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Narcissism Symptoms;

• excessive need for admiration
• disregard for others’ feelings
• inability to handle criticism
• a sense of entitlement

How to deal with a narcissist:

• Don’t, you can’t win, you only win by not playing
• Kiss up or shut up
• Know what you want and get paid up front
• Ask them what people will think, they don’t feel guilt only shame
• Have empathy, fight your own tendencies

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If a leader:

• Talks about conspiracies
• dehumanizes and demonizes groups of people
• advocates violence

Some people will:

• disregard the truth
• hate innocent people
• be easily provoked into violent action against those people

We hope truth will prevail. We must never underestimate stupidity and ignorance. Protect the innocent and the vulnerable. Promote truth, righteousness, empathy and generosity.

Our enemies are:

• Crazy conspiracies
• Stupidity
• Ignorance
• Hate
• Violence

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Neonicotinoid

WTF is that? This is a class of pesticide that we started using 20 years ago. It is systemic which means it will be in all parts of the plant. Leaves, stems, roots, flowers, nectar and pollen. It kills insects and grubs that feed on seeds or plants that have this pesticide applied to it. It lasts as long as 1000 days in the environment before breaking down. It is water soluble which means it moves from the place where it is applied. It means that animals that eat a lot of insects are getting neonicotinoids as well.

Silent Spring is a book describing the insecticide DDT’s devastating impact on birds. DDT did not kill birds outright. It caused egg shells to fail and bird decline took years.

It has taken 20 years to connect neonicotinoids to the previously unexplained decline of bees. Why? Because the pesticide did not outright kill the bee. Bees consume nectar and pollen. The small amounts would change behaviors and kill them over long periods of time.

There is a blindness that we have that is similar to a short attention span. If we can’t see something happening right before our eyes, it didn’t happen or is considered impossible. Or we fail to make the connection between cause and effect. What else are we missing? What is killing people that we think is harmless or can in no way be connected? Is it something that kills us slowly or changes our behaviors? Is there something that we do or consume that takes a long time to kill?

Call me paranoid. But probably many things fall in this category. Most likely they are man made. We just don’t see it or have failed to make the connection. Future generations will look back and wish we were less reckless, short sighted and destructive to the planet’s plants and animals.

On September 11, 2001 2,996 people died. That was then. Now in the United States there are some 3,000 deaths each and everyday from heart disease and cancer.

Heart disease and cancer are now very common. And according to some very preventable. So I searched for ‘how to prevent heart disease’ and ‘ how to prevent cancer’. I got two lists and they shared some items. Cool. I was thinking that I would do or avoid things on the list. Maybe all of them, because why not give myself every advantage and avoid every risk? Here they are:

• Don’t smoke
• Limit alcohol
• Eat a balanced healthy diet
• Maintain a healthy weight
• Maintain a normal blood pressure
• Get adequate exercise
• Control cholesterol and triglycerides

For avoiding cancer:

• Don’t smoke
• Protect skin from the sun
• Eat a balanced healthy diet
• Maintain a healthy weight
• Get adequate exercise
• Practice safe sex
• Get immunized for HPV and hepatitis
• Get regular screenings for cancer

Pretty short lists and for me because my lifestyle lines up with s most of these. Especially the items on both lists.

Now, another way to look at this is that one could be doing all the things to avoid and not doing any of the good items. This may be the problem in the United States. Most people are overweight, eat a bad diet and don’t exercise. Wow, seems pretty simple! But the hard part is changing from a lifetime of habits. Changing from commonplace and accepted habits.

If 9/11 happened every day, we would be outraged and demand that it stop. But we have become able to accept this as inevitable. Every day 3000 people die deaths from preventable diseases. We should not let tobacco, factory food, fast and junk food, alcohol and sugary beverages into our schools, towns and homes.

One smoke, drink or unhealthy meal will not kill you. But thousands will put you into a much higher risk category. So develop the good habits and avoid the bad. Give yourself a chance. Give yourself the best chance possible. You’re worth it!