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Mattheus
@mvongutt
Many faces, one actor. A self-building self-builder. I am the room I seek to clean. Following my nose, I discover endless rabbit holes.
Colorado, USA Katılım Kasım 2022
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@acekingspades @WellBuiltStyle Sorry, but "by definition" it is complete. What you consider a practical protein source is your business.
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@mvongutt @WellBuiltStyle By definition and practical purposes that is incomplete.
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Nutrition 101 myths:
Plants are not "incomplete" protein. They have all 9 essential amino acids...they just might be lower in 1 or 2 specific amino acids.
Unless your ONLY protein source are beans...you'll be fine.
Provided that you're eating between 1.2 and 1.6g of protein per kg per day...the source doesn't seem to matter.
A♠️@acekingspades
@WellBuiltStyle @BetWithGringo black beans are not a complete protein
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@polyaletheia @mattyglesias Join a Buddhist monastery. As a side benefit of community, you also get mind control training for free.
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@mattyglesias OK but what do you do if you become convinced of the instrumental benefits of religion but not of the existence of God?
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I think liturgical faith traditions do a better job than evangelical ones of fitting the needs of conservative intellectuals who've mostly been convinced of the instrumental benefits of religion.
serena shahidi@glamdemon2004
Been reading a lot of old books satirizing traditional WASP culture and I would love for someone smart to explain to me why Catholicism became the aspirational right wing trad country club aesthetic instead of Protestantism…? 🤔
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@RomeoStevens76 My capacity for love is boundless, so I actually accomplish all these at once. Saves time
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Guys, I know the dating discourse is confusing sometimes but you gotta fix the simple stuff before the complicated.
You're supposed to love:
God
Women
Children
Dogs
Yourself
Stop fucking up the order and skipping steps.
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@acekingspades @WellBuiltStyle So it is an imbalanced source of protein, not incomplete. Gotcha.
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@mvongutt @WellBuiltStyle Black beans do not contain all nine essential amino acids in adequate amounts.
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@acekingspades @WellBuiltStyle They are not incomplete. They have all necessary amino acids. The only protein source that's actually incomplete is gelatin (missing tryptophan). If you ate no other protein source but gelatin, you would eventually run into cellular problems. That is not true of black beans.
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@WellBuiltStyle That makes them incomplete which was my point. Reading comprehension.
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@kramerposts I know people I would describe as very critical, dismissive, cynical, etc. but it never occurred to me that they might be that way because they trained their attention to find fault (for some reason). Brilliant
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The concept of your attention and gaze being "trainable" is one of the most electrifyingly powerful (and terrifying) ideas out there because it means that how you see the world is both a choice and a skill. Do you see beauty or do you see ugliness? Well what do you want to see..?
Callan@callanable
I was raised by haters. hater mentality means scanning for things to criticize, missing beauty and joy. denouncing things that make people happy meant family acceptance—which I needed, since hate had alienated me from my peers. relearning curiosity and openness has been an arduous process, which is so unfair. and I still struggle more than I probably let on! but it's been one of the best things I've ever done.
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In Zen, there is a concept called jikke that refers to psychophysical energy tangles or blockages in the body that impede awakening. It is usually described as a physical manifestation of a karmic debt, but I think it can be recast easily into a somatic therapy framework. That's why in Rinzai Zen, there is a strong emphasis on physical movement to accompany seated meditation - judo, kendo, aikido, sports, even calisthenics can resolve jikke.
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Physical issues can and will dig mental roots that persist even after the original cause is dealt with, often facilitated via the nervous system (I know because I remember it took me at least another year to recoup after I resolved my breathing issues)
And, there are physical responses to psychological stimuli that simply enable the manifestation of the underlying emotion (see relationship between fear and CO2 for example)
The direction of cause and effect isn't always clear because maybe it's happening all at once.
Bryce Hanna@photobiogenesis
Most common misconception in health is that physical and mental causes of anxiety are mutually exclusive
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@stalin997439 @TVachaW Nobody in this thread believes in souls or an almighty God. You're arguing with yourself.
