Actually for me fasting was quick and easy. I lost most of the weight within weeks and months. Fasting is much more powerful than your comment would indicate.
Theres a rate of fasting thats harmful though. On the TV show Alone, people are out in the woods for a few weeks to months and they end up just sloughing off weight. One contestant lost 86 pounds in 67 days, you'd practically see it fall off you each day. They do have to get medical checkups because losing all this weight too fast can put a lot of strain on your organs. A few people have been forced to leave the show because of starvation.
They are opposites. You want to get bigger or maintain muscle mass and simultaneously you want to fast (get smaller) and lose mass. Fasting will definitely cause you to lose mass - some fat and/or muscle.
While working out or lifting will cause you to increase your need for calories and food intake. They are opposing forces. You cannot have it both ways.
Fasting = less mass less food intake.
Lifting/muscle mass = more food intake more mass
Fasting doesn't imply eating less (on a larger time scale). You can, for example, eat the same number of calories all at once or spread out over the day.
Magic Mushrooms can absolutely be DMT like and users can have full blown life like hallucinations of entities or landscapes. Most people simply dont do enough and have a light experience. DMT is simply less forgiving in this regard.
“They live in the African savannah, which is where humankind first evolved”
We have some evidence to suggest that early humans were there but it is a huge assumption and leap of faith to make a statement like this with certainty. This statement is more likely a religious statement than one a good scientist would make.
A good scientist would not make such a bold assumption without putting it in quotes or a star next to it. You cannot make this statement definitively.
Do you believe it is in fact established? Science discovers new ‘facts’ all the time. To say definitively that humans first evolved here in the context of a 4 billion year old planet seems irresponsible at best.
My understanding is that the known fossil record is extremely clear on this, and is additionally quite consistent to the extent where I'm unaware of any competing hypotheses that are taken seriously.
As far as science goes, it seems to be as established as it gets. Again, unless you've got convincing evidence to the contrary. Really not sure what your agenda is here?
Plenty of competing theories on the origins of humanity on a 4 billion year old planet some in which the origins of life came from elsewhere in the universe.
I think this may be the most recent evidence that modern science has discovered.
Perhaps you mean to say we wont dig up any fossils that say otherwise and that the case is closed?
As if the entirety of the fossil record on earth has been exhausted and we have nothing more to discover.
My agenda is to make sure we are being good scientists and not religious about our findings.
AWS console is one of the most poorly developed builder tools Ive ever encountered for a company like Amazon, from a UX perspective at least.
I may like some of the services like s3 but will never rely on AWS for anything more that that. Logging into the aws console makes my blood pressure go up.
Polio, Monkey Pox, Covid variant x, environmental concerns, inflation. The office isn't coming back unless we fall into some dystopia where they force people back in.
People had a taste of life WFH during the pandemic. Overwhelmingly they loved working from home even though there were a minority who wanted a return to the office.
The hybrid model or remote work will be the only real possibilities going forward. Top talent does matter and is the edge that companies like Apple and Google use to stay competitive. They need that talent more that talent needs them. Plain and simple.
I don't really think these are reasons to work remotely, at this point. Until we eradicate disease, we have and will continue to operate in a world with small but not-insignificant risk of disease transmission.
Lower pollution. At this point it's almost criminal to force people to go to the office. Companies should be required to apply and get approval from the government on a case by case basis and explain why that employee needs to commute to the office and add pollution to the air we share.
> Companies should be required to apply and get approval...
Are you sure your perspective isn't too biased towards professionals working in tech and business service industries? Your proposal is logically consistent with lowering emissions and changing the culture of the way we work, but it rests on a few assumptions that have not yet been demonstrated, namely the effectiveness of remote work. I worry you're underestimating the impact (stifling) that this will have on the flexibility and growth of businesses across many industries.
I also see this as a major loss of individual freedom. You can argue that this loss of freedom is worth the cost, but I don't think you can say that this criticism is invalid.
A meditator is a someone. That someone is a product of duality.
The wounds are part of the body and personality. They are not you.
To come out of the duality we can leave the meditation open. It doesnt have to take any particular form and it should have no goal in mind. Objectless. It is this sense of beingness or presence that is a true meditation. It is the sense of existence which is the background of every other thing itself not perceivable to the senses. It remains constant throughout while everything else fades.
