Sanity Check

Sounds like a variation on "aura fluffing".

There was a government led campaign for fiscal responsibility in the US around 2008 - 2012. Head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) did a nationwide tour to encourage americans to do more to prevent what might eventually become a future economic crisis. I did what I could to push this.

There was a time around 12 years ago when it was impossible for the public to take the US deficit seriously. It didn't matter what facts or statistics were cited, if you brought up the deficit, no one listened to anything you had to say. Since then people have begun to educate and learn enough to realize the deficit can affect them. Witnessing those small shifts in public sentiment indicate people are capable of learning & becoming smarter over time. Once that is established, the only remaining question: what is their ceiling for learning and growth potential? Maybe they are capable of only learning a little? Maybe they can learn a lot? Anyways thanks for the feedback.

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Those of past eras appear knowledgeable & enlightened for having 50 words for snow. Can we guess what their lifestyle was from photographs of the era? They didn't know what germs or bacteria were. They often dug cesspools for outhouses in places where it would contaminate the local water table, causing them to live in states of perpetual illness. Many did not wash eating utensils after using them or bathe regularly. They often lacked access to books or libraries. Lacked opportunities and potential for networking. Had little or no travel options. Many lived their entire lives in small confined spaces, seeing the same people, hearing the same stories, menial work being their only career option. There was no inflow of data. There were no new ideas. No new books to read (if they were literate or owned books). No new stories. Those of today tend to not recognize how drastically life changes over eras of history.

Persistent multi tasking can lead to decrease in intelligence. The way driving while looking at a phone has a negative impact on reaction time. In cases like those denser streams of data impair cognitive performance. Its definitely not all positives. My basic theory goes like this. People adapt to circumstances & conditions 1. If they find themselves in a weight room lifting heavy objects, they adapt to it via muscles growing larger 2. In doing lots of cardio activity, they adapt to the condition by their heart and cardiovascular system becoming more efficient 3. Living in a high data environment, people adapt over the short term. Positive or negative. Improve at processing greater quantities of data or become more skilled at blocking & ignoring data to avoid dealing with it. Its uncertain whether there are significant short term adaptations. Over the long term however... We can look at eskimos with their short limbs and compact bodies which are well adapted to conserving body heat in cold environments. Contrast that with the long limbs of africans who are well adapted to losing body heat in hot climates to keep themselves cool. And perhaps people of the future who have been exposed to higher volumes of data for longer periods of time might have something as significant to show for it. Maybe portions of the brain associated with data processing will be significantly larger. Or there will be something else that emerges as a result of the rise of electronic devices & humans constantly interfacing with them. If such is the case, then predicting a future where people become more intelligent as a result of being able to process & analyze greater amounts of information could represent a safe bet.

I read somewhere that special forces, police & military sometimes train to build up an immunity to peppers. Which coincides with them having higher resistance to pepper spray self defense products. Interesting hobby to have, I would guess.

Educational standards & curriculum and like software - Windows, Photoshop, Internet Explorer. Intelligence level of organisms & machines is hardware based and generalized in terms of data processing capability The amount of content and data modern people process has increased. Advances in AI are driven by moore's law and hardware becoming better equipped to process larger data sets. It is possible similar trends could happen with people. As we become better accustomed to processing larger quantities of data through becoming better adapted to our data elevated environment. Our intelligence level might increase in the way we've observed AI becoming more capable over time. If you want I can respond to dumbing down trends and other things you've said. But as things stand, I would prefer not to.

Thanks to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spaceships_of_Ezekiel I'm wondering if there could be an alien spacecraft tie in to claims of Solomon's Temple being constructed by "demons". Descriptions of angels in Ezekiel might resemble spaceship landings. If demons or fallen angels are similar in composition. It might be evidence for other historical landmarks like the giza pyramids being constructed by alienz.

Academic standards of tests are not evidence of people becoming less intelligent.. They only show how educational standards have diminished & continue to decline. Judging by recent success with AI, the real indicator of intelligence is the amount of data a person (or computer) can process. Coupled with capacity for pattern recognition, memory and context. Our current environment might serve as an incentive for acceleration of human intelligence. It took society around 10 years to accept scurvy being treatable with citrus fruits. How much faster public opinion shifts today with recent trends. People are much harder to fool now, then they were in past eras.

Sounds like windows HDD disk defragmentation. The flow of data being written to HDD ceases. The flow of data to HDD is reversed. Rather than data being written to HDD. Data is removed from HDD (forgotten). Reversal of the senses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defragmentation

Modern war is waged with smart bombs and cruise missiles costing more than $100,000 each. In the process of waging war it is possible for a nation to inflict more damage on its finances and economy than it does on enemy forces from the use of modern high cost weapons. It is possible spiritual warfare is the same. It is not cost effective.

Positive intent attracts positive energy. Negative intent is a magnet for many types of unwanted negative outcomes.

