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  2. Health as #1 priority

    Joseph Maynor replied to Florian's topic in Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Supplements

    I had ChatGPT help me make a diet plan 🍳 Breakfast: The "Hill-Fueling" Pre-Walk Meal Eat this 1 to 2 hours before your walk to prime your muscles without spiking your blood sugar. • The Meal: A 3-Egg Scramble with Fresh Spinach and Avocado. • How to make it: Stop by a local market and grab a small carton of eggs (or use eggs left at room temperature if unwashed/fresh) and a single avocado. Sauté a large handful of fresh spinach on your burner for 60 seconds, scramble 3 eggs directly into it, and slide the scramble right into the halves of the fresh avocado. • Why it works: Zero carbohydrates means no morning blood sugar spike. The healthy fats from the avocado give you slow, long-burning energy, and the magnesium in the spinach prevents your legs from cramping on the climbs. 🎒 Inside Your Backpack: Emergency Safety Fuel Never leave for a 6.2-mile San Francisco ruck without these shelf-stable items packed away. • For General Energy: A handful of raw almonds or walnuts and a single whole apple. The fiber in the apple slows down the fruit sugar, giving you a safe energy boost. • For Emergencies (If blood sugar drops below 70 mg/dL): Glucose tablets, jellybeans, or a small juice box. If you feel shaky or dizzy on a steep incline, sit down immediately and take these fast sugars to protect your brain. 🥗 Lunch: The Post-Walk "Vacuum" Meal Eat this immediately after your walk when your leg muscles are highly sensitive to insulin and acting like a glucose vacuum. • The Meal: Hot Rotisserie Chicken with a Crisp Cucumber and Tomato Salad. • How to make it: Walk into a grocery store right after your ruck and buy a hot, freshly cooked rotisserie chicken. Carve off the breast or thigh meat to eat immediately. Slice up a fresh, room-temperature English cucumber and a handful of cherry tomatoes. Drizzle them with a single-serve packet of extra virgin olive oil. • Why it works: This is pure, fresh, muscle-rebuilding lean protein and anti-inflammatory hydration. Because you have no fridge, you can easily save the remaining chicken for a snack later in the day. 🐟 Dinner: The Convection Oven "Organ-Defatting" Feast Eat this in the evening to promote deep muscle recovery and keep your blood vessels clean overnight. • The Meal: Crispy Roasted Salmon, Broccoli, and Sweet Potato Fries. • How to make it: Buy one fresh salmon fillet, a small handful of broccoli florets, and one small sweet potato from the bulk bin. Slice the sweet potato into thin wedges. Toss everything on a single baking sheet with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Roast it in your convection oven at 400°F (200°C) for 15 minutes until the salmon is flaky and the edges of the broccoli are crispy. • Why it works: This utilizes your convection oven perfectly for a single meal with zero leftovers. The Omega-3 fats in the salmon actively repair your blood vessels. The sweet potato provides high-fiber complex carbs that your body will use overnight to safely reload your leg muscles with energy, keeping your morning fasting blood sugar low.
  3. No. They prioritize Israel the state over Jews. That's nationalism. A Jewish state is more important than any one Jew. The Jewish state is the highest Good from their POV.
  4. They are not being convicted in America.

  5. Health as #1 priority

    Joseph Maynor replied to Florian's topic in Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Supplements

    I've been walking 10k per day for the last 2 weeks. I am so tired I crashed today and slept most of the day.

  6. AI Just a Copy Machine

    Natasha Tori Maru replied to Human Mint's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @AerisVahnEphelia it's a fallacious frame I didn't make any comment about AI being a copy or not.
  7. Trump will pardon them.

