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Mark Belling would call it "rationalization" (what leo called self deception) which he called "the second strongest human drive" ... he was a conservative talk show host out of milwaukee, now semi retired. That said I'm hesitant to use youtube videos with clickbaity looking screencaps as evidence for any viewpoint these days. Everything panders to the algorithm. (Mel Robbins video above a good example... that screenshot would instantly have me not wanting to watch it) ... content peddlers calling out other content peddlers... needless drama.

Same here. My nervous system is already overstimulated so it doesn't need more stimulants.

Eat the cheat meal on the day you lift, so the calories can go towards hypertrophy. That said, splurge days don't actually work to reduce cravings, in fact any dopamine hit will result in craving more next time, so if you are using splurges as a way to try to increase discipline, that will not work.... just like having "one more cigarette" won't help you quit, only increase the craving for another one in the future. There's nothing inherently "bad" about "junk food" if you have normal blood glucose and can see your abs when looking in the mirror. The bad part is it's addicting and calorie dense. The dopamine hit from food is enhanced when you mix fats and carbs together. Eventually you will stop craving junk food after a long enough period of time. My weak spot being a cheapskate is when junk food is provided for "free" which it can be at work. I will usually partake during those times. Otherwise I have healthier substitutes for my cravings, like my keto french toast I make. TLDR: If you hit a point where you never eat junk food, it will be easier to maintain that if you don't partake, because any dopamine hit from a rich food will increase the urge for more of that food in the future.

Dead hangs or inversion tables are relaxing ... for people with sciatica, dead hangs are a life saver. Our bodies have not evolved that much beyond apes to where they are perfect, and the weak spot is the lower back, as we used to not really walk like we do now, but more like a monkey.. even millions of years later our lower backs haven't totally adapted to this, and the discs tend to bulge and press on the nerves as we age. This was mitigated during our evolution by humans still climbing and hanging from things, which decompressed the spine... so find a bar and hang from it. Don't overdo it, or you can then get golfer's elbow as a result. Ask me how I know. Weak bodies. Have to work all the muscles fairly evenly because any weak points will then result in chronic issues. Oh one more idea... you can try pouring 3% hydrogen peroxide (brown bottles) in your ears. I find that relaxing.

Good on you, man. Eggs are full of choline which has many positive effects on the body (ignore the nonsense about TMAO formation from gut bacteria) including being a methyl donor and removing fat from the liver. Vegans could simply introduce eggs into their diet and make a vegan diet totally viable. Make these huge garden salads with sam's club spring mix and tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, nuts, bacon bits, dressing, Parmesan cheese. Good stuff. Junk food is like cigarettes, a quick dopamine hit but you feel it later, especially the stuff they serve at blue collar establishments... ice cream bars, soda, cookies, etc. That said recently I've really found that believing all these "stories" that I'm told about what I should and shouldn't do, eat, and whatnot, is also a form of chain binding me down... david hawkins is right when he says you can actively cancel belief systems to increase peace of mind, and then enjoy that junk food in moderation without having a negative emotional response to consuming it. I just wanna be able to see my fucking abs, and be active into an old age. Life is short and I'm not going to age out of it by 50-55 though inactivity and not being able to see my penis because I'm a fat slob. The rules of this engineered reality we incarnate into dictate you "use it or lose it." Just because you can cancel belief systems, doesn't mean you should drink gasoline (or live totally off sugar and fructose) though. This engineered reality is still governed by the base software and hardware programming of the behavior of atoms, DNA, etc... all the positive thinking and radical acceptance in the world won't make your physical body survive acts which violate the rules of this reality. Since nothing in this simulation or reality or whatever you want to call it actually matters, as it's just a video game for the soul, no biggie though... you'll just incarnate back again shortly, hopefully not in North Korea.

If democrats simply had some, ANY vetting on who comes into the country, and bothered to try enforcing laws and punishing criminals in big cities just a little, they'd probably still be in power. These soros funded prosecutors that catch felons in possession of firearms, major car thefts and robberies, running from the police and causing accidents, and then never punish them, they end back out on the streets, this is what is unpopular. It's rewarding bad behavior. Democrats reward bad behavior. A society should reward responsible behavior. Republicans try to do this, despite their corrupt nature. Personal and individual responsability and accountability should be a thing, calling it "community" responsibility is a copout to justify an ideology (spiral dynamics stage green) that doesn't work. You can't shower a stage blue/red with green values and expect them to behave themselves. For that matter, you can't expect a person to simply do the right thing, all the time. Our genetic makeup is too primitive for that, without further genetic engineering. The socialist utopian state where you can pay everyone to do nothing won't work until we can replace all human labor with machines, and get our primitive genetic makeup up to modern standards with engineering. I'm rooting for you though.... nobody would love to escape corporate wage slavery as much as I would.... but in nature, species have to work hard to survive and reproduce... they don't get to sit around and have their hands held and get coddled, unfortunately. Murder as the way to be able to pass on one's seed is the norm, not the exception. Plus, democrats got overconfident... why the fuck did they pick Tim Walz as VP? What were they thinking? They thought they could win no matter who they ran. They would have won had they ran ANYONE else. That was on them. Now today's youth are rebelling against "wokeness" which I find amusing and refreshing. It was becoming a bit stale and suffocating, like a religious person peddling their wares on the masses. In any case it's all a distraction... this political infighting is not what enlightenment is about, it's about radical acceptance of what is. Let the sheep fight over this video game for the soul, and make it all real to themselves, getting caught up in the drama as their genes would have them do. Let your large "spiritual egos" as David Hawkins would call them, shine forth. Be the spiritual warrior he warned everyone about.

