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Since I have been alive, I have not died a single day. This trend has been steady since I was born, and I don't see evidence that it should change. I have overcome every single illness I've had, proving I will overcome all future illnesses. I once thought I was going to die, but didn't, proving I will never die. This post was inspired by the following Peak Shale Oil Denial article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellynch/2024/12/03/shale-oil-is-more-likely-to-boom-than-peak/ The real trend is that there is ever less oil in the ground.

I was at a party yesterday. It was great. I saw a lot of old friends. I even met a distant family member that I didn't know about. Real Life People are totally different from Screen People. Real People are nice, rational, honest... they are not judging, moralizing and warping your reality. They don't tell you which group to hate today. They understand physical reality. They don't take jokes literally. Authentic people don't write blogs about how murdering native children is actually the rational thing to do, if you are a religious cult occupying their country. Authentic people don't pretend history started on October 7. Did you know only 10% of USA Americans don't believe in climate change? There were a bunch of vegans and vegetarians at the party yesterday, and no one cared. That sh!t only happens in the media. peace 🧡✌️

Make no mistake: I'm full of shit. It takes decades of studying to know something about something. And I have never studied. Science isn't done on blogs, podcasts and YouTube videos. It's not done in newspapers either. These are all just stories and talking points. Letters on a screen. A talking head. Science is done in scientific papers. 99% of us are not qualified to judge them. It takes decades of experience. I know almost fuck all about climate science, vaccines, nutrition, banks, politics,... I just have a religious ferver to share my stories. But it's just more 'BAGGER'. More crap on servers. The only true thing I can share is my personal story, and even that is an approximation at best. Too Much Information

Hey Maarten Boudry! If you impose on people that they shouldn't express their opinions unless they have "Skin In The Game", otherwise they are just Virtue Signaling ("deugpronken")... then maybe you should, you know, follow your own rule and stop moralizing and speaking for others. I installed DeMorgen again: instant regret. Their daily warping of logic and reality, feels like someone is kneeding my brain. They must think people are really stupid. Read subsidized billionaire monopoly owned DeMorgen here: https://www.demorgen.be/ If you want to read how Israel is justified in blowing up children, wealth is the meaning of life, and climate change is no biggie, here is Maarten Boudry his blog: https://maartenboudry.be/ You Can Con Most People Most Of The Time. But We Won't Be Able To Con The Laws Of Physics.

Off the top of my dome (without looking it up): Global heating could go so high, so fast that plants can't adapt. ( see James Hansen) Resulting in a failure of agriculture, and a drop in oxygen levels. Sea level rise will delete a lot of the land. And if I'm not mistaken, the most fertile lands are the low lying river deltas. A large part of our agriculture depends on synthetic (artificial) fertilizer. This is made with mined resources which will run out, if we make it that far. Top Soil erosion is another limit in time to agriculture. We are eradicating our habitat, The Living Planet, mostly for meat production. Nature produces the Oxygen we breathe. Because of pollution, sperm count across this tiny planet, across species, is dropping fast. Female fertility is also dropping. Humanity will be infertile by 2045, if the current trend line continues. (see Shanna Swan) Ocean acidification kills the oceans. For one thing, a dead ocean produces deadly H2S gas. (see Peter Ward) Ocean...

The mainstream media and popular influencers have sold people a science fantasy future: electrification. And if you go against the narrative, you are an oil shill and you are making teenagers unhappy with bad news. Don't listen to a nobody like me! Instead, read it from truth sayer energy expert Art Berman. We have been talking about renewable energy since at least USA President Carter in the 1970s. Some 50 years later, Wind and Solar represent less than 5% of global energy production. The mainstream has been saying that we are in an energy revolution for at least 15 years. But we are using more fossil fuels every year. I learned, studying engineering, that renewable energy is a fantasy. I learned, being a car fanatic at the time, that electric cars don't make sense. Non of that has changed. But the mainstream acts as if all we have to do to save the planet is buy solar panels and drive an electric car. It's hard to believe that people really believe that a car with a 500kg...

