Drew.

Hey man, I feel pretty anxious about saying this. I expect to be attacked instead of met with curiosity on this topic. I want to say that I'm not criticizing you. I'm not trying to call you out. I am only sharing my experience of this discussion. You state that a high carb diet has been "proven to be the best caloric breakdown." Maybe that's true. Maybe it's not. But you didn't offer any proof or sources for your claim. That's fine. That's totally fine. But you ask Kirk42 to leave your thread because he does the exact same thing that you have. This is a total violation of UPB. Your standards are higher for others than they are yourself. I felt angry when you said that this topic was your thread. It's not. If anyone can claim ownership to the boards, it's Stef. He runs it. He pays for it. The next people who have a share is the people who donate. Kirk42 is a Philosopher King, he donates a significant amount of money to the boards. You don't donate. The boards are more his than yours, and even that fails in comparison to Stef's claim. Evidence has been proven to show that sugar can be converted to fat and that Americans who are fat often have high carb diets. These arguments do place your original claim that carbohydrates don't make people fat into question. They don't necessarily disprove it, but there is a a degree in which you could be wrong. In another topic, you mention that you have grandiose and narcisstic tendancies. I think that you are experiencing them here. I could be wrong, but my narcissism alarms are ringing. In Kirk42's first post, he said that you were wrong. You completely ignored my post. I asked about the ratio, and you didn't provide me with an answer. I asked what the ideal diet would be like. You didn't answer that. Why did you engage with Kirk42 and not me? What happens if you're wrong? What happens if low carb diets are just as healthy as high carb diets? What happens if the all-powerful and all-knowing god that you want to be is wrong and fallible? I'm only bringing this up because I see this as an opportunity for you to grow, and it's also an opportunity for me to grow as well. If you want to be great, here is your chance. Well, nature itself is my source- there is no calorie restriction in nature, no animal limits calories- and if they do, they are eating the wrong thing. Our closest ancestors infact had a diet comprising 98% of Ruffage/Fruit, and 2% insects- low fat/low protein. Plus there is the simple fact, that there is zero low carb pro athletes- that should say a lot. Sure, and the people giving these anti-sugar lectures are all overweight, so just logical thinking- says it's wrong. What is high carb anyway? the everyday person considers donuts, pizza, burgers to be high carb foods. I'm talking about fruits, grain and vegetables, which have around 90% of calories coming from carbs. What Joe Shmo considers 'high carb' is such foods: http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/usda/chocolate-coated-or-frosted-doughnuts?portionid=39032&portionamount=1.000 http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/generic/pizza-cheese This is not 'high carb', this is high fat. The carbs are innocent, the carbs on that donut are scared to death. I'm not a scientist, or researcher? you know why? Because I like things easy. If I want to grow a watermelon, I'm not going to put those seeds in concrete, I'm going to put them in soil- I like things easy- not over complicated and reliant upon memorising nonsense. I just look at the basic reality, and make an easy conclusion based on results- so if you are expecting me to be a graph hound, seek someone else. I'm not going to intellectualize with you at all. I simply refuse to engage with you on the level. I want to know what it means to you to be wrong. I want to know what is happening for you on an emotional level. What is the cost for being wrong?

I have a few tips. I can usually recall my dreams if anything sticks out. At my prime of dream journaling I could recall maybe three to four dreams in a night and write a page or more in details. I don't know how much of it is just my own workings or the efforts that I've put in. When I don't write them down, I can usually analyze a few things about a dream. But here are a few things I recommend. Before you go to bed, write in your dream journal. I usually write the time at which I'm going in bed at. I also write any down any substance that may be affecting my dream (melatonin, caffeine, alcohol). I find melatonin makes dreams more vivid, and it helps me to fall asleep faster. I leave my notebook lying next to me on my bed. Get comfortable and making everything super easy for yourself the next morning. All of this has you primed for remembering your dreams. You may want to fall asleep thinking "I will remember my dream." When you wake up, don't do anything! Dreams fly away with movement. There are few things that can scatter stray dream clouds than a swift gust of throwing off the covers. Try to remember the key aspects of your dream. Where were you? Who was there? What happened? Was there anything strange? Write down as much as you can possibly remember. If you only remember that you were in a forest with your friend, write that down. If you remember a key scene where you open a fridge with a lot of jerky and no one else in your dream and you begin to think that it's human meat, write that down too. I find that if I have a few trailheads, it makes reconnecting the dream much easier. I can't say it's a perfectly precise recollection, but it's enough. Okay, so you've been motionless for a minute and you've remembered what you dream about. Now. Write. Maybe write down big details first of all the dreams you remember and then go into more details. But the key is to write until you're empty. If your remember the tip, write that down. Write down everything you can. Prime yourself to remember your dreams. Don't move until you have enough to write about. I highly recommend that you check out sources for lucid dreaming. A lot of lucid dreaming guides teach how to improve dream recall (what's the point of having lucid dreams if you don't remember them?). This guy wrote a few of the first guides on lucid dreaming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_LaBerge I'm sure you can also check out Lifehacker or Reddit or some other source like that which can provide a lot of material.

