#Pete The Primal Timeline

[severeprincesheep]

This guy's story has really stuck in my head, partly because we share so many of the same symptoms, but also because of his shocking experience with a doctor.

He suffered from an anal fistula and other colon problems like that. His doctor told him it was essentially an incurable disease, where the solution isn't really a solution as much as just swapping the problem you have for another problem that is slightly more tolerable to live with, albeit still a nightmare: you have multiple surgeries and lose your bowel function and have to wear an ostomy for the rest of your life. All of this is super expensive, too.

He thought he might as well do a carnivore diet during the weeks leading up to the surgery and all his symptoms cleared up completely. His doctor had him do an MRI that confirmed he was totally normal.

Then he received a call from his doctor's receptionist cancelling their appointment because he didn't need surgery anymore; and telling him that from now on he should just check with his GP.

Any doctor that has dedicated his life to doing the best he can for patients with this condition would be very intrigued with someone who managed to cure himself through a simple diet. He would be looking into that protocol and testing it on his patients. My conclusion is that his lack of curiosity is due to him already knowing very well that the carnivore diet heals this supposedly incurable disease, and that he doesn't want to heal his patients but rather just to exploit them.

This guy says something very much along those lines, namely that he realized at that moment that he and other patients are nothing more than cash cows for these people (doctors).

This is the reality we live in. If you want to save yourself from going through a similar experience you must eat a carnivore diet.

Bellow I wrote the transcript of this part of the interview, about 15 minutes in, where he describes how the autoimmunity that runs in his family manifested itself in his case:

Pete: For me it seems to have manifested in gut issues, which I've only really become aware of in the last year when I've looked at help from a doctor for that. (…) I do suffer from gut inflammation that leads to further side effects (…) the growth of abcesses and boils down in that area; which themselves lead to further complications that led to a pretty severe case of anal fistula.

I'm not sure if your viewers are aware of that condition, you can look it up on Google but it's a terrible condition where the body forms its own tracks to the bowel. So basically these internal tracks form around the bowel opening and they're incurable by all medical accounts. Surgery is the only answer. (…)

I got very tired of having to suffer with the pain and the flareups involved in this condition (…) I'll say that was also part of the motivation to try carnivore, because of the healing experience that I heard other people go through. (…)

The flareups got bad enough for me to see a surgeon this year who diagnosed me with pretty much the most serious condition that this can be, a complex transin teral fistula, where the track actually crosses the bowel. So there's a very slim chance of this surgery even being successful and there's a high probability of losing bowel function and (…) wearing an ostomy for the rest of my life and that was motivation enough to go 'I need to do something here' (…)

So I had this terrible diagnosis, he even said to me 'I'm sending you off for an MRI here, I normally don't send my patients off for MRIs but yours is so severe that we're going to have to get an MRI" which I dutifully did and it wasn't cheap. I got the MRI, waited a month with a lot of anxiety during that month, thinking of the worst, imagining the field surgeries. I had an appointment due with him and I got a call from his receptionist saying 'The doctor doesn't want to see you, everything is normal, just go ahead and see your GP for management from now on'.

And I almost dropped the phone, because (…) it was great news but it's like 'Hang on, I have a serious medical condition here, how can you build me up like that and then f it off in a phone call from your receptionist?

It really hit me hard. I was shocked.

Dave: That seems like a very kind of blasé way of - I mean, it's great news, but a very kind of 'Okay, go away now' kind of attitude, right?

Pete: It was shocking. This condition, anyone else that may have experienced it knows that there are usually multiple surgeries required to fix the situation. It's hard to heal in an area like the bowel for obvious reasons. It's just not a sterile place, it doesn't heal very well. I don't want to get too pessimistic or skeptical here but people with this condition are basically money printing machines to these surgeons because they know that it's going to take multiple hits under the knife to get it fixed and each surgery is upwards of 8.000 dollars. His main concern was my private health situation. He was still mid examination and he was bringing up private health status. You're a walking dollar sign to these people.

