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Maslow's model is certainly accurate, but it has always seemed self-evident to me. I never understood what the big deal was about it. Isn't it obvious that most people worry about having enough food before they worry about whether other people like them?

Ok. I see. But he had that second account for quite awhile. He is even naming it Gesundheit2. So I do not understand why did Leo all the sudden decided to remember to ban users with two accounts.

Exactly! I think that's called the butterfly effect in physics. Is that you can't fully predict the outcome of any system because the probabilities are endless. ALL I know is that I know nothing and it was a lot easier than knowing everything. in fact I find it hard to believe any of us earthlings know ANYTHING (for sure) at all. I'll grant you most people think they know a lot of things but all we really know is regarding relations between things. We know nothing about absolutes or the nature of things in themselves, which is what I would consider real knowledge. I don’t think there is any person who can claim he knows everything on all matters. There will be many subjects, many issues you won’t have least knowledge . I don’t say its great thing to say I know nothing but its quite normal and honest admission. To admit, when you know nothing, on a given subject is great thing. You definitely should go watch It ASAP. One of Leo's greatest 'hits'.

I hope he is just taking a break from the forum. Why was he banned? I hope it is True bro.. It's just he became my internet friend. I'm concerned about him.

Obviously the 'true' you cannot die. Because the true you isn't anything in particular. We can destroy the whole universe and nothing will remain. And that will be you existing as nothing. But Im particularly concerned about what exactly is going to happen when the body stop functioning.

Good analysis. In my opinion, death depends on the point of view. You lose your consciousness, your Mind and your Body. Your atomic compunds though, have the chance to be the building parts of a new living being. If there is anything else about us, it would surely also find a way into our world's equilibrium to be used as someone else's. Death is just a word. We are just impossibly complex chemical reactions. Nobody ever saw death and came back to tell us about it, so fuck all hearsay. I agree that we don't have a complete evidence that we ourselves will die because we only observe others dying. But at the same time we are decaying every single day and getting older and weaker.. What will be the end of this decaying process?

Well.. Like I said In OP there is a paradox between relative knowledge and absolute knowledge. As we look back into human history, in this context, statistically, all of us will die. But, you and I haven't died yet. Therefore there is no concrete evidence that we will die. You and I can live on together forever. We could have children and watch our children's children have children, and we'll be hoverboarding through interdimensional realities with our great great great grandchildren. That's ultimately unknown. That's from the absolute perspective. The possibilities are endless. Ofcourse I'm scared shitless of death. So are you. Maybe you are just in denial about it. But I'm fully aware of my fear of death.

I think the Elites don't want us (the 99%) to be healthy and happy. They like to feed us junk food, junk education, junk media and junk drugs. The real medicines have been discovered thousands of years ago: Cannabis, Magic Mushrooms Ayahuasca . They literally done studies on them and found that they can cure depression and addiction. Needless to mention the spiritual and existential breakthroughs it causes . But yeah ..if toxic garbage like cigarettes are legal..I don't expect something less damaging and more healing to be illegal.

In what ways ? Have you had a psychedelic experience before? I don't know because I haven't.

Of course you can't drive while tripping balls ....that's obvious. Has nothing to do with legalisation imo.

I didn't smoke for two months now and I couldn’t be more happy Since quitting my breathing has improved. This is great accomplishment My sense of smell has improved too. and my asthma has not been an issue, which feels amazing. My general well-being has improved. The chronic pain I possess from too much nicotine burning in my lungs has ceased . This could be attributed to the fact my blood is more effectively circulating throughout my body as the carbon monoxide levels within my body have re-stabilised. Overall I feel like I'm getting my shit together in life ..health wise ..financially..sex life ..etc . I would say my life finally "works ". However I want to understand how to heal and recover the damage as an ex-smoker ? How to erase All the damage I've caused to myself from years of smoking? Just trying to get a sense of something here. If I'm a smoker and I quit, the Internet tells me it takes 1 month for my lungs to start healing if I totally quit. I assume the lungs are healing bit by bit every day after quitting and it takes a month to rebuild lung health enough to categorize the lung as in-recovery. My question is, is my understanding correct? If that understanding is correct, if I reduce smoking to once a week will the cumulative effects of lung regeneration overcome smoke inhalation? To further explain my thought, let's assume I'm starting with 0% lung health. If I don't smoke, the next day maybe my lung health is at 1%. After a week, I'm at 7%. If I smoke on the last day, let's say I take an impact of 5%. Next day I'm starting at 2%, then by the end of the week I'm at 9%. Of course these numbers are made up nonsense, just trying to get a more concrete understanding. Thanks

anyone here managed to fully quit all refined sugar from their diet? When I go even for 24 hours without sugar I feel lethargic and my mood goes down hill and I crave something sweet. I'm considering only relying on fruits and honey.. But how do I stop craving ice cream and chocolate bars etc?

In this thread I want to discuss the concept of 'shared consciousness' and being able to see others as one's own self as we are just bodily diverse beings of a common consciousness. Or at least we are the same when we are stripped to the level of our true selves. Sometimes we sense what others are thinking or going to say. Is it because of the common consciousness that we share or merely because the sense that we gain from practice (getting used to the people that are close to us? These days I'm experiencing a lot of Deja vu and it's driving me nuts lol When I further think about the concept (maybe I have thought too much), can we really have an accurate expectation of others? If all that I see is me, and all what others see are themselves , including even me,then this should be possible? Right?

