In the prefrontal cortex of the mouse, DHA is 22.1% of all fatty acids, compared to just 2.2% in the pituitary gland. The brain’s dry weight is 60% fat. So it’s not too hard to see what happened. During the course of evolution, our prefrontal cortex expanded massively, making us smarter and our world more complex. This increased our dietary need for EPA and DHA. We ate fish to fulfill this need.
All mammals convert ALA into the longer chain fatty acids. But most of them don’t have a massive prefrontal cortex full of grey matter like us, so most will have enough of these fatty acids when they eat a regular diet without fish. And of course some of us who evolved outside sub-Saharan Africa suffered mutations to the genes that convert fatty acids from ALA to EPA and DHA, so we’re just not very good at it anymore.
I don’t really see a proper alternative. Vegans have about 50% of the EPA and DHA content in their red blood cells of omnivores. Low DHA in red blood cells is known to be linked to reduced grey matter in the brain, as DHA is 30-40% of all fatty acids in grey matter in the cortex.
So you want DHA. But not all DHA is created equally. It needs to be in lysophosphatidylcholine, to be carried efficiently into the brain. Otherwise, it just ends up distributed in your fatty tissues and other organs. In the fish it’s found in the right molecular position to be carried into the brain, but not in the supplements made of algae oil.
That’s why results for supplementation with omega fatty acids on cognitive problems tend to be disappointing. So your other option would be to supplement with krill oil to get the right form. But if you’re eating krill, little animals, why not just eat a fish and be done with it?
But nobody really ever bothers explaining any of this to vegans. All those algae oil Omega 3 supplements? Yeah they increase omega 3 in your body fat, but probably not in your brain.
To me it’s pretty simple. This is about my brain, so it’s just not stuff I want to be goofing around with.
So today I finally got around to eating one of these:
A smoked mackerel. Thanks to LSWM lives matter for pointing out they have the most omega 3. They live freely in the ocean, where they are constantly being eaten by herring, cod and other fish on the top of the food chain, as well as by bigger mackerels.
The flavor is alright, though not spectacular, it doesn’t feel like something I’ve missed my whole life in that sense. But I already feel more calm and at peace.
So there are the omega 3s, along with 3 grams of creatine. But on top, there are various peptides, long chains of amino acids found in flesh, including in Mackerel, that do all sorts of interesting stuff in our bodies. They induce recovery from physical fatigue. As someone who’s always tired, this appeals to me.
Nature’s solution to our problems is not veganism. It’s war and disease. For generations our population was kept under control through war, genocide, famine and above all else, disease. It’s a mistake to treat nature as purely benevolent.
Veganism is like antinatalism, in that choosing not to exist is of course a solution to our problems. But you turn your own life into hell and will simply be replaced by others. You’ll probably end up feeling tired and depressed all the time. You can find lifelong vegans, but you can find happy homeless people living on the street too. They’re the exceptions that prove the rule.
I think we evolved to be omnivores and any attempt at ditching meat and fish for synthetic alternatives is going to bump into the problem that people don’t want it. People don’t want it, because this is a very fundamental biological aspect of what it means to be human.
I don’t like the factory farms in which pigs and cows have to spend their whole lives caged. But personally, I don’t really see a problem with eating fish that live in the wild and constantly get eaten by other fish anyway.
Some of you will disagree with me. But regardless of whether you agree or disagree, I hope you take good care of your brain, as it probably needs a proper source of DHA and EPA to function properly. And most of the oil supplements are basically useless, as the fatty acids don’t manage to reach your brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_dUmDBfp6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r13riaRKGo0
Sardines are also a good snack, and very nutritious.
If you like sardines, then give a can of Nuri sardines a go. Not cheap, but worth it.
Yeah I like sardines, but never had Nuri. They sound good, though, I’ll give them a go for sure.
Usually I buy the cheapest ones, just as long as they don’t have any seed oils (the ones LSWM Lives Matter mentioned). Whenever I eat stuff that contains that garbage, I immediately feel bad.
Don’t eat the oil, then. Place them on a paper (can be the NYT) for half an hour until they become liberal sardines.