Our current Belgian Prime Minister Bart DeWever gave 600 Million Euros of Flemish taxpayer money (there are about 6 Million Flemish people, including children) to a British billionaire to build a plastic factory in Flanders. An ethane cracker. The same party demands that public transportation is run without subsidies. Socialism for the elite, capitalism for the working class. Right wingers really seem to get a kick out of bullying poor people. Reminds me of my school days. There is a story about plastics that was a blip on my radar. But this weekend I did a deep dive, and this story is as big as Climate Change. Maybe bigger. It gets millions of views on YouTube, but is omitted from the mainstream "don't worry and keep consuming" media. Go to YouTube and type: "Shanna Swan Sperm Count". Basically, Shanna Swan is a scientist who has been investigating sperm count decline for over 20 years. She says, IF the current sperm count trend continues, humans across the glo...

Live long enough to witness The End Of The World. Coming to a town near you. A short summary of a Hyperscientific Fasting Mimicking Longevity Diet. Click here: https://valterlongo.com/daily-longevity-diet-for-adults/ 🖖🧡🌱

Does God exists in the form claimed by the major religions? I haven't seen anything to make me believe that. But I don't know. I'm fairly certain that he doesn't exist. But I did have a voice in my head for months claiming to be God. Perhaps God is a voice in all our heads, when we try to listen. What about the future? Is climate change real? I watched hundreds of hours on climate change, but that's just talking heads. Stories. I believe in climate change because I don't think it's a conspiracy. I only know some talking points, without deep understanding. No one can accurately predict the future, I think. Predictions can change how people behave, and alter that prediction. A prediction should include an IF statement. IF this, THEN that. Some things are more certain than others. Are we going extinct? Eventually yes, according to Astrophysics. The sun will expand and swallow the earth, I've heard. But I know almost nothing of how a sun works. I'm fairl...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has said that the USA Shale Oil/Gas production will peak in 2027. The USA Shale plays (fracking wells) were responsible for all the growth in global energy production since "Conventional" Oil/Gas peaked in 2005. Conventional Oil/Gas means it was produced with "Conventional" technology, not that it's a different product. Shale rock is where Oil/Gas gets made. There is no deeper layer where to find more Oil/Gas after that. Peak Shale USA means Peak Global Oil/Gas production, though I suspect they are going to go into the Ocean for more precious Oil/Gas molecules. The Ocean produces 50% or more of the Oxygen we breathe. The financial system, that creates a debt with interest as it creates money, demands infinite compounding accelerating economic growth. If the economy can't grow, the debts can't be payed off. No Oil/Gas growth, as the energy of the global economy, means the collapse of the financial system. Gas (Natural...

Before you react!: I have faith in The Theory Of Evolution. I would bet on it. For a while there, the media seemed compelled to explain every human behavior with a story of how it led people to make more children. Some still do it. As a teenager I wanted to raise 4 girls in the forest of Canada, off grid. But then I read that children of Schizophrenics have a 10% chance of getting it as well. I didn't want a repeat of my terrible childhood, so I made the choice not to have children. I always played open cards with women, and told them up front of my choice. So according to The Theory Of Evolution, I shouldn't exist. Because all we should care about is making as many children as possible. We are apes, I'm fairly certain. Nature is certainly obsessed with procreation. But we have been evolving outside of the wild since we started agriculture 10k years ago. Sometimes a behavior, like addiction, is a side effect of the mechanism. Symbiosis suggests that it's egotistical to ...

Click here: https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/06/arctic-blue-ocean-event-2025-update-June-2025.html to mess up your good mood. It's the climate story that they aren't telling you. And probably with good reason. And realize that Climate Change is just one existential problem caused by humans. The speed of change and destruction is unprecedented in the history of life on This Tiny Planet. peace 🧡✌️🌱

NATE HAGENS His YouTube Channel His Website Nate attemps to understand The Global Human Superorganism through the lens of Psychology, Resources, Economics, Ecology... He predicts A Great Simplification when civilization hits the physical limits of the planet. The Big Shrink is coming. Time to prepare. SIMON MICHAUX His Website Professor Simon Michaux works for the government of Finland and is a mining and materials engineer. He calculated that The Green Transition is physically impossible and proposes The Purple Transition instead. ART BERMAN His Blog Art Berman is a petrolium geologist and thinks oil supply is going to decline. He cares about nature and takes a system wide view. THICH NHAT HANH Website Of His 'Plum Village' Community Plum Village YouTube Channel Thich Nhat Hanh is a Zen Master and he and his Monks and Nuns will teach you How To Be. You can find his 'Dharma Talks' on YouTube. He has helped me through many difficult phases with his simple but profound in...

