Yes, my understanding is the Amish are very skilled with products in high demand. Since their community takes care of them when they are ill, there is probably little need for hospitals. Often, our hospitals are filled with people who make poor lifestyle choices (alcohol abuse, poor dietary habits, lack of exercise, etc.). Not so sure people who live modestly need these services.
Unfortunately my update is that I have no change in my T. I had my hearing tested earlier this week, my hearing loss has remained the same: mild mid frequency hearing loss. I can hear very well at high frequencies, so my audiologist does not think my hearing loss is due to age, as it is the high frequencies that are affected with age induced hearing loss. She thinks my hearing loss is either genetic or something sudden that happened in my body (injury or growth?) She cannot understand why I have Tinnitus.
When the laws exist and are being enforced, the only way to improve your own well being is to make others better off. We are enjoying having a personal computer as a result of Bill Gates' contributions. The money he has is not money that he took away from someone else. He created value for others (and part of the value he created went to him). Selfish people are the ones who are are most motivated to help others/create new value. And this is not going to be some kind of a phony motivation that will dissipate as soon as the going will get tough. It will be motivation that can be consistently relied upon. [You would probably not want to fly on an airplane that was built by some volunteers who wanted to help others to go places; you would (and should) feel safer in an airplane built by people who want your money, and who don't want to pay any compensation to your family should their plane crash.] Selfish people will predictably work hard (for their own benefit), but others will be able to take advantage of their results of their efforts.
One can refuse to go on life support.
Thank you for the info, I looked them up online. I will look further into this on the weekend when I am not working and have more time. From what I can see this institute looks very helpful.
Thank you Greg, this is very helpful. I have some information on a spine clinic in Minnesota as well, a little closer to my home. Although visiting California would be sweet!
Starting to see your point, feeling like I can be a little naïve
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Unfortunately once someone gets to this stage they are not usually capable of a making this decision...hence the reason for life support.
I asked a lawyer who helped me buy a home to create a Power of Attorney document for me. I asked him to include a "Please do not resuscitate" statement there (or to create a separate document about it). The lawyer agreed to help. When, a couple of days later, I came to his office to pick up all of the documents, I decided to read the documents (the lawyer did not invite me to do that). The legal language was difficult to follow, but soon I realized that one of the documents was saying something along the lines of: "Should I become incapacitated, under No Circumstances should care be discontinued. Even if I appear to be sane, and I beg for the care to stop, I hereby ask you to not listen to me, and to continue caring for me."
Yes for sure, good advice. I know your post was probably not meant to be funny, but I found it funny.
Now it is in fact an amusing memory. Back then, I couldn't believe my eyes. You don't expect to pay a significant amount of money and then get the complete opposite of what you wanted to get. This happened years before euthanasia for some terminally ill patients was made legal in Canada.
It really is but I feel like it's part of the growing up process. Like how when were younger we believe in stuff like Santa and the Tooth Fairy. Realizing there is no god(s) and that we're all alone (at least in a metaphysical sense) is an important mental milestone.
Hi, you seem very kind, so no I don't think you're attacking me at all. I am interested in your views as well, and love discussing view points even if different from mine. How boring the world would be if we all had the exact same thoughts. I don't have all the answers, not even close. Frankly I would have a hard time being in awe of a creator I could easily figure out.
How much information is stored in the human genome? The answer to that question alone, does not allow me to think life is an accident.
Considering genetic information can grow by polyploidization, duplication, or insertion over billions of years, it's not really too surprising. And if it's hard to believe a complex being could have come to be by itself, then it's logically harder to believe a more complex being could have come to be by itself and made less complex beings.
1) Just because there was no eye witnesses doesn't mean we can't make a conviction. There's other things like DNA evidence and forensics that tell the story. This applies to science.
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