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You're free to try what you want but I'm going to have to tell you I highly advise not to go on a high protein diet. Especially since I know you have lower back weakness. If you want to clean up depression go all raw, fruits and veggies. Just try for one week and watch what happens. No meat, no dairy products, no starches no processed foods and of course no fast foods. No soda. Lol, nvmd I know the answer....but please consider that a carnivore diet is very dangerous for humans. 

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Well I don't know about "interest" but one of the worst I read up on was Carl Panzram, he's not even on the main circuit of who gets mentioned and he was by far the most "evil" of any I've read about. Don't get me wrong they are all bad, but this guy in particular really worries me and actually after reading his case and the notes he wrote in prison about all his alleged sodomy victims and murders made me ill, I kind of left it alone after that. Not cool, people do some twisted stuff. 

Well I see that you are leavin the site but do you guys go to like a campgrounds type thing or do you have land?

I may not participate in the future either since it looks like this is going to turn into a repeat of DDO drama which sucks, because I was hoping for something better and something a little more grown up but hey, now everyone is here including the ol trolls now doing the same things that made DDO so annoying....what a shame. I would hope you hang around a bit longer though, see if some God-send can get the place under some control. 

Spirituality can certainly be readily demonstrated if this is what you mean by "demonstrate"....

"to prove or make clear by reasoning or evidence"

Not so easy to "prove" but then again there's many things we know to be true in reality we can't necessarily "prove" to someone on the internet, so we are forced to partake in reason, explanations and personal experience. So, just maybe it won't always be a futile effort depending on who you engage.

How fun, I'm reduced to going to the local park to hike for an hour or so hiding my jungle knives in my backpack lol!! Man I'd like to get away and get at it for awhile....you going with people? are you going tent style, bush shelter or back of car?

Ahh I see, thanks.

Ha! I knew you would like it, keep going the other seasons are good too. I won't give anything away but some of the girl contestants in some of the seasons did better than the guys IMO, really good at making life more tolerable in the contest. They seem to have a knack and better intuition about what needs to be done, the experienced ones anyways and then there's the cry babies as well lol. One of my favorite contestants was a female herbalist, she did amazing even though I believe she tapped. 

The men get fixated on finding little animals to eat, and when they can't it drains on them, they seemingly get lost whereas the women forage around more, more open to eating other things besides dead meat. 

I actually have to go brush myself up on the first season but I remember the guy losing his ferro rod lol! wow that was cringe worthy watching it roll into the fire. The episodes I remember most in season 1 are the later ones, so I can't give away who lasts...

The bears.....the bears, oh that's one thing I don't know if I could get used to, having bears circling me at nights. I've never encountered a bear, but I shouldn't watch things like The Grizzly Man with Timothy Treadwell who was eaten by one. 

Catholicism and Judaism might not do it for ya, but let me tell you there is much more to this reality than those two interpretations, as widespread as they are it's not for every soul. Some people need a bit more, perhaps more observation and less talk/theory...

I'm in Virginia so snow can be a hit or miss. Basically the winters are easy here for the most part but I'm a colder weather man and I love autumn it's my fav time of year can't wait! 

Not to turn this into a religious discussion (as we can discuss these things in the religious section) but what do you mean you are not inclined toward religious belief? not interested or you think it's baloney? that being a higher reality beyond the physical perception only? I can see how you would be disassociated with religion as it stands, but there is a much deeper and more exciting reality than that alone....

Don't beat yourself up, you'll get through it.

@ Zarroette That's quite a sad interpretation really you have in your first post (not sure why it won't let me respond to your name), do you also avoid listening to music and studying subjects you really enjoy because you are not physically participating in it? how does it follow that it is sad and that someone would not participate in survival themselves just because they watch a survival show? ever heard of a non sequitur? makes no sense, people watch what they find interesting, doesn't mean they have no interest in trying it. Even if, someone wishes to watch it only and not participate what's the problem with that?

Hey, have you seen "Live Fee or Die"? even though it's a reality TV series it's not the producers who are creating the challenge for the participant.....the production team simply films their own life and survival without any intervention, perhaps that would interest you?

