Hmmm... a few questions are unanswered that fill the gap between the Oughtabiography and Bound for Glory.

Does Arlo have older half-brothers? Is Annie Arlos' wife? What inspired the quest for the cure for Huntington's?

There's a lot about all the Guthries (Dr. A.D. Guthrie included) right in wiki.

"Though I would not give you false hope, on this gray and mortal day..."

Pardon the Paul Simon lyrics in a thread about Arlo. It seems back in the early 90's I clipped an article about Dr.G. [Arlo] creating or becoming very involved in the cure for Huntington's. I tried sending a letter but had no idea where to send it. That was shortly after meeting my other half, who has MS. The cure for these is FM. FM pills and/or FM boxes. Having watched my lady friend of over 20 years now, for all those years, progressively decline, with basically nothing that can be done for her particular "brand" of MS, aside from replacing her entire nervous system or regenerating it. Although chemistry is ionvolved, I'm looking at the problem from physics or physical chemistry's perspective, thus the box. By "box" active NMRI might be an example. Since 2004 I've pursued this about the same way as John Kansius did some cancer research also involving radio waves.

Currently, Harvard is doing research with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and has been successful, although it's in it's infancy. I'm working on using fields similarly to help regulate other vital organs that might shut down in MS or even Parkinson's victims, with the possibility of others. All this part of the research is "buying time" for the person afflicted, but, like someone with a heart pacer awaiting a new heart, it might be that extra 10 years with just such a prosthesis that gets someone through till the bonafide cure is discovered.

What are "FM" pills/boxes?

Ah. FM among engineering types means "F..... Magic."

I didn't think how that could possibly be misconstructed with the reference to cancer and radio waves.

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And it still makes no sense. I'll probably just shut down soon, then I won't have to deal with cyber-bullies or watch other people deal with them either. Good luck with finding the cure for Huntington's. I thought once that I might have some ideas for that and other neuro-diseases, but I can't seem to get my head wrapped around a gas being a plastic, so certainly am worthless to humanity. So don't bother coming to do a concert in this town on my account, because I won't be able to attend. If I can't afford even to build one of those homes, how could I afford 2 $80 tickets? Shutting down makes the most sense. I simply have to decide on the best way to do that.


Peace

We've all got our demons doc. We train our brains to roll with the flow, controlling what we can, accepting what we can't. We can't make the world quit throwing stuff at us, but we keep on learning new ways to deal with the stuff as best we can.

"Every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness. Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late." ~ Joseph Campbell

Everyone has an ultimate solution available.

It's a "process," not an "event."

"ultimate solution"?

i think i like what kevin said better!

but/even though i am not really sure exactly what it is we are talking about here? how it is this came up?

Beats me, I'm not all that smart. I just figured that since Doc is always right, even about predicting solar flares and such, I'd just point out to him that he is involved in teleological thinking when he starts talking about an "ultimate solution." Teleological thinking can be very dangerous as well as limiting. That's why I said it's a "process not an event" - that's non-teleological thinking. Just kinda following along and helping out where I can.

"teleological" that is a new word for me...thanks kevin. i know things can be complicated, but why would the aim be destruction...kill or be killed? devour or be devoured? and that thing about people having sex, the urge to have sex as being all about continuing the family line or the species...i can't quite go along with that thinking! as an observation?

i don't know...i just wandered off again there?

I know, I think about stuff like this all the time. I think it comes down to how we define our existence - are we human be-ings existing in a spiritual universe or are we spiritual be-ings existing in a human structure? Sure there is the kill-or-be-killed world going on (somewhere?) eat-or-be-eaten/sex/propogate/eat/shit/run like hell cuz that bear's after your ass/sleep/eat/sex..............but, do we have no choice but to accept that that's just the way it is and the way we have to be? I don't KNOW, but I don't think so. And we haven't even gotten into death yet, not really........

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I just noticed Kevin had posted to it. I always believe in ultimate solutions. Sort of like something from Erasmus. Without absolutes their can be no inabsolutes. Chaos is gradient. Order is also.

Kevin... I'm not always right. Some things I'm good at, but I do things like whop my head on a door if I'm not really conscious of the sensory tricks my demyelinating nerves do to me at times. (A big reason i admire guys who can take their eyes off the fretrboard... ) That has been since I was young, so I'm not sure if it was agent orange or not. The ultimate solution to that elephant in the room: Let there be antics.

I cannot subscribe to some suggested parts of the teleology concept or religion. If we all followed a teleological path of process, we would never reach the ultimate solution to pluck or perhaps bow a string.

There is some truth to it. Death, as a gradient, is certainly a process that leads to some ultimate event. A possible ultimate solution to death is to not believe in it at all, whether process or event.