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It is possible tattoos damage sweat glands beneath the skin. Reducing the amount of perspiration a person's body can produce to reduce temperatures in hot conditions. There is scientific evidence to support this being possible. Although I don't remember any solid, long term research being done on it.

I had an idea on how chi might be used to boost athletic performance. Let's say I am a competitive runner. For two years, I put chi blockages in my legs and do a lot of running and leg strength and conditioning. After two years, I remove the blockages in my legs and train normally. Could two years spent training under chi blockage conditions develop my leg muscles towards becoming stronger and more efficient? If an athlete could run a 4 minute mile with after training for 2 years with chi blocked legs. Could their performance significantly improve after chi blockage was removed? Or could chi blockage increase chances of injury or negatively impact health in ways to not be worth it?

Years ago, Bill Gates was asked what the biggest difference between materially successful and unsuccessful people was. He said the difference between a millionaire and a poor person was focus. A millionaire can consistently focus on the same goal for a span of months or years. While a poor person could not. Developing focus and being able to commit to goals might be good. But what would be the motive for training a soul or attempting to train the subconscious?

What is resistance training? The body adapts to conditions it finds itself in. Spend time in the sun - most develop a tan. Time spent in adverse conditions lifting heavy objects - muscles grow larger and more efficient. In environments with low oxygen - the body becomes more efficient in its use of oxygen. The body adapts to adverse conditions as basic evolutionary theory can illustrate. This allows for different types of training and conditioning to be successful. If the body finds itself in adverse conditions where qi flow is decreased. The body might adapt by finding ways to become more efficient in its utilization of qi. ??

What I'm saying might sound silly but there could be a good precedent for it being viable. Example. This face mask is known as an anaerobic method of training. It limits the amount of oxygen a person can breathe. Which over time forces the body to compensate by becoming more efficient with its use of oxygen. Training at high altitude where oxygen consumption is limited produces similar positive results. (Of course it can also result in altitude sickness but overall is usually positive) If limiting chi flow results in the body becoming more efficient in a similar way. It carries potential to be a real thing. Unless lack of knowledge and experience is limiting my comprehension of this anyway.

Our culture and storytelling sectors have not done a good job defining the nature of human foolishness. Stubbornness is the most valuable survival trait a person can have. A person who stubbornly refuses to give up on life and success is unstoppable. Yet there is a thing that happens where stubbornness is substituted for cognition. We cease to use our brains and argue from a perspective of stubbornness instead. We cease to acknowledge facts or science and rely on stubbornness to carry us to the correct conclusions. We label conditions associated with stubbornness: foolishness and human stupidity but their origins are found within them being essential valuable traits for survival and success. One thing that can be said of those with high intelligence is they often lack stubbornness. They give up easily. They are prone towards overthinking things and relying too heavily upon logic without exercising a healthy balance of stubbornness needed to achieve their goals. Given the lack of stubbornness in those with intelligence & vice versa. Human intelligence might be defined opposite to stubborness rather than foolishness. Over time, it could be fair to say that stubborn people are becoming more intelligent. While the intelligent are becoming more stubborn. What does this mean for the future? All of the biggest gains for society can always be found at the bottom. Elites tap out their learning potential. Their potential for growth is minimal. While growth potential at the bottom is always highest. In this era where people are being denied good sources of leadership and guidance. It creates a vacuum. Some say nature abhors a vacuum. Perhaps circumstances are aligning for that maximum growth potential at the bottom to be realized.

Historical evolution takes a long time. Millions of years for small biological changes to occur. But in recent times the pace of evolution has accelerated. The modern human brain is less than 50,000 years old. Modern science did not begin to advance significantly until the last 200 ish years. Evolution, progress & consciousness are accelerating (in my opinion) causing the extraordinary to appear mundane.

I remember reading qi cultivation boosts a person's natural traits and drives. While they did not elaborate or go in depth on this topic. Is it fair to say personality traits & emotional conditions like curiosity, envy, optimism, depression, compassion & hatred would naturally be boosted by qi cultivation? The author of Jurassic Park also might have touched on this in "Travels" where they wrote about personal experiences with psychics, healers and energy work.

Darwin's theory of evolution & capitalism being near to the same thing. I would question whether its possible to be a true supporter of evolution science while bashing capitalism. If evolution is defined in terms of millions of years of competition between organisms. Can we propose to transform that observed precedent into another system or reduced or controlled competition? If millions of years of competition is our origins story, then we might assume we will all be forced to compete at some point. Which may mean the logical approach is to focus on developing ourselves & those around us to better compete. Rather than expend time and energy attempting to make others less competitive. As it may be impossible to devise a system which bucks the evolutionary trend of competition between organisms as a prime directive. To eliminate competition between businesses and organisms, might require eliminating evolution itself. Those who bash capitalism and seek its end may be waging a war against evolution and its mandates of competition between living things. Which may be an interesting prospect to think about.