Carl-Richard

I don't bring up this guy to idolize him (and I don't seriously describe to his terminology) but it's one thing the guy Clavicular has that makes him allegedly successful with women despite his looks and despite his allergy towards "Jestermaxxing" (having a personality), and that is he doesn't give a fuck. He has said he literally does not care that he finishes in 1 minute with a girl and then bails, because he is only there to pleasure himself, he doesn't care about what the woman thinks (not saying that's a good thing at all, but just to give a picture). He indeed doesn't care about "jestermaxxing", to come off as likeable or charming or funny, just to literally "mog" with whatever other factor he has going for him. Now again, I'm not signalling to idolize, but to get some perspective, see what range of states or behaviors are out there, see that maybe your current states or behaviors are not necessarily needed in the degree you hold them.

Maybe your motivation for meditation is the issue. If you want to meditate to stop agitation, the very motivation of "I don't want this" contains resistance, attachment, contraction within it, so it will work antithetical to the goal. You have to be a master at brainwashing yourself out of the "I don't want this state" mindset and get into an acceptance mindset during the meditation. And even then, maybe you need a stronger type of motivation than that to really get the truly beneficial effects; a different kind of resolve, mindset, techniques, cognitive frames, assumptions about what is possible, etc., to get there. The reason I started meditating (or rather the reason I kept going) was because I was intensely curious about what consciousness is, what pure awareness is, how to exist in a state of pure silence, stillness. It was in reality an obsession. It was my main focus in life. Perhaps meditation doesn't work as well when it isn't that. Though ironically, it wasn't before I placed meditation and awakening on #2 place in terms of immediate resource expenditure (studies came first) that I started seeing the most progress spiritually (letting go of the attachment to meditation itself is highly beneficial at certain stages on the path). But you are seemingly not there. And that's not your fault. You can take meditation for what you want it to be. Perhaps other techniques like cognitive behavioral therapy, or challenging belief structures, assumptions, cognitive styles, could be more beneficial for you.

@Ramasta9 I think "detox" could be a cope and that the process is of getting adapted to a lower energy state and lower nutrition. It's like when you injure yourself, you change state to accommodate it; your mood drops, your activity drops, and it feels shit at first, but then you stabilize a bit (until you eventually get over the injury and start moving again). If it was undeniably the case that fruit-only was superior for nutrition, my body would be jumping in excitement every time I ate. The fact that I would be eating a slightly more unripe-picked fruit or even with glyphosate in it should only be a minor factor, and the underlying superiority should shine through and be robust. Meanwhile, instead you're encouraged to go on a kind of quest to figure out how to fucking eat a fruit and not feel like shit.

The fact is there are already different paths of technology, and discovering one didn't hamper discovery of the other. You don't need strictly need electricity to drive what we call a car. Combustions engines are strictly independent of the discoveries of electricity. But we also have electric cars now. We discovered both. It's easy to fixate on one or a few things but you probably underestimate how much innovation that exists and what has been tried but failed. It's not like people give up trying to find new ways just because an existing way exists. That would be to lobotomize half of our cognitive factulties. I think it's very hard to genuinely find a path of technology that was not discovered due to paradigm lock. You would have to go by some core assumptions about how reality works, like the existence of psychic phenomena.

If you care about lasting enlightenment, "when you get the message, put down the phone" seems more accurate than not. My first LSD trip at 18 showed me the problem of suffering, dukkha, perpetual dissatisfaction, seeking, grasping, clinging. It was so apparent to me that I just laid in my bed for hours with a slight frown, trying to avoid the feeling of tension when deciding to do anything. And trips after that were more just ventures into forms, Maya, highly abstract spaces of mind, of extreme self-reference and irony, of deep sensations of profundity, complexity, vastness. But of course, the mystical unity experience was always lingering in the background, trying to creep in at the center stage of experience. But I was then grasping, clinging to experience, the moments I could do that. The trip became a game of trying to avoid the truth creeping in despite the growing discomfort as the trip progressed. And the end of the trip was soaked with weed to alleviate this sense of discomfort, to avert the eyes and bodily sensors from what was truly the lesson. Only when I laid down all drugs, a true feeling of spiritual quest was revealed.

Yet you're looking for distractions during it. Maybe still and quiet is what you need so you cannot be distracted.

Be intensely curious about the agitation. What is it? How does it really feel? Where does the agitation arise from? Can you spot where in the process of awareness it arises? Meditation is like a study of the mechanics of your mind. The trick is that you're in it and trying to look at it from the outside. And that's what makes it fun.

