For me the best way turned out to be: don't try to lose weight. Try to live healthy. And build awareness of your own body.
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9/14/2014
What is logic
It is not the first time I thought of that, but I just wanted to put it down in words here. This also touches the subject of God, and the question I have been asked by a friend who claimed himself as changing from catholic to atheist: "If God claims that I have free will, and at the same time he knows my future and whether I am going to heaven to to hell, where is the free will? Doesn't it make it sound illogical? And why should I bother, if it is already known whether I will be saved or not?!".
I used to think about it from time to time later.
I also remember one day at a maths lecture the prof drew a coordinate system, then drew a point, and then he asked "If I draw a line now, the line is infinite, right? But does the fact that it is infinite mean that it will touch the point?", and then he drew the line next to the the point, in the way that it was not touching it. It immediately made me rethink my theory that I had back then: "if the universe is infinite, there must be aliens *somewhere*". As by analogy to the simple picture I just had in front of me, the universe being infinite does not have to imply that it contains anything that I am currently thinking of.
Another funny visualisation illustrating a similar thought goes like this: imagine a world of two dimensional creatures living on a plane. They know only two dimensions: width and length. Then imagine a cone moving through the plane. The creatures will see a circle or an oval, getting bigger and bigger (or smaller and smaller), which finally dissapears. They will not be able to explain what just happened.
What if God is something analogical to us looking at the two dimensional plane form a three dimensional world? What if what he sees is that "plane" of our lives, of the whole world, of the choices of the dynamics, he sees it in one single "moment", snapshot, as the time is also part of that plane. In this way he can "know" what is going to happen with every single soul, but also every being on Earth still has the choice. Well, that's just a hypothesis, and it is not so important whether it could be valid or not, or if God exists or not, but only trying to imagine such concept brings me to the somehow obvious conclusion:
The logic as we know it: the yes and no logic, has been developed together with the development of the human brain. It has developed on planet Earth. So, by evolution it developed in the way that allows us to survive here. It does not have to have anything to do with "how it really is". Our brains are designed to see this logic as the only one that is "logical", that "makes sense". But of course this feels like this to us, because this is how our brains are. Maybe it is logical to have free will and at the same time be doomed to be saved or not, maybe aliens if existed would not be material or visible to us, maybe the time is also a variable which can be manipulated, maybe everything we ever thought of the world and universe is just a very limited and subjective interpretation of it.
I used to think about it from time to time later.
Another funny visualisation illustrating a similar thought goes like this: imagine a world of two dimensional creatures living on a plane. They know only two dimensions: width and length. Then imagine a cone moving through the plane. The creatures will see a circle or an oval, getting bigger and bigger (or smaller and smaller), which finally dissapears. They will not be able to explain what just happened.
What if God is something analogical to us looking at the two dimensional plane form a three dimensional world? What if what he sees is that "plane" of our lives, of the whole world, of the choices of the dynamics, he sees it in one single "moment", snapshot, as the time is also part of that plane. In this way he can "know" what is going to happen with every single soul, but also every being on Earth still has the choice. Well, that's just a hypothesis, and it is not so important whether it could be valid or not, or if God exists or not, but only trying to imagine such concept brings me to the somehow obvious conclusion:
The logic as we know it: the yes and no logic, has been developed together with the development of the human brain. It has developed on planet Earth. So, by evolution it developed in the way that allows us to survive here. It does not have to have anything to do with "how it really is". Our brains are designed to see this logic as the only one that is "logical", that "makes sense". But of course this feels like this to us, because this is how our brains are. Maybe it is logical to have free will and at the same time be doomed to be saved or not, maybe aliens if existed would not be material or visible to us, maybe the time is also a variable which can be manipulated, maybe everything we ever thought of the world and universe is just a very limited and subjective interpretation of it.
9/13/2014
Cigarettes
As they give me hope. To feel the rush after inhaling for a few times. To be surprised that suddenly I see the world differently that I have a while ago. Is it false hope? Maybe hope is hope and this should count. I'm collecting every tiny bit of it.
9/10/2014
What you see in TV
I was on the beach listening to young people speaking American English. And I had this thought, that in the end 99% of the movies I saw in my life were American movies. TV series, comedies, romantic comedies, what is played in TV, they are mostly American movies. They show the way that people there live, they show their culture, their way of speaking, their way of behaving..
..but for people from eastern Europe for example, those movies show nothing that is typical to them. Yet it is same in all the movies. I think that as being Polish, I have developed this model of a "movie" in my head, where movie means something artificial, where people behave in a certain (often weird) way, which has nothing to do with the reality.. and it has always felt to me that for some weird reason all the movies as shot in the same style, in the same convention.
But that is not true! They are shot in the same style not because of the "weird reason", but for the reason that this mimics the way of living of the people who made them! Such a discovery..
What follows this, it is so interesting to realise that a person coming from US may not have this "model of a movie" developed in their head at all. Therefore the notion of "a movie" may be totally different for different people, depending on where they come from. And people from one group probably never imagine that the other group can even exist.
..but for people from eastern Europe for example, those movies show nothing that is typical to them. Yet it is same in all the movies. I think that as being Polish, I have developed this model of a "movie" in my head, where movie means something artificial, where people behave in a certain (often weird) way, which has nothing to do with the reality.. and it has always felt to me that for some weird reason all the movies as shot in the same style, in the same convention.
But that is not true! They are shot in the same style not because of the "weird reason", but for the reason that this mimics the way of living of the people who made them! Such a discovery..
What follows this, it is so interesting to realise that a person coming from US may not have this "model of a movie" developed in their head at all. Therefore the notion of "a movie" may be totally different for different people, depending on where they come from. And people from one group probably never imagine that the other group can even exist.
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