I’m still relatively new to this site—at least insofar as using my voice is concerned. I was, well, overwhelmed by the amount of information here, I was not at all clear about what my own issues were, I had limited energy and saw this could be a sink-hole for time, and partly—although before I had to leave my professional life, I was a teacher—I am reluctant to use my voice in a public way. Read into this all the psychology you want; it’s certainly there!
I suppose it was my health issues that drove me to the computer. Desperation, fear, frustration, pain, depression. I have appreciated so much of what I have found here, not the least of which is the multitude of voices that let themselves be known. So, thank you.
And this brings me to my point:
What’s going on, on this Thread?? Can’t we all just get along?
I was reading in the middle of the night—before which I hadn’t even discovered this line of thought—and read this through. I felt upset as I moved along, but couldn’t quite put my finger on what was so upsetting. I realize it’s that feeling of watching people argue, and knowing their perspectives are so different they may never see eye to eye. My parents were like this and had a bad marriage for 36 years. My husband and I are like this and he is truly the love of my life.
For us, it’s just a matter of acknowledging the differences and deciding not to make them an issue. Is that too simple? My husband, like my father was, is a man of science, a physicist by training, an architect by practice. He is a thorough atheist. I’m the philosopher, the Liberal Arts major, ardently looking for some meaning in the universe. An unhappy agnostic looking for proof. Though understand, my proof would never be my husband’s. Well, not true, it could be. He’s certainly capable of convincing me of something I hadn’t known about or fully understood. But my proof might also fall into the realm of feelings.
So, why so much antagonism toward
@ppodhajski?
Some of us like playing with him. If you don’t like his game, leave the playground! Perhaps his use of language isn’t as clear as you or he want it to be, but my experience and observation has been that he’s open to questioning and willing to look again.
His perspective, that of food and science is not totally new in this arena. Certainly Adele Davis and Linus Pauling, and no doubt many others, have been here before.
Those who are familiar with my posts know that my biggest hurdle has been getting past the effects of supplements in the form of a B-Complex vitamin. Before coming here, it never would have occurred to me that my vitamins were really hurting me. Yet I recall
@ppodhajski mentioning B-Complex vitamins and how one day he would like to post just why he thought they could do so much damage. I’d sign in to read that post! And I’d have plenty to add.
Can’t we all just wriggle into that small space where our personal Venn diagrams overlap and try to see that we are not only all human, but all experience the world in a unique way? If what he has to say doesn’t meet your particular criteria, let it go. There should be room for all voices here.
If he’s gone from this site, I, for one, will be very sad. Much of what he has said—and I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface—has given me hope and a direction for thought and exploration that hadn’t really occurred to me before.
I’m just muddling along, trying to balance my health issues with the needs of a house, a husband, a son, a large enough extended family and the few friends I find less and less time to connect with.
Now back to Dr. Steven Zeisel, distinguished Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, PhD, Nutrition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980, MD, Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1975. “Common genetic polymorphisms affect the human requirement for the nutrient choline,”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1574369/
