Comments for MGTutoring.com. A Rational Perspective on Education. http://mgtutoring.com/blog Serving the US with a rational perspective on education. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:26:13 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Comment on The Benefits of a Paleo Diet by Administrator http://mgtutoring.com/blog/2012/01/05/the-benefits-of-a-paleo-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-30821 Administrator Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:26:13 +0000 http://mgtutoring.com/blog/?p=6872#comment-30821 Eileen: was not my mother, was the mother of someone I tutor. I'm not sure how long she had lupus. She switched to the Paleo Diet and used some advice of Christian Wernstedt at <a href="http://vitalobjectives.com/" rel="nofollow">Vital Objectives</a>. Eileen: was not my mother, was the mother of someone I tutor. I’m not sure how long she had lupus. She switched to the Paleo Diet and used some advice of Christian Wernstedt at Vital Objectives.

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Comment on The Benefits of a Paleo Diet by Eileen http://mgtutoring.com/blog/2012/01/05/the-benefits-of-a-paleo-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-30754 Eileen Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:43:30 +0000 http://mgtutoring.com/blog/?p=6872#comment-30754 How long did your Mum have Lupus for? Did she follow the autoimmune Paleo Diet? How long did your Mum have Lupus for? Did she follow the autoimmune Paleo Diet?

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Comment on Math Humor by kelleyn http://mgtutoring.com/blog/2012/01/20/math-humor-2/comment-page-1/#comment-30424 kelleyn Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:35:31 +0000 http://mgtutoring.com/blog/?p=6879#comment-30424 Cute! Cute!

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Comment on “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou by Anonymous http://mgtutoring.com/blog/2011/09/19/still-i-rise-by-maya-angelou/comment-page-1/#comment-29596 Anonymous Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:11:31 +0000 http://mgtutoring.com/blog/?p=6848#comment-29596 Wealthy Men The men who have pride and peace of mind     And the respect of other men... The men who say in their twilight years     That they'd do it all again... The men who love the flowers and trees     And watching the animals play... These are wealthy men, for what they have     Can never be taken away.              Wishing them happiness and best of luck!!      Happy New Year!        Wealthy Men
The men who have pride and peace of mind
    And the respect of other men…
The men who say in their twilight years
    That they’d do it all again…
The men who love the flowers and trees
    And watching the animals play…
These are wealthy men, for what they have
    Can never be taken away.             
Wishing them happiness and best of luck!! 
    Happy New Year!       

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Comment on “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou by Anonymous http://mgtutoring.com/blog/2011/09/19/still-i-rise-by-maya-angelou/comment-page-1/#comment-29350 Anonymous Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:35:55 +0000 http://mgtutoring.com/blog/?p=6848#comment-29350 From: A rough draft by Maus Merryjest There is no true selfless action, as all interactions on a human psychological or physical level are actions of trade: Just as you use currency to pay for a product whose value you admire or require, you use the currency of your respect, appreciation, deference, and the highest (and noblest) of them, love (the recognition and deep appreciation of values and virtues in the other which you hold in the highest of esteems), in order to properly reward the virtues of the person you appreciate. And because their virtues or their presence or their intelligence or some other factor brings you pleasure, a healthy emotional transaction ensues when reciprocated.  Merry Christmas! From: A rough draft by Maus Merryjest
There is no true selfless action, as all interactions on a human psychological or physical level are actions of trade: Just as you use currency to pay for a product whose value you admire or require, you use the currency of your respect, appreciation, deference, and the highest (and noblest) of them, love (the recognition and deep appreciation of values and virtues in the other which you hold in the highest of esteems), in order to properly reward the virtues of the person you appreciate. And because their virtues or their presence or their intelligence or some other factor brings you pleasure, a healthy emotional transaction ensues when reciprocated. 
Merry Christmas!

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Comment on “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou by Anonymous http://mgtutoring.com/blog/2011/09/19/still-i-rise-by-maya-angelou/comment-page-1/#comment-28384 Anonymous Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:04:41 +0000 http://mgtutoring.com/blog/?p=6848#comment-28384       “Our sense of revenge is as exact as our mathematical faculty, and until both terms of the equations are satisfied we can not get over the sense of something left undone”      
“Our sense of revenge is as exact as our mathematical faculty, and until both terms of the equations are satisfied we can not get over the sense of something left undone”

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Comment on “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou by Anonymous http://mgtutoring.com/blog/2011/09/19/still-i-rise-by-maya-angelou/comment-page-1/#comment-27999 Anonymous Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:58:53 +0000 http://mgtutoring.com/blog/?p=6848#comment-27999 Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

