Carl-Richard

So you're just a burden on society then? What are you creating? What is your purpose? Is being a burden on society your idea of being spiritually mature?

Imagine two identical twins growing up in the same household: one started working at a farm, as did all of his descendants, and the other became a banker, as did all of his descendants. Then 1000 years later, it turns out the descendants of the banker have a higher IQ than the descendants of the farmer. Are the bankers more genetically gifted than the farmers? Probably. Was genetics the underlying cause for why they became a lineage of bankers? No. It was rather historical happenstance. Jews were mandated by their religion to be literate and undergo religious schooling. This made them more likely to take up jobs associated with education, wealth and success today compared to other groups, and this also probably created a selection pressure for things like IQ.

Least favorite fruit: grapefruit ? Here is my real list tastewise: 1. Strawberries 2. Mango 3. Orange 4. Watermelon 5. Kiwi

@KH2 Would you become a vegan if it was objectively healthier than eating meat but you would have to supplement with B12?

What is your life purpose as a human being (not as God)?

And then?

What are your plans?

1. Kiwi 2. Kiwi 3. Kiwi 4. Kiwi 5. Kiwi

Onion, garlic and chili have stimulant effects, so it has the same reasoning for why you should avoid coffee. Eggplant has natural toxins in it.

What does that mean?

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I'm 1% Greek. I'm essentially Socrates.

What did we eat before those millions of years? Does eating plants require agriculture? ? In what way should we appeal to evolution to inform our dietary choices? Should we eat things that increased reproductive fitness during a certain period of our history in a world of pre-modern scarcity, or should we eat things that increase health and longevity today in a world of modern post-scarcity? Are those the same?

These were tools of cognition; ways of categorizing and making sense of reality, which increases the fluidity of processing. It is what we today call rationality and science in their nascent forms. They have the same identical function — as useful fictions — and they're not any more delusional than knowing how to read or write. Ken Wilber aces this distinction by calling it "Waking Up" vs. "Growing Up". Even if you have deep mystical experiences, you're still very much stuck with the cognitive machinery of your culture. Awakening does not automatically grant things like rationality or universal human rights. Those are cognitively complex phenomena which require millenia of cultural evolution, and they must be learnt from an early age. You don't pull that stuff from the sky. Even the Socratics who "invented" Western thinking were deeply influenced by the gradual cultural evolution of their society. Your true nature is beyond culture, beyond cognition.

The World Health Organization and various government health departments around the world agree that you should limit the consumption of processed meat and red meat. My physiology professor also said the same thing during a lecture some years ago.

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This experience I had blew yours out of the water: last night, I dreamt I owned a pet rat and a kitten, and I had to run around and try really hard to keep the cat from killing the rat.

This experience I had blew yours out of the water: last night, I dreamt I owned a pet rat and a kitten, and I had to run around and try really hard to keep the cat from killing the rat.

@thisintegrated What is my enneagram?

You're interpreting it too literally. I'm trying to convey the narrow nature of the approach: accepting logic as a valid epistemology without questioning it too much. It's like "here is one logical argument, and here is another logical argument; they're each internally logically consistent, so they're valid for strengthening my position". The opposing approach zooms out a bit and looks at other factors as well (cognitive biases, statistics), but it's not devoid of logic either. It's just more self-critical and context-aware.

I'm 25 ? Rip neural plasticity.

Yes. If I set aside all my coping mechanisms that I use for avoiding that state and just sit, It literally feels like the energy is moving upwards. I've talked about this before that my mind can't think "useless thoughts". If my mind thinks a thought, it's either explicitly relevant to the situation, or it's an insight about an idea I need to pursue or a problem I need to solve, and when I do what I'm supposed to do, my mind pretty much shuts up. If I do what I'm not supposed to do, my mind will tell me about it. It's of course not empty all the time, because that is the state I'm trying to avoid. But it's floating just below that threshold all the time, and I'm trying to keep it there, just on the edge where I'm not too neurotic but also not too Zen. Within the last year, I feel I've managed to integrate that sub-threshold functioning into my daily life, as before, I was constantly dipping in and out. However, it consistently creeps up in novel situations where I have to be very present and alert, like in the meeting I had recently with my professor and other research assistants, or house parties. That's a bit annoying.

If you want to make it about me, I'm a very atypical case. The only reason I started masturbating again is because it keeps me from spontaneously going into states of no-mind (which scare me to death), and porn or sex is the only way I truly get horny, because my mind is so empty all the time. I can notice the organic build up of sexual energy throughout the week, but it gets transmuted very easily to spiritual energy if I don't release it, and that is why I release it. And the energy doesn't feel like horniness by itself, it just feels like heat. Fapping is just a tiny fraction of that story. I intentionally incorporated many unhealthy habits to help me avoid no-mind: posting on this forum, using things like snapchat, eating more frequent meals and more meat than I used to, overeating in every meal except breakfast, eating a fruit at the gym, tensing the left side of my abdomen, using suboptimal posture when standing or sitting. So I have a very good sense of what is healthy, but for me, becoming too healthy means there is no me. I would love to stop fapping, stop eating like a caveman and stop walking around like a beta male. That's what I want, and I can easily do that, but I can't. Now, when it comes to fapping for the typical young male, I believe fapping semi-regularly is more healthy than not. If you're not spontaneously transmuting sexual energy into spiritual energy, the type of emotional hell you're going to create by repressing your organic sexual energy is truly not healthy. As for your post, I only corrected the mistake you made when citing the study.

Do nothing technique.

Aye. Not much.