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A new thread almost everyday here! What or whom is instructing you? You certainly have problems with women which I suspect you may be an incel.

old3bob is correct. Trump is driving this country to ruin! Nothing funny about it!

She is easy to fall in love with!

‘Suffering was his observation of a few people and he projected that universally which I don’t agree with. ‘Prefer to suffer” is a poor choice of words being a non-sequiter.

Humans create terms laden with meaning for a feeling of security, superiority, or whatever the theological feel good flavor of the day is. As to my experience with Buddhism, I did quite a bit of exploration and in no way will attempt to characterize my experiences in a lengthy essay. All direct experience is essentially nonverbal. That includes what I learned and directly experienced from Namkhai Norbu.

I prefer the Kabbalah description Ain Sof (totality). Or as Gurdjieff framed it, all and everything.

As for myself I feel words and the usual Buddhist rant is to just say empty without any elaboration. Just because a Lama said it doesn’t make it so. Translating cultural meaning of terms to other cultures usually doesn’t work well. In fact most of the Buddhist terminology is bastardized Sanskrit. See Snellgrove’s comments in the Hevajra Tantra.

Why did you respond to my post that words are empty?

This is one reason I left the Buddhist trip! Along with the Lama Dharma Kings sitting on their golden thrones dispensing their own brand of reality. Empty has become a hip Buddhist buzz word!

This discussion has been in this forum before which went nowhere! Buddhists defining emptiness semantics as an absolute quality of phenomena. Words are only a collective agreement as a way to effectively communicate and have no absolute meaning.

There is a LD 50 for iodine

Twelve grams would be toxic to the max. 12 grams of seaweed?

You never offered real healing advice!

A quick Google search revealed this. A blood test for TSH, T3 and T4 hormones is a place to start instead of dumping iodine into a sensitive gland. https://www.google.com/search?q=too+much+iodine+in+body&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

Natural anti-inflammatories are, Cayenne, Cannabis, Curcumin, Turmeric, ginger and zinc to name a few. I carry around Dr. Christoper’s Cayenne formula which I advise caution with due to the potency. Don’t need much! Available on Amazon.

Iodine is just one part of biochemical processes and to ignore other elements is a mistake. Not sold on iodine!

I posted the above not as a cure or medical advice, but suggesting there are ways for self care.

Self care by monitoring any symptoms that may be related to pathogenic infections is important. I imagine most here are aware of this and this is for a few that are in denial that happen to be on this site. Here is my experience with a viral infection, massive throbbing headache, high fever of 104.5, deep ache/soreness in every muscle, intense nausea, I was becoming delirious-seeing visual patterns. I was 22 at that time and for an adult with that high of a fever is dangerous! I was in the the military at the time and quickly realized how incompetent the physicians were and if I didn’t take care of myself, I would not make it. My course of action was simple. I had practiced yoga for many years prior to this event with emphasis on deep yogic relaxation being part of my practice. I was able to go deep within for around an hour with short breaks to consume gallons of ice water and I don’t remember eating for at least three days. Around 3:00 a.m. on the third day an orderly woke me up since my fever had broken only to find myself in a pool of sweat in my bed. It was if someone dumped a couple of gallons of water on the mattress.

Some friends of mine have been really sold on adding special iodine to their diet. They become full of hyped up energy, increased heart rate and possible bouts of arrhythmia/tachycardia.

Agreed! Whether it is Bacterium or viral infections, at some point in time it will stop! It has to do with immune response, adaptation, which determines the natural course. Nature inhibits outstripping food supplies which would be the demise of that particular strain.

I think this is good advice. https://qz.com/1810508/covid-19-can-likely-live-up-to-96-hours-on-your-phone/

If I remember correctly he was promoting his mountain hermitage to anyone that can move there and learn from his so called guru level of mastery. I seriously doubt it would be free of charge.

There is always one hanging out here!

Jeff has been on here recently as a lurker which as far as I know hasn’t posted. You are very observant!

Why not stick to your little mountain hideaway with your paranoid world view and stay away!