Re: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread James Warren
Jim W. -Original Message- >From: Esteban >Sent: Apr 19, 2010 1:50 AM >To: RBW Owners Bunch >Subject: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times > >Grant's written about fitness and sensibility. Rivendell's riding >philosophy runs against extremes - x-treme "t

[RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Me
Jim- Sorry to place you in a quandary with the topic and post. Didn't mean to do that at all. Guess, in the end, what I was shooting for was basically 2 things: 1. How crazy things can be and are 'out there', and to that end, looking within ourselves at the variations in our own lives that eit

Re: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread CycloFiend
on 4/18/10 9:19 PM, Me at clotht...@gmail.com wrote: > You're welcome, Bill [how are you by the way?]. > > And yes, I am Scott Cutshall [=Me]. > > And to the one poster who found it funny: no, it's not a screenplay > but I do wish it was, because I find it all very sad. > > PS-> if it is too fa

[RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Esteban
Grant's written about fitness and sensibility. Rivendell's riding philosophy runs against extremes - x-treme "training" and extreme eating. This story is instructive. Esteban San Diego, Calif. On Apr 18, 9:19 pm, Me wrote: > You're welcome, Bill [how are you by the way?]. > > And yes, I am Sco

[RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Me
You're welcome, Bill [how are you by the way?]. And yes, I am Scott Cutshall [=Me]. And to the one poster who found it funny: no, it's not a screenplay but I do wish it was, because I find it all very sad. PS-> if it is too far Off-Topic for the Group, -again-, Jim can pull the whole schebang of

Re: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Bill Connell
It is Scott, he signed his name. It's a really sad story, and i can only imagine how hard it would be for his wife to not say anything about Scott's experience with his weight. People have to choose change for themselves, but when there are enablers and ignorance of the alternatives in life, a litt

[RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread rperks
FYI - I think Me is Scott, but maybe I am off On Apr 18, 4:45 pm, Tim McNamara wrote: > On Apr 18, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Shaun Meehan wrote: > > > It's interesting. I've seen a couple of shows about people who got so > > large that they were literally disabled. > > I've known a number of them profess

[RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Mike
On Apr 18, 7:37 pm, James Warren wrote: > I think that "his" was supposed to be capitalized. :) Actually, I meant to say "This thread seems to have strayed far away from the focus of this group. " I was posting from my phone which I'm still getting used to. I'm at work. In an ER. I'm surrounded

Re: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread James Warren
I think that "his" was supposed to be capitalized. :) (And by the way, I agree, although the topic is interesting.) -Original Message- >From: Mike >This thread seems to have strayed far away from the focus of his >group. > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to t

Re: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread cyclotourist
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Mike wrote: > This thread seems to have strayed far away from the focus of his > group. > > -- > Yeah, I thought I was on the ibob list for a sec. -- Cheers, David Redlands, CA "Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There is something wrong wit

[RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Mike
This thread seems to have strayed far away from the focus of his group. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rb

Re: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread PATRICK MOORE
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 7:30 PM, happyriding wrote: > On Apr 18, 5:51 pm, PATRICK MOORE wrote: > > > > ...". And yet the carnal sins are less bad than the "spiritual" sins of > > which we need look no further than to our great and good to see > represented > > -- hatred, cruelty, pride, greed. T

[RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread happyriding
On Apr 18, 5:51 pm, PATRICK MOORE wrote: > > grotesqueness to this sort of affliction or obsession, in my serious opinion > akin to insanity or demonic possession. > ...or being a drug addict, where food is the drug. > It reminds me of that old movie, > "Seven" with Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt.

Re: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread PATRICK MOORE
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Will wrote: > Yup. We know so much more now about nutrition now than we did before, > and I appreciate Grant's occasional nod in this direction in the > Reader. Personally, I wish every American would read Dr. Joel > Fuhrman's "Fasting and Eating for Health: A Med

Re: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Ray Shine
bject: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times On Apr 18, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Shaun Meehan wrote: > It's interesting. I've seen a couple of shows about people who got so > large that they were literally disabled. I've known a number of them professionally, in their 30s and living

[RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread happyriding
That is one of the funniest pieces of writing I've read in a long time. It's a screen play for a comedy right? It's true? Well, then I guess Me has a candidate for his first patient. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To po

[RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Will
Yup. We know so much more now about nutrition now than we did before, and I appreciate Grant's occasional nod in this direction in the Reader. Personally, I wish every American would read Dr. Joel Fuhrman's "Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease" (1995; ht

Re: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread PATRICK MOORE
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Shaun Meehan wrote: > > It's interesting. I've seen a couple of shows about people who got so >> large that they were literally disabled. >> > > I've known a number of them professionally, in their 30s and livi

[RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Tim McNamara
On Apr 18, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Shaun Meehan wrote: It's interesting. I've seen a couple of shows about people who got so large that they were literally disabled. I've known a number of them professionally, in their 30s and living in a nursing home due to the health complications of ultra-morb

[RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Dave Craig
Sad story indeed. Many health care practioners become bitter and frustrated due to facing situations like this on a daily basis. It can be hard to have compassion for people who choose to eat themselves into morbid obesity, a poor quality of life and an early death. I am sorry that this young man m

Re: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Shaun Meehan
Oops! Somehow I sent that before I was done. Sorry about that. What I was going to say is that all of these people had "enablers". Not only were they unable to control their food intake; they had people who continued to bring them huge amounts of unhealthy food even though it was obvious that it w

Re: [RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Shaun Meehan
It's interesting. I've seen a couple of shows about people who got so large that they were literally disabled. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubsc

[RBW] Re: The Insanity of our Times

2010-04-18 Thread Ian Dickson
Strangely enough, now I want some chicken wings. On Apr 18, 11:07 am, Me wrote: > **If this is too far astray for this group... Jim, go ahead and pull > it, but I thought -somehow- it needed posting: perhaps for no other > reason than to purge it from my brain** > > My wife is an RN.  She works i