Posts made by Corngold

@wester130

Oh yeah. Now, the Peat-as-Communism thing has a little truth, but I don't think that's the big picture and I don't think government systems are directly changed by the will of the people, or that those people achieve anything "better" for long.

I more or less am currently dying on the hill that "depression" is metabolic not psychological. The psychological side I would say enters in when one gains more physical metabolic energy. Energized, one sees who absolutely de-energized and suffocated the real world is. Chem-trails cover the sky every day, a fake virus shuts down the world for nearly 3 years and still to this day in plenty of "advanced" countries. Meanwhile, anger is blamed on toxic masculinity and humor is derided as offensive. They are choking out all signs of life, because genuine life lives, forgives and grows; it opposes psychotherapy and Freudian deceptions...

Anger - action has been replaced with indifference and drug addiction. Health and family have been replaced with abortion, pornography, and gimmicky snake oil businesses.

I would say what little "locking in" we do can begin with intellectualism, which is scolded and looked down upon by the idiotic bureaucrats and those who enable them. Goggins is yelling at you, telling you to become the best warrior monk you can be. Read voraciously, remember things, think and study language. But yeah, I empathize.

@winters

Not sure but I'm guessing it would be because nearly all other minerals or metal minerals can be deficient and cause problems.

I think what is difficult is to interpret cravings. Trying to limit and remove seed oil / pufa I've noticed I don't actually crave those things as much. Like, I'm not eating fried chicken or fried stuff much anymore. I like Chinese but really limit stuff like this and don't crave it so much.

However I ate some good dark chocolate and couldn't get enough of it... I think you may be onto something.

@Hearthfire

True, this is one of my irritations.
It's a net positive overall because a lot of these ideas aren't supported anywhere else, and yes, obviously a lot of the science was from Eastern Europe and Russia and is dated and suppressed in the West, until the military began doing similar studies. Anyways, I am not a dogmatic Peatard.

I get that sometimes good things need to be gate-kept, but then the Peaters all paradoxically become the philosopher kings which theoretically would be health bureaucrats, and would be despised by the true P-rol-eat-arian.

I think Peat is an analogue of Pythagoras; there seem to be basic levels of initiation and authority even in the online sphere, clearly... isn't it all mostly online though?

@gg12

1000%, yes, it actually is all connected in complex ways.

Peat is one of the first people I've found who connected dots instead of specializing in types of dots, so to speak.

I don't think Invisible Rainbow talk a lot about vaccines, but it does mention seasonal flu epidemic being related to the solar cycle, and that "seasonal" flu is probably also connected to electricity sickness (5G / Covid hypothesis). Makes a good case for microwaves / radio waves causing stress and disease but also mentions some of the good uses of it.

Interestingly the solar cycle has been measured as 11 year, 22 year, 40 year, 80, 200, 400, etc. In fact... if you extrapolate the major "cycle" periods astronomers have measured you find that these periods increase at a rate very close to the Golden Ratio phi which is 1.618, and that this also aligns with noted "Milankovitch cycles" (11k-yr, 25k-yr, 41k-yr, 100k-yr, etc). By the way, I'll add that you should check out the Tychos model (it is not FE) if you are interested in astronomy or if you've ever found problems with heliocentrism: https://www.tychos.space/

In the thread on communism and Peat it is worth mentioning Alexander Chizhevsky who was a Russian astronomer and biologist studying solar cycles and human civilization. This is all "very Peaty," in my book.

I'm skeptical of vaccines at this point. Seems more like a poisoning or control mechanism, and nothing to do with healing.

Agree on SSRIs and other pills - read Robert Whitaker "Anatomy of an Epidemic" for more on the prozac/depression drug complex - I'm sure you already know the whole scam. Glad I never took any of that, but was pressured many times.

Agree on orthodontics - I've seen people deal with this. The causes also seem to be processed food, bad posture, possibly fluoride or fluoridosis, etc. Yeah as you say this one is pretty strange, but mouth vs nasal breathing is immediately changeable and do-able for people, but nobody ever hears about this.

I would add weather modification, but nobody can change this one. However, most people do not believe it's real.

Others:
-running
-smart watches and over-use of phones and computers (whoops)
-rap music
-tackle football

@risingfire
I'm mostly joking. Nothing against them, I think they're doing good work and are honest from what I can tell.

This is only to say the viewpoint seems to be that Ray was infallible, or that his messengers were, too.

@Serotoninskeptic

THIS is insane!
Have you read The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg?
It's a must read.
For example, he notes that electricity entered homes / became widespread in the 50s and 60s. Seed oils began to rise around the same time, so by the 80s and 90s both seed oils and electricity were ubiquitous.
Then, enter obesity, diabetes, cancer, etc. If this is accurate, then my, oh my, his case is stronger, and Peat's case is stronger.
Incredible stuff.