It is very easy to become defecient in numerous nutrients if you eat mostly plants. To plan your Plant Based Diet, please read this website written by actual dieticians!: https://veganhealth.org/ Don't be a dumbass. Don't get your health advice from randos like me on social media. peace 🖖✌️🧡🌱

Stop getting your health advice from randos like me on social media. Instead, subscribe to the email newsletter of The Cleveland Clinic: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health-essentials-newsletter Instead of getting brainrot on your lunch break, get healthy. Life Long And Prosper My Friend  🧡🌱🖖 peace

 

If I stay up past 21h00 (9pm) I get an overwhelming hunger attack like clockwork. It doesn't matter if I'm already full. And sometimes I get a bad feeling. Like when I make a social gaffe. For instance, recently a female friend hugged me, and I lifted her off the ground in a bear hug. I was cringing afterwards, worried I overstepped a boundary. With Mindfulness, you can make Cravings and Bad Feelings go: poef (gone). When you feel overwhelmed, welcome that feeling, and sit with it. Say to the feeling: "Hello there, I will take care of you". Do not run from a bad feeling. Do not push it down. Do not react to it either. Do not indentify with your feeling. Remind yourself: "This feeling is not who I am". Experience your feeling with awareness, curiosity and objectivity. Accept that it is there. Often, when you look into your feeling, you will realize that it is not substantial, and it will dissolve. If a storm is brewing in your mind, or a harmful urge is trigg...

I weighed more than 120kg, was addicted to Cigarettes, Alcohol, Weed, Junkfood, Social Media. I had high Cholesterol, Fatty Liver and was Pre-Diabetic. I was home on disability. Now I weigh 89.5kg, my Bloodwork is healthy and I'm working. What helped me a lot to stay motivated is watching YouTube videos every day of Health Science and testimonials of Addicts. There is a proverb in Dutch: "Out Of The Eye Is Out Of The Heart". It's more about relationships, but you can also say that if you don't constantly remind yourself of your goals, you might forget, and fall into a bad routine. peace ✌️ 💜 

That's a fantastic goal! Creating a low-maintenance, insect-friendly garden in Flanders, Belgium is definitely achievable. Here's a breakdown of how you can do it: I. Planning and Design (Low Maintenance Focus)  * Embrace Native Plants: This is the cornerstone of low maintenance and insect attraction. Native plants are adapted to the local climate and soil, requiring less watering, fertilization, and pest control. They also provide the specific food and habitat that local insects have evolved to rely on.  * Perennials over Annuals: Perennials come back year after year, saving you the work of replanting. Choose a good mix of perennials that bloom at different times of the year to provide a continuous food source for insects.  * Groundcover: Use low-growing, spreading plants as groundcover. This reduces the need for weeding and helps retain soil moisture. Consider native options like wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum), stonecrop (Sedum spp.), or creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummul...

Nonkel Jan's Gezonde Ghetto Kooktechniek :-) 1. Gezond Eten Kort Samengevat Eet echt eten. Voornamelijk planten. Niet te veel. Vermijd calorierijk fabriekseten vol met Suiker, Vet en Zout. Eet natuurlijke producten. Vermijd Rood Vlees: Lam, Varken en Koe. Vermijd Alcohol. Als je weinig Dieren Producten eet, dan moet je goed op uw voeding letten, en supplementen nemen. Uit mijn blog: If you eat mostly plants, you need to supplement! The supplements you have to take are Vitamin B12, Omega-3 EPA and DHA and Vitamin D3. The rest can be done with a complete diet. Obey the daily recommendations of supplements. Get your blood tested regularly for deficiencies specific to eating mostly plants. Eat meals that consist of: 1/4 Whole Grains: Oats, Buckwheat, Spelt, Wheat, Barley, Rice, Quinoa, Bulgur, Farro, Millit, Whole Grain Pasta, Whole Grain Bread, Sweet Potatoes,... 1/4 Pulses: Lentils, Chickpeas, Beans, Green Peas, Soy Products,... (Pulses are the edible seeds of the Legume plant) 2/4 V...

