The controversial Brother Graham answers all subjects, demonstrating   that "All Popular Notions are False"

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BROTHER GRAHAM'S

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What people don't understand is that the basis for right and wrong must develop on a foundation of truth.    A person's ability to reason out right from wrong, to accurately judge good from bad must rely on a basis of truth.    The world has many truth-claims that have been made up in the imaginations of mankind.    If you can lay claim to the knowledge of absolute truth, then you have the potential of getting it right all the time, with very few errors.    The errors come from wrongly understanding the truth.    There are many truths that we are not able to understand yet.    Absolute truth can only come from our God and Heavenly Father.    The only source that we have of God's Truth is found in His Word, the Bible.    I have personally claimed the truth that I find in reading His Word as my very own.    I have no wisdom of my own other than to put my complete trust in our God and to accept the personal salvation that His Son Jesus brought to the world.    I do not have to hesitate about right and wrong issues because that has already been decided hundreds and thousands of years ago.    It's all there for anyone to read and understand.    The only human component that I personally add is my experience in applying God's Word to my life and to the lives of those I care about.    That includes everyone on this Q&A list and their families and friends.    If you believe that the approx. 800 Q&A's are answered brilliantly (and consistently), then attribute that to the brilliance and consistency of God's Word.    Very many of the answers were given only after researching His Word and praying to God for help.    Help is always there for the asking because our loving God is totally reliable.    Harold, if you or anyone else would like to have the absolute assurance of absolute truth in your life to guide you in everything that you do, then seek God's Wisdom through His Son Jesus, and God's Truth can be your very own.    That is the only good, faithful, and reliable foundation to build your life upon. John 14:6   Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." "THAT IS TRUTH." 

Jones, I'm always hesitant to appear to be against women as a group, or political entity, because I don't believe in the "them & us" theory.    Women are the inseparable other half of "us", and to discuss them in a way that makes them look bad as a group is making the men look just as bad in my mind.    Me and women can't exist in a separate vacuum.    We are human beings together and we belong together.    You can clearly see by the artificial societal separation imposed by feminists and homosexuals, that such a division only leads to disharmony and strife.    There can be no other outcome.    United we stand, and divided we fail as a culture.    I personally have no problem with women in leadership roles in business and government.    I have major issues with some of the policies supported by both men and women that is rapidly leading our country to failure.    Women don't have to "worm their way" into anything.    They have an equal right to any position that they are individually qualified for.    I was happier about the idea of Sarah Palin becoming Vice President than the thought of McCain becoming President.    Her track record proved to me she deserved her shot at the office of Vice President.     Jones, I'm afraid that we must agree to disagree here about women.  

H.J, welcome to the club of the ex-powerful.    For thousands of years, men had the upper hand in their homes, in the workplace, in the church, and in their government.    According to God's Word, a man's rightful place in the scheme of things is in a leadership position and women were assigned a different role in life; not an inferior role, but different because they were physically and mentally better suited to their role.    This worked out just great for a very long time.    Some men did abuse their leadership roles in all aspects of life; from the Hitler types down to the wife beaters.    With the advent of world-wide instant communications, the would-be abusers were either driven into hiding or public pressure prevented them from acting out their cowardly activities.    The ones who did get caught were punished and, more importantly, their unacceptable behavior was publicized all over the place.    Hypothetical abuse situations were dramatized in the movies and on TV worldwide.    Millions of dollars were made portraying worst-case situations, and the public ate it up and begged for more.    This did two things:    Men are not allowed to confidently act in their leadership roles in the home.    Women can now assert themselves as the new leaders in their homes because they have public opinion and the law to back them up.    As you have discovered the hard way, all they have to do is call the cops on you to force you to back down.    All of the cops have watched the same movies and too many of them are actually eager to see evil where there is none.    Unscrupulous women know this and are merciless in taking advantage of this to keep their husbands in line.    This is a pattern that is repeated over and over again.    The underdog finally gets equality but doesn't want to stop there.    They want preference.    During the civil rights movement of the black people in years past, they achieved equality in all areas except the attitudes of some individuals.    It should have been enough but they kept going for outright preference, and had some successes.    In most colleges the entrance exam test scores were reduced for black people, so more of them could get into college.    That was showing outright unashamed racial preference, not equality.    Many of these errors have since been corrected, but it remains a good example of the pendulum of society swinging a bit too far in the wrong direction.    Homosexuals are another example.    They supposedly want "equality" from the government and society, but they are clearly going for preference, and are spending fortunes in appearing to be superior to heterosexuals.    What was once known to be a perversion, and an aberration in psychology, now has legal equality plus several laws that prosecute any opposition to them as "hate crimes".    That is preference.    The coalition of feminists, homosexuals, and multicultural fanatics have successfully gotten control of the Democratic Party and are now going to lead our country in a direction that will be bitterly regretted in a few years, and much sooner for the astute.    Encouraging women to "call the cops" in family disagreements has the sure effect of discouraging family unions, and encouraging men to bail out as soon as possible to escape the new-found tyranny of women.    Homosexuality is also a major factor in our dysfunctional society that discourages the union and harmony of families.    Our children are ruined because they are taught to go home and fight the authority of their parents, and they are winning.    In a "democracy" the majority rules, not ethics and morality.    The feminists who read this e-mail of mine will obviously ask:  "Who says that women can't be just as effective as leaders in their families, like the men are supposedly claimed to be?"    The answer to that is obvious:    Millions of children that have no morals, ethics, or standards of decency and defy all parental authority or control.    Millions of obese men, women, and children who get their wisdom from Oprah and the totally unscientific diet of low fat/high carbohydrates - pure quackery.    There are many women who excel in positions of leadership, and I personally applaud and encourage them, but the restraints placed upon ordinary men in their homes are yet another misuse of governmental power that is destroying the fundamental building block of society, and that is the home.    God's plan always works the best, but when mankind tries to change that plan through the law or herd pressure, failure is inevitable.    H.J. from Nebraska, you are one of many who have suffered from the misuse of government power, and a wife who deviates from God's Will.    It will get worse as time goes along for many others.    Thanks for sharing your story.    It will help many others who don't understand what is happening in their lives.    When you react to something that is unfamiliar but obviously wrong, people make mistakes.    The second visit from law enforcement  is a clue that it's time to bail out of the situation.    You can't correct anything from jail.    If a wife is not firmly on the side of her husband, then she is in opposition to him.    There is no middle ground here, however, every one's situation is a bit different and decisions must be made on the spot.    Keep your eyes and mind open wide and make good decisions, especially when your children are involved.    Remember, the mere accusation of abuse, will bring many who are eager to condemn you, regardless of the facts or lack of guilt.  

OK Jamey, I never wrote that discipline = brute force.   I did say, in many ways, that if your kids don't abide by your rules, you don't have to cooperate with their personal priorities.    You don't have to buy them anything but the bare necessities, or take them anywhere for their convenience - they can walk or take a bus if they can earn the money with which to pay the bus fare.    Your wife can't call the cops if you don't let your kid's friends come into your home.    Discipline is something that you do with your wife's cooperation, not in spite of her feelings and ideas.    If you are cursed with a liberal wife, you have my sympathy.    If I had a wife that called the cops on me, I wouldn't sleep in the same room with her for a good long while.    For kids, wives, and husbands there should always be consequences for unacceptable behavior.   To your wife, calling the cops was the consequence of your failed attempt at discipline.    Now your authority as a husband and father has been compromised.    Your kids now know that they can play you and your wife against each other to get their way.    Obviously, your wife is not smart enough to understand what she has done to your family.    Years ago, my in-laws protested against me disciplining my oldest son in his presence.    He never forgot it and has retained a distance between he and I to this day.    He is 48 years old.    His attitude, like your children, was that the majority rules.    You and I were in the minority, therefore we are considered to be wrong.    When it comes to moral and ethical issues, the majority does not rule.    Right and wrong are absolutes and if your can't discipline your children, then who can?    Should parents wait until their children commit a criminal offence and let the justice system handle it, or teach them right from wrong through love and proper discipline for their own good?    A child's personal history is obviously short so they don't have the personal experience that it takes to make good decisions and good choices in their lives.    That is the role of the parents who have the personal experience to clearly see when a child is doing something wrong or unacceptable, and then applying the proper parental restraints that are very necessary to guiding a child to maturity.    Morals and ethics must be taught.    The school system is not teaching them anything that comes close to acceptable morals and ethics by any sane person's standards.    So now we are at a point where parents are allowed to provide their children with a place to sleep, food to eat, and money to spend, but have absolutely no right to teach them anything.    Do I have that right? 

Dorothy & Richard, I'm on the mini-fasting diet and it works for me.    In July I weighed 200 lbs and this morning I weighed 165 lbs with 3 inches off of my waist.    I have 5 lbs to go to reach the ideal weight for my height.    I was recoating a roof yesterday and had no problem with bending over and squating to paint for about four hours.    Six months ago I would have had severe pain in my knees and back.    I am much more flexible with a lot more energy and stamina.    If I can do it, so can most other people too.    When people start this diet, the only problem is the three days hunger of switching over from high carbohydrates to low carbohydrates.    I guess that the stomach needs that long to forget that it was stretched to the limit every day for most of a person's life.    Once you're past that, the weight comes off with high protein & fat/ low carbs.    Once I got down to close to my goal, I added one piece of "Ezekial 4:9 bread" (7-sprouted Grains-no refined flour or soy) a day and a bit of pineapple with my cottage cheese.    I would like to stress that low carbohydrates does not mean no carbohydrates.    I think the key to my personal success was the use of virgin coconut oil and chia seed.    They made the diet a lot easier to follow.    Let me know when Texas secedes from the mess the rest of the country is in so I can become one of your new neighbors. 

Harold, your personal reality never has to be what someone else dictates to you.    We are free agents, sovereign individuals, and social pressure only applies to you if you let it happen, if you let them get through to you.    Never buy into the idea that someone else knows what is best for you.    That is true for children, but not for those who have paid their dues. 

793MINI-FASTING:

              1.  THE BODY IS A SELF-CLEANING, SELF-HEALING MECHANISM.

 2.  85% of all available energy goes into DIGESTION, ASSIMILIATION AND ELIMINATION.

 3.  When FASTING, ALL THAT ENERGY AUTOMATICALLY GOES TO SELF-HEALING.

 DAILY FASTING 22 HOURS IS MORE POWERFUL THAN COLLATED WATER, OR EVEN A SAUNA--

     DONE DAILY, THE RESULTS ARE MAGICAL.THIS IS THE ESSENCE OF CHAMPION GUIDES:  DAILY FASTARIANISM. from Champion Guides

Yep, that's how we do it.  We enjoy one meal a day, around brunch time then swing into a calming, spiritual and joyous fast to the next morning.  if anything, a  little milk later or a nut or two.

792Anorexia. Has any gift ever given SO much for so little? 

Lite as a feather

a waif so thin,

Ana is calling

let the journey begin. 

Your life will be heaven

but hated like hell,

for only with Ana

will you chose to dwell. 

Humble and wise

sculpted & sleek,

simple perfection

creation's elite. -Les M

Thanks Les, you are a very considerate friend of Karen and you understand "anas"--defined as Mature Anorexics (this also means no bulimia and also correct eating).     I understand why Ana's prefer to remain alone.    It is preferable to the rejection from a world full of fatties.   

Ricky, "Productive Puttering" has its place in the scheme of things, but I can see where some people would go to extremes with this and waste a lot of time dinking around and not getting essential things done in their homes and in their lives.    Everything in moderation is the way to go here. 

Dorothy & Richard, I'm on the mini-fasting diet and it works for me.    In July I weighed 200 lbs and this morning I weighed 165 lbs with 3 inches off of my waist.    I have 5 lbs to go to reach the ideal weight for my height.    I was recoating a roof yesterday and had no problem with bending over and squatting to paint for about four hours.    Six months ago I would have had severe pain in my knees and back.    I am much more flexible with a lot more energy and stamina.    If I can do it, so can most other people too.    When people start this diet, the only problem is the three days hunger of switching over from high carbohydrates to low carbohydrates.    I guess that the stomach needs that long to forget that it was stretched to the limit every day for most of a person's life.    Once you're past that, the weight comes off with high protein & fat/ low carbs.    Once I got down to close to my goal, I added one piece of "Ezekiel 4:9 bread" a day and a bit of pineapple with my cottage cheese.    I would like to stress that low carbohydrates does not mean no carbohydrates.    I think the key to my personal success was the use of virgin coconut oil and chia seed.    They made the diet a lot easier to follow.    Let me know when Texas secedes from the mess the rest of the country is in so I can become one of your new neighbors. 

http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtsoy.html  Myth: Soy foods are good for your sex life. Truth: Numerous animal studies show that soy foods cause infertility in animals. Soy consumption enhances hair growth in middle-aged men, indicating lowered testosterone levels. Japanese housewives feed tofu to their husbands frequently when they want to reduce his virility.  Jenny, soy is the reason for the "Viagra" generation.    Does your husband seem more hairy than what you remember, from when he was younger?    Don't laugh.    This is a serious answer to your question.    Karen and I went into the closest Walmart Superstore (with groceries) yesterday looking for just one loaf of any kind of bread and any kind of mayonnaise or salad dressing that doesn't have soy in it.    We didn't find any at all.    60% of all foods you can buy in grocery stores contains soy bean products in it: Soy oil, soy meal, soy flour, soy etc.    Yes, porn is a problem for many people, but unless he tries to hide from you what he is doing on the computer, it is more likely that he just can't help it.    His testosterone levels are probably way down from normal due to the Soy in his diet, and he's too embarrassed to talk to you about it.    The next possibility is prostate cancer.    I went through that last year and it most definitely kills most of your frisky feelings, so that would also explain why he's not so amorous these days.    Again, that is very embarrassing for a lot of men, and they just think they are getting old, which they don't want to admit to themselves.    There are other medical conditions that would explain this also, but soy and prostate troubles are the front runners.    Go through your kitchen and throw away anything that has soy in it.    If you have kids, it's really bad for them for many reasons.    Get your husband to a doctor and get a blood test taken to check his PSA level for prostate cancer.    Ask him to check his testosterone levels too.    He might not because many doctors follow the AMA dictates and are still waiting to be told that soy products are bad news.    I wish you luck.    

