The Adventures of Bloggard

Been Around the Block. Got Some Stories. These are Them.

How to Research to Replace Anti-Depressants (and more!)

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Antidepressants often have “side-effects.” (This is BigPharma-talk for “poisoning.)

But the side-effect/poisoning/bullcrap varies hugely with the different pills. Details …

https://theconversation.com/antidepressants-physical-side-effects-vary-depending-on-the-drug-type-new-research-268010

How to FREE YOURSELF from BigPharma Poisoning

Realize that there are several things that often work as well, or better, than BigPharma pills. These include:

  • simple, daily doses of exercise; and
  • fresh, single-ingredient, non-poisoned foods; and
  • a number of inexpensive supplements

Of course, you gotta *learn* about these. Don’t just read adverts, because those are not to be trusted and will send you all over the place.

How to CREATE your Personal, Accurate RESEARCH to Find What’s True …

Here’s a simple way to find out, from actual studies, what’s true: Get a copy of Perplexity, an AI-research panel, and it comes with Comet, a clean and fast browser that’s very smart about finding things, because it uses Perplexity.

You can get it here: https://www.perplexity.ai/

Then ask it questions like, for example: What are the health benefits of exercise. (Get a list, then look at the list for the benefits most of interest to you.) Then ask “What kinds of exercise most provide [plug in benefits here]? Then, keep asking more-detailed questions from its answers until you now know exactly what kind of exercise, how long, how often, and what it will get you. This works amazingly well, you stop being a farm-animal belonging to BigPharma, and you can fix your problem, inexpensively. Try it and you’ll like it. 🙂

Then, do the same thing to find out what’s true about single-ingredient, non-poisoned foods for your body. Then do the same thing to find out what’s true about herbs and supplements. You can ask questions about what’s best for a male/female of your age and your weight. You can find out optimum dosages. You can find out which supplements on Amazon give the best result for the least money. You begin to be the boss of you. Finally. 🙂

Lastly, you can create a folder on your desktop. It might have sub-folders for exercise, food, and supplements.) And the Perplexity research tool will allow you to save each “thread” as a pdf, so you begin to have your very own, personalized, research on hand. Neatoid, Lloyd! 🙂

Can You Have a Completely Original Thought?

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August 11, 2024, Facebook profile of Richard Stillwagon …

Here is a challenging question:
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Can you have a completely original thought or idea?

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Or does your upbringing, culture, education, and world experience shape those thoughts and ideas?
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I have been watching and interacting with conversations about education, politics, religion, indoctrination in general, science, and philosophy.
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All of these conversations are skewed by the bias of each person’s education and life experience. This would seem obvious. But, it is tragically not apparent to those speaking! They believe their opinions to be universal truths. They don’t see that the opinions they have come from the collective consciousness of the environment they keep themselves in, and rarely move from that stance when presented new information.
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It takes an intelligent and critical thinking mind to be self-aware of it’s own biases. To understand that you favor one side or another of a topic and be capable of evaluating that bias and adjusting it based on new information is an incredibly rare ability.
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Humans are creatures of habit.

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That is a cliche because it is true. We resist change even though we know and experience the fact that it is constantly happening.
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Why then do we resist the possibility that new information could alter the conditions of a controversial subject? The answers are: fear, pride, prejudice and ego. We fear change. We take pride in what we think we know. We are prejudiced toward what we prefer and against that which we don’t understand or find distasteful. Finally our ego is so fragile, that we can’t stand to be seen as fallible. I experience these things myself, but I try to be aware of them and try to adjust when when compelling information is presented.
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To know that everything we currently believe has been part of an incomplete education since birth can be a freeing understanding. Knowing that everything we have learned could be outdated,incorrect, incomplete, only a portion of the whole, the beginning of a greater understanding, and a continual education should allow you to open your mind to new information. It should protect your ego and allow for adjustments in opinions on subjects.
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If you can explain why you feel strongly about a subject, then, when presented new information that alters that view, you should be able to explain the change in your opinion without fear or embarrassment. I respect that much more than someone that cannot, or worse, will not learn from new evidence that gives a new and additional insight into an issue. It isn’t waffling on your stance. It is the wisdom to adjust an opinion afforded by the opportunity of seeing a more complete and sometimes very complex picture.and adjusting your position based on that new evidence.
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Original thoughts if not impossible, must be exceedingly rare. But I think evolving thoughts and ideas that improve and become more complete are of tremendous value and should be encouraged

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Creating Your Reality

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Today I was online reading something, and I was *so* tempted to respond in argument with something that someone said.

Even knowing better, I find it hard to stop myself, all too often.

And my particular reason for desiring to restrain myself is this —

A) We greatly create our own experience of life (our reality) by the thoughts we harbor in our heads. Some say these thoughts actually create reality, but for certain they create our experience of life.