Honestly don't care that much. Despite the bluster by leftists about Trump being the end of the world there isn't THAT much difference between them. It's good to have gridlock because the fringes of both parties are both looney. They'll all keep printing our money and increasing the debt. They'll both keep being corrupt and giving handouts and bailouts to the top and bottom while the purchase power of the middle class decreases.

In theory it's supposed to mean supporting our middle class over the middle class of other countries. In practice, the rich will continue to get richer because of the policies in many countries such as quantitative easing which basically act to prop up asset prices, and the wages never seem to keep up with the rise in asset prices. Also globalization has lead to increased competition when it comes to labor costs. The idea is if you bring back manufacturing, maybe the wages actually go up to the way the boomers had them, where homes were affordable and the like. What they really need to do, but won't, is stop using property bubbles to prop up economies. Even left leaning countries like canada to this... no restrictions at all when it comes to owning multiple properties, foreigners buying properties, etc. Without these regulations wealth will continue to consolidate/concentrate as housing ends up in the hands of the wealthy and the lower class get priced out.

The elites always thinking the masses are too stupid to make their own choices, and always want to bring on strict autocratic type systems to manage human nature that stifle innovation and progress. The problem is that human nature itself corrupts such strict systems and turns them against the people in the long run. However it can be argued no system of government will work forever, because as a species we are wired to want change for the sake of change, power tends to attract corrupt and psychopathic people or simply turn them corrupt in time due to our nature, and since you can never please everyone, we tend to go through cycles of trying new things to see what works, and cycles based on the old saying 'Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.' We managed human nature pretty well I would argue, when we adopted a more conservative, "God Fearing" culture that restricted the more sinful vices. Of course shit went on behind the scenes because humans will always try to get away with things when nobody is looking that their dopamine driven animal cravings desire, and we were a whole lot more racist back then, but all in all there were aspects of this more conservative culture that made society as a whole work better. In this country we have the "right" versus "left" nonsense and then you have left wingers who support communist type systems which tend to lean autocratic in time because human nature makes them never work, or socialist systems that try to support too many unproductive people, which also doesn't work. Autocracies themselves tend to adopt more conservative type value systems by their nature... look at China, Nazi Germany, or any autocracy that isn't a drug ridden high crime cesspool like Cuba. It's a balancing act. We could simply not decriminalize all drugs and impose harsh sentences for dealing them, but left wingers don't want to do that... they want anything goes, so here we are. They treat people like they'll just make all the right choices and do the right thing and then act shocked and have meltdowns when it doesn't happen. Shocker, our animal nature is stronger than our value systems without forceful imposition (not a shocker) In China for example they monitor a lot more and enforce laws in such a way that people don't as often try to "get away with things" that are outside the law. There is a sort of carrot and stick conditioning that makes the rules more readily followed. But would we really want that? Tough question. We are materialistic because the global elites push consumption, population, and "perpetual growth" along with inflation to keep the unfunded liabilities from bankrupting the system.. pensions, social security, etc. This is another reason they never try to stop this "disposable culture" in which we live and peddle the "economic growth" psyop globally among all media outlets. If they actually made things to last, people would stop consuming and GDP would go down... something the Keynesians and modern monetary theorists simply cannot have. All of modern society in the west is based around consumption. Built in inflation means simply saving cash is a losing proposition. https://www.reddit.com/r/Detailing/comments/1g0qub5/the_paintfinish_on_new_cars_is_criminally/ For millions of years of human history we've never been able to have the personal freedom to experience all these things... I'd say it's a phase and we should just accept it, enjoy it, and evolve, or engage in genetic engineering to fix it. You will never save everyone, please everyone, the best you can hope is a system that works well for the majority. We do need something like stakeholder capitalism, which emphasizes better build quality, higher wages, and a stronger middle class, rather than this quantitative easing based system where everyone tries to be an investor, we bail them out, we drive up quarterly profits at the expense of wages, and the purchasing power of the middle class continues to decrease as the rich get richer and gobble up more assets with all their liquidity. Homes should be for living in, not buying like stocks.