I'm sorry if I'm offending anyone in the medical field here but that's how I feel. As soon as you're not a commodity you're out the door."

[the-i-in-lie]

long and extra as hecc

Folie á Deux is the best Fall Out Boy album. full stop.

In all seriousness, here's a categorization of their projects in (rough) order of when I think you should listen to them. In brackets for the are the most well known songs from each album. Also, while I have listened to the vast majority of their discography, their earliest stuff I haven't checked out, or most of the members' solo projects. And apologies for any inaccurate genre classifiers. This list is mostly comprehensive, but most covers, live recordings and some bonus tracks are ignored.

Pop Punk:

From Under The Cork Tree (Sugar, We're Goin Down/Dance, Dance/A Little Less 'Sixteen Candles', A Little More 'Touch Me')

Infinity On High (Thnks Fr Th Mmrs/This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race/I'm Like a Lawyer With the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me and You))

Folie á Deux (I Don't Care/America's Suitehearts/What A Catch, Donnie)

Punk:

Take This To Your Grave (Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy)/Dead On Arrival/Saturday)

Pax AM Days [EP] (Love, Sex, Death)

Pop Rock:

Save Rock and Roll (My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up)/The Phoenix/Alone Together)

American Beauty/American Psycho (Centuries/Uma Thurman/Immortals)

Pop:

MANIA (Last of the Real Ones, Champion, HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON'T) {also Young and Menace may fill you with a primal sense of disgust}

Lake Effect Kid [EP] (it's only three songs lmao)

Truant Wave [EP]/Soul Punk (Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia), This City, Explode) {this isn't really Fall Out Boy, this is from the brief solo career of the lead singer, Patrick Stump, I just like promoting it to random ppl bc I think it kicks ass.}

Acoustic:

My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue [EP] (idk I've only heard it like once)

{most of the albums have bonus material you can dig around for if you like)

Other Stuff That Exists/I Haven't Heard/Individual Songs:

Evening Out With Your Girlfriend, Project Rocket/Fall Out Boy (early as hell releases)

Alpha Dog/Beat It (Michael Jackson cover)/Yule Shoot Your Eye Out/Growing Up/From Now On We Are Enemies (these guys are additions on their first greatest hits compilation, Believers Never Die)

Dear Future Self (Hands Up)/Bob Dylan (like lazy fucks, these two songs and Believers Never Die: Volume Two were the only Hella Mega Tour tie-ins they released)

I've Been Waiting/Summer Days (both on the top ten songs on their Spotify page, so here out of obligation. the former is a posthumous Lil Peep song with iLoveMakonnen, the latter is a Martin Garrix song with Macklemore and Patrick Stump)

The Damned Things (Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley, the lead guitarist and drummer, respectively, are in this band. Apparently Joe is the lead vocalist here, idk)

The Black Cards (Pete Wentz, the bassist and lead songwriter, and Bebe Rexha were in this electronic duo thing...idk man)

Spell (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Patrick does scores sometimes, also he made a few Robot Chicken songs lol)

Check Your Phone (Pete Wentz raps like a boomer, it is objectively garbage but I like the vibe)

Finally, bc this isn't bloated enough, a timeline (no solo releases/singles counted):

2001-Fall Out Boy forms

2002-Project Rocket/Fall Out Boy

2003-Evening Out With Your Girlfriend/Take This To Your Grave

2004-My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue

2005-From Under The Cork Tree

2007-Infinity On High

2008-Folie á Deux

2009-Believers Never Die-Greatest Hits, hiatus begins

2013-Save Rock and Roll, Pax AM Days

2015-American Beauty/American Psycho

2018-MANIA, Lake Effect Kid

2019-Believers Never Die: Volume Two

i took this too far, didn't i? thank you for anyone who actually read till the end!

