Is 100% all natural good for you? (A)

   Hi there and welcome. On this article I would like to talk about on the subject that people are always trying to improve on. And that is trying to do things that are as natural as possible. Like for instant the food we eat, the clothing we were, the items we have and other things that are part of our environment. Some of the things that we tried to avoid are like artificial flavor, artificial coloring, synthetic, imitation and so on. You got the idea. And basically, there's nothing wrong with that. But like everything that we do. Sometime they are those who go to the extreme. You might call them radical. I myself try to live as natural as possible, and always thinking how I might affect the environment. But thank goodness for some good common sense and a good foundation while growing up. Lucky for me I do not fall into the extreme category. I believe everything in life has to be done in a balanced and moderate.
   Sometime people are trying so hard to live as natural as possible. That they almost put themselves in a position that they live like caveman. We are living in a 21st-century. And we have advanced so much not only in technology, but a new product that make our life more natural, but also help the environment. But those who live on the extreme have the mentality that anything that is man-made or manufactured is consider not natural. So they've reject it without 1st seeing a bigger picture. Some things that are man-made product does benefit not only our life, but the environment.

   This is where it come to the point of this article. On this subject, I will talk about in regarding to our clothing. Those who like to live 100% natural always consider that wearing clothing that are 100% cotton is better and natural. But that is not completely true, and this is why. On the top you will see that I put a collection of photo. I will give you some idea on how we begin to grow cotton and go to many process before it reached to your local store. You will see how much energy we waste and how much chemical is exposed to the environment. You will see that is not completely 100% natural.
   Let us begin on the top on photograph (1). 1st we need a tractor that runs on gasoline to begin the farming of preparing the ground and planting the seed. Now in photograph (2) , you will see that the plant are growing with the help of watering irrigation. And this require whether an electric or gas pump. This will be a process of many months for the plant to be fully grown. Now in the photograph (3) you we see a man spraying pesticides to protect the plant from insect and disease. This will be a process, whether by manually spraying or a truck or airplane spraying the field. Although pesticides protect the health of the plant from insect and disease. It does have some negative affect for the environment. Next we see on photograph (4) a farming tractor, run by gasoline harvesting the cotton. Next photograph (5) the cotton is place another truck run by gasoline, to transport the cotton to a cotton factory for processing. Although I do not put a photograph of the cotton factory. The process for the cotton go through, a machine that will separate the cotton from unwanted waste like leaves and twigs. Then the cotton is taken to a big washing machine in which they were add bleach to give the cotton that white look, we all know. All of this process go to machinery that runs on electricity. Now in photograph (6) you will see the final result after processing. A machine will collect the cotton and weave the cotton so the cotton fiber will be stretched in one direction and turn into yarn like. These are placed in large barrel to be shipped on another truck run by gasoline. It is shipped to another factory in which they will make thread to customer specification. Now in photograph (7) this is the final result after the factory that run their machinery by electricity, making thread and putting them into spool. Now the spool are shipped on truck run by gasoline to another factory that makes fabric. Now in photograph number (8) the fabric is delivered by truck run on gasoline, to a factory that makes white T-shirt. This factory use sewing machine that runs on electricity. Final on the photograph (9) the white T-shirt are delivered by truck the runs on gasoline, to retail stores across the country.
    Of course, this is some idea of the process. I probably left some details out depending on different manufacture processing. But you get some ideas. But based on the information I gave you, you would notice that a great deal of energy use to make this simple white T-shirt was gasoline. There was a lot of gasoline wasted just so we can have this white T-shirt. There was also a lot of electricity used to make this T-shirt. Also another waste of energy used to make this product. Also, you would notice a lot of chemical use in the process. By pesticides and bleach. These 2 will be exposed to the environment.Remember those who like to live 100% natural preferred to where 100% cotton.

