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Show some more sensitivity man. People literally died from this.

@Scholar your replies are always meaningful, so your contribution here would help a lot

Hey all, It's been a while since I've been active on the forum. I've been incredibly busy with my senior year of high school and the free-time that I had prior that usually was invested in reading entries here or reading books from Daniel Schmachtenberger's reading list...goes towards deliberate study. 12 credit hours of dual enrollment college courses is no joke! (Especially when you only have 4 hours to dedicate to it a day if you have other commitments.) A personal synopsis of what's going on: That aside--I feel like my life has been gradually getting better. I'm reaching virtually 100% of my micronutrient & macronutrient targets on cronometer on a organic whole food plant based vegan diet. I'm hitting the gym 4+ days a week. I'm experimenting with nootropics like Qualia Mind Blend and pour-over coffee, and my sleep patterns are pretty good. However...I'm severely lacking in other areas of my life that require that should be spent towards study. For one, I just haven't had the determination to meditate everyday. Is there any recommendations on how I can slowly build and sustain a meditation habit? My routine is as follows: wake up at 6:40 or 6:50 AM, make my lunch & coffee, wash face. get to school at 7:50 AM get out of school at 3:00 PM gym until 4:00-4:30 cook/eat for an hour (WFPB vegan diet...needs lots of time spent towards eating lol) start study/homework at 5:30 get to bed by 10:00, maybe 11:00 I'm also wondering...how can I make friends at school better? It's my senior year, so naturally I've stopped caring about what other people's opinions about me are. So that inherently means that I'm not actively trying to be a more friendly, sociable, and better person overall. I'm just...a weird fucking guy. That's how a lot of people describe me as. Weird, but also somehow intelligent...and sometimes funny. But I don't share any real interests or hobbies with anyone I know at my school, so making friends based off that isn't going to happen. The next question builds atop this: how do I get a girlfriend in highschool? Caffeine helps a ton with having actual energy to allocate to humor and "rizz," but I don't feel like this is my authentic self. It's so hard to be my natural, authentic self when it gets shut down from others so much...so, what do I do? Is there a mindset shift I can adopt where I cultivate more stage orange to be less weird (natural self) and be a more likable, charming, but not-authentic individual, or is me trying to be this just an extension of my natural self's path of development? Thanks in advance.

Engineering. Environmental & Civil especially

If you think trump is Hitler then I'm worried for you

Change it to "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog

Our community is coming together strangely enough. There's no democrats, no republicans. Only Americans. it took about a week until I got my power back. We're on a well (thankfully) but many other people in Asheville don't have water and won't have water for weeks. Daniel Schmachtenberger lives here and I'm wondering how he's faring through this.

I live in western North Carolina and we have been totally devastated by hurricane Helene. It is the first hurricane to have hit the mountains. Flash flooding was rampant. Homes were destroyed, roads torn apart, and our whole area was completely devastated. There are lines that are several hours long of people waiting to get gas, drinking water, and food. This is historic.

My only advice: Delete OneNote and download Obsidian

Exactly. He had mystical experiences yes, but his interpretation of them are what made his approach questionable.

Exactly. I remember Leo once saying that Hawkins put Ben Shapiro on a higher level of consciousness than liberals...so take of that what you will

Recently, I stumbled upon the works of David R. Hawkins after a prolonged period of keeping him in the back of my mind, putting off his books for a later time. A valued teacher of mine (Peter Sage) would frequently cite his books and use his models in explaining human consciousness, and recently I picked up a few of his books (Power vs. Force, The Map of Consciousness Explained, Letting Go: The Pathway to Surrender, etc.). At first, I was completely unaware that the methodology he used to study human consciousnesses development was something called applied kinistesiology (AK), which has it's origin in the functional neurology & chiropractic scene of the mid 20th century. Practitioners of applied kinistesiology believe that manual testing the muscles of the body system can be used to evaluate various aspects of health. His approach is more so rooted in the belief that the body knows inherent truth, and if a skilled practioner of applied kinistesiology were to put resistance onto an extended arm that was parallel to the floor, whether or not the arm weakens or remains strong is a "yes" or "no" answer to whatever question is asked. After looking more into applied kinistesiology, I found that it is no less effective than random chance and guessing. Double blind placebo controlled trials have demonstrated that the chances of guessing correctly are more or less 50%. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24607076/ "The research published by the Applied Kinesiology field itself is not to be relied upon, and in the experimental studies that do meet accepted standards of science, Applied Kinesiology has not demonstrated that it is a useful or reliable diagnostic tool upon which health decisions can be based." Then I did more research into the academic life of Dr. Hawkins on PubMed, and it was quite extensive. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Hawkins+DR&cauthor_id=4129610 125 results on PubMed. How could someone who understands the philosophy of science so well fall into wishful thinking about a pseudoscience like Applied Kinesiology? Then I discovered this article that critiqued him, and it made me think twice about all the things I learned: https://www.spiritualteachers.org/david-hawkins/ "David Hawkins cloaks Power Vs. Force in a veneer of mis-applied scientific jargon and presents highly speculative theories as facts" The website does not seem to make the distinction between applied kinesiology being used for diagnoses and lie-detection, though. But this research does seem to suggest that it is useful in lie detection, so there are outliers: https://bmccomplementmedtherapies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12906-016-1416-2#Abs1 So I want to know your thoughts on this matter.