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Comment on “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou by Anonymous http://mgtutoring.com/blog/2011/09/19/still-i-rise-by-maya-angelou/comment-page-1/#comment-27379 Anonymous Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:51:41 +0000 http://mgtutoring.com/blog/?p=6848#comment-27379 And in the same sense we are all the saviours one of another, or may become so. A sudden emergency arises, and I stand faltering and weak with fear. My friend beside me is strong and fearless. He sees the emergency. He summons up all the latent powers within him, and springs forth to meet it. This sublime example arouses me, calls my latent powers into activity, when but for him I might not have known them there. I follow his example. I now know my powers, and know them forever after. Thus, in this, my friend has become my saviour. I am weak in some point of character, -- vacillating, yielding, stumbling, falling, continually eating the bitter fruit of it all. My friend is strong, he has gained thorough self-mastery. The majesty and beauty of power are upon his brow. I see his example, I love his life, I am influenced by his power. My soul longs and cries out for the same. A supreme effort of will -- that imperial master that will take one anywhere when rightly directed -- arises within me, it is born at last, and it calls all the soul's latent powers into activity: and instead of stumbling I stand firm, instead of giving over in weakness I stand firm and master, I enter into the joys of full self-mastery, and through this into the mastery of all things besides. And thus my friend has again become my saviour. With the new power I have acquired through the example and influence of my saviour-friend, I, in turn, stand before a friend who is struggling, who is stumbling and in despair. He sees, he feels, the power of my strength. He longs for, his soul cries out for the same. His interior forces are called into activity, he now knows his powers; and instead of the slave, he becomes the master, and thus I, in turn, have become his saviour. Oh, the wonderful sense of sublimity, the mighty feelings of responsibility, the deep sense of power and peace the recognition of this fact should bring to each and all. God works through the instrumentality of human agency. Then forever away with that old, shrivelling, weakening, dying, and devilish idea that we are poor worms of the dust! We may or we may not be: it all depends upon the self. The moment we believe we are we become such; and as long as we hold to the belief we will be held to this identity, and will act and live as such. The moment, however, we recognize our divinity, our higher, our God-selves, and the fact that we are the saviours of our fellow-men, we become saviours, and stand and move in the midst of a majesty and beauty and power that of itself proclaims us as such. There is a prevalent idea to the effect that overcoming in this sense necessarily implies more or less of a giving up, -- that it means something possibly on the order of asceticism. On the contrary, the highest, truest, keenest pleasures the human soul can know, it finds only after the higher is entered upon and has commenced its work of mastery; and, instead of there being a giving up of any kind, there is a great law which says that the lower always and of its own accord falls away before the higher. (from: What All the World's A-Seeking ) And in the same sense we are all the saviours one of another, or may become so. A sudden emergency arises, and I stand faltering and weak with fear. My friend beside me is strong and fearless. He sees the emergency. He summons up all the latent powers within him, and springs forth to meet it. This sublime example arouses me, calls my latent powers into activity, when but for him I might not have known them there. I follow his example. I now know my powers, and know them forever after. Thus, in this, my friend has become my saviour.

I am weak in some point of character, — vacillating, yielding, stumbling, falling, continually eating the bitter fruit of it all. My friend is strong, he has gained thorough self-mastery. The majesty and beauty of power are upon his brow. I see his example, I love his life, I am influenced by his power. My soul longs and cries out for the same. A supreme effort of will — that imperial master that will take one anywhere when rightly directed — arises within me, it is born at last, and it calls all the soul’s latent powers into activity: and instead of stumbling I stand firm, instead of giving over in weakness I stand firm and master, I enter into the joys of full self-mastery, and through this into the mastery of all things besides. And thus my friend has again become my saviour.

With the new power I have acquired through the example and influence of my saviour-friend, I, in turn, stand before a friend who is struggling, who is stumbling and in despair. He sees, he feels, the power of my strength. He longs for, his soul cries out for the same. His interior forces are called into activity, he now knows his powers; and instead of the slave, he becomes the master, and thus I, in turn, have become his saviour. Oh, the wonderful sense of sublimity, the mighty feelings of responsibility, the deep sense of power and peace the recognition of this fact should bring to each and all. God works through the instrumentality of human agency. Then forever away with that old, shrivelling, weakening, dying, and devilish idea that we are poor worms of the dust! We may or we may not be: it all depends upon the self. The moment we believe we are we become such; and as long as we hold to the belief we will be held to this identity, and will act and live as such. The moment, however, we recognize our divinity, our higher, our God-selves, and the fact that we are the saviours of our fellow-men, we become saviours, and stand and move in the midst of a majesty and beauty and power that of itself proclaims us as such.