Clavicular in his recent Piers Morgan appearance said "it's sort of a new philosophy". Meanwhile, here is the definition of "metrosexual", a term originating from 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosexual Clavicular might retort with "the idea that looks are #1 most important factor for attraction is the new philosophy; people spent a lot of time on looks before without necessarily holding this idea in mind". However, if you can deduce a philosophy based on actions, it's likely that many metrosexuals hold this philosophy implicitly if not explicitly stated in words or thought (e.g., it might be the #1 use of their time, and the outcome involves increasing attraction, and surely, a part of it comes from the intention to increase attraction, hence they hold it as the #1 most important factor for increasing attraction based on their intentions and use of time and resources).

Maybe my appreciation for music doesn't translate but that tends to be enough for me when running and lifting at the gym. I don't have to look at my phone (although I intentionally decide to that sometimes, but it usually feels like more work than not doing it). I said that when the noises aren't there, they shouldn't bother you, but when they are there, they could definitely bother you (and they sometimes do for me if it is particularly loud). Honestly could solve 95% of your problems. Perhaps focus on meditation techniques where you try to catch thoughts when they happen and then recenter on a sensation when you notice being lost in thought. I had a period I was so addicted to catching and breaking trains of thought that it was hard to take any thoughts seriously (even hard to think at times, certainly to mind-wander). However, I could still get anticipatory anxiety, but that was more a physical arousal issue than being bothered by thoughts. It's a bit of a tangent, but I find anticipatory anxiety is best dealt with by changing some expectation or interpretation of an outcome, rather than trying to silence thoughts.

@Ramasta9 I've tried some fruit monomeals now (bananas, mangoes, honeydew melon), and it might be the fact that I live in Norway where the food has to be imported, but I really can't do it. The energy levels are way too low. I last tried bananas (10), organic, but still, low energy. I seem to feel better afterwards when the fruit is digested and blood glucose drops, perhaps due to the microbial effect.

Run faster. I sometimes pull up the forum between 4x4 runs or sprints, but my mind physically can't move. Do you not listen to music while running? I basically only do high-intensity running/sprints (aiming at basically max BPM) and low intensity cardio (125 bpm fast walking for 40-45 minutes). And I walk 10 minutes after every meal (but I have slacked on the evening meal). When I walk, I just mind-wander or do nothing. I like it, it's an insight generator and simply mindfulness. It feels like cleaning. Afterwards, your mind is clearer, or you get fixated on an idea which you'll explore further.

Making the forum faster might increase flow and make forum interactions more pleasant; higher state, more patience. Think about the amount of road rage incidences in congested traffic.

"Science-based lifting" is to use scientific studies to conclude which ways to train are the most optimal. It's a term primarily used in a setting of hypertrophy/bodybuilding training, and it's here it is often the most problematic. Why it is problematic can be boiled down to essentially one phrase: "moving your body is not like swallowing a pill". People tend to point to the scientific rigor of so called "high quality research designs" like randomized controlled trials by saying that is how we develop drugs and medical treatments, and these have been shown to demonstrate real effects that map on to the world accurately. Well, firstly, let's explore even that for a minute: SSRIs have been shown to be only 2% more effective than placebo. And that's assuming that the study design is accurate and can tell us something true about those effects, which can also be questioned. After all, who are the studies conducted on? Are those people's characteristics always applicable to any given scenario? Are they always relevant for you and your bodily functioning? Maybe not. That aside, you also have the problem of the replication crisis which affects all of behavioral science, not just psychology or the "softer" social science disciplines like it is often portrayed as, but it affects medicine, biology, biotechnology, pharmacology. And why that is the case could boil down to simply "humans are complicated". And what is even more complicated than humans popping a pill? That is humans moving their bodies, and maybe especially lifting weights for hypertrophy. Lifting weights is not just lifting weights. It's every cell in your body coordinating to produce complex movement patterns. To even conceive of this theoretically, forget about the empirical problems for a moment, is a wild assertion of confidence. You would essentially be claiming omniscience like a God. And that's what science-based lifters have essentially done to their analytical mind and by an even more painfully wild and confident extension their empirical capability, not just in interpreting science but in claiming to have produced valuable and truth-uncovering research designs. And this ties into the second but related problem of ecological validity and external validity. Lifting weights is not just lifting weights yes in this sense that that phrase belies an immense world of complexity that is generally not appreciated for what it is, but it's also in the sense that the weights and the movement patterns are not the only thing that is part of your training. It's the gym, the surroundings, the people, the knowledge of the person lifting the weights, the motivation and rigor of the person lifting the weights, the shape and size of the body of the person lifting the weights, the length and width of the limbs; any characteristic that you could describe as merely tangentially related, is deeply intertwined in the outcomes of training. And this is where the "soccer moms in an 8-week study" critique comes in, and it's not a trivial or merely funny or facetious critique. Do you honestly think it is a good idea to base your idea of what is "optimal lifting" on people who are on average and certainly compared to the average hyper-obsessed gym bro 1. not at all knowledgeable in lifting, 2. not at all motivated to lift (at any considerable level of intensity or rigor), 3. not the same size or shape as you, and 4. maybe most importantly generally lifting in a controlled and alien setting where a scientist is standing behind you shouting "start", "stop", "start", "stop", at every rep, where some designs use absolutely unheard of training setups like using one technique with one arm and another technique with the other arm for those 8 weeks, where even quantifying states like "true failure" vs "3 reps in reserve" is mere hocus-pocus philosophical conjecture? And you then compile various of different kinds of studies like this that mostly contradict each other in terms of the overall conclusions and you end up with a marginal number of "51% in favor of this training method over this". And this is what is "most optimal". It is an absolute charade, a circus, pure pseudo-intellectual masturbatory, below AI-slop levels of investigation and conclusion. It's not to say that all of exercise science is pseudoscience. There are valueable studies on e.g. best ways to improve VO2 max which are much more similar to a physiological "pill-taking" mechanism where dose and response are much more simply controlled. But movement patterns, hypertrophy training, based on female mid-40s RCTs, compiled into a sludge of marginally favored conclusions, and then presented as "the most optimal way to train", is not as much a pseudoscience as it is a failure of analytical thinking and logical inference. Science-based lifting is not really as much a science as it is a kind of metaphysics, a theological doctrine, that more interprets and concludes based on a set of assumptions rather than based on the actual observations. That is why "The Church of Science-Based Lifting" is a fitting and ironic name. Because that is also the kind of thinking that is associated with it: "what does the science say?" "what does the book say?" "what is the most optimal way?" "what is the answer?" "what is the thing we should follow, the one true way, the path, the one espoused by the Churchmen with the P and the H and the Ds?" It's ironic that the more "science-based", the less thinking you seem to have to do, the more you just have to listen, deny criticism, bow to authority. What is the true and honest way to train, is philosophy-based lifting; being aware of the assumptions underlying your thinking, not making poorly justified conclusions based on observation, and simply working with what you have, which in the case of hypertrophy is mainly yourself and your own experience, your sense, your own body and mind.