Otoh, if you don’t eat ANY vegetable oils at all, really none, that one spoonful is good for the heart. But only one. The rest of the body is not interested. That is the ironic problem.
Because I get offered here and there something with those oils in it, the sardine oil goes from my household to central incineration.
Derrick Jensen has said that the book ‘The Vegan Myth’ saved his life. He suffers from the severe modern digestive problem of Crohn’s Disease and doesn’t think he would have survived much longer on a vegan diet. The author Lierre Keith was a hardcore vegan from an idealistic teenager and she’s convinced it completely ruined her health, in particular her skeletal structure.
She talks humorously in her book (to me) about scrawny, sickly vegans on a commune in NY and how she gorged on her mother’s creme brulee as a starving vegan that revived her.
Derrick has described how SMOKED SALMON is absolutely fantastic and he’s making a deal: he works to ensure their survival by advocating for dams pulled down, fish entries and other measures and in return he gets some of their flesh, as bears do.
DEAL
In my neck of the woods I have lots of access to smoked salmon, including wild fish smoked on sticks by a fire by native Indians who have been doing it for thousands of years. Chanterelle mushrooms, smoked salmon, and wild edible plants are fit for a meal for a king.
Yeah Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith are onto something.
One interesting thing to consider is how unnatural livestock animals are after millennia of selective breeding. I’ve had a few chickens as pets and they seemed incredibly stupid. Incapable of learning anything, even when being attacked by cats and dogs – repeatedly they’ll continue to come into the house looking for food only to get attacked every 5 minutes.
They couldn’t survive in the wild and they are barely sentient. Not sure if that helps with the horror show but it’s an angle
Another possible angle would be, what if plants are more sentient than animals? Ever read “The Secret Life of Plants” by Peter Tompkins? Of course, it’s just another angle open for inspection.
If cows were left in the wild they’d be attacked by predators, parasites and disease. Not sure why that’s okay for fish but not cows. Except people incapable of thinking logically have all kinds of problems. Which is why veganism is even a thing.
Farmed salmon contains more environmental pollution than any other food.
> Thanks to LSWM lives matter for pointing out they have the most omega 3.
You’re very welcome! Great to hear that you’re starting to feel better.
It’s also worth pointing out that the selenium in fish (and other foods) protects against mercury toxicity. And like you said, mackerel doesn’t bioaccumulate that much mercury due to being low on the marine food chain. Also, the mercury is bound to the protein, not fat. So, even if people are concerned about mercury, they can just eat the fat of the fish for the EPA and DHA, then discard the rest of the meat.
Also, lots of people cook fish at high temperatures which is a huge mistake because the PUFAs become oxidised, it’s much safer to sauté on a very low heat**, preferably using cooking fat low in linoleic acid, such as coconut oil (avocado oil, macadamia nut oil or olive oil can also work, but coconut oil is best IMO since it has a high smoke point).
I personally avoid high linoleic acid (omega-6) seed oils such as sunflower, canola (rapeseed), corn oil etc. due to risks of lipid peroxidation causing the oil to become rancid. Avoiding these industrial seed oils will improve the omega-3/omega-6 ratio in the cell membrane closer to a 1:3 ratio which is considered ideal.
If you browse various paleo forums/blogs, there are many anecdotes/testimonials of people becoming much less susceptible to sunburn once they eliminate seed oils from their diet. It seems that once there is a lower proportion of linoleic acid in the cell membrane of the skin cells, the UV radiation from the sun can’t induce as much damage to the skin cells (less inflammation). Animal studies in rodents seem to confirm this, a high omega-6 diet appear to increase risk of skin cancer.
Don’t get me wrong, linoleic acid is still an essential fatty acid, but most people get WAY TOO MUCH in their diet. This is another good reason to avoid pork, the omega-3/6 ratio is very bad.
Although, I get the impression that @betaalpha seems to bizarrely think that ALL PUFAs (not just omega-6 but also omega-3) should be avoided???!!!
** You could also use a slow cooker at low heat if making a fish stew.
tell my grandma about necessary fatty acids..she cooked with reused lard her whole life and didnt like fish.. was sharp and fit till 85. but hey the scientists say so..you still dont get the pattern.