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I’m a Buddhist who also believes in God.
For a certain type of Buddhist, this is very confusing, even triggering.
But for me, I don’t see a contradiction.
Perhaps it is partly due to how I conceive of God.
I don’t experience God as a man in the sky or a humanoid personality (although I believe it can be symbolically accessed that way).
I also don’t experience God as an atta / atman with a fixed substantial nature.
For me, to believe in God is simply to believe that there is a loving intelligence / wisdom that permeates the universe and all things in it.
And that one can live in a way that is either more or less aligned with it.
For me, the eightfold path provides perfect instruction on how to harmonize one’s life with the flow of that loving intelligence.
The Buddha I find offers the most clear instructions on the “what” - what actions do to, with what attitude and what intent.
But the concept (and for me, experience of God) fleshes out the “why?” in ways I sometimes find more inspiring.
That is - why one should adopt these actions, attitudes and intents.
Not just to relinquish suffering but to align with and realise what is most good, true and beautiful.
The Buddhist instructions appeal to my head and the pragmatist in me.
But the God frame appeals to me heart, my lived experience and the romantic in me.
I can see why, as an arch-pragmatist, the Buddha didn’t find utility in a God-frame.
But I am not the Buddha and I would rather engage with the frames that are most nourishing to my own heart, path and lived experiences than try to blindly replicate the Buddha’s journey by pure imitation.
Ultimately, I do believe that all of these frames are empty, and whenever I’ve touched the ultimate it’s not something that fits neatly into any words or clean framework.
But I’ve seen and experienced enough to know that Buddhist practices and frames work well for me.
And I’ve also experienced enough of God to have a faith I can’t shake.
Furthermore, I find my Buddhist practices bring me always closer to what I experience as God.
And in my own heart at least, I find no contradiction in any of this, especially not at the level of experience.
Vacha@TVachaW
There’s a certain type of argument against God that I often hear from Buddhists, which I find unconvincing. The argument essentially seems to be that because there is no stable sensation / perception / field of consciousness etc findable in our minds that corresponds to God, God cannot exist. But - even assuming that is the case - why should God be assumed to be something that’s represented substantially in our minds? Why couldn’t God be a function rather than a substance? In Mahayana Buddhism, they teach that under conditions of maximal awareness, the default functioning of the universe is pure compassionate love and wisdom. What could be more divine than that? What higher intelligence than compassionate love could we hope for the universe’s default operating principle to be? And it certainly accords with my experience of the contemplative path. That when I am able to release craving, aversion and ignorance, compassionate love spontaneously emerges as the default functioning without any need to create or design it. People might object something like “OK, but that’s not a *personal* God.” But then, according to Buddhist theory - what is a person? A person is not a substance but a function. A person is essentially just the way a certain set of phenomena unfold. So, what makes the default loving compassionate functioning of reality any less of a person than the karmically driven functioning of a human person. “OK, but it’s not a God that punishes and rewards,” could be the next objection. But again, according to Mahayana theory - and according to my own experience - the degree to which we suffer is essentially determined by the degree to which we either divert from this compassionate wisdom function or conform to it. When we release craving, aversion and ignorance, we default to the compassionate-wisdom function and we don’t suffer. When we hold onto craving, aversion and ignorance, we limit the scope of that function and we suffer. On a practical level, this isn’t meaningfully all that different to reward/punishment on the basis of adherence to or denial of this divine function. Really, all the things that feel truly important about God are all features of the universe. A loving intelligence is the default functioning of the universe and the degree to which we conform to it determines the degree to which we suffer in the world. It’s a pretty similar story to the God story. It’s why I think the Tibetans were able to design a complete path to enlightenment that revolves around building a relationship to a divine humanoid figure that represents wise compassionate default functioning of the universe. It’s also why, as a Buddhist, I often find more common ground spiritually with Christians who earnestly have live their life on the basis of a faith in a force of universal love, than I do with the type of Buddhist who envisage themselves to be living in a universe of dead matter that operates on blind and arbitrary principles.