I’m more well-versed in Weezer but also ADORE the few FOB and Green Day songs I’ve heard, anyone have any song recommendations for me? I’m trying to diversify between the three as much as possible before this concert 💪

[alengthyread]

I Tried to be Nice about This!  :-)

It’s time to surrender.  Give it up. Am pretty popular in the Christian world, when I was in highschool, I told my friend that I sang in the choir, and he laughed thinking it was funny. The other time, I invited my other friend for a youth gathering. I understand now that the temperament need control. Because am tired with the gossips, am tired with the stupid knowledge, am tired with the kindergarten approach to things. The problem with Christianity, first of all, “Christianity” is a pagan name, you don’t see the word “Christian” in the Bible. Surrender. Pun, really surrender though. The problem is that people don’t know Christ. You have these statements of follow Christ, but where is Christ? If Christ had an ascension, why not follow Him all the way to heaven? Realistically, saints have the Holy Spirit, when the Spirit resides in you, there’s no more following. When the Spirit resides in you, you can literally take God with you anywhere you go in this planet earth. Because the Spirit has seven characteristics, and wisdom is one of them, the problem now is that we’re bombarded by stupidity that we don’t know how to talk to anyone in public. It seem now that there’s so much protocol, because you can be accused by your own words, and that you could be sued if you say too much. The focus really is the Holy Spirit, obviously people use the whole Bible to gain financial term, and you can’t judge that, money a lot of times have a seemingly value that it’s gonna change our lives forever for the good. Money has a lure that it’s going to lead us to happiness. And you see this in the life of King Solomon, King Solomon pursued everything he could imagine life under the sun, and eventually in his old age, he died a fool. The problem with western Christianity is that it’s easy in this western hemisphere. People of God are only motivated for its stance when persecuted. And this was the problem with King Solomon, he had an easy life, and a lot of times ease is a bigger problem thinking it’s the best solution to a problem-free life. At the same time, I don’t blame the west, the west thrive on peace, the west thrive on happiness dealing with all that vacation. The problem when there’s no threat nor persecution, you’re basically stuck with a Hillsong song, and the problem with its teaching is that, “You have to be closer to God.” And I noticed that a lot of the instructions over the years have gotten ridiculous. Because I feel there’s a lack of examination. But you have to understand that a peaceful western world has nothing else but to suffice itself, this western thing is to go to work everyday, and hope that there’s no mental illness, that’s the west. And people have to understand that the financial flow where the commercialism, and advertising, all come relevant to any human being in North America, you can’t expect to go to a bus stop, and have the ten commandments written on the pavement. It’s ridiculous to say, “Follow God, commit to God” when we’re already hurting from work, or when we’ve already been hospitalized. It’s ridiculous when you negate the content of the Bible to please whatever context you wanna imply. Churches don’t say this often, in fact I’ve only heard this one said once, and Jesus suffered, Jesus was hanging on the cross for hours. Job suffered. King David cried and suffered. And it’s really aloof to super impose the lack of knowledge there is, visit the medical field, if you wanna say who are: If you say love people.  Visit a road car accident. Visit the Emergency Room. Visit hospital beds. Because salary out here in the west is not easy, the adage is no work, no pay. And if there’s no pay, no survival: No food, no nothing. Having said that, these expert will come again, in arrogant form of course, they don’t know the value of a dollar, they just say whatever is to probably look like a celebrity, this is probably a popular contest.  And now you gotta read the whole Bible, you barely know your own work, you’re stressed at work, and now the boring Bible, and the boring church services. And the percentage of youth going to church is very little now, and that’s because it’s not enjoyable, you can’t expect modern day people to read one sentence of a verse? What people need, especially youth is nurture, people are troubled now, people have vices where the financial term and aide is credit card, it’s no longer a rich world, people debunk, or bankrupt the fund - because there’s just too much marketing and business. The wise question to ask is, why is the world like this?  And what can we do to improve the situation? People limp, and you tell these people they’re going to Hell?  Examine yourself. I often wondered if Jesus was still around 2018. What if Jesus was still walking around your streets twelve in the evening, what would the experience be like? Do you also get crucified with Christ?  