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Originally Posted by macysmama
I feel like this is a really specialized website though.
I don't go out into the sun much as my hobbies which I'm so summersed in tend to be indoors. I use sunscreen when I do and the kind that has four types of blocksQuote:
Originally Posted by Hydrangea
@lemontrees I have a question. So, SEI are skilled at recognizing and managing emotions how does this factor into being a negativist dicotomy? To me someone like that or who is able to do that seems to others as approachable, happy, nice, tries to get along with others, seems empathtic and welcoming. Can you help explain to me where the negativist comes into play?i
I think SEI's are less likely than positivists to be optimistic about new experiences and people- even if they are generally accepting, they may not think something is really exciting unless fed a lot of Ne?? more likely to give up on stuff before beginning? like all negativists, they tend to see and frame things in terms of what's "missing" rather than what's there. (dunno if that's completely accurate or helps...)Quote:
Originally Posted by Maritsa
Is it true that Alphas like individuals more than the overarching humanity? Is this because they can get to know individuals personally? I like humanity more that individuals. Sometimes personal interactions are too much energy but in a party I want people to invite those that I don't know yet because I want to include strangers in the circle as to expand it.Quote:
Originally Posted by lemontrees
Retinol is good at shrinking your skin pores and making your skin smoother but remember it works in conjunction with the other fat soluble nutrients D and K2. All three work together to stop any excess of one from becoming toxic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maritsa
Magnesium is also useful for night as a sleeping supplement. If you've ever had restless leg syndrome that could be an indicator of magnesium deficiency. Just thought I'd throw that in there. :p
i'm really not sure, that might be personal. I think there's a def difference between the way democratic quadras and aristocratic approach humanity that i've noticed, but I can't manage to articulate it clearly. but i think alphas do tend more to evaluate individuals (or groups) on a specific basis rather than identifying them a the same as a bigger group or ideology they are connected to (??) which isn't the same as not stereotyping people (alphas stereotype all the time.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Maritsa
one bad example I can think of is, I was talking to a good SLE friend recently about police, she was saying how (as a group) they shouldn't be trusted, they uphold violence against the people, i was saying how police are people too, they have families and need to make a living, if i meet an individual police i don't think i want to treat him differently just b/c of where he works. we were like, talking about two completely different things hahaha.
:) you're right. I asked about this and that's what they said too. It's doing a fine job.Quote:
Originally Posted by StridingStrider
Heavy machinery scares me. I took a jewelry class in college and tried to get out of the silver casting part because I don't like the fire but he made me do it. As a single Mom one of the most frustrating things for me was having to put up shelves and fix things. Guys who are capable in that way should be offering single Moms a hand, I REALLY think. But my SLI girlfriend is VERY handy. I bought a big gym on Craigslist (which I just gave away before I moved as my new basement is less than a 1/4 size of old) with four stations and those rectangle weights and cables and my SLI girlfriend is very mechanically adept came with me and directed the whole operation of taking it apart, numbering the parts with masking tape and engineering it into our little cars and then putting it back together in my basement...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmers
Is your SLI wife handy? Maybe she would take over building the shelves...
Probably like me you CAN do that stuff if you have to, even if you hate it. I did a giant fiberglass art project when our city sponsored on of those for artists, and I learned how to fiberglass in order to adjust the structure (because the way the original fiberglass piece was made was not in line with my vision of how I wanted it to be. So I learned on youtube how to fiberglass. I fixed my problem but I would NOT do fiberglass for fun.
I live in CT now! Just moved last week. Still unpacking, but its looking pretty good finally. I have worked so hard and so has my husband. So much to do. Its been a few exhausting months.
