Posts made by TheSir

I think the power of consciously cultivated emotions and attitudes is underappreciated. If you orient yourself to the present moment as if it was the best and the most relaxing day of your life and try to maintain this perception for a while, you might soon notice a remarkable boost in your wellbeing. It can help you understand how much untapped potential for happiness there truly is in any given moment.

@yerrag said in Why are you all so religious:

B less religious. More spiritual.
And when we are indeed endowed with the gift of the Holy Spirit, we are more spiritual than religious.

It's not that you have failed to make me understand your argument -- it's that I'm skeptical of the foundation of your argument. What I have been trying to point out to you is that the Holy Spirit is a religious concept. No matter how spiritual you are, the Holy Spirit will not come and declare itself to you as the Holy Spirit. You have adopted the concept and its name from religion.

As a religious concept, the Holy Spirit has certain attributes that affirm the divinity of Jesus Christ. If you do not recognize the divinity of Jesus Christ, you are not talking of the religious concept of the Holy Spirit. And if you are not talking of the religious concept of the Holy Spirit, your derivative spiritual concept of the Holy Spirit is necessarily false too. Hence to talk about the Holy Spirit at all would be dishonest.

In all other ways I do agree with your dichotomy between religiosity and spirituality. In your case it just doesn't have anything to do with Christian spirituality, and should thus exclude the Holy Spirit

@eugene i think it's a bit of both. The liver for example loses half of its weight between 20 and 30 years of age. It's not hard to hypothesize how this could indirectly affect metabolism. Other organs and glands might undergo changes too. Then there are gradually accumulating deficiencies and toxicities that undermine the body's ability to oxidize food for energy instead of storing it. Technically, for the most part, the causes for age-acquired metabolic slow down areavoidable or reversible, but it's not necessarily easy or straightforward.

@yerrag said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@TheSir

Your great ability to use words in going around in circles in absurd circumlocution only to object to form and not substance betrays your penchant to evade issues you clearly have no grasp of. It is only noise and no signal. Your history of posts attest to that nature in you which you mistake as brilliance. Wake up!

Considering your forceful attempts to dominate the discourse by making up lies about me and weaving fictitious narratives, as well as your consistent evasion of questions and counter arguments, this seems to be little else than projection. I continue being saddened by your recent dramatic change in character, but I hope deep down you are fine.

@yerrag said in New "Mission" of RPF:

Do you truly think that the world is a better place because of Christianity?

It is necessary to make a distinction between organized religion and the gospel, as they are, at least in certain sense, opposites: for whereas religion is about what man can do for God, the gospel is about what God has done for man. Since man is fundamentally flawed, even the things we do for God cause great harm to whole mankind. Thus, as you have intuited, all we can do is humble ourselves and let God work in us.

There is much for which Christianity can be criticized and blamed. Yet Christianity is not the gospel, nor is it the Church that is made up of those who live the gospel. As Jesus did not come to create a religion, but rather to free people from it, in this sense you are right in rebelling against organized Christianity. If only you were able to see that you don't need to discard what God has done for you in Christ in order to discard the shackles of religion.

@yerrag said in New "Mission" of RPF:

It's enough for people to understand. I don't need to change the terminology just because you feel it can be confusing for other Christians that are not as smart as you. I give you an answer than is plain and simple. In language and terminology we both understand quite well.

Plain and simple.

And you want me to invent a new terminology? Just imagine how Star Trek would turn out when Gene Roddenberry would have to invent a whole new Klingon language and put subtitles in for the sake of purity along your absurd standards.

I am just glad no one like you were not around as an influential movie or TV critic. Not that you have proven yourself to be one. I would certainly be turned off having to learn an invented Klingon language for the sake of watching Star Trek. You sure would be successful in turning a sci-fi series from enjoyment to torture for everyone.

I'm afraid you are unwilling to acknowledge the issue. You can't approppriate someone's well defined terminology, rewrite it to suit your own needs and then expect not to have to explain yourself to anyone. Assuming otherwise demonstrates such an immense amount of hubris that it strongly testifies against your claim about your contact with the Holy Spirit. If all you have to show for your faith is pride, impatience and insults, you can be sure that you at least are as far away from God as the rest of the people and nations you criticize. Unfortunately, due to all the deceit and distraction you are engaging in, it is hard for anyone to understand what you are truly on about, and that does include me.

@yerrag the question remains: why talk of the Holy Spirit at all, since to you Christianity is programming to be overcome? It can only lead to confusion, as in the eyes of Christians the Holy Spirit affirms the divinity of Jesus. When conversing with them, you will end up using their terms in a way that does not agree with their definitions of those terms. Why deliberately hang on to the programming like that? Why continue use terminology that was brainwashed into you? Why not come up with your own terminology, now that you are empowered? That would be more congruent and less confusing.

@yerrag said in New "Mission" of RPF:

You see fit to go thru Jesus for the gifts that you already have thru the Holy Spirit, because you have been programmed that way.