Napoleon Hill was a psychopath. He would practice under the term "Attorney at law" despite the fact that he never did legal services for anyone. He would physically abuse his wives and frequently cheat on them with prostitutes. He committed mail fraud in the lumber industry and most historians doubt that he ever actually met Andrew Carnegie. He later fled to Washington DC to avoid bankruptcy with the pseudonym "Napoleon Hill." He would found an automobile college, which would later go bankrupt because students were not paid for their labor. Because of this, his focus then became on how to sell cars—but it more so focused on how to get more people to sign up: this business model would eventually become a multi-level marketing scheme. Illinois had several warrants for his arrest. He tried to sell shares of his fraudulent automobile college at $100,000 despite its assets only being worth $1,200. His "George Washington Institute" was later found to be fraudulent by many of his students and it was unaccredited. The FTC charged him for fraudulent advertising in 1919 and they discovered that the funds he raised for a veterans charity were being put into oil stock. Most historians doubt that he ever actually met Franklin D. Roosevelt and they doubt that Hill was the one who coined the phrase "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He divorced his wife after he met a younger girl at one of his lectures who he proposed to the next day. He would end up living with his own son, and Hill's son's wife left due to harassment and abuse with his son. After the financial success of think and grow rich, he joined The Royal Fraternity of the Master Metaphysicians cult, and the book become a religious text. Most of the book was written by Hill's "spirit voices." The cult would adopt a kid and raise them in a way that would purportedly grant them immortality, and Hill become the godfather. But police caught wind of this eventually and the cult's leader, no surprise, said that Hill had scammed him. Most of the book's money went to his divorced wife, and his later books would prove to be financial failures. In 1952 he launched yet another get rich quick scam. Just something to think about.

I think it's understandable to question the nature of humans...especially in relation to veganism and animal agriculture. However, comparing human dietary choices to the instinctual survival behaviors of other animals—like a crocodile's need to kill to survive—overlooks a crucial difference ... our capacity for ethical reasoning and moral decision-making. Humans have a complex biology. But suggesting that a vegan lifestyle is a rejection of our nature simplifies of humans. Our adaptability and intelligence have allowed us to thrive on a variety of diets throughout different time periods and in different environments. The argument for veganism is less about denying our biological potential for omnivorous diets and more about electing to make choices that align with ethical considerations regarding animal welfare, environmental sustainability, and health. saying veganism is an identity crisis or a form of "dysmorphia" misunderstands the motivations behind the choice. Vegans usually become vegan in the first place via critical thinking about the impact of their choices on animals... the planet... and their own health. This isn't "rejection of humanity" but its an embrace of our unique human ability to reflect on and adjust our behaviors based on ethical considerations. & I also think that implying selfishness is foundational to being human underestimates human compassion and our capability for altruism. History and current history are have tons of humans acting against their immediate self-interest for the greater good or in defense of ethical principles. The choice to be vegan is an example wherein individuals might see the welfare of animals and the environment over personal convenience or habit. Embracing veganism doesn't mean denying our nature any more than adopting any other ethical standpoint does. It's more so about the fact that we see other animals might eat each other out of necessity while also seeing that have the privilege of choice. Utilizing our human attributes of empathy and moral reasoning, I think adopting a plant-based lifestyle isn't "being untrue to our nature" and isn't an "identity crisis" ... it's a celebration of the best aspects of what it can mean to be human. & using your same logic, it's perfectly nature for humans to rape each other and kill infants, which has been done by humans for thousands of years because "humans are killers." Humans have the capacity for moral reasoning. I disagree.