@luftballooneyegouge maybe the question wasn’t clear – you wouldn’t need to eat or drink. You certainly could, but it would no longer be something that would be a necessary thing.
@griz
Fuck metabolization, I’m talking about simple digestion & the fact that there’s not enough water to process the fiber which leads to dysentery & dehydration which will kill you before fucking fruit sugar.
@luftballooneyegouge
I clearly said, and meant, “metabolize”. but even if one wants to say “digestion”, one doesn’t digest insoluble fiber. It just passes through undigested cleaning you out as it goes. Do you really not know what makes you give a shit?
And you missed an error in what I said above so I will correct it.
Eating oranges alone would not provide the water your body needs.
You would live longer if the hypothalamic hunger sub-personality was damaged or turned off — perhaps 45 days. Mental capacity would be severely handicappedafter 25 to 30 days.
Without a thirst sub-personality mental capacity would be seriously handicapped in 2 to 3 days, and irreversible (fatal) in 3-5.
(If you’re unsure what sub-personality” means, think of it like a minion. Behavioral psychologists have discovered these things are far too complex, living and active to be called “drives”, “programs” or “motivators”. )
@griz it’s a thought experiment to see what’s most important
Also a comparison between Scar from the lion king and Jesus. One offers freedom from hunger, the other freedom from thirst. Neither promise is fulfilled.
@Jear77
Then as I said, thirst would be the more important one to preserve. But it is very hard to disentangle the two, because digestion requires water.
So in any thought experiment one needs to examine not just meaning and intent of the question, but exactly what Fantasy Realm is being proposed we’re disentanglement of the two to select one over the other has any kind of realistic benefit. There comes a point where the abstraction is just so convoluted, it cannot be brought back to any kind of representation of anything remotely real. It becomes little more than a mental masturbation.
Last I checked Jesus was not in The Lion King. But Mufassa (iirc) was a fair stand-in of the wise King and and hero sacrificing his life to save his child, the heir of the Kingdom.
Scar (iirc) was the archetypal Dragon of Chaos, the trickster, the manipulator, The Deceiver.
@Jear77
Well OK then! I’m sure Jesus was really propositioning the young virgin at the well — and that’s why she brought him home to inseminate all her family!
But that would seem to be more Sun Myung Moon’s schtick!
It’s not entirely disallowed Jear.
But it certainly IS an interesting reach. Any thoughts on how to further unpack that interpretation into any sort of meaningful life application?
@Jear77
I’m rather aware of some of the things people can and do “reach for” on the internet! All driven by their current map of meaning lead them to! (ie, ‘allow’ them to find!)
So for this rather far-fetched gnostic interpretation to hold, they must have found a way to reconcile Jesus both telling her he would give her the semen, then telling her to get it from her husband?
I would be interested in a link to this fascinating interpretation. If their methodology and source is sound, it would be an interesting consideration.
@griz not having a husband is why he didn’t tell her about it. But LOTS of things Jesus did were violations of mosaic law. “You have heard… but I tell you.”
@Jear77
That’s one of the shakier ideas you’ve postulated! Care to fold in the”thirst no more” aspect of what Jesus said?
One dynamic religion [conveniently] overlooks is the total fulfilling of an Old Covenant, and the writing of a New Covenant.
“Old” and “New” actually mean something! Consider that a huge part of the religion disconnect, is that they are still just clinging to the Old . . . Or more accurately just two parts of it.
And hoping that somehow their works will be credited to them as righteousness. But even the Old Covenant doesn’t say this. (It was there faith that was credited to them as righteousness not their works.)
@griz
Transpersonal Psychology is pretty questionable at best & to put hunger and thirst under the umbrella of ‘subpersonality’ is a huge stretch being that they’re physical symptoms not mental.
@luftballooneyegouge
These primitive sub-personalities are housed in the hypothalamus, with access to the emotion center of the amygdala, and moderated by the hippocampus. They are directly connected to the ultra-primitive ascending reticulated activation centre where the brain meets the spine. This gives them “hot-line” permission to wake up any and all resources that may be “slumbering”.
But these sub-personalities are also mapped into the mid and higher cortical functions, with the ability to alter perceptions and even override higher cortical functions like morality.
This is actually backed by hard science. You may be thinking of some of the more dodgy interpersonal feel-good pseudo-disciplines?
@Jear77
The last time you did a religious fast did your senses “fool” you or did they sharpen and focus on the most important issues?