@Jakeandpace

No. I've heard people say B12 or B6, or B complex can really help, and this was years ago, but I've never taken vitamins or B complex.

Is allithiamine in garlic not the same thing as thiamine? I eat lots of garlic but not sure if the B vitamins are very high in it.
I want to get vitamins only through food. It appears to me that most manufactured vitamins and supplements are tainted or poor quality. I understand there are arguments for trying to boost these vitamins temporarily. I'm also thinking I could be deficient in B vitamins because I don't eat as much fruit / citrus as I could.

@VehmicJuryman said in Ray Peat name drop during American Communist Party convention speech:

"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." - Nikita Khrushchev

Well, Hitler also had been installing or attempting to install Nationalist parties in Hungary and Eastern Europe, France, Italy, etc.

My view is this war as with most others was clearly about money. My understanding is once again that Germany was not all that powerful, that these puppet colonies were not successful due to natural in-fighting and Socialist pressure from the East and native Jewry. The Allied powers saw their opportunity to divide and conquer the fascist / Axis territory. It wasn't about blood or ideology, totally a function of economics.

@Rah1woot

Oh my... I must be a closet communist.
Seriously though, "Oppose Book Worship" is a good read. It is pertinent for those wading in the sea of information and disinformation today.

I see Wittgenstein and Heidegger as having a similar view on language. LW's "private language" argument is primitive but relevant and somewhat sets the stage for post-structuralism. Proper communication depends on terms whose meanings are agreed upon. And to agree upon a standard of meaning which can be communicated to others, one has to pretty much accept a limit of self-projection into language. Which, I think, to me, often means that effective communication is isolating and counter-intuitive. It is tautological, and really becomes a mere tool. I suppose this view has a strong Marxist angle. I believe Wittgenstein was long interested in Russia, and visited Moscow and Leningrad.

But that's quite the rabbit-hole - language as a mere tool which can be used by the state or by an economy, or any other social unit. It really does help us see through the political theater, though, I think, given how a politicians words, mannerisms, accents, ideas, and humor changes depending on the setting.

Western democracy is basically a realization of game theory. As in, the idea of competitive markets or capitalism is always strong vs weak. Price-fixing is the closest thing to a "win-win" where select monopolies can all profit equally. When there is uncertainty, each company has the schizo quality of being paranoid about competitors. The most successful must also be the most paranoid with a persecution complex, but also willingness to survive against the odds, which can simply be a will that goes beyond morals and laws (which I think is the case).

@Mauritio

Call me simple-minded but doesn't this go back to the idea of eating Jell-O? This is what our grandparents always ate when sick, but also for dessert, for lunches, etc. (50s were a different time).

What is the main difference between glycine and gelatin?

@LetTheRedeemed

I think science is definitely institutionalized, more so in certain disciplines than others, but generally all of it.

Generally Tristan und Isolde is great, Tannhäuser also. All of Bruckner's symphonies but definitely #6, #5, #8, #9, #3 Mahler symphony 7 is gaudy but really good, #3 is a masterpiece.

I appreciate classical guitar; Spanish guitar music is a huge world I've only recently gotten into.

@Ecstatic_Hamster

Are the claims about aspirin's cancer-shrinking effects Ray or Georgi / Danny spoke about backed up in any human studies?

@sneedful said in Mediterranean and Peat-arian:

good cheese

favorite cheeses?

mine:

Parmigiano Reggiano
Camembert
Blue Cheese and Roquefort
St. Angel
Cheddar
Peccorino Romano

@dapose said in Mediterranean and Peat-arian:

But a better name for the Mediterranean diet at least in some areas could be the Cheese diet.

Very interesting. Hard cheese would be high-ish protein and low-ish fat, then, right? I love peccorino and reggiano, and just about every other kind of cheese.

@Rah1woot said in Ray Peat name drop during American Communist Party convention speech:

Only what is Real has a right to exist.

Marxism and Socialism are limited by scientific materialism, just as much as a republic or democracy is. Parmenides is of some help when he states we can only talk about "what is." My issue is this: is language the only thing of importance? Our speech is willed into "is" too. If we say "nothing," then we have willed nonsense into existence. The moral guidebooks of any major religion are of course examples of language and often said to be the word of God, or the words from a source higher than everything and immutable.

The problem of the USA is like the problem of Rome - endless plunder, corruption, and little genuine innovation or self-sufficiency. The laws also become like the moral guidebooks of a religion ("sacred democracy"). My belief is the sham religion America is supposed to believe is a gnostic individualism (Harold Bloom), and, at the same time, a "sacred democracy" formed by the active "will of the people" who demand, and are entitled to "representation," like @LetTheRedeemed mentioned with the French Revolution and American Revolution.