  8. AI Just a Copy Machine

    AerisVahnEphelia replied to Human Mint's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Sometimes binary is necessary for certain minds in context to get the nuance. when I watch claude doing my FX in resolve, I can tell you, it's way beyond "copy" and the simple thought of someone saying such stupid things is dangerous for this person to hold. By calling them out, I might save them from eternal ignorance.
  9. Maybe with a Roomba it would be tolerable. You'd practically have to sweep and dust mop every day, and the dust gets into the air and on every surface from there. Its easily noticeable with glossy floors, maybe not grey.
  10. https://x.com/bezalelsm/status/2108546734360019080?s=20
  12. I appreciate that
  13. It's impossible for you to be without love unless you chose to value something else. No condition of the body or the brain, not even death can impede the freedom of your Will. Your Will originates from the Source and the Source is eternally illness free. That Will is synonymous with Love and that is what You Are.
  14. It is ALWAYS God. Everything is always God. The only question is, Do you see it?
  15. @Joseph Maynor What you said is going over my head. What do you mean?
  16. I think the only country who does it right is Japan.
  17. Today
  18. It's God when God pulls the blanket over its eyes. Lack of sensation is also God. Are you telling me the void is a sensation?
  19. This is a really interesting topic for me. My interest in Technopsychiatry, a term that I hope to make popular in the future, particularly in virtual reality, is in how technology shapes connection, identity and meaning. In the second part of my response, an idea that I came up with while responding is “meta-spaces”, which can be used by anyone now to start designing and thinking with this kind of vocab to help explore this area and develop approaches to depression. From an existential perspective, I would distinguish three overlapping gaps that may contribute to depression: - Socially: between the connection we desire and the belonging, understanding and recognition we experience. - Existentially: between what we believe would make life meaningful and the purpose we actually experience. - Through agency: between what we want to bring into being and the meaningful influence or progress we experience through our efforts. I see two common themes across these categories. First, a gap between desire and feedback; so what life gives back, including our own internal response, may not meet the underlying need. Second, a gap between meaning acknowledgement and meaning integration. Acknowledgement means recognising what matters to us. Integration means emotionally processing its gain, loss or transformation, and adapting our identity and actions accordingly. Someone might achieve the fame they wanted yet struggle to experience fulfilment, while someone losing it might struggle to rebuild their sense of self. Obtaining a desired outcome and integrating what it means are different processes. This is one lens on depression, rather than a complete clinical explanation. A possible pattern across all three: Disappointment > Absence of perceived resourcefulness > Learned helplessness. Disconnection > Misalignment > Learned helplessness. Disintegration > Confusion > Learned helplessness. Some variant of learned helplessness seems to be one common underlying pattern, and that’s from the smartest person one can imagine to the seemingly most socially capable person. Where the gap becomes personally meaningful differs, so with the “genius”, perhaps it’s the existential, and with the socialite, perhaps it’s almost like an “emotional dysphoria”. Where the digital intersects here is not necessarily as a cause but as an interface by which those patterns can play out, often more easily in our capitalistic environment, and the potential resulting depression can manifest. People from many different psychological, sociological and neuroscientific fields of expertise are paid big bucks to maximise engagement in digital products, sometimes through something like “the addicted gambler effect”. Your description of nature, beauty and movement could reflect moments when meaning becomes something you directly experience. For your example then, given the massive contrast there can be between integration with God and the most beautiful things in life, and the artificial life the digital world tries to falsely sell, I think all three patterns can work simultaneously. 1. The disappointment between expectation and reward/cost. 2. The disconnection between alignment and sense of self/other. 3. The disintegration between understanding existential self-consciousness and actually being able to live from that understanding. One of my goals in VR is to investigate whether carefully designed experiences, progressing from smaller to larger emotional challenges, can help people practise this resolving of their sense of self across all three; as that’s where a lot of this seems to be at, isn’t it? Depressive distress, viewed through this existential lens, can involve a lack of resolution across at least one scale of one’s sense of self. By creating opportunity spaces for resolution spaces to emerge into something meaningful for a person to learn from, that’s where the promise lies in using the immersive virtual to address important areas of a complex subject like depression. The question is whether that learning produces lasting change that carries into everyday life, and whether those positive impacts are more direct or indirect depending on the challenge, including difficulties that existed before the simulation. I feel that when it comes to helping with areas around deeper spiritual connections like with God, the job of virtual reality is most likely never going to be direct. But instead creating simply the right intelligent spaces that facilitate positive indirect effects. And there are many ways of doing that because the underlying pattern in many of the experiences I’m thinking of seems similar, no pun intended, and that’s learned helplessness; but in its niche for the particular form and manner in which it manifests. If I were a psychologist and I was trying to help someone with depression, or if someone wished to explore this for themselves through some kind of dialectical self-reflection, that’s where I would land my introspective explorations, so the unique manner in which learned helplessness might be manifesting. Then slowly creating the opportunity spaces, in mind or out in the physical like connecting with nature as you say, to create an environment by which resolution spaces can co-occur. A resolution space is an interesting idea. An analogy I would make there is like preparing a romantic date with someone. The opportunity is the date, the environment and what can happen within it. The resolution space is where the emotional and mental baggage we bring along can be worked through, and whether those two environments can mesh to allow clarity of mind to forge enough for meaningful learning and change to become possible. The hope is that this learning, and the plasticity involved, might in return ameliorate parts of the depression. I don’t know that there is much literature on this particular framing as a psychotherapeutic technique, however in principle I believe it could work or at least facilitate. Now to the second part of my response, an idea I came up with