Even if you never experienced one first-hand use your head for something other than just a hat rack. How foolish an evolutionary adaptation would it be for the hunger sub-personality to trigger mental confusion and untrustworthy perceptions??
@griz oh, i do without proper nourshiment readily enough, but then i run on mints (in a job where you talk with people fresh breath is VITAL). If you’re fasting, your body burns fat, which makes your breath horrendous.
@Jear77
Try one of the “5” series gums by Wrigley’s (iirc).
The “Wintermint” is a powerful one that still has breath-freshening ability an hour or more later. The Peppermint one is good too, just not as powerful or long-lasting.
They don’t turn into “monkey-shit” in your mouth like some other gums can.
@luftballooneyegouge
It’s contrasted against just a program or a process that is basically unliving. We’ve accepted the pop notion that our brains are just big supercomputers which they are not.
A sub-personality is something that is alive. It has “a personality”, changeable within certain parameters, with a unique set of perspectives, meanings, reactions, moralities — all as subsets of your grand overarching personality.
They can and often do hold some of the darker more primitive aspects of your nature than you might want to own.
@luftballooneyegouge
Freud was more into behavioral patterns than brain structures.
Modern science currently accepts as fact that these primitive essential “circuits” (but more than just unliving circuits or programs) are initiated in the hypothalamus. Or roughly just half of it; with the other half apparently dedicated to exploration unto satiating these primitive sub-personalities. (Nietzsche visualize them as “critters”. “Minions” is also a workable analogy). Sock puppet is not a good analogy because it presumes total conscious (ego) control.
Scientists have experimented by removing the cortex of cats and leaving them just their hypothalamus. They become very much like a two year old child: hyper exploratory, with thought and action flitting from the control of one primitive sub-personality to another.
@griz you can’t have things both ways: science and those who follow its methodologies as nothing more than a religion/ religious leaders and accepting what it says/ its insights into how we tick!
@Jear77
Do you remember how I mentioned several times that you’ve never set aside religious thinking, and that you’ve just swapped religions?
“Thus saith “The Study””, and you’d best just take it on faith?
All ideologies, whether nested in something Transcendent or secular, can and most frequently are taken as religions. People find some element of them “salvational”. And from there it is just a short step to something akin to “worship”. The ideologies becomes sacred; something to be defended and perhaps even preached. Heresy against accepted doctrine, tumbles the whole house of cards. One is a trapped ideologue.
Jear, you know and understand this process I speak of.
But if one is not an ideologue, they can be a free thinker. Not being trapped within an ideology means one is free to explore and ponder ALL things.
For rare is the thing that has absolutely no meaning.
@griz
Of course they’re gonna be exploring! They’re looking for their cortex!
HOW MANY CATS HAVE HAD TO SUFFER FOR YOUR SELF-HELP-PSEUDO-SCIENCE?!?!?!?!?
71 responses to “hunger vs. thirst”
An inability to feel thirst would quickly lead to all sorts of health issues from dehydration.
An inability to feel hunger would lead to problems but it’d take much longer.
Most ‘merican dietary issues are compounded by the real killer,… lack of movement.
@luftballooneyegouge maybe the question wasn’t clear – you wouldn’t need to eat or drink. You certainly could, but it would no longer be something that would be a necessary thing.
@Jear77
Quickly, off the top of my head, with those choices I’d stamp out hunger, for the economy of it.
@Jear77
Then thermal regulation would be a better primitive sub-personality to not need.
Exposure can kill a person in just 24 hours.
@griz you can add or remove clothes, with the added benefit that they are reusable. Not so with food!
@Jear77
Sewage sludge is processed into fertilizer for livestock feed crops and lawns & gardens.
So basically we are indirectly eating our own shhhhhh………..
@luftballooneyegouge eat raw sewage… you’ve instantly condemned yourself to a horrid death, no matter how many doctors you have on hand
@Jear77
….AND YOU COULDN’T TELL ME THIS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WEEKEND!!!!!!
ohhhhhh i don’t feeel so goood
@Jear77
One cannot employ food they have not procured.
Just as one cannot employ clothes or shelter they have not procured.
So is this a question of the necessities, or the procurement of necessities?
@griz employ clothes? I wonder what the wage to be worn is…
@Jear77
It may cost the shirt off your back!
(But just for clarity I was using definition 2 from dictionary.com)
Hunger. I’m really not a big fan of eating. It is a hassle I could totally do without.
