AnimalsDream
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- Comment on IT'S TIME! 3 days ago:
Have you ever looked into the details of their shelters?
- Comment on IT'S TIME! 4 days ago:
If I could photosynthesize and fix my own atmospheric nitrogen, I happily would.
- Comment on IT'S TIME! 4 days ago:
They do, in their own way.
- Comment on Not impressed 1 week ago:
True, English is kind of a monstrosity that blends in words from pretty much anywhere with no consistency to hold it all together.
But this word does have a classical root, and many scientific terms at least try to use a semblance of Latin and Greek structure in them (although they are very loose with the rules as well).
- Comment on Not impressed 1 week ago:
A lot of words in English are based on similar patterns, with roots in Latin or Greek. “Animal” isn’t a compound example like 动物, but it does have a root in the Latin “anima”, which has more of a spiritual basis.
The English word “animal” derives from the Latin word animale, a neuter form of the adjective animalis. The ultimate root of the word is the Latin noun anima, meaning “breath,” “soul,” or “vital principle”.
The etymology traces the concept of an “animal” back to the essential quality of having life, specifically the presence of breath or a soul that distinguishes a living being from an inanimate object.
Arguably also a little bit outdated, considering the discovery of phosphorous in pee and how it proved there was nothing fundamentally different about matter in living beings vs matter in inanimate objects.
Effectively both have more or less the same meaning, considering ‘anima’ is the same root for animate.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
I could waste my time assembling links to articles about the rise of fundamentalism in the US, the infiltration of law enforcement by white supremacist groups, and the roots and connections between white supremacy and christianity; but given your determination to deny, and that you’re already misrepresenting my own words, I am not going to bother.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
Not really sure what you’re trying to get at. My rendition makes no claim to any kind of authority, nor do I have any interest in the exegetical model of conventional christians in our age, nor am I a christian for that matter. As far as I’m concerned, they are all just worshiping Tom Riddle in their bibliolatry.
I only posted my remixed version to highlight how the general pattern of what Jesus/Yeshua said about Pharisees fits a description of modern fundamentalists quite well. Here is a version of the same chapter from a well respected translation.
And a side-note about Bible translation - that area of study is actually very sophisticated, and modern translations are remarkably accurate within the limits of source materials we have to work with.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
Just for fun I decided to make my own modifications of Matthew 23. The changes are actually pretty extensive because I took liberties on a variety of parts that annoyed me, as well as trying to make it at least somewhat more relevant for our time.
Then Yeshua spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, Saying, “The Bible translation committees and the Fundamentalists have seated themselves upon the seat of Moses. Therefore, all the things they might tell you, whatever they are, do and observe, but do not act in accord with their deeds; for they speak and do not do. And they tie up heavy loads and place them on people’s shoulders, but they are not willing to apply a finger of their own to move them. And they perform all their deeds so as to be seen by men; for they widen the ash crosses on their foreheads and wear the most luxurious suits in the churches, And they cherish the chief couch at meals and the front seats in the churches, And the deferential greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called Pastor by all. But do not let yourselves be called Pastor; for there is one who is your teacher, and you are all siblings.
And do not call someone on earth ‘Father,’ for there is one who is your heavenly Father. Neither let yourself be called instructors, because your one instructor is the Anointed. And the greater among you shall live in service to others. And whoever will exalt themself will be humbled, and whoever will humble themself will be exalted. But alas for you, translators and Fundamentalists, charlatans, because you shut the Kingdom of the heavens in people’s faces; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those going in to enter. [Alas for you, translators and Fundamentalists, charlatans, because you devour the homes of those in poverty and declaim at great length when praying, for which you shall receive condemnation in greater abundance.]
