u/HelpfulBuilder

Wow. Is that any type of standard understanding? I understood it to mean either 5 days water fasting and 2 days close to tdee, or the other way around.

What are you talking about? Fasting is a long and well established way to control you weight. Skipping a meal is not only valid it's healthy.

Lol I don't like gifts because I usually don't want whatever bullshit they buy for me.

Wow! Took a whole year for someone to discover my gold comment! Thank you.

The problem with your position is that many people would have equated slavery as a necessity evil too. What people view as neccarsry and unnecessary are incredibly varied. Lots of people today would claim "I need my beef" with a serious and completely honest face. They are wrong, but under your position they would claim animal agriculture is like a source of water, neccarsry for life.

And this is why minimizing suffering is more coherent, it says no suffering is morally acceptable, but it is a thing we should be minimizing.

Under your position all one needs to do is justify their consumption as life giving and necessary, and it's all good to go, eat that burger.

And the whale vs insect scenario neither one clearly has less suffering. Does one whale death equal many insect deaths, or is one greater than the other? No clear answer there it rests of value judgements. Many would say the whale suffering is a greater wrong, others would say the insect deaths are a greater wrong.

How about all the pests that are killed for our vegan food? Do they not have bodily autonomy too? Is it not a complete violation to kill them so that we may eat?

There is far less suffering when we eat vegan but not none. Unless you're willing to die some part of living your life will entail violating another creatures right to live. It's inescapable. It is far more a coherent position that we aim to reduce suffering.

I went vegetarian at 35 and I just finally pushed through and went full vegan at 40. Every animal you don't eat, is an animal you didn't eat.

I always say "you get half points for doing the right thing for the wrong reason"

A lot of fasters drink fasting salts with water. Are you saying they aren't absorbing as much salt as they think?

So this implies op should be taking more salt?

Idk. I can make it in a few seconds, I just open the jar.

I'm at a place now and the tofu scramble with all vegan ingredients doesnt have the vegan marker while the menu has the marker listed for other things. No one was able to figure it out.

Hes saying you should figure out how many tokens you use and do the math.

If like to add to this that if you soak them in a basic environment (some baking soda) they will soften faster.

Oh damn. I'd hate to be confused for the public masterbator. Sorry diogenes op was talking about. Lol

Diogenes did things like spit on people and masterbate in public. He did them to buck societal values or smthn. There was probably a better way.

During fasting your digestive system isn't doing anything. You won't poop for a long time. Pple used to think you should get an enema, but now the advice is to just your body to whatever it wants. You may poop you may not. Either way it's not a problem typically.

You will poop when you start eating again. Trust that.

I don't drink at all anymore. It helps. I used to get beet red from it. It didn't reverse. You can't really reverse it, but treating it helps a lot.

Dry air from working at a hospital feels like a stretch to me. I don't think so. Idk I can't help you anymore with that.

Working at a hospital maybe your immune system was exposed to something and is over reacting to that? I can't think of anything else. That feels like a stretch too.

Try some treatments and see what helps. Go to a derm and get a prescription for metrogel or triple cream or whatever they think is best. Lots of suggestions and expirences on here about that.

Finding you're triggers is important. Temperature is really effects me. Very Hot/cold environments recently?

Also demox parasites on your skin is really common, but not everyone has that problem. Everyone has the parasites, but for some people theit immune system over reacts and idk how it works it all get screwed up. That's why some people report ivermectin and other anti parasite creams really help. But if that's not your problem they will do nothing.

Also could be food related. Tomatoes is common. Anything that causes vasodilation can do it.

New medication maybe ?

Sounds like it. Heavy drinking was a major contributing factor for me.

But considering a younger person and an older one, the younger person will always have more youth, maybe not all those things typically associated with youth though, but youth proper. And the older one the same in reverse.

I don't think I have a real argument either way on the main question, I'm just making points.

Tbf lots of people are striving for youth too. Youth is healthy and energetic and hopeful. Your analysis doesn't see the whole story.

And id like to point out she's probably a great teacher. People that sucked at something then put a lot of effort in and got good had much more time learning all the ways you can mess up so are more deeply aware of them.

Someone who is a natural gets good quick and maybe can see the finer more abstract picture in a more nuanced way, but never got caught in the failure modes and often don't even know to warn against them.

Sometimes it's the people best at something that suck the most at teaching it.

I always thought it was actually him being a "bad boy". It's not romantic but if you like the bad boy you might like it