Carl-Richard

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.

No

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.

Well, if I hadn't fell down the stairs and gotten a hit of adrenaline, I don't think I would've remembered anything after blacking out. It was one of those curved stairs by a wall with a banister on one side, and my friends said I leaned over the banister at the top of the stairs and frontflipped down to the bottom of the stairs. All I felt was a weak jolt and a sudden coming back into consciousness. My first time drinking at 17, I blacked out in a similar fashion to what I wrote above, just not as dramatic. You'd think I already learned my lesson ?

People generally underestimate how much nurture matters. If your environment and culture is shit enough, you'll be born mentally retarded no matter your genes. Genes ("genotype") are always embodied in an environment and produce the "phenotype". You can't separate the two. If you look at cultural factors like the literacy obligation in Judaism, it's certainly the case that this affected the genetics of Jews. But does that mean that the literacy obligation was determined by genes? You have to look at what causes what and weigh each statement. It's obvious that when you look at differences in a diverse set of people, genes will be a big determining factor for the extremes, but when you look across ethnic groups, culture will generally be a bigger determining factor, because that is mainly what you're controlling for.