BREAKING! Modern Stupidity Update: It's not SAFE to feed your infant homemade formula! LOL. Pretty much the exact same arguments against homemade pet food. No real answers, of course. Just as there weren't back then, and people had to figure it out on their own.
I hope we're reaching Peak Stupidity but I'm afraid we're nowhere close.
I so love these thought-provoking posts. I breast fed exclusively bc I’d read enough about China-manufactured formula. But I had a hell of a time twice bc of my anatomy. With my first, I was at my wits end and exhausted, up all hours of the day and night, still determined and with little real support. But my pediatrician made a passing comment that changed the game for me. She said (what might sound a little harsh but I did not take it that way), “what if this were 200 years ago and you were slogging through the forest alone. You’d figure it out.” Somehow, breaking down to pure survival gave me confidence to plow through and finally it worked. I wasn’t missing some magic knowledge. It was still a struggle for weeks and repeated with my second child but I knew more then.
We’ve lost our compass in this tech age, we substitute “information” for common sense. I talked to my kids all the time about this hoping they don’t get swept up.
May 14, 2022·edited May 14, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD
What a wonderful compilation of some very important points you’ve achieved here! Thank you so much. I appreciate your honesty and straightforwardness and am off to read all the links you provided.
While I differ in my belief as far as there being an eternal realm created by a divine being which we pass into after our time here, I actually see things playing out pretty much exactly as you described it. These terrified technocrats and their sycophants will indeed fail in the end. They won’t, however, give up without a fight; so there is no easy route to get to the other side of that. Through the fire we must go. But there is a purpose in that too. So while I’m not looking forward to it, especially for my children and grandchildren, I know it’s merely another season in the grand scheme of things. And maybe this time, after the dust settles once more, the hard learned lessons will stick with us a little longer. I live in hope!
“Sadly, I don’t think we’re going to defeat the technocracy — just another new blend of communism/fascism dressed up this century as Science!™ — with any kind of plan.”
The technocracy will defeat itself. Reconciliation to reality may be delayed, but never denied. Reality — the truth — grinds inexorably forward eventually crushing all error. Now, from the human conception of time it takes a long while, and there may be much suffering as the error is destroyed, depending on the degree of departure from reality (that could have been avoided by embracing reality in the first instance), but the belief that humans can overpower the Divine Purpose is ludicrous hubris.
In a similar way, truth (love) will come to dominate the human heart, not as some mass epiphany, but one soul at a time. It is the mission of each of us to become those souls, and eventually “the world” will be transformed. Not at all likely in our lifetimes, but the need for spiritual beacons here and now is nonetheless very real.
My $0.04 (inflation) is take care of your own soul — it’s what you can influence the most. And, if you can’t intensify your own embrace of reality/truth/love, then your hopes of somehow “changing the world” are but a childish fantasy, an avoidance of facing the reality about yourself.
May 14, 2022·edited May 14, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD
There was a time long ago, well, not really that long ago, when mass formation/psychosis reached nearly the levels of today's open-air nut house syndrome. Being a 'Boomer' I was blessed and cursed to be right smack dab in the middle of it, the apex, and the vortex of that mind blowing, stupefying, off the rails freight train of hedonism, destination "Tune in, Turn on, Drop Out". When that era got to the point (1969) when everywhere one turned the brakes were discarded and mass consumption of limitless quantities of all manner of drugs, free sex, free-for-all was the new norm I said, "Adios mi amigos y amigas!" I ran for all I was worth. It took some months of searching
but I eventually found redemption, peace of mind, and renewed vitality and health, living and working with disadvantaged kids on an Indian Rez. Here's my point - the difference between then and now is the seeming impossibility of escaping today's mass formation. For those of us who want no part of it and will never consent to any of IT, we are forced into a form of isolation that for me anyway is not only absolutely foreign, yet undeniably oppressive on a paralyzing scale. Monica, thank you so much for providing such thought provoking essays and glimpses of comradery. I find solace and refuge in your's and the posts of others on this forum. I have been a can-do kinda guy my whole life. I wish, particularly when I read posts like Pamela Drew's, that I had a 'plan' to share. I wish I could gather all of us onto a freedom ship, a life raft with a course set for safe harbor, a place of refuge where we could live the life in the manner by which our Creator intended. But, alas, all I have to offer is similar signal flares in the night sky. Yes, we're in deep shit trouble. There is no refuge and no one is coming to save us. They want us All on the New Rez They're building. Revolution is imminent.
