Termyn8or
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This is Satuday morning, so sitting here cracking a beer it occurred to me. The key to SOME of life's problems. Now this is of course as off the wall as most other things upon which I've pondered of course, but sometimes the loonies are really on the path.
Consider that - DO NOT ENJOY EATING. Think of all it entails. No more binges, no more feel good food, no more feel bad food. No more "I want". Eat simply to sustain the body, nothing more. Season for flavor to make things pallatable of course, this does not mean enjoy it. Don't let yourself fall into the trap.
I watched my Dad eat and sometimes it was like a religious experience for him. He is dead now. Well he was old, but if he would have just not enjoyed eating, he would still be alive. Case in point - microwave popcorn. You know how fucking bad that can be. Sure there are a couple of brands that aren't as bad, some are unsalted and un"buttered". But they are still not necessarily good food. Why do people snack ? Why is it when a movie starts you need that popcorn. I think it more tradition and if you really think about it, is popcorn really that good ? A bunch of specially dried kernels of corn that are later exploded into all weird shapes. Try that with Mexican jumping beans and you'll get some protein as well.
Why are people so orally fixated ? Some need constant food or a good substitute, others are happy just to chew on pens, or even their own nails or hair. However this oral fixation is a part of human nature, as an infant one has no idea why to eat, only an innate desire to eat. This kinda helps the survival process along of course. However this urge IMO should disappear early in life, earlier than most might think. Once self aware there should be other things with which to occupy one's time, like curiousity.
This is somewhat in relation to other threads that allude to the topic, but I know how to swing a hammer. If you refuse to take enjoyment from eating what does it gain ? Well for one it would eliminate all bad eating. It would eliminate overeating. If only one could give up that innate oral fixation, so to concentrate on what will sustain life the best way possible.
Now get this straight, I am not here to insult anyone, but I speak the truth as I see it, and indeed this is all my opinion and I will take responsibility for it. Call it full of shit and you are calling ME full of shit, so be it, and it wouldn't be the first time. But sometimes I see grown people getting into food so deeply that I see it as a sign of weakness. As always there will be a contingent of people who will claim "I can't help myself", and while that may be valid, it is exactly what I am talking about and proves my point to some extent.
To take in more than you need to exist and functtion well is exactly what makes people fat, or poisons them in some other way. One company I worked for ran a TV ad, and at the end a guy says "And you can save money for other things" as he sat in a recliner and grabbed a piece of pizza and a handful of potato chips. I understand the logic behind it, the guy was not stupid, he was appealing ORALLY, to sell fucking electronics. But never in my life have I even considered eating potato chips WITH pizza. That's not really the point. But I understand that the ad writers' perception was to hit the viewers' perception in that manner. As far as I know the guy is doing OK, though this was years ago.
Many years ago more food advertising was geared toward "does a body good", things like that. Now the focus it that it is easy and it tastes good, no matter if it is grown in the black dirt of Louisiana and watered with glacial milk or concocted in a chemical laboratory. Like the old coffee switch commercials, where someone is told they are drinking instant and not fresh, people could find out that the bowl of pudding they are enjoying was made from recycled car tires and think "Wow, what will they think of next ? " instead of puking it all out, which should be the normal reaction I would say.
The average reaction is not normal IMO, and that is the root problem. It is not the ads, it is people's susceptability to the ads, which amounts to vulnerability because it is killing people every day. And it didn't start yesterday either. Decades ago they were a singing "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down".
When you adopt that kind of (non)thinking you are supporting a cooperation between "food" manufacturers, media, the medical racket and possibly the government. All plotting to get or stay rich, it is still not a conspiracy. The cooperators who get and got rich define what is or is not a conspiracy therefore we shall have no talk of that.
But some of the lies in the forgery "Senate Document 264" are mistakenly accepted as fact in other countries. Those backward people in the rest of the world, what are we to do with them ? They live longer and healthier lives, and are so stupid we need to get them H1B visas to write computer programs, and design complex machinery and equipment. Sounds logical to me.