Well what about if you ate oranges? Then you wouldn’t be thirsty. Never hungry or thirsty again!
@Yoshikawa
The problem with that is that it takes more water to process sugar-water than is in the orange.
@griz what is sugar-water? Sounds like some made up bullshit
@Yoshikawa
Sorry. The sucrose/fructose content dissolved in the water commonly known as “orange juice”.
@griz Wikipedia? You don’t fool me one bit.
@griz also by the way orange juice is much more than sugar. You’re a fucking dickhead.
@Yoshikawa
But the sugars are the key ingredient that takes the most water to metabolize.
It’s good that I don’t fool you because I am not trying to.
@griz I’m going to tell everyone you’re wrong
@griz
It’s the fiber not the sugar.
I think you should wear the dress until you can match wits with
@Weenis
@luftballooneyegouge
A good point providing one overlooks the fact that fiber is not metabolized. That’s what makes it fiber.
But this still doesn’t exclude the point that eating oranges alone would provide your body the sugar it needs.
Does that dress come in your size?!
@griz
Fuck metabolization, I’m talking about simple digestion & the fact that there’s not enough water to process the fiber which leads to dysentery & dehydration which will kill you before fucking fruit sugar.
Fuck You
@luftballooneyegouge
I clearly said, and meant, “metabolize”. but even if one wants to say “digestion”, one doesn’t digest insoluble fiber. It just passes through undigested cleaning you out as it goes. Do you really not know what makes you give a shit?
And you missed an error in what I said above so I will correct it.
Eating oranges alone would not provide the water your body needs.
Orange you going to come back on this?
@griz
I said “process the fiber”.
I never claimed fiber is digested.
As I said before, it’ll cause dysentery. When you have dysentery you can’t keep food in long enough to digest it.
So, once the fuck again, it’s not the sugar that’ll kill you. It’s the fiber.
@luftballooneyegouge
I never said the sugar would kill you.
Did you mention dysentery?
I think the two of you in a nice matched set of @Weenis dresses would be the bomb!
@griz
You are dysentery.
@luftballooneyegouge
That was a shity response.
I would omit hunger. Living in Arizona, staying hydrated is very important.
You would live longer if the hypothalamic hunger sub-personality was damaged or turned off — perhaps 45 days. Mental capacity would be severely handicappedafter 25 to 30 days.
Without a thirst sub-personality mental capacity would be seriously handicapped in 2 to 3 days, and irreversible (fatal) in 3-5.
(If you’re unsure what sub-personality” means, think of it like a minion. Behavioral psychologists have discovered these things are far too complex, living and active to be called “drives”, “programs” or “motivators”. )
@griz as i said to @luftballooneyegouge you wouldn’t need food (or fluids) in this scenario to survive.
@Jear77
It would seem self-evident that if such needs were not there in this reality, the sub-personalities to deal with them would not be there.
So under what conditions would you propose the need would not be there?
@griz it’s a thought experiment to see what’s most important
Also a comparison between Scar from the lion king and Jesus. One offers freedom from hunger, the other freedom from thirst. Neither promise is fulfilled.
@Jear77
Then as I said, thirst would be the more important one to preserve. But it is very hard to disentangle the two, because digestion requires water.
So in any thought experiment one needs to examine not just meaning and intent of the question, but exactly what Fantasy Realm is being proposed we’re disentanglement of the two to select one over the other has any kind of realistic benefit. There comes a point where the abstraction is just so convoluted, it cannot be brought back to any kind of representation of anything remotely real. It becomes little more than a mental masturbation.
Last I checked Jesus was not in The Lion King. But Mufassa (iirc) was a fair stand-in of the wise King and and hero sacrificing his life to save his child, the heir of the Kingdom.
Scar (iirc) was the archetypal Dragon of Chaos, the trickster, the manipulator, The Deceiver.
You may have your archetypes mixed up.
@griz check the story of the woman at the well in the bible. “Living water” reference.
@Jear77
I think you are selecting/reaching/attaching meanings that serve your ideology and annulling context at leisure.
@griz Not really. Read carefully the promise made.
@Jear77
The “thirst no more”?
Tie this into the “living water” meme and the “hunger and thirst for righteousness” from the Beatitudes.
This is actually a good example of why removing context to get one’s desired outcome usually fails.
