Omar Khayyam (152) “so many hearts have been left bleeding”
Posted on 07/14/2012 by Juan
A shame that bankruptcy has left us without capital in hand, and that so many hearts have been left bleeding by the blade of fate. No one has come back from that world with word of vanished travelers.
Translated by Juan Cole from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 152/ Arberry 1949
since AFRICOM is there to stay i can only say, i hope President Obama's AFRICOM is more humanely and wisely managed and monitored than McCain's would have been.
fthoi, this one on Warren Metzler of the comments section in yours .. (for the heck of it)
Homeopathic "True Believer" Loses Medical License Stephen Barrett, M.D.
In the mid-1980s, after Consumer Reports hired me to draft an article about homeopathy, I conducted a thorough investigation that included interviews with several practitioners. The most enthusiastic was 38-year-old Warren F. Metzler, M.D., who practiced what he called "constitutional homeopathy." In September 1985, during a luncheon that I had with him and about half a dozen other practitioners, he said that he was planning to treat a new patient with breast cancer without referral to another doctor for standard treatment. The other homeopaths at the table did not visibly react, but one said afterward that Metzler's (extreme) approach differed from theirs.
A few days after the lunch meeting, Metzler sent me an eleven-page brochure that he routinely distributed to patients. Called "Homeopathy: Is it the answer to my health care needs?," it explained his views and told patients what they should expect from his treatment. One passage said:
The correct homeopathic remedy will stimulate a process in you that will affect your total person and life experience. You will begin to be more creative, clear thinking, balanced emotionally and comfortable physically. As time goes by and you improve, repeat doses of the same remedy or different remedies will be required. Eventually, you will not need more remedies, will be free of any chronic ailments and will only occasionally have acute ailments, such as colds or flus. The time required for this transformation of you is typically three to five years.
“Constitutional homeopathy” is based on the notion that each single remedy has a set of traits and that healing will take place when these traits correspond with the clients personality traits and/or symptoms. To determine the appropriate remedy, the homeopath takes a detailed history that Metzler's brochure describes this way:
The information I need concerns all of you. It entails your physical sensations, emotional sensations, mental sensations, and how you react to food, sleep, sex, and menstruation. It also includes your attitudes about the world around you, your work, your relationships and a history of your previous ailments and emotional traumas. . . .
A few months ago, while going through my files on homeopathy, I recalled my encounter with Metzler and wondered whether I could find information about him on the Internet. I found that he had written a book about his life which said that during his third year of medical school it "became obvious" to him that "orthodox medicine never reversed illness, but merely—at best—slowed down the degenerative process." He searched for an alternative, the book said, and wound up orienting himself to practicing it as soon as his medical training was complete.
I also learned that Metzler's medical licenses had been revoked. In 1992, the New York State Board of Professional Medical Conduct charged him with mismanaging the care of four patients, one of whom died. All four had symptoms of serious diseases that required medical treatment and/or referral. Metzler testified that he used homeopathic remedies to "treat the entire person" rather than treating diseases.
I'm not interested in smearing the guy just .. this is one of his comments to Juan's
"This is great David. Let’s define appropriate by what everyone else does, instead of as we have officially done for most of our history, by what is right. Your view is, from my perspective, a classical example of the progressively deteriorating perspective of what is moral and good for humans to do; which, truly sadly, is increasingly present in most American citizens throughout the past three to four decades."
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