tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post4380710008514333443..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: NaturalAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-37272268929503636842012-08-12T22:00:04.465-04:002012-08-12T22:00:04.465-04:00Spacing is unnecessary. Those particular viruses ...Spacing is unnecessary. Those particular viruses aren't particularly virulent, they just act so quickly that the body can't solve the defensive problem in time, and you can get very sick. But your body solves much more complicated problems all the time - just slowly. The reason the vaccinations work, in fact, is that nearly all human bodies do solve the problem of defending against them quite easily.<br /><br />We vaccinate against speedy things, not complicated things.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-49964093340828691292012-08-12T19:50:11.531-04:002012-08-12T19:50:11.531-04:00Hey, I believe in spacing out shots for safety and...Hey, I believe in spacing out shots for safety and it will be hard to find someone more pro-vaccination than me.<br />Everything else you say is spot on. I can't believe how people forget that lice, ticks, fleas, and disease are natural.Lelia Rose Foremanhttp://www.leliaroseforeman.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-54516139106748141802012-08-12T15:53:00.139-04:002012-08-12T15:53:00.139-04:00Actually, in a pedantic sense, it's entirely t...Actually, in a pedantic sense, it's entirely true that natural foods are Godly and others are evil. To wit, any unnatural food must necessarily have come about through witchcraft (manna and Jesus' loaves-and-fish miracles are excepted, but those are from a time long past).<br /><br />I'm joking here, of course, about the tautology that *everything* is natural unless it's supernatural. Arsenic? Natural. Higgs Bosons obtained by colliding particles together at near the speed of light? Natural.<br /><br />Sunlight is the product of the solar system's biggest nuclear power plant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-88450933434521246042012-08-12T00:46:26.182-04:002012-08-12T00:46:26.182-04:00Anyway, back to the "natural" vs. "...Anyway, back to the "natural" vs. "artificial" with respect to foods.<br /><br />I think that most varieties of apples are artificial. In the sense of, apples of those kinds do not grow naturally in the wild. Human intervention was necessary to alter the pollination/seeding process of the apple trees to produce certain varieties.<br /><br />Thinking of apples...apple cider was produced for many years by allowing yeast present in the apple juice to ferment it. However, cider makers soon learned the stages of fermentation, and when to move from primary fermentation to secondary fermentation. <br /><br />Modern juices are often treated to keep fermentation from happening.<br /><br />Which is more natural, fermented juice or preserved/unfermented juice? Does the human intervention in the fermentation stages turn the natural process into something artificial?<br /><br />These are really only detail questions to your main question, though. <br /><br />How do we define "natural"? At what point does human action cause the "natural" food to become "artificial"?karrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205160745963596856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-6614621170877764792012-08-11T15:14:20.231-04:002012-08-11T15:14:20.231-04:00The last time I sat next to a fire, I mused on why...The last time I sat next to a fire, I mused on why a campfire generates that primitive-and-connected-to-nature feeling.<br /><br />Fires are natural. And dangerous, if not controlled. (Ask the folks in Chicago in 1871...or SF in 1902...)<br /><br />Controlled fire is something very human. It may be the oldest human technology. <br /><br />It is one thing that separates humanity from nature.<br /><br />However, lighting and tending a wood fire is an old, almost-obsolete skill. Thus, it feels like a connection to the older ways of living.karrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205160745963596856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-84358319651197384452012-08-11T09:17:57.006-04:002012-08-11T09:17:57.006-04:00The school taught "Colors of the Wind" i...The school taught "Colors of the Wind" in music class. Remember "But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name"? Disney made it sound so lovely, but in real animist societies that's a matter of terror, not delight.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com