My grandmother ate the usual American crap and lived to 86 and was totally sharp; the only reason she didn’t live longer (she died of stroke about 20 years ago) was because she started smoking again in her early 80s. Of course when she was a kid she ate real food. I’m starting to think that what people eat as a kid is what matters most.
@LSWM Lives Matter..you witnessed how they bribed the whole world to sell you poison and learned nothing. please prove your idea of essential fatty acids, you cant. my grandma laughs at you(cooked with reused lard her whole life)..
That’s enough schizoposting for today.
The lard you get today is not the lard your granny used
In a biological context, “essential” simply means that the organism cannot synthesise that nutrient itself and must consume it.
Linoleic acid is essential, and critical for survival, but it is impossible to cut out in a natural diet. Even grass fed beef has ample linoleic acid.
Pigs are monogastrates like us, which means they are unable to saturate pufa. Additionally, the low fat craze led to the breeding of low bodyfat pigs. As a result, pigs concentrate pufa in the body fat.
Pigs are fed soybean oil, which is high in pufa. Lard is actually higher in linoleic acid than many actual seed oils.
“linoleic acid is essential”..did you try this yourself or are you just chanting mantras from the whitecoat priests? how much will you find in a pot of fat that is reheated several times standing in open air for a year?
good luck with finding omega3 in cooked fish, also it doesnt help against chemtrails..you fucked your dopamine-receptors with madma, they wont come back.
*mdma*
today is SPRAYDAY. chessboard patterns in the sky. we are all fucked!
Europeans and Asians have Neandertal Genes. Subsaharan Africans dont.
Asians have Denisovan too, though Ocean peoples have the most, very interesting.
>Ocean
Meant to fully type out “Oceanic”
You may also want to look into magnesium L-threonate. My understanding is that it’s the form of magnesium that’s best able to permeate the blood-brain barrier. And at least here in America, our soil is depleted of nutrients, so we end up depleted of magnesium.
Anecdotally, taking L-threonate has helped my mood significantly and helped me cut back on alcohol.
helicobacter pylori loves neutralized stomach acid.
@Rintrah: “I don’t like the factory farms in which pigs and cows have to spend their whole lives caged. But personally, I don’t really see a problem with eating fish that live in the wild and constantly get eaten by other fish anyway.”
It’s also possible to buy eggs that do not come from factory farms. Buy free-range organic cage-free pasture raised eggs. That’s what I get. It’s more expensive, but they also taste a lot better. I’m all for eating fish as well, but I would argue that eggs are the most ethical option, because no chicken dies in the process of laying unfertilized eggs.
The killing comes in when they are producing the laying hens. Both male and female chicks are produced, but only female chicks are wanted. The factory farms grind up the males alive in giant grinding machines; I’m not sure how the pasture-raised eggs people kill them.
They have very recently come up with ways to separate the eggs, male from female, before they develop, so this particular horror may soon be ended, at least on farms that have the technology.
That maybe so, but my point is it is possible to raise chickens for eggs without killing chickens, (just because males are typically unwanted, doesn’t mean their death is a requirement for producing egg laying hens), but it is not possible to catch fish for food without killing fish.
So, let’s suppose they didn’t kill the male chickens, what would they do with them instead? They could be released into the wild, where they would end up being killed by other animal predators. Which would likely be the case for all farmed animals raised in captivity, including pigs and cows. Either way they are going to be food for someone, just like the fish.
I do however fully support the elimination of all factory farms worldwide.
>I do however fully support the elimination of all factory farms worldwide.
I’m Ostrovegan now and don’t want to eat eggs but this is the most important thing in my opinion.
Big Bird, if you release a pig into the wild it becomes a heavily armed boar. It’s an amazing transformation.
I saw a farm in Spain where ‘retired’ chickens, after egg-laying is over, are let loose in the orchards, to eat bugs and fertilise the soil. I don’t know what happens when they die.
Cows spend almost all their life on grass. If you try to raise cows on corn, they die of metabolic disorder.
