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I understand that feeling. Dressing sharp can make you feel more proactive, compared to say dressing lazy in sweatpants. There is also a confidence boost in dressing sharp.

@ppfeiff Humans lived through many ice ages. We certainly are adapted to living in the cold. Many people thrive in the cold, not just survive. Rather than sharp claws and teeth, nature equipped you with a brain to make sharp stone tools, which hominids have been making for probably a million years. Yes, we require fiber because our diets always included plants. Roots and shoots and berries and leaves and mushrooms can be gathered in many places. I generally agree that a veggie and fruit diet is best. Seems to me that our ancestors basically ate anything and everything they ran across. Like bears.

That's the difference between meditation for beginners and non-beginners At first you want to focus on just building the habit without judging yourself too much. Then you want to refine it. The first few years of meditation are gonna be very rocky. The key there is to not psyche yourself out of it.

Wearing a suit is conscious? If you're gonna wear clothing for max consciousness, it should be something more like an all-white, natural cotton, loose garment. Which is what many yogis and religious people wear. They wear it for good reason, not just to show off. If suits promoted consciouness, yogis would wear suits and assholes like laywers, politicians, and CEOs wouldn't

@Girzo God you are cheap. Toastmasters is something like $30 per quarter. It's cheaper than a Netflix subscription!

Except it doesn't do it by itself. It is programmed with patterns to search by intelligent people. Actual insight isn't being created there. Science doesn't even have a theoretical model of what a creative insight is. Insight ain't random or brute force, it's intelligent.

@phoenix666 Sorta proves my point actually: nutrition science is sketchy and contradictory. And there is much more to the issue of health than just fish oil or heart disease. The problem with all such kinds of studies is that they are ridiculously unholistic. They track one or two variables and then make conclusions about overall human health based on that. When in fact there are clearly thousands of variables involved. My larger point was: if a sub-population of humans can survive and thrive for 10,000+ years, then nature probably has adapted them to eating what they eat. Any one scientific study can be overturned or proven inaccurate or misleading. That's the problem with studies. You don't know which one to trust nor what the big picture consequences are. I would predict that when we look back on the nutrition knowledge we have today in 100 years, much of it will look like voodoo and bro-science. Yes, my own nutrition theories could also be wrong. That is the point. I think the best overall rule of thumb is to stick to as natural foods as possible. But the problem is, natural foods are almost non-existent. All modern animals, fruits, and wheat have been artificially bred. We have little idea of what's in them or on them.

The absurdity of it is that humans are themselves not conscious. Yet they are trying to create something as deluded as them, thinking it will be conscious. It's like a lonely child trying to create a pet dog out of Legos, wondering if it might become real like him. But he isn't aware that he himself is made out of Legos.

@sarapr Google has a hard time fighting online spam because it cannot even read human words. So it will be a very long time until any kind of serious AI gets developed. The mind is far more complex than tech-geeks and scientists imagine. It's not going to happen in our lifetimes. Not even close. You have more to fear from real stupidity than artificial intelligence

Have you ever watched how Eskimos live and eat in Alaska, or in Siberia? That puts a hole in your neat little theory very quick. Their diet is like 90%+ animals. And they have been living that way for 10,000 years at least. Human beings are very diverse creatures. We have adapted to live and eat in radically diverse environments. We are omnivores, which gives us more flexibility than many other animals. We are more like bears than cats or cows. If you lived in the Arctic circle (as many people do, and have done), you simply couldn't survive there on fruits and vegetables. Of course there are obvious no-no's when it comes to healthy diet, like no corn syrup, no trans fats, no deep fried food, no soda, no hormones, no antibiotics, no chemicals, no refined wheat, no ice cream, no McDonalds, no candy, etc. But there is a lot of variation as far as what a healthy diet looks like. And on top of that, most people are addicted to decades of bad diets. So they cannot transition to an all-fruit diet overnight. They would require years of inner work to actually pull that off successfully. Not to mention that most people probably couldn't afford an organic all-fruit diet. That would increase their grocery bill by at least x4. And if you don't do organic, it's not at all clear that all those pesticides won't eventually kill you faster than ice cream. Human nutrition is a very complex field. The science on it just isn't good enough yet. We'll probably need another 100 years of research before we have a clear picture of all the good stuff vs all the bad stuff. But even so, it is still possible to eat a lot healthier right now, so don't let this be an excuse to eat ice cream.

