September 16

Post 949, Day 255 of 2013
- and 986 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

What do you do with ambiguity?

You can make yourself crazy debating with yourself a belief topic with which you can argue either side. My mother... my sister... My mother... my sister...

There are not two sides to everything - it's all one, but the instant you're thinking is trapped in the "real" (sensual) world, there are. This is the two sides of the coin point of view: There's only one coin, and no matter which side you look at, the other side is still there, equally part of the coin.

So, I question whether there are limits to imagination.

On the one hand, we only imagine things we can describe, and therefore are limited to things which, above or below conscious level, we have already seen. Thus, our imaginations are limited by our real or imagined (!) experiences. We cannot imagine anything new.

But, if our imagination is limited, it is difficult to explain bread. For (at least) hundreds of thousands of years, as man evolved, the only grains eaten were the undigested insides of grass-eating animals. Humans can't digest raw grains.

Then, ten thousand years (or so) ago, comes the Agricultural revolution - animals are domesticated, crops are cultivated. 

Suddenly there is bread. How did humans go from no-grains to the complex and un-modeled process needed to make grains edible/digestible? With other edible sources of carbohydrate around (fruits and vegetables, that could be eaten raw, and, to let humans know that, tasted good that way), what was the driving motive behind cultivating grain, previously not part of the human diet?

Somebody's imagination must have had its limitations... broken through.

And if you can expand the boundaries of imagination, how far? Is there a limitation, when that limit can be exceeded?

OK. Have a good day. 

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 Food and Diet Section

2013 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:         212.0 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     213.2 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 1.2 lbs

Diet Comment

Glad to buck the recent trend of higher low and higher high weights.

Food Log 

Breakfast
A cacao-kale-hemp-chia protein shake (almond-coconut milk, kale, a large egg, raw organic cacao powder, hemp seeds, chia seeds, whey powder (24g protein), cinnamon, psyllium and stevia-inulin blend).

Snack
Homemade nut rolls, a very sweet fail.

Lunch
Roasted turkey  breast on kale, cabbage and tomatoes with creamy balsamic dressing.

Snack
Peanut butter crackers. Fail. Later, a protein bar.

Dinner

Buffalo chicken breast and cole slaw.

Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  30 oz.   Water: 80+ oz. 

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