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@JamesLucasIT We were there. Worth the day trip from Athens.

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@bkrichmd @EricLDaugh Agree.

[Richard Bernard @rbern490862000]

@hicasamadim The answer is 5

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

For 600 years, the only way to reach these monasteries was to climb into a net and let monks haul you, by hand, hundreds of metres into the sky...

The place is Meteora, which means suspended in the air, where enormous pillars of sandstone rise straight out of the plain of Thessaly, some of them climbing hundreds of metres into the air.

They were shaped over millions of years by water and earthquakes into a forest of stone columns. On top of these pillars, against every instinct a human body has, monks built monasteries.

They first came to these rocks in the 11th century, living as hermits in the caves and cracks of the cliffs. By the 14th century they began building on the summits themselves, seeking refuge as the Byzantine world collapsed and Ottoman power rose around them.

As many as twenty-four monasteries were eventually raised on these peaks in central Greece. They had no stairways, no roads, and in many cases no obvious way up at all.

For centuries, the only way to the top was to be lifted in a net or basket, hauled by hand on a rope wound around a wooden winch by the monks above. Food, building stone, supplies, and people all rose the same way, swinging in open air, hundreds of metres above the ground.

Stairways were finally carved into the rock in the 1920s, and today six of the monasteries are open to visitors.

G.K. Chesterton once said: "The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder."

He was right. The wonders are still here. Whether we still have the wonder is up to us...

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[Leni @Leni1680234]

Bangkok has a giant dachshund sculpture that actually breathes. 😳🐶

[Richard Bernard @rbern490862000]

@rami_hashimi 397

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@RobertKennedyJc Bacon and eggs

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@RobertKennedyJc Keep going

[Richard Bernard @rbern490862000]

@RobertKennedyJc A Keto diet with a lot of gelatin.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

OMG 🤣

[Richard Bernard @rbern490862000]

Good advice.

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[Richard Bernard @rbern490862000]

@DoctorTro Thank you for pulling the curtain open on our public health wizards.

[Elie Jarrouge, MD @ElieJarrougeMD]

Modern medicine, step by step:

Got high blood pressure? Here’s a pill.
Still high? Here’s two more.
Gaining weight? Let’s add a shot.
Cholesterol’s up? Statin time.
Now you’ve got diabetes? No problem—here’s two more pills.
Gout too? Fascinating. Let’s throw in another.
Kidneys struggling from all this help? You guessed it—one more pill!

Congrats—you’re now on 9 medications…
And not a single one reversed a thing.

This is what they call ���managing chronic disease.”

Here’s what I call it:
A never-ending cycle of prescription that ignores the root cause.

What I do instead:
Real food. More muscle. Fewer meds. Real results. No side effects.

[Richard Bernard @rbern490862000]

@KenDBerryMD Ketovore

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@RobertKennedyJc No, They should not be punished for the failures of the regulators to do their jobs with the public’s best interest in mind.

[Richard Bernard @rbern490862000]

@RobertKennedyJc High fructose corn syrup

[Richard Bernard @rbern490862000]

@AP_from_NY A reminder that you are on your own. No one is going to protect you or your family but you.