Natasha Tori Maru

I read it when I was 14. I LOVED it. The chapter where they were slowly suffocating put the fear in me. I recall that fear when I read Red Dragon by Thomas Harris / Bram Stoker's Dracula (not on par as literary classics, like Moby Dick, mind you). Red Dragon in particular messed me up. I do alright with really dense material ie Bronte Sisters, Tolkien etc. This is a big claim - you must have taken some big meanings/lessons/truth from the book.

Disappointed. You can never know someone else's experience.

Oh to be clear - I do not eat late at night I stop all food 3/4 hours prior to sleep. I just have my largest, most dense and training fuelled meal in the evening.

Not to mention - society operates on a give/take principal. You cannot expect to benefit from from all of the support of society and not provide any value back. If you take and avoid contributing, your not opting out of society, or 'NT world'. You're being somewhat carried by it. You necessarily need to be carried by it in times of hardship (illness, injury, childhood, crisis), that is what compassion is for. But I am against it as a STANCE. Power, medical, water, gas, buildings, infrastructure. Support workers, teaching, skilled labour, care. So much work people put in to keep these networks & systems running for all of our mutual benefit. This is no moralising either - it is just reality. I do not wish to appear to be judging someone's worth only by what they can bring/be useful as. But if we benefit from the collective, I might consider I owe something back.

@Terell Kirby Yeah, it is really, really shocking. The branding man, FUCK

I have adhered to a similar method years, it hasn't failed me yet. Sometimes, prior to a 20k + run, or 50/60km ride, I will eat a huge pile of potatoes the evening before, with my meal. If I eat that same volume of carbohydrates the morning of, I am sluggish and there is much less power available to me. I experience this as the oft spoken of 'bonk', where you just run out of steam. The overnight digestion saturates my muscle glycogen stores (my theory) better than morning fuelling. I used to take meticulous notes on a little pad regarding meal times, types, feeling during training, times etc and work out from scratch best practice. Now its all stored on the Garmin and phone. Technology is great, when used properly

Just talking about the human condition in circles now.

Fucking love lathered >.< I need to stop with the euphemisms.

I think this is my only issue with him. I cannot listen to someone who I think is not original and earnest in delivery. That's not to say I might not listen to someone who was full of shit. I can be fooled that way like a twit, and I have been. Caught by vibes. But he appears like he has the opposite of sovereignty of mind. I like a maverick. Why would I listen to Brendan when the juice can come from Peter himself

I get the ick from Brendan Lea. I have listened to a lot of his stuff on Youtube. He sounds a lot like a brainwashed crony trying to replicate Peter. Mannerisms, intonation. Speaking pace. Phrasing. He legit sounds like a mini-Ralston with no original mind. And he may not, since I do not think Ralston would tolerate someone so close to him that was pushing back or challenging him. I do not know why I cannot tolerate Brendan. He has some good stuff to say. It is an issue with me that I cannot receive it from him. But I am 100% okay with being yelled at through the internet by Peter

Oh boy - this is FULLY LOADED. I reckon he is going to spack out. Framing and context will scream cosmology. I personally would have just said Hello Peter, expressing gratitude for the work you do. Existentially & relatively - do you have anything to say on love? or just Hello, Peter. Love? But then again, I might be too open ended

I think there may be a few who share this view, but do not state it. I think it is the way with all seekers. You always throw the teacher away. Spiritual needs to be thrown away in the end as well. Or it becomes just another ground for identiity.

What is the intention/communication you are wishing to broadcast with this post? Am I correct it is mostly the sum of the collective status of members in general? It is very much a hodge podge of varying levels of development across all sorts of domains. Often lop-sided domain development. It does look like the above is the communication, but packaged in 'I have higher truths you aren't ready for'. But then, if that is the case, I don't understand why it is expressed. Aside from it being ego itself.

This is EXACTLY where I think he may go 💩

Yes, certainty tends to crowd out learning. Information gets bounced off - or tends to be twisted to fit what is already there. I run into this in business. When I am raising a possible issue we need to address to prevent a future bad outcome. I usually encounter this when I am speaking to someone that outranks me in experience.

Closing this. Don't want to invite drama. If you have a serious issue PM Leo or a Moderator you feel you can speak to.

I have no personal feelings toward you - all is well Why in the world would I dislike you? I disagree with your actions - there is a large difference. This post does make me think you might have unclear boundaries - my compassion. Always a challenge. Disclose AI use and you good man

I tend to eat 2/3 very small meals through the day. Main meal 3hrs before bed - larger. I let my body digest and process food by fasting until 11AM. I use the morning for my most focused, intense tasks. Because my main, larger meal at night, is quite large, it fuels the morning weights/run/ride by loading carbohydrates the evening prior. I have personally found exercising or doing any intense non-linear thinking work on a full stomach to detract from performance. For this reason, I load the night/evening before. I have tried one meal a day (OMAD) but it did not do so well for hormones. Such a pity women are not even looked at properly for a lot of modern nutrition studies My advice is - experiment. The timing and diet for you is the one that YOU can stick to, and gives the best performance. If you cannot stick to something, it's never going to work. I think all this food timing stuff can feed anxiety; paralysis by analysis!

I couldn't get past the first 4 sentences. Sorry, but I can't do AI slop. There's no pacing. Theres no rhythm. Just this relentless content with every sentence - with no natural breathing room to take in the information before I am assaulted with more words/concepts/descriptions. No room for my mind to digest while I read a users unique phrasing. Phrasing that often says little, but adds pace and pause. It is just punchline after punchline, sucking away my attention. ChatGPT generated text is the true vampire energy. How ironic.

Once you call a thing what it is, name it. I think it has power. You can no longer avoid relating to it. You step into agency. It takes conviction and courage to definitively assert something. It always gets my respect. Because you have to come to party to back the claim/naming. Force Ralston to get those balls on the chopping block, hehe 😈

Grateful! Appreciated ❤️❤️ I suppose it's not about being right or wrong for me - at this point I am genuinely curious ! Especially as he is getting on in years. I wonder if his reply will be the typical mutant Ralston tongue lashing 🥹

I understand this of him as well. But the fact remains he IS still trying to teach/communicate something. Terms like Love, God etc will always be loaded. ALL words are - no word has inherent meaning. Context defines the word. Light (weight), light (rays), light (sleeper). All terms are loaded until we strip what context we do not want, and add that which we see fit to attempt to communicate. I am sure there is a saying about ' Why teach? No one well get it. ' So I think it appears quite arbitrary Ralston won't speak on Love in depth, or with nuance. A full understanding usually creates a compulsion to want to flesh the truth out into some sort of word spatter. Especially from someone like Ralston, who has expressed the meaning of his life is his work. Teaching. I have heard him state this matter of factly in interviews. I don't want to assume anything here, just pointing to the gap.

🎯 I don't like when individuals are empowered and don't take responsibility.

I think thriving is hard for everyone in different domains. NT or ND. Everyone can develop consistency. Passion. Pick a domain. You are a creativity machine! It's not a mental thing, it's an action thing. Physically do the thing and the mental rewiring follows. Engage. No one wants to hear this.

Thank you for your topic - and expressing your choice. Those sorts of breakups are up there for me. The emotional turmoil is gut wrenching. Respect. x