Monday, September 10, 2012
No God, just good orderly direction
Comment to Jess in my mind:
Your search is just beginning in the right direction. Many more concepts yet to come. Your title from a few days ago really applies ("Oh, The Places You’ll Go!"). Note that religions are not logical and many do not even understand there own history.
Places you will go Burning Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ahv_1IS7SiE
Sorry, but I may get preachy.
Religion had purpose when the average life span was short. It was a quick way of teaching right from wrong, to get the young started out right, when the elders knew they were not likely to be around long. All that has changed. Now we need to understand the cause, the why, and much more. Our world has changed so dramatically. When I left high school, the job I have done for the last 30 years did not exist in this area. Now it is essentially being replaced by the computer programs.
Fueling our brains is critical. We humans are a two fuel organism, glucose from carbohydrates or keytones from fat. We can make the little bit of glucose we need from proteins. My brain on keytones works so much better, clear, and no cravings. The compulsion is still there, but the cravings are gone. For a frequent dose of food education, I suggest Jimmy Moore's contacts http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/ although some of them are questionable, there is a lot of information mixed in. Volek and Phinney are worth a listen. So is Tarman. http://www.marksdailyapple.com is also good information but foodie. So much good information and so much crap about food on the net. Ketonic diet is the key for me.
On the spiritual side, I read Buddhism, for a while and mediated in several different styles for a bit. Micheal Browns, the presence process clarified all that. It is process. Eckhart Tolle, Now, and clarified much of my current beliefs, which I expect to keep changing.
The world remains 3/4 nuts, and the dysfunctional remain dysfunctional. Government looks out for government, and the economy, big business, and the medical community, not the people. We are on our own, to find our own way any way we can. Government is losing control now, thanks to the internet. The information gatekeepers are being bypassed. We are on the leading edge of the next revolution where people are free to think, write and explore new ideas, but we still need to make a living.
Tolle, in one of his youtube things, states that he thinks the there is a new level of evolution coming, a new awareness. I thing it has always been here, but only with time and awareness, and the willingness to explore spirituality-concepts-ideas-philosophy-personality, the non real world, but the mind drives the real world, so this is the part that drives the real world, drive us.
I think studying and writing about these spiritual concepts, at a human level, is a wonderful pursuit. Too many of the current authors start "down the rabbit hole" and get lost in their accumulation of knowledge, to be effective for those just starting the search. "Ah, but the things we will see", so glorious and grotesque, the wonders and frights, real and surreal, imaginary and physical. I digress.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahv_1IS7SiE
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Sin and Butter
The concept of sin is a religious concept, in my mind, part of that "comes with" stuff of our culture. It is really a emotionally loaded "handle" for being wrong, but this is my first time through life, so I need to do wrongs, and be able to see the effect, to know it is wrong. Being told it is wrong is just not the same, and if it is minor transgression, is it still wrong in this case. So I just consider sin a religious concept, not a valued one but an outdated one.
Buddha had a better idea, if you find it to be wrong on reflection, deist, and do right, and live up to that new principal, or something like that.
Butter is not pure fat, it contain casein, a protein, that is highly insulinogentic, hence drives fat storage. High insulin is a major issues as insulin is the primary storage hormone, as in Volek's xy=c curve, x being fat release rate, y the blood insulin concentration.
The physiological part of this disease is real and chemical, biological, but not well accepted nor understood by many. The psychological part, the cravings, the compulsion, the cause of the desire to eat, not so much. We try to describe it as addiction, but that is chemical. We try to overcome it with Schwarts/ or OA, but that too is less than perfect. The best is that we keep trying to overcome it, persistence.
Buddha had a better idea, if you find it to be wrong on reflection, deist, and do right, and live up to that new principal, or something like that.
Butter is not pure fat, it contain casein, a protein, that is highly insulinogentic, hence drives fat storage. High insulin is a major issues as insulin is the primary storage hormone, as in Volek's xy=c curve, x being fat release rate, y the blood insulin concentration.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Society's Horseshit
http://innerpilgrimage.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/a-gentler-path/ got me thinking about stating in this blog what I really believe and feel.
In my case, I do not care what others believe; they can believe what ever crap they want. I do resent the time I wasted trying to understand their irrational beliefs and well as irrational english grammar. I resent being lead astray by organised religion, the do as I say, not do as I do, and by the media with there overstatements, and sensationalizing. Their credibility is zero now, in my mind. I resent the media and the advertising, especially food advertising.
The world is a power outside of me that will mow me down, and kill me off. Reality, fact, evolution of concepts, and the persistence of natural urges, I do believe. I have a natural compulsive urge to eat. I did not ask for it, I do not want it, but I have it. Now I have to learn to live with it. The choice is to eat and die of obesity, as I have seen many die, or to follow a program of food restriction. Those are the choices. A LCHF diet helps, but the urge to eat is still there. There is no escape that I have yet found.
