Over43
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I have started using these again after about a year and a half lay off. I started working a second job where I needed to "throw" freight, and the combination of the kettlebells and throwing the freight did a number on my lower back. They are a very simple device that look like a cannonball with a brief case handle. You can swing them, press them, do snatches or clean and jerk, Turkish get ups are a trick. They can be overhyped, but I think they are a worthwhile fitness tool. Currently I am using a 50 lbs. kettlebell for 20-30 minutes (swings, clean and jerks, the snatch, presses), 3-4 days a week and then finishing the workout off with using a 2 lbs. heavy rope. I love them in the summer because I can go outside in a pair of shorts and barefeet and workout and get some sun as well.
Here are some links that I get no compensation from:
Exercise, kettlebell strength training, conditioning, diet and health: the ultimate fitness workout
Take Care,
Jon
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As I have, at times, struggled with my weight (At one point I hit 210 lbs. at 5' 9"). What I have found works best (for me) is a low glycemic approach. Many folks associate this with low carb, but they are not the same, althouhg the "principle" is similar. The first step is to nix the soda pop (sugary). Then try to eliminate as many processed foods containing sugar as possible. This is not a "no sugar diet", but a low sugar diet. (See Sugar Busters! 2003) Whole grains are very acceptable, vegfetables and most fruits are a go (although I don't worry too much about fruits...), lean meats, 1%-2% milk, etc.
The purpose is to try to control the appetite and insulin production through the low glycemic approach. Again, this has worked for me, but I know I am not everyone else.
Jon
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I'd rather watch grass grow than the NBA. But the Lakers took the game. I think Ben is right, we'll be seeing these teams again in May/June.
Jon
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Coke. Code Red Mountain Dew as a change of pace on occassion.
O43
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Could you imagine being Mr. Meyers? You meet a wonderful young lady at BYU, marry her, and a few years later she starts writing books that sell millions of copies? If you'd have told him when he was a teen that's what would happen in his life he'd have laughed at you.
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Good for him. Keith Richards fell out of a coconut tree a few years back and that almsot did him in. Glad to hear your uncle is doing better.
O43
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Humphrey Bogart, he was just the epitome of suave.
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Part of a free market economy would be the ability to choose which jobs you would, or would not like to take.
What a ridiculous use of the legal system.
Jon
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In 3 Nephi we see (or read of) a change in the Immortal Savior. In the New Testament he commands the people to be perfect "even as your Father in Heaven is perfect."
In the Nephite account, at the Temple of Bountiful, that command is now changed to "be yee perfect even as I Am perfect." The change of role, and resurrection now takes place.
I agrre with Traveler when he writes, "What does not change is the covenant or the proctor of the covenant."
Have a good afternoon.
Jon
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I have been reading Saul Bellow for 15-20 years. My favorite novels are Humbolt's Gift, Herzog and More Die of Heart Break. Although his last, semi-autobiographical novel concerning him and his relation with Allan Bloom, "Ravelstien" was very good.
The head of the Saul Bellow Society in the US is also a lit professor at BYU.
If anyone gets a chance give him a read.
Jon
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Whether you are in the US, Canada, our "cousins" in the Comonwealth, or anywhere else in the World, please have a Happy Thanksgiving Day.
From Jon in Idaho.
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Yeah, but Joseph Smith found value in children, whereas our good buddy Ayn found value in nookie.
(Don't take this to mean I'm not an Ayn Rand fan, I'm just not an Ayn Rand disciple.)
LM
I haven't heard that word since junior high. Ms. Rand was a bit chastity challenged throughout her life. But she justified it by stating that people who she spent time with were her "intellectual equals".O43
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If you like baseball, and remember 1978, Richard Daley has written a new baseball history called The Greatest Game. It is about the 163rd game the Yankees and Red Sox played in early October 1978 to settle their regular season tie.
Daley does a good job weaving in the season story with an inning by inning account of game 163. The game is most famous for Bucky Dents 7th inning homerun that gave the Yankees an eventual 5-4 win, and an eventual World Series win.
The language can be rough in spots, especially when the Red Sox players recall Bucky Dent's homerun.
The ending is poingant, particularly as Daley revisits the death of Thurman Munson 10 months later in a plane crash.
But for those of you who are survivors of the 60's, 70's and 80's this will bring back some memories.