Retarded faggot, cows are mostly fed soybeans and vitamin supplements. 1% of cows are grass fed.
The point of vegetarianism (stop talking like veganism is the only choice beside omnivorousness) is that grey matter in the brain is not the highest concern.
Everybody gets old, everybody will have IQ declining days by days, no matter what you eat.
If you just analyze things from the point of materialism, then nothing more can be said. But the world and humans are more than that. We have a soul, or we are souls in a physical body.
+ The purity of the soul, associated with harmlessness, is more important than trying to keep grey matter a few years longer.
+ And there is INTUITION, which is the direct understanding of things without logical reasoning, can only be obtained with purity of the soul, not from grey matter.
The scope is too vast, those are just some food for thought.
And well, eating eggs, or some fish, is ok, as long as it keep you functioning well.
We have more things to do, and eating is not the highest concern in life, after all
Says who?
I eat a lot of meat but we only support grass fed/organic & regenerative farms, which is an option for some people. It’s not all factory farms.
When are you going to allow yourself to be open to the good farms that are healing soil and rejuvenating the land a la Alan Savory’s practices and permaculture?
Yeah, I’ve never had mackerel before, and never really was a huge fan of eating fish, but ever since I discovered salmon, it’s my favorite fish, it’s very meaty, not too fishy, tastes like a healthy seafood steak. I only have it a few times a month lately, twice a week at most, and recently tried wild salmon seasoned with sesame and ginger, best meal of my life. It’s really the only fish I enjoy, other than tuna, but because of the mercury contamination, I only have it once in awhile. I want to like sardines, but every time I’ve tried it, it’s just way too fishy and disgusting. But I’m going to try it again.
You can always mix them with something else if you don’t like the taste, like putting them in a salad, adding sour cream, pairing them with carrots, etc. I usually mix them with whatever vegetables I have left over from the weekly stew, and it makes for a nice cheap snack.
I know some people put them in soups / stews, too, though I’ve never tried that.
Also, Rintrah, as you start incorporating more seafood into your diet look into Japanese or Portuguese cuisine, I imagine there would be a lot of great meals that would fit a diet like that (fish + vegetables / grains). Even if you can’t afford or find premium / artisanal ingredients, it’s always possible to make your own variation. Cooking is a great personal and creative outlet.
Big Bird, I’ve heard that the threat of mercury in tuna is way overblown and it’s ok to eat it several times a week.
True- the micro-plastics neutralise the mercury.
Good for you.
Next you might want to try fishing.
While recognizing that total independence isn’t really possible, there are nevertheless few activities in life that promise as much when it comes to sustaining a lifestyle of personal freedom and self-sufficiency as fishing, plus the activity itself is good for the mind, body and soul.
A man could probably get by with not much more than a shack somewhere near the ocean, some clothes, some fishing gear, and some companions.
I feel bad for the little fishies with the barb in the roof of their mouths, and then seeing them flip around on land as they desperately gasp for air, like a..uh…fish out of water
But I will allow other people to do the dirty work for me because I’m a pussy.
And a man’s gotta eat, so
(J/k I’ve fished before. But I’m a softie and never really embraced it)
I’ve always liked fishing, ever since I was a boy. I liked having basic equipment like a hand reel and some bits and pieces and I liked learning about skills to survive.
I just always wanted to be free.
But it’s true, fish suffer when I catch them. I use a priest to make it quick.
Have you ever been knocked out? I have, a few times, and it really isn’t all that bad. Didn’t feel much, if anything, as I (don’t) recall.
A club is very humane really.
>Have you ever been knocked out?
Not by a punch. Just by a heavy hit of N2O
That sounds lame, but I used to be roomies with 2 boxers whom I introduced to nitrous and when we all played with the balloons they both told me the knockout feeling was the same.
I remember them deciding to face each other while on their knees, both taking a huge hit of nitrous, and as it kicked in, both of them starting to sway and swing according to their training. No one hit each other but they both briefly passed out. They loved it.
I remember doing nitrous and someone asking me what it felt like – I said it felt like a million brain cells dying 🙂
For me, getting knocked out felt different to that – although I’m sure the blows killed plenty of cells. The first time knocked me out cold with one blow – it also blew out my orbit. After that incident, I dropped from being in all the top classes to veggie math.
