Sculptor wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:09 pm
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:33 pm
I've lived in this world and it's often a dead end with no suitable direction as an alternative. Maybe, I'll try to go vegan, though I'm not fond of many vegetables other than potatoes cut in strips and fried in animal fat. Or I can simply continue with eating what is enjoyable and subject other living beings to fear and pain. I'll try dating. Unfortunately, I'm a mess and no one wants to be with a mess and therefore I'm avoided like a leper, which drives me equally insane. Maybe I can try therapy with someone who will tell me that all I have to do is "think positive" and that alone will bring happiness. Sure, I think negative, therefore it's my fault I feel the way I do. I guess blaming the victim for his own problems works for everyone except the one experiencing the problems.
I've lived in this world. I don't know God in any other way than what I see and experience in this world. However, perhaps the God botherers are right. If I immerse myself in cloudcoockooland and fantasize about eternal heaven after I am likely to painfully die, then I'll live in bliss. Or I could watch a Disney Movie where fairy pixies come to the rescue and save the day. That's a tough choice. At least I can see fairy pixies come to the rescue and save the day on the "silver screen". I suppose that's better than not seeing it at all.
You sound like you need to get back to basics.
Part of the deep angst of civilisation is that as humans evolved in nature we find ourselves somewhat ill equipped to deal with the constructed reality of our culturallly defined existence.
Whilst civilisation can provide some of our most fundemental needs such as warmth ans shelter we live without those things from which our somatic traits are evolved. In this we tend to have the wrong sorts of stress; the wrong sorts fo diet and the wrong demands upon exercising our bodies. Food is adulterated ,and full of substances for which we have no ability to process, and even when eated fresh the items of fruit and vegetables are mutated and bloated versions of their wild counterparts.
We have only cultivated foods for a few thousands years. We've been eating wild natural foods for millions of years, but it was only 200 generations ago that most of us started eating bread, and other preparations of cultivated food. And worst still the foods now available have only been around for 2 or 3 generations. There is a damn good reason why there is a pandemic of obesity, Type 2 Diabetes,mental health problems, sleeping problems, stress, Alzhiemers and their associated insulin and leptin resistence. Obviously its not all diet, but diet is the most fundemental and easy way to address problems.
So, if 'it' is NOT 'all diet', then what IS the one so-called 'damn good reason' for these 'things' here?
For example, what diet WILL address problems?
Sculptor wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:09 pm
No hunter/gatherer was even a Vegan. This abberation is unlikely to improve your outlook.
So, what diet WILL improve "gary childress's" outlook?
Sculptor wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:09 pm
We are evolved to eat mainly meat with very high fibrous (because natural) and small roots, and greens.
Are we also evolved to look at 'things' negatively?
Sculptor wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:09 pm
Wild wheat is so small as to have made it absurdly impractical to even eat. Wheat intolerance is common since we are not adapted for it.
Are you even AWARE that 'you', human beings, have evolved over DIFFERENT areas and places on earth?
In some areas and places 'you', human beings, evolved eating so-called 'wild wheat', and so the ones living in those areas or places are ADAPTED for so-called 'wild wheat'.
Sculptor wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:09 pm
In nature large amounts of root vegetables are rare and the most common (potato) was completely absent from the diet before 1600, also maize and tomatoes.
1. ABSOLUTELY EVERY 'thing' HAPPENS 'in Nature'. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING outside of Nature, Itself.
2. The most so-called 'common potato', in the days when this is being written, was NOT the most 'common potato' BEFORE so, OF COURSE, 'this potato' was absent from the diet BEFORE. Just like the most 'common potato' 'today' WILL BE and IS absent from the diet AFTER, or in THE FUTURE.
Sculptor wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:09 pm
Natural vegetables were tiny compared to modern cultivars and fruits were never available until late summer and autumn.
There is NO 'unnatural vegetable' NOR 'unnatural fruit'. There is, however, and OBVIOUSLY, 'adulterated' vegetables and/or fruits BECAUSE of 'you', adult human beings.
And, could 'your' OWN personal views here "sculptor" be ANY MORE narrowed and short sighted?
Fruits fruit DIFFERENT at times of the year, and at DIFFERENT times depending on what areas or places on earth 'they' fruit.
Sculptor wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:09 pm
A typical pattern would be long periods of fasting, and activity (hunting) before eating. Eating as soon as you wake is stupid, slows you down, and the idea of eating 3 square meals per day; little and often; breakfast is the most important meal are all dangerous myths invented by the food manufacturers and have only been with us for 100 years.
'you', adult human beings, in the days when this is being written, have been and ARE being ABSOLUTELY MANIPULATED in MANY, MANY WAYS. AND, 'you' WILL continue to do so UNTIL 'you' CHANGE 'your ways'. HOW and WHAT to eat is just ANOTHER one of the MANY DIFFERENT MANIPULATIONS.
But 'you' seem to be under some sort of DELUSION "yourself" here that if "gary childress" just CHANGED the food and the times 'it' put food into 'that body', then ALL will be WELL and GOOD.
Which is just ANOTHER example of ANOTHER adult human being trying to MANIPULATE "another human being", based on nothing more than what 'it', "itself", has been MANIPULATING INTO BELIEVING is true.
Sculptor wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:09 pm
A couple of years ago I looked into this and now eat more meat, almost no carbs, and consume green vegetables. I have dumped pasta, bread, rice and wheat based products. I never eat breakfast and tend to only eat in short window no more than 2-5hours, giving me a daily fasting period of 22-19 hours everyday. Once a month I have a 48 hour fast, where I only drink water and minerals. This gives me major mental clarity.
How, EXACTLY?
Will you provide example/s of ANY so-called 'major mental clarity' that you supposedly have 'now' that you did NOT have 'before', and how, EXACTLY, changing your diet CAUSE 'this new found clarity'?
If no, then WHY NOT?