Some people identify with a group, and take on board all the stories from that group. Their group is innocent, the underdog, victimized, smarter, has the true stories... The Others are false, evil and stupid. I'm more of a contrarian. I see apes. Miraculous, messy apes. I have no need to be absorbed by a group, I enjoy the individual. Maybe I'm fooling myself.  But I as well have too many stories swirling around my brain. I get all worked up arguing in my head. I try to stuff the whole world in my head. I search for meaning: make money, make waves, make love. It goes nowhere. I go over my stories and want to spread them zealously. Few people care. People much more skilled and influential have tried and failed to stop this thing. I just have to accept the world as it is, my life as it is, and just enjoy the present moment. Stop making sense. I wish I was born 100 000 years ago. On a wild planet. Knowing only my tribe, and my limitless habitat. The smell of nature. Teeming with l...

I believe moderation is a lie. For me at least. I learned that the hard way. If you want to quit an addiction, you have to say goodbye to that habit forever. But being too ambitious about your new resolutions can paralyse you.  When I was fat, for a period there I took long walks. Even though my foot hurt, probably from my weight. Then my brother wanted to do "De Dodentocht": a Belgium-famous 100km 24 hour walk, and do it before my 95 year old grandfather died. My grandfather was an avid walker, and had done that challenge multiple times. Even as a pensioner.  I decided to enroll as well (€60), with the ambition to loose the weight in time, and then just stopped walking. I think because the task was too daunting. I didn't do the walk. My brother, skinny, was at the start. He made numerous mistakes that he was warned about. His walk was hell. It was raining buckets and his feet were wet for instance. He was carrying bottles of water that weren't necessary. Wrong shoes....

I was born in 1982. As a young kid we had a TV with a dail knob like a radio tuner, and two TV channels. There were only a few hours of programming in the evening. The rest of the time you would see a test screen.  I spent most of my time playing outside, investigating the creatures in my town, like the spiders. Creatures that have now disappeared. When I was about 12, we had numerous TV channels and all-day programming, and I got addicted to TV. One cartoon that made me feel like I was on XTC, was the Goofy segment of The Disney Festival. At around 16, we got internet, and that was my new drug. Posting my ideas on forums, realizing the whole world could read them, was intoxicating. Posting online is a compulsion for me. I keep checking the feedback, like the views. I feel like I am changing the world, planting seeds. Saving those creatures that are disappearing, by debating and promoting sustainability.  But posting makes me feel like I'm doing something inappropriate and mak...

  Click here to read my short guide on how to lose weight without getting hungry. (no profit motive) Read my blog for short and sweet stories about sobriety, mindfullness, happiness, eating whole foods, psychedelics... and more. (no profit motive) Good luck on your journey! If I can do it, so can you! 🖖💜🌱 peace

Motivation is really important in making good choices in the present moment. I used to be cynical (stupid) and rejected this idea. But it finally got through to my thick head. Willpower is more a matter of insight, tricks and tools, than of fighting your own mind. One of those tools is a strong motivation. One trick to be motivated is to think of the person you will become in 5 or 10 years. Every 7 years, all your body’s cells are replaced and you are a different person. You must be kind to that person, who is not you anymore. If you wouldn't harm a random person on the street, you shouldn't harm the new person you will become. Give future-you the best chance possible. As an act of kindness towards a fellow human.  Become aware that you are making choices every day. Those choices, every single one, will determine the life of future-you. When you are about to engage in harmful behavior, including alcohol, nicotine and junkfood, think of yourself in 10 years time. Choices become ...

Written for the nicest girl from Brussels I know. ❗️For plant based nutrition advice, don't turn to a randos like me. Instead, check out the following website by actual dieticians that studied and got a diploma:  https://veganhealth.org/ ❗️Warning: If you eat mostly plants, you need to plan your diet carefully and supplement.  Every Day you need to eat Whole Grains (or Sweet Potato), Legumes (Beans, Chickpeas, Green Peas, Lentils, Soy Products like Tofu), Vegetables, Dark Leafy Greens (Arugula, Kale), Mushrooms, Fruit, Nuts and Seeds, Herbs and Spices. You need to supplement Vitamin B12, Vitamin D and Omega-3 DHA and EPA. Obey the daily recommendations for supplements. I recommend you don’t supplement anything else but these three. Supplements can be dangerous. For instance, you are not supposed to supplement Iron without a doctors permission, because it is dangerous if you don't need it. You also need to supplement Iodine (Jodium), or eat Seaweed or eat Iodine enforced produc...