B) If you create ill-will thoughts, no matter where you intend to aim them, you are creating ill-will thoughts. And it’s in YOUR head.

C) You suffer as a result of the painful thoughts in your head, and it paints your picture of your universe, and you create your painful experience of life.

D) The more you focus thought on negative stuff (problems and pain), the more you overlook (or miss) many of your opportunities, and you miss out on enjoying the bliss you could be enjoying from your life.

E) So it boils down to — It’s your gun. It’s your foot. Do What Thou Wilt.

Want to live in a world of devils? Or a world of bliss? Although it may seem strange the first time you hear this, with a bit of practice, it is actually possible to control your own mind, and your thoughts WILL create your happiness (or suffering) in this life.

(A word to the wise is sufficient. Let he that hath ears hear!)

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How to Let Go of Sadness or Worry In Only 3 Minutes

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January 28, 2019, Mount Shasta, CA — Do you ever feel sad or worried?

Well, no problem! Here’s how to let it go in under 3 minutes.

Just follow these steps …
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  • Sit down, relax, take a deep breath, and at the top of the breath …
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  • Feel your mind go still.
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  • As you slowly exhale, feel the stillness flowing down into your body.
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  • Note the feelings of relaxation in your body.
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  • Now imagine a [Read more…]

Multiple Universes?

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Medford, Oregon, May 6, 2018 — Sometimes I’m kind of material-minded, and think “down to earth” thoughts. Other times I feel rather woo-woo, but there it is.

I believe there are multiple universes, our physical universe being but one. And that, in a way, these can be pictured as all in ONE place, but “invisible” and generally inaccessible to each other. My hippie years suggest they have a different vibration, but really I’ve no clue, and because time and space seem to be pretty darn twisty anyway, it may be that 70 million light-years away may sometimes be as nearby as the house next door, under the right conditions.

And I believe that these universes are infinite, and that more are created all the time.

I *suspect* that every time one of mus makes a decision it *may* spin off another child universe which is the same except for that decision which was made, so there is a YOU in many or most of them.

Now because of decisions made by someone else way back, perhaps in some of those universes you are the Queen of England, and in another it’s called the Queenie of Poodlesnoot, and in another you’re living under a [Read more…]

“Astro-Turfing” – How Media Manipulates Us with Fake Information

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Medford, Oregon and TED Talk, October 28, 2017 — Surprising information —

  • 90% of news media are controlled by six corporations. As a result,much of what you read and see can be an orchestrated story created by special interest groups
  • “Astro-Turf” means to falsify fake news, fake “information” so it appears to be a grass-roots movement. (IE: “fake grass”)
  • Alas, Wikipedia is often hijacked, because pages can be controlled by anonymous editors on behalf of special interests who reverse edits that go against their hidden agenda

Those of you who know me may remember that I’m not big on conspiracy theories because I think (a) humans do poorly at keeping a secret, and because (b) humans are poor at concerted action. Few events, however dreadful, require explanation of a wide conspiracy, when simple greed will suffice as explanation.

And I think that simple greed may be operating here, because …

Special interests have permeated our government, and with the weakening of newspaper revenues their journalistic integrity has slipped. Yesterday in conversation with a friend who once ran a department at the New York Times I heard confirmation that media’s ability to generate accurate original reporting is far less than what it once was.

An Eye-Opening Article about How We Are Tricked

Here is an eye-opening article which seems sound, spelling out how [Read more…]

I Gotta Espress Mysef!

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Medford, Oregon, March 28, 2017: A friend on Facebook was wailing about expressing her feelings, and the resulting reactions from others that didn’t go well. And it took me back, to remember …

I don’t remember where or when, or what had just happened, but I recall the exact moment, so many years ago, that I had a brainstorm, and I realized that I didn’t need to share every thought I had, every view, every observation, every opinion.

I realized that everyone else around me was busy living their own lives, and that at any given moment they had their own battles (sometimes bigger than mine, and certainly bigger to them). So there were good times for me to share my views, and (lots of times) to not share my views at all.

And I felt — But I gotta express myself! — and then realized that no, actually, I didn’t gotta, and sometimes it would be self-destructive for me to do so, or damaging or hurtful to others around me, in spite of my powerful urge to do so.

Well, my life didn’t change over night, but over years, it did.

And now I sometimes share “who I am” and sometimes I don’t. Because, really, you are who you are, but what you do — talk, express yourself, remain silent, wave your arms, sit quietly — these are just behaviors.

Who you are is an eternal truth, and only evolves over time as you learn and grow. But mere behaviors? They are within your control, to select (or not) in each moment to advance your survival, and the survival of those around you.

That’s my two cents. Maybe it might be a useful viewpoint to explore.

Or maybe not.

 
 

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