Tl;dr: genes. Thinking you're innately less capable is partially genetic, but you can teach yourself to not do it, because it doesn't lead you anywhere. "But you should be realistic". Yes, about what you want, about what you feel you are a capable at. But don't feed yourself poison.

It's simply if you find one or two things of the same kind, you could expect to find more. You won't necessarily find more, but the existence of those things "could indicate" more such things exist. Alternatively, finding true vision without physical sense organs could indicate that the design is itself a result of planning (that God did not evolve vision spontaneously, step by step, bottom-up, but simply made it such top-down, through will and imagination).

It's not a silly question you brute.

When your awareness stretches farther than the next immediate impulse, you immediately feel the consequences of lying. It also creates a split in the mind between what is true and what is lie, and it creates a poisonous environment. It's like you create a cancerous tumor that starts metastatizing and spreads. The organism, the whole, is truth. When you create something separate from the organism, untruth, it competes and eventually devours it.

Lying and cheating doesn't feel good.

Death caps is exactly the "thorn" in your argument. How do you know the difference between a herbal death cap, an innocuous herb and something inbetween?

Bro Connor is actually a comedic genius 😂 Watch this 😂

@Elliott This is exactly the bullshit within-person designs I'm talking about. Consider that heavy lifting could maybe benefit more from bilateral training? Maybe limiting movement patterns to just one side of the body limits power output and therefore limits the potential effects of that modality of training? Within-person designs are better if you take a lifter who is at a stable muscle mass while lifting regularly and make them experiment with each technique whole-heartedly for separate periods (preferably matching the seasons). But that's still just N = 1 if you do as in the video and use one person, so you can't necessarily generalize to everybody.

If you are watching a show, why not enjoy it? If it's a cringe show, then cringe about how bad it is. But having an existential crisis about how the show is constructed, that is not needed.

Not exactly evidence for the personhood of God, but NDEs involving actual seeing without having eyes open or a functional brain are evidence of mental and perceptual faculties existing "before" the events proposed necessary by naturalism (according to the current evidence or paradigms; evolution and development of physical perceptual instruments), which could indicate that also other higher mental faculties (e.g. planning) could exist at the bottom of reality as a part of a "personal" God.

I have a feeling young people believe they have discovered something new because when they look at their parents or the older generations, they are not in that game, but the truth is they probably used to be in that game but they just stopped caring. Like, you could definitely trace "looksmaxing" back to some dude or gal in Ancient Greece calling it by some Greek name (Looksus Maximus). Or that's just my 0.9% Greek/South-Italian genes speaking (they are carrying all my efforts towards Looksmaxing).

My bar for speaking solipsism with you without pulling my hairs out is that you know the difference between cosmic solipsism and egoic solipsism, and you know the difference between a perception and pure consciousness.