Zack, I just stated the obvious.    We shouldn't find any liberals or feminists in Christian churches any more than you find liberals in the military.    They are rare.    The people in the military must deal with reality daily.    They must cope with what is, not what their hypothetical ideals are.    There are true Christians that have accepted Jesus as their Savior, and there are those who include themselves in the "Christian" category.    Many people claim to be Christians simply because their parents were, and have made no personal decisions concerning Jesus.    They group together in what they call "Christian" churches and support social programs, activities, and lifestyles that are against the basis of Christian authority, which is God's Word, the Bible.    A Christian is a follower of the Christ Jesus.    All liberals and feminists who claim to be included in the Christian category are either woefully ignorant of right and wrong according to God's Word, or they are deluding themselves so they can sit on the fence and not fully commit to the ethics and standards found in the Bible.    Those who follow Jesus in their lives, can't truthfully believe in, and follow liberal and feminist dogma.    It's like oil and water, they just can't go together.    God's truth is absolute and will take you down the narrow path to salvation.    Liberal and feminist dogma will lead you into the broad and easy path that leads to unhappiness and destruction.    Hang in there Zack. 

That is exactly right Jane.    We are surrounded by a toxic man-made environment and MCS victims must minimize all possible contact with it.    When you reach a point where literally everything you eat makes you react in some way, then do give your body an adequate amount of what it needs to function and repair itself once a day and get it over with, and yes, it makes it easier to alternate food types every day.    Instead of expending 85% or your body's energy with digestion and distribution, like the normal person, get it over with and give your body about 18 to 20 hours a day to use that energy to repair and restore itself.    If you are grazing like the heavy herd all day, your energy goes to digestion and not to healing.    As you heal, it will get easier for you to eat.    You're on track.     

Marsha, it could greatly accelerate the cure of all modern diseases, but not by itself.    The advantage of daily fasting can be negated by eating the wrong things.    I have recently put a lot more info on this subject on the list you should read.    The hard part of shifting to this kind of eating habits is the three day transition period it takes your body to adjust and to accept this new regimen. 

Usser, in some ways this is going to hurt the U.S. more that the 1930"s.    There are big similarities:    In the 30's nobody had any money because the "Federal Reserve Bank corporation withheld cash reserves form the economy in order to make Herbert Hoover, the outgoing President look bad so FDR (Roosevelt) could be elected in 1933.    It took the rest of the decade to recover from the depression after that.    These days the Federal Reserve Bank corporation is printing their IOU money as fast as they can.    There are billions of dollars in circulation, but not in the hands of ordinary people.    There will be more suicides and some murders disguised as suicides.    The truly rich need scapegoats to blame, and it's always inconvenient for them to be around to uselessly argue that they're not guilty.    In law, when an accusation is not defended or rebutted, the accusation stands as true.    Why do you think that Ill. Governor Blagojevich was arrested?    He is a long-time member of the Chicago political machine and knows too much.    If he turns "state's evidence" against his former "fellow politicians", many others would be in big trouble.    His suicide would have been arranged by now, had he not been arrested.    As it is, he could still get dead by suicide against his will. 

Hubert, leprosy has been known to be around for several thousand years, and it can't be cured by fasting.    There is a cure for it now from a combination of medicines.    So, I can't make a universal statement that "fasting cures all diseases".    However, Dr. Kellock is right in that daily fasting can go a long way toward curing or improving the symptoms of all modern diseases.    The great majority diseases are DRD's (Diet Related Diseases).    Your body expends 85% of its energy in digesting and distributing what we eat.    It stands to reason that if you confine your eating to one main meal a day and after that is digested, your body can spend the rest of its time healing itself.    Most overweight people are "grazing" all day and into the evening.    Their bodies expend even more than 85% of their energy digesting and distributing the constant influx of food and other things that passes for food these days.    Dr. Kellock made a general statement that needs to be further explained:  fasting alone will not cure all modern diseases, you must also be careful of what you eat as well as how much.    I've pretty much covered this in past e-mails.    "Killing yourselves in another way" is exactly what people are doing when they eat the wrong foods, too much food, and eating too often.    The wrong foods introduce toxins/free radicals into your body.    Too much food (especially carbohydrates) causes the cell receptors in your body to get in the "habit" of turning away blood glucose and adding to the total load of toxins in your body that also damages the Insulin hormones.    Eating too often doesn't leave your body with enough energy to fix itself when necessary and overloads the immune system with dealing with the excess toxins.    It's all connected Hubert.    

Roger: See if you can come up with a graph comparing increasing obesity with increasing diagnosed diabetes.    Also relevant would be the increasing number of chemicals and industrial processes introduced in the last sixty years that introduce an ever increasing amount of toxins.    I'm pretty sure that you will see a correlation of these three factors.    If you add Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, heart attacks, strokes, and many other diseases and conditions that have become prominent in the last 60 to a 100 years, you will see that they have also increased along with the proliferation of toxins/free radicals in our environment.    It's not all just a coincidence, and it explains why there are more and more "incurable diseases" that medical science keeps looking for new "medicines" (toxins not natural to the body) to "cure" the symptoms instead of detoxifying the body of the very things that are slowly poisoning the body - toxins.    Read "Detoxify or Die" by Dr. Sally Rogers.    She promotes the idea of using far-infrared saunas to sweat off the pork along with the toxins and states that it worked for her (MCS).    The bottom line here is that the current erroneous fad of low fat/high carbohydrates is ruining our bodies (bad science & doesn't work), and the fact that work places for most people are climate controlled, eliminates the chance of sweating altogether.     And so we keep accumulating the pork and toxins and get sicker and sicker. 

John, I removed the link to the Diabetes page temporarily because I found out even more stuff about relieving diabetes symptoms.    85% of all diabetes sufferers are overweight/obese and that gives you a huge clue as to what is wrong.    Toxins are stored in fatty tissue and the hormone Insulin transports fat and water to be stored in adipose tissue (fat) along with the toxins.    The toxins are corrupting the insulin every time the arteries are transporting blood to all tissues (with the insulin) to feed all the cells with blood glucose.    Insulin also has the function of storing excess fat and water, and so comes in contact with these toxins in the fat all the time.    The body is being flooded with insulin that doesn't function properly.    Medical science believes that the main factor is the insulin receptors are malfunctioning in each cell and won't accept the blood glucose that the insulin is trying to deliver.    An obese person is somebody that eats lots of carbohydrates and low fat.    This triggers the pancreas to produce more and more insulin which does 4 main things: stores fat, stores water, creates hunger pains, makes you feel lethargic and tired.    While it is storing fat, it is also carrying the toxins along to be stored in the fat, thereby being corrupted.    If the cell receptors are defective, it is probably caused by the cells trying to be overstuffed with more blood glucose that it can possible use and gets in the "habit" of refusing the blood glucose that insulin keeps trying to deliver.    So, the obese person keeps pouring in the carbohydrates = the pancreas keep pumping out the insulin = All carbohydrates ingested are turned into sugar/glucose and the insulin keeps trying to stuff the cells with the blood glucose "first" and is refused because there is already too much blood glucose in the arteries = the blood glucose is then turned into fat and stored.    Eventually the pancreas wears our and produces only the hormone Glucagon which does the opposite of Insulin and the fat person starts to drop weight like crazy because his conditions has turned into type 1 diabetes.    Then it's either constant insulin injections or die.    Tell that to your doctor and ask him to point out at what point that the logic of this explanation breaks down?    Diabetes has increased right along with our national obesity problem.    Gee Whiz, I wonder why that is? 

Well Justin, if you were a heterophobic male, how would you choose to portray heterosexuals?    If you were a heterophobic TV director, or someone else in authority in the TV industry, what kind of program would you support  for a TV sitcom?    What if you used to be one of the "in the closet" crowd?    Wouldn't you delight in producing something that would stick it in the eyes of,  what you believed to be, the homophobic crowd?    Wouldn't it be great if you could make the hetero's look like inept morons?    The true morons are the hetero's that are aiding and abetting the jerks that are producing this show.    The true morons are the ones who applaud this show.    My comfort is the fact that at least half of the homosexuals on the show won't live to be my age.    That is a statistical fact. 

Jeremy, you and Dorothy should read what I wrote to "Jamey".    He tried to discipline his kids and got zapped for it.    If Dorothy won't support your authority with the children, you have no authority.    It's you against the kids, Dorothy, the liberal school "authorities", social services, and, of course, law enforcement will support them, even if the law is technically on your side.    "IN TRUTH you just hate the clutter, the loud music, the off-color jokes, the obscenities" because those are the results of liberal Dorothy that was raising your kids while you were away in Iraq in the Army.    That is your personal proof that liberals don't have a clue about raising children properly.    I suggest that you turn all decisions about your kids over to Dorothy, because you have "HAD IT WITH ALL THAT", and given up.    One of these days you can have the satisfaction of telling Dorothy "I TOLD YOU SO" after you have watched your children grow up and make a mess of their lives.    No problem.    They can always come back home and live with you. 

Janet, common sense and logic are prevailing here.    For humans 85% of all available energy is consumed by digestion - assimilation - elimination.    That is a scientific fact, not hype from a dietary fad.    It stands to reason that if you get your food intake over with early in the day, then more energy is automatically  utilized in healing and maintenance.    Your immune system can most certainly utilize the energy to eliminate and control the attack of the toxins and free-radicals that are constantly being imposed on your system.    This mini-fasting lifestyle probably wouldn't be too appealing to a gourmet cook, but it works for me.    Being a slim, and youthful daily fastarian is better than being one of the herd fatties. 

R.J.H, Let the doctors insist all they want, a hospital is the absolute worst place for your wife to be.    They use very strong cleaning agents, chemicals, and other things that are extremely toxic for those with MCS.    She would get immediately worse in spite of any meds they give her.    At home, create a clean-room, preferably the bedroom.    Buy the book "Toxic Bedrooms" by Walter Bader to get started.     When I read the book, the first thing I asked Karen was "what is your pillow made out of"?    It was a very comfortable "memory-foam" pillow that cost her over a hundred dollars a couple of years ago.    I promptly threw it in the trash and we ordered two natural latex rubber pillows.    Karen experienced near-immediate relief.    For people with an environmental illness (EI), avoiding the source of toxins is crucial.    I have written much on what not to eat.    That is probably the hardest thing to discover; what your wife can and cannot eat .    That can be determined by a process of elimination.    If she can eat most dairy products, that would be a good start.    Karen and I went shopping in two different grocery stores today trying to find a small jar of mayonnaise and a loaf of thin sliced bread without any soy products in them.    We went away empty handed.    No mayonnaise or any kind of bread without soy in it.    The only thing we found that came close to bread was corn tortillas.    From an MCS point of view, some soy bean products are not necessarily all bad, but soy oil is very bad for people with MCS and everyone else.    Margarine, vegetable oils, shortening, and many other things; everybody should stay away from them, especially folks with MCS.    The points I'm making here is that your wife must have a safe haven and carefully determine what she can eat.    Do a "control F" search on each of the Q&A pages to find many answers to questions about MCS.    Pay attention to books that are recommended about MCS also.   There are answers, and there are a few solutions that might be unconventional but do work.    For instance if you go to  http://www.healthyhome.com/  and read about their carpet care products (#'s 1023, 1025, 1052), you should pursue this if you have fairly new carpeting in your home.    Carpet out-gassing can be very severe for MCS victims.    I have no carpets in my home but I am going to order #'s 1023 & 1025 to seal the mattress on my bed.    I think it will prove to be effective and more affordable than a new eco-friendly mattress.    I will probably also use it on the upholstery and carpet in my car.    Back to her diet:   If you don't get her diet right, she will develop DRD (diet related disorder) and become psychotic or worse if her reaction is primarily mental, or emotional.    If her reaction is primarily physical, then she could end up with a degenerative disease.    If she is at all overweight, that is the major stressor, increasing total load, and her condition will get worse.    Educate yourself with books and networking with others, like on this web-site.    I have found that in the process of doing this, my health has gotten a lot better by learning how I can help Karen.    I have learned to better take care of myself.    At 68,and down by 35 pounds with three inches off of my waist, I can run with the dogs now without seriously getting out of breath.    Karen and I are on this journey through life, and we're finding solutions to a lot of problems.    It's been good for both of us, and you can do the same.    Our God and Heavenly Father is our mainstay through all of this and I hope you feel the same way.

Kathy, a few years ago, I was asked to participate in a community Thanksgiving Day celebration sponsored by the Episcopalian church.    All of the local churches were invited to participate in this "worship service".    I accepted as the American Legion Chaplain to participate in the service.    Each of the respective church leaders read their part of the script that the Episcopalian priest/pastor wrote, including my part of the service.    In all of the service, God was mentioned a couple of times, but Jesus not once.    The main speaker was the Methodist pastor, who used a story from Dr. Seuss to talk about global warming.    How this related to "Thanksgiving" escapes me to this day.    The point I am making is that when you remove or diminish God and His Son Jesus as the main topics for discussion in churches, you are opening the door to other "social" subjects that will fill that void.    The choice being made is to follow God's Word or yield to social pressure, which leads to moral compromise and acceptance of those things that are condemned in God's Word.    The "rituals, stained glass windows, and other" things are but the trappings of religion.    When God is minimized, and the salvation that Jesus offers to us is not discussed, churches go through the motions of being righteous and religious and teach things that do not originate in the Bible, God's Word.    http://www.ncccusa.org/members/index.html    This link is to the membership list of the National Council of Churches USA.    They are able to join together in this manner to promote cooperation on social issues simply because the theological and doctrinal issues that separate them are not important to them.    They all support and condone homosexuality.    They play down radical Islam in order to "promote harmony" in religion, and a host of other social issues.    Where is God and our Savior Jesus in all of this?    I wonder.    I am not condemning all individual churches that belong to these church organizations because many of them reject what their national leadership is doing.    I respect them greatly.    It doesn't matter whether hetero- or homo-porn is worse than the other because they are both sinful,  wrong, and disgusting.    The actions of one does not excuse the other.    Your pain comes from the disappointment of finding out that what you always thought of as beautiful, holy and religious, your church, is supporting something that is morally wrong and degrading.    When you look at the list of churches that are members of the Council of Churches, you might wonder what kind of church is left that does not support things that are against God's Word?   There are many, but most of them are small individual churches and individual mainstream churches that do not go along with the ideas of their national church leadership.    The largest exception to this is the Southern Baptist church.    They are a union of individual churches where each church owns the property and buildings that they worship in.    They are united in a common belief that God's Word is supreme and should be followed to the best of their ability.    Like all churches, they are made up of imperfect people who are prone to making mistakes.    When you go to any church, go to worship our God and Father, and our Savior Jesus, not to judge the mistakes of the individuals who belong to that church.    God forgives us our blunders and mistakes and we are admonished to do the same for each other.    Kathy, you have a decision to make:   Join another church where you feel you can serve and worship God more effectively, or continue as always, but knowing that your church is teaching something that is wrong and against God's Word.    If you join another church, expect lots of trouble from your family.    They will know that you are judging them as well as the harmful teachings of the Episcopal church where you live.    It is a very difficult thing to have the courage of your convictions and to act on them.  

http://www.fruitarian.com/ao/WhatIsFruitarianism.htm    "Fruitarianism is a nutrition system and a life style.    The fruitarian diet consists of RAW fruit and seeds ONLY."

