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People involved in this everything need to seriously ask themselves "Why am I doing this?"

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Very much agree.  That really has been the most important question for me to ask myself on a regular basis every single day.  Why am I driving out to eat every day?  Even with a 40mpg car, why would I want to contribute further to air pollution and oil demand when I could just shop once every week or two and save time and resources?  Why am I overeating?  If I reduce my demand for food, I reduce the worlds demand for oil for food shipment, and the average price of food.  Furthermore, as I lose weight, my demand for food drops further as I expend less energy on life functions.  Why am I now not overeating, but eating food that isn't optimally healthy?  If I switch to healthier, more sustainable forms of food (protein powders, salmon, nuts, fruit, veggies), my body fat% goes down, and growth is spurred to companies that create healthy choices.  Why am I driving to work, and helping create demand for services and products that I view as unsustainable and unhealthy?  If I create a job from home, my demand for oil drops further, I free up a slot in the job market for someone that is unemployed, get to set my own schedule, and create my own ideas.  I do this as much as possible to constantly reevaluate my lifestyle based on new information, to attempt to create my own system that instead of leeching off of the world's resources, adds to them.  It's a constantly evolving process, and requires constant maintainence, but there are ways to look at that in a positive light, and to maintain that disposition, I use gaming, meditation, learning, and a variety of other methods.

I've always had this sort of magnifying glass perspective analyzing my own lifestyle, but up until my experiences in higher states of consciousness, much of that perspective was self-deprecating, leading to numerous mental issues that were rather debilitating.  Migraines, depression, stress, thoughts of suicide...self-judgment is tremendously damaging.

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Icelander said:

Great post, great attitude.

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Much appreciated.

I will also add that all of those lifestyle changes evolve our lives into happy tripland.  Serotonin is Love

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Pacmanpth said:

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Visionary Tools said:

People involved in this everything need to seriously ask themselves "Why am I doing this?"

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Very much agree.  That really has been the most important question for me to ask myself on a regular basis every single day.  Why am I driving out to eat every day?  Even with a 40mpg car, why would I want to contribute further to air pollution and oil demand when I could just shop once every week or two and save time and resources?  Why am I overeating?  If I reduce my demand for food, I reduce the worlds demand for oil for food shipment, and the average price of food.  Furthermore, as I lose weight, my demand for food drops further as I expend less energy on life functions.  Why am I now not overeating, but eating food that isn't optimally healthy?  If I switch to healthier, more sustainable forms of food (protein powders, salmon, nuts, fruit, veggies), my body fat% goes down, and growth is spurred to companies that create healthy choices.  Why am I driving to work, and helping create demand for services and products that I view as unsustainable and unhealthy?  If I create a job from home, my demand for oil drops further, I free up a slot in the job market for someone that is unemployed, get to set my own schedule, and create my own ideas.  I do this as much as possible to constantly reevaluate my lifestyle based on new information, to attempt to create my own system that instead of leeching off of the world's resources, adds to them.  It's a constantly evolving process, and requires constant maintainence, but there are ways to look at that in a positive light, and to maintain that disposition, I use gaming, meditation, learning, and a variety of other methods.

I've always had this sort of magnifying glass perspective analyzing my own lifestyle, but up until my experiences in higher states of consciousness, much of that perspective was self-deprecating, leading to numerous mental issues that were rather debilitating.  Migraines, depression, stress, thoughts of suicide...self-judgment is tremendously damaging.

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Visionary Tools said:
That's got nothing to do with what I said. Don't put words in my mouth. It's not nice.

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Visionary Tools said:
That's got nothing to do with what I said. Don't put words in my mouth. It's not nice.

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AlteredAgain said:
I believe because you purposely misquoted him.

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Icelander said:
He's AlteredAgain.

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