Alas for you, translators and Fundamentalists, charlatans, because you travel all about the sea and the dry land to make one missionary, and when it is done you make him twice as much a son of Hell as you yourselves. Alas for you blind guides who say, ‘Whoever swears by the community, it means nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of Capitalism, he is under obligation.’ Fools and blind men! For what is greater, the gold of Capitalism or the community that makes the gold holy? And: ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it means nothing; but whoever swears by the offering upon it, he is under obligation.’ Blind men! For what is greater, the offering or the altar that makes the offering holy? Hence the one who swears by the altar swears by it and by all the things upon it; And the one who swears by their community swears by the sanctuary and by they who dwell in it. And the one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by them who sit upon it.
Alas for you, translators and Fundamentalists, charlatans, because you tithe a tenth of the mint and the dill and the cumin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law, the love and the mercy and the faith; yet these things you ought to have done, while also not neglecting those others. Blind guides, who strain out the gnat but drink down the camel.
Alas for you, translators and Fundamentalists, charlatans, because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are filled up with plunder and dissoluteness. Blind Fundamentalist, first clean the inside of the cup, so that its outside may also be clean. Alas for you, translators and fundamentalists, charlatans, because you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly indeed appear lovely, but within are filled with the bones of the dead and with all uncleanliness. Thus you also outwardly indeed appear upright, but within you are full of dissimulation and lawlessness.
Alas for you, translators and Fundamentalists, charlatans, because you build the tombs of the liberators and adorn the monuments of the upright, And say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we should not have had a part with them in the blood of the liberators.’ Thus you bear witness regarding yourselves that you are the sons of the liberators’ murderers. And you—you fully measure up to your fathers.
Serpents, brood of vipers, how may you escape the verdict of Hell? So look: I send liberators and wise people and scribes to you; some of them you will kill and shoot, and some of them you will beat in public, detain and deport and drive from city to city; Thus accrues to you all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the upright up to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
Amen, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. Bible Belt, Bible Belt, you who kill the liberators and stone those who have been sent to you, how often I have wished to gather your children, the way a bird gathers chicks under her wings, and you did not wish it. See: For you, your house is abandoned [to desolation]. For I tell you, henceforth you most assuredly will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed are they who come in the spirit of the Lord.’”
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
Dude, I dated a fundamentalist once. This enraged her parents, who immediately forced her to quit her current job where we met, then they shipped her off to a church camp - by which point all forms of contact were supposed to already be cut off from me - then she was herded into joining a Bible college halfway across the country, where she also ended up literally working at a Chick-Fil-A to pay for that schooling before meeting and then soon marrying a guy who was a part of their system.
Yes, technically these businesses are open to the public. But that doesn’t stop them from being led by christian nationalists, having biases in favor of others like themselves, creating environments more amenable to their own kind, and playing side-rolls in supporting the relative isolation of these networks.
The thing you’re underestimating is how widespread and pervasive these groups are. Why do you think law enforcement organizations so readily support Trump and his policies? It’s because these groups outright worship power and authority, and part of their grooming is to train every generation to actively seek out every position of power they can - including military and police.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
Or fundamentalists. Contrary to popular belief, the problem with the worst christians is not that they don’t read the Bible enough, they read it too much. The Bible is full of self-contradictions, so for any interpretive framework to be at least self-coherent, the interpreter has to “add to the Word of God”.
In the case of fundamentalism, they’re organized much like cults. Highly isolated social structures, all aimed at insulating their children from outside perspectives, so they can groom them more effectively for the next generation of authoritarianism. The Bible is central to this process because it’s the nucleus of their authority over each other, and they regard it as actual law that even takes precedence over societal laws.
This is also why companies like Chick-fil-A and Hobby Lobby exist. They allow these youths to have jobs and be participants in the economy while playing a role in reinforcing these isolated social structures.
If anything, you can read Matthew chapter 23, replacing “Pharisee” with “fundamentalist”, and it turns out to be a perfect description.