 


   By now, let's take a look at the new man-made product called polyester. Although this product require 2 different kind of chemical that are dimethyl terephthalate and ethylene glycol. Both unknown to be a form of polymer, the kind of plastic. Although both may be toxics, but once they are mixed together and stabilize they will become a thin thread to make polyester fabric. Below I added some link so you can see more detail on the product polyester.


 http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Polyester.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyester

http://www.engr.utk.edu/mse/Textiles/Polyester%20fiber.htm



   Even though polyester may not be all national. At the end result. It is far more better than 100% cotton. Let me explain, 1st of all, based on the photograph above, it will eliminate the process (1) through (6). By eliminating those process. We save tons in gasoline and prevent exposing the environment of pesticides and beach. Because if you see the link above, you would notice that to make polyester it goes from mixing the 2 chemical and then turning them into thread. Another benefit to polyester versus cotton is in the process, when washing your clothing. Your body release national sweat and body order. The cotton absorbed this more into the fiber then it would be of a polyester fiber. Meaning it would require more detergent to wash your cotton clothing, then it would be polyester clothing. Plus the cotton require longer time in a dryer wasting more energy, then that of polyester that require less time drying. So far the 100% cotton clothing would require more chemical detergent to clean and more energy wasted to dry. This is not counting the many hundreds of product made by polyester. Like flag, men's tie, ropes, woman purse, man wallet, scarf, belt, sporting shoes, pants, hats, construction material, car seat, safety belt for the car and many many more items. It can even replace all kinds of leather product.

   So if you're willing to understand and recognize that polyester is far more superior in energy-saving and far less environmental impact, then that of 100% cotton. So then a man-made product will be far more better than a 100% natural product. Like I said before use common sense and balance. And you can live environmental friendly and not necessarily live 100% natural lifestyle.

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There is no death. (A)

    Good day everyone. On this article I will be talking about an subject that it is not new to any of you. And that is the subject of death. The subject has been around for millennium. It has been viewed from many different angle. It has been a subject has been talk about through mythology, philosophy, religiously and philosophy. You will find thousands of stories surrounding the subject of death.
Stories were told by storytellers and in theater like the Greek and Roman theater. As time went by, then came the invention of the press in which now the story can be printed and distributed to the massive. Then came the invention of the moving picture in which now the story can be told in theater through moving picture. Then came the invention of the radio in which now the story can be spread it to the airway. And then came the invention of television (In which then it was called as the tube) in which now the story can be told and brought to you into your living room. And this were in places where technology was available. Where as in other country storyteller was still perform of spreading information. Yes indeed society was changing and also the understanding of the meaning of death. And now with the invention of the World Wide Web (known as the Internet) . The story has not changed very much. But now we have a wider view of interaction with the subject of death. Kind of like what I'm doing right now in this blog. Being one of those millions of individual posting and adding their two cent view. Like I have spoken in other article under the title "what is truth". That while other people may consider some other things that I say a philosophy, but for me it is my truth. So consider this as my "philosophy-truth". While it may be a philosophy to you, but it is my truth.

  Death has many meaning and it is not remotely what you're thinking about. For me death is just another level, change, transformation, stage, and even awakening. It is not in any way the end of a journey, but the beginning of a new journey.

In the meaning to what I'm trying to say, here is one way of seeing things. If you look at your arms and hands right now in touch the skin. It is compose of millions of cells that make up your skin. Well those cells that you are feeling right now are not the same one that you had when you were born. To explain this a little bit better. Let us call the cells when you were born "A". As you groom your body would producing new cells in getting rid of damaged cells. As time went by the A cells has died away in your B cells were replaced. But as you continue to get older your dead or damage B cells were replaced with C cells. And these process continue hundreds of time throughout your life. And let us saying that now you are the age of 50. Probably by now, for the sake of argument. You are now have "W" cells. So in another word the skin that you are feeling right now. Are not in any way the same one when you were born. The "A" cells has been dead and gone away for many years ago. So in many ways do have died many time in your lifetime. But you never notice it and never felt it. So that kind of death is simply will be consider as a "transformation death". It was not a death that you might consider as the end. But a death of transformation from one stage to another.

