Belief

["Capt. Midnight"]

I believe in God with alll of my Heart and Soul.

And I believed in SO much more as a Child, like we ALL did. Those were happier times.

I still believe in the Pittsburgh Steelers, from time to time

[forever blessed]

And similarly, who you believe (and believe in) has much to do with who you share your essential identity with. You also have the essential power to extend or withhold your belief, and to ask those who share their beliefs to explain the basis of them, and to hear the basis of yours.

[snip]

Know that if God didn't believe in you, you would not exist. Thus, by the undeniable truth of your own existence, you must have an importance far beyond what this world has honored. As your neighbor also has.



And give God room to act alongside you to make it true.

Allow me to clarify, belatedly: The above quoted comments were not directed at HW. They were directed at the general audience.

Only the snipped portion was specifically directed at HW.
If it has relevance for any others in the audience, so much the better.

[grower]

Thank you for posting this, HW.

"Faith without works is dead." What that means to me is that if I truly believe something, I act accordingly. If I believe God has work for me, I search diligently for it until I find it. If I believe God is going to provide a place of safety for me and my family, I ask him what I should be doing do bring it to pass, and then get busy with whatever he shows me.

Ultimately, I believe God means us GOOD. As long as we are submitted to him, and staying in daily communication with him, all things work together for our good.

[Bad Hand]

I do not trust doctors, if I had taken all the drugs they have proscribed for me I would either be dead or all messed up. Every time they try to give me a drug I check it out on the net and 99.9% of the time the drugs side effects are worse than the problem they are trying to fix.

Faith can do a lot, you just have to believe, trust in yourself and trust in God.

I have come so close dieing so many times it is unreal, in each situation there was suddenly a very loud voice that told me exactly what I had to do or I would die. I always though it was my guardian angle watching out for me.

[Anna]

Breast thermography and ultrasound has been shown to be effective and yet the medical establishment refuses to support either in studies in any significant way. Too much money invested in mammography to let women think anything else is effective and that if they don't get one every year they are walking around with two timebombs on their chest just waiting to stop ticking and explode.

+1!

I refuse to have any more mammograms and continue to perpetuate this money scam, not to mention potentially give myself cancer. Thermography plus ultrasound, then an MRI if necessary seem to me the way to go.

[Anna]

Compressing a tumor does not "spread" the cancer. The theory is that
compression may possibly cause cancerous cells from the tumor to be
dislodged and thus travel (metastasize) to another part of the body where
a new tumor could form.

Whether it's spread within the breast or somewhere else in the body, what difference does it make? Sounds like "spreading" the cancer to me.

[OneDayAtATime]

Thank you for posting this, HW.

"Faith without works is dead." What that means to me is that if I truly believe something, I act accordingly. If I believe God has work for me, I search diligently for it until I find it. If I believe God is going to provide a place of safety for me and my family, I ask him what I should be doing do bring it to pass, and then get busy with whatever he shows me.

Ultimately, I believe God means us GOOD. As long as we are submitted to him, and staying in daily communication with him, all things work together for our good.

^^^^^^^ AMEN TO THIS!!

Praying only for His will for me, and the Power to carry it out.

[pRIMrose]

if you believe you're well, you will be well.
If you believe you're happy, you will be happy.
If you believe you're smart, you are smart.

Nothing in the world can stop you if you believe.

amen!

[nvscanman]

Whether it's spread within the breast or somewhere else in the body, what difference does it make? Sounds like "spreading" the cancer to me.

Spreading...i.e. metastasis is the major factor in cancer that kills.
If tumors never spread then the vast majority could be removed
and the patient would survive. The problem in most cancers is that
by the time the patient is symptomatic in some form the tumor
has usually had time for cancerous cells to metastasize. At that point
removing the tumor merely delays the end result unless therapy of
some sort can kill the dispersed cancerous cells. That is the rationale
behind Chemotherapy.....the effort to find a chemical that will kill the
cancer cells without killing the host. A very very very difficult proposition
when one remembers that the cancer cells are variations of the hosts cells.

To be honest considering how complex cancer is as a disease process it's
amazing that as many people survive as long as they do now.

As for "never having another mammogram"....It's your body, it's your
funeral. Thermography can detect cancer.....once the tumor reaches
a centimeter or two in size, US can see some cancers....not all and MRI
is a very effective screening tool. In fact it's probably the best of them
all....if you don't mind paying for the procedure out of pocket. MRI is
not fast, it's not cheap and it's not widely available compared to other
modalities especially mammography. And digital mammography can and
will find tumors when they are smaller and easier to treat than either
US or Thermography can. That is why it is the benchmark screening
method. It's the most cost effective easiest quickest means of screening
that we have.....and the issue of radiation dose from the procedure is a
valid concern until something better comes along or until MRI can be
made technologically as quick, inexpensive and widely available as mammograms
are.Mammography will continue to be the benchmark for breast CA screening and diagnosis.

[Tired of Lies]

Spreading...i.e. metastasis is the major factor in cancer that kills.
If tumors never spread then the vast majority could be removed
and the patient would survive. The problem in most cancers is that
by the time the patient is symptomatic in some form the tumor
has usually had time for cancerous cells to metastasize. At that point
removing the tumor merely delays the end result unless therapy of
some sort can kill the dispersed cancerous cells. That is the rationale
behind Chemotherapy.....the effort to find a chemical that will kill the
cancer cells without killing the host. A very very very difficult proposition
when one remembers that the cancer cells are variations of the hosts cells.

To be honest considering how complex cancer is as a disease process it's
amazing that as many people survive as long as they do now.

As for "never having another mammogram"....It's your body, it's your
funeral. Thermography can detect cancer.....once the tumor reaches
a centimeter or two in size, US can see some cancers....not all and MRI
is a very effective screening tool. In fact it's probably the best of them
all....if you don't mind paying for the procedure out of pocket. MRI is
not fast, it's not cheap and it's not widely available compared to other
modalities especially mammography. And digital mammography can and
will find tumors when they are smaller and easier to treat than either
US or Thermography can. That is why it is the benchmark screening
method. It's the most cost effective easiest quickest means of screening
that we have.....and the issue of radiation dose from the procedure is a
valid concern until something better comes along or until MRI can be
made technologically as quick, inexpensive and widely available as mammograms
are.Mammography will continue to be the benchmark for breast CA screening and diagnosis.

I called the manufacurer of an MRI machine that is/was trying to get FDA approval for a device that you would put one breast and then the other into lying face down on a table. No crushing, no x-rays. Once he had approval it would be cost effective with mammograghy because women would insist on it and make the older machines virtually worthless overnight. He was being held up with assinine re-do's on the paperwork. He thought in an effort to make his product go away because of the investment the industry had in mammography machines. What woman would want to squish her breasts to x-ray when they could have it done painlessly with no radiation? Popular insistance would make it more commonplace and then more cost effective in no time.

That scares all those mammography machine owners.