- Comment on A hypothesis 3 weeks ago:
In a previous relationship I gave my partner a small tour of the terminal application preinstalled in her Macbook. She had no idea it was even a thing in her computer. The list of commands used was ls, cd, and on a whim I was surprized to find Emacs was preinstalled as well. Her parents saw literally everything I did and still told her I hacked her computer. 🙄
- Comment on A hypothesis 3 weeks ago:
First computer in my family’s home was a shitty Macintosh Performa, pretty sure it was running 7.x. Probably the biggest impact that had was growing up a Marathon child, rather than a Doom one. Hexen on the N64, but otherwise didn’t play Doom til later teen years.
But I also had extensive time on grand parent’s Windows 98 machine. Monkey Island series, The Sims, Final Fantasy VII, bunch of other games.
I’ve had elementary and middle school classes on both Macs and Windows machines, but didn’t gain any real typing skills until I used a Web TV device to access my first MSN chatrooms. Gained more typing speed in one day in chat than an entire quarter of typing classes.
First distro was Ubuntu 10.04. Had an interest in web design at the time, and had spent most of the years prior on a Windows XP desktop, then a Windows 7 one. Was more of an Unreal Tournament kid, again didn’t try Quake 3 Arena until my twenties but I do prefer the latter now.
Every version of Windows after 7 feels weird and unfamiliar to me. I feel like I have to shower on the rare occasions when I do use a W10 telemetry machine. Have never had enough time to become familiar with any version of OS X, and iOS is so unfamiliar to me that I end up ragequitting those devices within minutes of trying to use them.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 3 weeks ago:
You would probably be interested in occult philosophy. Some groups are more organized than others, but they tend more to organize around orthopraxy (same practices/rituals) rather than orthodoxy (same beliefs) which is more typical of conventional religions. This way they can encourage more free exploration, debate, and creativity.
Most of these belief systems are predicated on concepts of reality being made of layers of “planes” with higher beings existing more predominantly on higher planes, and it being a goal to aspire toward those higher planes.
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 4 weeks ago:
since everyone else is already rightly pointing out the improved quality of life, I’ll emphasize that this includes mental health. When people with poor lifestyle habits quip, “I’m here for a good time, not a long time,” do you think the rest of us hear anything other than a veiled cry for help? You’re obviously not having a good time.
Healthy lifestyle habits are the best of both worlds. They feel better, allow you to have more joy, and give you more time to experience more of it, while aging and eventually dying far more gracefully.
- Comment on Banana 4 weeks ago:
Dude, “orthorexia” was a thing that was baselessly made up. It doesn’t exist.
It’s not hard to just leave bananas out of recipes, at least for me, it doesn’t feel like a loss in the first place. Just more room for better things.
Spinach is fine, the oxalates bind the spinach’s own nutrients. The only issue there is a higher risk of kidney stones, which is easily avoided by eating a balanced variety of mixed greens regularly instead of any single one.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 4 weeks ago:
And which part was untruthful?
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 4 weeks ago:
It’s weird how quick they tend to accuse vegans and vegetarians of bias, when the former positions objectively have so much evidence and benefits in their favor, and require overcoming generations of traditions and overwhelming societal pressure.
One of those accusations are an admission things I guess.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 4 weeks ago:
Huh, I thought it was common knowledge given the news headlines about it a few years ago. The World Health Organization considers it a Group 1 carcinogen.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 4 weeks ago:
Given how strong the link is between cured meats and cancer and how that is quite public knowledge now days, I interpret this as Hamburger Helper telling me to get cancer. “You don’t actually want to live long enough to enjoy retirement, right?”
- Comment on Banana 4 weeks ago:
How dare you accuse me of being a weirdo keto person, I am most definitely not one of them. 😑
The effect is caused by an enzyme in bananas that are part of it’s natural immune response. It breaks down polyphenols.
- Comment on Banana 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think you understand. By adding the banana, you are canceling out the benefits of all of those other things.
- Comment on Banana 4 weeks ago:
Bananas are way overrated. Not nearly as much potassium as potatoes. As far as fruits go, they are lower fiber, high sugar (aka the not good kind of carbs).