There is a prevalent idea to the effect that overcoming in this sense necessarily implies more or less of a giving up, — that it means something possibly on the order of asceticism. On the contrary, the highest, truest, keenest pleasures the human soul can know, it finds only after the higher is entered upon and has commenced its work of mastery; and, instead of there being a giving up of any kind, there is a great law which says that the lower always and of its own accord falls away before the higher.

(from: What All the World’s A-Seeking )

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Comment on Memory, Learning, and Vitamin B12 by Winona Lockheart http://mgtutoring.com/blog/2011/05/09/memory-learning-and-vitamin-b12/comment-page-1/#comment-26301 Winona Lockheart Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:07:40 +0000 http://mgtutoring.com/blog/?p=6497#comment-26301 "Vitamin B12 works together with folate in the synthesis of DNA and red blood cells. It’s also involved in the production of the myelin sheath around the nerves, and the conduction of nerve impulses. You can think of the brain and the nervous system as a big tangle of wires. Myelin is the insulation that protects those wires and helps them to conduct messages." All i can say is without Vitamin B12, you might have a lot of complications. One example is anemia. So i guess Vitamin B12 is really important just like in one site http://products.mercola.com/vitamin-b12-spray/ it says "Vitamin B12 supports a healthy mood and feelings of well-being.* And then there's this -- it also provides excellent support for your memory, mental clarity, and concentration.*" “Vitamin B12 works together with folate in the synthesis of DNA and red blood cells. It’s also involved in the production of the myelin sheath around the nerves, and the conduction of nerve impulses. You can think of the brain and the nervous system as a big tangle of wires. Myelin is the insulation that protects those wires and helps them to conduct messages.”

All i can say is without Vitamin B12, you might have a lot of complications. One example is anemia. So i guess Vitamin B12 is really important just like in one site http://products.mercola.com/vitamin-b12-spray/ it says “Vitamin B12 supports a healthy mood and feelings of well-being.* And then there’s this — it also provides excellent support for your memory, mental clarity, and concentration.*”

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Comment on “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou by Anonymous http://mgtutoring.com/blog/2011/09/19/still-i-rise-by-maya-angelou/comment-page-1/#comment-25959 Anonymous Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:24:58 +0000 http://mgtutoring.com/blog/?p=6848#comment-25959 "The Ghazal of What Hurt" by Peter Cole Pain froze you, for years—and fear—leaving scars.  But now, as though miraculously, it seems, here you are  walking easily across the ground, and into town  as though you were floating on air, which in part you are,  or riding a wave of what feels like the world's good will— though helped along by something foreign and older than you are  and yet much younger too, inside you, and so palpable  an X-ray, you're sure, would show it, within the body you are,   not all that far beneath the skin, and even in  some bones. Making you wonder: Are you what you are— with all that isn't actually you having flowed  through and settled in you, and made you what you are?  The pain was never replaced, nor was it quite erased.  It's memory now—so you know just how lucky you are.  You didn't always. Were you then? And where's the fear? Inside your words, like an engine? The car you are?!  Face it, friend, you most exist when you're driven  away, or on—by forms and forces greater than you are.    "I Am" by John Clare   I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; And yet I am! and live with shadows tost Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life nor joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I loved the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest. I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below--above the vaulted sky.    “The Ghazal of What Hurt” by Peter Cole

Pain froze you, for years—and fear—leaving scars. 
But now, as though miraculously, it seems, here you are 

walking easily across the ground, and into town 
as though you were floating on air, which in part you are, 

or riding a wave of what feels like the world’s good will—
though helped along by something foreign and older than you are 

and yet much younger too, inside you, and so palpable 
an X-ray, you’re sure, would show it, within the body you are,
 
not all that far beneath the skin, and even in 
some bones. Making you wonder: Are you what you are—

with all that isn’t actually you having flowed 
through and settled in you, and made you what you are? 

The pain was never replaced, nor was it quite erased. 
It’s memory now—so you know just how lucky you are. 

You didn’t always. Were you then? And where’s the fear?
Inside your words, like an engine? The car you are?! 

Face it, friend, you most exist when you’re driven 
away, or on—by forms and forces greater than you are. 

  ”I Am” by John Clare 

 I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shades in love and death’s oblivion lost;
And yet I am! and live with shadows tost

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life nor joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;
And e’en the dearest–that I loved the best–
Are strange–nay, rather stranger than the rest.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;
A place where woman never smil’d or wept;
There to abide with my creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept:
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie;
The grass below–above the vaulted sky. 

 

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