I was programmed that way too, but because I can override the programming, I see that going directly and using the gifts without having to go thru Jesus in enabling. I can go straight to God without coursing thru a medium (Jesus).

How do you reason forgoing one part of said programming, i.e. Jesus as an aspect of triune God, but not the other part, i.e. the Holy Spirit as a mediator of the Father? Without this programming, would it not be intuitive and natural to view God as just God, instead of dividing God to the Father and the Holy Spirit? How else would you have learned to conceptualize this division, if not for this programming?

@jwayne Yes, very true. There is a strange juxtaposition between how Charlie claims to be carrying Peat's work forward and how he refuses to consider whether Peat would have allowed an anti Vitamin A & copper forum to be named after him. His argument is that Peat can't be right about everything, which is perfectly valid in itself, yet given that Peat himself believed that the VA theory is nonsense, how justified is it to associate his name primarily with this theory? No amount of parallel Peat apologism is going to explain this issue away. Charlie will remain in a moral conflict until he stops misrepresenting Peat. As Truth said, it is factual to call him a liar.

@wzuo said in New "Mission" of RPF:

I was banned

@retard it might indicate slight hyperventilation, which in turn can lead to cellular hypoxia. I have seen most have 98% saturation at rest when relaxed.

@ilovethesea Lol'd at "I never caught the a-hole virus though". To answer your question, in the OP of his log thread, created on Feb 1st, he wrote about his miracle health turnaround that took a little under 2 years.

@Verdad said in Whats the deal with "Vitamin" A?:

According to the anti-vitamin A crowd I am just storing this in the liver and eventually it is going to get overloaded

What is the alternative? It should be reasonable to assume that the body is not going to be able to metabolize ~30 mg of vitamin A a day, nor get rid of it at that rate, in which case we would have to ask: where does it go? And wherever it goes, we must also ask: can it keep going there forever? It seems unlikely for anyone to be able to take >10x RDA doses of fat solubles for years on end without eventually running into a problem of one kind or another.

@Gaston said in A list of members banned from the Ray Peat Forum:

It's a testament to your eloquence and tact that you were able to last so long. I had been enjoying reading your subtle jabs at Charlie.

@Amazoniac said in A list of members banned from the Ray Peat Forum:

I've stumbled upon some of your questionings, they were precise and exemplary.

Thank you, glad to hear.

@deliciousfruit said in A list of members banned from the Ray Peat Forum:

Very telling how no one has dared to respond to that thread. Charlie has established a strong culture of fear. Yet since fear is failing to bring him the respect he so desires, he is now trying to buy it by giving people stuff for free. Unfortunately this will fail too.

@C-Mex Bozidar has been having pretty severe health difficulties and he seems to be a real person as it was said above. However I understand why the post set your alarms off. It's a very conveniently formed request.

@Ivy said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@TheSir what a hypervigilant soap opera this is!

The constant twists and turns are pretty funny. The post you are replying to did not get just me banned, it finally got mephisto banned too. Pasting from the ban thread:

@Barghest said in A list of members banned from the Ray Peat Forum:

@TheSir well mephisto, who is definitely not me, is banned now too because of your comment, seems like your analysis was perfect. I was not banned this morning before you posted that!

@TheSir said in A list of members banned from the Ray Peat Forum:

@Barghest Ha, my apologies. It does seem like banning you was an attempt to invalidate the analysis. Yet by banning you just to invalidate the analysis, he inadvertently affirmed its conclusion: that he will always choose the action that is least damaging to his sense of power and control. In other words, he couldn't stand the accuracy of the analysis so he attacked it using the exact method the analysis highlighted.

@Barghest Ha, my apologies. It does seem like banning you was an attempt to invalidate the analysis. Yet by banning you just to invalidate the analysis, he inadvertently affirmed its conclusion: that he will always choose the action that is least damaging to his sense of power and control. In other words, he couldn't stand the accuracy of the analysis so he attacked it using the exact method the analysis highlighted.

@deliciousfruit said in A list of members banned from the Ray Peat Forum:

I wasn't even trolling, I've been taking 15mg of copper daily for months and have only seen benefits.

Hmm, so much for allowing respectful disagreements.

@Peatly said in A list of members banned from the Ray Peat Forum:

Not sure why Mephisto has been spared when others got banned for making more benign comments than this

It's due to Charlie's authoritarianism. Mephisto was taunting Charlie with: "just ban me already you prick". Of course, though Charlie most likely did want to ban him, this itch was overridden by his desire to not take orders from anyone.

A similar thing happened when Impero gave him the following ultimatum:

"So, which is it?

Are you taking the True Man of Honor and Integrity Way? (Posting your secret screenshot)

Or the easy way out? (Dropping the hammer)"

To which he replied "both", overriding not only the the isolated desire to simply ban Impero, but also his previous decision to not share more proof. He couldn’t simply ban impero because that would have meant yielding power to Impero's ultimatum. In order to avoid this, he had to additionally go against his own word and show proof despite previously saying that he won't do it.

I think this suggests that Charlie cares more about power than personal integrity.

Update: I am now banned too as a result of this post.