while writing is meta-spaces; a conceptual toolkit for designer to sufferer as I said, and feel free to improve it, it’s just something I’ve come up with on the fly. A meta-space is simply a space in which humans can experience consciousness. It’s far more straightforward than one might realise. Need > Opportunity > Resolution. These are three spaces. Prediction Effects > Expectancy Effects > Responsive Effects forge how what I’m calling a Gauge Theory of depression interacts with those three spaces. What I mean by Gauge Theory is literally what it sounds like: it’s the brain gauging where it’s going to be in the future, expecting certain outcomes in that future and, whether it’s accurate or not, how it responds to those results, and whether it responds passively or proactively. To separate prediction from expectancy here: prediction is what I think will happen; expectancy is what I’m emotionally counting on happening. Those aren’t always the same thing. This version of Gauge Theory is something I also came up with while writing. Humorously, we all know that one person who complains no matter the social environment they enter. It’s not even necessarily that there is some defect in spaces to do with their needs, opportunities or resolution, despite the overlaps. It can have more to do with how their brain is making predictions, the expectations it makes here and how it responds to the results in reality, including the accuracy across all three, and whether their response is more passive or active. These kinds of people are not necessarily “depressed”. In fact, what’s interesting is that Gauge Theory doesn’t directly equate to depression; instead it could be more of a catalyst and compounder, because people with shit gauge dynamics, emotionally speaking, may also be extremely resilient people. That said, if someone learns more flexible mindsets across these three overlapping categories, combined with their resilience, they might be better equipped to handle the kinds of setbacks that can contribute to depression. This is where I think fortune-cookie sayings actually have their utility much more than we might have thought, when they’re strategically balanced across those three heh. Meaning, all those people speaking affirmations, rereading philosophical quotations and so on each day, it’s not necessarily all mumbo-jumbo manifestation nonsense. It can actually be useful if it fits the person, along with the placement and timing in the context of those categories, helping balance the world between actuality and the imagined of say what they want versus what they want to avoid. For example, some people say: Prediction - “I don’t make predictions for the future; it will come soon enough.” Expectancy - “I can want something without needing it to happen exactly as I imagined.” Response - “Whether I gain it or lose it, what can I do with what comes back?” But here’s the interesting thing, where someone balances with respect to Gauge Theory depends on where they fit with respect to the meta-spaces and where someone fits relative to the meta-spaces is also impacted by Gauge Theory, moreover both are affected by how their personality and environment contribute. This is part of what makes depression so individual, which is why self-knowledge can be so pivotal to recognising the learned helplessness that may contribute to the depression unique to the person. And self-knowledge becomes a compounding positive here when we have the right map to work with. The better self-knowledge and self-understanding someone has relative to their life situation, the easier it may become to gauge predictions, expectations and responses around situations in which they are vulnerable to depression. And so anyone here now has what I hope to be a useful formula to work with, or at least a beginner set, as I totally get it’s a lot to take in all at once, heh. Within this framework, need is shaped by biology and self-consciousness, interacting with our circumstances. These also interact to shape transcendent needs and subsequent spaces, the latter which is still very much up for grabs especially in the virtual and just general imagined spaces to invent within. If the opportunity space or resolution space is not available, our sense of control over outcomes can be compromised. If the opportunity space or resolution space exists but is specifically inaccessible to us, our sense of agency can also be compromised. So all in all we have: 1. Disappointment, Disconnection and disintegration as both individual and overlapping axes The next is the environment in which it occurs in, even if that environment is one's own inner world, which is where the meta-spaces come in, from survival to transcendent dream spaces. 2. Meta-spaces meeting > Gauge Theory The next co-overlap with the "Effect Spaces" from Gauge Theory and how it impacts: 3. Sense of control and sense of agency. And across these balances, we return to the meeting ground between learned helplessness and depression. All in all, what I've proposed here is certainly not something I would say is complete, so what's another pattern here? It's that depression isn't something illusive, it can be mapped and that mapping can be learned to help prevent depression. The gap that needs addressing is the distance between not only from knowledge to empowerment but moving all the way from implementation to integration so it doesn't even need to be thought about in practical day to day anymore. There's more dynamics, but I've learned something from this, thanks for the read. I'll leave the rest to everyone else. For virtual reality, I see the most promise with helping depression where it directly positively impacts sense of control and agency, especially where it opens up the plasticity of the Possibility Space of imaginable alternate to real worlds. For one, the plasticity with which someone can reimagine themselves and the environmental space of where both intersect on their problem space, has a big correlation for me on the resilience and boundaries of a person's resolution space for integration to lead to healing and from healing to fulfilment. Lastly, to come full circle to your original question, "what is depression meta-physically", its when depression becomes a relationship between connection and transcendence. For you as you've detailed so far, and correct if I am wrong, its the connection between the real and the sublime. At first glance, it may feel like creating virtual reality may be in the opposite direction one would want to go in to help someone with questions around how to solve their depression. How I would approach that accurate reality is that what we're dealing with is not an argument over what is more in alignment with God in the literal sense, but whether we can imagine and create problem-resolution spaces that give people the feeling of empowerment to solve similar kinds of problems in the real world. That, I think is much more achievable, and can be done with the transcendent. For now, keep enjoyin that sunshine aye! My writing here is a little messy, and there's more connections I can make, but that's what I have so far. Thanks for sharing this angle to explore, appreciated! Disclaimer: This are on the spot my non-biological theoretical causes of depression, it speaks neither of biological influences nor the biological impact that these theoretical causes can have which require a more physiological approach. Rock out, stay dancin!

