MarkKol

It makes sense to me, that everything begins with awareness, without awareness we are like animals, unable to have balance or deny ourselves pleasure, recently I've been struggling with addiction more than I usually do and every dream seems so far away when you're in the slums of it. I figured I would just try to be more aware of my thoughts and actions, and super aware of where each action leads down the line. When I engage in my addictions that's when awareness usually goes away, and I start running on auto-pilot. But it's very difficult to stay in this mindful/aware state all day long because everything is pulling on my awareness and attention. Any thoughts?

What do weird and quirky shapes in my vision have to do with my sense of reality or development??

Is there a cost?

I discovered it on Bryan Johnson's website first but I saw your posts.

Truvani and sunwarrior, Idk which one's better but they're pretty clean vegan options with minimal ingredients, also very expensive. Look for one that has EEA's added to it or add it yourself, I wouldn't get the dairy-derived ones cuz dairy causes acne for me. at 127 pounds though, which is approximately where I was a few months ago, I'd start drinking a liter of milk a day in addition to 300g of rice and half a kilogram of the leanest ground beef or ground wild game I could find. This is exactly what I did and gained around 15kg and still going. It's pretty atrocious health advice though. Not optimal long term. Unless you're insensitive to both cholesterol and saturated fat, which could be the case, the most likely scenario is you're insensitive to cholesterol but sensitive to saturated fat like most people. If cholesterol sensitivity is a thing in the first place, saturated fat sensitivity definitely is. Wouldn't eat this much without intense everyday exercise. The problem with protein powders is that all the cheap ones are crap and contaminated, and all cleaner ones are more expensive than real food, It's only something for convenience rather than value.

I see a lot of women older than me that I’m simply attracted to, and this happens a lot, It’s a preference both in personality and physical attractiveness, does anyone have any experiences or tips regarding this? I’m 20, and these women seem to be between the ages 30-40 usually.

Tru, I get the feeling that white immigrants are pretty well accepted everywhere in the West, including the Americas, usually everywhere there’s democracy.

You don’t, yur scared If you come to Australia with me I promise I won’t touch you while you sleep 😃 Unless….

Europeans in any country besides the US is always a great experience If you don’t understand travel, you're not twisted enough.

France is bound to become the leading country in Europe because of demographics, the Germans are not reproducing anymore. Are you really planning on moving out of the UK?

All I've done is solo traveling, although not willingly, the key is to meet people on your trip, the more the merrier. My opinion of each country has largely been shaped by the people I met, even if the people I met weren't native to that country. To fall in and out of love, make tangible and intangible friendships, get a little hurt, get lost, learn something, and experience something new. That's the perfect trip. Additionally, If I was to design a perfect trip for myself, I would do a few more things: 1. Hitchhiking - This is how people traveled in the past, a highly structured trip almost takes away from the experience, In an ideal world I wouldn't even book an apartment or room, I would look for one once I'm there, or sleep somewhere else, maybe in a tent or someone's truck. You'd be surprised. 2. Make it multiple weeks (hopefully months) long, visit more places/more countries 3. Buy or rent a very old car for cheap, this is how I'm planning on doing a road trip across Australia and Tasmania soon. It's the best tip I have. 4. Go to festivals, events, beaches, parties 5. Hostels are cheap and you can potentially win the jackpot by meeting great people right off the bat, especially if they're young. However, they are also exhausting sometimes because you can't get proper sleep (at least I couldn't most times). 6. Don't tell anyone you're going and just leave (Don't do this) I wouldn't recommend these 6 things to most people, It would probably leave you exhausted at the end rather than rejuvenated, I hate resting on vacation. In general, the more idiotic and reckless the more memorable. The worst way to spend traveling is to do what everyone else does, eat at expensive restaurants and take pictures of yourself next to famous monuments. Total Waste, most people I know travel somewhere just to sleep and get a tan. Proper traveling is not for the weak-willed. Don't wear any accessories while traveling alone, in dangerous areas, try not to stall too much, and look like a local instead of a tourist.

I don’t think Leo would like me, I don’t usually get along with grumps, he seems very grumpy. He said his biggest pet peeve is humans! Of course he’s a grump! My still kicking 98 year old grandpa said the same thing.

If you wanna call it "leeching" then the country leeches off me too, patriotism is not something everyone is born with. I'm certainly glad that you don't share my perspective because somebody has to fight for the people. What I said Is something I'd say to my daughter or someone I loved, not to everyone.

That's actually the first thing I'd do, It's much better to live without some crappy concept of pride because I fought against the bad guys, and stay alive. Then be dead because of human pettiness. The lands, are not worth it. Every war is forgotten about, including all your efforts. This is the perfect opportunity to move to a 1st world democracy for Israelis, It's clear that you won't be accepted where you are for a long time, there's no winning this war or any future attacks made on Israel. These people literally want you dead, they won't take such drastic measures as starting wars and then completely change their minds in the next 50 years. I'm not super-educated on the Middle East, or it's politics, or whatever. But this is just obvious.

Nice, the Japs lost their sex drives but not their passion for quality

Smoking and obesity are by far the biggest drivers of cancer, with plenty of kids smoking out there, based on how many times I've been asked to buy cigarettes and vapes outside of gas stations/stores. additionally, pretty much every chronic disease will increase cancer possibility, e.g. diabetes. By smoking you are increasing your chance of lung cancer by a massive amount, and it just so happens that the chances of surviving lung cancer specifically are pretty low compared to skin cancer for example which you are more likely to survive than not. It's ludicrous that we are still struggling with cancer in 2024, the solution is not chemical, all we have to do is invent a universal scanner that finds cancer the same way a doctor would, and basically scan yourself once/twice a month, It wouldn't get rid of cancer 100% but it would drop the chances of dying from most cancers significantly. Here we are, arguing about which food is healthier, indigestion and phytic acid won't increase your chances of cancer or any disease, ever. Hilariously enough, phytic acid helps cancers die instead of spread. Welcome to nutrition science. If you're a kid, and you just want to be cool, tattoos are a much safer option

Holy crap, everyone in the middle east just needs to leave at this point

3-4 sleepless nights per week is insane, I’ve been getting 4-6 hours with an occasional sleepless night here and there, for 2 years and my sperm quantity and horniness have dropped significantly, it seems like just disrupting your circadian rhythm will have negative consequences on sleep quality Life in general is weirdly intertwined with oxygen, which is probably why exercise and sleep are so crucial compared to food. People really don’t know how bad chronic sleep deprivation / insomnia is. Luckily I don’t think it takes too long to heal from it. I’m working on it myself. Your diet can be 0 all the while your sleep and exercise are on point and feel great, but not visa versa.

At what point does it hit you “oh shit, this actually makes 0 difference in my life” She was in love with the hustle

Just how do you even determine that fluoride gives you brainfog, or anything specific for that matter? Unless it’s instant and really strong

And what helped you you the most in that ?

And that’s how we caught him ladies and gentleman, the biggest pedophile in France.

Does anyone know of any websites that independently test products from different brands? for things like heavy metals, toxins, endocrine disruptors, polyphenols, flavanols etc...? It's hard to find brands to trust these days, I was actually looking into buying cocoa flavanols / dark chocolate and wasn't sure which brand to buy from given the heavy metal risk and variations in flavanol content in these products. I found one called https://www.consumerlab.com/ but they only seem to have a yearly subscription.

What's so special about him