Randy, Fruitarians don't starve in the traditional sense, but very few people can make it successfully work for themselves.    Long-time fruitarians lose their teeth and have chronic skin problems so they are nutritionally starving.    Contrary to their claims, it is not a healthy diet because it excludes animal fat and protein.    The fruitarians who have added dairy products to their diets found that most of their physical problems went away.    They are technically no longer fruitarians, but so what?    Nobody is going to take away their birthday over it.    For proper nutrition the body needs many different things, so what does it do for anybody to eat only fruit, only vegetables, or only meat?    Your body will process anything that you put in your mouth and the food and drug industries bombard us on TV every day to convince us that their man-made, processed, altered, and unnatural junk is somehow better for you than what we have been eating for thousands of years.    Yes, as a nation we are getting fat, weird, and unnatural, and these food fads/creeds/religions are just making things worse and worse.    If and when food becomes hard to find and hard to buy, obese people are going to be dying like flies.    All of that fat is storing toxins, and when a food shortage occurs and they are forced to lose weight, all of those toxins will be released into the body, and the heart attacks and strokes will become epidemic.    Toxins come mainly from unnatural things that the body wasn't made to process properly.    That's why toxins are stored in fat because the body can't use it for fuel and the high consumption of carbohydrates forces the body to store fat and water, instead of eliminating it.    We are our own worst enemy. 

Shelly, the school "authorities" have absolutely no authority in your home.    They know that very well but will abuse their position of trust in the minds of the community to bully parents that oppose their agenda of "no morals, no ethics, no values, and no personal standards of conduct".    Ground your daughter once again and dare the school system to interfere in your private business.    Your child is your business and is under your authority until she is 18 years old.    Also, where does she get the cookies and candy bars to stuff herself with all day long?    Where does she get the money to buy these things that are harmful to her?    Who buys and cooks the food in your home that is making her fat and unhealthy.    Fat is unhealthy.    Unplug the TV and tell her: "NO TV UNTIL YOUR ROOM IS CLEAN".    Shelly, you talk as if you are powerless to do anything about your daughter's conduct.    The fact is, you are the only one who can do something about your daughter's behavior.    When she then goes to school and tattles on you to the school authorities, and they threaten to have "social services" put her in a foster home to get her away from you, her abusive parent, give them your address and tell them that the sooner they come the better.    If you love your daughter at all, you will win this fight, no matter what it takes.    The law says that you are responsible for your child and that means that you are in authority over her.    Any idiot knows that responsibility without the proper authority to carry out your responsibilities, doesn't work.    You have the authority to enforce your rules in your home.    All you need now is the determination and courage to exercise your rights as a parent.    I am aghast that your daughter is not taught scruples in her own home. 

Henry, I couldn't agree with you more.    However, a bigot is normally intolerant, but you can be intolerant without being bigoted.    I am intolerant of pedophiles but that doesn't make me a bigot.    I could care less that a pedophile considers me a bigot from his/her point of view.    That should be the attitude of parents.    They pay the rent/mortgage, buy the food, pay all of the bills, and are in legal authority over their children.    Parents are in authority over their children in their own homes and shouldn't allow the school authorities or anybody else try to intimidate them, most especially not their own children.    But again, you are right Henry, parents are being intimidated and ruled by their own children, as if their children have more rights and authority than they do.    It's pretty sad.    Home Schooling is great and Christian Schools are even better in some cases.    You're on track Henry.  

Mark, It won't "bring the collapse of the social fabric of society":  The morals and ethics of our society is already collapsing all about us.    We are daily watching this take place at every level of our society.    The "rainbow party" teens are just one more symptom of this moral disease we are in the middle of.    I still won't go out of my way to watch garbage.    All of the perverts of the world can watch my share of it.  

Janie, "sexual orientation" is a contrived concept that attempts to make the homosexual perversion into something that sounds more acceptable, a euphemism. Being euphemius is how you white-wash, trivialize, and minimize something.    It is a successful way of portraying something evil into looking good, or acceptable.    Another way of making it look good is to praise the ones who are into this perversion by convincing them that they are "artistic and refined", and most definitely superior to "straight people".    Pornography on-line is proof of inferiority for anyone.    Being so stupid as not being able to understand the proper use of your private parts is proof of inferiority.    We are created male and female for the purpose of procreation, not for sexual titillation of the same sex.    I will end this with the reminder that you are responsible for your children if they are under the age of 18.    As such, you are in authority over them.    You don't have to allow them to have a computer or TV in the house if they are abusing your rules.    You do not have to allow them to have any visitors at all if you think there is immoral behavior involved.    If you set no rules or standards of behavior in your home (as the adult), you are condoning everything they do and are involved with.  

Anderson, A lot has been said and written about the difference between Muslim extremists and normal family-loving Muslims.   A few days after 9/11 occurred, a story came out in the news about a distributor that was stocking the shelves of a gas station/convenience store.    The owners/employees of this place were Muslims, and when it was announced on TV that the twin towers had been rammed by two aircraft, the two Muslims jumped up and down with joy and pounded each other on the back congratulating and celebrating the event.    The distributor took all of his products, loaded his truck and left.    It didn't relate what happened after that, but I would imagine that the distributor went to his supervisor and told him what happened and that he didn't want to service that account any more.    These were not "radical Muslims".    These were ordinary Muslim store-keepers that celebrated the horror of 9/11 as a wonderful, happy event in their minds.    I wonder how many thousands of times that day other Muslims were celebrating this "great victory for Allah"?    They know they are safe because of the laws we have; that is supposed to insure our freedom.    In the countries they came from, they would have been executed for such behavior.    On the other hand, the Muslims are a very moral people and are even more disgusted with the misuse of our freedoms to promote immoral behavior.    If any of their children were to behave as ours do, their own families would kill them because of the shame that they brought on the family.    I neither condone nor promote Muslim goals and activities against our country, but I can certainly understand why they have the attitude they have against us as a nation.    All of the information available on the internet, is most certainly used to show the fanatics that are being trained to attack us, however they can, that we deserve to die from their point of view.    Lunatics, like Oprah Winfre, continue to popularize the immoral decline of our country on the world stage.    I can't believe that she doesn't know exactly what she is doing and the effect she is having on our country.    She is openly against Christianity and glamorizes evil on her TV shows.    She will get her reward from our God.    You are right, there is no going back to what we had before.    We are too far down the slippery slope of immorality in our nation to recover without going through a major disaster that will reshuffle our leadership, and there is no certainty that things will get better before it gets much worse.    Do what you can to survive in the coming times 

Haley, there is a way for a car to start with a tank of water, extract the "H" (hydrogen) from H2O (water), then fuel the car engine with Hydrogen.    There are experimental cars that can already run on Hydrogen, but the equipment used to break down the Hydrogen from the water uses a lot of electricity.    The bottom line is that it is not yet economically cost-effective to use this as a portable power source in a car.    Using gas is still a lot cheaper than "switching" to Hydrogen (from water).    There used to be coal-fired steam powered cars, but that would be considered too cumbersome and work-intensive for people today.     Generating electricity from coal is a mature process with very little pollution, and yes we have a lot of coal in our country.    Coal used to be a horrible source of pollution, but not any more.    The attitude against using coal is still there.    Also, I believe that our dependence on oil is part and parcel to the One World Government plot.    I can't think of any other way for our country to be brought to its financial knees than to kill our economy with a massive shortage of affordable energy.    There is, and has always been, plenty of oil: no shortage of energy.    The use of coal has been deliberately suppressed to prevent our energy independence.    I wouldn't be surprised if the eco-freaks are in cahoots with the government to bring us down.    What does that mean?    A strong, united America is the single most effective deterrent against a One World Government there is in the world today.    So the plan progresses to dilute our workforce with 12 million Mexican immigrants.    While we're in an uproar over that, Muslims continue to pour in by the thousands.    This is working just fine in Europe, so they are growing in numbers here also.     Just over a year from now, is the next census.    Surprise, surprise.    Our government is now busy with the de facto nationalization of one large sector of business after the other.    Even the mob-rule of our democracy is not working so good any more.    My mind is wandering off of the subject of power from water and coal.    Pat Robertson raised some valid points.    It's just that when I think of all the reasons why things aren't going right for our country, it's fairly simple in concept, but how do you touch on all of the variables of this very complex plan to bring our country down to where we are more biddable and compliant to those who would be our new masters under the One World Government.    How do I sincerely not come across as some kind of nut-case? 

Richard, solitude has nothing to do with maturity.    You're comparing apples & oranges.    Karen found out the hard way that solitude and celibacy is much better than being with the wrong person in your life.    It took that 20+ years before we met and were neighbors for a year, then decided that life would be much sweeter together than apart.    To compare your situation with Karen's 20 years:   She is thin, artistic, fit (from her diet, of course) and didn't date men (who would want a macho jerk?  They scare her to death.).    She wasn't interested in men (or women).    And yet, because of these attributes you describe yourself as being called "gay" without any objections to that label.    Karen would never --EVER--think of herself as a lesbian because of these attributes that you share with her.   When the right time came, and the right person showed up in her life, according to God's plan for us, we both gladly cast aside our single celibate life and are happily married.    Don't let other people push you into a category that you object to.    The idea that "thin, artistic, and fit automatically makes you a homosexual is a really stupid idea.    Maybe you should look for a new set of "friends"?  

Jenette, respect is a two-way street, not a bargaining chip.    I have the feeling that if your husband really cleaned up his act (the yard, etc.) that it wouldn't change your basic attitude toward him.    He probably knows that, so why should he make the effort of doing anything?    I don't think you would allow your husband to "command" anything, whether or not he got all his things in order, regardless of any anatomical gender differences.    You used the word "hate" and that tells me a lot about you.    People who truly "hate" anyone are mentally ill.    Hate answers no questions, solves no problems, makes other people's behavior toward you worse, prevents you from making good decisions, and fills your life with misery.    Hate is one of Satan's favorite tools to ruin the lives of the gullible and foolish.    Jenette, I believe that you should rethink your attitude and your actions toward your husband.    What you are doing now is doomed to failure.    Sure, he's not perfect, but your e-mail shows that you aren't either. 

Jerry, be careful what you wish and hope for.    God might just grant your request early and away you go.    As bad as things are getting, I personally want to stick around and see myself how some of these things are going to turn out.    I've made a few predictions and projections and want to see how close I came to the mark.    One of them turned out OK:  I was driving through Indio, Calif. last week and I saw the price of gas was $149.9 per gallon and I predicted $150.0 a few weeks ago when it was over $2.-    On the other hand I suggested that buying silver was a good way to conserve your assets when it was $14.- an ounce (it had gone up to over $19.- the month before) and now it is between $10.- & $11.-    I have also since learned that financial institutions are the sixth largest holders of precious metals (silver & gold) in the world.    Due to the current financial mess, in all likelihood, they will be forced to sell off gold and silver to raise cash to stay afloat a while longer.    If and when this happens, the prices for precious metals will take a big dive: Gold to about $600.- an ounce and silver to about $5.- an ounce.    This is a very chancy market to diddle with at present.    The Euro is slowly going up in price and the Japanese Yen is creeping down.    This tells me that the European financial troubles are less than ours and the Japanese financial situation is just as bad as our if not worse.    The Chinese are, of course, licking their chops over our financial distress.    They are losing business as we consume less but they are still exporting much more than they are importing, so they have a continuous net gain.    They are one of the few financial winners in the world, along with the oil exporters, these days.    Ho Hum, Life goes on. 

Mary, I'm sorry but I have covered this subject very thoroughly.    Please read Q&A #'s 423, 430, 435, 454, and 460.    You will see that adults are in charge in homes and children are not.    Use the authority that you have.   To do nothing is to condone their activities. 

Sharon, what did you bring home and add to your environment four weeks ago?    Several times when we brought something new into the home, it took us a while to figure out that it was out-gassing something that Karen was reacting to.    From a piece of linoleum, to cat litter, to the dye in some new sheets.    When we threw away her memory-foam pillow and replaced it with natural rubber/latex pillows, she showed a great improvement.    You are the one on the spot and must weed out the problems one by one.    I sort of feel sorry for people who don't yet have MCS yet and don't see the need to eliminate the known things that are really bad out-gassers.    If they did, they could possibly keep from devoloping MCS in the future, or at least delay it.    Good luck.   

Vernon, My new essay is called "Government - de facto & de jure" covers "government, law, business, and politics", but in a way that will surprise everybody.    I am phasing out the present form of this Q&A list and moving on to things that I consider beneficial to more people instead of just wimpy parents and heterophobic weirdoes.    I will continue to write on health issues from time to time, and do a few Q&As as time permits.    I do hope that you are wrong about the "masculine interests".    The subject matter of this Government essay affects all responsible adults, men and women.     