   Just like when a Caterpillar begin to do is cocoon and begin to do this transformation. Then at a certain time the Caterpillar emerge from is cocoon, but now it is completely different. It has become a butterfly. One of may should greatest and beautiful phenomenon. It is nature speaking to us and teaching us the meaning of death. It is teaching us that there is no end, but only a new stage. What we learn from ancient Scripture, nature has its way of teaching us also. And that is that there is no death.

   I will talk about more about this subject, but for now I would like to keep this short. For this subject has many Avenue in which we can define death.

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Wisdom from an Owl. (N)

Wisdom from an owl. (M)

To be tested. (B)

"Never believe that you can get away with anything. For as long as you have a conscious. There is nowhere you can go to hide."


Sometime people believe that they can fool or deceived themselves. They believe that they can denied and get away from their action. But most of all, what intrigued me is how they tried to convince himself that they can get away with it. They would come up with these elaborate excuses. Some may even become a philosophy, like.


"Life is too short"

"Don't knock it before you try it"

In some excuses may even have a philosophical explanation, like.

"It is okay to commit a small sin, like lying and deceiving. In order for the greater good."

"I will cheat today, but I promise to rectify it in the future."

"I am always doing good deed, so it is not like I'm committing a sin every day"


And I know you must have heard many other different excuse. But that is exactly what it is. Excuses. People believe that those who lie, deceive and cheat other kind of people that should be thinking that they cannot get away with it. But also those people that have never lie, deceive, or cheat sheet not think that they can get away with it. Even if they do it once or twice. And here is one of my favorite excuses and most popular.


"No one is perfect"

"Only the creator is perfect"

"You cannot expect people to be perfect"


I called this the perfect excuse. With this excuse even the most religious person think that they can get away with it. But I like when I hear people saying that we all have a piece of the creator light. And yet they would give such an excuse like "no one is perfect". People have to make up their mind whether we do have the creator inside of us or we do not. How can anyone expect to be part of this incredible universe if you limit yourself.
I also know that if by any chance you decided to try and live a perfect life, that there will be people out there and tried to take advantage of you. Don't worry whether or not they would get away with it. For life has its way of eventually catching up to them. Do not be the judge the jury and the executioner toward other people. For the creator has always set a mathematic Sequent of event that will eventually catch up to those people. You should be the judge and the jury and the executioner for your own action. So how do you become an executioner for your own action? Simply by rectifying your action toward other people and asking for forgiveness. But if it is something that you have done in the past and there is no way to find that individual in which you have committed that sin. Then you have a full life to teach other the different between right and wrong, based on your experience.

We are always being tested and the result is our action. Every single action in every aspect of our life is always been tested. It is not always has to be a religious issue. It is also how we interact with other people in our society, like in a workplace. If you treat a customer or a patient that come to you in a negative way, and you think that you can get away with it. You should think again. You can invent all kinds of excuse, like.


"He is a rude customer and I don't have to take it."


If you cannot deal with the public, then you should not be working in which you have to deal with the public. No matter what work environment you may be working. When you are dealing with the public. It is very important to let them know that you are ready to help them out if they need assistant. Sometime people who work in a store in see the customer coming in. They tried to pretend that they don't see them so they won't be bother by customer asking for assistant. They think that they can get away with it, but don't be surprise if you get fired.


"The patients are always complaining and annoying me."


People that are a patient are likely to be in pain, suffering and even frighten. Believe it or not. They are in title to be complaining and to be a annoying. If you cannot deal with this situation, then the medical industry is not for you. You have to have a lot of tolerant in order to deal with the patient. For if you would know the pain and suffering they going through you would be more compassionate. This does not mean only for nurses, but also for reception when they receive a patient coming in to the door. It is very likely that they would have some sort of discomfort. So don't expect them to come in with a smile on the face. So they pretend that they are doing something important and they asked the patient to sit down and wait. Usually they have these patient waiting for a long time on aware that they are in discomfort. They think they can get away with it, but don't be surprised if you get fired.

And what about when people think that they can get away from their very own action. Like for an example when people are in the diet. They try not to eat food that they know that it is not healthy for them. So they would invent excuse, like.