The problem with this, I think, is that it is basically grand-scale solipsism. Cicero said "the more laws, the less justice." The US is large and isolating; the people hardly have any representation, so their will is hardly accounted for in any meaningful way.

We can see lately the many lunacies which have been given "a right to exist" because of the absurdly liberal interpretations of the 1st amendment. So, again, "freedom of speech" can be the freedom for the proliferation of nonsense. I guess I'm guilty of favoring education reforms that might better instill ideas of decency in language, as language is the tool of thought.

@LetTheRedeemed said in Ray Peat name drop during American Communist Party convention speech:

and this produced the greatest art humanity has ever known, the baroque era.

Neat post. But, I think the Romantic or "Late Romantic" era produced better art ;). Bruckner, Wagner, Mahler. The sciences and astronomy were also unhinged in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

@Rah1woot said in Ray Peat name drop during American Communist Party convention speech:

This is true. Hence the application of Lysenkoism in the USSR, especially its preoccupation with frost-hardening of plants: https://archive.is/IC4Je

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This is a fascinating idea. I'm aware that much of the advanced science, biology, physics, etc was taking place in Soviet Russia and other Soviet countries. I think this is "in spite of" and not "because of" the governance system, though. For example, there is plenty of art or music from the Soviet era, but much of it conforms to certain aesthetic ideals. Schnittke came about in a more liberal time; Shostakovich supposedly lived in fear during Stalin's regime, for example. Physics, chemistry, and natural sciences were being developed in Germany throughout the 19th century. But I think Germany's importance was due to it's geographic centrality in Europe after the peak of colonialism and new industrialization, not because governance.

@LetTheRedeemed said in Ray Peat name drop during American Communist Party convention speech:

Yeah the intelligentsia of all of the west was entirely pro-communist — up to the top of the Roosevelt administration. All the cool people — from Hollywood to journalists to universities, were pro-communists. Lucile Ball was an example of communism sympathies, exhibited in the popular/cool crowds of the west. Not to mention the US govt funding them thru the Red Cross in Russia proper. The only people opposing them at the time was pre-war US state dept, the US navy, and the old untrendy WASPs of the aristocracy.

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Very well put.

I meant to elaborate on how communism or Fabian socialism etc. were A-OK for the ruling elite, oligarchs, pop culture icons, but not necessarily pushed onto the masses. The Congress for Cultural Freedom and things like Tavistock with the Beatles and 60s "beatniks" to me demonstrate a really layered approach to sowing chaos within the host cultures in western countries.

My thought is "Communism" and "Fascism" and "Liberal Democracy" can't really describe the sorts of power structures and governance the west or anywhere else is operating within. I guess "Populism" is a pretty good term which basically shows a "big tent" political movement that is defying previous party boundaries of Rep. or Dem. at least in the US but probably South America, while the Nationalist/Right parties in Europe are obviously using similar tactics.

@Rah1woot said in Ray Peat name drop during American Communist Party convention speech:

I think you're missing the point. Ideologically the blast furnaces are constructed in the backyard in a way to be extremely cheap. Hence "Great Leap Forward". The same is exactly the Peatarian method for brain improvement, as none of its interventions are ludicrously expensive.

Ok that's fine, but seriously, to think the Peatarian diet is not benefitting from the same exploitative third world labor it supposedly wants to replace is short-sighted.

Orange juice, coffee, fruit, coconut oil, chocolate, etc., is almost all coming from equatorial and poor countries.

A true Peatarian diet could not exist without the western neoliberal capitalist economy, and arguably can only exist in wealthier or western countries. It is to me pretty humorously displaying the ironies of communist or socialist idealism, as well as the paradoxes of right wing or ethno-nationalist "rigidity."

What is truly Peatarian would end up being ancestral local diet which is either high carb or high fat but not the so-called swamp of western SAD diet.

Anyways, I don't think Peat's philosophies and science should be reduced to politics. I don't even think it's relevant, unless one is trying to live in accordance with permaculture / communitarian ideals which is great for those willing to do it.

@Rah1woot said in Ray Peat name drop during American Communist Party convention speech:

The USSR gave support to Yasser Arafat and his PLO.

The vast majority of the weapons used, from Katyusha rocket systems to AK-47 type rifles, are of Soviet or Chinese design/manufacture.

Fair enough. Palestine aka "Philistia" was invaded and renamed Israel. And now Israel funds Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and others. The US machine has given the most support to Israel over the decades and that machine depends on cheap / exploitative labor and outsourced economy. Furthermore I've read that Israel likely created PLO, Hamas, and ISIS as controlled oppositions in order to justify to the public the destruction of Palestine and the rest of the Middle East.

If anything China or Russia benefits from the Israel/US destruction, as they offer Belt & Road and BRICS to failed third world countries. It's a sort of mutualism and I don't think there is any true antagonism at the level of oligarchs and rulers.