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i have always disliked and distrusted the governments and politicians and i am trying my best not to get into a rant in this post.
found a video called esoteric agenda (search for it on youtube) which, amongst other things, talks about the fluoridation of water. (read)
read, read and there’s tons more on google.
Sodium silicofluoride is added to the water on its way from the filters to the clear water tank. Fluoridation is a requirement by the Ministry of Health and has been a practice since 1957. It helps in the prevention of dental caries.
from PUB’s website under water treatment
as stated in the video, why would the govt care so much about the health of our teeth?!?! does it sound weird to you at all?? if they are really concerned about our wellbeing, shouldn’t they add at least vitamins (although vitamins in non-organic form, i.e., not bound to plants, is poisonous to the body as well, since the body cannot utilise it) or something?! and what about all the other minerals that our bodies need? (again, i am NOT advocating the govt add other crap to our water; i’m just going with their ‘logic’ – what i want to drink is PURE water) why focus on the teeth?!
one of the effects of fluoridation is the “dumbing” down of the brain, which basically makes sheep of people……. sounds familiar??
and i googled to see if there is any easy way to get rid of fluoride from our water like chlorine (which can be easily dissipated by exposing the water to sunlight for a few hours) and certain inorganic material (put some fruit or leaves into the water as the fruit / vege will absorb the stuff) but apparently fluoride is one of the most difficult things to get rid of – even worse than heavy metals.
sigh. i am starting to rant. if you care about what is going into your body, you will google it anyway, do some reading and decide for yourself. no point in me ranting – a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. or are we too fluoridated to make up our own minds?
it pisses me off so much that we dont have a say in what we want in our water or not. i feel so disempowered.
(i don’t follow world politics / events much so i have no idea how accurate the politics-related parts are in the video, but i am assuming that it should be quite credible. the facts can always be verified, the truth will stand strong.)
gah.
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will be going back to the retreat to visit the guys there one more time just before i fly. beautiful things always happens when i go there – the first time i was brought out to sea, the second time i had the magical encounter with the dolphins and exchanging ghost stories at night while sitting round the fire outside. maybe nothing extraordinary will happen this time round, but being around such amazing souls is a special experience in itself.
for some reason, i feel really drawn to the people at the retreat, like there’s a sense of affinity between us. i love their company because they are so non-judgemental and i can just totally be myself – i can speak my mind about life, about spirituality, eat raw and not get the vibes that i get from some other people. there are not many people i can speak to with such freedom without being ‘attacked’ (either verbally or emotionally), and certainly not many strangers.
they don’t label either, and what good does labelling do ayway. it just helps us put the other person into another pigeonhole so that we never really get to know them because we think we do already – “_______ people always do things like that, it’s no surprise”. anything or anyone outside of our comfortable sphere of reference or understanding immediately gets labelled as “different”, “weird”, “unusual”, “crazy”……
“oh you’re just one of those ‘new-age’ types”, “oh another health freak”… maybe my thoughts are rather unusual or even “new-agey”, but i never thought of myself as being new-age; i just know what i know, think what i think and do what i do. and it works for me.
i never really felt like i fit in much back in singapore or korea, because the way i think and the things that i want out of life are very different from that of the people around me. and it’s also just being around people who are not judging others all the time – the energy is just different eh. there’s a sense of peace and harmony when part of a group like that.
i don’t usually care about how people see me, but sometimes when i sense a person starting to judge me within just 5 minutes of our meeting, i get affected to some extent, even though another part of me is comfortable enough with who i am to not give a hoot.
and in my opinion, there is a difference between judging and discerning – the latter being something like, taking a look at a situation or person and deciding that that’s not somewhere you want to be or someone you want to be friends with, while the former would be like, “my god she’s so fat, how the hell did she ever let herself go like that???”
i’ll be back in sg soon… and while part of me is looking forward to see the people i love, another part of me is not looking forward to the general vibes of that place. everytime i go back i just can’t wait to get out… and i know that one day i will.
as i said before in the previous post, i long so much to live in the country and be pretty much self-sufficient, at least food-wise.
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it’s been almost 6 months since i changed my diet to a 100% raw living foods one, and in these few months i’ve experienced some interesting detoxing (or cleansing) symptoms.
apart from the more common ones like (very bad) headaches, runny nose, coughs, ‘flus’, i’ve also had swollen painful fingers which i couldn’t bend and, just 2 weeks ago, my feet and toes swelled up too, so much so that i couldn’t walk.
i’ve noticed a lot of asian women with this problem, and us asians eat lots of rice so i think rice has something to do with it maybe? if you think about it… rice is like a kind of glue. when you cook rice, you often have to soak the rice pot for a while before washing so that the rice can be washed off easily because the rice sticks to the sides of the pot. i’m thinking that’s what it’s doing inside our body too – probably our veins and capillaries are getting ‘glued up’. (i am just making this up so don’t quote me; it just makes sense to me.)
am just very grateful to sylv who took care of me all this while and assured me that i am fine. she’s been raw for 40 years and went through some horrible cleansing symptoms herself (she was very very sick, which was the reason she went raw and cured herself of all her illnesses) and man, i hope i never have to go through them, though i’m bracing myself for it. i have no idea how toxic my body is before i went raw.
swelling in my fingers have gone down quite a bit and my feet have gone right now. sylv told me that on average, it takes about 1 month for every year you’ve lived to completely detox a person (more if they live in a polluted environment, i.e. the city)… so i’m expecting to come completely right in about 20 months or so.
apart from the detoxing, my energy levels are actually a lot higher and my mind’s a lot more alert and i find that i am better at meditation! something which i found really hard to do because my mind keeps wanderingggg =/
anyways. i’ve been working with sylv on her book on raw food and health for more than 2 months, and in that time i’ve read a lot of other stuff on natural hygiene as well, and after reading what i’ve read, there is no way i am going back to the cooked food diet.
i respect my body as much as i respect a gift that was given to me and as far as i can, i’d like to not defile it.
it’s not so much about wanting to live longer as about wanting to live without pain and suffering and disease. i couldn’t care less about having a long life; in fact i’d much as soon leave this physical plane and go back to Spirit than stay in this physical body. but i suppose i have things to do on earth and what must be done must be done… even though i have no idea what it is i am supposed to be doing.
but when i die, i want to die from death – i want to die because i died, without disease, pain or suffering. 
on a different note, i saw a double rainbow AND a rainbow (both on the same day, different times!!) at oscar’s place the other day.
i really really really really really want to live in the country – live in a home with my own water supply and preferably own power source as well. and on a piece of land big enough for a few fruit trees (feijoas!!!!! figs! mandarins! oranges! lemons!) and a big garden 
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