The Differences Between Humans And Other Animals (Infographic)

The Differences Between Humans And Other Animals (Infographic) | Third Monk

This infographic shows the differences between humans and animals along with the traits we share with other animals: tool use, long term memory, counting, self awareness, culture, emotions, complex communication, and sense of humor. We may value ourselves above all other species on the planet but we are actually not all that different.

Deaths from Marijuana Vs 17 FDA Approved Pill Drugs (Study)

Deaths from Marijuana Vs 17 FDA Approved Pill Drugs (Study) | Third Monk

Much of the medical marijuana discussion has focused on the safety of marijuana compared to the safety of FDA-approved drugs. ProCon.org sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to find the number of deaths caused by marijuana compared to the number of deaths caused by 17 FDA-approved drugs. Twelve of these FDA-approved drugs were chosen because they are commonly prescribed in place of medical marijuana, while the remaining five FDA-approved drugs were randomly selected because they are widely used and recognized by the general public.

Jan. 1, 1997 was chosen as the starting date of the study because it is the beginning of the first year following the Nov. 1996 approval of the first state medical marijuana laws (such as California’s Proposition 215).

Summary of Deaths by Drug Classification (Jan. 1, 1997 to June 30, 2005)
DRUG CLASSIFICATION
Specific
Drugs per
Category
Primary
Suspect of the Death
Secondary Suspect(Contributing to death)
Total Deaths Reported
1/1/97 – 6/30/05
A. MARIJUANA
also known as: Cannabis sativa L

Marijuana
Cannabis
Cannabinoids

0
279
279
B. ANTI-EMETICS
(used to treat vomiting)
196
429
625
C. ANTI-SPASMODICS
(used to treat muscle spasms)
118
56
174
D. ANTI-PSYCHOTICS
(used to treat psychosis)
1,593
702
2,295
E. OTHER POPULAR DRUGS
(used to treat various conditions including ADD, depression, narcolepsy, erectile dysfunction, and pain)
8,101
492
8,593
F. TOTALS of A-E
Number
of Drugs
in Total
Primary
Suspect of the Death
Secondary Suspect(Contributing to death)
Total Deaths Reported
1/1/97 – 6/30/05
  • TOTAL DEATHS FROM MARIJUANA
1
0
279
279
  • TOTAL DEATHS FROM 17 FDA-APPROVED DRUGS
17
10,008
1,679
11,687

 

> Marijuana vs Pills Deaths | Procon.org

15 Things You Should Know About Marijuana (Infographic)

15 Things You Should Know About Marijuana (Infographic) | Third Monk image 2

If you are anything like me, you love infographics because they make lots of information extremely easy to read and digest. So when the team at Term Life Insurance came to me with the opportunity to work with them on a marijuana infographic I HAD to take the opportunity. So after lots of research and blunts smoked, here is an awesome marijuana infographic that shows 15 things about marijuana that you should know. I even learned a thing or two, this plant is even more amazing than I thought. Enjoy. – Hail Mary Jane

The Truth About Sunscreen and Sunlight Exposure

The Truth About Sunscreen and Sunlight Exposure | Third Monk

Ask somebody about sunscreen and you’re likely to receive an earful of disinformation from a person who has been repeatedly misinformed by health authorities and the mainstream media. Here’s a quick guide to the 5 most important things you need to know about sunscreen, sunlight and vitamin D:

 

#1) The FDA refuses to allow natural sunscreen ingredients to be used in sunblock, sunscreen products

If you create a truly natural sunscreen product using exotic botanicals with powerful sunscreen properties, you will never be able to market it as a “sunscreen” product. That’s because the FDA decides what can be used as sunscreen and what can’t, regardless of what really works in the real world.

This whole monopoly over sunscreen chemicals is designed to protect the profits of the chemical companies while marginalizing the natural product companies which could easily formulate far better solutions.