Christ said the thief will be in paradise. Jesus suffered, but at the same time He could’ve waltzed on that hill, because let’s face it, we all wanna leave this, w world. And the word waltz is used there, because why did Jesus never sinned while brutally hurt? If the cross is the crucifix, why did Jesus never sinned? Our time now, a little problem, a little noise, a little dirt, and all temper go. Am not gonna step forward, and say, “Hey, am an apostle.”  It’s true that apostles get followed, and I understand that people are interested in this, but let’s look at the bigger picture. The gospel can be found in the book of Genesis.  And I say this, because the animal that God sacrificed for Adam and Eve atoned for their sin. And everyone has to bear this in mind, because the gospel is really easy, the gospel is easy to understand.  Don’t miss the gospel by a stupid theologian. The gospel in the New Testament is Christ shedding his blood on the cross - or while on the cross.  Period. It’s preposterous now what people are saying. And there’s just going to be a great divide, because there’s already been a division, it’s just that a lot of people now are so uncomfortable with their reality. Joel Osteen is basically church scientology, but I believe that this is only a fad, Joel Osteen has all the right inspiration, he has the right advices to keep you surviving in America, because let’s face it, if you don’t act up on what you know on a street level, you will starve to death. Jesus Christ himself again, people treat him like he’s nothing.  But you have to read the four gospels of the New Testament to understand who he really is. Don’t go by these intimidating sermons, don’t go by these foolish preachers, Jesus was a friend of sinners. And of course when I say that, the youth will go in hysteric, but that’s part of life, you can’t control what’s gonna make you happy. When the Pharisee caught a woman in an act of adultery, under Mosaic law, she is stoned to death. Now, how come Jesus over rides the writings of Moses? And when Jesus posed the question he who has no sin, cast the first stone, how come the Pharisees left?  The issue was adultery, right?  The Pharisee could’ve stoned the lady enough to bruise her. See the historic change here? We’re not dealing with anything petty here, adultery is real, sex is primal, and our eyes wander. And what does Jesus say to her? The thing is, the church is a commercial entity in North America now, I don’t know how it is in other parts of the world. When I say commercial church, it’s an entity where the finances need to be protected. Anything adultery is miscued, and that’s because it’s not part of church financial. And that’s why am not gonna get involved with it. I’ve been on this church thing for almost forty years now. And it’s one of those things where you learn what its nature, or what its reality, normally so. It’s just like a game of basketball, the more you put your mind into it, the more realization come, and thirty, forty years could go by, and your greatest player could change along that timeline. We’re dealing with a coin here. Jesus preached about money more times than Hell. But it’s really up to you, the church is a commerce now, and the church is on a seam of a gold bar.  When you say Joel Osteen now, you say, “He has a private jet.” It’s hard to admit it, but money has a way of controlling us, because it takes us to the mall where you can have a good time. I suggest to go to the Christian bookstore, and really learn more of Christ, I understand that the fashion, the cars, the shoes, I mean I deal with those things, too. But for Pete’s sake, visit the Christian bookstore, and there’s enough resources there that can lead you to Christ.  I know what I know, but am also struggling here, am continually learning these things to almost on a daily basis. The last story I wanna say is the Samaritan woman on the well, because people now use marriage to save their dear life. The thing is, Jesus knew that this woman had a problem, and she kept getting married almost up to six guys from divorce after another. Of course, men during her time will just go to the field in the afternoon, and do wheat sheering. But just like anyone else, she was frustrated. And a lot of us are like that, we think we have the perfect marriage, in fact you don’t need a contract to get married nowadays. But, a couple of months will go by, and ah, “Am not happy with this marriage.” And usually a divorce will just follow, because you get caught dealing with another person who supposedly was going to be better than your last. Am glad Jesus visited her, because I have that problem too where humanistically is the solution, so I listen to Marc Anthony, I even cry. I don’t have all the answers, I wish I can say that Jesus was gonna finalize this, the woman did leave happy, she was celebrating along the streets, but you can’t say that her life then would be perfect for the rest of her life. I still think that you can’t be anti marriage, if you have attraction for a person, I think it should be pursued, and that’s because the gender male, and female, is just too powerful.