What other Conventional Wisdom is wrong?

(Kirk) #21

I agree. I think self control is paramount. I am of the gereration where you sucked it up and moved on. The John Wayne school of firefighter. I have been to several CISD sessions (critical incident stress debriefing) after particularly demanding death related calls in the fire service over the years. I don’t do it any more. This sort of thing seems to help the younger generation, but us old war horses have either become inured to the things we see, or have our own ways of dealing with it, healthy or not.

PTSD is causing huge problems in emergency services and the miitary, with a lot of careers ending and far too many suicides. I don’t want to minimize it, and fully understand it has devastating effects. I do feel, mostly privately or spoken amoung close friends, that many people are not cut out for this kind of work, and should be screened out early. Those of us who can participate in these truely awful experiences and return to normal life tend to be people who do not wear their hearts on their sleeve, and are highly unlikely to participate in a group cry session.

I may get some kick-back on this opinion, but I have earned the right to it with nearly 30years of experiences most people cannot imagine.

(Todd Allen) #22

Unfortunately I have to pay dearly for macadamias when I buy them.

(Todd Allen) #23

A common belief here, especially among newcomers, is if they aren’t achieving their weight loss goals they must be doing something wrong diet wise. Problems with sleep and stress are both known contributors to obesity and surely other factors beyond food choice matter.

(Linda) #24

Good one. I deserved that for leaving you a good opening!

(Alec) #25

Given my current salt fetish, I am going to raise the keep salt low CW. What a load of crap.

(Brian) #26

It’s interesting you mention that, Alec.

It may be a bit off topic, but…

Years ago, I think I was in my early 20’s, my wife (at the time) and I had a few years where we didn’t have a TV. There was no internet and no cell phones. Computers weren’t something the average person had yet. We lived in a crappy old mobile home. We drove crappy old station wagons. We had a little flock of chickens, a couple of dogs, and a garden. We did have electricity and a well for water. We would go to the library a few times a month and we’d check out books, lots and lots of books.

Sometimes I look back at those years and think about how much simpler life was back then. Yeah, we were pretty poor. I remember we only made about $800/mo. We worked nights at a little janitorial business I had. But somehow, we lived pretty good.

I know a person can never go back. And some of it, like the janitorial business, I don’t really want to go back to. The places I lived so many years ago, some of them don’t even exist anymore. But I still long for the simplicity of what once was.

(Ron) #27

Funny how we evolve.:wink: I have spent the last few years creating that simpler lifestyle of old. No more debt, garden, chicken, solar power, etc. and am enjoying life soooooo much more. To top it all off I have found Keto and my health is evolving to that better state as well! :joy::joy::joy:

(Empress of the Unexpected) #28

I bought my first today and could not believe the small bag and big price-tag!

(Empress of the Unexpected) #29

I am on the verge of getting out of debt (Yay!) and spend a couple hours a day gardening. But don’t get me started on that. Have to pay to have a soil sample sent off to the extension. Having problems in paradise.

(Brian) #30

I hear ya, Ron.

Just the end of last year, finally settled down and bought a little place in TN. It’s a lot of work trying to get things going but planted a decent garden this year and put in some blueberry bushes and an asparagus patch. Would LOVE to put in some solar and figure out a better water system than the county water connection. Chickens are coming but not sure if it’ll be yet this year, might be early next.

Yes, health is definitely improving here, too. I remember telling a friend a few years ago that I felt like I was dying. No, not imminent, just slowly, day by day, getting weaker and less alive. Kind of a strange feeling inside. But I’ve noticed from about 6 months into keto, I am finally feeling alive again! I have energy. I can do things. No, I’m not 16 anymore, but I feel alive. And I like that feeling. :slight_smile:

(Sorry if this kinda took the topic off topic…)

(Terence Dean) #31

I’m 6ft 2" and proudly New Zealand born Maori, my wife is white, and 5ft 2", we look funny together because it looks like she’s holding hands with a giant gorilla.

We were on a international flight once and the stewardess comes over to us and asks my wife “whether she’d prefer another seat”, to which she politely replied, “No thank you, he’s my husband”. CW says just leave it there right? Wrong! I wasn’t going to let that one pass so she got, “No don’t leave…I’ll take that seat please because her snoring is keeping me awake!”. My wife hit me and we both cracked up laughing. :wink:

#32

@Anniegirl9 My kids (young adults) never been in a grade school) but what we did was test first and spend time teaching what they did not know. what we tested on was info from all corners of the world.

(linda) #33

Excellant addition!
Thank you brownfat for posting these two videos!

(Kaiden) #34

Definitely, judge a book by its cover. It’s one of the first things you learn in library science. The only time I’ve seen this fail is that once in the Occult section, they had a book with a big pentagram on it that said “The Craft,” but it was a book about the movie, not about Wicca.