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It has a psychedelic effect and relaxes you but on the other hand it makes you kind of lazy and dumb…

In my reflections nobody is really after meaning. We only want the feeling of meaning. We ask ourself the question of what the meaning of life is when our life’s don’t feel meaningful anymore. They never had a deeper meaning to begin with but they felt meaningful. When somebody connects back to his self made life purpose for example, so something good he can do for the world then his life feels meaningful again. If it really had a deeper meaning it would even suck because it would make everything so serious. But so when weed distracts you from your life purpose then everything can definetly feel less meaningful which can feel very bad although of course there never was a change in meaning but that doesn’t matter.

I kinda disagree. Gym people often don’t choose bodyweight exercises but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t make similar gains with it. I think it’s more of a convenience and preference thing. There are incredible difficult bodyweight exercises where you can’t do a lot of reps. Ring flies or archer pull ups for example. You can’t tell me that a chest workout consisting of ring flies, chest dips and (elevated) push ups is less stimulating then a workout with dumbbells and machines. You cant increase weight directly unless you buy a belt or smth like that but you can increase the volume by making more sets, more reps (giant sets), (increase the difficulty of the exercise) and stuff like that. For legs the gym is probably better. But still when somebody can do many pistol squats his barbell squat will probably be advanced.

I have done 10-15 low to mild doses of magic truffles (and one strong dose) and a mild dose of lsd once. So I am kind of a newbie still. I definetly have much to learn from these substances but I want to go way deeper and I don’t feel like magic truffles or lsd suit the purpose for that at least for me. So out of these three with which should I start? (Or should I even do them at all with my experience level?) I would start with a very small dose and step by step slowly increase the dose.

I study philosophy and right now we have the topic of AI. One of the questions that often comes up is is AI conscious or have feelings? The people that make AI are materialists most of the time, so they argue that brain activity and states of consciousness are directly connected. So when we could recreate something similar to a human brain we must have a conscious state because a conscious state is just some material process manifesting itself. At least that’s what some of them think. But they didn’t study philosophy and one of the big problems in philosophy is the mind - matter dualism which basically says that there is the world of conscious experience and there is the objective material world. We know that there is at least some connection between these worlds because when we scan the brain for example and see activities in certain parts of the brain we can make pretty certain predictions about how the person is feeling. But we can’t see the DIRECT TRANSITION from the matter world to the mind world. We can get infinitely close in our predictions of what physical process will lead to which conscious state but these worlds can’t merge so the predictions can’t be more that a GUESS. So when we would recreate something similar to a human brain in AI we actually have no clue if this thing is actually conscious or not. Then the solipsism argument often comes up, that we also have no idea if other people even have conscious states or if they are just mindless robots. 1) The argumentation then is that this is ultimately of course a possibility but we have good reasons to believe that humans and animals have states of consciousness because they are biological creatures just as us and we have consciousness so it’s reasonable to assume they also have consciousness. 2) Furthermore the conscious experience of a human or an animal would be created in a completely different way because biological creatures create themself and have an intrinsic goal to survive while AI doesn’t and is created by others. You could program AI to have certain survival instincts like finding a source of electricity but these instincts are there because ”somebody told AI to survive but it doesn’t actually care itself if it survives or not“. 3) Another big argument against AI being conscious is that AI is just completely determined. If you search deep enough you can find the root of every action of AI in its programming. Humans on the other hand are not determined, they have free will. 4) And as a last point AI doesn’t have a taste for art, music, enjoyment, humor, … while humans do. I dont agree with many of the points about AI not being conscious. Because we as humans might be good at judging what and what doesn’t have the human conscious experience but this also disqualifies us to judge whether or not something has an AI conscious experience or not because we couldn’t see that because we are humans. Just imagine a ship of conscious AI robots came to visit earth and they found us human creatures. They think that earth is a good place for their basement but also have some ethic considerations of whether or not it is okay to kill these weird creatures. They say to themself „I am conscious and I am AI, these human creatures are so different from us so it seems to be highly unlikely that they have the same conscious experience as we do.“ And they are right but there is the possibility that humans have their own unique conscious experience. And I also feel like we humans are more of an accident. Materialistically speaking, I didn’t create myself, it was the will of nature. And I don’t think I am free. My whole life is directed by unconscious motives that I didn’t create. I am like a puppet walking through life and the game that this puppet is playing is that it’s real, that it’s not actually a puppet. So I don’t really see a difference between me and AI when it comes to the determination argument. So the more I think about it the more I believe that AI might actually be conscious. I feel like this is a problem that could only be solved when you step outside the materialistic paradigm so my hope is that I find my answer an answer in this forum. Would love to hear your opinion.

I do like 40 just to get my blood flowing. You have to challenge the muscle. Some sort of single leg squat is good. You don’t have to be able to do a pistol squats there a variations that are a lot easier. But there are also hamstrings, glutes, calves ? I don’t know what is healthier but if you don’t overtrain and do good technique both will be beneficial to your health in this regard because it strengthens these things. When I do some really heavy lifts like squats or deadlifts I sometimes can’t sleep well because my central nervous system took a big hit. That won’t happen in calisthenics as easily which is a plus for sleep. Are you vegan? If the 200g of legumes are pretty much your only source of protein that’s not ideal. You have to mix it with grains to get the full protein. Optimal protein intake for muscle building is 1g/pound bodyweight and for vegans 1.25-1.5/pound of bodyweight which sucks ass I know. You can also build muscle with less but it’s not ideal. No problem.