  20. What car do you recommend?

    Leo Gura replied to r0ckyreed's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    There are some beautiful luxury sports cars, but many of them are not. Many of those sports cars are over-designed to the point of tacky. They are designed to appeal to immature young men.
  21. Everything is ONE. Buddhism has rotted your mind. What you regard as "sensation" is actually God. You just lack the consciousness required to recognize it as such. Yes, Mickey Mouse is God. Mickey Mouse is Absolute. What I am telling you is so advanced you would need to meditate for 100 years to understand it. And that's still just the tip of the iceberg of my understanding of God. This is easy stuff compared to the hard stuff. You have no chance of understanding the hard stuff at the rate you are going. If you don't understand that Mickey Mouse is Absolute, what do you understand? I can only be so nice for so long.
  22. @Carl-Richard "Mickey Mouse is Absolutely Mickey Mouse."
  23. Well the second part is not working because YouTube is full of free Bashar videos.
  24. I have +1k approaches on me I realized it will never go away. Your only choice is to learn to take action and move forward with fear or choose to get paralyzed and do nothing. I am extremely introverted to the point where I struggle to make eye contact with people and have a constant stream of negative thoughts, I still do group activities w new people every week. I still go forward even w all the shit in my head, my other choice is to stay inside alone. which would make my negative thoughts worsen every day I stay. So really I have no choice.
  25. Yes because Markov blankets are propietary of Siddharta Gautama 500 BC, of course. Tell me, how is a sensation, as distinct from a shape, absolute? Surely, the absoluteness occurs before any such distinction, correct?
  26. This is actually a good example of Spiral Dynamics red/BLUE.
  27. went out, talked allot and I learned that having approach anxiety carries throughout the days as I started of anxious. Anyways got a bit through that and noticed I am more grounded in sets without having to put in much effort. I self rejected a few times even when they were interested, like better to go away at the high then stay and get rejected later on or something. My wing taught me something funny which he learned that within the beginning, just say something random like not an object in the surroundings but something completely unrelated like "bevrijdingsdag is het beste dag van het jaar" or "tzunamis zijn echt verschrikkelijk" I noticed my wings energy was BOOM there, then give give and then fully empty, nothing to give anymore. So we came to the conclusion that he should receive, which worked, he stood there and just said hi, then maybe a little chat, but just open to receive. Longer conversations and one close, as friend, but still, he got things offered like a churros so that was great improvement. Also I noticed that I give too much, for example to my wingmen and everyone around me and need to be able to receive more, less is more. You are enough and your presence is enough, that is giving value on its own, not just being a clown. Also a friend gave me access to all courses of Julien, pimp, ten game and another one. I haven't watched them all, but I can see how Julien is kind of the introvert version of Owen, which makes it allot more relatable. Owen is more high energy and Julien more low energy, but still with passion and self amusement. I can see in Juliens game that he lies so much it is crazy. He lies about his name, his work, but not to brag even, just to be completly self entertained by creating some fictional story about himself, her and the world, making it more exciting. I don't know if I can lie as much as him to be honest, I can lie a bit, but to some degree his stuff is so much bullshiting and saying stuff half jokingly, half seriously so she never is sure if he is for real or not. Also he is much more aggressive when it comes down to leading he is like "now" and "here", "2 seconds 2 seconds, quick kiss". Like lead lead lead lead and talk nonsense, switch topics quickly say random shit and escalate. The most interesting thing from it for now is definitely the inner game of Julien, his inner game is much more interesting then what he actually does, he is very authentic in his game in the sense of no scripted lines, but he does look for relatability and also sometimes when he goes too far into lying or girls call him an asshole, he appologises, restarts the conversation or actually will speak honestly for once. It is interesting as I have seen Owens footage so much, but watching Julien I can see how it actually works and would work for me as Owen has more the embodiment of high energy extrovert and Julien more the low energy introvert, which is more my energy, unless I approach a bunch bunch.
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