Being 'skeptical' means that you don't believe something. But influencers who call themselves skeptics are the opposite. They are 'know-it-alls'. They claim to have a logical system that allows them to see the truth of everything. They are full of factoids and opinions. A true skeptic would just go "I don't know'. But you can't fill hours of podcast every week with scientific humility. A shill is a person that is promoting a product with deception. Pretending to be impartial, but actually working for a corporation. Are Steve Novella and The Skeptics Guide To The Universe shills? As a real skeptic: I don't know. But I have a story about them. The Skeptics Guide To The Universe is a long running science podcast. Every week they give their opinions on science news. Amazing how influencers find the time to become experts on every topic under the sun. My science teacher taught me: "The only way to know something for sure, is to test it yourself...

Is it Nature or Nurture? Is a person just a genetic robot, or can they choose their destiny? The answer seems to be both. We have genetic baggage, but we also have a great capacity to change. Some pop scientists relentlessly push for the Nature argument. Everything about you is inherited. Your bank account is just because of your innate IQ.  What is the point of pushing this message, if people have no ability to learn and change their behavior? No article or book can alter our destiny, if the biological determinism is true. So it's just a money-grab, then? "You are not a successful engineer because you studied engineering.  You were just born with the ability to engineer." And yes, these pop science geniuses do say "100% nurture". Fully determined by genes. People love simplistic black and white narratives. Stupid people, anyway. Stupid people like me, when I fell for biological determinism.  We have the ability to change. But you won't change a person with ...

 ❗️If you eat mostly plants, you need to supplement (Vitamin B12, Vitamin D and Omega-3 DHA and EPA), and eat a complete diet of Whole Grains, Legumes, Vegetables including a little Seaweed, Mushrooms and Dark Leafy Greens and Fruits and Nuts&Seeds and Herbs&Spices. 🌱🖖 Click here to read my complete guide to eating mostly plants. For advice to eating Plants from actual professionals, read this FREE website:  https://veganhealth.org/ Ingredients: 1. Sweet Potatoes.  2. A can of Legumes (Beans, Lentils, Chickpeas, Green Peas) or a block of Tofu. 3. Vegetables. 4. Iodized Salt, Vinegar, Vegetable Oil and Pepper. Method: 1. Chop the Vegetables and Sweet Potato and cook them for 10min in the Microwave at 300W. In a glass Pyrex bowl with a lid, suitable for heat.  2. Add the can of Legumes or Tofu and cook for another 5min in the Microwave at 300W. 3. Stir in a little bit Salt, Oil and Vinegar and a lot of Pepper. 4. Just eat it. (You can pimp with Dark Leafy Gre...

My harm reduction guide to a psychedelic trip. My guide to mindfulness. My complete guide to eating mostly plants.  A concise guide to preparing a complete and delicious plant based meal. My method how I quit my addictions with mindfulness. Every time I write, and share it on my socials, I worry that I am doing something inappropriate. I also experience this sharing as something compulsive, addiction-like. All day I am monitoring the views on my blog. I have decided to cut this behavior out of my life as well. I just need to let go. Enjoy the present moment. Don't try to correct information, or save the world, or prove how smart I am. I want to be Hirayame from the movie 'Perfect Days' (2023). Just enjoy being a nobody, doing nothing spectacular, but experience the spectacular beauty of the world. peace ✌️ 💜 

I am sober 126 days, after about 3 years of struggle, trying to quit. Sobriety is the ultimate high. My mind is working much better. I feel great, and motivated, now that I am not chemically messing with my reward circuits. Being sober, I recognize my own previous Junkie Logic in my friends. One thing in particular is that they cannot imagine never getting high or drunk again. So they come up with all sorts of tricks and rules to try and moderate. Only the weekends. Only at parties. Only once per month. I know someone who keeps their stash at another addicts house, to create a barrier, thereby exposing their friend to their addiction, when they end up showing up at their place several times per week. And it's all steaming BULLSHIT. It's Junkie Logic. They all fall off the wagon eventually. A friend said not long ago that they were going to quit for a month, after having psychotic symptoms. A week later they said they used again, but it's okay, "they have it under contr...