@lemontrees and @Maritsa, my SEI friend is coming Monday evening! A guest already! I do not feel ready for guest in normal circumstances as I feel swamped and I want to establish order in this home, however, my SEI friend is fantastic at helping and she says she wants to help. She is an amzing helper, too. Are all SEIs so amazing at practical help?? She wants to drive to Boston with her Dual husband, who has to work there for the week, and he will drop her of here through Thursday then pick her up. She will help me sew and paint and clean. And I will cook for her. Well, if I know her she cannot sit while I cook; she will want to help. My husband will eat well and we'll have meals for the freezer I am sure. But I will also be able to show her around this pretty pretty area.
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I have some interesting news. A local gallery owner, operator, wants to have an art show displaying my art on Hyperion street in Los Angeles. This is a very trendy spot. She's primarily interested in my watercolors. I went out and purchased several black wood frames to showcase my pieces in because I am aiming for uniformity and theme in my work that I will present to the public.
Wonderful! Could you show us one?? :) Or an older piece?Quote:
Originally Posted by Maritsa
I want to learn to play a ukulele. It seems like it would be really fun.
It is a very pleasant sound. My art school has classesQuote:
Originally Posted by Jimmers
@StridingStrider
Your avatar looks like some poor man is being attacked by the largest and most disgusting fart ever known to humankind, lol.
Do you know who the artist was?
love open C tuning
At this point I'm pretty sure I'm Delta. Thinking I may be SLI, which was my first pick before I became confused and drifted. I think I click with IEEs irl and online. My intuitive powers have grown substantially in the last decade. Before long I will be reading people's thoughts. Someone talk me into it or out of it, please. Thank you.
If an idea is presented to you and it resonates as an effective and powerful self improvement method are you easily taken or enthusiastic about it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmers
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Originally Posted by Maritsa
I'm really not sure. In terms of self improvement, it depends on what the idea is. If I notice a weakness within myself, I may feel embarrassed if it's pointed out too directly, but inside I may be ashamed by this weakness and seek to work on it quietly and in a determined fashion until the weakness is overcome.
Let me give an example to illustrate this. When I was in college, I made a comment about homosexuality that my entp friend took offense to. He told a bisexual friend about it and when I went to a party with the my entp buddy, the bisexual came right up to me and he grabbed my nuts in front of everyone to purposefully embarrass me. When I told my friend how it made me feel, he wasn't at all empathetic, but pointed out that he told the bisexual that I was homophobic and it bothered the bisexual so much that he did that to me to prove a point.
While I feel what they did to me was wrong, it did open me up to the possibility that my views were perhaps too rigid and overtime I became more openly excepting of homosexuals, or became aware that how I phrased things may offend homosexuals whether I intended it to or not. It's not that I was every really homophobic, only uncomfortable around ostentatious displays of behavior, which includes overdone public displays of affection between same sex couples as well(again something I've kind of gotten passed).
So, I was open to the idea of self improvement, even though I wish it would've happened some other way.
Wow what a story. It would seem that is an introvert thing for you to do but what I was thinking of was something like if a friend told you that a seminar on let's say releasing inhabitants and thereby giving you the tools to be fulfilled though seemingly may be viewed by skepticism once you resonated with their ideas as something that works for you might you embrace their idea to such an all encompassing extreme as to want everyone else that you're close to to embrace it as well? That might include telling others about it and even encouraging them to also try that method for themselve...that's like propegation of ideas but more so some idea that you believe whole heartedly to work for you.Quote:
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http://www.wikiart.org/en/titian/cain-and-abel-1544Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmers
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@Maritsa Nice signature. :lol:
I tend to be open to ideas and excited about them if they make sense. I would really dislike telling someone about an idea that probably wouldn't work. For instance, I'm recovering from a nasty cold and one of my old friends is into alternative medicine. She said to soak in a bath of epsom salt and baking soda and gave me the ratio. I was skeptical about it at first, but I did it anyways out of curiosity. I didn't feel any different and I'm not likely to recommend it to someone else as a way to treat cold symptoms. It was an idea that had questionable benefits, and the field of alternative medicine is questionable as to what works and what doesn't. It's not that some of them couldn't, but I want to know why it works to see if it holds up to my understanding of the principles involved.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maritsa
love Titian *thumbs up*Quote:
Originally Posted by StridingStrider
Try mega dosing vitamin C for a couple of days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmers
I would, but that's been shown to be ineffective.Quote:
Originally Posted by StridingStrider
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Originally Posted by Jimmers
yeah. It seems that many of our cold symptoms are from an overactive immune system in response to a rhinovirus :/Quote:
Originally Posted by StridingStrider
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/op...f=opinion&_r=0
Hey @Jimmers, I have been into alternative meds a long time. I have not heard of Epson salts and baking soda for a cold though! But I would be curious to know why it is supposed to work. I have a simple natural method to share here that anyone can use that will get rid of your cold faster.
