Like… I don’t know what’s the point. Eat heathy, and live a long life? Jesus christ, who has the energy for that?
Just eat whatever. Drink Sodas. Die. Who cares. There’s probably gonna be a global recession, or global great depression. Everyone around me is toxic. People in my country is toxic. The government is toxic. Why even live that long? Maybe my next incarnation will be better.
As someone who is handicapped through no fault of my own, it fills me with sorrow that you feel this way. Self-harm through neglect is no way to live.
My handicap initially left me with no way to walk for nearly 2 years. No doctor would touch my case. My kid literally could not hug me. I was dependent on so many people during that time and could barely take care of anyone else.
I cannot tell you what to do… but I’m probably not going to live very long anyway (thank you, genetics!), so I’d like to encourage you to find purpose. I found my purpose in creation by sewing, and it brings me overwhelming joy. My goal is to continue creating things to spread that joy to others.
If that doesn’t convince you, please know this: there are evil, shitty people in power out there who revel in your self-destruction and actively want you to destroy yourself. Please do not let them win. Continue to do your best in order to spite them and help people who aren’t so fortunate.
Holy shit there’s so much ableism in these comments. @op you apparently stepped on some toes with this hot take
I do but I can’t afford it. So I ignore it. I have a lot of shit I would get looked at if I could. Like some sort of pinched nerve feeling in my abdomen that makes my right boi holler. Or my teeth. Or my back. I’d honestly go for regular checkups if I could.
I didn’t even mention that aspect in my top-level comment because the check engine light is burned out. The systems and access to them were a mess before, and now I’m expecting medicaid cut headlines (and/or dropped people). Which personally, the idea of interrupted treatment makes me more wary than no treatment.
Maybe my next incarnation will be better.
If I have to live a whole 'nother life after this one, I’m gonna be pissed.
For real if the tunnel closes and I wake up as a baby I’m gonna wrap the umbilical around my neck and then spin around a few times.
The mythology of how it is supposed to work is that you get a mindwipe before the reincarnation.
And who said anything about being human again? You could also end up a roach that gets squished, then reborn as some insect that gets eaten, then reborn as a pet that gets abused… etc…
So yea, thanks Buddhists, I’m feeling wonderful 🫠 (sarcasm)
What if you can only reincarnate to ‘conscious’ species? We can even go further than that and say that you can only reincarnate to ‘conscious’ individuals, meaning that most people could technically be literal NPC’s.
That sounds like it is good to kill insects and animal because we are helping their soul go through their reincarnation queue faster and eventually come back as human.
New Religion: Fascist-Buddhism
Goal: Genocide every other living creature to attain Human Dominance over the planet, in order to ensure every incarnation is in a human body. Wait, but aliens might exist. Therefore, it is our duty to eliminate all other species, throughout the entire universe. Heil Buddha!
Wow you have solved the reincarnation puzzle! If we have just humans in the universe after eliminating every other living thing (except the good bacteria we need in our intestines), we will keep reincarnating back as mostly humans after a short stint in someone bowels !
Bahaha! First thought is something goes wrong during the mind-wipe and now it’s your conscious inside a minuscule bacteria body cruising through someone else’s poop machine. I think I would try to rally my bacterial brethren to violence.
Yeah, that’s the whole point. Reincarnation is not meant to be a positive, it’s a nightmare that you have to escape. That’s what ‘nirvana’ is, reaching a point where you successful escape the reincarnation cycle and get to have oblivion.
I make a huge sacrifice and eat meat so that my fellow suffering souls can move along their reincarnation queue as quickly as possible, into the next animal.
I’ve absolutely have been stress eating. And I’m supposed to be having a friendly competition with my best friend to lose 20 pounds. She is stress eating too. Neither is winning right now.
you aren’t losing, either.
Ha!
Drum snare
There is no incarnation, this is the only life you have and it’s up to you to make is as good as you can. Externalizing and blaming others for everything does not get you far.
There is no afterlife, no nirvana, no reincarnation, you just sense to exist. Until then make an impression on the universe.
There is no afterlife, no nirvana, no reincarnation
Even better. Stop stuffering.
Without suffering, there is no enjoyment. What do you enjoy? What are you grateful for? “Nothing” is a cynical and avoidant answer here, because every person has legitimate answers to these two questions. What are yours?
Without suffering, there is no enjoyment.
And yet even with suffering, there is also no enjoyment. Welcome to treatment resistant persistent depressive disorder!
Can’t wait for Medicaid to get axed so I can go live in a concentration camp.
More likely to die happy and enjoy living if you take care of yourself though
This isn’t really a question, but I’ll respond with my experience.
As a kid I had a mother that was incredibly health conscious. She always fed me “alternative” foods with strong flavors. It instilled a hatred for health foods in me, but it also changed my taste buds to have a particular distaste for sweet foods.
I am now in my 30s. I still eat healthy. I don’t binge eat. I stay away from overly salty foods. And guess what. My health is still a mess. I get what feels like food poisoning all the time. A lot of foods still make me sick.
At some point you need to realize that eating healthy is not always a solution. Healthy foods do not work for everybody, whether it be a severe dislike of the taste or allergies to the additives that are frequently required to make health food taste good. I have begun thinking it is better to have too many nutrients than not enough. It is better to drink a lot of juice loaded with sugar than it is to be dehydrated.
