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re: What anti-modernity trends are you seeing in your circles?

Posted on 4/10/14 at 12:57 am to
Posted by Rebelgator
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Posted on 4/10/14 at 12:57 am to
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One blade instead of 7 


Plus switching from aerosol can shaving cream. Such a better shave.
Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
61788 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 12:59 am to
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Modern medicine, for the most part, attacks the symptoms not the cause.
I have no words for this kind of lunacy. How do you come to this idea? How do you look over the vast, insanely complicated and advanced spectre of modern medicine and say, "Yep, the number of symptom-fighting pills and procedures largely outweighs the number of oncologists, surgeons, vaccinists, and so on who are endlessly pursuing the attack of the cause."
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Attacking the root of the problems isn't of interest. 
To who? Do you think all of modern medicine is fricking Pfizer? Again, an utterly meaningless statement and in fact attacking the root is of interest to millions of people in the medical field.
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There are definitely natural remedies for things that science has helped create.
How does science create natural remedies? Does natural mean something else now?
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We even mimics nature by synthesizing what natural has already done. 
This is a correct statement. I've no inkling as to its relevance, but it is a correct statement. So good job.
This post was edited on 4/10/14 at 1:02 am
Posted by 15sammy34
Auburn, AL
Member since Oct 2011
16137 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 1:00 am to
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Splicing pesticide producing genes into food crops and letting them lose in the wild? What could possibly go wrong?


Do you even science bro?
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 4/10/14 at 1:07 am to
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Modern medicine, for the most part, attacks the symptoms not the cause.


People are too lazy to actually follow the doctor's directions. So they get a script for a drug that attacks the symptoms of a sedimentary lifestyle eating pizza. Most drugs are taken so the fat guy can have another piece of pizza.
Posted by Yat27
Austin
Member since Nov 2010
8108 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 1:08 am to
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Modern medicine, for the most part, attacks the symptoms not the cause.
I have no words for this kind of lunacy. How do you come to this idea? How do you look over the vast, insanely complicated and advanced spectre of modern medicine and say, "Yep, the number of symptom-fighting pills and procedures largely outweighs the number of oncologists, surgeons, vaccinists, and so on who are endlessly pursuing the attack of the cause."
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Attacking the root of the problems isn't of interest.
To who? Do you think all of modern medicine is fricking Pfizer? Again, an utterly meaningless statement and in fact attacking the root is of interest to millions of people in the medical field.
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There are definitely natural remedies for things that science has helped create.
How does science create natural remedies? Does natural mean something else now?
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We even mimics nature by synthesizing what natural has already done.
This is a correct statement. I've no inkling as to its relevance, but it is a correct statement. So good job.





This post was edited on 4/10/14 at 1:10 am
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
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Posted on 4/10/14 at 1:10 am to
genro catches Sleeping Tiger with a beautiful left jab/right hook/left uppercut combination....

Posted by Crimson G
Atlanta
Member since Jul 2013
1353 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 1:17 am to
Any time a friend mentions their paleo diet I roll my eyes.
This post was edited on 4/10/14 at 1:17 am
Posted by wmr
North of Dickson, South of Herman's
Member since Mar 2009
32518 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 1:23 am to
I know. How will they ever get diabeetus like everybody else if they eat like cavemen? Are they even Americans?
Posted by Sleeping Tiger
Member since Sep 2013
8488 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 1:25 am to
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"Yep, the number of symptom-fighting pills and procedures largely outweighs the number of oncologists, surgeons, vaccinists, and so on who are endlessly pursuing the attack of the cause."


In a sense they are pursuing the cause, correct, but usually it's the symptoms that are being treated not the underlying cause or imbalances.

There are great things about modern medicine. What they can do with certain surgeries now is just remarkable, and that's far from it's only accomplishment.

But modern medicine is a narrow model, it arrogantly rejects things that don't fit in the model just as the church arrogantly rejects blatant truths because they don't fit their model.

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How does science create natural remedies? Does natural mean something else now?


I could have worded that better, that's not what I'm saying. It should have read - There are natural remedies for a lot of the same things that science creates. For X pill there is usually going to be something you can eat or do that has scientifically been proven to help with the issue the pill is trying to solve.

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We even mimics nature by synthesizing what natural has already done. 
This is a correct statement. I've no inkling as to its relevance, but it is a correct statement. So good job.


