I was struck by what you wrote, and believe in prayer very much, though I sometimes forget that I do. What a blessed relief that you got a clean bill of health. The "debates" about "God," leave me unmoved and confused. Why debate that which is unknowable and can only be experienced, or not?
What you wrote made me think of a tiny stanza in a poem cycle of Czeslaw Milosz:
Do ut des
He felt thankful, so he couldn't not believe in God.
Praying for the Esmay family, and have told Dean I am full of faith that they will find their way back.
Yesterday my wife was diagnosed as having two lumps in her breasts, one in each one. I'm not worried at all but the first thing I did was write the letter below which I sent out to all of my friends, family and buddies about it, requesting prayer. Specific kinds of prayers. Cause it always pays to be prepared and to set about fixing problems sooner than later.
Cancer doesn't worry me at all, many of the modern treatments do though, and I personally wouldn't pursue them, based on my own studies and experiments regarding cancer. (If I had cancer, - and I've been trying to develop a domesticated form of cancer in myself for years now, but it has to my knowledge not worked thus far - and recommended chemotherapy I would tell them, "thanks but you can go straight to hell please. If I want that kinda thing I'll just chew cyanide.") I think modern medicine has a lot of things wrong regarding cancer, especially in relation to the immune system. I've never understood the medicinal or scientific or biological or genetic logic in decimating the immune system in order to kill cancer when if the immune system is functioning properly then it suppresses cancer. But people with compromised immune systems are far more likely to contract cancer, and so then the best way to fight cancer is to destroy the immune system to do it? It's like freaking nuking Kansas or blanketing all available fertile soil in it with chemical poisons in order to fight an army that's invading Kansas. The very idea makes me laugh with the juvenile pretensions, but then again much of modern science makes me laugh. (I have nothing against science by the way, God knows I'm involved in it at many different levels, it's just that so many of the modern paradigms are so ridiculous that most myopic grade scholars can see right through them without much eye-strain. But that's neither here nor there, just fomenting for a different day.)
By the way if anyone here wants to pray for my wife then that'll be appreciated.
I've very glad though Trudy that things worked out well for ya. But even if it had been cancer I wouldn't let that freak you out or lead you to make rash decisions. Never make an important decision when you are emotional, I tell everyone that all the time. Emotions make good motivators, but they make very poor leaders or decison makers. In any case it is good that God was with you, and he would have been in any case. My congratulations as well.
Godspeed.
Guys and Dolls,
today my wife was diagnosed as having two lumps in her breasts, one in each breast. We do not know the status of these lumps, if they are or are not cancerous (could just be cysts or something similar), or if the lumps are cancerous if they would be malignant or benign, but she got a little freaked out about it at first.
Anyway I've already devised an Action Plan of Treatments to follow assuming it is cancerous (the one form of treatment we will not be pursuing if I have anything to say about it is chemotherapy) and to tell the truth I don't even feel it is particularly dangerous, as I have no gut feeling at all that it is cancerous. If it were I think I would have an intuition that it was.
But assuming I'm wrong and it is then I'd like to solicit some prayers. I'd like to solicit very specific prayers (I'm a big proponent of target specific prayers based on my own experimentation) in this case. Pray that any lump is remissible, and that the cancer, if any, can be tamed and cured, or excised at worst case. I'm not interested in prayers for her health during treatment and so forth, I'm not interested in her undergoing standard medical treatments at all aside from possibly surgery to remove it (I'm certainly not interested in chemotherapy which destroys the immune system, poorly functioning immune responses are what let cancer grow in the first place). Rather I'd like prayers, if you give any out, for a cure and for this event to lead to changes which will actually improve her health and extend her longevity (which is what I think this whole thing is about anyway, things that should have changed a long time ago about her health habits, or lack of them I should say, and that this is an opportunity for her to change without any further excuse or motivation).
Anyways thanks for your help and I hope everything is well for you.
And I know it seems kinda peculiar, even funny to ask you to pray for her breasts, but that is exactly what I'd like you to do, to pray specifically for that (not so much as an attack against the cancer because personally I don't think cancer is bad, I actually think it is a signal about other things, that cancer cells are an attempt at cellular immortality), that is to say pray for the proper health of her breasts and entire body and for her immune system to function at peak efficiency. If her immune system functions properly and her health is good then that will control and eventually tame and dissolve the cancer without any need to attack her body.
This can be easily controlled if pursued in the right way, and so I'm asking for the assistance of your prayers targeted to the right objectives.
Anywho I've been working on my own cancer theories and experiments for a long time, as most of you probably know, and so if this does turn out to be cancer then we'll talk about it later.
For now I'm just getting the ball rolling just in case.
Always be prepared.
That's what the Batman says.
See ya.
10.30.2007 12:52pm
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I was struck by what you wrote, and believe in prayer very much, though I sometimes forget that I do. What a blessed relief that you got a clean bill of health. The "debates" about "God," leave me unmoved and confused. Why debate that which is unknowable and can only be experienced, or not?
What you wrote made me think of a tiny stanza in a poem cycle of Czeslaw Milosz:
Do ut des
He felt thankful, so he couldn't not believe in God.
Praying for the Esmay family, and have told Dean I am full of faith that they will find their way back.
Cancer doesn't worry me at all, many of the modern treatments do though, and I personally wouldn't pursue them, based on my own studies and experiments regarding cancer. (If I had cancer, - and I've been trying to develop a domesticated form of cancer in myself for years now, but it has to my knowledge not worked thus far - and recommended chemotherapy I would tell them, "thanks but you can go straight to hell please. If I want that kinda thing I'll just chew cyanide.") I think modern medicine has a lot of things wrong regarding cancer, especially in relation to the immune system. I've never understood the medicinal or scientific or biological or genetic logic in decimating the immune system in order to kill cancer when if the immune system is functioning properly then it suppresses cancer. But people with compromised immune systems are far more likely to contract cancer, and so then the best way to fight cancer is to destroy the immune system to do it? It's like freaking nuking Kansas or blanketing all available fertile soil in it with chemical poisons in order to fight an army that's invading Kansas. The very idea makes me laugh with the juvenile pretensions, but then again much of modern science makes me laugh. (I have nothing against science by the way, God knows I'm involved in it at many different levels, it's just that so many of the modern paradigms are so ridiculous that most myopic grade scholars can see right through them without much eye-strain. But that's neither here nor there, just fomenting for a different day.)
By the way if anyone here wants to pray for my wife then that'll be appreciated.
I've very glad though Trudy that things worked out well for ya. But even if it had been cancer I wouldn't let that freak you out or lead you to make rash decisions. Never make an important decision when you are emotional, I tell everyone that all the time. Emotions make good motivators, but they make very poor leaders or decison makers. In any case it is good that God was with you, and he would have been in any case. My congratulations as well.
Godspeed.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.