Absolute skepticism can be good. But you have to be careful not to misuse it. For example, why are you so certain that all knowledge is neither correct or incorrect? Is it speculation when you get hungry and drive to the store to buy dinner? Are you just speculating that you could buy some dinner with cash? Or is that something you know works to keep you alive? See, the thing is, no matter how much you speculate or doubt, then there is reality which gets your ass moving and doing. So don't sit around speculating about fantastical things, instead, observe reality in motion. Observe the real patterns. That is proper contemplation. For example, when you ask a question like, "What is happiness?" that is NOT a speculation. Happiness is a word which refers to something concrete in your direct experience. So find that thing and look at what is really is. What is happiness? Like REALLY! You've felt it before. So what is it? Don't theorize. Don't go reading the answer in some book. Look at it! Or maybe it's all just an illusion? In which case, look at that! Is that actually true? Are you conscious of the illusion? Or are you just saying it's an illusion because some guy in a video said so and you are aping him? Your contemplation has to be grounded in reality. What we are interested in exploring the most is all the stuff you do after you've doubted everything as much as you can. Why do you still go to pee? Why do you still get angry? Why do you still get sad? Why do you still go to work? Etc. After all, if you really doubted all that away, you shouldn't be doing any of it. So if you're doing it, clearly you believe in it. Clearly you are a slave to that reality. So far your doubt has only gone skin deep, even though it appears absolute. If your doubt were truly absolute, the universe would disappear out of existence, and you along with it. And that would be the happiest day of your life. And it would be no mere speculation.

A) Change is hard for everyone, regardless. B) You're misusing a very advanced teaching which you do not have any direct experience of. As far as you're concerned, you have free will because you're still playing the game of controlling life, and you don't even have an idea of what no-self means. You just took on a silly belief. That is not no-self, and that is not no-free-will. You actually believe you are in control of life, so stop pretending otherwise. If you ever truly discover what no-free-will means, that will be the happiest day of your life. Until then, do the more ordinary self-help -type work and learn how to function in society. You are trying to fly before you've learned crawl. You need a few years of just very ordinary self-help before you start barking up the tree of nonduality. If you're worried about your Autism, start buying books about it and doing your research. There have been hundreds of books written about every disorder known to man, especially Autism. Study people who have successfully overcome it. Practice what they did. C) Many people feel self-conscious, including myself. That is not necessarily Autism. Be careful with lumping all your issues under one label. Unless you've been doing personal development for a decade or more, you will have all sorts of emotional, neurotic issues -- everyone does. That's where the work begins. D) Everyone's mind is tricky. Don't paint yourself out to be some unique hard case. Most of the stuff you've described is totally normal human neurosis which can be overcome with years of personal development work. E) Stop comparing yourself to others so much. Most people who you think are "happy" and "normal" are anything but. Judging people by outward appearances is extremely deceiving. Focus on doing the inner work: exploring your own psyche, exploring what is reality. Don't treat this like a prison sentence. Personal development is supposed to be interesting and exciting. We are talking about you designing your own life, and then living it. What could be cooler than that?

To find your life purpose means that you start working on it the very next day. Babysteps at first, but still! You're treating this too hypothetically. Notice that when you're not aligned with your LP, you're wasting your time. You can go to school, but then school must be a part of your LP. Otherwise why are you doing it??

As with anything, you need to know when to apply it, and you need to not become dogmatic about it. Then it can be helpful. Always? The only thing that's always is nothing

Toastmasters

There usually is. Hard to grasp it all in one trip.

Ha! Funny. I love Tycho. Nothing quite like it. Don't forget Past Is Prologue

I can vouch for that one.

@beastmode Why ask me? Ask yourself.

The new video is already done. Just waiting for it to render and upload. It's virtually identical, just edited a few minor details that a few folks were getting too greedy about. Sorry for the troubles.

The new version will be virtually identical, so don't worry.

People started abusing the information I shared in that video, so I finally decided to take it down. A new version is coming soon which will have less abuse potential.

@egoless I told you the version number several times in the video. If I made this any easier, I would have to break into your house and install it on your machine for you while you sleep.

@see_on_see I would rather put my nuts in a vice than use Apple crippled software

What are you talking about? Apple is for unconscious people. People who don't know how to use a PC so they need their hand held and all advanced options and permissions removed Real men use Windows (or Linux).