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starshadow_rivaulx) wrote2011-03-09 10:05 pm
starshadow_rivaulx) wrote2011-03-09 10:05 pm
Fwd: From Twitter 03-08-2011
Event of the Day: Ramon's and Dad's cardio check-ups. Dr. Gatmaitan pleased with Ramon's recovery, pronounces him fit and reminds him to observe the usual precautions. Some medicines added, some taken away, some dosages adjusted downward. As noted below, all his meds can be obtained at The Generics Pharmacy. Here is a lovely punchline: the Carvedilol 6.25mg he needs is sold in Mercury at 9.00/tab. The exact same thing at Generics is 5.00/tab...ehem. Ramon has been on mostly generics for nearly two years, and as his blood tests continue to return normal, we assume this is a good thing. Now, to get him to observe the usual precautions....!
Dad's check-up was so normal for his age that the doctor is having him come back end-April. *grin* Ramon has to go back end-March, with matching blood extraction. Ah, well.
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Dad's check-up was so normal for his age that the doctor is having him come back end-April. *grin* Ramon has to go back end-March, with matching blood extraction. Ah, well.
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Ramon just finished his monthly checkup and all is well. - 12:55:21:
The best part is being able to get generic versions of all his meds. This
is a marvelous thing! - 12:56:55:
Trying out a health tonic of apple cider vinegar and honey in equal parts.
A shot glass in a glass of ice water as desired. Very refreshing! - 12:57:53:
Add 2 capsules of garlic oil and it's supposed to help control water bloat. - 12:59:27:
It may be part of the reason a tight shirt now fits. I'm still eating
stuff that's not exactly healthy-just less of it. - 22:05:27:
Vatican confirms report of sexual abuse and rape of nuns by priests in 23
countries - Europe, World - The Independent http://bit.ly/g9EvuQ
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I've been drinking apple cider vinegar twice a day for years since I read a Hadith that the prophet Muhammad instructed his companions to drink a bit after eating meats or any heavy meal.
Turns out that the added acidity is enough to help the body break down all foods but especially those with high fat content more efficiently and leads to overall weight reduction and prevents the growth of ulcers (though it won't do much if you already have them).
I also read that article about the priests raping nuns in 23 countries.
The priests told the nuns to take a contraceptive pill and that it would prevent against AIDS and then ordered nuns who did get pregnant to go have an abortion!!
Can someone remind me why anyone is still listening to the Catholic church's demands regarding reproductive health concerns? You know.. because they obviously have done such a great job of educating the clergy.
*rolls eyes*
I still don't get how a guy who has never been married and (supposedly) never had sex is supposed to give marital advice to people.
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The stuff really perks me up, especially when a shot glass is mixed with a full glass of cold water. Yum! Am going to try dumping it in fruit juice. According to a book on cider vinegar that I read, this gives the juice "zing". *grin*
Re the priests raping nuns: the part about the priest who made the nun get an abortion and then presided over her funeral after she died from the procedure? Major major squick factor. *shudder*
Re celibate (allegedly) priests giving marital/sex advice: I don't even understand where the whole celibacy issue comes from. It's not like Jesus said point-blank that his apostles had to be single from the get-go (hello, Peter's mother-in-law!). St. Paul's letter says that if a minister couldn't keep it in his pants, it was better to enter a proper relationship - the "better to marry than burn" chapter. Paul was of the opinion that a single man could focus more on ministry than a married one who had to think about feeding a wife and kids in addition to ministry; but he did say it was only his opinion, and if the minister couldn't stay single, better to get married.
Which makes sense. But I read it that celibacy and marriage are both viable options for a minister, not that celibacy is an obligation. Obviously over the centuries something got lost in translation and progressively more muddled as time went on.
How the Church can refer to artifical birth control as promoting abortion when the whole point is to keep the sperm from meeting the egg will ever be one of life's eternal mysteries. Life starts at conception, ok. But if there is no conception, there is no life to abort, y/y? *headdesk*
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The basis of celibacy, you won't like this, but it comes from Roman temple traditions. When the Roman Empire converted to Catholicism many of the traditions were merged into the new Christian doctrine. Priests and Priestesses of Roman temples did not marry but were permitted to have intermingling relations with one another as they were "married" to the temple. Children from these unions were raised to be priests and priestesses themselves.
The idea was that if you only had relations with others who were married to the temple that you were "spiritually a virgin" and therefore chastity is still intact.
There has been a hot debate raging for a long time now about how far that tradition was carried through Catholicism given that convents which pre-date the Renaissance have had the catacombs studied by archaeologists and the bodies of very young babies have been discovered there implying that they were aborted at birth or shortly before by the nuns living in the convent.
Of course much of this is speculation, hence the hot debate.
I always questioned the idea of celibacy since all the prophets of God (except Jesus and that is also a topic of debate) were married, many of them multiple times. So if a minister is supposed to espouse the teachings of the Prophets then shouldn't he emulate them as well?
During my studies I read letters from Cardinals and Popes and uncovered a lot of things which really bothered me. One of the published sermons from the 1300s revealed a condemnation on any man who masturbated as the "seed which spilt is a life thus terminated" basically believing that the sperm itself carried life and that any sperm ejaculated in a way which was not intending impregnation of a woman was an act of murder and counted as a great sin.
So if we look at this in the context of a Cardinal issuing the sermon then it is a proclamation of official Vatican policy.
Hence, preventing the sperm from meeting the egg is believed to stop a life that was supposed to exist.
These books are probably still in the archive section of rare texts in the book stacks of NCSU. They also revealed how the Catholic church played with politics and all other sorts of mischief that I found very unsettling.
I never lost my faith in God... but I lost my faith in Christianity.
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There is a long-standing rumor that after WWII, when reconstruction work had started in Manila, the old St. Clare nunnery well was found to be loaded with infant skeletons. Given that these were cloistered nuns, and only the priests had any regular access to them...well, people did the math and the whispering started.
These books are probably still in the archive section of rare texts in the book stacks of NCSU. They also revealed how the Catholic church played with politics and all other sorts of mischief that I found very unsettling.
I am willing to bet that they are also on the list of the Vatican's banned books, which is why they are surviving as rare texts.
Truly, the ways the Church has involved itself in politics and other aspects of human life is very unsettling, if not unnerving.
I have enough evidence in my life to confirm my faith in a loving God...but I have had enough of His so-called "ministers" and no longer want to worship in a church.