Posts by Bradley Fisher20

darkbison81, man, we're just screwing around here. I've known that since the first time I laid eyes on you 😉

So, what even is the CoQ10 functional group?

Look, whatever it is, if it doesn't count as an actual vitamin, then your body is supposed to just make it itself. And honestly? It probably doesn't even have a dedicated transport system to move it from your gut to your mitochondria. I could go on with more theories, but the deeper I dig into this whole thing, the more skeptical I get...

I mean, at least 70% of the pharmaceutical industry is built entirely on people being desperate and greedy about their health. When greed is the driving force, companies don't care if a product actually works—they just care that it's a massive money maker.

And man, they have plenty of those. There are like 10,000 "miracle drugs" out there backed by massive amounts of cash...

Grace Baker2 said:And no, I’m not scared of taking a handful of pills every day as a way to prevent sickness and disease (and basically delay aging as much as humanly possible). And I'm not naive enough to fall for every single commercial out there...
Please, what do you guys actually know about this?

Ha! Since when does anyone ever admit they're just swallowing whatever the commercials tell them to?

If you're popping a whole bag of pills daily, then yeah, I can objectively say you're a "dedicated consumer." Just saying.

BTW, a whole bag is definitely overkill. Trust me, having too much stuff in your system causes way more headaches than not having enough...

Anyway, darkbison81, where on earth did you dig up that info about cirrhosis? Got any actual references from Medline or something similar? ps... we ended up talking about Vitamin C again! What can you do, it's fate 😉.

Zachary Green2, I’m telling you, you aren't gonna find anyone here who actually shaves down to a 4. Not a chance. Just like Jack Harris3, I’m at least a 5 🙂

Bruce Springsteen is just pure, heavy commercialism. I swear I even heard some cover of "Born in the U.S.A." on some random TV channel back in the day... what a joke.

Yeah, total genius. A commercialized genius, clearly. 😉

Rebecca Miller2, interesting thought? I don't know, man, I walked away from that whole field entirely. Because I started thinking about those groups where everyone is just wired, you know, on speed and all that crap. Sure, they have massive energy, whatever, but they don't look sane or healthy. It's the exact same thing with those cult-like groups that think they've found their God and are all happy and blissful. They don't look normal either.

Richard Howard2. Let me break this down for you. I said people *tend* toward it, not that it's a given. Right now, it’s just a matter of how much influence certain cliques have. Like, look at how incest used to be pushed by certain elite families back in the day just to keep the family fortune intact. But the system eventually proved itself to be toxic and, well, totally insane—families actually thought God was punishing them because they were sinning, when really it was just because they were producing sick kids.
It's the same deal with slavery.

Solaris. Society sets the norms, right? And it's not in society's best interest to label more than half the population as "not normal." That's just bad for the social order. So, they only label the extremes—the stuff that actually threatens the status quo. Plus, even though we're all a little bit crazy in our own ways, people just ignore it because it doesn't matter. Until it becomes a problem, obviously...😉.

Solaris, honestly, any decent neighbor would just be normal about this.

You’ve got Gauss's. You've got averages. Just a massive pile of mediocrity... tens of them. Those irrelevant types don't even qualify as "abnormal" since they aren't worth noting in the first place.

Which is why it usually just boils down to how people act socially.

If enough people decide that pedophilia is totally fine, then suddenly it’s "normal." And if you’re one of the few standing up against it? You're the one labeled as the freak...

Exactly. It’s the same exact logic they use for homosexuality.

"Normal" and "abnormal" have nothing to do with common sense. Common sense is just weighing different references to find a more or less absolute truth.

Oh, it has everything to do with common sense! Anything that harms society isn't good. If it doesn't hurt anyone, it isn't bad. If it helps society, it's good. Look, it's not a perfect science, but that's the gist of it...

To reach an absolute truth, you need one thing to reference another, and that second thing to reference the first, which then connects to a third, and so on...

😲 😕

Look, Solaris, there’s nothing in this world that’s universal or stands above whatever lens you're looking through. Even the whole idea of what's "normal"... it's all just perspective...

So you're saying someone who isn't just some run-of-the-mill NPC... they aren't "normal"?

Exactly, but you already knew that 🙂

Quote : Originally posted by Solaris, you might actually be onto something. You probably are. Almost certain...

If that's the case, then settling for mediocrity is a pretty damn satisfying answer.

I mean, being average gets you through the day, right? And hey, they say being average is where the beauty is!

Universal? Who knows. I’m picturing some town somewhere in the States where everyone is basically poisoned and looking like total wrecks. Then you’ve got this one guy walk in, absolutely glowing, bursting with energy. Honestly... I bet even they’d look even worse just standing next to him.

So yeah, health is totally tied to your energy levels and how much you can actually take in life.

Pretty much standard, unless you’re stuck in a hospital or something...

QUOTE]So you're saying humanity is more like the end result of some kind of empirical
logic?

The correlation is through the roof.

I’ll get my ass up whenever I see someone who actually looks like they need a seat...

Exactly. And we aren't talking about some old ladies clutching their purses. Not even just "old people" in general. Those folks actually *need* to sit down. It's a fact. And since I actually give a damn about them, I'm not getting up, no matter how much they beg me to...

Since someone already brought up the whole conscience thing, why can't we just admit that conscience is basically just social conditioning, right? Like, it's all just what we're taught by society...

The neighborhood's out here trying to lecture me on morals. And apparently, "etiquette" is what the old ladies decided to write about.

I get what they're getting at. But honestly? Since older folks can actually handle standing up and moving around better than some lazy couch potatoes, I don't usually bother getting up for them.

I save my seats for the disabled, the sick, people struggling with health issues, and pregnant women.

Everyone else? Screw 'em.

Unless I'm in one of those moods where I feel like doing "good deeds" because I'm all about that love and light stuff...

I seriously don't buy this idea that breaking through some mental barrier was some sudden "aha!" moment or whatever. For us, it’s always been a slow, grueling process that feels like it takes forever...

Or maybe, I guess, you could call it his first real brush with abstraction—that moment when Adam just said TREE and wasn't thinking about one specific trunk in front of him, but more like the whole concept.

Can you even imagine what was going through Adam's head back then? And man, imagine the absolute struggle he went through just trying to explain to everyone else what he actually meant when he said tree.

The missing link here? It’s all about language. We need a language that makes inputting abstractions way easier... something that actually opens up a whole new way of selecting things.