This popped into my feed for some reason when I was hopping into the shower... it shows how modern factory farming is really the most efficient way to farm, and also the most humane if conducted properly. There's incentive for them to keep the animals healthy and non stressed because it improves the meat quality. There is traceability from farm to finished product by stringent government regulations to try to ensure the safety of the meat. It simply would not be possible to produce meat to sustain humanity with "mom and pop" type farming, and it would be much less efficient, paradoxically more stressful for the animal, and less safe with less traceability. They have meat production down to a science in western countries. It's certainly more pleasant for the animal than say being ripped apart by a Lion or Alligator as food like would happen in nature. Constant food supply, protection from the elements, protection from predators.... it's not perfect but should be looked at as a necessary evil, because we are not going to give up meat eating as a species. It's simply not going to happen.

For me it's psycho cybernetics, though the foundation of other books would probably be necessary to understand what drives human behavior. Letting go by David Hawkins and The Open Focus Brain are also useful, as would be the power of now. Atomic Habits. The goal is personal growth without excessive "effort" which activates the sympathetic nervous system and drives stress and neurotic responses. Creating good habits without excessive use of willpower, through observing cravings and impulses rather than either suppressing them or giving into them. People who think Jesus wrote ACIM with Helen Schucman, I personally think her work was based on other books of that time including psycho cybernetics which was released in the 1960 time frame, and that she wrote it. Just like Neil Donald Walsch never actually had conversations with god and Gary Renard never actually chatted with ascended masters. Their books are good but they are blatantly lying to their readers.

These large corporations , content creators, political parties, etc. are experts at pandering to people's emotions and triggering them with sensationalist content, and making them think the world is "going to hell" along with creating echo chambers and hijacking a person's ability to properly rationalize, similar to being in a cult, because we now have instant access to information, much of it designed to trigger people's dopamine receptors. In truth, this world has always been a hell, depending on your perspective. Life is harsh. Beautiful, but harsh. Let me be clear no "side" is immune to this. The "right" or "left" or whatever nutcase cult a person subscribes too or votes for. You make excellent points. Good stage yellow thinking here. A lot of people here get caught up in their emotions and moral judgements and worshipping their emotions as some grand truth when they are merely animalistic limbic mechanisms that compel an animal to act in it's environment. They are best mindfully observed and acknowledged, along with all impulses, cravings, etc. Throw in bots taking over comments and chat, and these bots themselves tend to push a narrative to manipulate people's opinions. The line between facts and narratives is being blurred by emotional manipulation and sensationalized/fake content... but such is human nature. This has been going on a very long time. The stage green "outrage dynamics" as you describe are still strong here but am seeing more detached yellow perspective lately which is good. It will literally take genetic engineering to "fix" our behavior at the ADHD sort of speed modern people tend to demand today, because of it's evolutionary origins. This won't fix the fact animal species are still out there eating each other for sustenance, or that nature itself is harsh, but it will appease the people always so upset about human behavior, thinking humans should know better when their animal impulses assert themselves and they make impulsive choices in a society and culture where we have so much individual autonomy to do as we please, often without "bad behavior" ever being punished or called out.

That is a moral judgment. Humans are experts at imposing morality onto situations that when analyzed from a purely logical perspective would be amoral, such as natural selection, one animal species eating another, pathogenic bacteria killing their hosts when they invade it, and all the little quarks that come with natural evolution. Our limbic animal brains are good at this. I'm not saying don't have a moral code, but analyzing it from a mindful perspective and pondering where it actually comes from can be a handy practice. What is "dignity" in the guise of natural selection and passing on the best genes? I'd say it actually counts for a lot just doing some pondering. One should ask oneself as example if these cattle we domesticate for our consumption would be better off in the wild unprotected as an example, exposed to predators and the elements. Perhaps they'd be better off not even being born, which they wouldn't if we weren't breeding them, but then we're not going to have meat to eat for 8 billion people. Should those zebras and gazelles that are meals for lions not be born because it's a cruel way to exist, possibly being food for some other species? I would make the argument that life on this planet or any plant in this physical universe entails lots of suffering just because of the rules of the game here. Should all life in the universe simply not exist because existence can be cruel?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/terrorism-prevention-thomas-fugate-trump-b2774791.html A 22-year-old college grad with no security experience is now leading a government terror prevention team: ‘Putting the intern in charge’ https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1936750454270247004

I would argue no... I always find it fascinating how people like this are allowed to get away with what they do with just a slap on the wrist, but hey cops just enforce laws, and there are no laws on the books giving more severe punishments to individuals like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhzTKx-vHzc However I fully understand and support humans given higher priority status by the law, because people shouldn't just go around killing one another. We have egos and a higher level of conscious awareness of ourselves and our enviornment. That said we tend to give higher priority to certain animals based on our emotions... dogs and cats are seen as more worth protecting than say wild animals because of our genetic link to them via domestication, and I won't bring up pest animals or insects like mosquitoes or invasive species like the asian carp or feral swine. Bottom line, natural selection is survival of the fittest... nature is harsh and cruel if you really analyze evolution. I still enjoy my meat, because we evolved to eat and enjoy it and take nourishment from the proteins, just like other animal species.