The Silvery Moon

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It's not so odd that the group of people who subscribe to the Gospel of Thomas e-mail discussion group don't post their opinions about the sayings the way they did when I first subscribed. After all, there are only 114 sayings. Once upon a time the group was led by the old man who formed the group. Then, he stopped sending out the saying we expected each week, and wrote no more, and the group still doesn't know if it was because he died, but it seems likely.

After his contribution stopped, the Yahoo Groups people chose three of the members who had been subscribed the longest to run the group, and the activity carried on for a while pretty much like it had in his last days. Then, one of the chosen moderators stopped to become a UU preacher, another one quit and later became a regular member, and the last moderator seems to have lost interest in sending a saying out for discussion. She tried to reform the group in her own image, but participation lessened until nobody but me posts about some randomly chosen saying.

A few people write occasionally now, but the conversation is not so much about the sayings anymore, but write about mundane daily events. In the last week much of it has been about their personal problems, and indeed, my personal problems with rheumatoid arthritis. I don't care much for this subject. I guess I'm as much to blame as anybody. I asked another member who has RA if he used silver colloids and the present moderator took offense and ridiculed the notion. She ridicules a lot of notions. No blame.

It's difficult to know if the silver colloids I applied to the open lesions on my toes and hands is continuing the good work. I've written how treating my feet with Silverdene (the prescription salve), stopped the infection and instituted the healing process. It was the only medicine that's ever worked to make this happen. It led me to consider making my own silver colloids to use instead of the prescription medicine.

After I made the silver colloids with a simple battery-operated generator I put a part of the solution into a spray bottle that creates a fine, misty spray that I use to saturate my feet and hands. I stopped using the prescribed Silverdene to find out if what I'm doing with the colloids will work. The lesions haven't gotten infected again, and they do seem to continue to dry up and heal. Those spots are still red, but they seem to continue to heal.

Spraying the silver colloids up my nostrils into my sinuses also causes some of them to be sucked into my lungs. I tell myself that the antibiotic reaction the silver is noted for is helping to heal my lungs from all those decades I smoked cigarettes. Up until recently I've been coughing up phlegm from when I smoked, but over the last three years the phlegm has cleared up, but now I'm not coughing it up so much as I was. Whether that's an accurate indicator of healing is not easy to claim. It could be the result of the other supplements I'm taking.

I take a couple of supplements that have nothing to do with the RA, but with my aging process. They're supposed to help clear the cobwebs out of my brain, and they really seem to have done that to some degree. I'd be silly to make any claims. One of them especially provides indications that its doing something. The researchers say it gets past the brain blood barrier, and indeed, I can actually feel it's presence. For a while after I take it, I feel something that feels like a hatband around my head, and then it dissipated in the next hour or so. Now it doesn't do that anymore.

We're supposed to get the warm weather today. It's around nine-thirty and the temperature is already over 50° (10° C). I'm looking forward to laying out naked in the sun again today. It was a little chilly for that yesterday, but I still got a couple of hours in. The ultra-violet rays are supposed to be good for what ails me. '-)

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