Carl-Richard

Epistemic sovereignity is always nested in epistemic dependence. Without a surrounding environment, you wouldn't get beyond 0 years old.

I would think high volume low intensity training is actually worse for this (with respect to joints). I believe Mr. Mike has commented on this. For you, yes, but for Mike, he has explictly said the words "slowww slowww slowww" when coaching a guest with his masochistic techniques, and I did not register that as merely not letting the weights free fall. There is an element of controlling the weight in my lifting (and really any lifting), but it's not about "slowww slowww slowww" (except maybe for the very end of the set if I'm doing microreps at the stretch). Controlling the weight for me is about feeling like the weights are under control and not unstable (and also applying more steady pressure to the muscle). For example, if you do dumbell presses and your movement is absolutely unhinged — you bounce and wobble the weight, symmetry suffers, etc. — then that's a safety concern and it just feels better to be more controlled. Mike's incline smith benches are still giving the anal-clenching vibes.

Thanks to creators such as Dr. Mike Isratael and Jeff Nippard, "thinking about lifting" has become more important than lifting itself. Commandments: - Listen to the mind first, listen to the body second. - Rely on a summation of studies with dubious generalizability first. Figure out what works through experience second. - Rely on counterintuitive, awkward and kinetically stifled movements first. Maximize flow and intensity second. Rick Bugenhagen has accurately identified the problem:

@Someone here Because Charles Manson. Of course 🙂‍↔️

How do you know that if nobody knows anything? 🤪 😉

Fair enough 😂

You're rebelling at a microcosm of a larger space though. This community, this world, this universe. Welcome.

Rumination vs conscious problemsolving. It's the difference between an unenlightened mind and an enlightened mind. I think enlightenment can definitely dial in your thoughts. It reduces the oscillations of the wave and produces pristine, silent, clear sight. If avoiding substances and glucose-unstable/spiking foods is the biological side of reducing the oscillations, transcending cyclical and emotionally charged/spiking throughts would be the psychological side.

@NewKidOnTheBlock What quality in a human best predicts high-quality thoughts?

Will one be able to achieve sanity through this teaching? @Elliott

You say the most basic shit and make it sound profound. "Nobody knows anything" is so basic. Losing your mind over that fact reflects your own neurosis and inability to handle reality, not the reality of reality. And I'm not saying that this neurosis cannot be serious. I think everybody has had it to some extent. But to say it necessarily and intrinsically leads you to insanity to recognize the fact that nobody knows anything, that's itself the insanity. You project your neurosis and inability to deal with reality onto reality and call it reality.

Last night, I had a dream that I was being chased by several tornadoes. Then today I read about the tornado incident in Kentucky with an estimated death toll of 100 people, which is the worst tornado event in the history of Kentucky. About two weeks ago, I had a dream where PsychedSubstance got kicked out from his own house. Today he released this video: The night my dad's boss died from drowning, I had a nightmare where I was being chased by a ghost, fearing for my life. I usually never have those types of nightmares. What is this?

No it doesn't. It suggests reality is psychic.

Yesterday, I dreamt me and my brother were walking up a long car road towards a cabin in the summer, and when we reached a summit, my brother realized he hadn't had any water for a long time and he was about to pass out, so I had to stop a passing car and ask if they could give him water. The zoom-alphas in the car were like "no, you can't have the water" and I was like "are you serious? He's about to pass out from dehydration". Then he gave it to my brother and I yoinked a sip as well. This dream occurred at the same time as when my brother was out on the town (I was sleeping, he was out). And he was drinking, and I figured after I woke up and saw he was out in the town, maybe he was dehydrated at the same time as he was dehydrated in the dream. And I asked him today if he was dehydrated out on the town (as he is usually is), and he implied it by saying when he got home he was very dehydrated and drank a lot of water.

Can we not use AI to pollute threads? If you want to share AI answers, create a link to them.