Don't get your medical advice from randos like me! For advice on eating Plants from actual dieticians, check this FREE website:  https://veganhealth.org/ If you eat mostly plants, you need to supplement! The supplements you have to take are Vitamin B12, Omega-3 EPA and DHA and Vitamin D3 . The rest can be done with a complete diet. Obey the daily recommendations of supplements. Get your blood tested regularly for deficiencies specific to eating mostly plants.  Eat meals that consist of: 1/4 Whole Grains: Oats, Buckwheat, Spelt, Wheat, Barley, Rice, Quinoa, Bulgur, Farro, Millit, Whole Grain Pasta, Whole Grain Bread, Sweet Potatoes,... 1/4 Pulses: Lentils, Chickpeas, Beans, Green Peas, Soy Products,... (Pulses are the edible seeds of the Legume plant) 2/4 Vegetables including Dark Leafy Greens (Arugula, Kale, Sprouts,...), Mushrooms and a little bit of Seaweed for the Iodine.  Use Herbs&Spices. As desert or a snack eat Fruits and Nuts. Click here for my complete guide...

The freeze response is a reaction to a threat. Other possible reactions are fight, flight (running away) and fawn (charming your threat). I have the freeze response. And it sucks. When I was about 10 years old, a classmate was cycling with his sister to school, and he saw her get run over by a truck. For one boy, we will call him The Hairdresser, because he said he wanted to be a hairdresser, this was an opportunity. Before the teacher arrived, he went down the row of classmates with others, looking for children who didn't have tears. I managed to squeeze out a few tears before the inquisition passed me. When the teacher arrived, he excitedly wanted her to know that he was the first one to have been informed of the tragic accident. When the brother of the dead girl returned to school, I had a weird conversation with him. He told me his young cousin had asked him how his sister had looked. The vibe was off. Then I was invited to the house of the dead girl with The Hairdresser and go...

Two LSD trips, years apart, and the Pixar movie Coco, gave me the insight that cynicism kills the love in my heart. Years ago I was going to watch the Pixar movie Coco during the peak of an LSD trip. But we watched the beginning and I deemed it 'too happy' and vetoed it. We switched it off. For years I was a cynical doomer. I would bathe my mind in bad news and make cynical jokes. Cynicism gave me pleasure. I wanted civilization to crash. I didn't see the good in people. I rejected positivity and optimism. I wasn't depressed, though. But I made others unhappy with my negativity. Then some 5 years after switching off Coco, I gave the movie another shot, again on LSD. Psychedelic means "The Mind Manifested". On psychedelics, you can become aware of how your minds works. Watching the beginning of Coco again, I realized that "Cynicism Kills Love". I felt it. The mechanism was laid bare by Lucy. I realized I had to open my heart for the sentimentality of ...

Things from my past keep surfacing in my mind. More often than not, unpleasant things. Things someone did to me, or things I did to someone that make me feel guilty and cringe. Often these actions were words. These things will only go away when your mind goes or you die. However, with mindfulness, you can learn to carry them with you. Instead of letting them drag you down.  Split yourself in two, when unpleasant thoughts surface. Split into the storm, and an observer of the storm. Experience your negative thoughts and emotions with the energy of curiosity instead of fear. When you become aware that your thoughts and emotions are excited, stop and ask yourself: what is this mind formation? Don't push it down. Don't try to run from it. But don't identify with it. Don't engage with it. Say to yourself: these thoughts and emotions don't define me.  Take your mind to the present moment: to your breath, your body and your senses. Let the storm in your mind float away. Tra...

You can choose to live a life of intentionality, of mindfulness and awareness, instead of living life on autopilot, lost in thought loops about the past or the future. People take numerous actions every day that decide the difference between living to a healthy old age, or dying prematurely, or worse, becoming handicapped. Some unhealthy actions build up over time. Like eating too many calories, too much bad saturated fat, too much salt, too much not-moving-your-body, too many short nights of sleep...  Some actions are more like a lottery. For instance, 60% of cancers are due to lifestyle. (10% inhereted, 30% environment) Tabacco, alcohol, processed meat and red meat cause cancer. Every time you expose your cells to these poisons, could be the time you cause the DNA mutation that triggers cancer.  It could be the very first cigarette you smoke, or the 100 thousandth cigarette that gives your body cancer. Every drink of alcohol could also be the one that gives you cancer. Or ev...

When I got diagnosed with schizophrenia, it became my new autistic obsession. I would infodump on people about the major psychotic episode that led to my diagnosis. The schizophrenic author of the book "The Center Cannot Hold" said it didn't define her, and I disagreed. It does explain who you are, I thought. But I now think that's a mistake. Mental Health diagnosis are clusters of symptoms that suggest a certain treatment is needed, as opposed to another one. I am not experienced enough to know if this is the correct approach. Different diagnoses often have overlapping symptoms. Psychosis,  for instance, is a symptom of many different diagnoses. I started thinking I might be something because of Valerie. She had a borderline diagnosis, according to her father on a chat with my brother. I thought I might be narcissistic because of my black and white thinking at the time. I didn't want to flatter myself with a more fashionable diagnosis. I thought I might be border...

