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• June 3, 2007 - The Weighty Issues
Been trying to drop the wieght over the past few years, and I have to tell you, its pretty difficult. If you are one of those people who have never needed to contend with weight loss, good for you, but if you are also one of that group, who also feels its easy to lose weight "if you really wanted to," then really, you need to shut up. Because I can tell you it is NOT easy at all, and it has nothing to do with will power. It does, however, have a lot to do with changing one's thinking.
Which is even harder than losing weight, in some instances, because the world conspires to keep each one of us locked into our various mind sets. Oh, I'm not doing the conspiracy paranoid ramble here, folks. I'm just more willing than most to acknowledge how all the various random forces (advertising, the food industry, parent's admonitions to clean one's plate, the "do I look fat in this Michelin Tire suit" people, and sundry other daily twaddle designed to keep one from straying too far from the acustomed groove,) that go into shaping and maintaining our various lives. So changing one's mind is hardly the same as, say, changing the baby's diapers. Though the stink can often be comparable.
Anyhoo. I was thinking about losing weight recently as an adjunct to the fight against global warming. Especially the act of buying packaged foods. The connection goes like this:
1. Foods you can buy without packaging (fruits, veges, bulk grains and legumes, fish, etc.) reduce the demand for plastics used in packaging.
2. This reduction means, eventuually, a slowdown and subsequent reduction in the demand for petrochemical substrates used to manufacture plastics, which
3. results in a reduction in landfill of materials that take millions of years to break down (if ever.)
4. Which puts more emphasis on organic products, over time, leading to healthier eating which
5. Leads to reduced intake of junk and processed foods, especially bad fats and high-fructose corn syrups (found in nearly every soda and sweet product on the market today.)
So if I can buy less packaged foods over time, I can also increase the likelihood I will shed weight as a natural by-product of a change in one essential habit.
Hey. It's worth a try.
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Who would bind an infinite god,
Build fences of dogma to repel the apostate?
What is written is finite, cannot begin
The task before it without hubris.
Look, darkness glows
No less than light, dark matter
Holds up half the human imagination,
Shines upon hope as well as fear.
In an all-white world, no contrast.
How can anything be discerned?
Look upon this existence and wonder at its purpose –
Can this really be the whole of it?
Is reality truly so narrow? Do dreams
Not matter in the breadth of infinity?
No singular truths, despite the ravings
Of iconoclasts and the righteous.
No solutions that address only one need
Can ever succeed, will always fail.
If god is infinite, what is beneath god’s notice?
If god’s creation issues from perfection,
What of hatred, jealousy, greed, desire?
Perhaps we ask the wrong questions.
In the grand and infinite cosmos that
Holds us so lightly in its embrace,
We are no more than a smudge, a gnat,
An accidental hiccup, leftover
From the original explosion of desire
That issued from god’s heart.
All this struggle for god’s attention,
From behind walls we have built.
God’s laughter, as well, is infinite.
Notty Bumbo
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