I’m not talking a gradual, buzzing, pleasant fade out here.
I’m talking flicking a switch.
But my experiences were all the result of ‘respectably’ heavy, but sub-catastrophic blows to the head. If any of them had been truly catastrophic, the lights would’ve just instantly gone out forever.
Canned sardines are cooked at high temperatures (more than 100°C under pressure) for a long time to soften the bones. I doubt there is any usable omega 3 left.
Unfortunately, there is very little research concerning omega 3 content of canned fish.
Adding ginger to fish that smell fishy, such as mackerel, saury, and sardines, when cooked will reduce the fishy smell a little.
Lemon juice does that job better
In Japan, when it is boiled, ginger is added. When it is grilled, it is often eaten with a squeeze of lemon.
You should stick to pescatarianism, you know that it’s healthier than pretty much any other diet and that what we do to farm animals is wrong.
Eating cheese makes you gay, so have fun with that you European la la homo boy.
Yeah I might stick to pescetarianism.
Lol, sure, those living in the Alps and Balkans were gay. Hm-hm.
>Lol, sure, those living in the Alps and Balkans were gay. Hm-hm.
Sausage eating brown eyed subhumans and the traditional rape victims of every Eurasian Empire that has existed. Very gay races both. A Englishman only needs beans and toast to conquer the world, peak utility and ultimate efficiency, very masculine.
>Eh?
Why do you think the Nords call effeminate weaklings “milk drinkers” in Skyrim?
https://www.rintrah.nl/soy-is-for-men-milk-is-for-calfs/
I’m shitposting with the racism and homophobia btw, I just took some other shrooms and was reminded of my low status white male roots the other day; and it’s fun to insult people. I become more of a Nazi when I’m high on shrooms apparently, which is funny because you’d think that’s not how they’re supposed to work.
> Why do you think the Nords call effeminate weaklings “milk drinkers” in Skyrim?
Ok, but I differentiate between milk vs cheese.
Milk is gross. Never liked it even from a young age
Cheese is Manna
> which is funny because you’d think that’s not how they’re supposed to work.
Then you got some bad information about shrooms (not unusual within the midwit psychedelic spaces)
Psychedelics are simply keys that open the doors to both Heaven and Hell and everything in between.
You might find God while feeling bliss.
Or you might literally shit the bed as horror embraces you
Or, you could become a Nazi or whatever else has been percolating within your subconscious
If you are really tripping and not just bullshitting me, listen to this
(The aliens are here for you)
https://youtu.be/f78WrdCi4Wk?si=QfkM0FyczvaxDVjq
The chemicals in the water makes the frogs gay.
>Eating cheese makes you gay,
Eh?
As an author of a paused anti-COVID vaccine blog, I became interested in the topic of family estrangement because unorthodox views are frequently paired with family discord.
I wanted to avoid such discord because I have diverse family members, ranging from MAGA to TDS. I love all of them. I would not want myself or anyone close to me estrange from anyone.
In my quest to understand the issue, I stumbled upon a subreddit /r/QAnonCasualties. The name is misleading, and it is mostly a subreddit for hardcore liberals to complain about loved ones who succumbed to MAGA ideology in general.
What is interesting is that many posters note similar (to yours) rapid change of mind, where a former flaming liberal mom or dad becomes a hat-wearing MAGA supporter.
The change is often quick, sudden and leaves people stumped.
Your own case is not exactly the same thing, but also represents a rapid change of mind. I wonder to what extent the antipsychotics influenced your outlook on things.
I am not offering any theories of anything, merely pointing out that people have the capacity for change, turn their minds around very rapidly, and almost without warning.
I paused posting on the blog for many reasons, now being shame for being loosely associated with insane antivaxxers, but also because I realized that my posts had negative influence on people I care about.
> I paused posting on the blog for many reasons, now being shame for being loosely associated with insane antivaxxers, but also because I realized that my posts had negative influence on people I care about.
Are you certain it wasn’t grifting or “audience capture?”