My Mind Works Better.  My memory and concentration is much improved. I am present. I am witty and funny. I don't repeat myself. I'm adaptable. I'm creative and motivated. I feel and understand much deeper. I have the best words. I Enjoy Life More.  If you don't dampen your feelings with drugs (including alcohol and nicotine), you enjoy the simple things in life. You enjoy what is most important: other real life living creatures and plants. I love small talk with my neighbors. I love banality. I love living every moment. My Stress Is Much Lower.  Because of tolerance, which is the brain seeking out a baseline (homeostasis), drugs (including alcohol and nicotine) are not only the cure to your chronic stress and depression, they are also the cause of your stress and depression. Your brain adapts to being high or drunk, and the moments you are sober, you will be dysregulated. You need your drugs just to feel normal. After a few months of sobriety and withdrawal, you will fe...

When I was in school, every new schoolyear, I would have the intention to study at home every day. I fantasized that I would memorize the material 100 percent and have perfect scores. But when I got home after school, I would feel "The Resistance". "De Weerstand" in Dutch. I recently discovered it has a name in psychology: "avolition". It's described as a paralysis when you have to perform a task. My brain hates the task I have to do. Screaming not to do it. So instead of studying, I watched TV, constantly thinking about the tasks that are piling up, being stressed and miserable, my brain yelling: "I hate it." I still have my avolition. Doing the dishes, maintaining the garden, showering, cleaning,... Stuff piles up, the neighbor complains, I get smelly,... I feel good when I finally do it, but the avolition stays for the next time. In 2022, two years ago from composing this text, I thought I found a hack. I would program myself to "Do I...

Artists who have completed a work, often fall into a depression. As if they have no purpose, now that they have achieved their goal. I heard a proverb, I think from Vietnam, that says "When you are on a mountain, and you see another mountain in the distance, you want to be on that other mountain." I'm probably butchering it. I was with friends on a mountain in Albania, and indeed, they saw another mountain in the distance, and risked their lives to get there. I had to think of the Vietnamese saying. I stayed behind while my brain was giving me all sorts of scenarios that they had fallen to their deaths. I tried to just enjoy the waterfall I was at. No one died, but they did encounter dangerous situations. I would have frozen in fear. Thich Nhat Hanh says of walking meditation, to realize with every step "I have arrived, I am home". Enjoy the present moment. Don't live in an unreliable past or a hypothetical future. Just enjoy the journey. Brazilian writer Pa...

This is the story of the year I spoke to God. Schizophrenia is still somewhat of a mystery. I had a psychotic episode when my dog froze to death at my mother’s place. I hadn't even touched alcohol then. When Valerie died.  I hadn't touched drugs then. I had a psychotic episode when I tried to bring down capitalism with internet comments. That coincided with quitting weed. I had one when I was on the green stuff, at a time when I had a new boss who was a bully. There is some suspicion that schizophrenia is an autoimmune disease. Basically your immune system attacks your brain as if it's an enemy invader. The Keith Flint episode coincided with quitting weed again. My best friend and dealer had a psychotic episode, so I lost my hook up. He had started messing with his anti-psychotic medication, because he felt a little high when he didn't take them. When he was in the psychosis, he kept taking acid and XTC, smoking weed all day, and was out of control. He was unreachable a...

They think Buddhism is 2500 years old, having started in India. It's illuminating to hear monks like Thich Nhat Hanh speak about psychology of thousands of years ago, and realizing that nothing much has changed about the human condition. For how awesome our minds are, they are also a mess. Everyone is a unique snowflake, but we also go through similar states, even 2500 years ago. Samantha means to stop, to be calm, to be awareness. Vipassanā means to gain insight, to see reality. Stopping and ordering your thoughts and emotions will help you immensely. We are constantly stimulated, constantly reacting and thinking. We will suddenly feel stress or insecure because of a thought. A thought will make us upset at someone over nothing. We start arguing in our head. Sometimes we need to stop and nurture our mind. Go for a walk, don't play music and stop and be with your mind. Switch off the tv, put the phone out of reach, and work through your shizzle. We need watch our thoughts with ...

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