And you know how they turn brown quickly after being exposed to air? That process virtually eliminates the absorption of any sources of antioxidants that it might be mixed with. Like adding bananas to your smoothies? If you were hoping for health benefits, you just wasted your money.
- Comment on Discuss 5 weeks ago:
Chocolate bars are just slabs of fat with some drugs in em.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 1 month ago:
Rocky mt spotted fever generally comes from ticks, right? You’re lucky to be alive. Uhh, I don’t know how to tell you this, but I don’t know what I’m even getting from your comments other than them sounding like a lowkey cry for help. 🫣
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 1 month ago:
Anecdotes are not evidence. Even from your own description it’s untenable to pin down what your diet even is, other than, “whatever you feel like eating.” In that sense it’s virtually indistinguishable from the standard American diet itself. Here is an actual nutritional expert on keto:
Should you try the keto diet?
It’s advertised as a weight-loss wonder, but this eating plan is actually a medical diet that comes with serious risks.
A ketogenic diet has numerous risks. Top of the list: it’s high in saturated fat. McManus recommends that you keep saturated fats to no more than 7% of your daily calories because of the link to heart disease. And indeed, the keto diet is associated with an increase in “bad” LDL cholesterol, which is also linked to heart disease.
Other potential keto risks include these:
Nutrient deficiency. “If you’re not eating a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, and grains, you may be at risk for deficiencies in micronutrients, including selenium, magnesium, phosphorus, and vitamins B and C,” McManus says.
Liver problems. With so much fat to metabolize, the diet could make any existing liver conditions worse.
Kidney problems. The kidneys help metabolize protein, and McManus says the keto diet may overload them. (The current recommended intake for protein averages 46 grams per day for women, and 56 grams for men).
Constipation. The keto diet is low in fibrous foods like grains and legumes.
Fuzzy thinking and mood swings. The brain works best when the energy source is sugar from healthy carbohydrates to function. Low-carb diets may cause confusion and irritability.
Those risks add up — so make sure that you talk to a doctor and a registered dietitian before ever attempting a ketogenic diet.
Or better yet, just don’t do it. It’s a dumb fad diet that needs to die.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 1 month ago:
the presence or absence of carbs has a huge effect on whether or not fat and salt will make you diabetic or fat.
Prove it, show sources.
keto works for that reason, and also for the satiation factor; fat is the most satiating macronutrient
I don’t think feeling sick is the same thing as satiety. And again, please prove that “fat is the most satiating.” I want to see the science.
… and some of that requires more management on keto …
At least you admit that people quite often experience deficiencies on keto, saves me the trouble of breaking out the studies. And yeah, regardless of which diet, the more fiber the better.
your link about keto just links to… this post
It linked to one of my earlier comments because I didn’t feel like saying all the same stuff over again.
unfortunately, it would be difficult for me, personally, to follow an entirely plant based diet, partly based on satiety and partly because i’m allergic to soy.
Yeah soy is a pretty common allergy, and a lot of plant-based proteins are based on it. There are challenges there, but also a myriad of other plant-based protein sources. Getting used to plant-based diets is hard for nearly everyone at first, but it gets easier with practice and frankly starts to feel liberating in a lot of ways when adjusted to. Learning how to make seitan, for instance, opens up a lot of options. And regarding plant carb difficulties, I would suggest studying the Mastering Diabetes program which I linked to in that other comment. The single most important thing for diabetes treatment is weight loss and maintaining a healthy bodyweight. This is why virtually every diet tribe can make claims that their diet “cures” diabetes (type 2 that is), and it’s because virtually any diet can result in weight loss for at least some people.
satiety is a very important subject when it comes to food health, which we’ve discovered with recent studies and the advent of GLP-1s, and you don’t mention it at all in your post
Not true, I talked about satiety in my other comment that I linked to. Whole-food plant-based diets are very satiating, and as I also said in that comment, vegans are consistently shown to have the lowest bodyweights of any dietary groups.