Not sure what you are referring to as “it”, but yes those were factors
Igor, I still check on your paused Substack regularly in hopes that you posted another brilliant essay.
Thank you. I definitely will one day post something. I am greatly embarrassed about some other substack posters, and that really puts the brakes on my desire to write something.
Concerning the family arguments and alienation thing: hasn’t this in the case of covid been almost exclusively a white Protestant-background thing? (I feel that I can say that since it is a good chunk of my background). I’ve seen the same thing in earlier generations (including in my family) concerning religious disagreements. It’s like they are looking for an excuse to be mad at relatives. It is true that the media and politicians made it worse, but I think some people will do this no matter what. I blame the Reformation, haha.
Your blog posts were reasoned and sane and helpful; you have nothing to be embarrassed about. That’s like tweeting and being embarrassed because somewhere out there, there is some idiot also tweeting.
I am not estranged from anyone, but I am subscribed to the estranged adult kids subreddit, and several Facebook estranged parents groups. The main reason for this was to NOT get estranged from anybody.
I learned a lot.
In my definitely NOT personal experience, most alienation between parents and children can be traced to poor parenting, abuse, neglect, broken promises, lack of love, etc. Most of it happens for non-ideological reasons.
Religion plays a role in some estrangements, because both adults and children would have a need to evangelize, judge etc. Even if the kids become atheists, they have hard times tolerating differing outlooks.
Usually, both parties to estrangement view themselves as innocent victims, perfect people etc and refuse to even attempt to introspect and “look in the mirror”.
Yes, I know that you aren’t estranged from anyone,, and that your reason for looking into this is to avoid estrangement. I read your post.
I doubt that the reddit sites that you are going to, can give you a sense of whether this is a white Protestant thing. From what I see, it is. I’m not saying that it is about religion; I’m saying that it is a particular subculture that revels in this generally. I don’t know any Catholics or Orthodox or Jews or black people or Hispanic people who engage in this reject-actual-relatives-due-to-not-vaxxing stupidity (I’m sure some exist, but I haven’t seen it). I do have relatives who engage in this sort of thing, and they have unto generations. It’s like they can’t get their religious dispute fix so they come up with a substitute.
‘Anti-vaxxers’ MUST be the dumbest epithet ever created. Which ‘vaxx’, for whom, in what quantities?
A soy boy populace is a controllable populace.
They want you weak.
Be careful with fish and omega 3, don’t overdo it. I went a bit overboard years ago eating Mackeral, Kippers and cod liver oil daily. I developed extreme anxiety quite quickly and needed about 50mg of Diazepam to calm me down.
I remember reading on a depression forum from years ago that I can’t even find now or probably doesn’t exist, some poster who took part in a clinical trial for depression and was told to eat wild salmon for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The guy developed psychosis and the doctor told him that omega 3 can cause psychosis as it’s very “brain activating.”
Rad, you mentioned in another post your mulling over the differences/similarities between autists and schizoids
I was recently listening to my boy Schizoid Angst
https://youtube.com/@schizoidangst?si=FKoyZxbLUYVa3DV9
He is of the opinion that there is more overlap between the two conditions than is conventionally understood.
He made a point I hadn’t seen before: that autists are “ground up” while Zoids are “top down”
I can’t remember the exact verbiage, something like autists are “micro-accumulators” who attempt to build a worldview of reality atom-by-atom, detail-by-detail, while Zoids are “macro-accumulators” who observe the machinations of their imaginations and use associational thinking to construct a model of reality before diving into any particular detail.
Seems legit, in my experience.