Roger, it's all about perceptions and attitude.    The older generation that was brought up with a totally different mind-set about sex, looks about them and sees a world with no apparent morals; perversions; and sexual abuse.    Many are horrified and disgusted with the whole subject of sex.    Is it any wonder that some people take their rejection of what they see in the world into their bedrooms?    Older men must cope with a declining sex-drive and at the same time still have a life-long habit of sharing love and affection with the wife of their youth.    Women, on the other hand, do not have the same sexual drive as men.    Affection and the forms of caring and sharing with their loved one is more satisfying than sex for many.    There is no "one size fits all" category here.    Their are huge variations in personal requirements for affection.    Young men are sometimes totally driven by the desire for sex to the exclusion of most other things.    Older men remember this and miss it and can get totally bent out of shape if their loved one refuses to cooperate in the love and affection department.    Your wife is in the wrong here.    Biblically, she has no right to withhold affection from you any more than you have a right to withhold affection from her.    Having said that, I am now going to suggest that you violate the very thing that I just said as a temporary measure:     What your wife is forcing you into is a platonic relationship:   Friendship with no sexual components to it.    If that is what she wants then that is what you should give her for a while.    First of all, sleep in a separate bed.    Either in a spare bedroom or on the couch.    Do not sleep in the same room with her.    People who are just friends don't sleep together, at least they shouldn't.    Call her by her first name only - not "dear, sweetheart, etc.".    Limit physical contact with her to what you would normally do with women you are not married to.    Be friendly, not hostile, and get along with her the best you can.    Treat her as a friend and only a friend.    Don't tell her where you are going during the day or any other explanation that a wife might expect from her husband.    A marriage without sexual affection, or at least some physical affection, is not a marriage at all.    It is a platonic relationship.  From Wikipedia:    Platonic love (Latin: Amor Platonicus), is a deep and spiritual connection between two individuals, within such relation does not exist any form of sexual connection or element. Roger, by doing this you will be demonstrating to your wife that she is not the only one in a position to dictate what kind of relationship the two of you share.    If she is not willing to fulfill her marriage vows, then show her the other side of the coin.    What the world does outside of your bedroom should not have anything to do with the two of you, and your wife should not let the evils of the world contaminate the sweetness and freedom of marriage.

True, true Vernon & Tarra; that is the true danger of the new age multicultural liberal dogma:   Right and wrong is only relevant from an individual point of view, and not an absolute as declared by God's Word.    When local churches take on this permissive world view, they loose their power to reach the hearts and minds of their people.    Very few people don't understand basic marketing strategy:  Create a need and then fill it.    If the need is not perceived by the people, then they don't want what you have to offer.    Ethics, standards, values, and morals are vitally necessary in order to define the contrast between right and wrong.    The enemies of our God want you to believe that right and wrong is a variable that is different for different people.    In the realm of logic and common sense, this is utter nonsense.    This is also contrary to God's Word.    Sin leads to death.    I have watched people rapidly age because of their sinful activities.    I am literally watching them die.    This business of growing older is but a slow way of dying as the body's systems lose the ability to regenerate itself.    I personally believe that this aging/dying process is much accelerated by the sin in people's lives.    Sinners seem to flourish for a while, then rapidly wither. Psalms 92:6 & 7    "A stupid person does not know, a fool does not understand this:   though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be eternally destroyed."  Psalms 37:1-7  "Do not be agitated by evildoers; do not envy those who do wrong.    For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender green plants.    Trust in the LORD and do what is good; dwell in the land and live securely.    Take delight in the LORD, and He will give you your heart's desires.    Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will act, making your righteousness shine like the dawn, your justice like the noonday.    Be silent before the LORD and wait expectantly for Him; do not be agitated by one who prospers in his way, by the man who carries out evil plans."  That tells it all. 

3John 1:2   "Dear friend, I pray that you may prosper in every way and be in good health, just as your soul prospers." 

http://home.earthlink.net/~deah13/id59.html   There are families and there are families.    Whether related by blood or not, toxic relationships can really drag you down, and the stress can harm you physically.    Status tension and aggression in the human jungle: maintaining the pecking order, brings on so much stress that the body falls into degenerative physical conditions, and you suffer. 

Y.U.Chenzy, I don't think a pure fruitarian diet is possible without deficiency diseases.    Dairy makes the fruitarian possible.    Concerning your diet, you have nothing to prove to anyone except yourself, so you must do what works for you and you alone.    Karen takes Raw Power in milk with two bananas and that's her meal for the day most of the time.    You're doing good so keep on keeping on. 

http://www.nfib.com/object/IO_38854.html    It's about informal cliques.    It's good for the so-called leaders, but is sometimes cruel for others.    I take it you were one of the "others". 

Mrs. B, I would explain this to your children and ask them to help you to move, possibly within the same community.    I don't know what your financial situation is but surely there are some options available to you.    Your children most likely love you enough to help you if they can.    For sure ask God's help with this problem.    He listens, He loves, and He opens doors of opportunity for us. 

Jensen, The Bible is a history book and documents a time in history when God took an overtly active role in the affairs of men, more specifically: His chosen people and the races of people they interacted with.    The main point and theme in the entire Bible is, and has always been, Jesus.    From the time when God Preferred Able's animal sacrifices and Cain's attempted offering of the grown produce of the field, to the ultimate sacrifice of the perfect lamb of God, His Son Jesus; all of Old Testament history with their animal sacrifices for the forgiveness of sins pointed to the coming of Jesus and what He did for us, to pay for the sins of those of us who have accepted Him as our Savior.    It is a free gift to those who will accept Him and have faith in Him.    God didn't have to do things this way, but I do believe that God chose to set up the circumstances where we have the free choice to accept Him as our God, and His Son as our Savior.    He has allowed us to become His very own children by having faith in the power of  the blood sacrifice Jesus paid for us.    All have sinned and no sin goes unpunished.    Jesus took that punishment for us and all we have to do is accept this precious gift of forgiveness.    At the beginning of the Bible it says that God created us in His image.    In that respect we have: an everlasting soul (existence) like God, the freedom of choice like God, and intellectual freedom like God.    We are not created in His physical image because God does not have the limits of a body.    He is pure Spirit.    Through Jesus, God gave us the means of choosing Him as our God and His Son as our Savior.    What does God desire from all of this?    The Bible says that we (Christians) are higher than Angels.    Angels were created by God to love, worship, and serve Him.    They have no choice.    Christians, on the other hand, choose to love, worship, and serve our God and our Savior Jesus.    We made the right choice and heaven will be filled with those who used our free will to put our trust and faith in Jesus.    The "jail guard" theory is just too simple to explain the relationship we can have with our God.   

C. Willie, This subject has been thoroughly covered on this list but here it is anyway:    Anyone supposedly born homosexual is the last of their kind.    If their sexual arrangements don't produce offspring then they don't pass on their genes, homosexual or not.    That is real basic science without any effective argument that opposes that conclusion.    They like to tell each other that straight heterosexual people are mere breeders that somehow magically pass on their homosexual gene.    They would get straight "F's" in any biology class.    Simply put: the noisy minority outmaneuvered and outshouted the stupid majority of people.    Now they also have preference according to law.    The losers are now winners and the ex-winners are becoming them. 

Mr. Cheney, Things are not as black and white as you describe: "them and us".    The enemy might be them, and for sure is us.    The people you describe as saved and righteous are often more of a problem than those you describe as damned, wicked, and sinners.                Romans 3:23  "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."   "All" means Christians and non-Christians alike.    A Christian is just as capable of mistakes, blunders, and stupidity as non-Christians.    Therein lies the problem:   Too many Christians believe they are personally righteous compared to non-Christians.   They are very proud.        Luke 18:9-14  "He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:    "Two men went up to the temple complex to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.    The Pharisee took his stand and was praying like this: 'God, I thank You that I'm not like other people--greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.    I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.'    "But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, 'God, turn Your wrath from me--a sinner.'     I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."  When we become Christians through our faith in Jesus, we are not immune to sin.    Satan does not just go away from you.    The opposite is true.    Satan does not want you to influence your friends and family.    He does not want you to fulfill the "Great Commission" and tell others about Jesus and your salvation through Him.    For many people it seems like they have a harder time with sin than before they became Christians.    Many people do have a harder time after they become Christians.    Satan wants to stop you cold and keep you from the true freedom of Christianity.    Those who don't believe there is such a being as Satan are an easy mark for his evil influence.    Because you prefer white doesn't mean that black doesn't exist.    The same is true of good and evil.    Mr. Cheney, don't be too quick to judge others.    You must be willing to be judged by the same yardstick that you apply to others, as is implied in the Lord's Prayer (trespasses).    I am willing to be judged by the same standard I apply to others because, to the best of my ability, I use God's standards.    Judging others is automatic and unconscious, especially when you have a set of standards that you truly believe in.    That is the beauty of God's Word:  The ability to be confident that your adopted values are righteous and approved by God. 

Frank & Joy, later on, you will come to the conclusion that what you now know should have been obvious.    Old thought patterns are hard to shake loose.    New concepts are even harder to accept as your own sometimes.    But, when you make that transition; Wow. 

Thank you Harold.   I will pass along your encouraging words to Karen. 

Bob, I have a real problem with people who claim to be "religious".    One of the main groups of people that Jesus spoke against were the "religious leaders' of his time on earth.         James 1:27   "Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." The practice of "pure and undefiled religion" is something that too many religious people confuse with salvation.    Salvation is about what Jesus did for us, and not about the things that religious people do (works versus Grace).   Matthew 23:23 & 28 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.    In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Sorry if this seems to be a little "churchy", but the point I am making is that too many of the mainstream churches are full of hypocrisy and going through the motions of being religious, without attending to the true spiritual needs of the people.    The people need truth, facts, and God's reality.    They don't need preachers that tell them; if you're a "good person" you're going to be OK.    Hell is full of "good people" who have rejected Jesus entirely.    That's good food for your thoughts.    What are you going to do with it?   

David, one of the things I have told many people is that "second-hand cussing" is still cussing.    When someone tells me what someone else said in graphic detail, I don't want to hear the garbage part of it.    People who do not belong to our God and Savior delight in using God's Name in vain, contrary to His explicit command not to do so.    Sins of omission can be just as bad or worse than sins of commission.    To do nothing is to condone.    In law, silence, or no response, is the same as admitting something.    Lukewarm and compromise are not options for a sincere Christian. 

"Archetypal psychiatry is what you are referring to with released obstruction.    We go from a conformist cultural stereotype to a unique universal archetype with transcends culture.  It is universal of the whole world, transcending culture, family, gender, and the era in which you live.  -A stereotype is a herd robot, and a universal archetype is the unique self, released from the corny caricatures resulting from timid, fearful, approval-needing conformity to a specific herd".   – This  is  from Karen 

Jack, the extreme of this is to be a snob and you don't want to be that.    Self-esteem is great but be approachable.    The key is that you don't need the approval of others in order to justify your existence.    You are self-contained, self-entertaining, and self-motivated to live your life as you wish to, independent of what others think.    Be inaccessible in your armored mind but approachable in the world. 

V.O.P, when you walk through a pig sty you get mud on your boots.    If it's a really big pig sty, there's more mud and it can come up to your waist.    Sexual addiction can lead you to hang out at the local hog pens where you might really get your life spiced up with sexually transmitted diseases and embarrassing situations.    If you stay with that life you are also cutting about thirty-three years off of your life.    Less than 3% of homosexuals live to be over 55 years old.    http://www.new-life.net/hmsxl01.htm    Check the link to learn more.    "Gay Pride" is a fantasy.    Believe in it at your own peril. 

Miton (Milton?), A close army friend of mine made the same mistake.    Everyone said that she was a great catch (including me), and that he should marry her.    It turned out that she had been abused as a little girl and was totally screwed up about sex.    Everyone regretted their advice and I was very careful to not give any marital advice to my two sons.    One did good and the other didn't do so good in the long run.    If there is ever a next time for you, make the decision alone because you alone will have to live with your choice, not your friends. 

Mr. Jamesley, Karen is the author of the books.    I just write an occasional essay.    I will pass on your kind words to Karen.    What you are has nothing to do with what other people think.    What other people think of you comes from their perception of your track record.    If you haven't succeeded in a few things in life, that just proves that you are similar to everyone else in that respect.    Some failures are very visible, but many failures are not, so people think they are better than others because their failures are unknown.    Losers are also quitters.    If you never quit, you will never be a loser.    The Christian you are by faith is not understandable to the herd.    Set your own standards and follow them and ignore the true losers. 

Jayce, the problem is the fundamental difference in ethics and standards.    Everything you believe and know is based on your unique world-view and standards of right and wrong.    Others come into your life and try to impose their views and belief that there is no right or wrong; everything is allowed.    The nicest people can be absolutely wrong on many levels.    The resultant conflict with you brings stress that you don't need and they don't really care.    They just want to impose their will on you to justify their perceived rightness in their own minds.    Avoidance works for me and it can work for you.    Other people can select themselves out of my life if I'm not happy being around them.    If they don't want to listen to what you have to offer, then let them remain less, while you advance on your journey in life. 

Udo, dead is permanent and you don't want to go there.    Immigrate to Siberia, or become a bush pilot in Alaska, or anything else of the many possibilities that are available in life.    There are just two reliable things in life and that is our God and change.    Where you are at, in the here and now must, and will, change.    Climbing the sand hill of life where you take three steps up the sand dune and slide back two, is very normal for most people.    Set your goals, short term and long term, and work through all of the opposition.    Your goals and your dreams are yours alone and you don't owe anybody explanations about any of them.    Don't let yourself be absorbed into the mediocrity of the herd mentality.    You are unique and it's your choice to stay that way. 

Hossam, I don't know what kind of work that you do but surely there are similar kinds of work that you can find in other cities.    If I were in your position, I would simply disappear and never look back.    Happiness doesn't depend on keeping old friends and neighbors.    A new city; a new job; a new apartment, new neighbors & friends.    There's no such thing as something for nothing.    If you want safety and security, then you must give up your present life and make a new life somewhere else.    In your new life, don't tell anyone where you came from in England, or where you were born.    Cut all links to your past.    You are right to fear for your life and you have to take drastic measures to prevent your family from tracing you to your new home if you choose to move.    The fact that they would try to kill you is proof that their fanatical beliefs are wrong and against God's Will.    Our prayers are with you. 

This is about women who marry men who have had sex with other men.    These are all married men, and "gamma" provides 'support' for these evil, sinful men.    It is mostly about oral sex, or holes in the walls, etc.    I wish you would speak to the issue of married men having sex with men. 

Anonymous, I got into this briefly in Q&A #523 where I was personally involved in a sting operation with the NCIS on Okinawa.    Some of the 30 or so men we caught on tape were "happily" married men.    That was about 20 years ago and it's not any better today.    Evidently some men feel socially protected from the stigma of the homosexual label because they're married.    They think they can "have their cake and eat it too".    It doesn't work that way.    Sin is wrong, and doing wrong is sin.    These guys might hide it from their wives for a while but ultimately they all have to answer to God.    They are all playing "Russian Roulette" with all of the STD's (Sexually transmitted disease's) that's out there in pervert world.    What miserable creatures some men and women are that literally live for the next available orgasm by any means.    They are rutting animals in human form and I have no sympathy for any of them and the host of problems they bring on themselves.    "Gamma" can also be labeled as "Sex Addicts Anonymous", which provides a service to perverts in general.