And that old guy who can pull a yacht swimming with his teeth attributes all of his health to having used some sort of juicer or whatever all his life, even though it was just invented last year. What about the last fifty years ? Surely he died without it. Must be one hell of a juicer.
In my case I am leaning toward the thinking that if it did not exist 100 years ago I do not want it. I CAN eat just one Lay's potato chip, and I don't like Sarah Lee. Nothing can persuade me now. Now I do watch the TV at work, and anything advertised thereon is on my shit list. Food does not need to be "sold".
I had quieted down on the subject of health because mine has gone downhill, but now that the problem has been identified I am BAAACK. I now assert that what happened to me would kill most people, and most of my RL friends agree, it was black mold. I had most of the symptoms and then the source of exposure was found. Since it's removal I have been getting better and better. People die from this shit, and everyone thought I was indeed going to die, but they underestimated ol Termy, which is usually the case anyway, I am used to it.
In retrospect, looking back at what I have done to myself in the way of abuse and misuse, the drinking the drugs, the partiying until 5AM and getting to work bt 8AM, then going to the bar, doing the M&Ms, which were microdot and mescaline (yes we know the difference, and they go well together), and the whiskey and the whores, the car wrecks and kicked down doors, I belong dead. That's right, my life would've killed most people. Pizza four times a week, the rest, fast food. Then the back and knee problems started. Don't ever let anyone tell you that losing the cartilage is permanent, I am WALKING proof that it is not. Don't ever let them tell you you will never walk again, I personally have known at least three people who have proven them wrong. Don't ever let them tell you that you will die of this or that in so many months, putting themselves in place of God. You want a God, try a church, not a hospital, or you could stop over here :-)
Some may equate my attitude as akin to being religious, "don't enjoy sex, it is solely for procreation", but it is not. Sex is decent exercise (if done properly :-) and it doesn't kill usually. I think what one eats is a bit more material to the fact.
If I saw someone eating a big huge lizard or snake or octopus or something I might go and ask "I don't mean to impose, but could I try a bite of that ?". But when I see the shit most people eat, it makes me sick. Big blue lemon flavored marshmallow cupcakes with powdered sugar. Endless varieties of killer potato chips, I do not use the word killer lightly. Soft drinks that I would not wash my feet in, nor even let touch my fifteen year old car, no matter how well it cleans the bumpers.
Remember the hundred year old thing ? Well I am old enough to have known some people who would be a hundred years old now. If they smoked they all say one same thing about smoking - "The tobacco os one thing, it's the filter that'll killya". How can that make sense, assuming that it does at all ? Note that these people lived relatively long and productive lives, in some cases being killed in accidents and so forth.
And that brings up another thing bout 100 yers ago, in fact back farther than that. People live longer now right ? I refute that as valid data. It is my assertion that it is indeed true that the avrage lifespan has been extended, however that it proves that we have learned anything and are doing something right is pure post hoc ergo propter hoc.
How does one calculate the average age of death in ay given society ? Simple, just add up all the people who died, put all their death ages together and average them out right ? Well that must be a solid figure right ? Raw data, something you can sink your teeth into right ?
Wrong. Consider this; in a society, whether it is a village or whatever you have the elders. They could be up in their 70s or 90s. Healthy as a horse, still fucking, still doing most of what they used to do. Those in their 60s are not applying for welfare, they are still working out in the fields. They might have youngins, they might still get a hardon like a teenager.
But, there is another society nearby and each is at odds with one another (never happen right > ) and there are wars. Who goes to war ? Now these older guys might still have a little fire in the chimney despite the snow on the roof but they are not always the best choice to send out to do battle. Of course you send the young, and ruthless to the battle, and many die. Now how many die, and how does that compare to the number of elders who live ? And what of those yet uncured diseases that killed many ? What does that do to the average life expectancy ? Therefor I assert that the numbers lie, even the raw numbers because these factors are not taken into consideration.
