UnbornTao

Do you guys have anything more of use to contribute? I feel like this thread can be locked.

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I'm not sure if you're being serious. But no thanks

@EugeneTheSage https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/why-processed-meat-is-bad https://www.healthline.com/health-news/red-meat-processed-meat-is-still-bad-for-your-health#Do-you-need-to-give-up-meat?

Ever heard of Zen masters slapping students with a stick? That's somewhat the online equivalent. Not justifying unconscious behavior though. The "slapping" could perhaps have been made more strategically and less insulting.

I think that didn't "cause" it. Also the it I'm not clear on, sounds like a shift in state to a more freeing one. It just happened to be what you did before it. Sounds like it produced beneficial effects, so enjoy those. Now let me ask you what did you became conscious of that you weren't of before? I remember having a no-self experience while walking my dog. I wouldn't say now that walking dogs is the path to enlightenment or something.

It's just called Guraism! In all seriousness now, do this: Rephrased: think for yourself and find teachers who you resonate with.

Less inauthenticity means more of you. As a contrasting example, recall your experience as a kid - when you were naturally more authentic, before you got completely caught up in the social world. It was a freeing and joyful experience - more present, alive, open. And yet, that state arose from being free of a complex conceptual matrix and self-image. As adults, aligning ourselves with this principle means becoming less - dropping pretense and recognizing and letting go of anything that isn’t aligned with our most honest experience of ourselves in this moment, whatever that may be.

Coffee (caffeine), apparently. Or it may just increase sperm production. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/testosterone-boosting-food Cold showers may help, too.

Not a vegetarian myself. What you say is of course possible. In my view, though, that's not a feature of veganism per se but relates to the individual choices made within that parameter. Your vegan diet could consist of French fries and coke. There're overall healthy vegans out there. When it comes to muscle mass, look up vegan bodybuilders.

Man in that case then I'm borderline autistic lol. I continuously look up their etymology.

Who or what might you be unconsciously holding responsible for your learning? What would it take for you to stand on your own two feet--so that your learning no longer depends on something external to you? Can you see that whenever learning truly happened for you, you were the source of it? You were the one making the connections, investigating, struggling, and wanting to understand. There’s no way around this principle.

Appearances can be deceiving. The most disgusting food in terms of taste can be the healthiest one, for example a cooked, unsalted, plain broccoli. As an analogy, if the criterion is taste and titillation, you might prefer sugary drinks over water because the latter is tasteless and might be considered "bland", depending on your taste buds/palate. But in this example water is, as you know, the healthy option. Vegetables aren't very filling, they're low in calories and provide various antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, etc. Whatever the latter means.

@Juan I'm sure they can be useful for certain people in specific use cases. Consider though that they were designed to be as addicting as possible in the first place. I just find them unnecessary most of the time. Their effects are probably negative overall, in my view. But hey, people do what they want. I hear tell that the founders of those networks don't let their kids use them. I wonder why.

She probably has interests, stuff she likes -- sports, fashion, philosophy, music. What does she want to create? Ask about that, perhaps.

They seem to add to the devolution of humanity as a whole. It's mostly a drug, and one with very acute negative effects at that.

Red cabbage here. Where are my fellow cabbages?

Why does one need to watch what everyone else does? What originality is there? Then you'd be bound to whatever information others consume. Would you read a book just because you were told that many others have read it before? That's basically groupthink and peer pressure. Consider that at some point there was only one person who consumed the content that then became widely popular. You can do it on your own.

You're welcome!

Stumbled upon this book by Robert Fritz, the author of The Path of Least Resistance. Promising premise. Check it out: Your Life as Art (Kindle edition).

Don't forget Aghast.

Yeah. Not dismissing potential benefits in the short term or for treating certain deficiencies. But what would happen to your body if a diet like that is followed for a couple decades? A lot of ugly stuff according to science.

I've heard this before. What you say sounds plausible and seems like it was a key contributor to psychedelics' current legal status in most countries.

29/36. In any case, I've done various tests, scoring on some of them likely to have Asperger.