May I ask your religious preferences if any? I love the snow BTW :)

Here's a good example of what I meant by innocent believers and corrupt sick practitioners. Check out this Catholic Priest that slaps this baby in the face in front of the babies own parents. Look at the countenance of the parents, and look at the countenance of that demon priest, looks like he would eat the face off that baby if no one was around, makes me sick. I would have leveled that guy right there in that church if I was that father. 

Hehe, I'm not a fan. However Christianity is a wide category, so there are many things within it I do not agree with, and many things that are legit. People on the other hand, I always support in their spiritual journeys. 

You should be careful what you assert to be the case with such force....What energy are using to be a prick? being a prick doesn't seem like a passive option. Detached means indifferent, it's a neutral position, meaning you don't have to invoke a negative because there's no need for it. Being a prick is not a neutral position and therefore you are utilizing negative energies.

Your last sentence I can get with because I understand the emotional body and its cunning nature, the one before last not so much. No need to be a prick, and you never lose loving others. 

There's a way to be detached without being a prick. 

It could be a matter of time/flexibility and what you consider "debate". Debating can be formal or informal and even exist in casual discussions. Sure there's pointless banter too, but there's also people engaging in discussions in a way where it's more accessible and approachable than a formal debate, more flexibility in structure and personal time. The open forums and causal discussions will always be more popular than formal debates, give the site some time though many people are still warming up to the changes. 

I could see that, on the other hand I don't see why a greaser would be less likely to be a jock unless he didn't prefer the company. If we're going by the term "jock" as in an athletic type. Does boxing count lol?

Yeah but if you watch the movie greaser were definitely thuggish, but the soc's were worse. Sneaky, backbiting jealous snobs. 

Are you saying that a greaser is less likely to be a jock? because even though I would label myself a greaser I'm also a jock. 

Okay

LOL that's awesome. I'm a guitar slinger so I'm probably gonna have to go with greaser, but hey, nothing wrong with a soc. But I'm putting my money on a greaser in a fight lol. BTW, geeks can be greasers, have you ever seen Outsiders the movie?

The interpretation of Catholic beliefs are a variation of what Jesus taught and not a very accurate one TBH. Doesn't have anything to do with the people, they may love Jesus and look to Him as a Savior....but the Catholic beliefs are distorted nonsense. 

Catholics can for sure be Christian, however they may not be aware the beliefs the RCC has formed are distorted, and unless they are making mistakes due to those errors it really doesn't matter. If their beliefs are progressing them spiritually its still a good thing. 

Christianity at heart is simply following the teachings of Jesus and those teachings should usher in spiritual freedom and personal growth. However, I don't personally find any freedom in Catholicism, I think they are locked in a poor conception of what Jesus taught. 

An innocent naïve soul can hold a traditional twisted belief and still progress spiritually even though that particular tradition is corrupt. Likewise you could observe the opposite, where people in a religious/authoritative position in a corrupt belief system are perpetrating heinous crimes like we see with Catholic Priests. 

Okay brother I'm sorry :) you know I love ya...

Well we've all been waiting for the king it's about time lol, this would be one of the more difficult decisions I've had to make in a mma battle but I want to say Conor, but then I believe Khabib might gain the edge it just depends. I think everything has already been said.....Conor a great stand-up guy and Khabib obviously stamina, animal instincts and a bad azz ground game. Pretty straight forward I think it just comes down to who do you like better as a fighter, their style and I like Conor's style a bit better.

But I would like to mention the difference in the Conor that came into the UFC and the style he now utilizes. I thought Conor had a more dynamic stand-up game in his first handful of fights, awesome angles, looping hooks and beautiful uppercuts like in his first bout against Brimage. Now he seems to have settled into a more limited striking style, just a straight left down the middle and a few counters. It seemed he had better movement before this newer approach. Could be just me but look at the earlier fights and then the later ones, he still wins but I don't know why he abandoned his original striking angles. WTH happened to those beautiful hooks and looping counter punches?