Henry, I didn't watch that program.    At most, I watch the news about a half hour a day and little else.    This subject has come up several times on this Q&A list.    Your wife has an overactive imagination.    The best thing you have in your defense is your track record.    As you stated; "you have never had an affair with a man, and you don't like being called a faggot".    Your wife owes you an apology and should try to keep her mind out of the gutter in the future.

Joey, homosexuals are allied with liberals, feminists, new age multicultural pukes, and even conservatives that go to church organizations that condone everything they stand for.    They pay lip-service to acknowledging God, but violate many things in God's Word, the Bible. "A recent study of Massachusetts teenagers, published in the American Journal of Public Health (Anne H. Faulkner and Kevin Cranston, "Correlates of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in a Random Sample of Massachusetts High School Students," February 1998, p. 264) discovered that self-identified gays were:

• nine times more likely to have reported using alcohol on a daily basis;

• six times more likely to report having recently used cocaine than their heterosexual counterparts;

• nineteen times more likely to report having used cocaine on ten or more occasions per month;

• five times more likely to report having used other illegal drugs, including cocaine, twenty or more times in their lives;

• nearly seven times more likely to report ever having injected an illegal drug;

• fifty percent more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to have considered committing suicide.  

The average homosexual of any age is three times more suicidal than the heterosexual (Cameron, Playfair, Wellum, The Homosexual Lifespan, Family Research Institute, Feb 14, 1992)."   http://www.new-life.net/hmsxl01.htm 

Joey, homosexuals are bad news.    It's not good to be them.    It's not advisable to associate with them.    Don't let any of them be a part of your life.

"Yoga is a healing system of theory and practice. It is a combination of breathing exercises, physical postures, and meditation that has been practiced for more than 5,000 years. While yoga evolved as a spiritual practice in Hinduism, in the Western world, a part of yoga, known as Asana, has grown popular as a form of purely physical exercise. Some Western forms have little or nothing to do with Hinduism or spirituality, but are simply a way of keeping fit and healthy."    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_as_exercise  Paul, there's nothing wrong with "keeping fit and healthy" and everyone should practice whatever kind of exercise works for them.    Just because yoga originated from the Hindu religion, practicing their stretching exercises does not make you a heathen.    The overweight church-goers should try it too.    Over the years many beautiful works of art have been created in the name of heathen gods.    Their misguided worship has faded and become extinct in some parts of the world, but the art remains, a beautiful tribute to the artistry of their craftsmanship.    Hinduism is still practiced in India, but their exercises intended as a form of worship, have been adopted by many people the world over.    So today many people practice yoga with no clue about the religion that originated it, or the country that it came from.    So the idea that practicing yoga is a heathen practice is utterly foolish.    It works for you, and it works for Karen and many other good people, so what's the harm?  

Riley, I quoted the same scripture to Milton in the "New King James Version".    When you quote scripture it is a good idea to include where it is found in the bible so readers can read the verses before and after to understand the context of your quote, and prove to themselves if the point you're making with that scripture is valid or not.    Here's one for you to consider:  Ezekiel 34:16    "I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong, and feed them in judgment."  What do you think is meant by the "fat and the strong"?    Remember that God does not change, and His reaction to situations that occurred a few thousand years ago will come close to similar situations that are occurring today.    That is why His revealed Word, the Bible, is a reliable guide for our lives today.    Your ex-wife will get her reward so leave vengeance to God and be satisfied with the thought that if she is one of the feminist herd-followers, she is on her way to becoming obese, and crazy from soy bean products,  aspartame, margarine, and Canola poison.    Stay in your bible classes and be happy that you are seeking God's Will in your life, instead of seeking the approval of the father of liars, which appears to be your ex-wife's master.    This will pass and, God willing, you will be able to help others as a single person in the very bad times that are coming to our world.    Get ready.   

Isaiah 54:14-17   "In righteousness you shall be established; You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; And from terror, for it shall not come near you.    Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.    "Behold, I have created the blacksmith Who blows the coals in the fire, Who brings forth an instrument for his work; And I have created the spoiler to destroy.    No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me," Says the LORD. Milton, I do try to conform to God's Will in my life and I do my best to not get caught violating man's law that is in opposition to God's law.    I see "my job" as presenting a Christian point of view to the problems and concerns of the people on this web-site Q&A list.    The concerns that have less to do with Christianity, I present a conservative common sense approach to issues.    The feminists and their on- hangers have already succeeded far beyond the limits of sanity.    Their chief victims are our children in the government schools and the millions of obese people who follow their diet fads regardless of basic science that proves them wrong.    Do we have a better world now, and are we happier as individuals?    What do you think? 

Hillary, Karen spent years fine tuning her theories and writing her books and I've been married to her for only five months.    I have not had the time to look into all aspects of her ideas and theories.    I have yet to find anything that I fundamentally disagree with.    She is absolutely right about figs being very nutritious.    Figs are high in magnesium, potassium, and vitamin K.    Where we live, fresh figs are not available.    I take magnesium in capsule form and snack on mixed nuts (no peanuts) throughout the day.    I was hoping to make my own bakery products with nut flour, xylitol, baking soda, and a few other things but the source of nut flour sent me spoiled goods, and I haven't tried again since then.    Even the wild rabbits wouldn't eat it when I dumped it on a desert bush.    Eventually the crows came and cleaned it up.    They are the aerial garbage collectors.    The hardest part of switching over from the low fat/high carbohydrate fad to the high protein & fat/low carbohydrate diet is the three days it takes for your body to make the adjustment.    That can be very rough.    The greatest help in making this transition is to take one tablespoon of virgin coconut oil twenty minutes to a half hour before each meal.    This will reduce your appetite, but you must consciously not eat as much as your habit will encourage you to eat.    Many people use only this to lose weight with, while making no other changes to their diets.    By all means stay away from margarine, soy bean products (not including soy sauce), Canola, aspartame, and polyunsaturated fat vegetable oils.    They are all bad news in the human body.   (How's that for a scientific statement?)    Do a search of past Q&As (shift F) and look for the words glucagons & insulin.    When you understand what your body does with the food you eat, you can make your own diet according to your personal likes and dislikes.    Eat things that don't create hunger with the hormone glucagons (protein & fats), and stay away from things that creates hunger with the hormone insulin (carbohydrates - starchy foods).    We only get one body and one life per customer and the choices you make are very important.    We should all be perpetual students and never cease learning things.  

Cheryl, what I am going to describe to you probably won't describe your situation exactly, but some aspects of it will apply.    Take it with a grain of salt and use what you choose:   The old saying "familiarity breeds contempt" can be very true in some marriages, but it can be avoided.    Honor, respect, consideration, courtesy, kindness, and even love are concepts that everybody understands but how many married couples apply these concepts to their everyday conduct towards each other.    You're right, lust is an important initial attraction and the glue that gets you started in your lives together.    One definition for Honor is "to show great respect or high regard for; treat with deference and courtesy."   So Respect & Courtesy are components of Honor.    Have you ever wondered about how arranged marriages work out?    Historically, old-country families who practice this custom have a very high success rate and, from what I've read, these couples learn to love, honor and respect each other for the rest of their lives.    They start with honor and respect, and certainly there is always the initial delight of lust starting with their wedding night, and not before.    These people have a very strong sense of family honor to uphold.    They don't want to fail their families expectations and their families always apply not so subtle pressure on them to give the marriage their best shot.    For these couples, courtesy and kindness to each other develops into respect and love.    So, how does this all apply to our modern-day marriages?    I won't get into how and why people choose each other and go straight to after the honeymoon is over.    The examples that your parents set for you when you were growing up is a big factor.    Unfortunately, that is the base-line that people use for assuming what is a normal marriage.    A normal marriage these days is a dysfunctional marriage.    The "open", disinterested, hostile, brinkmanship/barter marriages are all basically dysfunctional.    A lot of times, after lust is sated and life settles into a routine, one spouse makes a remark that is less than flattering to the other, which is not abnormal or a big thing but after a while the other spouse grabs the chance to get back at the other with a snide remark of their own.    Self pride and their egos temps them into an ongoing exchange of taking "pot-shots" at each other - little derogatory remarks and put-downs.    This lack of personal respect for each other then carries over into the physical aspect of marriage and you find yourself married to someone you have slowly but surely lost respect for.    Without courtesy and respect for each other, love fades.    There must be something binding you to each other when lust is fully satisfied.    If you have reached the point of disinterest in each other keep this thought in mind:   If you fully intended to remain married "until death do you part", but didn't quite make it happen in your hearts and minds, the last thing you should do is look around for someone else, do the divorce thing and hook up with the next "true love" until lust is sated once again and you start taking verbal pot-shots at each other.    You're right back where you started from, and if there are children involved, you are being cruel to the children by disrupting their lives.    The American way seems to be either serial polygamy, or single parent (mother) households.    What is the solution for all of this?    If a married couple truly wants to have a happy and satisfying marriage to each other, shouldn't there be a third party that we can appeal to for help and advice?    Marriage councilors for-hire usually have one single "spiel" that they apply to their customers, besides which they don't love you.    To find the answer we must go back to the beginning: Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God - - - .     God is relevant in every aspect of our lives, most especially He is very relevant in your marriage.    He is the authenticator and chief witness to your marriage vows.    In God's sight, you have entered in to the covenant of  marriage.    In your hearts you should hold tight to this precious union between you.   Mark 10:9   "Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."          Malachi 2:14 " - - the LORD was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, - - she is your companion and your wife by covenant." 

Given the fact that "God joins" and "man shouldn't separate", it logically follows that man shouldn't be in the business of joining in marriage.    However, our churches must be 501 (c)3 government authorized charitable corporations, our pastors (not priests) must be licensed by the government to perform weddings, and the couple that wants to get married must have permission from the government to marry in the form of a marriage license.    When all is said and done, marriage is just another government contract authorized by the man (the state) and the contract can be easily broken through the court system.    Every day judges preside over what God has said man must not do: separate marriages.    So the common attitude is that marriage can be considered a temporary contract, and like buying a new car that's lemon, you can just go to court and get a new one.    Is it any wonder that marriages don't last?    This is what happens when a society removes God from what was intended to be a strictly religious institution, a covenant before God, and turns it into a legal contract, no different from buying and selling cars.    So Cheryl, what has all of this to do with you and your husband?    Simply put: your attitude.    You are responsible to God to honor and respect the covenant that you have entered into with your husband.    It is an absolutely serious mistake to ignore God in your marriage.    I don't know if you are a Christian, or if you go to church somewhere, but our God and Heavenly Father should be the glue that enhances and completes the happiness that marriage should be for you, not lust or habit or duty.    Forget the man-made contract and love each other and treat each other with kindness and respect.    You owe each other honor and dignity in your marriage.    If your husband is into pornography he is dishonoring the covenant he has entered with you before God.  There will be consequences according to God's will.    If you didn't have a church wedding, then do so now and take your vows before God.    Forget the licensing and all that other junk because God is the only one that can join you together in the covenant of marriage, not some County government office.    Cheryl, read this e-mail with your husband and have a serious talk with him.    God truly wants you to love and honor each other because he very much loves the two of you.    He loves you so much that He provided the only means for you to become one of  His children by offering up His Son Jesus to pay for all of your sins on the cross.    There is no such thing as something for nothing and all of our mistakes in life, errors, sins, and blunders have consequences. Roman 6:23   "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."   It's not enough to be a good person.    Salvation, becoming one of God's children, is about what Christ did for us, not about what what we do in this life, other than to accept in our hearts that Jesus is the Lord and Saviour of our lives.    Forgiveness, acceptance and a love that is beyond our comprehension can be yours if you make the choice to put your trust in Jesus, and what He did for you.    He loves you Cheryl, and if you accept and return that love, you will have the love and resources in your heart to make your marriage into what God intended for you.    My prayers are with you.

Cortney, our society is like an avalanche.    Once it has started moving downhill there is no stopping it.    The closer to the bottom it gets, the faster it goes until it is destroying everything in its path.    That first big snowball that started it all was when the 40th Congress functionally changed our Republic into a democracy in order to retaliate against the Confederate South.    The second big snowjob was when our government turned our finances over to private bankers and called it the "Federal Reserve Bank" in 1913.    We are currently experiencing the consequences of that with our multiple "bail-outs" and other policies doomed to failure.    We have tasked the foxes to fix the shortage of chickens and eggs.    What a great plan that is?    Yes, the fan is working overtime these days and we will take our lumps whether we like it or not.    Before anything can be fixed, the dust has to settle after the avalanche is over, and we are under Martial Law.    That's the plan, and that's how it is going to be.  Also my thanks to Sinclair, H.J., Roger, and the Holsteads for their notes of encouragement.    I appreciate everyone's input.    

Hooray.    Another fad victim saved from the herd.    The best is yet to come, R.V.C.    Wait until you have been rebuilding you body for a while as proof that your friends were wrong, and you are on your way to good health.    There is nothing more precious that getting up every morning and feeling good and knowing you will feel good all day because you are satisfying your body's basic requirements.    Good health is much better than the approval of your friends by fanatically following their weird dietary theories.   Keep it up.

Howard, life is about constantly learning things; about our selves, about others, about our world.    When we see behavior that is repulsive and will end in failure, we add that to our list of "not-to-do" things.    That list is called a set of ethics or standards.    It is a good thing and, if you follow your personal set of standards, you are assured of not failing as you have seen others do.    We add to that list our whole lives.    A lot of people get a big head start on that list when they adopt God's Will as laid out in His Word, the Bible, as a basis for their standards.    That way you don't have to actually go out and watch people do stupid and disgusting things to come to the conclusion that it is one of your personal "not-to-do's".    Hang in there.

Sherry, it is a simple fact that our bodies need animal protein and fat.    You get both with dairy products and there is no animal death involved as well as being renewable and sustainable.    Cheese has more animal protein than any kind of meat, believe it or not, and butter is 100% fat.    We inhabit animal bodies with our intelligence and call that being human.   The requirements of our bodies cannot be satisfied by fanatically consuming only one particular food group.    The average body is made of about 60% water and the optimal percentages of fat is 8-15% for men and 13-20% for women.    When you eat proteins and fat, your pancreas makes lots of glucagons which suppresses hunger and gets rid of stored water and fat.    When you eat carbohydrates/starchy foods, your pancreas makes lots of insulin which generates hunger and stores water and fat.    You really need the right amounts of protein, fats, and carbohydrates in order for your pancreas to do its balancing act of keeping your body fit.    Low fat & high carbohydrates is a monumental mistake to make.    You really need milk, eggs, butter, cheese, etc. for optimal health and to keep your weight down.    Its about good, workable science, not popular fads that the herd loves to follow.    Thanks for your input.    

