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    I was looking for some inspirational words.

    If you were not to get socially afraid surrounded by people who are with their friends. Where you yourself are arriving alone. How would you put your mindset, so you could get most out of the festival? I'm thinking about improving personal growth. Maybe I should make some sort of plan for the week (If I decide to go).

    It's a private festival about creativity. A little hippieish; I'm sure people are wonderful. 

    Any advice? 

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    Thank you for your answer. I do feel very mindfull about it. It's some good questions you suggest to me. At the moment Im reading The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida. I identify myself very much at page 123, as the one becoming happy in the "bad" circumstances. I can recommend the book if you haven't read it :) 

  5. Posted · Edited by Ida

    I really loved this book. It contains a lot of moral questions and historical events in New York (1886-1919) and Russia in some years after. 

    It talks about her life, authorization and revolutionary people. We hear about her views on the Russian revolution 1917, where she tries to have an impact on Lenin and others. 

    If you don't know a lot about anarchism I would really recommend you to read this book. It's full of history and idealistic spirit. 

    I read the danish version myself "Emma Goldmans Anarkistiske Erindringer" by Michael Helm, but I would think the english book is just as cool :) 

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    It have been a while since I had biology in school, but from what I remember and read in my notes, we use three different things in our body to respire. The first is stored glycogen(carbs), then its stored fat and lastly it's protein, but protein sits as muscle tissue and we don't want to lose our muscles I guess. 

    So what you get from a beef is about 20 % protein and about 9 % fat, the rest is water. We need about 30 % protein a day, if we get more it will get out through our liver and kidney to our urine. If you drink milk and eat meat and egg a lot you will have a lot of protein through your liver and kidney which you should be careful with.  Protein is your body's "last" ressource(for not talking about using organs), it want to keep it(the muscles) but is flexible when it comes to survival. Also is there different forms of protein where meat contain some who is more acidic. Our body neutralize the acid in our blood by using minerals from places as the bones. This is the cause of kidney stones. Osteoporosis is also believed coming from using minerals from the bones to neutralize your blood.

    Fat is not something to avoid, it's an important macronutrient. But some fats are better than others and does not cause LDL-cholesterol which is dangerous (HDL-cholosterol is the good version we all have). So be careful with saturated fat, which may cause atherosclerosis leading to blood clots. 

    And what I've learned about insulin:

    Fatty acid diets increase the insulin level. Insulin is used to help glycogen and fatty acids around through blood to different depots. Your body want to prevent your depots to expand so you don't become fat, so it may make you insulin-resistant preventing the fat to reach the target depot. And if you become so it will give you a too high insulin level and you will get hyperinsulinemia. 

    Soo this is what I have learned from my school book and from Dr. McDougall. Im not an expert though.

  9. Posted · Edited by Ida

    Hi Simon Zackrisson

    My favorite vegan doctor, Dr. McDougall, is of the opposite opinion of you, of course :-P He eats a vegan diet because he believe it saves human lives (if the person at risk do it himself of course).

    I will just recommend you all to see Forks over Knives and you could search Dr. McDougall up on google, he has done a lot of studies. Also where the eastern citizen is compared to the western people. In the east there is farely any lifestyle diseases. They eat more carbs and not much fat.

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    4 minutes ago, Rares said:

    :)))))) Every boy`s dream is to be cold approached by a girl

     

    It's nice to have good chances, but it will probably still be really scary and hard. But really cool when it no longer is a problem and if I actually could hit on a person I find attractive. :-P But that's probably how we all feel. I do have a little problem, I really don't like to kiss x'D haha, I will see how it all turns out. 

  11. Posted · Edited by Ida

    I would like to be a professor, maybe in astronomy, physics or math. But maybe in some sort of wise topic on life. I would like to teach, maybe kids maybe grown ups. 

    Aaand I would like to be an animation instructor and share my visual inside world blended with wisdom. It would be adult movies full of atmosphere and probably history.