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@JoshPhillipsPhD @grok what are the top 100 of Hirsch’s 5000 essentials?
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I wish the educational system would just admit that E.D. Hirsch was right and then structure the curriculum accordingly.
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@stalin997439 @TVachaW Tell that to Chan. Yuanwu & Linji & Hanshan & Guifeng, let alone later Zen masters like Hakuin, all either use Taoist terminology or incorporate its metaphysics or borrow its practices to support their teachings. You may be a traditional Buddhist. Vacha is not. Oh well.
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@stalin997439 @TVachaW He's also not advocating belief in God. He's using the word to describe his experience with intelligence infused into existence. It's more Tao-flavored Dharmakaya than anything.
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@leandrosalinas @PaulSkallas I'm sure that sunshine has nothing to do with longevity, but rather with vitamin D and serotonin and CoQ10; the more vitamins you take, the better
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@PaulSkallas I'm sure that water has nothing to do with longevity, but rather with skin clarity and toxin removal; the more you sweat, the better.
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Really good example here of the world before the Hydration revolution. No one is ordering water.
people had a few sips of water per day at most in the past. For most of history
Now they're guzzling water all day.
nostalgia@nostalgicfile
Batman (1966) was so unserious
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@Shafer1337 @PaulSkallas But water is needed to flush out the various additives / components / metabolites from the soda, so the net effect is much smaller than the amount in the drink
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@PaulSkallas You do understand that other drinks have water in them, right? They order orangeade in the clip you show, the first ingredient in orangeade is water
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@stalin997439 @TVachaW I'm not advocating belief in God. I'm explaining how it came about.
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Okay, well.. I've posited a real psychological phenomenon (the internal audience), explained it's evolutionary origins, argued why humans would project it outward, and suggested how this accounts for the actual function of God-notions in religion and in people's lives. What else is needed? Like, why should I assume there's something "far greater" at work behind this? Not just on Jung's (purported) say-so, right?
What explanatory work does the Self (including the entire unconscious, all of the Shadow, the collective archetypes, and the transpersonal layer, etc) add to understanding the God-notion beyond what I've suggested?
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有限会社安井ファーム@yasuifarm
Q. ブロッコリーが黄色くなってしまったのですが食べられますか？ A. まずはブロッコリーを大切に想ってくださってありがとうございます 森めいた部分が黄色くなったブロッコリーは、劣化が進む中で緑の色素が抜け落ち、本来の色が見えている状態です 黄色くなったという点につきましては色素が抜けただけなので、他に黒くなっていたり、ぬめりがあったり、くさったようなニオイ等がなければ、通常どおりお召し上がりいただいてオッケーブロッコリーです また「黄化」と「開花」は異なる現象ですが、この時期のブロッコリーは花を咲かせることもあります 開花するために養分を使ってしまっておりますが、少なくとも食べられないということはございません もしエンカウントされる機会がありましたら、ぜひお召し上がりいただくことも視野に、ご検討いただけますと幸いです 今後ともブロッコリーをよろしくお願いいたします
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@Ruesavatar @KMBK_ARKADIA So true, queen. Large body fat stores are signals of energetic capacity in resource-constrained environments; they're not part of the ideal female figure in civilized contexts 💅
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正直に教えてください。
言い難いのは理解しています。
これを告白することによって迫害される可能性があるのも知っています。ですが心配しないでください。私は仲間です。あなたに寄り添います。教えてください。
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ぶっちゃけ小さい胸が好きだよっていうアメリカ人の男っているの？
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@robinhanson That's too small to matter. Keep wearing until the hole grows to 5x10^-4
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My wife says I should no longer wear a shirt due to this hole that constitutes a 5x10^-5 fraction of the shirt's surface area. Unseen if the shirt is tucked into my pants. Do you agree?
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