@Ramasta9 Putting how you feel taking the pills aside, as for being skeptical of man-made things, I do share the sentiment, but then you would have to be afraid of substances that cannot be measured or we don't know how to measure, because if you can measure what is in a pill (and they do if you buy the right pills) and you determine it contains >100x less unwanted substances than your food, then the only reasonable arguments left are 1. the fillers, and again, those are typically variations of cellulose and other natural substances like again silica; and 2. the pill structure itself. For that, a pill is really just like a very compressed kind of cake or cracker (or loose powder if it's a capsule). And yes, maybe it goes under "processed food", but we're talking about at most a few grams of these things a day. Maybe indeed a few grams of very compressed substance can throw you off somehow, but then let's weigh it with the benefits. Maybe your last escape route is that taking "too much" vitamins or minerals is not good for you, but then we have to be very specific about what we mean. I could see it for something like vitamin E if you go 3-4x the RDI, but some vitamins you already get way above those amounts for certain foods daily.

"Listen to your body" as opposed to listen to your abstract mind imposing abstract ideas and limitations onto your lifting. Then notions like "slow the eccentric", "pause at the bottom", "slowww slowww slowww" disappear and all that is left is the primal explosivity of your muscle fibers and the instinctive drive to push those muscle fibers until failure. And of course, there is a point where "pushing yourself" seems like a mental thing where you try to push the body beyond its current limits, but that's a much more primal thing than "🤓☝️ we are approaching 2 reps in reserve". I talk like a meathead when I talk about lifting. Deal with it

Different things work for different points on the path.

Be kind to your little brother 😉

This is not insanity. This is sanity. Insanity is losing your marbles over it.

Unless you're Jeff Nippard in his newest program where he did that for 100 days straight and (allegedly) actually gained muscle ON A CUT and ironically does a 180 on his entire training philosophy for the last 10 years. That's as consistent as calling yourself "Dr. Mike" and then doing a 180 on the legitimacy of your PhD after 10 years lol. "Science-based" essentially means "I read a few studies and made a conclusion". That it has been treated as essentially "the science" (which Jeff still refers to it as), i.e. a kind of set of SETTLED and undeniably FACTUAL dogmas or commandments passed down by the Geek God, is just indicative of the pop science mind virus that have been imposed on our culture for the last 200 years. You're just a pussy then. Jeff Nippard has now adopted my training philosophy: "actually, I like going to the gym now, it's fun". If lifting is not fun for you, you're the type of guy that thinks doing anything else than sitting on a literal couch and eating chips is not fun. The fact that you have to use your body (or your mind), your competencies, to do something, IS fun. That is what fun is. There is no such thing as being static or sedentary or not applying yourself when you are a human being. You are in constant motion. Not moving is what you don't want to do. Fun is just what you want to do, and you want to move; moving is fun. Go move.

So I think solipsism is a mental framework, I think enlightenment is possible beyond mere awakening, but other than that, we're quite similar.

You can again be relatively healthy with a slight nutrient deficiency. The question is whether or not they are deficient. There are many who are deeply inculcated with the "modern society traps" but who are skeptical of supplements. It wasn't long ago that even leading health science gurus were completely against taking them. Then there were convincing scientific evidence for their benefits [1]. The study did control for "healthiness" of diet, but they should of course have controlled for organic vs non-organic aswell. But even so, as mentioned, even for organic crops, there is a ~40% reduction in vitamins and minerals from crops over the last half century (and it might not be completely countered by growing your own because it is partially a genetic issue with the foods we've bred for mostly size; you would have to farm more obscure foods). So unless you farm all your food yourself and you eat different foods than you would probably usually eat, you'll be worse off than half a decade ago. And we know staying inside and avoiding the sun does negatively impact vitamin D levels, and where I live, you effectively don't get vitamin D from the sun from October through March. Is the scientific evidence a trap? But again, maybe being relatively deficient doesn't matter much, and maybe it's a phase for me and I'll prefer less supplements over time.

@Deziree Essentially you're doing the thing where you say "everything affects everything else" and then you mention virtually anything you can think of, probably as a way to signal being a "systems thinker" or "Tier 2" person (not intentionally of course, I'm mind-reading your unconscious mind). Reminds me of @Danioover9000. But if you were to choose the most pertinent thing that effects the quality of thoughts, what would that be?

You're like the most interesting person on the forum because you take anything else than Enlightenment as hocus pocus fairytales, beliefs, states, while essentially the rest think temporary awakenings are the real deal. And I appreciate that 😙