O43
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Alright.....this may sound childish/teenagerish/whatever -- but I'm always happy to get advice from people, and it never hurts to ask I suppose...
My boyfriend and I have been dating for the better part of three years (good friends for longer than that). We are planning on getting married this coming summer. He's been out on mission, is back, and I was baptized while he was gone. I am the only LDS member in my family.
Now, we've been discussing with my family (parents and siblings) that we want to get married. I'm 19, he's 21, and I'm a freshman in college. I'm in a pre-veterinary program, and coupled with vet school, I will be in college for a minimum of 8 years. He currently is working, but will be taking a few classes this spring towards his degree. The college he will be attending back home (we live about two hours apart) has a campus about 10 minutes from my university, so neither of us would be giving up an education. We've talked alot about marriage, what it means to be married, and how difficult it very well may be getting married at such a young age.
Here's the dilemma. My mother, when she was 18, became pregnant, married the father of her child, and gave up all of her educational dreams to start a family. That marriage ended in divorce. She is extremely concerned that I will give up my education for the same thing. She claims that we are simply "too young" to understand what marriage is, how it will be, etc. That people change and we'll probably end up divorcing. Basically, she would much rather he and I "shack up" for 8 years while I finish schooling than get married.
Mind you, both he and I refuse to live with each other before marriage (for obvious reasons).
I know most LDS marry young, but my question to you is, how young is too young?
For what it's worth I was 23 fortwo months when I got married and my wife was 19 1/2. We've been married 22 years now. I have a friend who is marrying for the first time in May at 44. The only gift he wants from me is to know how a marriage can last that long. I don't think there is a secret as long as you remember that marriage is not in the similitude of throw away contact lenses.
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I guess a quick addition should be "added" here by me. When I write about scientific inpropriaties I am certainly not try to discredit the scientific community as a whole. In the same light, when I have touched upon religious mistakes of the past I mean that in a general sense, not being directed at any one religion, and I do understand that religion has been manipulated by individuals throughought World history for personal gain.
As with religion, I appreciate science and the progress it has made in my lifetime. When I was 5 I remember watching the moonlanding on a black and white TV and we had 4 stations. Five if you count the fuzzy UHF station from San Francisco. Now I have 200 stations and watch soccer live from England. And we have reusable spacecraft. My wife is alive today because of medical science. I have seen my 89 year old grandfather survive multiple heart attacks, lung cancer, and 4 aneurysms (sp) because of very skilled doctors. All of whom were very adept at their craft. Plus he's really tough.
So, when "critisizing" individuals who have pushed the evolution envelope to the edge I do so with a healthy respect for science and the individuals involed in the many facets of science that I only have a cursory knowledge of. Just as certain religious zealots of the past (and present) didn't get it right, some scientists in the last century haven't gotten it right either. It is a shame that a scientist as brilliant as Werner von Braun was caught up in something as horrific as the V-1/V-2 project. On the other hand Einstein was kept off the atomic bomb project because of his pacifist feelings.
Brigham Young once wrote that (and I paraphrase) it would be improtant for the Latter Day Saints to study their religion and philosophy, mainly because science would become the realm of savants and that our study of religion and philosophy would help us seperate the "good from the bad" in its relation to science.
I guess we take it all for what it's worth and do the best we can everyday.
O43
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Lets not forget that fantastic science of Eugenics! Perhaps I will live to see the day when Eugenics advocate John Maynard Keynes is completely laid to the dustbin of folly with his phony theories of economics too. I can't forget W. K. Kellogg who also supported Eugenics and whose brother publicly advocated circumcision as a cure to masturbation, at least they gave us the corn flake.
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Really? I'll never think of circumcision again with the same attitude.Eugenics is a very vile approach to human life. I assume it is related somewhat to Princeton University's professor Peter Singer who teaches a "doctrine" known as Specie-ism. Singer's belief is that no species is anymore important than another. That is a very fundamental definition, but I have never taken the time to look into it more than the very fundamental.
I guess believing that there is something special about being human is a fading thought in many intellectual circles.
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Over, I'd suggest that Dawkins is wrong about religion. It is not the inspiration or guiding force for wars and evil in the world. Rather, wicked men use religion to their own ends. Faith itself is nuetral. It can be used for great good or ill. (I'm not saying God is nuetral, but rather 'religion').