Here’s hoping our two tribes can find each other in the heart of the sunrise
https://youtu.be/T5XWOOOCg-U?si=3lwvj98aoELxK3Ej
I don’t normally like to bias anyone’s listening experience by sharing others’ impressions of impressionistic art, but this one hit me where I lived:
by Isabela96
11y
This was the first song I’ve ever listened from Yes (and from any prog rock band other than Pink Floyd). It happened at my friend’s place, four years ago. I was 14 at the time. I was visiting for the weekend and I was left alone in the house. I had nothing to do, so I was checking up the CD collection of my friend’s parents’, when I came across the intriguing art of Roger Dean cover for Classic Yes. I’ve never had any contact with Mr. Dean’s work either and I thought “wow, this guy painted something that is so alien and at the same time so real, it’s like a real place that could never exist”. And then I put the CD on to play. There are no words for what took place in my soul. One thing I can describe: I could not quite believe that the music I was hearing could be really happening. I had no idea music could sound that way. And while I wept, not only in joy, but from what felt like a maelstorm of light and gravity pulling strong inside my own self, something beyond anything I’ve ever felt to that day or since, I kept looking at the strange and familiar painting and I knew that what I was listening was the music that came from that same world. The song wasn’t meant to speak of things of our world, but about that other one. Both painting and song together fromed something like a small crack in reality from which I could peek into something vastly more wonderful. And I kept restarting the song every time it ended, for hours and hours, staring at the painting, devouring each detail of it, and listening to the every new little note I could discover in the song, as if each one was a another revelation of that wonderful alternate reality that I was trying to unveil, but could only catch glimpses. I did so until it was evening, without even realizing I could have pressed the repeat button.
I know I’m probably going to regret this tomorrow after I sober up, but for any OG OldHeads here who remember Roissy/Heartiste, I was Tupac Chopra.
How times change…
Blast from the past. Hard to believe it was so long ago. The Christ said that the end days would be shortened for the sake of the elect. Feels like that’s a club that struck me aside the head.
You are not the elect, you’re just a loser who wants vengeance on those around him.
And why are you hoping for the end of days anyway? Why don’t you make use of your time on this world? Don’t you know that sloth is one of the seven deadly sins?
How likely is it, I wonder, that our ancestors met much (perhaps even the majority) of their DHA needs from eating (mammal) brains, as opposed to oily fish? I mean, they surely wouldn’t have let the brains go to waste, and they do contain a lot of DHA (though, for some reason, not as much EPA.)
“Its the bone broth”
Alex Jones
When I hear the word schizophrenia, I remember Walter Benjamin’s experience with auras.
A Jungian psychoanalyst wrote the following in his book. I remember being very moved when I read it.
“The patient was rushed to the hospital after suddenly standing up in the classroom, screaming and flipping over a desk. The patient explained that he had been shocked to realize the true nature of the desk’s existence.”
Fractal figures are a whole made up of parts, but when you focus on a part, it creates a mysterious structure in which the whole opens up. I sometimes wonder if autism and schizophrenia are just different ways of looking at the same thing.
Wombat:
>For me, getting knocked out felt different to that – although I’m sure the blows killed plenty of cells. The first time knocked me out cold with one blow – it also blew out my orbit. After that incident, I dropped from being in all the top classes to veggie math. I’m not talking a gradual, buzzing, pleasant fade out here. I’m talking flicking a switch
You remind me of someone.
Do you regret this experience?
Do you ever wish things could have been otherwise?
If so, how do you imagine your life might have been different?
You seem pretty smart to me despite your alleged deficits.
If you were at “Full Power” what would you be doing differently?
> You remind me of someone.
Humans are deeply flawed and dangerous, so I’m sure my experiences with them are relatively common.
> Do you regret this experience?
Do people regret getting attacked by dangerous animals? The emotion seems misplaced to me. Sort of like regretting bad weather. It just happens. That said, I do wonder if ‘the weather’ I’ve experienced might not have been worse than it generally is for people in my parts.
As for the rest, I work with what I have, same as everyone else, and I don’t think being a little smarter would have really helped me. I know some smarter people, and they still seem like prisoners to me, just like the rest of us.
@Vlajdermen
>You are not the elect, you’re just a loser who wants vengeance on those around him. And why are you hoping for the end of days anyway? Why don’t you make use of your time on this world? Don’t you know that sloth is one of the seven deadly sins?
One of the more peculiar aspects of global internet connectivity is that while it allows formerly disparate individuals to form tribes/groups, the very nature of the medium disallows the communication of emotional tone, body language, etc.
https://twitter.com/the4thwayyt/status/1920544679545696270?s=46