@Holykael I won't argue with you about the existence of free will.. Rather, I want to understand why are you obsessed with this issue?

What's BMI? No im not overweight or obese. I'm pretty slim and fit.

diabetologist. That was like a month ago. He told me that my cells became too resistant to insulin, and he told me it leads to elevated blood glucose levels which, over time, leads to prediabetes and Type 2. Is that correct? And does that mean I should cut out ALL sugar? Even fructose? A1C is 5.3% to 6.5%

Sometimes I have a huge sweet tooth. I crave chocolate, baked goods, etc. And I eat a lot like there is no tomorrow. Especially when I exercise regularly, I feel a strong urge to binge on those. Unfortunately, I am also insulin-resistant, and feel like this aspect of my diet contributes directly to my depression and anxiety. So, I really do need to cut out sugar (excluding natural sugar, like fruits). However, I realized it is so ingrained in my dietary choices that I cannot think of what to replace my snacks with. What non-sugary snacks / meals do you recommend?

Thank you brother. I really needed that reminder. I have started a new page. I will never put a cigarette in my mouth. I made the decision. It's no joke. My uncle had heart attack last year because he was a heavy smoker as well. Please don't play around with cigarettes. It's Extremely addictive. I just can't put the damn cigarettes down .even tho it's ruining my health .i need help. This is an absolute necessity. I cannot continue like this. im raping my health. Yet all this doesn't seem to make me stop. I have other reasons that I believe are making it difficult for me but I won't get into them here to not make this too abstract. it's affecting my physical.. Mental.. And psychological health to a very disturbing degree. It's not possible to live a healthy life without putting it down. If I don't quit.. It will catch up with me more and more and eventually I will end up having lungs cancer or whatever. I'm a heavy smoker. 4 packs a week or something is too much. And I'm already starting to feel the negative consequences. I can't run without feeling like losing my breath completely. My energy is getting lower. My appetite is decreased. And a lot more. Time to take this shit seriously and stop.

@Osaid thanks. Very extensive and informative.

If you truly accept suffering, it will no longer be suffering. Suffering, by definition, comes from something that you reject, something that is unwanted but unavoidable. No rejection = no suffering. But not just accept intellectually. That does not count. I mean really accepting, the way you willingly accept food into your mouth. Have you seen small children eating broccoli? Intellectually they accept that it is good for them, but their faces tell a different story… I don't mean that kind of acceptance. The question is then, how do you accept your own suffering? Easier said than done, right? In my case it has been a long and windy road, which is not entirely finished yet. I can give few clues that helped so far: 1-95% of suffering is "personal” or otherwise thought-induced. E.g. something happens, and a thought follows: “Why did this happen to me?” Immediately, suffering seems to get much worse. But there is no person, only an idea of it. Realize it, and much of suffering will be instantly uprooted. 2-Recognize rejection of rejection. This creates a reverb effect: a rejecting thought is followed by sensation of rejection, which is in turn followed by another rejecting thought, and so on, multiplying each other in the process. So work on accepting rejection to prevent such loops. 3-Acceptance does not come as an act of will. It happens naturally by itself. Don't force it. Instead, focus on simply noticing. When something happens, notice which sensations arise and separately which thoughts arise. Identify and acknowledge them, and this will be the most important step on the way to acceptance. We eventually accept familiar things, so make them familiar. Hope this helps

What a question. I suppose the same way some people don’t even know they are depressed; at some point, your psyche adjusts. You only have a handful of choices, after all. Suicide, obsessively thinking about it, trying to accept that life is misery at the moment, blatant escapism, etc. as someone who has had (diagnosed) depression for a few years now, accepting and saying “I'm depressed" rather than saying “I have depression” is one of the worst mistakes someone trying to overcome any mental illness can possibly do. Depression is no more a part of who your are than any other illness is. You need to believe that it can and will get better. I truly promise you that it will. But, with that being said, it is going to take some serious determination on your part. Just don’t ever give up. So, in summary, it is entirely possible to accept depression as a part of yourself, but it is one of the biggest mistakes you could ever make. I truly hope this helps. Just keep telling yourself that it will get better (as corny and cliche as that saying is) and that accepting that you are depressed rather than having depression is going to make you situation worse. And if you arent already, please talk to somebody. I hope you get better

I don't know . I didn't try Cigars yet .but I assume the taste of Cigars is much more Intense and the nicotine is much more pure and unfiltered like cigarettes. So I guess that Cigars are more addictive.

I wish I could quit man .its literally a poison. But I wish I didn't smoke at all .I curse the day I smoked the first cigarette. For my luck Cigars are much more expensive and hard to obtain than regular cigarettes packs . So I tried searching for it yesterday but I couldn't find any local shops that sell Cigars. But I'm back to smoking cigarettes. I don't know when I'm gonna quit . I think I'm very stupid. I will only quit if I get heart attack or cancer. When it's too late.

Yes I expected that as time passes that I gets easier with time. But it only got more difficult. I experienced intense carvings that literally I was irritated and can't socialize . Unfortunately I'm back to smoking multiple cigarettes per day and I'm right back to where I started.

You can accept suffering if its psychological..but I don't think that humans can stand a certain limit of physical suffering...the human being is so fragile.