N. Cochia, I couldn't agree with you more.    Setting the proper example is very important for both parents.    Being ex-military,  I know that the only effective leadership is to "do as I do" and not "do as I say".    Leadership by example works very well.    Order and discipline are not exclusive to the military.    It's a lesson that should be taught to all children and you expressed that very well.    The ones who are not taught these things are at a disadvantage in their lives.    That is one of the very first things young people learn during military basic training - order and discipline.    That is why I encourage young folks to seriously consider enlisting in the service.    It is a great place to finish growing up, and catching up with the things that their parents neglected to teach them.    They are taught useful occupations, given important work to do, and instilled with the pride of purpose.    When they are finished, they are much better for the experience and more knowledgeable about the world in general.    Too many of our young people waste that time flipping hamburgers in dead-end jobs.    The military will be one of the safest and secure occupations during the next four years.    We have a liberal Pres. & Congress now and they won't be starting any new military adventures.   

Rick, that's a bummer.    Education is the answer to your problem.    Start with the one in your family that will still listen and talk with you.    There must be at least one.    Show them this web-site:   http://www.new-life.net/hmsxl01.htm    After he/she reads it then discuss it with him/her.    Do they really think that that their personal opinions about homosexuals carry more weight that what God's Word says?    They have bought into the lie that taking a stand against the homosexual lifestyle is exactly the same thing as racial bigotry.    They actually think that rejecting you is to reject bigotry.    How wrong they are.    There are many other web-sites and utube videos that tell the truth and show the truth.    They do pervert the use of their bodies with each other and genetics has absolutely nothing to do with it.    The consumption of soybean products has accelerated the proliferation of the homosexual community among teenagers, turning them fat and weird.    There is a lot more info on the internet to support your decision to stick to the truth, whether it's popular or not.    After you convince one of your family then the two of you can work on the next one and eventually you will hopefully be in the majority.    If you succeed, they will one day thank you for your perseverance.    The herd mentality is hard to break into but keep trying.

Dorothy & Les, We live close to a small town and our options for going to church are limited to what's here.    Of course they are all flawed in one way or the other, not only on doctrinal issues.    Any earthly organization must be imperfect because the people in them are imperfect.    That is why it is so important to strictly adhere to God's Word in all things, most especially fundamental doctrine.    I got into a friendly dispute with one of the deacons of a Baptist church I used to go to about Old Testament "polygamy".    He thought it was a terrible thing because he was applying our cultural rules to a lifestyle of about 3000 years ago and that just doesn't logically work.    The context was all wrong.    They didn't even have a word for "bigamy" in those days.    At that time I had been writing some essays on bigamy for the previous couple of years, so I printed out a copy and gave it to him to read.    After that he never raised the issue because he knew he was wrong.    People don't like to admit to being wrong.    My suggestion to you is to write down the things that you disagree with and quote the appropriate scripture that proves your subject matter accuracy.    Then write a short narrative to explain why you think these errors should be corrected.    It has a lot more impact if you write down your point of view.    A spoken complaint or disagreement is quickly forgotten or dismissed.    We are at a point where we only go to the Sunday morning bible studies and don't stay for their calcified church ceremony afterwards.    They are good people but sometimes we must agree to disagree.    I can go to church to worship our God without agreeing with those around me.   The only problem is that if they want you to be a teacher, how can you if you disagree with their theology.    So here I am, teaching on the Internet about how all areas of our lives are connected through our God.   He created everything and His input is relevant to everything.    In all things: stick with God's truth.    He will never let you down.

Robert, God's Word is very specific about this because it is an important issue: Corinthians 7:1-5     "Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: "It is well for a man not to touch a woman.    But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.    The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.    For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.     Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control." Because sex is so misused and perverted in our society by so many, it is easy for Christians to come to the conclusion that sex is dirty and distasteful.    That is not true.    Sex is one of the beautiful things that God has created for us to enjoy and share with each other.    In the context of marriage, it is a precious sharing of bodies and makes the heart happy.    Those that don't see it that way have minds that have been polluted by the abuse of sex that the world is filled with.    Here is another place in God's Word for our instruction: Proverbs 5:15-20    "Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?    Let them be for yourself alone, and not for sharing with strangers.    Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be intoxicated always by her love.    Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?"   Here men are encouraged to be faithful to their wives and enjoy their charms to the fullest.    A loving marriage is totally satisfying only when the husband and wife have a wholesome attitude toward each other and acknowledge that their sexual union is approved by God and is to be enjoyed.    For one spouse to withhold sex, or to use it to bargain with, will surely cause the love in the heart of the other to wither.    The result is resentment,  jealousy, and anger.    Keep the attitudes of the world about sex out of your bedroom.    It has no place there and can only spoil something beautiful and precious in your lives.

Mary Lynne, I too enjoyed my life as a celibate single, but when Karen and I became friends at first, it took most of a year for us to realize that we couldn't imagine living the rest of our lives apart.    We complete each other and are much stronger as a married team than we ever were apart.    She is brilliant and I am the steady anchor in life that she has always needed.    If a person's anchor in life can be our God and Heavenly Father, that is a very good thing.    Happiness must not depend on marriage or any other relationship, especially if the other person is used as a crutch to boost your ego or self esteem.    But it is not enough to be happily alone.    In order to serve God's Will we must benefit other people somehow.    The "great commission" commands us to tell others about Jesus and His message to the world.    We should communicate with God through prayer and share with others our beliefs.    Alone is OK, but we need contact with others in order to do God's Will in our lives. 

 Cortney, our society is like an avalanche.    Once it has started moving downhill there is no stopping it.    The closer to the bottom it gets, the faster it goes until it is destroying everything in its path.    That first big snowball that started it all was when the 40th Congress functionally changed our Republic into a democracy in order to retaliate against the Confederate South.    The second big snow job was when our government turned our finances over to private bankers and called it the "Federal Reserve Bank" in 1913.    We are currently experiencing the consequences of that with our multiple "bail-outs" and other policies doomed to failure.    We have tasked the foxes to fix the shortage of chickens and eggs.    What a great plan that is?    Yes, the fan is working overtime these days and we will take our lumps whether we like it or not.    Before anything can be fixed, the dust has to settle after the avalanche is over, and we are under Martial Law.    That's the plan, and that's how it is going to be.  

Hooray.    Another fad victim saved from the herd.    The best is yet to come, R.V.C.    Wait until you have been rebuilding you body for a while as proof that your friends were wrong, and you are on your way to good health.    There is nothing more precious that getting up every morning and feeling good and knowing you will feel good all day because you are satisfying your body's basic requirements.    Good health is much better than the approval of your friends by fanatically following their weird dietary theories.   Keep it up. 

Howard, life is about constantly learning things; about our selves, about others, about our world.    When we see behavior that is repulsive and will end in failure, we add that to our list of "not-to-do" things.    That list is called a set of ethics or standards.    It is a good thing and, if you follow your personal set of standards, you are assured of not failing as you have seen others do.    We add to that list our whole lives.    A lot of people get a big head start on that list when they adopt God's Will as laid out in His Word, the Bible, as a basis for their standards.    That way you don't have to actually go out and watch people do stupid and disgusting things to come to the conclusion that it is one of your personal "not-to-do's".    Hang in there.

Sherry, it is a simple fact that our bodies need animal protein and fat.    You get both with dairy products and there is no animal death involved as well as being renewable and sustainable.    Cheese has more animal protein than any kind of meat, believe it or not, and butter is 100% fat.    We inhabit animal bodies with our intelligence and call that being human.   The requirements of our bodies cannot be satisfied by fanatically consuming only one particular food group.    The average body is made of about 60% water and the optimal percentages of fat is 8-15% for men and 13-20% for women.    When you eat proteins and fat, your pancreas makes lots of glucagons which suppresses hunger and gets rid of stored water and fat.    When you eat carbohydrates/starchy foods, your pancreas makes lots of insulin which generates hunger and stores water and fat.    You really need the right amounts of protein, fats, and carbohydrates in order for your pancreas to do its balancing act of keeping your body fit.    Low fat & high carbohydrates is a monumental mistake to make.    You really need milk, eggs, butter, cheese, etc. for optimal health and to keep your weight down.    Its about good, workable science, not popular fads that the herd loves to follow.    Thanks for your input.  

N. Cochia, I couldn't agree with you more.    Setting the proper example is very important for both parents.    Being ex-military,  I know that the only effective leadership is to "do as I do" and not "do as I say".    Leadership by example works very well.    Order and discipline are not exclusive to the military.    It's a lesson that should be taught to all children and you expressed that very well.    The ones who are not taught these things are at a disadvantage in their lives.    That is one of the very first things young people learn during military basic training - order and discipline.    That is why I encourage young folks to seriously consider enlisting in the service.    It is a great place to finish growing up, and catching up with the things that their parents neglected to teach them.    They are taught useful occupations, given important work to do, and instilled with the pride of purpose.    When they are finished, they are much better for the experience and more knowledgeable about the world in general.    Too many of our young people waste that time flipping hamburgers in dead-end jobs.    The military will be one of the safest and secure occupations during the next four years.    We have a liberal Pres. & Congress now and they won't be starting any new military adventures.    

Rick, that's a bummer.    Education is the answer to your problem.    Start with the one in your family that will still listen and talk with you.    There must be at least one.    Show them this web-site:   http://www.new-life.net/hmsxl01.htm    After he/she reads it then discuss it with him/her.    Do they really think that that their personal opinions about homosexuals carry more weight that what God's Word says?    They have bought into the lie that taking a stand against the homosexual lifestyle is exactly the same thing as racial bigotry.    They actually think that rejecting you is to reject bigotry.    How wrong they are.    There are many other web-sites and utube videos that tell the truth and show the truth.    They do pervert the use of their bodies with each other and genetics has absolutely nothing to do with it.    The consumption of soybean products has accelerated the proliferation of the homosexual community among teenagers, turning them fat and weird.    There is a lot more info on the internet to support your decision to stick to the truth, whether it's popular or not.    After you convince one of your family then the two of you can work on the next one and eventually you will hopefully be in the majority.    If you succeed, they will one day thank you for your perseverance.    The herd mentality is hard to break into but keep trying.

Dorothy & Les, We live close to a small town and our options for going to church are limited to what's here.    Of course they are all flawed in one way or the other, not only on doctrinal issues.    Any earthly organization must be imperfect because the people in them are imperfect.    That is why it is so important to strictly adhere to God's Word in all things, most especially fundamental doctrine.    I got into a friendly dispute with one of the deacons of a Baptist church I used to go to about Old Testament "polygamy".    He thought it was a terrible thing because he was applying our cultural rules to a lifestyle of about 3000 years ago and that just doesn't logically work.    The context was all wrong.    They didn't even have a word for "bigamy" in those days.    At that time I had been writing some essays on bigamy for the previous couple of years, so I printed out a copy and gave it to him to read.    After that he never raised the issue because he knew he was wrong.    People don't like to admit to being wrong.    My suggestion to you is to write down the things that you disagree with and quote the appropriate scripture that proves your subject matter accuracy.    Then write a short narrative to explain why you think these errors should be corrected.    It has a lot more impact if you write down your point of view.    A spoken complaint or disagreement is quickly forgotten or dismissed.    We are at a point where we only go to the Sunday morning bible studies and don't stay for their calcified church ceremony afterwards.    They are good people but sometimes we must agree to disagree.    I can go to church to worship our God without agreeing with those around me.   The only problem is that if they want you to be a teacher, how can you if you disagree with their theology.    So here I am, teaching on the Internet about how all areas of our lives are connected through our God.   He created everything and His input is relevant to everything.    In all things: stick with God's truth.    He will never let you down.

 Suzanne, yes our government is a democracy, not the Republic our country's founders established in 1776.    A Republic is strictly rule by law, whether the majority likes it or not.    The law establishes right from wrong, not the opinion of the current majority of people.    A democracy is mob rule which politicians use to play one side off against the other side for their perceived advantage.    All of our country's laws are supposed to be firmly rooted in the Constitution.    That is no longer true.    We no longer have a United States of America.    It is now the Federal States of America.    All of us are taxed a huge percentage of our income which is predominately paid to the federal government through the IRS.    The states then get back a portion of that money to support their budgets.    If any State or agency within a State doesn't follow federal mandated rules, the feds have the option of withholding funds.    That is why all government schools are identical in what they teach.    One State can't come up with a better way to teach History, for example, because that would have to violate federal rules and mandates to even try something new.    Parents are watched closely for any infringement of their "children's" rights.    People are turned in by neighbors, school teachers, shop keepers, etc. every day and charged with child abuse.    Parents are becoming helpless to control their children, and the kids know it and take advantage of it.    The liberals want socialism.    They want the to control their neighbors by having the ability to get the authorities force them to conform to their ideas of "rightness & fairness".     That means no ethics, no standards, no morals, we are all equal, we are all the same, and you are the enemy if you disagree with that.    All past democracies have failed.    That is an historical fact.    We are in the process of failing right now.    We are at the tail end of a beautiful dream that lasted over two hundred and thirty years.    We were the greatest country in the world since the reign of King Solomon, about 2900 years ago.    Very soon, our national leaders will declare that "in response to these times of emergency, it will be necessary to limit  some of our freedoms in order to insure our national security".    Most people will become convinced that they can't have freedom and security at the same time.    That is all part of the transitional period from the country we remember to what will be in the near future.    The many people who know this is wrong and strongly protest will be considered subversives and enemies of the Federal States of America.    Is the federal government our friend and protector?    Does the federal government support "State'rights"?    Why should the federal government own 47% of Alaska, 27% of Washington State, 51% of Oregon, 44% of California, 43 % of Arizona, 79% of Nevada, 62% of Idaho, 64% of Utah, and 36% of Colorado?    Wouldn't you think that these states are capable of managing their own land, or would this get in the way of federal empire building?    It doesn't take a genius to understand where all of this consolidation of power is going to take us.    The federal government had to absolutely own the land it wanted to build their secret installations on for the coming Martial Law.    Don't you love it - Homeland Security.    All we're lacking is the next huge crisis in order to implement the "plan".    What's it going to be: The rogue planet Nibiru?   Nationalizing most of the major banks in four or five months?    An attack by the Muslim crazies?    Nationalizing the auto industry?    A major earthquake or other disaster?    All of these things could precipitate a rush on banks and grocery stores if things look bad enough.    But, no matter how bad it gets, our federal government will be fully prepared to deal with the situation because they are the ones who (use your imagination?).    Also, all of these things could happen within a year or two of each other.    It is so easy to look out of my window and see nothing different from yesterday, and want to believe that life goes on as usual.    Reality is that nothing stays unchanged indefinitely.    Whether we like it or not, change is coming and we have no choice but to deal with it the best we can.         