My interest in alternative meds began when I was teaching K-2, 600 kids a week, and getting my Masters at night across town. I wasn't sleeping much and was working hard and exposed to a lot of germs at school so I was getting colds and other teachers said "Get to a doctor and get antibiotics!" I had never tried them but they were so sure of this solution, so I let my doctore prescribe me one. And it worked, but, my colds began to come more strong and more often. I suspected it was the antibiotics I now took for colds, and the doctors said no, it was not that.
Then a friend gave me a Dr. Julian Whitaker "Health and Healing" newsletter, which featured an article on antibiotics, which explained what we all know now: taking them kills off healthy bacteria and then you cannot fight the next cold well. Not to mention that most of the time the doctor does not take a culture of your germs; he just prescribes by guessing, and not always right, so you have to try again. This article explained a study done on raw garlic. Basically, putting garlic and in a petri dish and also all the different antibiotics in petri dishes, with germs, and the raw garlic kills more bacteria than all of them - and kills viruses, to boot! So Whitaker recommended raw garlic, which you can take with lemon. If you just can't handle the raw garlic, there is odor-free raw garlic tablets like Garlique and Garlicin (you need "high-allicin" ones, like those).
(But your doctor won't prescribe you garlic because its natural and cannot be patented, so no one can get rich on it!)
So that was the beginning of my high interest in alternative meds. Because I tried it, according to his directions (which I will tell you), and my cold went away very quickly and I got the next cold much longer in the future than I would have expected. And right off I begin to get fewer colds, once I stopped those antibiotics (which I never took again) and when get a cold or flue, I took the garlic protocol, following the protocol carefully, according to Whitaker's directions. And I quickly found that I never again had colds that anyone could notice. And it still is that way today. As long as I use Garlique (or any other protocol I have learned), faithfully at first sign, then I no one ever knows I have a cold when I have one. The symptoms are that mild. I never have sinus congestion or cough that anyone can notice, only I know that "something" is going on there, that I am tired because I am fighting it off, its a rawness in my throat or a tingling in my sinus but that's all. The symptoms just are not prominent to others, only noticable to me. (But I have since tried other protocols; garlic is not the only alternative health protocol for that works for colds and flues. And what I am using now has kept me cold and flu free for 3 years running now...
There are many protocols that kill off colds fast that you can use, and your local health food store - like Lori's Natural Foods in Henrietta -- has many different solutions that work (they have helpful staff there!). However I am telling you about the garlic becaseu its easy for anyone to access at their local neighborhood pharmacy - usually they will have Garlicin or Garlique, or you can brave the raw garlic, washing it down with fresh lemon to clear the breath (I haven't tried it, but that's what Whitaker says).
But in order to have it work, you must follow the protocol. Like taking an antibiotic, it doesn't work if you don't follow the directions. Antibiotics generally are 3 times a day (unless they are time-release). Same with the garlic, whether in raw form or the tablet, you have to take it 3x a day, EVERY day, and you should take it for 10 days, even if the symptoms have ended completely, same as if you are taking an antibiotic. Because if its not all cleared out, it can grow again and there is your cold back. If you stop the cold as soon as it starts, ten days may be long, but you do have to always continue taking the garlic it for at least 3 days after all symptoms disappear. I always, without fail, had my symptoms relieve noticeably after a couple of doses. If you are in the midst of a bad cold, you will notice when a few hours have gone by and its time for another dose, because the doses do relieve the symptoms!
