Lmfao imagine downvoting someone obviously making a joke in addition to providing specialist insight. Lmoa even.
Is the graph to scale or not to scale? Do you acknowledge that graphs can start at numbers other than zero? Here’s a sock for you to cry into
Last time I checked it was something like:
56% nord, 20% redguard, 13% dark elf, 4% wood elf, and the rest a mishmash of argonians and the other furry races
Oh wait sorry I misread your question, the TES wiki might have what you’re looking for
It actually is “to scale” but hilarity ensues when you swap the bars for body silhouettes and truncate the data to 5ft. You normally will truncate data like this when you’re looking to “zoom in” on the differences.
Uninformed pRedditors like to complain about data truncation (and other things, like correlation/causation dynamics) which is I guess why this graph showed up on r/mildlyinfuriating, when I personally would have classified it on r/fuckinghilarious if I still had an account
Here’s a blog post on data truncation:
https://digitalblog.ons.gov.uk/2016/06/27/does-the-axis-have-to-start-at-zero-part-1-line-charts/
It makes me picture those tiny dinosaurs from the later jurassic parks which hunt in packs to overwhelm, which I guess is what Indonesians are like
Head and shoulders above any other possible scale
The scale is right there on the side wym?
r*dditors (the absolute faggots) are pissing and shidding themselves over this graph but all I can think is how much I want to kick indonesians like soccer balls after seeing it
https://www.unz.com/ishamir/why-do-the-jews-love-antisemitism/
Oddly relavent article posted today - thoughts?
The Wim Hof method specifically?
My understanding of it is:
Hyperventilation for ~30 deep breaths in
Deep breath out, hold until discomfort
Deep breath in, hold until discomfort
Repeat steps 1-3 a few times
While interesting and demonstrably “effective” in its own rights, it should be noted his method is basically a far older school of practice (gTummo yoga) chopped up and (unfortunately) often sold as a form of “self-help”. Which, while it is both understandable (he’s gotta eat) and valid in its own rights (I’ve heard it’s helped many people), by making it all about “Wim” and his “Method”, much of the ancient wisdom about our underlying “hardware” gets totally glossed over in favor of selling an “experience” which you can sign up to partake in
Great, thanks for the links. I'll have a read when I can.
Cheers, I hope it all points you in helpful directions
On a quick skim, the Greek guy seems a bit overcome by fanboyism, but I don't consider that a reason to discount his whole account.
Perhaps, but given the perspective being presented (something a child of the modern world might liken to “finding master yoda”, or more accurately something like “finding master lao tzu”), like you allow for, I can see where it’s coming from and don’t hold it against either the book or the author
I'm more than just open to it, I'm actually fixated on questions of consciousness these days. I have a collection of reflections and ramblings in a text file which I feel some sort of moral responsibility to try and turn into a book or something some day
I feel like I know where you’re coming from. I too feel an urge to produce something like a series of articles on substack, diving in depth into specific subjects then hopefully ascending back out to link it all together cogently and cohesively, something which it feels like is only ephemerally present in my head. And I struggle similarly with committing myself to the task. One need only read into the life of someone like Chang to begin to understand the levels of commitment required to achieve anything approaching “mastery”, but I see value in even the uninitiated attempting to “report” what they’ve found in their studies.
This could prompt me to look into the Tao/Dao some more since it seems like it could have a lot of overlap
I really hope it does, I’ve personally found such astounding variety and amounts of wisdom in these traditions that I’m convinced they’re “onto something” - as opposed to the generic western explanation of “a stopped clock is right twice a day” kind of mentality towards “eastern wisdom” broadly speaking.
Because we are dealing with translation, I find referring to a variety of sources as important as for example biblical scholars might be. To that end, I’ve posted two English translations of the Tao Te Ching (“the” book of Taoism) in the past:
https://communities.win/c/Manna/p/17teNpuIaW/the-tao-te-ching/c
This version I personally find provides the most impactful translation which speaks more to me than the attempts at more literal or less esoteric translation often attempted by the “academics”.
https://communities.win/c/HumanPotential/p/141ra5FBnM/tao-te-ching-full-text-8x-compar/c
This version is a comparative collection of 8 different translations hosted by Boston University. Quite interesting to use to dive into specific word and phrase choices.
Here’s some interesting little tidbits I’ll leave you with that I’ve always found interesting:
Lao Tzu appears to translate most accurately to “wise old man” or when taken literally “Mr. Wise Man”
Confucius is a bit of a bastardization of his name. In this context, you might be surprised to learn his name is perhaps more accurately translated as Kung-Fu Tzu, or rendered literally “Mr. Kung-Fu”
Chang, if you take his words at face value (and I’ve found no reason not to), claims his lineage of “internal martial arts”, aka “qi gong / chi kung”, known as Mo Pai, traces its roots to a contemporary of Lao Tzu and Kung-Fu Tzu known as Mo Tzu:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi
Some really interesting things in there.
The Wim Hof stuff is interesting. It bleeds over into stuff I've been dwelling on recently with regards to the process/nature of consciousness itself and what it means for an individual's sense of purpose and their 'self-actualisation', which feeds back around to health in the end, either directly through some undiscovered process or indirectly through the kinds of general health decisions one ends up making.
You sound like you’d be interested in and open to considering the following:
Here is research on the practice (gTummo yoga) that Hof states is the foundation of his practice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WajTafbG7II
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/04/meditation-changes-temperatures/
https://www.nature.com/articles/295234a0
"During visits to remote monasteries in the 1980s, Benson and his team studied monks living in the Himalayan Mountains who could, by g Tum-mo meditation, raise the temperatures of their fingers and toes by as much as 17 degrees. It has yet to be determined how the monks are able to generate such heat."
Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical, also published in the journal nature.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130408084858.htm
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0058244
"The researchers collected data during the unique ceremony in Tibet, where nuns were able to raise their core body temperature and dry up wet sheets wrapped around their bodies in the cold Himalayan weather (-25 degree Celsius) while meditating."
Where I believe this all leads, to your point about consciousness, admittedly flies in the face of much of what we are told about the world and it’s mechanisms:
https://communities.win/c/HumanPotential/p/141rVOZOu0/perhaps-the-most-important-video/c
In addition to the video footage, in the past westerners have been able to seek out Chang and train under him. A Greek engineer managed to find him and trained for a decade with him and wrote a book trying to apply a scientific approach to what he witnessed and experienced. This book really shines an interesting light on not just the what observed in the video, but investigates possible answers for the how as well. In addition, it's just a highly engrossing book if approached with an open mind.
PDF of the book:
https://www.sacred-magick.com/free/files/The%20Magus%20of%20Java.pdf
Two things which early on convinced me there was a lot more to the story of “healthcare”:
- the mindless praise heaped upon vaccines for “eradicating” certain viruses, while totally neglecting or deceptively conflating the wide array of factors which changed at the time. Such as you mention polio, cases had dropped to a tiny fraction of their height in the years leading up to the introduction of the vaccine, yet all the credit for this reduction is impossibly attributed to the vaccine:
Tied into this point, is the fact that many commonly prescribed medicines don’t even exceed the performance of placebo (such as antidepressants). This indicates that these medicines are actually useless, and the governing factor is our bodies health, how well we’ve maintained our natural defense systems, and oddly importantly, our “outlook” or our “desire to live” you could say. If we abolished big pharma and put all that money into researching “the placebo effect”, I think we might finally start making progress in health/”medicine” again.
- Wim Hof demonstrating that through conscious control of the so-called “autonomic” nervous system, he and anyone following a similar protocol could, through nothing but their will, rebuff the effects of an endotoxin (“deactivated” virus that normally triggers a “useless” but harmful immune system response)
It’s because they were using Space AKs aka RayK47s :
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/andor-ak47-weapon-99.jpg?quality=75&strip=all
I think it would be interesting if you made a post about how you explain the state of the world, vis a vis these topics of subversion and outside control of America. Maybe use an alt?
59 standing ovations for bini from the uni party Congress. What’s going on? It seems like the only thing the uniparty agrees on is subservience to israel. How do you explain that? How far back does it go? 1967? 1948? 1913? Earlier? Why is it that any other kind of dual citizenship is viewed as nefarious and shady, yet were expected to applaud like seals when zionist congressmen wear their idf uniforms to a vote? Shits crazy.
Do you acknowledge how opinions on this subject are bound to fall on a spectrum, the vast majority of which aren’t as “extreme” as you portray? Hell, even the idea of “intertemporal race war” which you use dismissively, can be rationally described by a scholarly work like The Culture of Critique.
I know you to be someone who comes to his opinions logically, even if we sometimes come to different conclusions. Why not explain your views and where you think people are falling off a cliff with their views? You could contribute to pulling some back from the edge
My belief is that the human body’s defense systems are the main governing factor to “catching” as disease: living in a war zone, starving, being wounded, being poisoned, even living like someone in San Francisco, these all leave the body in a weakened state, susceptible to “diseases” that would have otherwise been rebuffed by the body’s own systems.
Basically, I’m talking about the difference between Magic Johnson living with aids for over 30 years, while most “san franciscians” died after a year or two. It has far less to do with “magic dr fauci aids medicine” and far more to do with him “cleaning up” his life after the diagnoses in the early 90s.
Just the shills slide posting garbage. It’s funny you’re still unable to point to a single unjustified post removal. Quit responding to me if you’re so incapable of such basic things
Ah so nothing but your feefees, figured
iirc the “early adopters” started suffering heart failures at altitude, and the airlines quietly swept any “mandates” under a rug
I don’t like low effort slide posts meant to divide and conquer*
What interesting information is present here? What does that information have to do with this forum’s moderation?
Simple questions, can you manage them?
It’s literally a screenshot of facebooks rules with two randomly highlighted - it doesn’t get more low effort. Do you have any specific examples of posts removed over reasons like these you want to complain about? Or is it just a general feefee of yours and you can’t point to specifics?
Just following some links from the video:
The woman (phoebe gittins) who decided to center the story around a literally unnamed nobody, is the daughter of one of the script writers for the real LotR movies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Boyens
Which explains how her braindead daughter both got to cameo in the old movies and somehow get one of the writer jobs for this abomination
Edit: actually it’s worse than that - mommy has “story by” and “produced by” credits on this while daughter gittens has “screenplay by” and “main character invented by”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_War_of_the_Rohirrim
This post should be removed for being low effort dogshit
Hell, that’s basically the goal of every industry these days, at the top. They don’t want to cure your low insulin levels, they want you to take one of their injections 3 times a day until you die. They don’t want you to own physical media of any kind, they want you subbed and auto-renewing so that your kids are paying the Netflix bill a decade after you’ve died to diabetes.
I think I heard Bret Weinstein go on about this topic well, back on JRE or somewhere like that. Rent seeking and game theory and how they’ve led to our modern shitshow
“No gassing”
Yeah, it’s a German thing
Based and pierogi pilled
All these references to manlet psychology had me scratching my head
Is this what the little people mean by “tall privilege”?