I was one of those idiot vets. We were taught that raw feeding is dangerous. The big pet food companies plied us vet students with free food for our pets, and sponsorship for our extra curricular activities. They often write our nutrition handouts. Not that we did much nutrition for domestic pets. I bought into it at first. But I was lucky enough to get a job working with a fearless dissenter. She taught me to eat humble pie, and to value ‘being wrong’ as an opportunity to become more knowledgeable. She taught me that true science is not about sitting in comfortable agreement. She set up an incredible raw feeding company in NZ, and I had the privilege of working there for the last ten years. Much of my work involved formulating referenced rebuttals to disgruntled vets, annoyed with us for tempting pet owners away from processed diets. In the early days, the other vets hated us. Now vets refer their clients to us. It has been a long road. My boss and dear friend saw the covid narrative for what it was. The knowledge weighed heavy on her, and the realisation that the battle against scientism is an endless one exhausted her. She passed away this year. She absolutely changed my life. (And the lives of thousands of dogs and cats).
👏👏👏👏. Bluntness is an under valued skill in today's, "soft, tip toe delicately in case we hurt everyone's sensibilities", landscape. To be able to cut through the drivel, to the heart of the matter, in time to maintain the short attention spans, is the only way anyone will be "awakening".
Likewise, im not waiting for everyone else to get up to speed. I'm doing my best to build a flexible, resilient lifestyle, not within the system, but parallel to. From the school of hard knocks, I guess makes it easier to see the writing on the wall, especially when they don't seem to bother even trying to hide their intentions anymore! I figure those of us paying attention, are playing the chess game of our lives. So ive been doing my best to see their strategies and stay ahead of them, (which they have made at least 80 moves ahead, when you look at the historical moves already played), so it's exhausting. But while it's a long game, I think it's going to gather speed as we go along. Everyone should get their ducks sorted by 2025-27 at the latest. After then, well one way or another it will be a new world.
Thank you. I agree - it is unlikely there will be a mass awakening. And action is likely to cause more positive than changes in belief through teaching. I have only perhaps one difference of opinion - being a father of two daughters - and that is I have to hope anyway and try to apply my knowledge to teaching about the challenges and true scientific methodology and observation. Because I can believe the horrible is coming but still need to project hope for a future for my children and the world 70 years from now when I’m gone. In the grand scheme that is nothing, but still important to mental health (probably akin to the planting you are doing). I think of it as planting mental seeds for the future even knowing many won’t bear the intended fruit.
Quite surprised that mothers haven't turned to other mothers to share milk. There are expressing women with excess quite willing to bottle their excess. Just surprised there seems to be little notice of these groups that have always existed for mothers unable to feed their child. Of course in modern times few of us have a clue about our neighbors. One might think Nextdoor, Craigslist, etc would be useful in forming those groups.
I was always confused as a kid that we fed the dogs kibble, and that my parents got angry at me for trying to slip them some meat under the table. As far as I was concerned, they were part of the family, and furthermore, as obligate carnivores, surely meat was ideal for them, not whatever factory floor sweepings and chemicals were in their processed dog food.
I have a story regarding pet food: many years ago I volunteered at Koh Samui Dog Rescue. It was run by a German woman and her husband, and they were always doing fundraising drives to buy dog food. Most street dogs in Thailand are not fed pet food but rather leftovers our old dog Snow White (who lived to be 20 years old) would not eat dog food as she'd grown up on a different diet. The dog rescue was sourcing their kibble from China, but that stopped after a contaminated batch of pet food sickened their dogs and killed over 20 of them. At that point they put in place something that me and Thai staff had suggested: they started accepting donations of leftovers from restaurants...
I couldn't agree more. Most people do not want to face their mortality the ego literally evolves in young children based on response to this existential crisis. I breastfed both of my girls, but I've long recognized that I had a fortunate set of circumstances that allowed this. I remember Mar (my mother in law) telling me that she could not breastfeed at all she had a very small A cup. I asked her what she fed her four children (they grew up extremely poor in the north of Thailand on the border with Laos). She said she mixed cooked rice with coconut juice and milk. I'm not necessarily endorsing it as a best choice, but all four of her children survived...
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This looks like a good baby formula recipe! Definitely better than the others I see floating out there!
To health and life!
https://www.westonaprice.org/podcast/255-homemade-baby-formula/
BREAKING! Modern Stupidity Update: It's not SAFE to feed your infant homemade formula! LOL. Pretty much the exact same arguments against homemade pet food. No real answers, of course. Just as there weren't back then, and people had to figure it out on their own.