Powerlessness is evident, faith in the schwartz and OA; Accepting reality, life contains sufferering, and that the suffering is caused by my desire to be free of the compulsive urge to eat, desire, delusion that I should be free of the urge, and aversion to the compulsive urge. There is much to distract (refocus) if I look at self improvement imposed through the OA steps or Buddha,s eight. But the compulsion remains.
The only relief comes through redirection of the compulsive urge to something less damaging, that I also enjoy.
I find it annoying that western society in general and western medicine denies the existence of compulsive urges to eat. And yet there it is.
In my case, I do not care what others believe; they can believe what ever crap they want. I do resent the time I wasted trying to understand their irrational beliefs and well as irrational english grammar. I resent being lead astray by organised religion, the do as I say, not do as I do, and by the media with there overstatements, and sensationalizing. Their credibility is zero now, in my mind. I resent the media and the advertising, especially food advertising.
The world is a power outside of me that will mow me down, and kill me off. Reality, fact, evolution of concepts, and the persistence of natural urges, I do believe. I have a natural compulsive urge to eat. I did not ask for it, I do not want it, but I have it. Now I have to learn to live with it. The choice is to eat and die of obesity, as I have seen many die, or to follow a program of food restriction. Those are the choices. A LCHF diet helps, but the urge to eat is still there. There is no escape that I have yet found.
Powerlessness is evident, faith in the schwartz and OA; Accepting reality, life contains sufferering, and that the suffering is caused by my desire to be free of the compulsive urge to eat, desire, delusion that I should be free of the urge, and aversion to the compulsive urge. There is much to distract (refocus) if I look at self improvement imposed through the OA steps or Buddha,s eight. But the compulsion remains.
The only relief comes through redirection of the compulsive urge to something less damaging, that I also enjoy.
I find it annoying that western society in general and western medicine denies the existence of compulsive urges to eat. And yet there it is.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Jess.. making me think
..."just that an overarching desire to not be faced with the vast void of “I Don’t Know” is daunting to the average human mind."
Not knowing is our natural state. This is my first time through life, so it is all new to me. Once I learned to accept that I don't know anything, I can make some guess on what "might happen" based on history. That is all we have.
Mental evolution, evolution of thoughts,concepts, ideas is an important concept that I need to get my mind around, along with being able to live with and in the unknown, and unknown-able. The world coming at me on a daily basis is a power greater than I.To those forces, I must bend, or be broken. I cannot force the world or my body to conform to my desires, wants, or will. I need to accept it will do what it wants. All I can do is to keep junk out of my body's reach, and give it only what it needs. The world is a power greater than I, as is organic chemistry, or hormone chemistry, or chemical addiction, or compulsive urges.
Each generation must learn the same lessons
http://innerpilgrimage.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/oh-the-places-youll-go/ and other things got me thinking, each generation must learn the same lessons, if nothing changes. If something changes, it is a new lesson, or a slightly different lesson.
We geotechnical engineers are now seeing the long term effects changes in the building code from 1995 changes, but I digress. These are the same lessons from the 1962 building code, that stopped being a problem after changes were made. It make the problem clear though, we change, and something else comes up, and forces more change. Life is constant change, and we need to recognise and adapt to the new changes.
We geotechnical engineers are now seeing the long term effects changes in the building code from 1995 changes, but I digress. These are the same lessons from the 1962 building code, that stopped being a problem after changes were made. It make the problem clear though, we change, and something else comes up, and forces more change. Life is constant change, and we need to recognise and adapt to the new changes.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Wrong vs Right thinking
Perhaps it is step 3 that splits the chaff from the grain, just as the fan does, after the grain and chaff are split off by the straw walkers. Those who know will understand.
Made a decision to provide ourselves with other viable choices of activities, rather than eating, may one of the keys. This is the decision to refocus, in the Schwartz, that provides the answer. Look, there goes a gray feral cat! Just a touch of ADD. Oh well, life continues.
The program gives us other things to focus on, calling others, writing, reading literature, and those other tools. But is it something that we can maintain, year after year, one day at a time, or does it just become a boring grind, just as school and university became. Head down, nose to the wheel, just do it, for today. George Buxton got me through NAIT with "just for today" philosophy, because it works, short term, to get through those tough spots. After all, AA built a whole organization on that idea. But for long term life, it does not do so well. There must be enjoyment, else, soon, it will be to much.