James, this is always a hard one to answer.    Divorce is a nasty business.    Everyone loses.    It is true that too many people will abuse their options with the legal system even when it will destroy themselves.    I've worked for people in the past who all but admitted that: "What good is power and authority if you can't abuse it once in a while?"    For many women, they see divorce as their "payback time" where they can enforce their will on their husbands, whether they like it or not.    They're not interested in fair and equitable, they just want to stick it to you.    Forgotten are all the good times you had together, and their focus is on what their "friends" are advising them to do.    There always seems to be friends around waiting to help the misery along.    What I couldn't understand is when women decide to go ahead with the divorce, their attitude towards the husband goes from hostility to apparent hate and enmity, way out of proportion of anything the husband might have done in their lives together.    It suddenly goes from being dissatisfied with their husbands to becoming an enemy.    It gets really bad for the kids.    They are always the biggest losers and both parents don't seem to care.    Like I said: Nobody really wins. 

F.T., You are right however, your skin does shed somewhat and accidents do happen when you eat.    It's probably a good idea to hand-wash them once a week in luke-warm water and hang them in the shower to dry.    When I do jobs that take some exertion I still wear a cotton t-shirt because I don't want to tear up my expensive smart-wool--a great product. 

Betty, thank you for your recommendation.    My doubts about most things are settled by God's Word the Bible.    Do take care to read for yourself what God would have you to learn.    At ORU you have textbooks for every subject and it just makes sense that you should go to the text that guides and instructs Christians in the beliefs they should learn.    For me, it is an inexhaustible treasure of information that I go to over and over.    Beware of "religious people" who want to tell you what God wants you to do instead of guiding you to find out for yourself.    Beware of churches with repetitious ceremonies.    They are boring their church members and true worship is rare.    They go through the motions with few engagements with God in their minds and hearts.    God is not mainstream.    He makes his own rules, not man, and they can be found in His Word, nowhere else.    Keep your eyes open and accept as true only what you can understand through facts, logic, and hard evidence.    Most other things are from someones imagination.    Diet is very important and the world is full of fads and misinformation.    Why are nutritionists generally overweight?    Because they can't get good results on their own bodies with the dietary recommendations that they are trying to get you to follow.    The reason is simple.    Their understanding of diet and nutrition is seriously flawed and if they were to come to their senses, they would probably lose their jobs.    They either stay within the motion of the herd or out they go.    Thanks for your input.  

Don't blame only the kids.    They all have parents who are responsible for them until they turn 18 years old.    But you are right.    These kids will grow up to raise their own monsters that are going to be even worse.    The prisons will be stuffed with the resulting criminals and nobody will want to hire most of the rest of them.    It is an altogether miserable situation that will get a lot worse before it gets better.    The only cure is to keep watching our society collapse around us and then start over under a new set of rules, which won't be better than what we have now. 

David, officially he got the sentence he deserved solely based on the evidence presented at his trial.    Unofficially, I don't know of anybody that doesn't believe that he got away clean with murdering his wife and her friend.    In the end; justice was served. 

Richard, if you own a gun keep it in your home and don't tell anyone you have it.    I prefer anywhere but a city, although a place in the city can be made safe, especially with the cooperation of your neighbors.    A mini-neighborhood watch will work by watching each other's backs and property.    There could be some anarchy but not everywhere.    East Los Angeles has a bad reputation for that.    Unoccupied homes could be hit the worst.    I'm really not expecting much of a problem anywhere outside of the DC beltway.   Most of the other parties around the country will be private ones.    The fun will really begin when the feds nationalize the banks and freeze accounts.    The closer we get to next year, the more it looks like this is what is going to happen according to Joe Biden's fuzzy prediction. 

Rod, that was a truly convincing appeal for the downtrodden class of white men.    I am truly glad that you got your head turned around in the right direction.    That says a lot about your intelligence.    For too many people, you can rub their noses in it and they still won't "get it".    The big bash in DC will see all of the extreme left-wing groups come out in all their glory.    What a circus and zoo that will be.    Unfortunately, it will also prompt some of the extreme right-wingers to come and spoil the party.    I hope that most of them will have the sense to stay away and let it go.    The worst of it won't be shown on TV because it's controlled by the liberal media.    Concerning the downtrodden white men; I really don't like to take the side of any specific group, most especially not white men.    The white men of the British Empire, and other European countries, conquered the world and committed many sins against the peoples of many nations.    To this day, a lot of Africa is a hopeless mess.    The white men of our country imported black slaves and to this day we still have racial tensions in our cities.    So now we "white men" are starting to be on the receiving end of things instead of dishing it out as usual, and we don't like it.    What goes around comes around and we're just going to have to take our licks just like everyone else.    Your "brownies" expression is not good.    Everyone who was born here in the US has just as much right to live here, regardless of race or color, as us white guys.    The idea that we are some sort of elite group is something that I reject categorically.    God loves us all equally and we should treat each other equally.    I'm not dumping on you Rod, but we all need a little room to maneuver in.    I agree with your intentions, but not the way you said it.    Bye the way, white men are still the majority in Congress as things get worse and worse.    All of the bail-outs are a farce.    We are propping up the institutions and their leadership that got us into this financial mess, but expecting a different outcome from them now.    How insane.    Why give trillions of dollars to those whose track records prove that they are not competent to do any better in the future?    They continue to bleed billions of dollars from failing derivatives and other failed financial instruments.    That was plan A and it didn't work.    Plan B will be to nationalize these institutions (and maybe the big 3 automobile manufacturers).    They will do this so they can introduce the Amero to replace the dollar and prevent a massive run on the banks.    Judging by the history of similar circumstances, they will freeze everyone's accounts and put strict limits on withdrawals, daily and monthly, "until the crisis is over".    Our ethnic preference will not be considered in any of this.    We're all in this boat together, as it's sinking. 

RVC, We humans dwell in animal bodies and must obey the nutritional demands of our bodies.    We are fauna-frugivores, not omnivores, herbivores, or folivores (leaf-eaters/salads) as proven by our dental equipment and basic metabolism.    For superior health, we can not live on fruit and/or vegetables alone, we need animal protein and fat.    Cheese contains more animal protein than any meat, and butter is all fat.   Eating dairy products does not violate fundamental vegan principles and makes a fruitarian diet possible.    Anybody can eat anything they want to, and the body will process it, but for optimal/superior physical function, you must follow the mandates of your body.    All of the overweight people we are surrounded with are trying to be herbivores and do, indeed, look like animals fattened up for the slaughter.    I generally eat the same things that Karen eats and we occasionally enjoy a salad and some vegetables simply because when we go out to eat, that is the most acceptable food they have on the menu.    Most of it I won't touch because I don't know what kind of poison they use to cook things in, like the poisons of soy or canola oils (slow poison but still poison).    Thanks for your feedback.    It's good to know that we're on the right track.       

Lisa, I do wear smartwool most of the time simply because it is as comfortable as 100% cotton, but warmer.    I am careful to not wear it when I am working at some jobs because I routinely tear up clothes when building things.    Clothes are but one aspect of healthy living because it is next to your body, but what about other things?    Think about this:  "TOLUENE; this petrochemical solvent is an eye and skin irritant, carcinogen, and neurotoxin, and has been found to cause reproductive harm.    Found in spot removers, car cleaners, paints, and chemical-based mattress components - especially memory foam."    People who do not have MCS problems are nevertheless storing toxins in their bodies that may eventually lead to disabilities and disease.    You spend a third of your life in bed, more or less, and what you lay on and surround yourself with is just as important as the clothes you wear.    Do give this some consideration.   

Ricky, watch some of the old black & white movies on Turner Classics and you will see the same thing:  normal-looking people, that is normal for fifty years ago.    Karen believes in synchronicity of events and things.    Things that apparently have nothing to do with each other combine to cause an unexpected result.    What does greed and popular social dogma have to do with each other and what could be the result of combining the two?    Right and wrong can be defined by consequences.    Generally speaking, doing the right things in life will result in good consequences, and doing the wrong things will result in bad consequences.    It's the old story of "cause and effect".   In order to arrive where we're at as a nation of fatties, you must understand the mindset of the people who brought us here and how they got that way.    The two key events are:  the early erroneous conclusion that fat and protein are the cause of high cholesterol and therefore the increase of heart disease;  the Hippy Movement of the 1960's which was anti-establishment.    To make a very long story very short;  the hippies developed into college graduates and later teachers, professors, and college and university deans.    That is how and where the anti-establishment liberals got their power to change the course of our country.    While they were getting there, they had to have issues to rally around that was preferably different, and therefore better in their minds, from what was accepted in the past.    Diet proved to be an acceptable issue to them.    What people ate and drank for the last several thousand years was obviously inferior to them and must be corrected with a "modern" diet.    Thus was born the low fat/high carbohydrate social dogma that all card carrying liberals have embraced.    The introduction of soybeans during this period of time was made to order.    The name "SOY" had a non-American ring to it which made it even better to them.   It smacked of eastern religions where Asians are all skinny and therefore superior in diet.    That's where the lie that Asians eat a lot of soy products was born.    There are many other components to this story like switching to carcinogenic margarine and polyunsaturated oils which is all part of our nation becoming a bunch of slobs, along with Australia.    Our national fatness is the clear-cut consequence of failed social and diet dogma.    The synergistic combination of bad science and the success of liberal dogma over the last few generations have conspired to bring us where we find ourselves now:   Fat and weird.     The point of no return is long past and next year will see more consequences from liberal failures and new age, multicultural unadulterated crap.   

Mrs. Appleby, if you want to convince your daughter that being a slut by phone is not a good idea;  tell her that pictures of nude adolescent girls are worth money to the pornography crowd and that these pictures are bought and sold every day.    If she chooses to go that route, she might see herself as one of the features in a pornography documentary fifty years from now or maybe next week on You Tube.    Unfortunately most boys will go for the cash instead of protecting the privacy of someone's daughter.    Who would want to marry a girl that is known to do these things? 

Mary Anne, Most homosexuals don't talk with a lisp.    That is an outdated stereotype.    In some cultures a "lisp" is a normal part of their language; specifically classical Spanish.    The city of Barcelona is pronounced "Barthelona" in proper Spanish, not the tex-mex and cal-mex you hear in the southwest USA.    The lisp is taught and learned and nobody is born to talk that way.    Like most other things; the liberals got this one wrong also.    As for acting feminine;  With a male/female relationship, the male is usually dominant.    That is not a hard fast rule but that is how God's Word says things are supposed to be.    For those who can happily make it work the other way - more power to them.    With a male/male or female/female relationship, one of them will dominate.    That is normal human behavior.    The one who acts more effeminate, is telling the world that they have accepted the passive role and acknowledge that their "partner" is the dominate one.    Again, this is not a rule but is consistent with normal human behavior with people who choose to be in an abnormal relationship with each other.    It's all about social tinker toys.   

Jimmy, I'm well aware of how the MTV pukes do their dirty business.    Probably most kids watch MTV and are influenced by what they see there.    The ones who don't are influenced by the ones who do, so eventually all kids are being influenced by people whose sole motive for their activities is "profit".    That is what MTV is all about:  "Profit" at any cost to the children who watch their "programs".    These are people without a conscience, ethics or morals.    They don't care what they are doing to the children of America, and the fact that they are actively undermining what good parents are trying to instill in their kids.   The clothing, tattoos, the language, the liberal philosophy of tolerance in everything, is all part and parcel of the degenerative times we live in.    There will be consequences. 

Dear Junk-hater, your reference to "dirty tattoos, etc." tells me that you don't feel much respect for your husband.    It seems that there are a lot more things about your husband that you don't like, than you like.    I agree with your list of faults; tattoos are a cry for attention and the worst they are says that the person with the tattoos believe that negative attention is better than no attention at all;  A yard as a junk-pile is something I wouldn't like either;  Of course any woman wants to be proud of how her husband looks.    Concerning him getting mad;  When anybody is in the wrong on any issue, and you call their attention to it, they get mad in order to change the focus on what they are doing wrong and the new subject is "THEY'RE MAD" and you got them that way.    That way they shift the blame away from them and onto you.    Nobody is comfortable with someone calling attention to their faults.    However, that is unavoidable if you if you want to correct your problems.    Anger as a response to dealing with problems, is proof of immaturity.    Another issue is:  How have you changed in the last ten years of marriage?    I'm not trying to shift any blame from your husband to you, but if you have any chance of changing his attitude about anything, you must get your own act together.    If you're a bit overweight, get on Karen's diet and slim down.    I did it without hunger and extra exercising and you can too.    Have you let yourself go a bit?    How do you dress and look to the rest of the world?    You can't erase his tattoos but you can make him look worse by making yourself look better.    Also, you do have the option of refusing to go to some places with him when he's looking extra crappy.    One of these days you are going to have to face him down about this "anger" routine.    Pick a subject that is a problem that he can correct if he just will.    Try to remain calm while talking to him and do not allow it to turn into a shouting match.    Let him be the only one who raises his voice and gets bent out of shape.    When he starts with his act, keep repeating that "THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOUR ANGER - THIS IS ABOUT {whatever}."    Stress that his anger won't solve anything or fix any problems.    Ask him "why he can't discuss the issue like an adult instead of hiding behind his anger.    This will certainly make him mad, but so what?    Giving in to his anger is encouraging his anger response.    You are telling him that it is the right thing to do because you are obviously letting him get away with it.    If it works for him, why should he change what works.    Change what you can about yourself and hopefully your husband is smart enough to "get it" and rejoin the human race. 