I hope we're reaching Peak Stupidity but I'm afraid we're nowhere close.
https://www.today.com/parents/parents/homemade-baby-formula-unsafe-rcna28771
I so love these thought-provoking posts. I breast fed exclusively bc I’d read enough about China-manufactured formula. But I had a hell of a time twice bc of my anatomy. With my first, I was at my wits end and exhausted, up all hours of the day and night, still determined and with little real support. But my pediatrician made a passing comment that changed the game for me. She said (what might sound a little harsh but I did not take it that way), “what if this were 200 years ago and you were slogging through the forest alone. You’d figure it out.” Somehow, breaking down to pure survival gave me confidence to plow through and finally it worked. I wasn’t missing some magic knowledge. It was still a struggle for weeks and repeated with my second child but I knew more then.
We’ve lost our compass in this tech age, we substitute “information” for common sense. I talked to my kids all the time about this hoping they don’t get swept up.
What a wonderful compilation of some very important points you’ve achieved here! Thank you so much. I appreciate your honesty and straightforwardness and am off to read all the links you provided.
While I differ in my belief as far as there being an eternal realm created by a divine being which we pass into after our time here, I actually see things playing out pretty much exactly as you described it. These terrified technocrats and their sycophants will indeed fail in the end. They won’t, however, give up without a fight; so there is no easy route to get to the other side of that. Through the fire we must go. But there is a purpose in that too. So while I’m not looking forward to it, especially for my children and grandchildren, I know it’s merely another season in the grand scheme of things. And maybe this time, after the dust settles once more, the hard learned lessons will stick with us a little longer. I live in hope!
“Sadly, I don’t think we’re going to defeat the technocracy — just another new blend of communism/fascism dressed up this century as Science!™ — with any kind of plan.”
The technocracy will defeat itself. Reconciliation to reality may be delayed, but never denied. Reality — the truth — grinds inexorably forward eventually crushing all error. Now, from the human conception of time it takes a long while, and there may be much suffering as the error is destroyed, depending on the degree of departure from reality (that could have been avoided by embracing reality in the first instance), but the belief that humans can overpower the Divine Purpose is ludicrous hubris.
In a similar way, truth (love) will come to dominate the human heart, not as some mass epiphany, but one soul at a time. It is the mission of each of us to become those souls, and eventually “the world” will be transformed. Not at all likely in our lifetimes, but the need for spiritual beacons here and now is nonetheless very real.
My $0.04 (inflation) is take care of your own soul — it’s what you can influence the most. And, if you can’t intensify your own embrace of reality/truth/love, then your hopes of somehow “changing the world” are but a childish fantasy, an avoidance of facing the reality about yourself.
"I’d had an overbred labrador retriever who suffered from horrible food allergies"
That's from food protein contaminated vaccines.
Evidence that Food Proteins in Vaccines Cause the Development of Food Allergies and Its Implications for Vaccine Policy
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3571073
There was a time long ago, well, not really that long ago, when mass formation/psychosis reached nearly the levels of today's open-air nut house syndrome. Being a 'Boomer' I was blessed and cursed to be right smack dab in the middle of it, the apex, and the vortex of that mind blowing, stupefying, off the rails freight train of hedonism, destination "Tune in, Turn on, Drop Out". When that era got to the point (1969) when everywhere one turned the brakes were discarded and mass consumption of limitless quantities of all manner of drugs, free sex, free-for-all was the new norm I said, "Adios mi amigos y amigas!" I ran for all I was worth. It took some months of searching
but I eventually found redemption, peace of mind, and renewed vitality and health, living and working with disadvantaged kids on an Indian Rez. Here's my point - the difference between then and now is the seeming impossibility of escaping today's mass formation. For those of us who want no part of it and will never consent to any of IT, we are forced into a form of isolation that for me anyway is not only absolutely foreign, yet undeniably oppressive on a paralyzing scale. Monica, thank you so much for providing such thought provoking essays and glimpses of comradery. I find solace and refuge in your's and the posts of others on this forum. I have been a can-do kinda guy my whole life. I wish, particularly when I read posts like Pamela Drew's, that I had a 'plan' to share. I wish I could gather all of us onto a freedom ship, a life raft with a course set for safe harbor, a place of refuge where we could live the life in the manner by which our Creator intended. But, alas, all I have to offer is similar signal flares in the night sky. Yes, we're in deep shit trouble. There is no refuge and no one is coming to save us. They want us All on the New Rez They're building. Revolution is imminent.
