Re: [Biofuel] I Don't Know (was amazing himalayan salt)

[M&K DuPree]

Tom...:) Thank you!  One good smile deserves another. :)) Smile on, brother man, and fork that horseshit!!! LOL....wonderful post, but then, "I don't know." :)  Mike DuPree ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Kelly To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] I Don't Know (was amazing himalayan salt) Mike and Joe,      I don't know either.      It seems that we do what we do and then what we do becomes part of the fabric of what we are.        Gustl recently stated:   "It is the content of the  heart  which counts the most I think but we don't have any formal tests  for  that  but the heart is evidenced by our actions and words."         One of my teachers had two small posters up in the classroom:  "Be careful of your opinions. They can be traps."  and  "Listen, read, learn with an open mind. Act with goodness in your heart."        There are so many things we'll never know for sure. But if we continue to learn with open minds and act with goodness in our hearts I think we can accept where the chips fall.     1. To vaccinate or not?  Freedom to choose. If vaccines work then the vaccinated have nothing to fear from the unvaccinated. Personally, I don't know. 2. Sea salt vs. Common table salt: Since life evolved in the seas it would stand to reason that the minerals in sea water would have structural/functional importance to living things. We are familiar with iron in hemoglobin, and iodine in thyroxine. There are a number of mineral cofactors needed for enzymes to function properly. Combine this with the depletion of micronutrients from much of our farmland and we have an interesting argument for sea vs table salt. Salt from ancient seas that has risen to mountain tops may have less pollutants recently introduced to the environment. Personally, I don't know, but am now in the market for some sea salt.        I spent an hour or two yesterday turning about a ton of compost. All the while I was turning over thoughts from your posts. My neighbor pulled up in his truck and commented: "I've never seen anybody smiling like that while forking horseshit."  ....  sorry, but that's what he calls my compost.      "I don't know." In a world where everybody seems to know what's best for me, it was such a refreshing phrase.        Cheers, I hope today is good to you.                                            Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Street To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] amazing himalayan salt Hi Mike; There is a part of me ( the part I like to think is wise) that tends to trust what comes out of mother nature's laboratory much more than the industrial product. This is why I use butter not margarine. This is why I prefer herbs over medicines and organic foods over factory. This voice is always whispering that the more raw something is, the closer it is to it's natural state, the better.  This voice tells that the converse, the more refined anything is, the more goodness has been stripped away and the more unhealthy in terms of preservatives and traces of processing steps are left behind in the product.  I, like some others, confound myself at times with doublethink on this front however.  For example water purified by reverse osmosis  definitely is free of VOC's and chlorine, flourine etc but so are the minerals removed and drinking highly purified water can leach minerals from the body.  So I stuggle to understand where the correct balance is at times.  Bottled spring water can contain higher than the municipal level of heavy metals.  I have wondered about natural salt deposits in this regard although I admit I have been lazy about doing my homework and looking for an assay on alternative salt products.  I was told that iodine was added to salt because there were many more cases of thyroid problems in the population before this was done (unless this is disinformation and I am to learn that it aint so and it was just a way to unload iodine from some excess industrial process on an unsuspecting population vis the flouride scene with toothpaste and city water)  It is often hard to know who or what to believe unless it is right in your area of knowledge. All I can hope to do is fight laziness and keep looking for information.  This list is a goldmine in this regard and I can never give enough thanks for all I have learned from all the contibuting members here. BTW the sea salt I use doesn't pour well.  I regard this as encouraging.  What have 'they' done to regular table salt to make it run so easily hmmm? I wonder. Joe M&K DuPree wrote: Hi Bob and List...I don't know.  But I wish I could know all the time what is right and what is wrong, what is on one side and what is on another, whether or not there really is one side or another, but I don't know, the lines between this and that oftentimes become obscure.  Maybe we should vaccinate, maybe we shouldn't.  Maybe hell is freezing over, maybe it isn't.  I don't know.       I do know this, however, I have no one to blame but myself.  I'm not sure I can say the same for anyone else, because it's really none of my business, but this is true for me--I have no one to blame but myself.  And it is this that I seek for everyone, that they are able to one day and forever thereafter accept and say the same thing for him/her self.  Why?  I can't answer that for you.  So it's for me to know and you to find out...for yourself.  I can see you are trying, just like others are trying too.  And this is where I hope we of this List can all find peace with each other, that each of us is trying in his or her own way to take responsibility for oneself, to have no one to blame but ourself.      Maybe we should be trying to understand each other better.  And when we don't agree, rather than throw ridicule at each other, stop and ask a question.  I don't know.  Maybe the path of ridicule, conjecture, leads to personal responsibility.  Maybe.       Anyway, there's so much that goes on here that is worthy of being labeled of real WORTH.  Maybe it's the freedom to ridicule too.  Ok.       Ah well...it's a beautiful day here today...perfect temperature, sunshine and a breeze--for breakfast outside with the flys.      Mike DuPree      _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/

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