For caring you need empathy.
I hear people all around me all the time be boastful of how much they don't care. It's a competition.
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_y5hn commented on We don't know how many birds die in structural collisions robertvanwey.substack.com... · Posted by u/chmaynard
We simply put up post it stickers where birds usually crashed in our windows. There's way less crashes and dead birds after that.
Think how many birds crash during a year, and how many houses and buildings with windows there are.
You can also buy bird stickers to put up.
_y5hn commented on Should we be thinking about luck differently? theguardian.com/books/202... · Posted by u/daverol
> In many spiritual circles, luck has nothing to do with it, but inevitability does.
What do you mean exactly? Say, the notion of karma in Eastern religions is a way to explain at least some amount of what is commonly dubbed "luck".
But from the perspective of someone ignorant of karmic ties, can't it only be considered luck/random? Furthermore, isn't more genuine luck/randomness (free-will?) causing such initial ties?
It depends on perspective. If you look into karma, it only holds for the perspective of sequences of lifetimes, or a couple of lifetimes being interwoven by karmic ties. What karma is is also very mystical, but not unthinkable physically speaking. Ie. gene expressions can flip during a lifetime, thus our genes hold memories lasting for at least a couple of generations. So ancestral karma is also a concept, but hard to research of course.
From a holistic and wider perspective of wholeness, everything may be said to be predestined. From a spiritual perspective, it's about how everything is set up in order to have certain experiences and maybe "lessons". Mathematically, if you have all the variables, everything that may happen can be solved by calculation, however that is done on the cosmic scales.
If the idiot is guided by a higher mind, then there's no room for "luck" on the grandest scales, but it will look like luck to the person, as a unique and individual experience.
_y5hn commented on Should we be thinking about luck differently? theguardian.com/books/202... · Posted by u/daverol
You're one out of 8 billion people, the only known humans inhabiting an incredible vast cosmos with billions of galaxies and billions of years of timespan. That you are sitting here reading these typed words is nothing short of incredible, in a world that many want to model as a Newtonian marble-universe devoid of life and consciousness.
People denounce past lives and future lives, but have no qualms about hanging on to their current life, as if that is worth anything more in the grander scheme of things. That's not to say it's a solution to end it all, but just pointing out the lack of logical thinking and grander perspective, that leads many thinking minds astray.
Or think of it like a hacker: You're cast out as the solitary sentient entity within a huge cosmos with many possibilities and experiences. What do you want to do today?
In many spiritual circles, luck has nothing to do with it, but inevitability does. Mathematics, if advanced enough, could maybe come to the same conclusion. But it's a matter of perspective. What perspective do we inhabit today?
One where everything can be explained (away)?
Or one where we cannot even explain what existence and sentience is, or why everything seems to become empty but still infinitely complex, when we zoom into them?
_y5hn commented on Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/hdevarajan
It's dismissed like any other woo woo bullshit: strong claims, no evidence.
Where's the evidence that yoga and meditation accomplish the effects of sleep and how strong is it?
There are studies on this, and I see they've been updated a bit. It doesn't seem to replace sleep due to Delta-waves during deep sleep, but can be used over time to maybe reduce the need for sleep. Enough sleep is of course important for clarity of mind and for releasing toxins and stress. In the West we often suffer from chronic sleep-deprivation, so meditation may help in that as well as ensuring enough rest in order to recuperate.
https://www.artofliving.org/us-en/meditation/sleep/meditatio...
You don't really need studies for this when you can have experiential evidence through own practices, which is much more important for an individual than external studies.
_y5hn commented on Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/hdevarajan
Is the idea that yoga/meditation are more efficient than sleep at redistributing the cerebral fluid? That would be very surprising.
What people really require for sleep vary a lot. But there are claims some people practicing very intensely, need only 4-6 hours of sleep at night. That's rarely a goal in itself though, as it's not a means to become more efficient or "save time", in a traditional, linear way of thinking at least.
However, the goal of meditation can be very diverse, since there are many different techniques, each with their own aims and side-effects. Generally, the main goal is often to calm the mind, make the body relax and let go of stress. There are many more benefits though, which you only realize when doing personal and experiencial practice over longer periods of time. It's not like the effects are the same for each person even, so it's more like a discovery process rather than do A, B, C techniques for X, Y, Z gains. However, there's a baseline of methods and general health, which is what it's usually used for. Very few people are suited to be munks or living in secluded communes like that. But it can be Very nice to be on a 1-2 week retreat now and then.
_y5hn commented on Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/hdevarajan
Wouldn’t it be cool if we could periodically trigger waves like this to refresh the brain and maybe require less (or no) sleep!
I have no expertise in this area I’m just a dreamer :)
That's been in use for thousands of years already: yoga, pranayama and meditation.
There are courses one can take where one learns this, like Art of Living and any other that follows the same traditions.
Yes, there's research on that, and new studies should absolutely gain from this study. Not entirely sure you'll observe the same effect, that depends on meditator, but you can fall asleep during practice.
I have over a decade experience with it, and have also participated on a study on breathing exercises and epigenetic effects from that versus blind control.
I think in some ways the community was less prepared this time, because there was a lot of investment in 2016-2017 and then many of the archives created at that point didn't end up being used; partly because the changes at the federal level turned out to be smaller and slower in 2017 than they're looking like this time. So some people didn't choose to invest that way this time around.
[Edit: this means I think it's really important that data archives are useful. Sorting through data and putting a good interface on it should help people out today as well as being good prep for the future.]
In other ways there's much more preparation; EOT Archive now has a regular practice of crawling .gov websites before and after each change of administration, which is a really great way of giving citizens a sense of how their government evolves. It will just tend to miss data that you can't click to in a generic crawl.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/s/scOu1QuhNt
"Project Russia" is spiritual warfare
https://washingtonspectator.org/project-russia-reveals-putin...
Billionaire ransacking the Treasury https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/01/senator-warns-of-national-...
Bernie's statement about this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mL0crkf5Dzw