The Dangers of Hydric Acid

I thought something Chemistry-related might be of interest to my readers. Especially when it concerns a potentially life-threatening chemical which is so commonly used despite its known dangers that it is appalling. I was doing some research and came upon a compound, which is widely used throughout the world without any intervention from the people or governments of the land. This compound is Hydric Acid (also know as DHMO).
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
This acid, though not overly caustic, causes thousands of deaths per year. The most common cause of death is accidental inhalation of the liquid form of DHMO. The solid state, however, can cause severe tissue damage and, often, death. However, there is no legislation against the use of this compound.
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
Though many may not believe it, this compound is used widely by most chemical, pharmaceutical, and industrial companies for syntheses and hydrolyses. This chemical is used in the preparation of most of our foods, so that no one is safe. When it is created, it is often dumped in bulk into water supply sources such as oceans, lakes, and rivers.
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
This compound is the main component of acid rain, and is responsible for millions of dollars of land erosion. However, despite these dangers, it is still ingested by many. Professional athletes intake large amounts of Hydric acid in order to increase their performance, with no consequences from sports authorities. Remember the controversy surrounding Floyd Landis winning the Tour de France? Well, no one mentioned that every single athlete in the race had taken some amount of hydric acid for the express purpose of enhancing their athletic performance.
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
In fact, Hydric acid, once ingested a few times, is so addictive that withdrawal from using it is almost always fatal.
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
Ready for something really scary? As far as scientists can tell, Hydric acid is in all of the bottled performance drinks that you and I drink. Even analysis of common tap water has shown that Hydric acid is a major contaminant of what comes out of your faucet.
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
So why has the government not reined in the use of Hydric acid? Possibly because it is part of some of the biggest markets in the world. We're to the point now, however, where it would be fatal to most of America's population if Hydric acid was banned. Most of us are so dependent on it now that our bodies would not function normally if we could not take Hydric acid often.
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
So, if you are one of those asking why you've never heard of DHMO, you are not alone. Examine any bottled product, and you won't see Hydric Acid or DHMO anywhere on the ingredients label. However, companies have gotten away with giving it a more common name for so long that all but a few even remember that it is called Hydric acid.
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
That's enough for this blog post. I just felt like there was an urgent need to make people aware of this dangerous common chemical. Here are some extra links for the information junkies out there:
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
DHMO Research Division
Ban DHMO!
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
Please comment and let me know what you think about this compound.
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
Once you have commented (but only after) you should come back to this page and highlight the text. This will reveal an amazing fact about DHMO. PLEASE do not highlight the page until you have posted your thoughts. You may make another comment after you find out the last, most important piece of information about Hydric acid.
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
Thanks for reading!
DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!DHMO is Dihydrogen Monoxide (WATER)!
Noah

It's Here...

Maybe it's the snow. Or it could be living in a new house. Perhaps it is the realization of how blessed I truly am this year. Whatever the reason, I'm really, truly excited about Christmas this year. And it's only the end of November.

I've never been so excited about the celebration of Christ's birth before. And I've absolutely never been even a little bit excited about Christmas this early in the year. If you know me, you'll agree that I'm usually the first one to bring up issues with 'rushing the season' and what not. But this year everything is different. The weather is brisk and cold. There is still snow on the ground. We're regularly meeting with other believers at the church and in other places. I couldn't have even imagined these circumstances at the same time last year.

Maybe it's moving out of Las Vegas. Maybe my outlook on the world is different. Maybe I'm suffering from a hopeless case of overblown sentimentality. But it's happening, and there's no stopping it.

So bring on the Christmas music (I confess I've been listening to that for a month already). No amount of cheesiness could kill my excitement over the season.

Maybe it's just the fact that school is over in two weeks. Or the fact that school is over in two weeks.

Whatever it is, it's here. I'm ready to light candles and sing carols. I'm ready to read the story of Jesus' birth and spend time with my family around the [gas] fireplace.

Who knows, maybe I'll never feel this way again. Maybe I'll be overtaken by the rampant cynicism which commands so many people's thoughts around this time. But for this year, I'm ready.

I'm ready for Christmas.







And for school to be over.