Trying to capture what nature has already done and put all the magic into a pill that will make billions of dollars... and you don't see an inkling of relevance to the true statement. As they say, interdasting.
Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
61788 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 1:49 am to
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In a sense they are pursuing the cause, correct, but usually it's the symptoms that are being treated not the underlying cause or imbalances.
Gibberish.

In a sense A, but not A.
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But modern medicine is a narrow model, it arrogantly rejects things that don't fit in the model just as the church arrogantly rejects blatant truths because they don't fit their model. 
This is absolute bonkers off-the-wall tinfoil hat shite. The only way this is true if there is some nefarious cabal that controls the medical field.

But then if somehow I granted you that, your statement is quite simply observably untrue. Medicine may be a business, but it is also undeniably a science. As it has progressed during this leap over the last few centuries, the paradigm has shifted many times. There are many individual experts in the medical research field who are not afraid of paradigm shift, who understand the value of scientific curiosity.
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Trying to capture what nature has already done and put all the magic into a pill that will make billions of dollars... and you don't see an inkling of relevance to the true statement
Synthesizing natural chemicals rather than cultivating them. Whichever option is more efficient and cheaper will make the chemical available to more people at a lower price.

And you think that's bad?
Posted by finestfirst79
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Member since Nov 2012
11646 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 2:14 am to
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Modern Agriculture has destroyed the top soil. Huge problem.


Name a crop. Any crop. Production in the U.S. is up this year and every year. What's the problem, huge or otherwise?

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And the bees, bro? What about them, we need those little guys. Modern agriculture has killed em.


There's absolutely no evidence of that.

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I could keep going, but I'm sleepy.


I recommend sleep.
Posted by nc14
La Jolla
Member since Jan 2012
28193 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 5:48 am to
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I am beginning to question the purpose in having a cell phone


My hero!
Posted by UMTigerRebel
Member since Feb 2013
9819 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 8:22 am to
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I haven't really seen wet nursing as much as I've seen women just making a big push towards breastfeeding in general.

The breast feeding nazis make you feel like a POS failure of a mother if you don't/can't breast feed.
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
38865 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 8:23 am to
I see it in myself. Just in the past few years I've done the following:

1. Gotten rid of all of my CD's and digital music at home and primarily listen to music on a turntable. Have one in the basement and one in the garage. Wife won't let me put one in the living room, so I still listen to my iPod on a dock when upstairs.

2. Old school shaving with brush and single edge safety razor.

3. Quit taking cholestrol meds and made dietary changes along with more exercise to control my high cholesterol.

4. Been toying with the idea of dumping my car and car payment and buying an older(early 80's) diesel Mercedes. Haven't gone so far as to wanting to convert an old Mercedes to an ethanol engine though. If I didn't have to drive for work occasionally I'd have already done it.
Posted by CheeseburgerEddie
Crimson Tide Fan Club
Member since Oct 2012
15574 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 8:24 am to
This one time there was a young mom breast feeding her child in the lobby of my office when I came to work.

I enjoyed the view but i don't understand the appeal.
Posted by parkjas2001
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Member since Feb 2010
45000 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 8:32 am to
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"Old fashioned" shaving (i.e. vintage shaving kits with badger brush and lather).


I do this and it is fantastic!
Posted by PrivatePublic
Member since Nov 2012
17848 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 8:33 am to
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The breast feeding nazis make you feel like a POS failure of a mother if you don't/can't breast feed.


That's because they think you are making your child suffer through formula. If you tell them you are wet nursing, you will be welcomed with open arms.

This is the trend I am seeing. I know a few moms who don't want to breastfeed (it's hard), a couple that can't, and all of them have friends providing the supply.
Posted by CheeseburgerEddie
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Posted on 4/10/14 at 8:34 am to
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all of them have friends providing the supply


I don't like that idea at all.
Posted by UMTigerRebel
Member since Feb 2013
9819 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 8:45 am to
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That's because they think you are making your child suffer through formula

They really do, and I never produced any milk to speak of. I never even went up a cup size (my poor husband). The nurses in the hospital made me, already emotional from hormones, feel even worse.

Wet nursing was not a trend then, but, even if it was, I think I would have felt weird about it.
Posted by Sleeping Tiger
Member since Sep 2013
8488 posts
Posted on 4/10/14 at 8:51 am to
Genro, there will be a thread about this, and there will be a thrown down, and you will tap out. Ya hear me?

I have no time right now to slap you with the truth, but it will come. Soon.
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