Natasha Tori Maru

@AION don't be condescending. You are hurt. You aren't being denigrated for thinking humans are shallow. It's your own cognitive bias to have. Work on that attitude more. As you rightly claim you will.

@OBEler for me it seems to be a genetic thing. Early morning upon waking does it. But it is very, very mild at present time as I have reached a beautiful state of life where I am in flow a lot. I accept it, surrender. I'm not fearing it. It passes quickly this way. Going down into it gets me out. For the above reason, I always do hard cardio in the morning. Zone 5/6. I find it is almost a charged overabundance of energy. The dawn light and movement help.

@Miguel1 yes, you describe it very well. I don't know why, but I have always been this way. It is like some wicked cosmic joke to wake from the bliss of sleep. Once I have momentum for the day I am fine, I don't think and body just does it's thing. If I am suffering from a hardship, the morning is much worse. Waking from a nap also sometimes. Very discombobulating which compounds the overall malaise.

@Leo Gura (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤

Maybe morning time is difficult for you when enduring bad feelings and emotions. Most people have a time of day they feel pain and suffering more keenly. My lowest mood time if day is always morning. Just natural to me. When I am depressed, mornings are just the worst. The rest of the day, once I get through the morning, is much easier. Gentle. In contrast my brother has low mood around 3pm. Perhaps it follows your hormonal rhythms? I am sorry to hear of your suffering - my heart goes out to you 💜 At least, once the morning is over, there is some small measure of repreave for you

Suffering also appears to follow a pattern of association with awakening. Or, enlightenment.

This whole dialogue is low consciousness, reactive and a poor contribution. @Miguel1does not deserve your disparaging judgements. You need to keep that sort of stuff to yourself. You need to ask yourself what you are getting out of this. Why are you even on the forums, if this is how you feel?

Oh wow the grift is in full force: Bryan's rebranded website "Immortals", changed from "Don't Die" selling GLP1s

Ah, so I looked into what he is doing with this new announcement. As per usual, it is a sensationalist disingenuous headline to generate outrage and clicks. Any publicity is good publicity I guess, right? It's not a clone. It's not a zygote. It's cells taken from different areas of his body and treated to revert to an earlier state. These cells are then analysed for a response to more experimental (higher risk) treatments. It is a clump of adult cells that have been reprogrammed to act like embryonic pluripotent stem cells.

But even this isn't the truth, despite the backpedaling. Not all humans are shallow.

@Yimpa thanks for your unique perspective 😁 I was going to tag here for your experience but I didnt want to drag you into a weird shit fight !

@Miguel1 @Alexop cuddle puddle Mistakes happen. It's been great watching how some users have grown - me too. This spot of the internet really helped me understand the unique challenges men face. Lots of my biggest areas of growth were seeing through my own bias in this arena.

I appreciate this being raised. Very, very much appreciate it. Respect to Leo, the mods and all my fellow dudes who treat me as an equal ❤️‍🔥 It's sort of weird being TOLD how I work. How I am. With little platform to ask me questions about women and how they work. I am often, as a woman, painting as being unconscious to myself 🥹 very odd

100% I think this sex is possibly one of the most difficult and challenging topics to approach earnestly. But yeah this is also why I take users in good faith, unless there is a real systemic repeated pattern of uncharitable dialogue.

@Miguel1 @Alexop what you raise is part of the type of rhetoric around women that Leo uses that, when read in isolation, can appear quite damning. A statement might be made that is quite absolute 'Women operate purely via emotions, and will just follow their emotions' (just an example) in one post. Some back and forth might ensue and only then is nuance added when there is pushback, or extensive questions. Most people don't read entire threads. I think with Leo (I cannot be sure) he dives for the closest statement to the total truth of the matter in simple easy soundbites. But without context the meaning can be totally different - and these topics are some of the most nuanced there are. I get that women will be spoken about in an isolated way especially regarding viewing through the lense of the pickup paradigm. But most of the qualities that are denigrated are assigned to women here - when it's usually very loosely tied to sex and there is little evidence to suggest as such. Biology has an impact for sure, but conditioning is a large factor. Women and men make decisions based on emotions. It's not women more. It's human. If you look into studies regarding what happens to people who lose their feelings/emotional centres of the brain, it is shown they cannot make the simplest of decisions because our entire value and preference system is from the emotional centre. Antonio DiMaggio's work showcases this. Painting women as purely emotional and making decisions based on 'irrationally' framed emotions is just one common talking point perpetuated on these forums. In reality all humans make decisions based on emotions that form values and preferences. The veneer of rationally is only applied to men in these conversations - often through rationalising an emotional decision and bypassing the emotional root entirely. So I don't think it's often intentionally spoken about this way. It can be entirely unconscious. I give the benefit of the doubt always. And these conversations are usually in the context of attraction - easy to misunderstand what is being said and apply it to women in all arenas! When women do choose with rationality it is often painted in a negative manner regarding standards. While this can be negative when taken too far, it is consistently framed this way. The qualities attributes to women are spoken of in a lowly, less than manner. I'm trying to think how often I see women spoken of with a lot of esteem or celebrated for their traits here. It does happen - there are a few members who are so consistently lovely about it. But it is a minority. Regarding AION's comments - that is a systemic, contextual issue arising from belief systems based on cognitive bias. I never face any sort of issues like this in real life. I believe it is a chronic online issue with individuals when attempting to rationalise everything down to a simple explanation. And also - sorry to say it, but there is a level of conformity surrounding this topic on these forums. I don't think humans can be understood through rationality as easily as is painted. Overall I accept everyone is moving through different stages of life and understanding. And let's be frank, this forum is mostly male dominated. I think some level of unconscious sexism is just going to happen. And that's cool, I accept it