Most people can't handle a flat out change in diet, in this case I would say then try adding some new things, healthy things. Try adding much more fruits to your intake while getting the courage to take a break from meat, dairy products and fast foods. Actually try replacing some of your normal meals for a fruit salad or even a raw veggie salad and watch the difference in energy. It may make you irritable at times but that's only your body craving your bad habits. If this does not interest you fine, if it does I can expand more on it. 

Lol, "in all honesty it isn't the reason"? after that I was expecting you to give the other reason......but whatever, people rarely believe the foods they consume cause their problems, which is quite strange considering everything we eat and do is interfacing with chemistry.....which either supports your health and well-being or deteriorates it. You suggested you diet is quite bad, I suggest losing weight is irrelevant to what you ingest/consume. Foods are either nutritious and healthy giving you vitality, energy and proper function or they do not. Simple. 

Lol yep you're a greaser for sure, so am I though!

Thank you for the recommendation Zeichen, dang you lived in South-East Spain?? where there are mountains?? okay now I'm jealous lol, I'm a mountain man by heart! 

I'm actually a private person as well, but it would be interesting to do a loner survival show...get to test your own knowledge as well as share with others but I get it, I'm actually a very shy person believe it or not. 

May I ask about your choice of profile picture? is that some sort of a Hindu Temple?

Not if you're going to source your information and not debate me from experience. I don't need you to tell me why, I've learned why lol, not to be an azz but I have had enough of meat eaters telling me I'm wrong when I can prove this in many ways. In this thread I would rather offer the topic maker advice, if you want to argue about this you can meet me in the health forum. But if you're just going to source me links, then you're going to have to study my links as well. Or, we can avoid all that nonsense and I can show you the difference in diet by simply letting you have first hand experience by trying it. You can learn how the body can clean and regenerate itself my eliminating acidic foods and foods that break down and not build. You can learn and experience the difference in energy levels and vitality by simply doing it. Would you like to just tell me how I'm wrong or are you actually interested in what I'm saying? big difference in  my world. 

Some things are debatable and some things are obvious, I don't like wasting time debating things that are very obvious if the opposing party just wants to rehash the majority opinion and not actually look at the facts and the evidence. Evidence in this case would be your own testimony along with others. Nothing I said above was profoundly wrong, meat is hard on the body and hard to digest, its acidic and leaves behind an acidic ash and meats are notoriously bad on kidneys and of course in return the heart, it's a known fact that meat in humans putrefies before it leaves the body and you see everyday the damage and results of a meat eating diet as opposed to a fruit based, vegetarian raw food diet. 

Wow really? so even though we agreed upon what a negative force would entail, and even though you can see the negative forces happening everyday with your own eyes and ears its now become something "vague" for you? and so some renegade "devil" you've never met or heard in any way is somehow less vague? can you expand on that? and why you think what I provided in explanation is vague?

They aren't unlimited, rather maximal. "Unlimited" requires an addition of illogical formulation, whereas maximal requires only the complete maximum of what is possible. Maximal in concept however does not depreciate the value of there existing a being that has maximal abilities vs an unlimited ability honestly.....which is what counts anyways. 

Not that you care...but...Don't need the protein from dead animal flesh, don't need the physical composition structure of meat which is hard to digest, don't need the acidic ash that it produces in the body, don't need the putrefaction that occurs in the colon and digestive track from consuming dead flesh. Don't need the compromising of our health by consuming dead tissue, cells and blood when there are plenty of foods that are fit for human consumption. Humans are not carnivores, most likely not omnivores and as a general rule of thumb we are mainly frugivores, vegetarians and raw food eaters. That is our healing, that is our natural foods of consumption for humans. Meat is not a food source for humans, only an alternative and not a good one. 

Well it could be many things really, but a good place to start would be the adrenal glands or even the pituitary or pineal glands as they are responsible for restful sleeping or not. I would recommend a temporary change in diet and even some specific herbal formulas targeting the cleansing of those glands. The glands can get overloaded or dirty from certain foods, which causes stress, fatigue and lack of sleeping. Weakened adrenals can cause an array of issues including depression and mood swings but it's an easy fix if you are disciplined. I'm going to go out on a limb and say you probably have a bad diet intake....meaning meats, cheeses, milks, starches and processed foods, fast foods?

