Carl-Richard

Eat tons of veggies and fibrous foods. Make at least 50% of your meal in weight be veggies or fruits. And that means every meal, no "snacks" allowed (unless it's veggies or fruits). If that alone doesn't work, up the percentage of fruits and veggies and/or protein intake. If that doesn't work (which if you do it right, should basically be impossible), eat the same amounts of food every day, and if you don't lose weight, reduce some amount of food.

Closing your eyes in silence for 50-60 minutes works too. But of course living in an environment for the next 23 hours of the day has an impact. I want to go out in nature more too a lot of the time. Sometimes I get stuck merely scrolling through Google Images of natural environments often near me.

You have natural on your mind a lot.

It's a CUP OF JOE (and testosterone). The guy has always been like that though, he's just an explosive individual, pro wrestler, powerlifter. Actually ADHD. Btw, this is the guy I recommend watching for lifting advice. Take advice from somebody who actually loves lifting and does it for fun and has an intuitive understanding for what works and doesn't fill his head with a bunch of crap (and he's not exactly a dumbass either, he has a degree in kinesiology, which is about as relevant of a degree you can have, unlike more physiology-focused exercise science degrees a la Mr. Mike Israetel and the loads upon loads of academic delusional rabbit holes those guys dig themselves down in). All the "science-based lifters" are the Looksmaxxing of lifting. Completely soulless, lifeless, body dysmorphia-driven and skewed priorities and probably even wrong most of the time. Any lifting "coach" that makes lifting into something depression-inducing and life-draining should be fired immediately.

I saw them live last year. I could not stop nodding my head to the music. I never thought I would end up enjoying that kind of music. My signature is like a Meshuggah lyric. It's un-non-noddable once you get the song. And of course that can be a challenge because the way they write the songs is more like deriving a mathematical formula than "playing from the soul" as they say (which has pros and cons, but damn, sometimes it's just beautiful). They essentially write their music as if it's electronic music and then they play it on their instruments (they use a drum machine and try to find an odd-time rhytmical pattern that they repeat in a certain way over a straight time signature, and that's their creative process most of the time; so much for "nobody buys a song for its rhythm" 🤪). And can I just say the massive cojones it takes to perform that particular song live with the whole band playing at the same time in the studio and that being used for the album (of course while splicing together the best parts from multiple performances, but still)? These guys are tighter than a box of sardines. Let me re-iterate: the sounds you are hearing in this particular YouTube video is the entire band playing live.

Holy BUCKETS!

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I'm not so sure he is drawing the inference "the void is x therefore I must live better". It was rather a thought he had in the void. This is more of the issue of (Leo) declaring thoughts in the void and without as "Absolute x". It did not occur to me that Bryan was declaring he is now delivering the gospel of Truth as he experienced it in the void. He was sharing a thought from the void. When he said "it is impossible to explain with words. Whatever you imagine, multiply it by 1,000 and then add infinite width and depth and dimensions", that seemed more like he was trying to convey the actual experience of the void itself. You know, not everyone is a "epistemic pervert" as they say.

It's exactly if you think "grasping the Absolute" implies it necessarily is not that way, you haven't actually grasped the message, only made faulty implications about it. It's to overstep and make it complicated (which has more or less become the entire shtick with this place), and then view those who don't do that with condescension, that's to not grasp the message.

"Save Soil" too I guess. I think you're wrong. It matters in a relative sense. If no effort to survive mattered at all, you would curl up in a ball and die right now. But you don't. You still keep on surviving, in the limited way you desire. Some prefer surviving in a different way.

Meaning (in life) can be described by significance, purpose, coherence, mattering. But I think it extends metaphysically as well. They all boil down to how our cognition is structured and how our survival occurs at even a biological level. Without significance, nothing has innate value (nothing has true quality or qualia, it's only just means to an end, an end which has no ground but another mean, which feels empty in itself; any endevor must inevitably point to something truly valueable, something truly real, to feel meaningful). Purpose is means to an end, and it creates impetus, telos, movement. Organisms that move are very clear expressions of this form of meaning. If you're an organism that moves but with no purpose, you will struggle to know where to move and your movement will be inhibited and you will feel like you're not "going anywhere"; the moving organism needs to move to be truly alive. Coherence means that the "movement" (be it abstract in the realm of mind or concretely in the realm of physical movement) makes sense, it coheres to an environment, it coheres to a set of conditions, it follows logically. Mattering is simply do all of these things transcend merely my own self in their value, do they matter to something bigger than myself (e.g. my species in terms of biological reproduction or simply more abstractly in terms of the collective survival of the species or somebody or something I love or care about)?