My comment about being a pharmacy tech was never intended to lend any credibility to my claims, it was just a personal anecdote to further highlight the insidious nature of our toxic food environment.
At any rate, here is another video from that “condescending and sarcastic guy.” It’s about naturally boosting glp-1 through diet. I would suggest not even watching it, and instead looking closely at all the scientific studies he cited.
And again to drive the point home, you cannot call a diet that increases all-cause mortality healthy.
“Interpretation: Both high and low percentages of carbohydrate diets were associated with increased mortality, with minimal risk observed at 50-55% carbohydrate intake. Low carbohydrate dietary patterns favouring animal-derived protein and fat sources, from sources such as lamb, beef, pork, and chicken, were associated with higher mortality, whereas those that favoured plant-derived protein and fat intake, from sources such as vegetables, nuts, peanut butter, and whole-grain breads, were associated with lower mortality, suggesting that the source of food notably modifies the association between carbohydrate intake and mortality.”
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 1 month ago:
My role as a pharmacy tech had nothing to do with the validity of any statements regarding nutrition, nor were they meant to. It was simply an anecdote to emphasize the insidious nature of our toxic food environment. Also, while credentials matter, that’s also a genetic fallacy. The strength of a claim rests solely on the evidence to back it up.
I can’t speak for protein, but sugars, fats, and salts have all been shown to be addicting. It’s not just sugar. Also, that grape has fiber and phytonutrients, that’s actually a good source of carbs. Literally just a few nights ago I was snacking on grapes and then stopped long before I finished the bag - because I felt full.
My opinions are mostly inline with the scientific consensus, which holds the overall Mediterranean dietary pattern as the gold standard of health and longevity - of which whole-food plant-based diets are usually inline with. Can you show any valid authority on nutrition who uses keto as the basis of their dietary guidelines?
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 1 month ago:
It would be a lot more accurate if you edited your comment so that every instance of “carbs” was replaced with “calories”. Cave-people had no way of knowing what any of the nutrients were in the foods they ate. Their enemy was starvation. Ours is the opposite, and all sources of calories contribute to weight gain. Sugars, fats, and salt are considered the three main villains in highly processed food addiction, not sugar alone. What you’re describing is known as the toxic food environment.
I worked as a pharmacy tech for a while, in a grocery store. My pharmacist had informed me that pharmacies, at least the ones in grocery stores, generally operate at a loss. So why keep them? I don’t know if there are any tax benefits of kickbacks, but what is known is that the regulars at the pharmacy were spending twice as much on groceries as everyone else. What were the lion’s share of medications in the pharmacy? Various heart disease and high blood pressure meds, stuff for diabetes, and various forms of ozempic-type meds. There were other things too of course, but you can see this pretty clear picture of, as before, a toxic food environment gently manipulating everyone into eating all the hyper-palatable foods that are making them sick, and then needing to get prescriptions for medications in the pharmacy at the same store where they are buying all of the things that are poisoning them into needing those meds in the first place. It’s pretty disgusting right?
But again, it’s not just carbs. If you look at the various sugar diets - those will actually cause rapid weight loss. They’re terrible diets, don’t do them, but they will result in probably even more short-term weight loss than keto. Neither are sustainable, see my comment here for more on keto. In short, keto is absolutely garbage and should be avoided.
I do not eat whatever I want, nor am I young. When I was 30, one of my family members had died of a heart attack at the age of 46. I was already working on shifting to a more vegan lifestyle after seeing one of those documentaries that showed what factory farms are like, but seeing a loved one die at such a young age and such a close age to where I was at the time added urgency in learning more about the nutritional side of things, which is what led to my following a generally whole-food plant-based diet. Easily one of the best decisions I have ever made in my entire life.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 1 month ago:
That’s a pretty absurd amount of bagel to eat. XD
Here is a really good program for treatment of both type 1 and 2 diabetes. If you follow it you might actually be able to eat a whole bagel.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 1 month ago:
Yeah those are pretty useful common sense approaches.