Hey man! glad to see ya around my friend. I woulda liked that song simply based on the landscape of the woods in the video lol, but then the song was actually good too, thanks!

I don't really "decide" what to believe more than I acquire beliefs through experience and observation, I don't just decide to believe in something for no reason or evidence. Since I don't communicate with trees I have no real insight to offer, but based upon what I've observed about consciousness and awareness in creation it's entirely possible. Trees obviously lack the dynamic experience of humans but they actually have an awareness, minute as it may be and a person can operate or tune their channel of awareness with that of anything that shares that reality. 

Not in a way where I'm aware, however I've never put my conscious energy to the task lol whereas someone else might have, not only would I consider such a thing I would support it, I think it is really cool TBH. 

Why are variations from a dynamic reality a problem? especially with so many references? however, your claim is false, it's various but as well there are many commonalities, they are not all different that is not true which is why I created the topic in DDO about NDE's....

Trees have awareness, at some level you can actually connect with them consciously because they come out of the universal mind of the Creator, and trees have living quality, therefore able to connect with them at some level.

Through cross referencing obviously, in which there is more than a warehouse full of references to say the least. Hope that helps but I doubt it.

It's not "non-physical" in the sense nothing exists....it just distinguishes between what we perceive in the material senses only and that which we are potentially capable of experiencing through acquiring knowledge and exercising spiritual practices, the inner experience not only the outer experience. The reason consciousness, the soul and spirit are labeled as "non-physical" is because the nature of such was not created by a physical medium (matter) rather a conscious medium, there was never a time where the material construct created consciousness, instead it was first a conscious reality that created matter, which enabled consciousness/soul to experience through. The difference lies in the perception of what consciousness is by nature.....which is the difference between materialist/atheism and Theism.....was consciousness created by matter? or is conscious awareness manifesting matter and forms? only one can be correct and only one is superior than the other and I believe that the superior reality is Theism, that conscious intelligence was never produced by a non-intelligent blob of matter. Rather matter and forms evolved precisely as consciousness/intelligence dictated just as quantum physics suggests in all practical terms. There was first a conscious reality....which is not necessarily non-physical rather not a product of physical matter, but energy is always present with conscious activity. You spread awareness over an omnipresent reality you have significant energy present, and this awareness channels that energy into forms that we see in the physical universe.

Simple, the same reason why any man rejects the "overwhelming" majority of preference of any topic that exists with variations and expressions....for example....one might reject the notion that rap is music, or even good music even though rap is in a musical category and exists as music, and one might reject the notion that certain foods are good even though foods all exist in the same category. One might reject the notion of love, even though love exists someone else's experience might dictate that no love truly exists. So likewise one may reject the notion of another's God experience even though it's in the same category and same line of observation simply out of distaste or opinion. One may reject the experience or preference of another's witness in many ways even though the experience was actual..... so people may not support or believe in another persons experience or interpretation of spirituality and TBH it's irrelevant to the fact of the matter. God stories are a dime a dozen like every other experience or preference, doesn't make them less real or legit, rather various and unique just as souls are by nature.

How...God affects reality is by first bringing it into existence, otherwise there would be no you and I, no reality where you and I could take part in. God can affect our reality both indirectly and directly. Indirectly through means of external control and directly...through you and I.

How one can tell.....is by the study and participation of spirituality. This is the doorway that bridges the gap between belief and experience.

Some examples......would be a wide range of testimonial based evidences. It would involve the witness of believers testifying that God has indeed affected their reality in many ways, various ways and through many avenues and doorways. Examples in this context I would believe would do you no personal favors. So there's no reason to expand on that unless you were actually open to it, and that's most likely outa the question for a troll. Nice try though....

The Creator doesn't poof things into existence, there is a methodical plan and design through a lengthly process. Why deny a Creator of apparent design in the process of executing the design??