Attracted? It just happens. Look: 🙂 It's not about the frame though. It's about the music. It's not like "how do I want to feel today; ah I'll pick this song". It's more like "music - ah, this song". Maybe there is a "I want to feel this way" in the middle there between "music" and "this song", but it's "music" that comes first. Very often I want to just listen to a guitar solo in a particular song because it's that cool, and a guitar solo is sometimes less "vibe" and more "notes, harmony, melody, structure, surprise, angularity, beauty", i.e. music.

(Damn what a nice t-shirt referring to Enlightenment). More seriously, I don't think I think of music in this way (I don't "think" much of music, other than the music itself). I just listen to the music while looking like in the picture. What I think of music is mostly found in my journal: Sometimes the song title matches a lot with the song: It makes me think of a monstrous massive thing (turns out the lyrics is actually about a city, I didn't know that before now 🙂).

I think "ADHD is insensitive to meaning" is an unfortunate and "insensitive" way to frame it. I would instead frame it as ADHD jumps between meaning frameworks quickly (and therefore might spend less time "deepening" or expanding on any single framework). It's a difference in dynamics, not "ontology". Every mind is driven by meaning. It's just some are less "sequential" about it than others (did I just deconstruct your paradigm by saying that?). For example, The Mars Volta, or any band that goes from low intensity to high intensity or switches textures or modes or ideas many times throughout a song (e.g. King Crimson, Opeth), are very ADHD-like, but they are also extremely structured and cohesive (i.e. meaningful). Any song ever made has structure and cohesion. It just happens at many levels simultaneously, and you can tweak each level more in the direction of ADHD or "autism". I think you might define meaning differently than I do. How do you define it?

The history of metal has essentially been the purest form of expression of testosterone. "How can we make this sound even heavier, even faster, even uglier, even more evil, even more monstrous and terrifying?" Rock -> hard rock -> heavy metal -> speed metal / power metal -> thrash metal -> technical thrash metal -> death metal -> technical death metal / brutal death metal / black metal / grindcore / djent -> goregrind / pornogrind (🤣)

Yup, nihilism from psychedelic trips is simply the inability to distinguish relative from absolute. It's a weakness of intellect. "Yeah nothing matters", so what you going to do now? Lay down and die? No, you keep on living in the dream.

How do you choose whether you go left or right on the street?

Why fish eggs expensive but chicken eggs not? 🤔

Say there is a reality beyond language, but it can't be spoken of. And because it can't be spoken of, you can't present it as a perspective that differs from any other perspective, so therefore it is not a perspective and it is absolute.

I thought you would mention a flamethrower but ok.

Being is baseline, absolute truth. Meaning is what you do with it. Many people sometimes conflate meaning (relative truth) with absolute truth. "It makes sense". That's meaning. Conceptual truth, factual truth, analytic truth, is at first post meaning made up in your head. It might reflect an underlying structure that can be postulated to be outside your head, but that is also meaning in so far it is not simply being. The thing postulated to be outside your head, for it to be being, must also include the inside of your head, and everything that can possibly exist.

Depends on what you want. If letting go is what you want, it's definitely ideal.

An organism that can't move (by its own accord) is by definition ill. Humans just have a projected mental space of this dynamic called depression. If you get hurt and for example break a limb, you will experience a form of depression, because you can't move like you used to. And when you move and it causes pain, that restricts the movement and keeps you in a state of low mood and low energy to avoid that pain. Pain, low mood, low energy, depression, they are all a part of the same system. And of course, when ill or hurt, the body wants to stay still so it can heal (there is an evolutionary pressure for that), so that also feeds into the system above, increasing pain sensitivity, pain from fever, pain from inflammation (inflammation is an immune signal), etc. Notice also in depression, it's not just your body that slows down in its movement, it's your mind. Your cognitive abilities, your working memory, your IQ, your ability to see connections, tanks. Notice also when you're truly sick, especially with the flu, you can notice your "circle of concern" diminishes severely (every goal you have that is not about staying put and healing gets distinctly removed from your mind). It's like you could be working on the most exciting and meaningful project and then you get the flu and suddenly you forget all about it (I've experienced this and it's quite palpable). And of course, meaning and excitement are dopaminergically mediated, and dopamine is the neurochemical of movement (cognitive and physically).