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Mental vs Physical Health
By: rp Date: March 28, 2025, 6:46 pm
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When I am physically ill, I somehow feel younger and my thoughts
more pure, perhaps because of my immune system kicking in, which
makes me briefly physiologically more neotenous .
When I am physically well, I feel lazy, lethargic. My thoughts
also become impure (higher sex drive). Eventually, this leads to
me becoming mentally unstable, as I am unable to do any
productive activism, which leads me unable to come to terms with
the initiated violence going on around me. I am also more
cynical.
At least when I was younger, although I was not in a position to
stop the initiated violence around me, I had some optimism that
I could.
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Re: Mental vs Physical Health
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 28, 2025, 9:04 pm
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What is your question?
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Re: Mental vs Physical Health
By: rp Date: March 28, 2025, 9:16 pm
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The question is how and why this is the case.
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Re: Mental vs Physical Health
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 28, 2025, 10:01 pm
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What you describe may be related to why some people practice
fasting. When your body is focused on a more imminent issue,
whether hunger (in the case of fasters) or illness (in your
case), it will pay less attention to sex. If you wish to test
this theory, perhaps you could also fast and see if it produces
a similar effect to illness.
Associating being in good health with laziness sounds odd
initially. Usually, feeling well leads to more enthusiasm to do
all kinds of things. In your case feeling well apparently leads
to more enthusiasm towards sex but less enthusiasm towards
everything else. The explanation I would propose to resolve this
is: your increased enthusiasm towards sex is subconsciously
generating a striker's attitude (refusal to do anything else as
a method of protest until your sexual demands are met), which
consciously manifests as laziness (apparent lack of enthusiasm
to do other things). The way to test this theory would be to
have your sexual demands satisfied and see if your laziness is
consequently cured.
I have a question for you: when you are ill, do you have better
tastes aesthetically? In particular, would you while ill wonder
how it is possible that while healthy you were sexually aroused
by [insert person here]?
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Re: Mental vs Physical Health
By: HikariDude Date: April 2, 2025, 5:37 pm
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[quote]In any society, there will be more self-confident people
and less self-confident people as a matter of statistical
distribution. This on its own would be, and has been throughout
history, tolerable. The problem from the colonial era onwards is
that, due to Eurocentrism, the lack of self-confidence goes all
one-way, whether the parameter be pigmentation, sexual
dimorphism, height or any other. For example, where are the
insecure light-skinned people who try to darken their skin? They
virtually don't exist. (Guess why not.)[/quote]
I would like to add a difference between “white” confidence vs
“nonwhite” confidence.
The latter usually states they matter, period:
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(Similarly, BDS supporters usually say “Free Palestine”)
In contrast, “whites” state they matter more than others:
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[quote]
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[quote]White lives matter. Not “black lives matter.” Not “all
lives matter.” Not even “blue lives matter.” White lives matter.
For us, that’s it — only white lives matter. Nothing could
possibly matter more.[/quote][/quote]
(Similarly, Zionists usually say “Israel First”)
I want to confirm it because I struggle with confidence and I
want to develop confidence in a way that is noble.
Is the Gnostic concept of ‘Know Thyself’ (the most prominent
idea in Gospel of Thomas) one way?
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Re: Mental vs Physical Health
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 3, 2025, 2:30 am
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"Is the Gnostic concept of ‘Know Thyself’ (the most prominent
idea in Gospel of Thomas) one way?"
Can you elaborate?
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Re: Mental vs Physical Health
By: HikariDude Date: April 3, 2025, 7:28 am
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Is Self-knowledge a Gnostic concept? I read gospel of Thomas and
the most prominent idea in the book is ‘know thyself’. Does
self-knowledge mean confidence? Is it noble?
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Re: Mental vs Physical Health
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 3, 2025, 6:06 pm
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"the most prominent idea in the book is ‘know thyself’."
At least post the quotes which support your synopsis!
"Does self-knowledge mean confidence?"
Why should it? Other factors being equal, would not someone who
overestimates themselves be more confident than someone who does
not?
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Re: Mental vs Physical Health
By: Wouldn�t Date: April 3, 2025, 6:22 pm
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I suspect being an expert in any given field, or profession,
would inspire confidence in that field or profession, would it
not?
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Re: Mental vs Physical Health
By: HikariDude Date: April 3, 2025, 8:44 pm
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“At least post the quotes which support your synopsis!”
In Gospel of Thomas:
[quote]Jesus said, "If those who lead you say to you, 'See, the
kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede
you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will
precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is
outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will
become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the
sons of the living father. But if you will not know yourselves,
you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that
poverty."[/quote]
[quote]His disciples questioned him and said to him, "Do you
want us to fast? How shall we pray? Shall we give alms? What
diet shall we observe?"
Jesus said, "Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for
all things are plain in the sight of heaven. For nothing hidden
will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."[/quote]
[quote]Jesus said, "If one who knows the all still feels a
personal deficiency, he is completely deficient."[/quote]
Maybe there’s more. Maybe it’s not as prominent. But those are
my examples.
“Why should it? Other factors being equal, would not someone who
overestimates themselves be more confident than someone who does
not?”
Confidence =/= ego. The former requires trust for one’s own
internal quality while acknowledging their flaws (and works on
it). It is the latter which requires overestimation of oneself
or basing trust off of temporal advantage (which is ignoble).
Isn’t it?
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