Few can live with continual hunger, so we must find a food program that deals with our hunger. Likewise, we need to find a way of thinking that diverts that compulsion urge, from food to something else, hopefully beneficial, at least not detrimental. There is a fellow who has set out to do 15 million steps, but without a end date. With 10,000 per day as recommended by the Alberta Gouverment (spelling intended), it would take less than 5 years. A book also, I think. I suggest a title..."What I learned 15 million steps", (about food), joint the 200000 other "diet" books, and 200000 self improvement books in a time when the young are reading less, and great choices...
There is a need for practical basic information, solutions to the daily questions that we face in life, in a practical cook-book style, with explanation of why they work, and what the parts do, but that is for another day.
Made a decision to provide ourselves with other viable choices of activities, rather than eating, may one of the keys. This is the decision to refocus, in the Schwartz, that provides the answer. Look, there goes a gray feral cat! Just a touch of ADD. Oh well, life continues.
The program gives us other things to focus on, calling others, writing, reading literature, and those other tools. But is it something that we can maintain, year after year, one day at a time, or does it just become a boring grind, just as school and university became. Head down, nose to the wheel, just do it, for today. George Buxton got me through NAIT with "just for today" philosophy, because it works, short term, to get through those tough spots. After all, AA built a whole organization on that idea. But for long term life, it does not do so well. There must be enjoyment, else, soon, it will be to much.
Few can live with continual hunger, so we must find a food program that deals with our hunger. Likewise, we need to find a way of thinking that diverts that compulsion urge, from food to something else, hopefully beneficial, at least not detrimental. There is a fellow who has set out to do 15 million steps, but without a end date. With 10,000 per day as recommended by the Alberta Gouverment (spelling intended), it would take less than 5 years. A book also, I think. I suggest a title..."What I learned 15 million steps", (about food), joint the 200000 other "diet" books, and 200000 self improvement books in a time when the young are reading less, and great choices...
There is a need for practical basic information, solutions to the daily questions that we face in life, in a practical cook-book style, with explanation of why they work, and what the parts do, but that is for another day.
Monday, August 27, 2012
email backlash
I wish to thank the individual who emailed me about taking the OA in vain and not staying strictly within the OA traditions of "OA and AA approved", and remind you all that OA is stuck, unable to grasp or change, that technology, social sciences, and our understanding of the human mind has expanded in the last 50 since OA was formed. Evolution of concepts is real, and happening.
I am just trying to get myself out in front of the curve, and help myself, any way I can. Hidden in all the information out there, the answer may be just laying there. Someone need to pick up and try all those solutions until we find the ones that work, even those that have placebo size effects. All we need to do is remove the cause of overeating, and the problem should go away.
The OA organization is stuck in a meme that sort of functions, but not well for most. Look at the turn over rate. Not many successes long term. Thinking must evolve or it stagnates and dies. If there is a simpler method of obtaining the same effect, I will take the simple method every time.
OA provides a social network of weight challenged people, all looking for a solution. Some are just not hanging around OA long enough to figure out if it works or not. There are at least 25 causes of overeating... which ones are your issues? remove the cause, and the problem becomes small.
Many of us have more than one issue. I suffered from mineral and vitamin insufficiency, sugar addiction, wheat addiction, grain and dense carbohydrate intolerance, and compulsive urges. There may be more as well. Fructose, corn and nuts are big issues for some.
Some of us will not accept reliance on a god, for gods are just concepts. Belief in a god must do something in the mind however, since the belief seems to fix so many people. I want to uncover that "what it does in the mind", and pass that on. Until then, I guess I will hand around OA, or AAA, or AAA + or FA, until AOA + get up and running here.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it or drink the kool-aid. The choice is yours.
I am just trying to get myself out in front of the curve, and help myself, any way I can. Hidden in all the information out there, the answer may be just laying there. Someone need to pick up and try all those solutions until we find the ones that work, even those that have placebo size effects. All we need to do is remove the cause of overeating, and the problem should go away.
The OA organization is stuck in a meme that sort of functions, but not well for most. Look at the turn over rate. Not many successes long term. Thinking must evolve or it stagnates and dies. If there is a simpler method of obtaining the same effect, I will take the simple method every time.
OA provides a social network of weight challenged people, all looking for a solution. Some are just not hanging around OA long enough to figure out if it works or not. There are at least 25 causes of overeating... which ones are your issues? remove the cause, and the problem becomes small.
Many of us have more than one issue. I suffered from mineral and vitamin insufficiency, sugar addiction, wheat addiction, grain and dense carbohydrate intolerance, and compulsive urges. There may be more as well. Fructose, corn and nuts are big issues for some.
Some of us will not accept reliance on a god, for gods are just concepts. Belief in a god must do something in the mind however, since the belief seems to fix so many people. I want to uncover that "what it does in the mind", and pass that on. Until then, I guess I will hand around OA, or AAA, or AAA + or FA, until AOA + get up and running here.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it or drink the kool-aid. The choice is yours.
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