Hey man, I feel pretty anxious about saying this. I expect to be attacked instead of met with curiosity on this topic. I want to say that I'm not criticizing you. I'm not trying to call you out. I am only sharing my experience of this discussion. You state that a high carb diet has been "proven to be the best caloric breakdown." Maybe that's true. Maybe it's not. But you didn't offer any proof or sources for your claim. That's fine. That's totally fine. But you ask Kirk42 to leave your thread because he does the exact same thing that you have. This is a total violation of UPB. Your standards are higher for others than they are yourself. I felt angry when you said that this topic was your thread. It's not. If anyone can claim ownership to the boards, it's Stef. He runs it. He pays for it. The next people who have a share is the people who donate. Kirk42 is a Philosopher King, he donates a significant amount of money to the boards. You don't donate. The boards are more his than yours, and even that fails in comparison to Stef's claim. Evidence has been proven to show that sugar can be converted to fat and that Americans who are fat often have high carb diets. These arguments do place your original claim that carbohydrates don't make people fat into question. They don't necessarily disprove it, but there is a a degree in which you could be wrong. In another topic, you mention that you have grandiose and narcisstic tendancies. I think that you are experiencing them here. I could be wrong, but my narcissism alarms are ringing. In Kirk42's first post, he said that you were wrong. You completely ignored my post. I asked about the ratio, and you didn't provide me with an answer. I asked what the ideal diet would be like. You didn't answer that. Why did you engage with Kirk42 and not me? What happens if you're wrong? What happens if low carb diets are just as healthy as high carb diets? What happens if the all-powerful and all-knowing god that you want to be is wrong and fallible? I'm only bringing this up because I see this as an opportunity for you to grow, and it's also an opportunity for me to grow as well. If you want to be great, here is your chance.

Why thank you Stone. It is incredibly difficult to write at times, but I know that it will do a lot of good to have it written. And hey! That guy kind of looks like you. Weird! I've finally started becoming active on the boards. It's been like five years since I first found FDR... =]

Man, that theory always triggers me, Stone. I guess I have a part that assumes that insecure means homosexual. I would say that if friends are a fantasy, and they can't make real friends in the outside world then they would also be insecure with their sexuality too. MLP would be a primer for them to develop more complex relationships.

I would eat a dog. So long as it wasn't a pet. Pigs can be cute too. Just little at their little snouts sniffin' and snortin' at everything. They can smell all the world and they gonna eat it all with there wittle pot bellies and curious faces and pointy ears. I've been sad that I've lived in China for almost two years and I've never found an opportunity to try dog meat. I've had donkey though. Donkey is delicious.

Like every culture, there are extremists who broach areas that most would leave unexplored. I've never really had the desire to read fanfiction from any source. I used to consider myself a brony. I went to a MLP meet up in the Portland area. I can't remember how many episodes we watched as a collective. Then the group interviewed some brony who made techno music based on the show. I listened to it, and I don't understand the MLP influence at all. But, whatever. I will say that most of the people seemed like social outcasts, myself included. I looked "normal" though. I saw many people wearing fedoras, clothes with video games titles, and other paraphenial that, in my opinion, distinguished them from the people who go outside often. Their stated cultural values are Love and tolerance. I've often read, "I'm going to love and tolerate the shit out of you." As far as cultures go, they're okay. But, I think that there is a difference between a MLP fan and a brony. I consider myself a fan, although I hardly ever watch the show now, but I don't consider myself a brony. I think to be a brony, you have to start buying mechandise, consistently go to meet ups, and be in an active pursuit to add more pony into your life. I think the show is appealing to young men in that age range, from 18-30, because many of them have no clue how to make real friends. I know coerrelation does not equal causation, but when I was deepest in my MLP binge I didn't have any good or close friends. A very common way to approach magic is to see it as madness. If we apply that toMLP, We get My Little Pony: Friendship is an Insane Fantasty (for you). I don't think that show has any relation to the sexuality of an individual, which one of my dear friends has commented on. Whenever I watched the show, I felt happy. I would still feel happy if I watched an episode, a good one. I'm not sure why I felt happy, though.

