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This site...

I absolutely loved the format and energy and excitement of when this site forum turned over in just hours, now it looks like 6 months.  I used to drop in sometimes a few times a day when it was an interesting “raw” site,

In my (unsolicited) opinion, I

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How long on the lifesyle?

I am curious how many people have been 100% on plant based dier for more than 2 .years.

My experience is the successful people take at least 2-3 years to make the transition, those that do it overnight are not still even trying in 2 years.  

Those that

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How is this site doing?

I have been popping in to see whats up several times a year for a lot of years, and a few years ago, discussions were being replaced with new ones within hours, often the topics were “pages away” by the next day, and now discussions started a month o

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Anyone in Phuket...or north?

I am going to Thailand around 1 February, I am in Hong Kong right now. I may starting in Phuket and head my way north towards Mynmar border.... I am in search of Hot Springs to sit in. There are hundreds of them...though many may be too cold, too hot

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What time is it?

I woke up at midnight in Hong Kong (on my way to Thailand)...asked Siri "What time is it in Salt Lake City Utah?" Her response: "9 am yesterday"....I thought that was funny, though the only way to accurately answer the question.The first time I asked

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Thailand hot springs

Looking for a primitive hot spring ormregion with a lot of hot springs,to go to and kick back for 2 months working on relaxing a shoulder problem.Usually I do not care about infrastructure or wifi, but this time would like wifi and room with private

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Water fasts

Now that 30 BAD is not supporting unsupervised water fasts over 3 days, I will not be posting announcements of my annual maintanance fasts anymore. This is a sound policy of 30 BAD, and I agree. Those who followed my Blogs are aware that I always adv

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Help! I need a comunity garden...

I just moved to Redondo Beach, in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. The easy to find gardens are not available, or have a long waiting list. Any one have suggestions? I am phenomenal with super organic soil developement and am a beekeeper, which wil

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I am moving to Southbay area of L.A.

Probably October, moving to Southbay area, probably Redondo Marina or a Marina in San Pedro (onto a sailboat). Will be attempting to move my reputation from Utah to there for my Carpet Repair business. I have not advertised in 6 years.I am thinking a

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? About Costco frozen strawberries

While I await the local strawberry season, I am wondering about Costco's frozen strawberries. Since they do not indicate organic or non-sprayed, has anyone the resources to know the answer to this? Are normal California grown strawberries subject to

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I have become a fan of Melissa Jackson

Her discussions and threads may have ben too racy for mainstream 30bad--or at least the ruling party--but I have to heap bunches of praise for the flurry of extremely popular topics she has brought to us and entertained us with.  Way to go, girl...

An

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Dress made of cow nipples

On Aol this morning is a picture of a dress made of cow nipples.  For all of you curios who do not want to view it, the pic I saw showed the straps, and on the straps were big "roses" with each pink petal being the nipple and a small amount of skin a

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I'm headed for Hawaii

in days/weeks, hopefully no later than late November.

I'm a very self reliant person, great in some aspects, but not being "needy" for help, comfort and moral support definitely works against me, as I tend to get things done without "owing", and there

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Planning my escape to the real life

After years of planning, have eliminated (temporarily) moving to Namche Bazaar in the Himalayas.  

Will be moving to the South Pacific (Palau or Philippines) around Thanksgiving.  This may involve spending a year transitioning through Hawaii buying an

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To feed the world

A few weeks ago on NPR/PRI there was a discussion with a researcher that was harping on the fact that it took 8 calories (as a heat measurement) of petroleum based fertilizer to create 1 calorie of plant sourced food.

Combine that with the petroleum t

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DAY TWELVE OF HUMAN FLESH ONLY DIET

OK, also water and air.  But we call it water only fasting.  This one is confusing in a lot of ways, in that I have not had my few hours of headache, my 3 days of worse-than-dragon-breath, 1 day of "fuzzy" teeth, any weakness, or so on.  I did have t

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SAD term being hi-jacked by fast food

A local seafood place is advertising to avoid the SAD American diet and eat at "Joe's Crab Shack".  Crabs, boiled potatoes and variety of seafood is not my idea of leaving SAD behind.

The restaurant tries to have the extremely informal feel of being o

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