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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #50 on: June 08, 2013, 10:34:32 AM »
If she is serious about this effort then she will stand knee deep in peat moss.
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward toward the light; but the laden traveller may never reach the end of it.  - Ursula Le Guin

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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #51 on: June 08, 2013, 03:03:39 PM »
Phffft.  I went that long when I had mono with barely a few sips of plain water.  Oh yeah, and a couple liters of IV fluids.  Went from about 160 to 130.  I was just turning 18 at the time.  Took over a year of purposeful effort to get back to 155-160.

This woman won't garner any sympathy or respect from me.
I went five weeks fed through an iv once- no food, no water.
I dont reccommend it to amyone.
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #52 on: June 08, 2013, 03:31:03 PM »
Yeah, not a good weight loss method.
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #53 on: June 08, 2013, 04:12:01 PM »
In Seattle, what will she live on the clouds roll back in?
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #54 on: June 08, 2013, 05:38:41 PM »
Phffft.  I went that long when I had mono with barely a few sips of plain water.  Oh yeah, and a couple liters of IV fluids.  Went from about 160 to 130.  I was just turning 18 at the time.  Took over a year of purposeful effort to get back to 155-160.

I bet you got over the mono
On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #55 on: June 08, 2013, 05:49:09 PM »
True. But I'm apparently at much higher risk for lymphomas now as a result of infection.  Still, probabl y better than Chrons.
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #56 on: June 08, 2013, 06:10:02 PM »
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #57 on: June 08, 2013, 07:47:43 PM »
Bobby Sands made it 66 days before dying.  Just depends on the person, I guess.
In the 1960s, an unnamed and overweight Scotsman spent more than a year fasting, living on nothing but water, vitamin supplements and occasionally yeast and potassium when needed. Lost 120 kilograms.
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #58 on: June 08, 2013, 08:25:21 PM »
In the 1960s, an unnamed and overweight Scotsman spent more than a year fasting, living on nothing but water, vitamin supplements and occasionally yeast and potassium when needed. Lost 120 kilograms.

You would think that woud have kilt him.
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #59 on: June 08, 2013, 08:38:39 PM »
I predict she won't make it that far and will be eating within 2 weeks.

I predict she will be near death and fed intravenously in two weeks.

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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #60 on: June 08, 2013, 08:41:50 PM »
The minute I heard about this I thought to myself "I bet she is from Seattle."  With loons such as these, Patty Murray, and Jim McDermott, it's sometimes embarassing to live in the area.
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #61 on: June 08, 2013, 08:44:16 PM »
What's the over / under on her getting a cheeseburger in the next 30 days?

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/06/07/woman-attempting-to-live-on-nothing-but-water-and-sunlight-for-6-months/?test=latestnews
Stupid hippie. Not even plants live on just sunlight and water.

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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #62 on: June 08, 2013, 08:49:31 PM »
This points to a larger problem that a great many people succumb to: Never having figured out a system to determine whether a particular claim/belief is true or false.

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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #63 on: June 08, 2013, 09:07:12 PM »
True. But I'm apparently at much higher risk for lymphomas now as a result of infection.  Still, probabl y better than Chrons.

I'm just teasing, not really trying to one-up anybody.  ;)
On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #64 on: June 08, 2013, 09:28:43 PM »
The minute I heard about this I thought to myself "I bet she is from Seattle."  With loons such as these, Patty Murray, and Jim McDermott, it's sometimes embarassing to live in the area.

Where do you live?  I'm ~10 miles east of Mt Vernon
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #65 on: June 08, 2013, 10:48:41 PM »
You need to be "green"   :lol:

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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #66 on: June 08, 2013, 11:50:53 PM »
"Look at it this way. If America frightens you, feel free to live somewhere else. There are plenty of other countries that don't suffer from excessive liberty. America is where the Liberty is. Liberty is not certified safe."

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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #67 on: June 09, 2013, 12:10:40 AM »
Yes.

However, I think Kipling said it better.

Which poem?
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #68 on: June 09, 2013, 01:21:10 AM »
I live on the east side of Lake Washington.
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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #69 on: June 09, 2013, 01:33:31 AM »
I live on the east side of Lake Washington.

Want to grab a beer next week?  SWMBO is heading out of town.  Skookum Brewery by the Arlington airport is good and a rough split of the distance for each of us.
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Re: Re: Re: Living on Light
« Reply #70 on: June 09, 2013, 11:24:23 AM »
You would think that woud have kilt him.

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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #71 on: June 09, 2013, 11:27:50 AM »
You would think that woud have kilt him.

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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #72 on: June 09, 2013, 11:41:23 AM »

Yes.

However, I think Kipling said it better.



Which poem?



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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #73 on: June 09, 2013, 01:37:09 PM »
Quote from: Wikipedia, the font of all wisdom (YMMV)
Wiley Brooks is founder of the Breatharian Institute of America. He was first introduced to the public in 1980 when appearing on the TV show That's Incredible!.[23] Brooks stopped teaching recently to "devote 100% of his time on solving the problem as to why he needed to eat some type of food to keep his physical body alive and allow his light body to manifest completely."[24] Brooks claims to have found "four major deterrents" which prevented him from living without food: "people pollution", "food pollution", "air pollution" and "electro pollution".[24]

In 1983 he was reportedly observed leaving a Santa Cruz 7-Eleven with a Slurpee, hot dog and Twinkies.[25]

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Re: Living on Light
« Reply #74 on: June 09, 2013, 01:41:49 PM »
So, the key is sunlight, water AND hotdogs, slurpees and twinkies.

Wow! I know a lot of people on that diet!
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