I took Leckysupport to the LACMA this morning
I have spent the last couple hours or more online trying to figure out how to get a CT license. Cannot find the answer online and navigating the CT DMV website is getting me nowhere. I have been waiting for them to send me a pass-code to get into the next part of the website but they are not sending it. You are supposed to sign up for a drivers test - I can't imagine why, but it sure looks like I need a drivers test! - BEFORE you go to DMV. And an emissions test which I did not need in NYS. I guess I have to go there because I cannot sign up for it online. And wait, be prepared to wait, the local insurance agency said...
Today we had SLIs 4 yr. old granddaughter here and she is my BFF.
I was afraid to go out anywhere in the car, though. Police stopped SLI yesterday in my car w/NY plates and said I was here illegally because its been more than 30 days and I have not changed plates yet. They also complained about my rosary on the rearview mirror. :( Its never obstructed my view before. :shrug: And, that my registration and insurance was not in the car. :eek: But can't they just look it up on there computer in their patrol car? They did. But I can't have them stop my car again without that in glove box. Well now I have to find those things, and all other forms of ID I need, in some boxes somewhere, and go to SSA to change my name and then DMV tomorrow. Emissions testing too. I can't think of any fun in this...
Oh, goodness, what a pain, Eliza.
I had my own run-in with govt. bureaucracy earlier this year with taxes. Mine got rejected and the only reason they gave was this sort of code and a "try again." I did some searching for what the code meant, and one possible indication was that my identity had been stolen. The suggestion was to contact the Social Security administration. When I tried to call them, they wouldn't talk to me because something in the information I had given them was wrong; but they wouldn't tell me what part was wrong.
After more digging and calling, I finally found out that somehow the birthdate the Social Security people had on file was different from the real thing. Someone had mixed up a 7 with a 4. And it had been like that since a few days after I was born! No one had caught it before this check that the IRS did with my info when I submitted my taxes. So I had to gather and take a whole pile of identifying paperwork (birth certificate, etc.) to the local Social Security office and have them create a whole new SS card for me, as well as updating/correcting their system.
A couple of weeks later, I was finally able to successfully submit my taxes...
Ugh. Talk about a head ache. At least they stopped him and not YOU! I hope that you can successfully take care of the documents and get it out of the way! YOU'RE IN NEW YORK! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Eliza Thomason
That all is very unfortunate :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Eliza Thomason
hey, have you ever been pulled over and just when the cop gets to your window, have the sudden urge to just put the pedal to the metal and
and see how far you can get? I'd like for him to see my face as I contort it, yell "You'll never catch me copper!", laugh like an evil maniac and drive off.
I'd probably pull over a mile up the road and say, "Just kidding."
Oh yes, the bucket list.
I hope to finish wiring this room I've been working on by tomorrow and to have my work inspected by next week so I can insulate the walls before we have to turn our furnaces on. I have to buy a supplemental gas furnace as well, as last year was uncomfortably cold *burrrrrr*
I actually can't wait until I finish this room so I can catch up on some reading and maybe some art.
It is so troubling to hear people gossiping about other people behind their back. It just goes to show how insecure and vindictive people can be sometimes. I guess I just don't get it. What's the point? What good is it to anyone? Getting tired of this sort of drama, especially at work :/ Next time I should speak up.
I want to see one too! As a side note there's a EII older lady at my store who's mentioned she paints. I'm going to ask her to reproduce some paintings for me. If she says no I'm going to have to ask @Maritsa. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Eliza Thomason
I too vote you as the nicest by the way and hahah you know reproductions may be illegal.Quote:
Originally Posted by StridingStrider
Its only illegal if they find out. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Maritsa
But seriously it's a minor piece of art work from a game.