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Comments:
Kasha; should be a recipe on the site. And when you talk about your parents you go in between being objective and emotional. Why did it make you so sad that he asked about the white coat? I love the part with Ursula and the store. Remember anything that was sold? Did you get candy?
Response:
       I do not know the recipe for Kasha. I think it is Barley. It was brown and often had bits of mushrooms and bits of meat in it.
       As for my parents I am not sure what is emotional and what is objective.  Ask explicitly and I will try to answer. Besides, since it is all subjective it is all, in a way, emotional and judgmental. I try to avoid judgmental stuff. It is too easy to be wrong. Also, I do think that whatever my parents did or did not do they acted, at the time, from a basis of what they thought was the right thing to do. But, that encompasses everybody. Seldom do people do things they know are not what they think is "right". 
       The "white coat" is sad, to me, as revealing what he thought was the top achievement or symbol of importance. It did reveal what he felt. I, too, have a white coat thing, especially as I have watched the decline of internal reflections of the symbolism of that white coat. Nowadays a beautician, massage parlor girl or others non-physicians may wear a white coat. 
       When I was Medical Director at Napa State Hospital I managed to get the State of California white coats for the 100 MD's on the staff of the hospital. I did that in an attempt to re-instill a sense of their medical mission if it was at all faded.  I clearly felt, and still feel, that many MD's are now the new untermenschen. 
       In the State of California there is an entire State Police force that is established just to check on and go after Doctors. Sadly I know the reason there is such a Police force is that I worked with them. They had "caught" doctors giving out prescriptions for addictive drugs to their people posing as patients. As part of their sentence they had to work at Napa State. Some of those "bad" doctors were some of the finest people. Some were entrapped by malicious patients.  Doctors have always been suspect as they interfere with the natural, and thus God's, ways by healing disease.
       As for the store I think there was candy but I don't remember getting any. But, that is such an early memory I may not remember. If there was any candy I am certain my mother would have got it, and thus to me, as she loved candy. My teeth were full of cavities. That is odd as my father was a dentist until I was 6 when he got his MD. 
       The Ursula memory is very vivid because it was so bizarre! Those dapper little men surrounding that mountain of a woman stunned me. I guess she oozed estrogen. 
Comments:
Mary The mother of God...Really good stuff!
Response:
       Good stuff how? Does it give you any insights about history? Does it stimulate you to wonder if these changes are related to the Islamic folks? Why? Because it is diametrically opposed to their negative concepts of females.
       Does it reduce the Holiness of the Blessed Virgin Mary when we see she is there, before Christ? Actually early on Christians said the pagan gods were "prefigured" Saints.
       Isis and he Temples of sacred prostitution do not fit the current religious belief system. Or do they? Sex plays a big role in Roman Catholic Nun orders by its focus on chastity.
       The sacred prostitute is an idea that offends many today. Why didn't it offend then? What does that mean, anyway?
       Generally Christianity does not make sex a positive religious experience. It seems to be placed into a negative category. Pagans obviously had some differing ideas.

Comments:

Consciences
Do you mean that in a way since we can view our selves
from a birds eye view that we have a soul? I mean we are taught
that to believe in God yet all religious documents are written by men.
Hence the idea of the soul. We have confused religious beliefs so much we forget to live.
And many even die because of there religious beliefs;sacrifice their lives.
My dog is always in the moment, dog food;happy, hot dogs;happier.
I do not think my dog believes in afterlife or even understands death..wouldn't that
be nice? Yet with out religious belief there would never be anything larger than instant
gratification. So it is necessary, or has been, what do you think?

Response:

       Consciousness. I mean away of being aware. Conscious of being conscious. That is the defining difference between animals like the dog and cat who live in the Garden of Eden. 

       As for the Soul we can be sure that religious, or spiritual belief, has been present at all times we know of in humans. I think of it as: "Storming the Gates of Heaven." 

       Look, we now live in the fantasized heaven of our ancestor 10,000 years ago. We are using science and technology to live longer and better, maybe forever. 

       But, do not rule out the physics of energy. Thought is energy easily measured by the EEG. Remember energy can neither be created or destroyed. 

       I have been right there when people died. Something happens. It is instantaneous. Alive and then not alive at all. Dead. 

       Also I cannot rule out my own personal experience of Out of the Body in 1957.

 

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