Oh and I forgot to tell you I wish I could unsee Gates and his moobs - arggghhh!!!!
I was one of those idiot vets. We were taught that raw feeding is dangerous. The big pet food companies plied us vet students with free food for our pets, and sponsorship for our extra curricular activities. They often write our nutrition handouts. Not that we did much nutrition for domestic pets. I bought into it at first. But I was lucky enough to get a job working with a fearless dissenter. She taught me to eat humble pie, and to value ‘being wrong’ as an opportunity to become more knowledgeable. She taught me that true science is not about sitting in comfortable agreement. She set up an incredible raw feeding company in NZ, and I had the privilege of working there for the last ten years. Much of my work involved formulating referenced rebuttals to disgruntled vets, annoyed with us for tempting pet owners away from processed diets. In the early days, the other vets hated us. Now vets refer their clients to us. It has been a long road. My boss and dear friend saw the covid narrative for what it was. The knowledge weighed heavy on her, and the realisation that the battle against scientism is an endless one exhausted her. She passed away this year. She absolutely changed my life. (And the lives of thousands of dogs and cats).
👏👏👏👏. Bluntness is an under valued skill in today's, "soft, tip toe delicately in case we hurt everyone's sensibilities", landscape. To be able to cut through the drivel, to the heart of the matter, in time to maintain the short attention spans, is the only way anyone will be "awakening".
Likewise, im not waiting for everyone else to get up to speed. I'm doing my best to build a flexible, resilient lifestyle, not within the system, but parallel to. From the school of hard knocks, I guess makes it easier to see the writing on the wall, especially when they don't seem to bother even trying to hide their intentions anymore! I figure those of us paying attention, are playing the chess game of our lives. So ive been doing my best to see their strategies and stay ahead of them, (which they have made at least 80 moves ahead, when you look at the historical moves already played), so it's exhausting. But while it's a long game, I think it's going to gather speed as we go along. Everyone should get their ducks sorted by 2025-27 at the latest. After then, well one way or another it will be a new world.
Thank you. I agree - it is unlikely there will be a mass awakening. And action is likely to cause more positive than changes in belief through teaching. I have only perhaps one difference of opinion - being a father of two daughters - and that is I have to hope anyway and try to apply my knowledge to teaching about the challenges and true scientific methodology and observation. Because I can believe the horrible is coming but still need to project hope for a future for my children and the world 70 years from now when I’m gone. In the grand scheme that is nothing, but still important to mental health (probably akin to the planting you are doing). I think of it as planting mental seeds for the future even knowing many won’t bear the intended fruit.
Quite surprised that mothers haven't turned to other mothers to share milk. There are expressing women with excess quite willing to bottle their excess. Just surprised there seems to be little notice of these groups that have always existed for mothers unable to feed their child. Of course in modern times few of us have a clue about our neighbors. One might think Nextdoor, Craigslist, etc would be useful in forming those groups.
I was always confused as a kid that we fed the dogs kibble, and that my parents got angry at me for trying to slip them some meat under the table. As far as I was concerned, they were part of the family, and furthermore, as obligate carnivores, surely meat was ideal for them, not whatever factory floor sweepings and chemicals were in their processed dog food.
If Geert Vanden Bossche is right, technocracy is the least of our problems.
I have a story regarding pet food: many years ago I volunteered at Koh Samui Dog Rescue. It was run by a German woman and her husband, and they were always doing fundraising drives to buy dog food. Most street dogs in Thailand are not fed pet food but rather leftovers our old dog Snow White (who lived to be 20 years old) would not eat dog food as she'd grown up on a different diet. The dog rescue was sourcing their kibble from China, but that stopped after a contaminated batch of pet food sickened their dogs and killed over 20 of them. At that point they put in place something that me and Thai staff had suggested: they started accepting donations of leftovers from restaurants...
I couldn't agree more. Most people do not want to face their mortality the ego literally evolves in young children based on response to this existential crisis. I breastfed both of my girls, but I've long recognized that I had a fortunate set of circumstances that allowed this. I remember Mar (my mother in law) telling me that she could not breastfeed at all she had a very small A cup. I asked her what she fed her four children (they grew up extremely poor in the north of Thailand on the border with Laos). She said she mixed cooked rice with coconut juice and milk. I'm not necessarily endorsing it as a best choice, but all four of her children survived...