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    On 30.6.2018 at 8:53 AM, nour-cha93 said:

    I watched a lot of videos and read a lot of articles about Gurus nutrition.

    Its simply eating vegetables and fish and avoiding food that take away your energy such as (Beef, coffee, tea .. etc)

    I also watched a video by Leo in which he says that you can eat salad whole day and work out.

    I wonder how can we get enough energy to work out when we take no carbs or sugar.

     

    I heard somewhere that most of the energy we use comes not from food but from the oxygen in the air. I have not verified this, yet. But I open the windows more often in my apartment.

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    'Talking about music is like dancing to architecture.'

    What is life? If you read someone's biography, do you know how it felt like to live that life? If someone tells you about a vacation, is it like you have experienced it yourself?

    What did it feel like to be 20 years old in 1990 – pre internet, pre mobile phone (mostly, definitely no smart phones), pre social media, pre digital cameras, pre 9-11...?

    Why do musical genres emerge in a specific era and either go away or evolve and are never the same again?

    Music, like art in general, is an aesthetic expression of what life feels like to the artist in a certain time. Nobody can tell you how that works. No artist can explain it, most wouldn't even aware of what I just 'explained'. It's magical. 

    How does this relate to your life? By its nature, music is the individual feeling of the artist to live her or his life in a certain time. Of course, other people live in the same era. Society has certain historic events and developments to deal with. Hopes and fears for the future etc.. The artist is part of society. As a recipient, you receive the expression of individual artist's perspective on both his individual life as well as the collective reality/era that she or he lives in. If it is contemporary, then you get a taste of another person's feeling about his life in the same time you live in. Music can give you another perspective on the time you live in now. It can amplify how you feel about life and society and all the significant events in your lifetime. It co-creates how you feel about the time you live in. What I mean with this is: It's not like you already have a finalised feeling about your life before you hear any music, but you are listening to music while you are developing a feeling for life. Music influences you. Very popular music shapes the feeling of an entire population, lyrics influence the narrative. Lyrics  can be used to shape a planned consensus reality. But I don't want to digress. Also, lyrics transport conceptual content which is non-musical. Music itself (everything that's not lyrics) is by its nature aesthetics, non-conceptual. If the music is older, then you get a feeling of what it felt like to live in that time.  

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    On 25.6.2018 at 3:30 AM, jpcatrib said:

    So, Is Bitcoin Really Stage Orange?

    I also think that the ideal of the original developers to take away the power over money from banks/governments to people. Likewise, smart contract platforms will enable decentralised self-governing organisations to replace banks, insurance companies, social networks... dis-intermediation: the elimination of middle-men. People who have been siphoning wealth from society by positioning themselves at nodes of the economy, will need to get new jobs. The speculation with crypto as an asset class is a different story. That is clearly orange.  

    I assume that the trustless society will change how people act. This has started before crypto: Since eBay, people where I live have become much more willing to trust others.

    Ultimately, I think, having money at all seems like a preliminary step. I is necessary until people only take as much as they need. As long as you have people who want to live in a palace and own a private jet, you need means to restrict access to resources. I got to say that it seems silly to me. Squirrels in the forrest don't own territories where they force other squirrels to give them 50% of their nuts so they accumulate nuts for 1,000 years. Developing distributed ledger technologies requires a lot of effort and advanced skills. All this to set up an elaborate system to manage a world full of people too immature to handle resources responsibly –for now. It's kind of funny. it is necessary until it's not.

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    7 hours ago, Knock said:

    How do I know if my expectation is aligned with how things should be? What’s the best way to tell that you are ‘objectively right’, or close to it, if that’s even possible.

    I quite often doubt my mind, and the decisions I make, as I know that I’m just speaking from my subjective experience and am at times awfully wrong. This leads to a lack of confidence in making any meaningful decisions, and hesitation to assert what I think, as I don’t even know if I have the right (or in the right) to assert it.

    E.g. I feel I am getting too overworked at my job. How do I know if that’s true, or am I just being a bitch?

    Things are always the way they are supposed to be. Don't should on yourself.

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    On 23.6.2018 at 9:49 AM, 7thLetter said:

    I hear this quite a bit in Self-actualization theory, but I guess don't completely understand it.

    My understanding of it is that, its "wrong" to just run away from an external circumstance like abusive parents for example, without doing the inner work to accept any of it. So if you just run away from any of your external circumstances, in the back of your mind it still bothers you in a sense. Or if you ever fall back into that same circumstance, you'll also fall back into the state of mind of not being able to accept it. Since a huge part of self-actualization is about accepting life the way it is, that's why it would be considered "wrong" right?

    But what about those who live in poverty, or cities with huge crime rates? Wouldn't it be a smart move to work on trying to get out of the city first rather than to prioritize the inner work of accepting reality? At least that's what I think. If you put your shoes into those who live in those types of cities, I would think that inner work is the last thing you would ever think of when you constantly hear gunshots outside, screaming, broken windows, yelling, etc. Not everyone has the luxury of sitting in a quiet room to go and meditate, or sit outside and enjoy nature.

    Thoughts?

    What happens is –like Eckhart Tolle would perhaps say– the form that life takes in this moment. Challenges define our path and the path is what life is. Denying what is and/or not processing what you would need to, is denying to answer the questions that life asks you. That said, what response is required in a given situation versus what way of action/inaction would qualify as 'avoiding' is perhaps more often than not subject to individual perspective, insight, foresight, level of consciousness. If you avoid to deal with something then –on some level– you are not ready to deal with it, yet.  

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    On 24.6.2018 at 8:05 PM, Leo Gura said:

    @Onecirrus I'm curious, how old are you?

    I suspect there are a lot of people (mostly autistic-type young males) in the world who feel like you, which is why speakers like JP, Sam Harris, Dave Rubin, Stephen Molyneux, Trump, etc. have cult followings.

    I assume your idea of how people on the autistic spectrum think could be refined. Autistic people are not idiots (per se).