I would rather live a happy life for 40 years than an unhappy one for 80, especially given the current direction of politics and the fact I am now 50% microplastics.
In the end, you need to find out what works best for you and what makes you the happiest version of yourself.
You sure you’re not just eating poorly and thinking you’re eating healthy? There’s a significant amount of misinformation in nutrition, on par with climate denialism.
That is almost a given. There is a lot of disagreement on what healthy food looks like, and a lack of foundational research on health outcomes of different diets long term.
Healthy food for different populations is the food that sustains health, even if that food by itself isn’t universally healthy for all humans. Dairy, Gluten allergies, etc. There are many foods that some people can tolerance, but not all people can tolerate. Western diet and first nations people don’t often mix well.
Even in the health research space, there is considerable, and acerbic disagreement on what is healthy vs just tolerated. For individuals its even more blurry, there are many religious, philosophical, and cultural reasons people maintain a food bias for.
A elimination diet protocol is the single best tool a individual can use to find out what is causing them problems. Get down to the very bare minimum of nutrition (meat, salt, water), stabilize for a few weeks, then reintroduce foods very slowly until they are able to identify what they cannot tolerate.
I’m sorry, but while it might feel good to adopt a “different things work for different people,” view, elimination diet is only a necessary tool for rare edge cases at most. There is plenty of foundational research at this point, and for the real nutritional scientists who do the real science, there is a consensus that the Mediterranean dietary pattern is the preferred choice for the general population. That is why this diet is pretty much always the backbone of government dietary recommendations (with deviations in those recommendations usually being the result of capitulation to corporations).
And the more plant-centric your diet gets, the better your outcomes.
And the more plant-centric your diet gets, the better your outcomes.
I have opposing research reading. Lots of the nutritional space uses associative studies and relative risk to determine “optimal”
Is “associative studies and relative risk” another way of saying, “correlation can’t establish causation”? Does that mean we actually don’t know if smoking is bad for us? Sorry, but if you’re going to read from the same playbooks as idiots like Gary Taubes and Nina Teicholz then you’re not going to have any credibility. Nutritional epidemiology is rock solid and the cornerstone of sound nutritional science. If your views depend on undermining an entire field of science, you’re already cut from the same cloth as climate deniers.
Gary Taubes and Nina Teicholz
I have nothing but respect for them, but they are journalists and not conducting science themselves.
But yes, I will say epidemiology should only be considered hypothesis generating, not demonstrating causation. The best way to tell if a epidemiology paper is clinically useful is if they express their results in absolute risk (they almost never do)
However, this is a field of science, the philosophy and influencers don’t matter, all that matters is health outcomes. If people are getting the outcomes they want then I’m happy for them.
There is research that also points to meat being beneficial - so I absolutely don’t think its reasonable to close the book on nutrition as solved, and meat is the enemy.
- https://doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S333004 - Total Meat Intake is Associated with Life Expectancy: A Cross-Sectional Data Analysis of 175 Contemporary Populations
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/137.4.1119 - Meat supplementation improves growth, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes in Kenyan children
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzab133 - Behavioral Characteristics and Self-Reported Health Status among 2029 Adults Consuming a “Carnivore Diet”
- https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17020323 - Egg Consumption and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study of Australian Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Ahh, I see you are now downvoting my comments! OK, Message received
Here is my own youtube video on nutritional epidemiology! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWgH-VaqMjQ - 7 Flaws in Nutrition Epidemiology
Called it. Get your pseudoscience crackpot cheesehands diet nonsense out of here.
There are also plenty of reasons “healthy” foods might absolutely fuck with your health, even if you’re not eating a ridiculous amount of them. For example whole wheat is a perfectly fine food to have in your diet, unless you have celiac disease and don’t realize it yet.
I do as well as I can in an enjoyable way to keep myself somewhat stable. Like I’ve been riding my bike on the trail lately* and I enjoy cooking** for myself. I’ll sometimes drink soda, but honestly I think if the sugar were halved I would probably enjoy it more (or just… some dessert is probably less sugar). Even though I guess subsidies make sugar cheaper than water.
I’ll sweep the floor because I don’t want to walk on dirt. Though yeah, I’m probably stuck here more than others.
* mostly to go outside (with not many good destinations I can viably reach), though I can make it to a local grocery store for a few things
** mostly sautéed vegetables, squash/celery/mushrooms/carrots/onions etc, spinach on sandwiches and recently have tried cooking chard
I care about my health but I also can’t wrap my head around being old
Lame. Turn all that negative energy into something useful.
I am father to a 10 year old, so yes I care very much.
I disagree 100%.
If you’re an American, in this health care system, you’ve got to be minding your health as much as possible. It can get much, much, much worse.
The problem is that humans tend to be adaptable and resilient. Treating yourself like crap probably won’t kill you anytime soon. But a heart attack will make you miserable for the rest of your life.
I don’t mean miserable as in you wish you’d never met her let alone married her. I mean miserable as in you can’t sit up anymore because of the vertigo, and you can’t lay down anymore because it hurts to cough.
You could live until 100 if you take care. You can still eat what you want in moderation.
Living til 100 really isn’t the motivator some people seem to think it is. I don’t want 50 more years of this. I’ll take quality of life over quantity.
The good time vs long time idea is a false dichotomy. Unhealthy lifestyles fuel depression and other cognitive disorders. The long life is the happiest life.
