Global Warming? A Misunderstanding with a dash of Lies

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[FormerLurker]

Glad you reminded me; your mom wants you to call home.

So YOU'RE the guy I saw fishing there. How's the family these days?

[dila813]

Read about Homoeopathy buddy, these guys believe these poisons are actually the cures for what ails you.

Introduction:

Homoeopathy today is a rapidly growing system and is being practiced almost all over the world. In India it has become a household name due the safety of its pills and gentleness of its cure. A rough study indicates that about 10% of the Indian population solely depend on Homoeopathy for their Health care needs.

It is more than a century and a half now that Homoeopathy is being practiced in India. It has blended so well into the roots and traditions of the country that it has been recognised as one of the National Systems of Medicine and plays a an important role in providing health care to a large number of people. Its strength lies in its evident effectiveness as it takes a holistic approach towards the sick individual through promotion of inner balance at mental, emotional, spiritual and physical levels.

The word ‘Homoeopathy’ is derived from two Greek words, Homois meaning similar and pathos meaning suffering. Homoeopathy simply means treating diseases with remedies, prescribed in minute doses, which are capable of producing symptoms similar to the disease when taken by healthy people. It is based on the natural law of healing- "Similia Similibus Curantur" which means "likes are cured by likes". Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) gave it a scientific basis in the early 19th century. It has been serving suffering humanity for over two centuries and has withstood the upheavals of time and has emerged as a time-tested therapy. The scientific principles propounded by Hahnemann are natural and well proven and continue to be followed with success.

ORIGIN

The principle of Homoeopathy has been known since the time of Hippocrates from Greece, the founder of medicine, around 450 BC More than a thousand years later the Swiss alchemist Paracelsus employed the same system of healing based upon the principle that "like cures like". But it was not until the late 18th century that Homoeopathy as it is practiced today was evolved by the great German physician, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. He was appalled by the medical practices of that time and set about to develop a method of healing which would be safe, gentle, and effective. He believed that human beings have a capacity for healing themselves and that the symptoms of disease reflect the individuals struggle to overcome his illness.

Over two hundred years ago, the German physician Dr. Samuel Hahnemann discovered the principle that what substance could cause in the way of symptoms, it could also cure.

Hahnemann was struck by the effect that certain drugs, when taken by him while quite healthy, produced symptoms that the drug was known to cure in sick. For instance, when he took Cinchona Bark, which contains quinine, he became ill with symptoms that exactly mimicked intermittent fever (now called malaria). He wondered if the reason Cinchona worked against intermittent fever was because it caused symptoms indistinguishable from intermittent fever in a healthy human.

Hahnemann continued to experiment, noting that every substance he took, whether a herb, a mineral, an animal product or a chemical compound, produced definite distinct symptoms in him. He further noted that no two substances produced exactly the same set of symptoms. Each provoked its own unique pattern of symptoms. Furthermore the symptoms were not just confined to the physical plane. Every substance tested also affected the mind and the emotions apart from the body.

Eventually, Hahnemann began to treat the sick on the principle ‘let likes be treated by likes’. From the outset he achieved outstanding clinical success.

[Old Professer]

Mine's fine, but your mom asked about you when I gave her the fish.

[FormerLurker]

Snake oil has been around for a long time too....

[FormerLurker]

Mine's fine, but your mom asked about you when I gave her the fish.

You must have me confused with someone else, as none of us like fish...

[FormerLurker]

PS: The location where I observed this phenomenon was roughly 400 miles from where my family lives. I was only there visiting, and no, I didn't go fishing. It was pretty sad though, these people were so warped on mercury that they either didn't remember that it was bad for them or they simply didn't car. How pathetic..

[dila813]

"I once knew of a family that lived next to a lake. That lake was contaminated with mercury, and there were signs posted that warned not to eat the fish. This family had eaten the fish anyways for many years. The children were deformed and retarded. "

This proves it wasn't mercury that caused the problem it was incest. Look, they couldn't even read!~!!!!

[FormerLurker]

That should be;

simply didn't car care

[dila813]

Let me guess, they were enviromentalists?

[FormerLurker]

This proves it wasn't mercury that caused the problem it was incest. Look, they couldn't even read!~!!!!

You know, there WERE rumors of that too. I'm sure the mercury didn't help any though...

[FormerLurker]

Let me guess, they were enviromentalists?

Who, the mercury eaters? I have no idea, I doubt it though. It doesn't seem like they could get past the word "the", never mind a big word like "environment".

[FormerLurker]

This proves it wasn't mercury that caused the problem it was incest. Look, they couldn't even read!~!!!!

BTW, "Old Professer" has some fish for sale if you're interested.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Two things always come to mind with this "golbal warming" cr_p.

1) In the 1970's the panic was that we were headed into an ice age. (Golbal Warming... NOT!!!)

2) If not for global warming Ohio would still be under a glaicer. Then again, what has Ohio done for us lately???

[Hunble]

This was fun tonight! Hope we can debate with each other once again soon.

[SAJ]

Next time, try answering the question ASKED.

[manfromlamancha]

We understand the lies; that is why we gave the Republicans the power to set the record straight.

[SWake]

And my teachers in the 70s taught us that we were on the way to an ice age and the climate would get colder. Maybe they were right, then wrong, then right again, then wrong again ...

Or maybe they just don't know what's going to happen in the future.

[FormerLurker]

This was fun tonight! Hope we can debate with each other once again soon.

Likewise. I hope that I was able to shine some light on a few things, and that you might now see some facets of this issue differently than you previously did.

Regards, FL

[FormerLurker]

Next time, try answering the question ASKED.

I pretty mcuh did. You have to follow the link to the Superfund success stories page. They HAVE cleaned up some heavily contaminated sites.

I COULD have probably gone into how the air and water may have been worse than it is today had it not been for the EPA regulations, and I could have found reports detailing how MANY waterways are now MUCH cleaner that they were decades ago.

Perhaps I'll do that some other day....

[Robert A Cook PE]

TRUE:

THE VAUNTED "CLEANUP FUNDS" HAVE BEEN SPENT: 95% ON LAWYERS.

But only 5% on engineering, waste removal, and de-tox applications.

by the way, they are spending MOST of that money on re-cleaning dirt (some of which IS contaminated - there ARE enviro problems that must be resolved! - which go so far past reality that you you could have a kid (literally) EAT the dirt of the site for years and not have any toxic effect.

The result GENREATES FAR MORE VOLUME OF WATE than was orignally planned that even MORE money is spent dumping (and cleaning) the "new" waste.

Which is ALSO a waste of money.

They should clean up the sites to a "rational" level that doesn't present run-off and local harm, and should restrict the "any part" lawsuit responsibility so the waste can be processed.

The rest is overkill, enriching the EPA, and its lawyers, and the enviro's - and their lawyers. Neither group wants to see the lawsuites end.