It is perhaps true that Christianity has been manipulated for evil over the centuries. However, in less than 100 years, humanism (or atheism, if you will) was misused to kill tens of millions in Maoist China and Stalinist Russia--not to mention the death of one-third of Cambodia's population in the killing fields of anti-religious fervor.
I think he is fundementally wrong also. I do think he does have a valid point about the violence of religion in the past (and present), but I do not think he is being intellectually honest when he plays one hand against religion, and then ignores the scientific communities culpability in many scientific "disasters". Whether it be a purposeful "attack" on mankind (Hiroshima) or accidental (Chernobol). I think, bottom line, Dawkins suffers from a fundemantal lack of honesty.
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For those who watched "Expelled" I found the most telling flaw of the evolutionists was when Stein had that discussion with the Darwinist who looked like he needed a bath. Stein asked him, "Tell me how life started?" Dr. Needs a bar of soap answers, "On the back of crystals." Stein replies, "Yes, thank you, but how did life start?" Dr. NABOS answers, "I told you, on the back of crystals." Ben Stein asks a third time: Yes, but how did life start? "I have told you, on the back of crystals."
In all of its shortcomings, the dialogue between the two was actually quite funny as I watched it.
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I just watched it about a week ago. Of course it's propaganda...but very effective and persuasive. Two particularly interesting aspects--Planned Parenthood was founded on the principle of Eugenics...wipe out a large segment of minority and poor babies. Also, the link between Darwinism and that deplorable science is too strong to ignore.
The other interesting clip was the National Science Foundation representative being asked about the Smithsonian scientist who was railroaded out, and all she can think of is, "You Intelligent Design folk sure are getting a lot of mileage out of that!" Nevermind that a man's career was sabatoged, because Darwinism isn't about the individual, is it? Eugenics may be descredited as a scientific system, but the remnants of group-think and survival of the fittest remain. Excellent movie.
In Richard Dawkin's "The God Delusion" Dawkins continually discusses the issues of religion and suffering, and that religion has caused many wars and suffering thourghout the last several thousand years. To which most of us would agree. However, he offers science as an answer to the suffering of mankind.
Apparently he either refuses to recognize, or is historically ignorant of science's role in many attrocities over the last several hundred years: eugenics of course is one, practiced by National Socialists in Germnay. But the Soviets, Japanese, Maoists, and yes even Western democracies have used scientific notions to experiment on their populations causing quite a bit of harm and grief.
So, Dawkins does share some realities of religion, but refuses to be honest about science.
O43
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I want to watch that movie actually to hear his arguments :)
It's Ben Stein, and if you're familiar with him and his sense of humor, then in a way, that permeates the movie. He spends a lot of time tracking down scientists who have been banned from academia in their mere mentioning ID at times. Richard Dawkins gives an ad naseum descritpion of how people who believe in ID, and religion, are stupid. (His words, not mine...) And, that anyone who is intelligent would never believe in such myths. (Apparently he never met Carl Eyring or James Talmage.)
It seems the biggest "threat" to evolution, that has been presented in the movie so far, I'm not quite done, is molecular and celullar biology. He interviewed several cellular biologists who believe Darwin's theory does not mesh wll with what they are learning about the cell, and the complexity of the cell. Some cellular biologists believe the chance of a cell being created "by accident" is a trillion, trillion, trillion. One doc called it "casino biology" if you believe in Darwin due to the odds.
The one question that none of the "intelligent" people haven't answered yet is, "How did life begin?"
Anyway, it's interesting. As someone who has read Origin of Species, and liked it, I'm not sure it will sway me one way or the other, but some of his guests have presented some good insite.
Anyway, take care.
O43
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I think the word: creatue, that you used describes males quite well. We do things that females would never think of doing. Being dumb is part of our genetic code.
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I just received Ben Stein's Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. I'll watch it this evening and let you all no what it's like tomorrow.
Take Care,
O43
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The book was produced by Society for the Promotion of Buddhism and has a copyright by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai in 1966. It is from Tokyo Japan.
That's the same one I am reading right now. It's very good,and very applicable.
I also enjoy the writings of Thic Nhat Hanh. "Being Peace" and "Living Buddha Living Christ" are my two favorite non-LDS religious books.
Nice to have you here bodhigirlsmiles. Welcome.
Take Care,
O43
Is it tacky to bring your own snacks to the movie theater?
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No.