    Oh and I would like to live close to nature with a naturist lover/partner and pursue enlightenment.

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    Actually is veganism not a diet but a lifestyle philosophy :-P 

    But to answer, if you take it easy on the milk, egg and butter then it might be more naturally for your body to be vegetarian. I do believe (from what I have studied) that becoming vegan is even healthier because you avoid so much bad fat and cholesterol. But you should consider that when you decide to go vegan, you pretty much have to take some vitamin supplement. If you don't get much sun, then you will lack D-vitamin, it's only found in animal products. And you have to take B12-vitamin, also found in animal products. There is people studying how to grow these vitamins in some special plants/mushrooms. But by now I believe it's safest to take a supplement besides your diet.

    And of course it's easier to start out as a vegetarian and then buy lesser and lesser animal products. AND if you really want to help yourself and the planet, buy organics; free from chemicals :D But I would recommend you to just buy a vegan cookbook

     

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    I bacame vegan three years ago after being vegetarian since 13 years old. I did it because I love animals and I find it cruel to exploit and murder anyone. I started to hang out with likeminded people and they are usually reeealy rational ateists debatting and fighting for animals everywhere. And my impression is that it's not a very spiritual thing to engage in. I became vegan because I felt like a good and right person. And it doesn't feel very spiritual. I love the video of Leo on human beliefs and the video on how we lie, I think they are very relevant to this topic. 

    I agree with you Brandini, that it probably are hindering oneself to take a moral belief. But sure I would love to hear Leo's opinion.

  16. Posted

    Name: Ida
    Age: 19
    Gender: Female
    Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
    Occupation: Student
    Marital Status: Single
    Kids: No
    Hobbies: Enlightenment, personal development, a visual look on history (personal homes and style), walks in nature in all weather(maybe only danish weather though), child raising, astronomy, wisdom, dancing, furnitures(yep: antiques), drawing and story telling.

    I got into personal development when I got some issues I was checking up on through the internet, and here I am! (If you want detail: see my journal). 

     

    Personal challenges I've overcome:

    Social anxiety is reduced to shyness :b

     

    What I'm working on now:

    Being even wiser.

    Gaining weight.

    Stop being a victim and getting shit done.

    Considering my dogmas on being a vegan.

    Detaching myself and exploring new people.

    Getting into meditation and yoga.

     

     

  18. Posted · Edited by Ida

    This is going to be very victim oriented, because that's pretty much where I am. But also will I be shameful honest. So I just want to tell about my problems, not that I don't have any solutions, Im working on it all :) 

    Today my biggest problems feels like being my social limitations, my weight and my fails on completing my projects. So when I got in puberty my social anxiety started. I slowly lost my childhood friends while I was dealing with sweating, shaking and heartbeating in social context. I also had some hyperventilation problems a few times. But to explain; it was something about getting up from my seat in the train to get off, that made my heart race. So I didn't really have friends at the time. But a guy, when I was 16years old, from my school (ehm and this is a school for all ages), he kind of liked me. But this got complicated as he too has his own problems; with insecurities but resulting in anger, he wasn't social shy. But I was veeeery shy against him, so it make sense we didn't became close. 

    I guess the thing about being shy is very typical, but the thing that made me loose my weight(loosing 10 kg), making me underweight, was my sacrifice of own needs when I lived in a cabin with this guy. It was a mix of my insecurities and a scratch in my ass that did it. To talk about the scratch: Maybe you know what Im talking about, it hurts so freaking bad to shit with a scratch in your ass.. so I wanted to avoid that, so I controlled my food intake. I did visited the doctor with this, unfortunately they misdiagnosed me, so I lived with the issue for a year. But we had another "problem", the grocery was pretty long away from us, and we were lazy pot-smokers, so when he was talking about hoping to get some of the dinner with him at work next day, I wouldn't take another dish after the first. Im not blaming him anything though, this was my own responsibility, and I was not very old. Anyways. Also I was very in love with him, and we had SOOO bad communication. We had sex and played games and was alone, I loved it. But I was afraid to confront him with being a couple and I just missed intimacy in our communication. So I became more and more miserable because of that. This got me into a mild depression. 