My Thankful List

Wow. I haven't posted since November 4. And it seems like it was just yesterday that I finished typing up that short blog post. I don't know what's going on, but right now my head is still spinning at about 100 Hz (but by God's grace the Thanksgiving break came at just the right time to slow me down and give me a chance to catch up on life).
I had a great Thanksgiving day. It's always nice to stay at home and be reminded by how blessed I am to have the family that I have. There's something about this day that just brings out those grateful feelings in me (which is weird because I usually am not sentimental at all). So maybe for today's post I'll just write the ways that God has blessed me and what I'm thankful for, since I'm in a sappy mood and won't mind doing such an unoriginal thing.
So, without further ado, here's my list:

I am thankful for:

1. Moving from Las Vegas to Colorado (I realize that God's plan was for me to be in Nevada, but I would rather be following His will in Colorado than in Las Vegas :P ).
2. Sweet potatoes (mmmmm).
3. The gift of music.
4. God's purpose for my life (even though it looks really funny to me sometimes).
5. Microsoft Office Excel (I wouldn't have made it through this semester without it).
6. Snow (that powdery-white stuff that I've gotten way less of than I expected when I made this move).
7. My loving family (I feel sort of bad for putting this one so low on the list, but just for the record, numbers on lists don't mean anything to me).
8. Words (and a marvelous God who gave me the ability and provides the words for me to speak).
9. My down blanket (which I'm about to grab because I'm freezing right now).
10. That my commute to college and work is only ~25 minutes (as opposed to 45-60 minutes in Las Vegas).
11. Hoodies (can you tell that I'm cold right now?)
12. Christmas music (and finally having an excuse to listen to Christmas music).
13. My musical instruments
14. Finding a family-integrated church and meeting like-minded believers so soon after we moved to Colorado.
15. Being able to go to college (and do that while still living at home with #7).

I know I could list a whole lot more than this, but I'm tired and I'm so thankful for my warm bed that I think I'll call it a night (it's a night!) and post this list like it is.

Hope you like it.

Noah

Short Post to Address an Interesting Comment and Wrap Up the Mystery of Music

This cartoon sort of relates to what we're talking about today, (mis)construe it how you will:

Anika Q (I think this is someone from the Rebelution) wrote me a thought-provoking comment for my last post on music. I thought that I would talk a little bit about what she wrote in this post.

Here is some of what Anika wrote:

Now, I looked up a Christian death metal band, called 'With Blood Comes Cleansing'. The title song for their album Golgotha has these lyrics: This is the place of the skull where terror reigned. A crucifixion of agony and pain. A crown of thorns pierced his skin. Bound by our wages of sin. Mercy so undeserved. We cursed our God. While he suffered. The skies grow
dark and the earth shakes and for a second your heart breaks. Eloi eloi lama sabacthani. Our souls lie in Golgotha. Prophecy fulfilled in Golgotha. There is not much there to complain about. However, when I started to listen to the music, I was appalled.

I sometimes think about what turns us off from music like this. The words are beautiful, but this band took a beautiful thing and de-valued it in our eyes. The reason that this style of music is distasteful to us is because of it's inherent purpose. Death metal (along with Black metal and many other kinds of music) was created for the purpose of celebrating sinful actions and desires. It was not created to glorify God, and most Christians have characterized it as hostile to a Christian and Biblical worldview.

**Begin Noah's random thought**

By the way, the definition of music I'm using, while it is very broad, would not technically include Death metal.

Music: an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.

Death metal, from what I have read and the very little that I have coincidentally heard (I would not subject myself to torture, you know) does not possess any of these musical qualities mentioned in this definition.

**End random Noah's thought**

Here is what Anika continued to say:

I just did not like that music at all. I found it disgusting. In fact, in my own mind I labeled it evil. However, just because I personally dislike a certain style does not make it evil. However, is it possible for music to be inherently evil, regardless of what lyrics used, and if so how do we judge that? Going back to your first post, I would most definitely not play such music to God and His angels. However, some Christians would have no problem with it.

Well, that's a hard topic to approach. Let's see what God has to say about it in his word:

[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Gal 5:16-17

We see that, it we are living by the Spirit, it will lead us to do what is right in God's eyes (that's the only thing that is right, right?). We will know if something is right or wrong, for the Spirit will make it known to us. You and I can see that this music is not glorifying God (though I wouldn't readily call it a lust of my flesh).

This leads me into a discussion of sin and freedom in Christ that I wanted to save for my next blog post. We'll wave a fond farewell to our discussion of music and start up on the topic of right and wrong next time (probably next weekend, I have three big tests coming up this week).

As we come to the conclusion of this short discussion of music, we see that music still remains a mystery. I didn't write as much as I could have (these thoughts are hard to capture with all this distracting fingertapping). However, I encourage you to study further on this subject, and let me know what conclusions you come to. We see that music still remains a mystery and a pursuit that we must continually request God's guidance for.

I'll keep thinking and praying about next week's topic, and we'll see what comes of it.