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I transitioned about a month ago, I took the chance when I was moving to another place to live. I'm living alone now, so if makes it easier, because my fridge is all vegan and other options are just not an option, unless I go out and buy them, which I don't do and have no temptations to do so. I went cold turkey and nothing bad has happened to me, I've lost a bit of weight, but I look better now. I used to drink a lot of milk, loved cheese and yogurts, ate meat daily, a lot of eggs and almost no fruits. I kind of made the decision about a year ago, inspired by someone I admire. I did watch Cowspiracy, What the health and documentaries like that. I've been watching Mic the vegan and Michael Greger and others on Youtube during this time, they are very convincing, in some point you just gotta go. I've also researched about other diet choices, but they haven't convinced me at all. I know I will pay some prices socially, but my decision is firm and I'm going to stick to it. You won't do it perfectly from the start, but that's kind of cool too, it can be an enjoyable challenge to discover new foods, ways of cooking and all that. It also feels good to see your health improving and the fact that you are contributing less to animal cruelty and pollution.

If you and your friend saw and unidentified flying object, there's nothing unbelievable about that.

Science sometimes goes slower than society. Think about enlightenment, it's far from being backed up by science and if you are in this forum, you probably already have some openmindedness about the matter at least. Look, science is something anybody can practice. Nofap is very easy to experience, because it's your own body. You go one month with fapping to porn no limit, another month with masturbation no limit but porn free and the third you go full nofap. Then you compare and make your own conclusions, you don't need a scientist with lab coat and a microscope to tell you what happened there. Like most of the things, it's not something affects everyone the same way, depends from where you depart from and other factors. A porn addict is very likely to see improvements, but moderate users have experienced benefits too. For me feels great, but it's not that easy to maintain, so I allow myself to release from time to time. But no way I see it like something that I imagine in my mind, like some kind of placebo. It's totally real, I've experienced it enough to say this with 100% certainty.

The situation of Gotham in the movie seems red to me, a lot of struggle to survive and very violent. There are interesting issues. One is how a society handles its mentally ill members, is it willing to pay for social workers to handle them and give them the right therapies or medicines or is it willing to face the consecuences of not doing so. Same for gun control, is it willing to implement a higher gun control or will face the consecuences if not. Well, the movie puts those two elements together, plus others like the big inequality and poverty in the city.

I think Bernie has chances to win, he is connecting well with American citizens with clear messages about universal healthcare, fair share of taxes for billionaires or worthy minimum wages for workers. If it happens, maybe it was good that Trump won on 2016, because Hillary was far from even proposing any of these things. Trump was a big step back, but Bernie can be like two or three forward. Even if he doesn't get to implement these ideas, cause there will be a lot powerfull companies against him, he is doing a huge job in educating about them and when one day universal healthcare gets to be, he will have been a big part of it.

Perhaps he will evolve to green after this struggle, that would be a surprise. He may see there's something beyond cleaning his room, meant literally and metaphorically. In any case, I wish him fast recovery, although I don't think an only meat diet will help him on that.

In self development it seems important to think in long term, and if you do it, you won't find good reasons to smoke. You can read Allen Carr's famous book to quit smoking, I think it has some good points that can help, although you'll have to do the effort for yourself. For me, it was so difficult the first week, and less next months. Now, it's some years since, I don't miss it at all. About pot, smoking everyday sure affects your productivity and development and you don't need it. Think about the benefits you'll get if you quit.

Yeah, I struggled this. I started the course but left it when I got to the second part. I postponed it, it wasn't a total waste of time, I traveled and continued watching or hearing other content of Actualized. I think I was scared too, the real work starts after the course. Now, I started it again, this time I'm finishing it and taking notes and everything else. Let's just trust it, I'm not sure about my purpose yet. I haven't finished it so we'll see. At least, it's really making some things clear and I don't find it boring at all.

Yeah, it seems consinstency is important. We have to do it everyday, it's difficult for me too. Something that helped me, even if it's not necessary, I started to light a candle in every sesion, so I can have a sense of progression, seeing how it's consuming day by day.