Karin, you are absolutely right.    Your daughter felt the movement of the baby in her for six to eight weeks before she had the child murdered.    To actually feel the movement of a precious innocent life within you, and then callously "terminate" that God-given life is an unimaginable crime and evil in the extreme. The lower limit of viability is approximately five months gestational age, and usually later . (Wikipedia) 1Timothy 4:1&2    "Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will renounce the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron."  Most people don't believe in the biblical concept of  "spirits and demons", but what do you call people whose conscience lets them murder a baby?    What kind of spirit dwells within their minds and hearts to allow them to perform such an atrocity on an innocent life (as a routine procedure)?    If you had a real live biblical demon standing before you today, what horrible thing could it possibly do that is worse than killing a baby?    Our ex-President Clinton vetoed the "partial-birth abortion ban" twice when he was in office.    That's where the baby is delivered "partially" out of the mother's body,  is killed with a pair of scissors and a suction tube, then the rest of the baby's body is removed from the uterus and disposed of like so much garbage.    This is the new age, liberal, multicultural, and homosexual groups that stick together to actively support and condone this horror in our midst.    These are the people who are now in power in Washington, with another Clinton to be working in the White House as Secretary of State.    Everyone is going to get their fill of liberals and their morally corrupt policies next year when they manage to tear down what it took this country 232 years to build.    By the time Pres. Obama leaves office, our country will be part of the One World Government, and we will no longer be a nation that stands above all others in wealth and freedom.    The middle class will consist of government employees.    The rich and powerful will be greatly reduced, and the number of folks at the bottom of the social pile will increase tremendously.    Everyone is not going to have very much money.I know that I'm getting off the subject a bit but, I have stated that in five more months or less Joe Biden's dire prediction of bad news happening about five months from now will probably be the admission of the existence of "Nibiru" that is "scheduled" to pass near the Earth in 2012.    Since then I have been hearing rumors that the time-table for introducing the "Amero" as our North American currency might occur then, and there is some speculation that the government might skip that step and move straight to a "World Currency".    This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the liberals to force their will upon us all.    That is part and parcel of the liberal insanity:   They think that the majority rules things like morals, ethics, standards, knowing right from wrong, and whether or not it is OK to murder babies.    Our God and Father will avenge those babies; every one of them.    The only trouble is that we all share responsibility for voting in the demons who have allowed our government to promote such evil policies.    We are all starting to suffer for this and it will get a lot worse next year.    The only bright thing I see is that the price of gas will go down to about $1.50 a gallon, but most folks will be too broke to take advantage of it.    It's all part of the plan.    As counties start to file for bankruptcy, some of the states will be hard put to make ends meet, which will provide the federal government with more opportunities to consolidate their power.    They own the major financial institutions that they "bailed out".    They will own the big three automakers.    They have an absolute 99% lock on all school systems.    The power of the fifty separate states has been broken.    When you take federal money for any purpose, you are handing over control.    Constitutional protections are a mild influence on our laws and the enforcement of our laws..    The courts do what they want regardless of  many laws and the Constitution.    Too many people think that just because they are getting away with evil policies like abortion that there will be no consequences to them.    This year was not too hot financially for our country and the world, but next year will be many times worse.    There are always consequences. 

Yes Larry, everyone has a different path that leads to Jesus, our Lord and Savior.    All other paths that try to reach God the Father without going through His Son are false and lead to death.    Religions that stress morality more than repentance of sin and acceptance of forgiveness through Jesus, are usually false.    Salvation is all about what Jesus did for us on the Cross, and not about what "good people" we are.    If you don't have Jesus, you don't have anything.  

Kathleen, alcohol suppresses inhibitions for everyone, no exceptions.    Your husband is an alcoholic, pure and simple.    There are degrees of alcoholism and your husband is at one of the extremes and so is Karen.    Years ago it was against the law to sell even cough medicine to an Indian in California because it contained alcohol.    Indians as a race are all at this extreme end of alcoholism--if they drink.    Karen, and perhaps your husband, have this "Indian-like gene" in them and cannot tolerate even one atom of alcohol.    "In vino, veritas" is not true for these people, while it might be true for others.    Once, when she took Communion at church she drank a thimble full of wine and definitely wasn't quite "right" for the next ninety days.    It took that long for the craving for more alcohol to go away completely.    I helped her to get through that, and it was rough.     I had to give her an ultimatum:   She had to choose between our marriage or alcohol.    I would not tolerate a life for us with her falling and failing and me trying to always pick up the pieces.    That is no way to live.    We only have one precious life to live, and we shouldn't waste it.    Karen made the right choice and I hope your husband will also.    The biggest lie is "A beer once in a while won't hurt you".    For people with this "Indian gene" One beer is too many and a thousand is never enough. 

Johnny, too many people are "pro-gay" simply because they don't know anything about it and the herd supports them socially.   The ones who support them do not have a strong sense of morality, ethics, or even simple standards of right and wrong.    That you "were shocked" tells me that you know right from wrong, and once you were informed of what it is actually all about, you rejected it utterly.    Soy is one of the things that is accelerating the entry into the homosexual life by teen-agers.    The new age, "multicultural" (omni-sexuality or pan-sexuality) that is promoted by the government school system is another factor that promotes "it".    Children from single parent's (welfare queens) homes, created by the liberal Utopian welfare state, easily fall victim to all erroneous social fads that lead to homosexuality, obesity, and a total lack of morals (which leads to the next generation of welfare queens and promiscuous drones).    Not to change the subject but; what is your financial situation going to be when the dollar is replaced with the "Amero" (providing they don't skip that step and go directly to a world currency).    We'll be lucky to get fifty cents for the new "dollar", Amero, or whatever they call it.    Martial Law is still a possibility after that happens.    Don't worry about the homosexuals and get your act together.    Next year is going to be a mess. 

Sal, I wasn't aware that I had apologized for anything, or even back-pedaled on much.    I rely heavily on what I read from doctors that use science that makes sense.    They are easily identified because they usually are going against "common wisdom", and the corporate lies that the AMA herd follows.    Right and wrong is defined by what works and what doesn't work.    You have misinterpreted what is taking place on this web-site.    Right now, "lacto-fruitarianism" appears to be working perfectly for Karen.    FFF (fauna fat, fruits, & fasting) is the general paradigm-matrix that Karen developed and can successfully work for anyone.    However, the proportions of dietary elements within that paradigm can vary widely from person to person.    When someone with MCS is under attack from a new source of grief, they may have to try something else temporarily in order to survive while sorting out the solution to it:  Like brown rice or anything else when you are running out of things to eat that don't make you sick.    Milk proved to be the best thing to keep Karen going (Slim, trim, and filled with love, she's my gift from our Father above).    I doubt she'll ever try brown rice again.    She says that it was worth a try, but scary. 

jeff, she tried it and didn't like it, so you are right.    She wrote the first half of the answer on Q&A #664 and explained this somewhat.    The big surprise for me was that the Raw Power is helping her a lot.    She takes it with milk and a banana.   Also pineapple chunks with cottage cheese or sour cream is a good meal for her, as well as eggs fried in butter with cheese with Chia seed in everything.    She now weighs 98 pounds and the headaches and nausea are gone for now.    Further research indicates that a reaction from coconut is fairly common for folks with MCS however, because coconut is antiviral, anti-allergenic, anti-fungal, and antimicrobial, it could very well be that the reaction is just these wonderful properties doing their job and eliminating all the bad news in her body, and not an allergic reaction.    She is going to give it a rest for a week and then start taking it again one teaspoon a day for a week, then continue increasing to at least two tablespoons per day.    If she starts reacting at any time, she still has the option of quitting it altogether and looking for plan "B".  

Daniel, "outspoken" is an interesting term.    I don't think of myself as particularly "outspoken" more than others.    I comment on the issues brought up and make an effort to research the things that I'm not completely up-to-speed on.    With the Internet, that goes quick.    There are very few issues that I am not comfortable with giving comments and opinions on.    The reason for that is that as long as I, or anyone else, sticks to the truth while considering all the facts known to me, any error is minimized.    Truth speaks for itself and must not apologize to anyone.    Opinions can be wrong, especially if you don't make an effort to gather all the relevant facts on any subject.    The trouble too many people get into is when they truly believe that their opinions represent truth in spite of the facts.    I call those people "liberals".    Thanks for your comments and poetic involvement on this list.   

Kathleen, alcohol suppresses inhibitions for everyone, no exceptions.    Your husband is an alcoholic, pure and simple.    There are degrees of alcoholism and your husband is at one of the extremes and so is Karen.    Years ago it was against the law to sell even cough medicine to an Indian in California because it contained alcohol.    Indians as a race are all at this extreme end of alcoholism--if they drink.    Karen, and perhaps your husband, have this "Indian-like gene" in them and cannot tolerate even one atom of alcohol.    "In vino, veritas" is not true for these people, while it might be true for others.    Once, when she took Communion at church she drank a thimble full of wine and definitely wasn't quite "right" for the next ninety days.    It took that long for the craving for more alcohol to go away completely.    I helped her to get through that, and it was rough.     I had to give her an ultimatum:   She had to choose between our marriage or alcohol.    I would not tolerate a life for us with her falling and failing and me trying to always pick up the pieces.    That is no way to live.    We only have one precious life to live, and we shouldn't waste it.    Karen made the right choice and I hope your husband will also.    The biggest lie is "A beer once in a while won't hurt you".    For people with this "Indian gene" One beer is too many and a thousand is never enough. 

Johnny, too many people are "pro-gay" simply because they don't know anything about it and the herd supports them socially.   The ones who support them do not have a strong sense of morality, ethics, or even simple standards of right and wrong.    That you "were shocked" tells me that you know right from wrong, and once you were informed of what it is actually all about, you rejected it utterly.    Soy is one of the things that is accelerating the entry into the homosexual life by teen-agers.    The new age, "multicultural" (omni-sexuality or pan-sexuality) that is promoted by the government school system is another factor that promotes "it".    Children from single parent's (welfare queens) homes, created by the liberal Utopian welfare state, easily fall victim to all erroneous social fads that lead to homosexuality, obesity, and a total lack of morals (which leads to the next generation of welfare queens and promiscuous drones).    Not to change the subject but; what is your financial situation going to be when the dollar is replaced with the "Amero" (providing they don't skip that step and go directly to a world currency).    We'll be lucky to get fifty cents for the new "dollar", Amero, or whatever they call it.    Martial Law is still a possibility after that happens.    Don't worry about the homosexuals and get your act together.    Next year is going to be a mess. 

Sal, I wasn't aware that I had apologized for anything, or even back-pedaled on much.    I rely heavily on what I read from doctors that use science that makes sense.    They are easily identified because they usually are going against "common wisdom", and the corporate lies that the AMA herd follows.    Right and wrong is defined by what works and what doesn't work.    You have misinterpreted what is taking place on this web-site.    Right now, "lacto-fruitarianism" appears to be working OK for Karen.    FFF (fauna fat, fruits, & fasting) is the general paradigm-matrix that Karen developed and can successfully work for anyone.    However, the proportions of dietary elements within that paradigm can vary widely from person to person.    When someone with MCS is under attack from a new source of grief, they may have to try something else temporarily in order to survive while sorting out the solution to it:  Like brown rice or anything else when you are running out of things to eat that don't make you sick.    Milk proved to be the best thing to keep Karen going (Slim, trim, and filled with love, she's my gift from our Father above).    I doubt she'll ever try brown rice again.    She says that it was worth a try, but scary. 

Yes Larry, everyone has a different path that leads to Jesus, our Lord and Savior.    All other paths that try to reach God the Father without going through His Son are false and lead to death.    Religions that stress morality more than repentance of sin and acceptance of forgiveness through Jesus, are usually false.    Salvation is all about what Jesus did for us on the Cross, and not about what "good people" we are.    If you don't have Jesus, you don't have anything and you are nothing. 

Marion, We are all struggling and learning as fast as we can.    I would like to come across as a know-it-all wise old jerk, but I am learning as fast as I can right along with the rest of us.    I have written before that some vegetables are better for us when cooked.    Also, some foods are better for us to chew because the digestion process starts in the mouth with saliva, and the mouth is sending messages to the stomach to "get ready" (I know that doesn't sound very scientific, but there is communication going on there).    When you drink shakes only, you are bypassing this portion of your normal digestion and could be delaying proper digestion which is not good.    Strictly vegan, strictly fruitarian, strictly protein/fats, strictly shakes, strictly carbohydrates, strictly anything carried to extremes, can only hurt your health/body in the long run.    "Raw Power" is becoming popular to many people and we have some on order to try it out.    No one has a monopoly on good ideas and Karen and I are willing to look into all schools of thought as long as it's not too far out of line, scientifically speaking.   I do encourage you to read "Eat Fat, Lose Fat" by Dr. Mary Enig & Sally Fallon.    They make a good comparison of the different popular diets and tell you the pro's and con's of them.    Their diets are the next thing we are going to try after "Raw Power".    Karen has the same problem you do.    She has a hard time eating and is always looking for alternatives.    The true answer for everyone with MCS is a compromise.    If shakes are to be your main type of food ingestion, you should still at least try to eat by chewing some things, cooking some things, and most definitely take vitamin supplements & by all means, coconut oil. 

Emily, It is a hard statistical fact that more people die with low cholesterol than with high cholesterol.   To quote the book "Protein Power" (Dr's Eades): "Far from being a health destroyer, cholesterol is: absolutely essential for life; if you don't have enough cholesterol, you won't make enough sex hormones; is the main component of bile acids, which aid in the digestion of foods, particularly fatty foods; is necessary for normal growth and development of the brain and nervous system; gives skin its ability to shed water; is a precursor of vitamin D in the skin. when exposed to sunlight, this precursor molecule is converted to its active form for the use in the body; is important for normal growth and repair of tissues; and it plays a major role in the transportation of triglycerides - blood fats - throughout the circulatory system.   A grave sign of serious illness, such as cancer development or crippling arthritis, is a falling cholesterol level." (end of quote)   Cholesterol is produced by the liver as a response to starch.    Starch triggers the liver to produce the right amount of cholesterol.    You want to lower your cholesterol?   Eat more protein and fats and less carbohydrates/starches.   Your body will then reach its own proper level of cholesterol that it decides is correct.   Any medication that reduces cholesterol must somehow inhibit the liver and who knows what your liver is possibly not producing as well?    Another book to read is "the Great Cholesterol Con" by Dr. Kendrick.   I don't like his writing style but he does present a good case of debunking most of the fantasies and misinformation about cholesterol.    This is not a medical recommendation or advice.   I'm just presenting a little bit of what I know about your question and what you do with it is up to you.