    Im still very much of a people pleaser, and still training to put myself first. But to continue: Time went on till I once got the courage to ask my friend if he wanted anything serious with our relationship. Very awkwardly he answered that he just saw it as a little fun. And I was more relieved of my own courage than disappointed of his answer. But even though this was what I thought would end my depression, to have his answer, my mood didn't change. I didn't stop seeing him, and we continued sex once in a while. Actually we saw each other every day. This was the time where I began searching up about depression, and found the video on why Im I depressed of Leo. Soo, time went on, I was feeling bad, I was watching videos, I began feeling better. This whole time I have been very unmotivated and blunt (also by not eating enough). Everyone knows it takes something to change lifestyle, and I've got used to not eating much. 

    But I got better at telling my friend what's on my mind, and I got lesser and lesser shy in front of him. Im still prioritizing against my authenticity, which is where I am on that aspect. In the social context I have moved a lot, but Im still not outgoing. I have more contacts open even though non is actual my friends (yet). So this is where I am on the social scale and on my weight issue. To conclude on my relationship and on the not-completing-projects issue:

    Not long ago me and my friend had a conversation where we got completely honest and I was talking about not feeling good enough but used, because he rejected me that time long ago. And his point of view was that we HAD become lovers/partners, that it wasn't something people agreed on, but something just happening. It blowed my mind a little, but I didn't agree, in my mind had we never been a couple, and actually would it also be a very bad idea to even consider it. So even though we are two very dependent persons with issues up over our ears, and I know people would say we should leave each other, and maybe it will happen, I also feel like becoming stronger in saying no to meeting up with him, and talking honestly about my thought (which is inspired from here). Even though I would get so much more out of my development if I made a clear cut now. And this was very nice to write, even though it's probably so obvious how much Im holding myself back. And I guess my motivation to get healthy and finish projects would also improve if I used more energy on my development. 

    So this is where I am and a little of my story taking action over four years. I hope for all the best for you and myself. I got a lot of visions, interests and love for life, even though it sounded sad, but maybe just to my own mind, because I AM that victim who feels bad for myself, so of course do I think it's sad... lol - But that is also great motivation I think.

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    Firstly Im going to approach this as post and trans means the same, as Im not sure of the difference. 

    I was thinking about this, if the three states is also something passing through all people, so as they have to have been prerational and rational before they can think of themselves as transrational? And if so, is it so simple: to remember back in time if you once was very scientific and shot about religion and spirituality and therefore conclude you HAVE been rational, and now have to be transrational because you have gotten interested in the concepts of spirituality. So you too acknowledge religion and so on. 

    My thoughts now come from the short clip on youtube of Wilber talking about prerational people fulfilling themselves with buddhist concepts, believing they have reached some high level. But that may mean that I e.g. also just is a prerational person fulfilling myself with the concept of being post/transrational? I may feel like I already have been very rational years back, but what about my ego/self image, which still is in progress from my insecurities, doesn't that have anything to say, or is that more of a whole other issue than rationalism? So do I have to have established my ego before Im trans/postrational, or is it enough to know about it and think about being it?

    I hope it wasn't to complicated and also I hope it's readable, english is not my everyday language :b 

     

  23. Posted · Edited by Ida

    I would think that every person, one or more, that you want to be with is because of your ego? 

    I think that if you feel it makes you strong to love more than one, and you are mastering your jealousy or don't feel it at all, then it must be very empowering to live polyamorous. In my opinion to decide to be polyamorous is maybe even less egoistic than only wanting one lover, because you accept that the other persons can be with others without it being a problem, you are kind of letting go on that aspect. But no matter what it's the thing about having to build your ego before you can get rid of it, so I think you might as well go for what empowers you most.