Yep.
Anyone over 60.

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Yes...she certainly is...the dumbest among them.

Right on. We get closer to the grave with every
passing day..

We the Living - one of Rand's best!!

Nothing wrong with stupid so long as you keep it to yourself. It's those like Maxine Waters who take pride in their stupidity that gives stupid a bad name.

It is a knock in the head...it's the only "concussion" we can come to.

I like that one Herb...we need that stress, that excitement to grow otherwise we get to comfortable and That will make us stupid.

Bonhoeffer once said Stupid is more dangerous than Evil...hence the modern phrase...you can't fix stupid...don't even try to argue...it's too dangerous.

"In Spite of" is a form of, "not doing business with them".
When one simply enjoys what they do best leaves everyone else better than they were before...another thing that happens naturally and is intrinsically human that doesn't come upon a pointed finger.

It's observable my friend...I've grown to depend upon it...Thank YOU...

My grandson told me that I'm not 83 compared to many of his customers and associates are 83 but in 45 year old bodies. He's a cute kid. Hold it, sorry, he's 25. Perception!

For many years, I have been suspicious of the entire cancer industry. It is such a lucrative business that I wonder how much the Big Pharma and certain doctors actually want a cure. I hate thinking that way, but damn.....

Hey, that's the nicest thing anyone has said to me since the BW said,"I do."

Rapid heartbeat, low blood pressure, scared the hell out of me one Saturday a few weeks ago. Finally got to see the cardiologist. No big deal (according to him) just a mild attack of tachacardia or however you spell it. So he put me on a med that controls it. This was 2 weeks later, since the attack "cured" itself later that day. I'm way too much the type to say, "I'm busy, I don't want to think about it, just give me something to make it go away."

I just thought of a good one. Humans are born to live their days on the Event Horizon of their lives.

Which is what I meant by "inner" compulsion. What I was attempting to illustrate, perhaps clumsily, was what Einstein called thought experiments, where ideas and concepts come, not from consultation, but from within the creator of the idea. Romaine Roland in his novel "Jean Christophe" described it when he attempted to illustrate how his hero, a misunderstood but great composer, got his "inspiration." He thought of it a a well of water filled with ideas in the form of fishes that would surface and fade into depths as he pursued them, caught them and inspected them until he reformed them to suit him or rejected them altogether. What he was describing was Beethoven's method of "thought experiment." Beethoven was known to write an idea and work it over and over until it suited him, or no matter how hard he worked it, if he couldn't get it perfect, rejected it.

Those last few lines are precious and should be heeded.
I have used that protocol also, during a time of extremely high stress...it worked! I stayed in balance.
I thank the creator for old wives tales and grandma's fixes...where would we be without them.

It's never the intent to categorize "All" even though it comes off that way...one gets tired of that typing qualification statement all the time...my apologies.

BTW...thank you for nM/micromolar lesson...it made it easier to understand how to convey..."a Tinnie bit".

The reality of life is that we pass through it each moment we are alive. Every large and small thing we do impacts how we survive, how we enjoy what we do and how we impact others. Life is unpredictable even to the extent that we might be improving our ability to live and enjoy it the moment an asteroid impacts the earth and it is over for everyone. Choose to live in fear or the ambition to achieve for the sake of becoming better at what you like to do. The end is coming either way.
What is frustrating is to have the added difficulty of a collective society that wants to exercise control and limits for the value of making others slaves or justifying stealing from them making recovery from mistakes more difficult. Failure isn't falling down, it is not getting up and trying to discover how to get the desired results or even to simply understand what is happening in the universe and discover; 'can we use that?'
I challenge classes at the elementary where I work with 'Mr. Chad' questions on many disciplines. The classes enjoy my teaching them outside of their normal curriculum and sometimes try to prove me wrong which I enjoy very much. One class asked me how old I am and they were surprised to find out I am 68. They said; "You don't seem that old at all!"
I replied; "I don't feel that old, I only feel.....67!"
What ever it is you like to do, do it in spite of the collectivists. Enjoy that you were alive and that you might have even influenced others to think more clearly about their interactions with each other.

Another alternative to use (I used it) is to put the body in an alkaline ph balance. I read that cancer thrives in an acidic ph balance. When my squamous cell carcinoma was stubbornly resisting excising and freezing I started taking a teaspoon of baking soda every night in a small glass of water (yechh). After trying for over a year to get results the sores on my head were beginning to appear in other places. After starting the baking soda (I also adjusted my diet to be less acidic) in 10 weeks the sores healed and were gone. I thought it interesting that my daughters mother-in-law who is a doctor who never saw or tested my sores declared that it could not have been cancer then!!? I had a dermatologist who sent samples to a lab, he asked if I wanted a second opinion and I said yes, he referred me to another doctor and she came back with the same conclusion but the doctor who had not seen me or asked for lab results insisted she was right and the rest of us were wrong. Don't know if it would work in every case and of course if the disease is very advanced it may be too little too late. It was for me an interesting experience that I have shared and a few others have claimed they benefited from it.
If you want better focus and service from a doctor pay them monthly to keep you well and if you become ill stop the payments until they succeed in getting you better again, I think that might focus the doctor more on what he should be doing instead of trying to come up with the drug he wants you to buy.