I am vegetarian to that’s great ? Never even thought of making curry in it, don’t know why. Should I also eat raw veggies? I just can’t believe that veggies turned into soup have all the vitamins as fresh ones. Some of them get destroyed in heat and I feel like in an instant pot they get super destroyed. Is that even healthy ? ? It’s definetly a nieche and I actually haven’t found that much. Thanks for the tips. What’s your yt channel ?

@Michael569 I trained for 7 years now and can only do 6 pull ups. I do them very strict though and I have long noodle arms but still ? Genetics I guess. So the possibility that these movements become to easy at one point didnt accure to me. If your setup is a bit more then just the minimalistic stuff you will never be to strong for it though. Just think of Ring flies or archer pull ups/ single arm pull ups..

Agree with everything except that. Calisthenics can definetly make you bigger upper body wise. I mean you can train most of the upper body muscles in the hypertrophic range. Maybe something like the neck or side delts are a bit hard to hit though but most muscles can be trained well with only calisthenics.

Yes but I only remember it very vaguely. One of the key parts was that you can grow your wisdom infinetely even if you have low iq right. In wisdom is what actually is important.

I have that. That’s where the compliments came from. And I wouldn’t trade it for a high iq. I am also not to worried about my intelligence because of that but still enough to write a thread about it I guess. You can compensate a lot from having a deep holistic intelligence but some “actual“ intelligence also plays a minor part imo. But you might be right with finding your passion. I am definetly doing the life purpose course in semester break.

Yes ?? you could probably do a trial training at a few gyms in your area and then see how you like it. Would be a waste of money if you don’t like it. Push ups and pull up variations are great but I prefer the gym for a boarder range of leg exercises and the ability to isolate certain muscles without much effort (side delts, arms, ..). But honestly if you are just starting it doesn’t need to be perfect because it’s already a big improvement compared to doing nothing. The renaissanceperiodization YouTube Channel is number one on fitness imo but is doesn’t cover calisthenics a lot unfortunately. The yt Channel called calisthenics movement is pretty good. Maybe look up a beginner Programm from there.

I live in Germany. Yeah I also get way better vibes from people when I am outside of Germany. ?

That’s a shitton of almonds (300g at least right) so I would probably feel pretty sick. But I think I would digest it okay. Obviously it wouldn’t feel great ?

@integral Have you talked with a doctor about it ? You could maybe go for smooth nut butter, olive oil, avocado, .. ?

What can you digest other then eggs ?

What is your digestive issue exactly? The body can just absorb animal products better. So maybe if you fix that you don’t need eggs. The fats in the egg change if it is organic or not. Organic has a good amount of omega 3, eggs from factory farming dont. You could take a vegan omega 3 supplement with nuts, seeds, avocado. I would eat as least 0.4g of fat per pound of bodyweight. Muscle fullness ? Eggs have protein. Protein builds muscle. Do you mean that? Maybe you don’t get enough from vegan sources.

Did you eat enough healthy fats ?

It’s just that protein powder can make you diet SO much easier when you are into fitness (and also vegetarian). So I wonder if that is true for all protein powders because there are so many different ones (whey, casein, pea&rice, soy, eaas, high quality ones with digestive enzymes, eggwhite protein powder, …) its time for artificial meat to come out ?

Do you include products that are made out of flower like pasta or bread no matter what kind ?

Yes

If you take more then the trip also lasts longer. But it’s not like a linear dose to time ratio. 2g won’t last twice as long as 1g. Maybe it will last an hour longer… For my magic truffle trips the time of the trip never changed that much when I changed the dose and I experimented witch 0.5g dried to 13g dried.

@Leo Gura yeah the greatest things can’t come easy. It just doesn’t make sense. I get that. Okay then 5meo malt it is.

@OBEler I think these calculators are for magic mushrooms. They loose a lot more weight then magic truffles. Although not in a drying machine I dried my truffles for really long to be sure and they didn’t loose that much weight.

@OBEler 1-5g is low, 5-10g is medium, 10-15g is high (all fresh). My highest was 13g dried (around 18g fresh) and I was acting like a crazy person (sweating, shaking, making weird sounds, couldn’t even move without putting all energy I had into it) I looked at a glass and somehow I knew that the only way that I perceive it is that I AM that glass. I couldn’t really think clearly and it wasn’t like rapid thoughts that were going through my head it was just my sanity hardcore battling with something and I didn’t even know what it was. It wasn’t really a bad trip because I didn’t battle being insane but it was still pretty hard and I didn’t want to repeat that again. If that got out of hand and I got depressed for example I couldn’t put myself together because I was so far gone and that would have been literal hell. At the peak I always contemplated a lot about different things. I asked myself what death is and for me there is a whole category of thoughts that all describe what death is in great detail which was really funny ?. Or I got the idea that fire is the perfect analogy for relative love and I wrote a little poem about it. Or that fear is manifestation. Or that we all do things with great fear in us and that fear is death. Or that the self can’t grasp itself because it is it. Or that the more something manifests (masculinity for example) the stronger it pulls it’s opposites (female energy in this example) to itself to become one. Stuff like that. But after 1-3 hours the trip wasn’t strong enough for these things and I naturally thought about survival stuff which was also great and I will definitely benefit hardcore from these trips. But there is just a big hunger in me to get absolutely mindfucked. And magic truffles isn’t the way to go. I heard that 5meo malt is very deep but not that aggressive you might say. It has a feminine energy to it. And you stay in the non dual state pretty long. That’s what I heard. Is that also your experience ? I also thought about dmt because it is the weakest of the three. But if I could just take a slightly weaker dose of 5meo malt for example I could negate that potential downside.