If we were to talk of the theoretical life expectancy, disregarding certain diseases, wars and natural disaster, I think the figures would be quite clear that we have not gained ground on this, and that in fact we have lost ground. What has happened is that instead of being in gunfights we watch them on TV. And that is only one example. You can have an absolutely fatal disease and the docs can prolong your "life" now, when before you would drop dead tomorrow. But with all these factors aside, I think we are losing, not gaining. I hope you follow what I am trying to say here, I am not in dispute with the numbers, but with how they are derived.
Enough tangent. I have seen people seemingly turn eating into a religious experience, mainly their mantra is MMMMMMMMMMMM. Why ? We have a sense of taste for a reason, and by the will of nature that sense is intended to steer us to eat what is good for us and not to eat what is not. If that is so it explains survival, you are just born, you want to eat, it becomes an oral thing. You taste what is good and what is bad.
In other words the sense of taste is a tool given to us by nature. If it tastes like berries or cherries, whatever it is probably OK, if it tastes like gasoline or toluene, whatever it is probably not OK. This is a survival tool inbred into each of us. But like the need for sex, one can go too far. I mean really if you are the horniest MF in the world and try to have sex with trees I don't care. But if you don't eat at least something right you'll not make it to pubrty so that's a moot point. What I said still stands then.
What's more the sense of smell is highly tied in. Just how different do you think the actual functioning of olfactory senses differ from taste ? They both do the same thing actually, just in a slightly different way. To boil it down to it's roots, each does a chemical analysis on what is taken into the body and reports it to the brain. Those of you who think computers are getting smart how about telling me what language the smell and taste sensors use to report to the brain. I won't hold my breath.
The problems associated with all this are thus IMO : People take these sensations to "heart" . Same with all perceptions. What was meant to be a survival tool is now an emotional crutch because people do not understand real emotion. All this crying and bullshit you see on TV is just that,,, BULLSHIT. WTF is a feelgood food ? That is totally fucking ridiculous. Same way with anything, this perfume will make you sexy, as well as this makeup and shit. Please the senses, not the sense.
And people think that is just fine when all the time that is exactly what is killing them. As a loose analogy, the words to an old song, about looks, but it applies to my basic point, which is that of importance and relevance :
If you wann be happy for the rest of your life,
Never make a prett Woman your Wife,
If you wanna make all of your dreams to come true,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
How does this relate ? You eat a bunch of sugar laden carbs you might get a burst of energy, but it wears off and it cost your body, that energy did not come from the junk. I know there is a fuel mixture that would triple the HP of any car, but it would burn up the engine. You could win one race, but it will be your last. Want the formula ? I don't. The problem is that most would.
But then if you eat say some scrambled eggs in the morning with who knows, but no sugar and not too much carbs, instead f needing lunch by noon other than dropping dead, you blood sugar os so rock solid that you could work for threee days straight with nothing. This is how we must think. There is too much focus on immediate gratification, meeting immediate needs. That was the role of a Mother when you were an infant, them day are over. You don't need to eat at 4AM. You don't have to stop the whole assembly line at work so you can eat a cookie. You aren't so starving to death that you need to run your car into a tree because you are looking for a breast in a bucket of chicken from KFC. This actually happened to someone I know. What a dweeb.
Dweeb paid. I have done alot of things and I got the call, or was the first one to answer it. Whichever, I took my big long crane chain and his tree, straightened the frame, then the core support and then the body. I soldered the radiator, it was not corroded, it was broken so this was possible. So with about 30 cents in materail and a day's work I mad about 150 or so doing this, and this was in the eighties.
Why couldn't he just take that bucket of chicken home ? Was he starving ? Let's see, he was an insurance salesman and had a side business as well. He lived in the suburbs and had multiple cars, as well as concubines. He hardly ever had less than a nickel ($500) in his pocket. I don't think he was about to starve to fucking death.
This is long enough, get in edgewise while you can :-)
T
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