He was "addicted" to carbs long before he was addicted to opioids.
You want me to take this thread into c/FatPeopleHate territory? Cuz I'm game if you are.
I'm quaker. We're... second only to muslims about taking a hardline when it comes to substance vice.
Basically, I categorically reject the argument of psychiatry that chemical addiction can override will. A person relapses not because of chemistry but because of a lapse of will. That's not worthy of pity, it's deserving of contempt.
The summary I heard leans me towards the interpretation that he realized he was going to fail at going cold turkey and tried doing an induced coma to sidestep the chemical withdrawal suffering.
THAT is what I look down on.
That he tried to take an easy way out instead of spending weeks on end confronting the constant fight between compulsion and will. When I've seen plenty of evidence to the contrary that people who have actually resolved to do a thing, they won't be stopped. This is how people can voluntarily starve themselves to death. Will is stronger than compulsion. If you have decided.
There are people who are capable of taking their experienced pain and suffering and turning it into more conviction that pushes them on to suffer even more. Jordan Peterson is not such a person.
He took the laziest way out of addiction and it almost killed him.
I'm not accommodating to people who try to skirt withdrawal through means other than hard cold turkey. I've experienced chemical withdrawal, I know the sensation, and I have a dim view of people who don't have the will to muscle past compulsion.
Frank Herbert said it right: "Take your hand from the box, young human, and look at it."
Will is stronger than compulsion. Anyone who says otherwise lacks conviction.
Jordan Peterson - he backed the vax
That's what you're gonna go with? Not the fact that he got himself addicted to drugs (or had a dirty room that one time)?
I like JP, but he'll always be a flawed messenger. However, he is a SELF CONSCIOUS flawed messenger, which is somewhat redeeming.
What is FSS?
Mamoru Nagano's Five Star Stories. There was a partial english release but it'll never be completed. Vol 11 through 16 were never localized (the english numbering doesn't match up to the JP numbering; there technically are 26 US volumes corresponding to the first 10 JP tankobons).
The correct mindset is to realize that these things are beyond your ability to control the trajectory of what they become.
Confronted with this, you can either rage about it to no effect, or walk away and create new things.
This is why for the last year I've been translating the back six volumes of FSS (since nobody else is).
I think you're approaching this with entirely the wrong mindset. You need to examine what really matters and reorient yourself.
Is it just me or does this article sound like it's getting ahead of something?
Something? Yes.
What you think?
I'm gonna say no, it's something else.
Reality is Britain, like America, has a shit ton of obese people and that's a contributing factor to basically every cardiovascular condition you can possibly have.
The motivated ones might try for STEM anyway but they won't see any help through scholarships, internships, or lab time.
And forget about being an undergrad assisting on a post-grad research project. That always disgusted me how blatant it was back in engineering school.
Yang using his half-circle
Don't pretend the "tactics" in LotGH make sense. They don't.
Treat the battles as "ooo, that's nice" and pay it no more mind because the author and storyboarders couldn't be assed to think. The author wanted WW1 in space and got to it by not even trying to understand space as an environment.
Huh.
Well, both Exodus and Excalibur seem like appropriate names, and both are NA.