"It is only one piece. It is not like I always eat this"

"Our only eat this one piece and tomorrow I will try harder"

"The environment that I'm in does not permit me to be on a diet that easy"


People do not realize that diet is like controlling any other drug addition. These are the many excuses people use when trying to control their bad eating habit. Some of them even go as far as denying that they have a bad eating habit. But eventually they health will catch up to them. And then the world realize that they can no longer get away with it.

So no matter where you work or what you are doing with your life. Whether you are in a big city where you are surrounded by lots of people. Or in a small isolated town where you think no one can see. Always for member that no matter how hard you try, you can never get away with anything. For as long as you have a conscious. There is nowhere you can hide.

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Why do they know that? (C)

    Good day everyone. Some of you may already know this story but with a little bit of a different. Please bear with me for at the end of the story I will get into the point that I would like to share with you.

    Once upon a time, three flying came from another planet to explore a world. Each of these fly was a very well known and would consider to be very smart in their planet. When they arrive on planet Earth, they began to explore. One of them notice something in the far distant. It looks strange to them, because they had never seen it before. One of them comment by saying "it looks like mountain that is moving". The other fly said "No! It is a great storm for as you can see is picking up dust everywhere". While the other fly said "both of you seem to be right. But there can only be one answer". So that fly decided to go ahead and investigate.

When the fly came back to report his findings he said "Both of you are wrong! It was not a mountain nor it was not a storm either. But it was large and alive. It skin was rough and dry. And it was gray in color.And it was round. I saw it with my own eyes and I touch it. So that is my official report".

The other flying decided to go and see for himself to confirm the report. When the fly came back he said "Both of you are wrong. But it was large and alive. And the skin was rough and dry and gray. But it was not round and it was not a storm. But it had this long brush that move side to side. It almost knocked me out of the air. I saw it with my own eyes and I touch it. So that is my official report".

So now there was two different report and only one object. So the 3rd fly decided to investigate for himself to find out which one is true. When the 3rd fly came back from investigating he said "Both of you are wrong in some part of your report. It was large and alive. And the skin was rough and tried and gray. But it was not around, nor it had a long brush moving side to side. But it did had a long hose blowing like storm. It almost knocked me out of the air. I saw it with my own eyes and I touch it. So that is my official report".

   So all three flies had three different report to take back to the planet. They would spend years trying to understand what they saw with their very own eyes and what they have touch. They would have their ideas and interpretation of what they saw. All three of them would have the own conviction of what they saw and believe. No one can convince them otherwise. Their conviction was so strong that all three of them separated and formed the own theory and philosophical group. They were to form in a great and powerful Institute to support their point of view. In their planet it would to become the three great philosophical Institute. Sometime when these three great ideas came together for a debate. The followers would argue and fight to support their own philosophical Institute.

   So one day another simple but not so famous fly decided to travel to the planet where the three famous and smart fly saw this mysterious object. But this time this simple fly decided not to land on the planet, but take a picture from space. When this fly return back to his planet, he announced to his world that all three flies were wrong. The simple fly said "I took a picture from space of this mysterious object that all three famous and smart fly said that they saw and touch. It was large and alive, the skin was rough and it did look dry. It was gray also. But this large thing had a long brush that move side to side on one end. And a large holes that Bloom air that would pick up the dust from the ground and move it into the air at the other end. And it would also look kind around to. I saw it with my own eyes and that is my official report.

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   We all see things definitely, and we all have our own conviction of what we believe. Based on the story above all three flies were correct in what they saw in touch. They all said the truth of what the new base on what they saw in touch. If they would have taken the time to join their view of what they saw, they would have seen the whole picture. Just because people have a different point of view on just about any subject. It does not mean that they may be wrong. All it is that it is a different point of view. The only problem is when a different point of view become a view of destruction. Then that view is not a constructive view. Different interpretation and view is not the problem. For as long it doesn't promote self destruction of destruction toward others.

