soaring crane

That sounds a lot like the Bernie Sanders situation in the US

sorry, I didn't elaborate on my grammar nazi moment as it was just a quick note written from my phone. May reason for corresting your post wasn't so much due to the spelling but the misconception that, thanks to the homynym "planter", plantar warts have something to do with being barefoot in the fields. Nothing could be further from the truth. The reason plantar warts (called so because they occur on the plantar skin, ie the sole of the foot) are so painful is that they grow inward, and push against nerves. The reason they grow inward is simply the fact that we stand on our feet. In theory, you could get the smae thing anywhere else on the body, if there were something restricting the wart from growing outward. The common reaction to a plantar wart is to avoid going barefoot, but wrapping your feet in shoes or bandages only exacerbates the problem.

It's plantar

I don't know. I think human suffering involves some amount of empathy, and love. Maybe the answer can be found by observing nature? Do animals suffer? My dog seems to really suffer when she's left alone. So, it's probably not strictly a human trait. But is my dog suffering because she's worried about me, or about herself? I'd like it to be the former, but it's probably the latter. But my cats never suffer. They get indignant and impatient, but they're very selfish animals, no empathy to be expected from them. What kind of animal are humans? I guess we're closer to dogs, so the seed of suffering is in us, perhaps it's attached to the seed of love. blah blah blah ... I don't know

I just saw the title of the thread and turned it around in my head: suffering is the root of all fear.

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I mentioned Blood Meridian in a previous post. Just wanted to mention that the book (Kindle version on my part) is incredible. I've never read prose like this. I believe I'm going to start reading again from the beginning as soon as I get to the end. The wiki link I posted explains plenty about the book itself but I especially wanted to mention something unusual here. There are no quote marks around the dialog (and the puntuation is reduced to bare minimum). When I first started the book, I just felt it was an artistic decision on the part of the author, but feel now that having the dialog embedded in the non-dialog does something quite profound. It removes the separation between the characters and their surroundings. They become part of the landscape. It's not always clear at first who is speaking, or indeed if the lines are being spoken by a character or are part of the descriptive text. Non-dualism comes to mind here. Every passage in the book is either a description of events and surroundings, or sperse dialog. There are no emotions, no thoughts expressed. We see where the characters are, where they're headed, what they're doing and saying, but never what they're thinking. This also has a profound effect on the experience of reading this book. All the coloring of the characters comes from me. It's sometimes quite chilling. It's a brutal, realistic accounting of a brutal time in the American West and Mexico. It's most definitely not for anyone with an aversion to graphic descriptions of violence, but it's got so many complex layers, that I do think it could appeal to a lot of our members here. I've read many reviews of Blood Meridian in the meantime and one common theme is that this a book that stays with you, often for life. I can now see where that impression comes from ...

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Their infant mortality and life expectancy are due to the rotten conditions they live with

it depends on what season the researchers visit them, as I mentioned. Btw, what the Massai do demonstrate is the value of an active lifestyle. What you do with your body is far more important than what you put in it. Look at the ultra-distance running Taramuhara made famous by the Born to Run book. They subsist on maize for the most part.

I've edited my previous post. I must have been thinking about a different nutritional myth, based on another flawed and exploited study of a different culture. If I remember which one, I'll mention it here :-)

Those Inuit were anything but healthy. They simply didn't live long enough to develop heart disease or cancer. The whole healthy fish oil myth began with a hugely flawed and misinterpreted study of them. The study that started the fish oil myth examined only unreliable death certificates and other hospital documentation: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neal-barnard-md/eskimo-myth_b_5268420.html The Massai get over 50% of their nutrition from plant sources in the dry season, and subsist mainly on milk/blood mixtures in the rainy season when their animals are nursing. They generally eat meat only for ritual purposes. And they drink extremely sweet tea, more like, would you care for some tea with your sugar?

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Blood Meridian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian

I agree, and have experience with, going cold turkey on the sugar (don't even use high falutin words like carbohydrate when discussing food, it's all sugar). However, the body does need sugar and we'd die a quick death if we really bottomed out, which we can't. There's a little bit in the core of the cells in the proteins we eat. And once you're over your addiction (physically, maybe 24 hours like TM says, but mentally, I dunno, I think it's not going to be so simple) you can eat fruit and veg etc. Btw, that soda is also killing your skeletal system, you know that, right? And the point about not using ersatz sugars is an important one. It's the sensation sweet on the tongue that has to be overcome.

I like it! It reminded me of Larry Carlson, whose work I enjoy very much http://larrycarlson.com/

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Glad this was bumped, Cheya, thank you :-)

I can vouch for German being in that category. Hochdeutsch (High German) is actually a Hanoverian dialect. It's election to the official language was based on geography, as far as I know, Hanover being roughly in the middle of the country. But people speak their dialects, most of which have little in common with the version you learned in college, lol. They often don't even understand each other and get nervous travelling to other parts of the country.