A tiny bit of caution there. This technical article has some caution about dosage, which usually is in nanomole concentrations in most personal or medical dosages.

http://docweed.info/medical/cancer-8....

"...Here we observed a proliferative response of glioblastoma and lung cancer cells at concentrations of 100–300 nM THC, whereas
THC at micromolar concentrations induced cell death in agreement with previous observations with neuronal cell types and immune cells.
These findings indicate that the
biological responses to cannabinoids critically depend on drug concentration and cellular context. Taken together, these results have to
be taken into account when considering therapeutic applications of cannabinoids. The risk in the medical use of THC or cannabis for the
treatment of patients with established tumors is the further acceleration of tumor growth due to the proliferative potential of cannabinoids."

I am nearly back to having a normal heartbeat which had been with 40% PVCs with a pulse rate of 32 beats per minute. It was the choice of a drug to prolong the time between ventricle contractions or to a 2 to 4 hour procedure where probes are threaded into the heart until the malfunctioning AV node cells could be stimulated and then ablated by RF radiation. I chose the drug though both required a standby resuscitation team. The heart is beating much more regular now and the extra blood profusion gives me more energy. The allopathic medicine, which regulates sodium and potassium channel activity in the electrical system of the heart, seems to not have killed me.
I do regret one encounter with young x-ray tech who was living in a world where miracles were happening daily. I opened my big mouth to say that I believed everything was natural in nature. I regret that since I apparently ruined her day the way her happy, smiley disposition disappeared. It is not the job of an objective person to cause discomfort to others, even though she may have not have the same belief for others.
I do disagree with your placing most medicine practice in the allopathic category. That is a slap in the face to modern medicine and those who dedicate their lives to finding things out about the nature of disease and how to cure it.

Maxwell, Heaviside, Faraday (on whose experiments they depended on) and Ayn Rand were not driven deterministically by compulsion -- they created their own compulsion. They all worked systematically and consistently by choice throughout their careers; their success was not due to a tiny step.

Since you are interested in and a big fan of Faraday and Maxwell you should read, if you haven't already, the Hunt book on the next generation of "Maxwellians" and how they extended the theory and accelerated the popular acceptance of Faraday and Maxwell. It is very interesting and inspiring.

There are some contributions to the betterment of mankind that exist simply because those who created them did so simply because through some inner compulsion, they had to. Sometimes a tiny but necessary step turns out to be the key upon which a great concept is opened.

One of those who made an enormous difference to our lives was James Clerk Maxwell, who in the 19th century developed the theory of electric and magnetic fields, as well his important work such that in the kinetic theory of gases. Physicist Richard Feynman wrote in his famous Lectures on Physics, "From a long view of the history of mankind -- seen from, say, ten thousand years from now -- there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics."

In his biography The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, Basil Mahon wrote, "Over the past 100 years we have learnt to use Maxwell's waves to send information over great and small distances in tiny fractions of a second. Today we can scarcely imagine a world without radio, television and radar. His brainchild has changed our lives profoundly and irrevocably."

To this list can be added cell phones, wireless internet and many other applications ranging from from power transmission to the ray screen protecting "the Valley" in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

Oliver Heaviside, in the generation following Maxwell's early death at the age of 48, extended and mathematically reformulated Maxwell's theory and equations in the form we know and use them today. In his The Maxwellians, Bruce Hunt wrote:

"In one of the most interesting of his unpublished writings, Heaviside reflected on the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. In its old religious sense, the idea had, he believed, been thoroughly discredited. But there was, he said, another 'and far nobler sense' in which the soul truly was immortal. In living our lives, each of us 'makes some impression on the world, good or bad, and then dies'; this impression goes on to affect future events for all time, so that 'a part of us lives after us, diffused through all humanity, more or less, and all Nature. This is the immortality of the soul,' Heaviside said. 'There are large and there are small souls,' he went on.

"'The immortal soul of John Ploughman of Buckinghamshire is a small affair, scarcely visible. That of a Shakespeare or a Newton is stupendous. Such men live the best parts of their lives after they shuffle off the mortal coil and fall into the grave. Maxwell was one of those men. His soul will live and grow for long to come, and, thousands of years hence, it will shine as one of the bright stars of the past, whose light takes ages to reach us, amongst the crowd of others, not the least bright.'"

The same can be said of Ayn Rand, with her achievements of a far greater scope: a philosophy for living on earth regardless of the degree of new technology.

But it was more than a legacy left to us -- her observation that "those who fight for the future live in it today" pertained to our own lives as long as we have them, not predicting her own immortal legacy. The rest is a world-wide echo of her sense of life and accomplishment that she lived fully, promising the same potential for us for as long as we seek values in life.

No chance but thanks. Your was built for speed. My best friends older brother owned a blue 69 charger that we would wash and wax to earn a ride some where. I knew that body pretty good.

I agree. The ideas expressed by Ayn Rand coupled with phraseology only she could muster have rendered her immortal. Her body may have died, her sense of life, her spirit, lives on and soars.