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Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:39 am
by Walker
Found this while drinking coffee this morning.
Antifa Classified as Domestic Terrorists by DHS
https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/dhs-a ... id/811109/
"The Department of Homeland Security in 2016 formally classified the actions of the anarchist group Antifa as "domestic terrorist violence," Politico reported."
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 3:23 pm
by Hobbes' Choice
Walker wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:39 am
Found this while drinking coffee this morning.
Antifa Classified as Domestic Terrorists by DHS
https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/dhs-a ... id/811109/
"The Department of Homeland Security in 2016 formally classified the actions of the anarchist group Antifa as "domestic terrorist violence," Politico reported."
Homeland Security has been arresting little old ladies who do fund raisers for the third world.
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:07 pm
by thedoc
Hobbes' Choice wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2017 3:23 pm
Homeland Security has been arresting little old ladies who do fund raisers for the third world.
You do have a good imagination.
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 6:45 pm
by Hobbes' Choice
thedoc wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:07 pm
Hobbes' Choice wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2017 3:23 pm
Homeland Security has been arresting little old ladies who do fund raisers for the third world.
You do have a good imagination.
No I just pay attention. You should too.
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 9:39 pm
by thedoc
Hobbes' Choice wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2017 6:45 pm
thedoc wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:07 pm
Hobbes' Choice wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2017 3:23 pm
Homeland Security has been arresting little old ladies who do fund raisers for the third world.
You do have a good imagination.
No I just pay attention. You should too.
To what? the fake news?
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:31 pm
by Harbal
thedoc wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2017 9:39 pm
To what? the fake news?
We have the BBC here, doc, they don't do "fake news".
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:20 am
by duszek
Mr Thedoc,
does it really save time to do both at the same time ?
It would be a case of multi-tasking and experiments have shown that when performing two activities at the same time our brain switches from one to the other and back again and this costs more time and not less.
1. But don´t we breathe too, at the same time ?
Yes, but we breathe automatically, so it does not count as performing a conscious task.
2. Can we perform one of the activities (either reading or eating) in the same way as breathing ?
Perhaps we could but it is not recommended. Both reading and eating should be focused on when we do them. Otherwise ... we don´t know what we read or we suffer from indigestion.
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:28 am
by Harbal
duszek wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:20 am
2. Can we perform one of the activities (either reading or eating) in the same way as breathing ?
Perhaps we could but it is not recommended. Both reading and eating should be focused on when we do them. Otherwise ... we don´t know what we read or we suffer from indigestion.
Heinz made an unsuccessful attempt to address this problem when they brought out Alphabetti Spaghetti.
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 11:04 am
by attofishpi
Harbal wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:28 am
duszek wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:20 am
2. Can we perform one of the activities (either reading or eating) in the same way as breathing ?
Perhaps we could but it is not recommended. Both reading and eating should be focused on when we do them. Otherwise ... we don´t know what we read or we suffer from indigestion.
Heinz made an unsuccessful attempt to address this problem when they brought out Alphabetti Spaghetti.
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:44 pm
by duszek
Some people can think better when they smoke slowly a cigarette.
Or when they let a piece of chocolate melt in their mouth.
Or when they take a gulp of coffee or tea or wine (or whiskey).
In this case the intake of food and drink is like breathing, it seems to me.
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:55 pm
by thedoc
duszek wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:20 am
Mr Thedoc,
does it really save time to do both at the same time ?
Perhaps we could but it is not recommended. Both reading and eating should be focused on when we do them. Otherwise ... we don´t know what we read or we suffer from indigestion.
Yes it does, I take longer to eat than most so doing both together might take longer than doing either separately, but doing them together takes less time than the total to do them one after the other. I don't eat fast and gulp my food, I tend to take my time and chew and swallow slowly, and I find I can chew and swallow without thinking much about it giving me the attention to concentrate on what I am reading, and I very seldom get indigestion.
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 12:25 pm
by duszek
When we chew our minds need to fill themselves with something too.
What´s the best mental material for the mind while absorbing food ?
A yoga teacher would probably suggest that you contemplate the texture and the taste of the food and exclude everything else.
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:36 pm
by thedoc
duszek wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2017 12:25 pm
When we chew our minds need to fill themselves with something too.
What´s the best mental material for the mind while absorbing food ?
A yoga teacher would probably suggest that you contemplate the texture and the taste of the food and exclude everything else.
There is a similar idea in Buddhism, it's being mindful of what you are doing. Buddhism and Yoga are very similar in their teaching.
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 2:31 pm
by Walker
duszek wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:20 am
Mr Thedoc,
does it really save time to do both at the same time ?
It would be a case of multi-tasking and experiments have shown that when performing two activities at the same time our brain switches from one to the other and back again and this costs more time and not less.
1. But don´t we breathe too, at the same time ?
Yes, but we breathe automatically, so it does not count as performing a conscious task.
2. Can we perform one of the activities (either reading or eating) in the same way as breathing ?
Perhaps we could but it is not recommended. Both reading and eating should be focused on when we do them. Otherwise ... we don´t know what we read or we suffer from indigestion.
That's the least of it. One could inhale a chunk of steak down the wrong pipe, and if no one knowledgeable is around, would be forced to belly flop on the back of a chair in a self-inflicted Heimlich.
Re: Reading at meals.
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 2:35 pm
by Walker
duszek wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:44 pm
Some people can think better when they smoke slowly a cigarette.
Or when they let a piece of chocolate melt in their mouth.
Or when they take a gulp of coffee or tea or wine (or whiskey).
In this case the intake of food and drink is like breathing, it seems to me.
Considering that whiskey is best savored when sipped and not gulped like there's no tomorrow, perhaps.