 

#2) Nearly all conventional sunscreen products contain cancer-causing chemicals

Read the ingredients of any sunscreen product sold at any mainstream store and you will not be able to pronounce most of the chemicals found in the ingredients list. That’s because most sunscreen products are formulated with cancer-causing fragrance chemicals, parabens, harsh alcohols, toxic chemical solvents and petroleum oils. A typical sunscreen product is actually a chemical assault on your body. That’s why research shows that using sunscreen actually causes more cancer than it prevents

 

#3) You can boost your internal sun resistance by changing what you eat

You can boost your internal sunscreen by eating antioxidant-rich foods and superfoods. The supplement astaxanthin, for example, is very well known for boosting your skin’s natural resistance to sunburn. Its fat-soluble carotenoids are actually transported to skin cells where they protect those cells from UV exposure.

Nearly everyone mistakenly believes that a person’s sunlight burn response is purely a genetic factor. They’re wrong. You can radically improve your resistance to UV exposure through dietary changes.

 

#4) UV exposure alone does not cause skin cancer

It is a complete medical myth that “UV exposure causes skin cancer.” This false idea is a total fabrication by the medical community (dermatologists) and the profit-driven sunscreen companies.

Skin cancer can only be caused when UV exposure is combined with chronic nutritional deficiencies that create skin vulnerabilities.

To create skin cancer, in other words, you have to eat a junk food diet, avoid protective antioxidants, and then also experience excessive UV exposure. All three of those elements are required. Conventional medicine completely ignores the dietary influences and focuses entirely on just one factor: Sunscreen vs. no sunscreen.

 

#5) Not all “natural” sunscreen products are really natural

Be careful when shopping for so-called “natural” sunscreen products. While there are some good ones out there, many are just examples of greenwashing, where they use terms like “natural” or “organic” but still contain loads of synthetic chemicals anyway.

A good guide for checking on sunscreen products is the Environmental Working Group guide

Some of the products that are truly natural include Loving Naturals sunscreen and Badger All Natural Sunscreen. Don’t use any sunscreen product containing ingredients that sound like chemicals: Methyl,  Propyl, Ethyl, etc.

Always buy unscented sunscreen, a typical sunscreen product is made with over a dozen cancer-causing fragrance chemicals, and they’re absorbed right through your skin.

> Surprising Things You’re Not Supposed To Know About Sunscreen | Natural News

The Problem of Evil, As Described By Epicurus Circa 300 B.C.

The Problem of Evil, As Described By Epicurus Circa 300 B.C. | Third Monk

Epicurus is generally credited with first expounding the problem of evil around 300 B.C., and it is sometimes called “the Epicurean paradox” or “the riddle of Epicurus”. It was translated by David Hume in the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion:

If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to
Then He is not omnipotent.

If He is able, but not willing
Then He is malevolent.

If He is both able and willing
Then whence cometh evil?

If He is neither able nor willing
Then why call Him God?

How Mushrooms Can Save The World – Paul Stamets Ted Talk (Video)

How Mushrooms Can Save The World - Paul Stamets Ted Talk (Video) | Third Monk image 2

Paul Stamets (one of worlds most well-known mycologists) gives a lecture discussing 6 ways mushrooms can save the world. Far too many people look at fungi as a source of food, but they are much more than that. (Shrooooms!)

The focus of Stamets’ research is the Northwest’s native fungal genome, mycelium, but along the way he has filed 22 patents for mushroom-related technologies, including pesticidal fungi that trick insects into eating them, and mushrooms that can break down the neurotoxins used in nerve gas.

There are cosmic implications as well. Stamets believes we could terraform other worlds in our galaxy by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to create an ecological footprint on a new planet.

Paul Stamets - mushrooms

Matrix Philosophy – Return to the Source Documentary (Video)

Matrix Philosophy - Return to the Source Documentary (Video) | Third Monk image 2

Jump back into the Matrix with this video and explore the philosophical concepts featured in  the Matrix movies. The documentary includes scenes from the trilogy which are broken down and analyzed for their philosophical meanings.

Hubert Dreyfus, Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley: (On René Descartes) “I think therefore I am”, His basic idea that we only have access to the content of our own minds gives us this thing called the “Problem of the External World”

The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

There are no general features Descartes thought that you could use from within a dream to be certain that you’re dreaming

Alan Watts Discusses Nothingness (Video)

Alan Watts Discusses Nothingness (Video) | Third Monk

Alan Watts discusses the state of Nothingness.

