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Work sucked. Thanks for asking. We are in the armpit of the year when everyone gets sick. It's sad to see a person come in to the hospital and be dead within 24 hours. Hospitals are where modern people go to die. :(
Man, what a way to start off! Ain't I just a happy ray of sunshine??
Today is rubber stamping club: the FBI. >:D I need to get a shower and pack up my things. I also have a few examples of what I will be teaching next month. I hate teaching classes. I'm good at it so long as I don't have a moron in the group. We occasionally have one. I'm hoping she doesn't show up in March. She's a nice person but GAD! is she ever slow on the uptake. I may make some of my brown sugar and cinnamon rolls. I haven't decided.
Via BladeSPark, I found a new website: http://www.quackwatch.org/index.html I was first interested in the links, to see what the site lists as quackery. (I find it quite humorous that Dr. Atkin's and his famous diet are listed. The site simply states that doing the diet on your own is somewhat dangerous and you should follow it carefully and with a physician to guide you. There are a lot of risks associated with the diet... ones I feel outweigh it's slight benefit.) Anyway, I found the article on osteopathy interesting. My GP is an osteopath. I really wasn't aware of the difference between an MD and a DO until recently. My DO doesn't use the OMM crap but her degree does explain why I always feel as if I'm an important person when visiting her. DOs treat the patient as well as the illness. Nice. The site also discusses other things like herbal remedies, folk cures, reiki and so forth. Personally, my opinion on the topics of reiki and massage therapy - these work solely based on the fact that it feels good for another human to touch you. I don't see anything wrong with someone rubbing my back! And, yes, dammit, I'll pay for it! Ha ha! But the magnetic therapy and those patches you put on your feet - LOL! Can you hear the duck?? Now, don't get me wrong - there ARE natural remedies that are good for you! But not all of them. And using prayer to treat a physical illness... well, I guess you're at least doing something ... but it won't work. Nothing spontaneously goes away. I've had sinus issues since I was a kid. I've tried pretty much anything I can this side of killing a chicken and chanting some voodoo hoodoo. I still can't breathe. As a person who suffers from ulcerative colitis, I understand the want to grasp at straws to find a cure for an illness that is incurable. This is why the quackery works - they give people something that modern medicine can't: hope. Anyway, peruse the site at your leisure.
Man, what a way to start off! Ain't I just a happy ray of sunshine??
Today is rubber stamping club: the FBI. >:D I need to get a shower and pack up my things. I also have a few examples of what I will be teaching next month. I hate teaching classes. I'm good at it so long as I don't have a moron in the group. We occasionally have one. I'm hoping she doesn't show up in March. She's a nice person but GAD! is she ever slow on the uptake. I may make some of my brown sugar and cinnamon rolls. I haven't decided.
Via BladeSPark, I found a new website: http://www.quackwatch.org/index.html I was first interested in the links, to see what the site lists as quackery. (I find it quite humorous that Dr. Atkin's and his famous diet are listed. The site simply states that doing the diet on your own is somewhat dangerous and you should follow it carefully and with a physician to guide you. There are a lot of risks associated with the diet... ones I feel outweigh it's slight benefit.) Anyway, I found the article on osteopathy interesting. My GP is an osteopath. I really wasn't aware of the difference between an MD and a DO until recently. My DO doesn't use the OMM crap but her degree does explain why I always feel as if I'm an important person when visiting her. DOs treat the patient as well as the illness. Nice. The site also discusses other things like herbal remedies, folk cures, reiki and so forth. Personally, my opinion on the topics of reiki and massage therapy - these work solely based on the fact that it feels good for another human to touch you. I don't see anything wrong with someone rubbing my back! And, yes, dammit, I'll pay for it! Ha ha! But the magnetic therapy and those patches you put on your feet - LOL! Can you hear the duck?? Now, don't get me wrong - there ARE natural remedies that are good for you! But not all of them. And using prayer to treat a physical illness... well, I guess you're at least doing something ... but it won't work. Nothing spontaneously goes away. I've had sinus issues since I was a kid. I've tried pretty much anything I can this side of killing a chicken and chanting some voodoo hoodoo. I still can't breathe. As a person who suffers from ulcerative colitis, I understand the want to grasp at straws to find a cure for an illness that is incurable. This is why the quackery works - they give people something that modern medicine can't: hope. Anyway, peruse the site at your leisure.