I can't view the multimedia content fyi, so bear that in mind. When I read your post about sugar in the blood stream, I didn't get the sense like you understood all of it. It's true that the blood will absorb sugar. But there is only so much sugar that can reside in the blood before it becomes toxic. When people get diabetes and they binge on sugar, they can go into a diabetic coma, where they can't function until their blood sugar levels drop. Excess sugar is converted into fat using insulin in the pancreas. The cycle is that someone eats more sugar than they use, and then they eat it all again. Eventually the ounces of excess sugar add up to pounds of fat. If you would like a source about this, I would be glad to provide it to you. Where are you getting your percentages though? Could you give me an example of an ideal diet? But hey, if it works for you, that's great. I personally try to eat a lot of meat and vegetables, while I eat fruit when I want sugar. I'm not fat either.

@VforVoluntary49 I'm not sure how much longer I'll be working on my novel. I'm about 37k words in, or so, and I still don't feel like I've written half of what I want to write. I'll probably end up self-publishing it online. I'm not sure though. In essence, I feel uncertain about all of those things. @Magenta My early influences... Man, that's hard to answer. I've always wanted to write a novel since I fell in love with writing in the second grade. When I was 19, I ditched the idea of going to school to be a pharmacist and decided to write instead. I began writing about funny things that happened to me, in the same sense that many comedians tell stories about their lives to produce laughs. During my last term at college, when I was 19, I began writing the first chapter to my novel. I'm sure that there is a lot more things that influenced me, but they're just no coming to mind right now. The pollution is pretty bad in Beijing. I would say that nine out of ten days are covered in the haze of particulates. I wake up with a stuffed nose all of the time. Dust gets into the apartment like none other. That said, there are many of other good things about China. English teaching can provide a person with a high paying income who has a degree that would be considered almost worthless in the States. You can buy masks and filter out the air, if you like. Most days, it's barable. Most of the time, I don't wear a mask of any kind. I think that I'm still okay.

I got work teaching English. I had to borrow a bunch of money, but I've paid back a good chunk of it. I'm still teaching English, just in a different city.

Thanks. Ha, really? I would be interested in hearing more about them.

Haha, thanks. It's slow work, but it's going.

RIght, I understand what you're saying. Most people who I talk to who are statists aren't familiar with the word statism. In my own personal experience, the ideas don't seem to take very strongly, but I like to believe that I have planted a few seeds of truth. I only mention topics of this nature if I think the person is capable of a rational discussion or if I'm bored and I want to talk for a long time. =] Best of luck!

What has been your experience with people and logical arguments?

Hey Oliver, Welcome to the boards! Stef did some podcasts about logical fallacies in the 500's. It was 531 and 532 if you haven't already listened to them yet. But, I have a question. What do you hope to gain from arguing with people over facebook?

Hello everyone! My name is Drew. Where I'm at in my journey... I accepted atheism when I was 11 and anarchy when I was 16 and discovered the argument from morality. It was at that point I knew that no state of any kind would be able to solve the problems of the world. I defooed when I was 19, kind of a haphazard situation. I did everything in my power to get out when I realized that my parents were corrupt and vile human beings--it took me the longest to realize what my mother's true nature was. Escaping them included flying to China where I landed with less than $100. Things seemed to have worked out. I started IFS therapy about a year ago, and have been having sessions intermittently when I can afford it. At this point in my journey, I'm still exploring myself and trying to discover who I am and who I want to grow into. Things are becoming a bit more clear to me. I'm writing a novel. I've been working on it for about 18 months. Essentially, the novel is about a teenager who lives within a corrupt FOO. He spends his week days going to school, and he plays video games all night long. During the weekends he parties a lot and does drugs, one in particular is cough medicine. In a sense, it's a mystery novel. What made him choose these behaviors? What kind of life will he lead? Will he continue his behaviors or will he change? Will he be happy? It is primarily about dissociation. It's about the actions we take to dissociate, it's about the reasons why we dissociate, and it's about how to stop dissociating. I think that it's aptly named, Dissociated. I'm reading a lot about early childhood and trauma. It really fascinates me. I've read some Daniel Mackler and found it amazing, and I'm currently reading Alice Miller's The Drama of the Gifted Child. Anyway, hello again everyone. I hope that you all are having a wonderful time.