“So, you know the story; when the sixth patriarch was given his office as successor, because he was truly enlightened, there was a poetry contest, and the losing one wrote the idea that the mind (the consciousness) was like a mirror, which had to be polished. And constantly, you know, I have to polish my mirror; I have to purify my mind, see? So that I am detached and calm and clear-headed, you know, Buddha. But the one who won the contest said that there is no mirror, and the nature of the mind is intrinsically void, so where is there anywhere for dust to collect? By seeing that nothingness is the fundamental reality, and you see it’s your reality, then how can anything contaminate you?”

Marijuana Doesn’t Harm Lungs?

Marijuana Doesn't Harm Lungs? | Third Monk

As much stoners as would like to ignore it, the thought of marijuana negatively affecting their lungs can sometimes be worrisome. Using a vaporizer regularly will put you on the safe side but all that smoke from other methods has to fuck you up right? A 20 year long study comparing the lung functions of marijuana and tobacco smokers produced some good news

The analyses showed pot didn’t appear to harm lung function, but cigarettes did. Cigarette smokers’ test scores worsened steadily during the study. Smoking marijuana as often as one joint daily for seven years, or one joint weekly for 20 years was not linked with worse scores. Very few study participants smoked more often than that.

Too much of anything can be destructive, you just have to be aware of your body and your habits. Don’t expect to have super lungs if you smoke 20 blunts a day.

> Marijuana Doesn’t Harm Lung Functions, study found | Yahoo News

Joe Rogan on the Marijuana and Paranoia Relationship (Video)

Joe Rogan on the Marijuana and Paranoia Relationship (Video) | Third Monk image 2

Getting baked doesn’t create positive or paranoid emotions, it just enhances whatever mood you’re in. If you have issues that you refuse to deal with, you might want to avoid marijuana, because it will bring them to the surface.

Being paranoid is a good thing. The experience of being paranoid when you smoke weed is to get you to look at yourself. It’s to get you to look at life. You’re not always looking at it as clearly as you could. Those jolts of perception you misinterpret as paranoia, what you’re really doing is just dealing with information that’s already there. – Joe Rogan

joe-rogan-marijuana-paranoia

Father Uses Medical Marijuana To Fight Son’s Brain Cancer (Video)

Father Uses Medical Marijuana To Fight Son’s Brain Cancer (Video) | Third Monk

A family’s two-year old son, Cash was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The chemo treatment jacked up his body, preventing him for eating any solid food for 40 days. Cash’s dad decided to turn to medical marijuana by secretly giving him cannabis oil to increase his appetite. The increasing number of positive medical marijuana cases can no longer be ignored, watch the clip for the full story.

The Fluoride Deception Animation (Video)

The Fluoride Deception Animation (Video) | Third Monk

The Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, it exposes the truth about where fluoride really comes from: The toxic byproducts of the phosphate mining industry.

Fluoride is an unapproved drug, being used in a highly illegal mass-medication scheme that provides an excuse for the real agenda of disposing of a highly toxic hazardous waste chemical.

Over the last several decades, an astonishing twenty-four studies have established a statistical link between fluoride exposure and low IQs in children. One study conducted by the Center for Endemic Disease Control in China found that each additional milligram of fluoride detected in every liter of a child’s urine was associated with a 0.59 point decrease in their IQ score. Another study found that fluoride exposure slashed the number of children achieving “high IQs” by more than 70 percent.

Fight Water Fluoridation

First, for your dental needs, always seek out a holistic dentist who understands the toxicity of fluoride and mercury. They will advise you NOT to drink toxic fluoride chemicals from your tap water.

Secondly, don’t drink unfiltered tap water. In addition to the toxic fluoride chemicals, tap water is also usually contaminated with chlorine and even dangerous elements from old water pipes. Buy a good countertop water filter from a company like Aquasana. Or get a whole-house filter to remove chlorine and fluoride from the water entering your home.

Thirdly, help fight water fluoridation in your local city or town. If your city is like most cities, water fluoridation policies have been pushed by dentists and doctors who are technically ignorant of the origins and the composition of fluoride, and yet they seek to assert power over the composition your local water supply.

Learn more at NaturalNews.com. Join the Facebook group “No Fluoride.” Visit FluorideAlert.org and other fluoride truth websites that are working to end the fluoride poisoning.

> Fluoride Deception | Natural News