We all see things differently depending on many factors. From religious background to scientific background. From economic level to educational level. From cultural tradition to family tradition. These are just some of the factors that surround our interpretation and views. But if you ever step back and see the big picture, you will discover that everyone have a similar ideas and view. For as long as you do not promote hatred or discussion, I believe this world can coexists with different ideas and philosophy.

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Why we struggle? (C)

    Good day everyone. I have a very unique article today in which this will affect every single person, no matter what race you are or language you speak. On previous article on this subject, I have spoken about struggle in the form of attitude and pain. On this article I would talk about how those two have in common. I will begin by saying  that we are living in a very unique time in our society. As you can see I did not mention the world. You always hear people say "how the world is changing" "why there's so much war in the world" "how there is so much recklessness in the world". I'm not trying to be political correctness, but in this case the proper statement should be society, not the world. For the world is perfect just the way it is. It is round with all the beauty and splendor of nature and incredible wonders. For all kinds of animal species belong to this world. Despise that the scientists compare us to the animal kingdom, we are in so many level different from the animal kingdom. But I would not get into all aspect of those levels at this time. I would like to talk about on one aspect, and that is the human emotional aspect.

From previous article on this subject I talk about attitude and pain. What both have in common is the conduct of our emotion. This emotion in humanity is very unique. Although sometime people say that we react to an animal instant. And sometime by seeing certain situation it may seem to be true, but it is far from the truth. Humanity have that kind of emotion for one reason and one reason at all. And that is to be our handicap. Even if by any chance we decided not to get married or have children. They lived the life of a single. Or if we decided not to have a religious or philosophical foundation. Or if we decided not to live under any government structure or society thing, in live in isolation somewhere in the world. Or even maybes far into the future you decided to volunteer get in a space program, in which you will be the only one traveling on a spaceship, or even live in another planet all by yourself. There will be the one thing that will be with you no matter how much you do not want it. And that will be your emotion.

   Some of you may be thinking what is the big deal about that? For some time to emotion can actually be a good thing for you. It can bring you happiness, joy and love. But sometime it can bring you sadness, hate, or even being unkind. For your emotion is your judge your jury in your executioner. So no matter where you are or how isolated you may put yourself. You emotion will be there to guide you to your path or to your discussion. And sometime eventually emotion can be your handicap. When you look upon other people on how they have no arm or no legs. You will see that there handicap make it difficult for them to do certain task. You will see how they struggle to go about on the daily life trying to do the simplest things. Well, believe it or not some of you do emotion makes you handicap. Despite that you may have all of you or organs and anatomy, and may be in good physical health. Some of you will find your emotion from doing the simplest things in life.

   That is why I said from the beginning "we are living in a very unique time in our society". Humanity is being tested on how we are going to react with all the changes that is going on in our society. We have all lived based on a religious or philosophical beliefs. Humanity has passed down throughout of century different understanding and point of view of the universe we are living in. And we are now being judge to see whether or not our religious or philosophical belief has a good foundation to withstand all the conflict that is going around us.We must think through before we react. That is something that not everybody has been taught to learn. In fact other has been saying that the best reaction is to use our animal instinct. But luckily we are not an animal. And even though you may believe that we have come down from an animal species. The fact still remain that now we are not an animal.
I know it is hard to restrain ourselves, but we must do it. Of course I am not saying either that we should not do nothing and simply leave it to the hand of the founder of our religious or philosophical belief. They are so many ways to confront and deal with the hard situation in our society. I cannot get into a right now for everybody is different and the situation of various. But I believe that if you have just a little bit understanding what I have written in this article, then you would know exactly what is expected of yourself. It is good that people may have a religious or philosophical belief, but it is even better when we have a handicap like our emotion. Humanity have a destiny to become a better person when we have a limitation. People with handicaps always seem to improve their other senses when one of them happens to fail. And also people would physical handicap seem to find strength in other aspect of themselves when they have something physical missing. I work emotion is no different from any other handicap. When we are afraid or scared or even do not understand what is happening emotionally. We seem to find strength in other part of our emotion. Like faith, hope and even charity to give us strength. When other part of our emotion find it difficult to deal with the situation, we will find some way to overcome and surpass all obstacle.

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