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Thursday, April 10 - 5:32pmSanction this postReply
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I received this 2-hr Google video (same title as this thread) by email, but have only viewed the first 12 minutes of it. It looks pretty good so far but I'd like to hear from anyone with the time to watch the thing and the inclination to comment on its merit ...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184

Thanks in advance for your feedback,

Ed




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Friday, April 11 - 3:12amSanction this postReply
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I saw the abridged version, and it is very good.  I only had one disagreement with the guy.



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Friday, April 11 - 10:32amSanction this postReply
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Lemme' guess ... he made a statement that champions altruism??

For me, I personally had an issue with the guy for knocking natural supplements for cancer. From his point of view, there's nothing that can be done about his late-stage liver cancer. And when he thinks "nothing can be done" -- he's envisioning conventional medicine as exhausting all options. He's envisioning conventional medicine as the be-all end-all.

It's that same self-hampered perspective that allowed decades to pass -- and millions to needlessly die -- without using aspirin for preventing heart attacks; because everybody who's anybody knows that you can't use something successfully if it hasn't first been accepted as conventional by key people in key places!

Besides millions of unnecessary deaths (from an over-restricted view of reality), there's also good evidence regarding treating stage IV (i.e., conventionally untreatable) lymphoma with natural supplements. There's good evidence on natural supplements for inoperable, conventionally untreatable brain cancer, too.

While I can sympathize with him if he's been overwhelmed by crackpot "alterno-medheads" (I'm a smart "alterno-medhead" -- not a crackpot one), he did throw a relatively clean baby out with some dirty bathwater with his snide comment on the matter (somewhere around minute 10 or 11 in the expanded video).

Ed



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Friday, April 11 - 10:47amSanction this postReply
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Get a life, Ed - ye been sucking too many beets lately..;-)

There are almost always some comments made by others which, to some, will not be deemed the most brilliant  - but that does not, in context, mean valid depreciation of what was said by them.... this is a case in point... 

on the whole, this is a very uplifting, inspiring message - which he made to his children [and, along the way, those others who listened to it]....  and that is the context...

(Edited by robert malcom on 4/11, 10:55am)




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Friday, April 11 - 11:53amSanction this postReply
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I already have a life, Reverend, but I guess this is the point where I say ... gee ... er ... uh ... thanks? ... for that great advice regarding life-getting? ...

By knocking his knocking of something that might extend his life (though -- through self-imposed restriction of his own perspective -- he'll die without knowing), I'm not depreciating the uplifting and inspiring things that the guy has to say in his presentation!

You sit there (at your computer workstation) and you tell me that that is the context, just 3 short posts after I personally posted this thing saying "It looks pretty good so far ...". [???]

Take a great big guess, Reverend, about why in Galt's Gulch I would post this uplifting and inspiring media in the first place. Here are 2 possible answers for you to rattle around in that oft-unforgiving cranium of yours:

a) I posted this uplifting and inspiring video in order to tear it down, to ridicule it, to attack the good for being the good

b) I posted this uplifting and inspiring video in order to share it with others here, because I had a very strong suspicion that others would find it to be of great value

That's the true context, pal-o'-mine -- and not some rash, slippery-slope inference which amounts to some net devaluation of what good there is to be found in this man's words.

:-)

Ed




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Friday, April 11 - 1:52pmSanction this postReply
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It is interesting that about the same length of time in which he makes this to you obnoxious statement about alternative medicine is about the same length of time in which you watched the video - which, while yes, the original intent of putting up for view may be in praise of it [tho many put up here oft have such questional value as perhaps sarcasm], it then appears a 'change of heart' and inquiring of others whether it indeed is a worthy of praise video.....  as said before, the true context of this 'last lecture' is that of speaking to his children, both of which are not yet teens, so the context is such they would understand the essence of what he was speaking of without being dealing with non-essentials  [at the time of the lecture, they did not know of his true condition, only that he is sick] - and this includes what to some may be considered altruistic notions, tho such as generosity and helping others and teamwork need not be taken as such, something again oft overlooked by some....

but that aside - if such was not intended to be the case, then there was a 'failure to communicate', and as such, a failure to understand....




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Friday, April 11 - 3:24pmSanction this postReply
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Lemme' guess ... he made a statement that champions altruism??

Not really, but it was pretty sacrificial.  It had to do with his first new car and his young niece and nephew.  I don't want to ruin it for you, but let me know if you agree, or not, that it was a sacrificial act.  




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Saturday, April 12 - 12:51amSanction this postReply
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Alright, Teresa ... when I get both the time and energy, I'll watch the whole thing and get back to you on that.

Ed



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