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Originally posted by Wallachian
I'm a positive person, or at least i try to be one, and normally i would agree with you in saying we must not live our lives in fear, and things will work out for the best.
But i'm sorry to say, you seem to be living in a parallel universe. One in which you can squat wherever you like to, food jumps in your lap from rich pastures and lush woods, fuel to warm up your house comes for free, and so on.
Originally posted by Wallachian
I on the other hand live in a world in which shelters (we call them houses) are extremely expensive, squatting on private or public property is usually illegal, we have no place to grow our own food and nowhere to collect wild food from, and some of us have harsh winters in which we need A LOT of fuel to keep us from freezing to death.
Originally posted by Colopatiron
Originally posted by gazerstar
Something interesting to share with you gazerstar is the nutritious benefits of the carrot. It's an amazing root vegetable. Did you know that the original carrots were not orange, they were black or dark purple? There are many colors of carrots but going back to ancient times in parts of Iraq they grew black. According to what I've read, they were brought over to the House of Orange, and breeded in a way to be orange. If you ever get a chance, stop into a whole food store and try to find some purple carrots or purple carrot juice. It is actually not only slightly higher in betacarotene and vitamin C to orange carrots, it also tastes in my opinion far better. It has a sweeter grape taste. Some say the carrot is a super food, I think the purple carrot is a superfood. One of the highest sources of betacarotene and it tastes great. It tastes so good that it's hard to believe it's carrot juice and good for you!
Here is a comparison...please notice these amounts are for HALF a cup (4oz). Imagine drinking a cup a day and it's health benefits.
Purple Carrot Juice
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Orange Carrot Juice
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[edit on 29-10-2009 by Colopatiron]
Originally posted by Chai_An
Originally posted by gazerstar
I'd like to add that my FIL swears by lime. He puts lime down every year before he plants his garden. He says that it balances the PH. I didn't do that this year, but I'm going to try it next year to see if I can tell a difference. He always has nice, big tomatoes and enough to put up and can.
Yes lime is good for the soil farmers use it in their fields. It also works wonders for the grass. Had to use it this year due to a flea problem and not only did it rid the yard of fleas it made the grass thicker and greener.
Originally posted by gazerstar
I had no idea that it's good for fleas too. Thanks for the info! I wonder if it works on Japanese Beetles? I had a horrible infestation of those this year.
Originally posted by gazerstar
Purple carrots? You just taught me something. Thanks for the info. I'll definately keep an eye out for them. Before you said that, if I had ever seen a black or purple carrot, I would have sworn that it was rotten.
Carrots: did you know that tomatoes and carrots thrive off each other? I always plant carrots among my tomatoes; it actually helps both plants thrive better (and doubles the yield from the same soil).
TheRedneck
Originally posted by oneclickaway
Wealthy people are not creative. They are usually cunning, duplicitous and use everyone around them. Truly creative people rarely make money. Most wealthy who get riches through producing goods, are creating a product that there usually is no need for and then using mind techniques to sell that product. There is nothing noble in that whatsoever. There is nothing creative in being cunning and greedy. The universe does not reward them for being so ‘creative’, they are just conning people into wanting something they do not need. They do not have the spiritual merit of understanding some universal law, they just have the cunning of the con artist in understanding how to sell something.
I have created all my life and it has got me progressively poorer.
Plus, how on earth is everything free, if you have to rely on other people having money in order to buy what you have in order to make you wealthy.
Any minute now this thread will swirl into a law of attraction nonsense.
They do not eat meat, only in extremely rare situations of cannibalism!
Goodall points out in her section, Eating Meat, "Chimpanzees tear off chunks of meat with their teeth and hands, sometimes using their feet too when strength is required for dividing up the carcass.
One clue to the significance of meat in a chimpanzee society comes from the observation that males do most of the hunting. During the past decade, adult and adolescent males made over 90 percent of the kills at Gombe.
Although females occasionally hunt, they more often receive a share of meat from the male who captured the prey. This state of affairs sets up an interesting dynamic between males and females. Sometimes a begging female does not receive any meat until after the male copulates with her (even while clutching the freshly killed carcass).
Originally posted by 297GT
reply to post by Detailed Perfection
If I could give you a 100 stars you would have them...!
Fantastic post!
I see that oneclickaway is still here and arguing about how the whole world is evil and life is too hard.