left. I cannot explain why, and I won't argue it with anybody,  but I will tell you that it is a very sacred, private memory, and experience for me. I only share it on occasion like this, because you are not alone..and while we share similarities, I think each persons experience is different...and that its not a debaitable event! Even though 1 person experiences it one way, we need to remember that we are each very individual in our personalities, as well as how we experience physical and spiritual events that we have! ...Its like  having a heart attack.  There are similarities about symptoms, but also differences in how each of us experience the heart attack... I have had 3 as a infant, and another 3 as an adult....each one different as for the physical pain for me...

I have an incredible love for life, and love of people. A knowledge of where I will be after this life, and no fear of death itself... My worries come from thinking about going without my children... being without them even though I know I will see them again, it bothers me... I assume time here  will go slowly, but it will be the blink of an eye for me... so I worry for them and for me not being ready to let go of them long enough to move on.

I must sound like a nut to you but I believe what you experienced was very real, and most importantly you know it was, and it does not matter what anyone else thinks, or believes...  You know in your heart and You know its undeniable, no doubts for you..  I believe you were blessed by the knowledge, and not many people get that blessing,  and they go through their life looking for the knowlede of weather there is or isnt truth in a higher spirit or Jesus, but you found a truth in your experience...We are lucky...but mostly blessed!

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Just Chat! / Re: Hi, I'm just introducing myself...

« on: 10/07/2016 13:30:51 »

Welcome to the forum Scott! I hope you enjoy getting your feet wet along side all of us!

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Just Chat! / Re: Punning is hard(ly) work! Is groaning aloud here?

« on: 24/11/2015 15:18:05 »

Indeed I did, but I would have preferred, to have seen him, kick it to the kirk, rather then the drain....!

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Complementary Medicine / Re: MEDICAL ADVICE NOTICE & DISCLAIMER

« on: 04/09/2014 09:42:32 »

Very Good point to point out to those who most probably have some very pointed Questions they should first point towards their Doctor's while keeping in mind your very good set of points.....!   lol..Seriously..The sheep is right.. and offers you some cautious good advice!

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Just Chat! / The life of a sex doll repair man...

« on: 05/08/2009 12:56:13 »

I always like to read something like this. That is usually a bit hard to find valuable information on the internet. And I found your post using Yahoo and I can say I the time spent was worth reading.
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I am glad you enjoyed the posts.. LOL..Welcome to the site have fun and look around I am sure you will find lots of fascinating  scientific information in here as well as very good well rounded funny posters and comments as well.

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Pictures of Wildlife...the Birds and the Bees etc etc

« on: 29/11/2007 01:35:16 »

I like spiders.. Big Pumpkin spiders are my favorite.. Then I like most non biting ones!

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Pictures of Wildlife...the Birds and the Bees etc etc

« on: 16/11/2007 22:10:59 »

Armadillos YAYYYYYYY!

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Pictures of Wildlife...the Birds and the Bees etc etc

« on: 14/11/2007 13:17:47 »

OHHHH!Very cute duckies...

Now this is a nice pumpkin spider but he doesnt have the color and spots that ours have!