@griz not quite. There are other interpretations of the phrase living waters by the gnostics – they interpreted it to mean semen.
@Jear77
Well OK then! I’m sure Jesus was really propositioning the young virgin at the well — and that’s why she brought him home to inseminate all her family!
But that would seem to be more Sun Myung Moon’s schtick!
It’s not entirely disallowed Jear.
But it certainly IS an interesting reach. Any thoughts on how to further unpack that interpretation into any sort of meaningful life application?
@griz actually, according to the gnostics jesus was telling her to get her husband for that purpose. Interesting what one can find on the internet.
@Jear77
I’m rather aware of some of the things people can and do “reach for” on the internet! All driven by their current map of meaning lead them to! (ie, ‘allow’ them to find!)
So for this rather far-fetched gnostic interpretation to hold, they must have found a way to reconcile Jesus both telling her he would give her the semen, then telling her to get it from her husband?
I would be interested in a link to this fascinating interpretation. If their methodology and source is sound, it would be an interesting consideration.
@griz uhn… the key word here is drink. Do the math.
@Jear77
Drinking semen would seem a violation of Mosaic law. I doubt Jesus would have been encouraging that!
And if memory serves she didn’t have a husband.
@griz not having a husband is why he didn’t tell her about it. But LOTS of things Jesus did were violations of mosaic law. “You have heard… but I tell you.”
@Jear77
That’s one of the shakier ideas you’ve postulated! Care to fold in the”thirst no more” aspect of what Jesus said?
One dynamic religion [conveniently] overlooks is the total fulfilling of an Old Covenant, and the writing of a New Covenant.
“Old” and “New” actually mean something! Consider that a huge part of the religion disconnect, is that they are still just clinging to the Old . . . Or more accurately just two parts of it.
And hoping that somehow their works will be credited to them as righteousness. But even the Old Covenant doesn’t say this. (It was there faith that was credited to them as righteousness not their works.)
@griz ” i have not come to abolish the law…”
@Jear77
Finish the quote.
“. . . But to fulfill it”.
A contract that is totally fulfilled is a finished deal.
This is a persistent stumbling block for many.
@griz contradicted by “not one jot or tittle…”
@Jear77
Think about that one some more.
@Jear77 fill up my jug, I want a sip!
@griz
Transpersonal Psychology is pretty questionable at best & to put hunger and thirst under the umbrella of ‘subpersonality’ is a huge stretch being that they’re physical symptoms not mental.
@luftballooneyegouge
These primitive sub-personalities are housed in the hypothalamus, with access to the emotion center of the amygdala, and moderated by the hippocampus. They are directly connected to the ultra-primitive ascending reticulated activation centre where the brain meets the spine. This gives them “hot-line” permission to wake up any and all resources that may be “slumbering”.
But these sub-personalities are also mapped into the mid and higher cortical functions, with the ability to alter perceptions and even override higher cortical functions like morality.
This is actually backed by hard science. You may be thinking of some of the more dodgy interpersonal feel-good pseudo-disciplines?
@griz which is why religions of all stripes tell people to fast, so their senses fool them.
@Jear77
The last time you did a religious fast did your senses “fool” you or did they sharpen and focus on the most important issues?
Even if you never experienced one first-hand use your head for something other than just a hat rack. How foolish an evolutionary adaptation would it be for the hunger sub-personality to trigger mental confusion and untrustworthy perceptions??
@griz can’t work and fast.
Also if i fast normally i am distracted, so focus is unable to be attained
@Jear77
The value of the exercise is in both fasting AND still going about your daily routine without making an issue of the fact one is fasting.
It can be done.
Even with a learning disability that affects focus and attention
And the value comes not in excusing why one cannot do it, but in just getting it done.
@griz oh, i do without proper nourshiment readily enough, but then i run on mints (in a job where you talk with people fresh breath is VITAL). If you’re fasting, your body burns fat, which makes your breath horrendous.
@Jear77
Try one of the “5” series gums by Wrigley’s (iirc).
The “Wintermint” is a powerful one that still has breath-freshening ability an hour or more later. The Peppermint one is good too, just not as powerful or long-lasting.
They don’t turn into “monkey-shit” in your mouth like some other gums can.
@griz bleh! I don’t do gum. Period.
@griz
…again you totally missed what I said AND how the hell do you come up with sub-personalities being housed in the hypothalamus?
Please give your definition of subpersonality, because you don’t seem to know what it means.
@luftballooneyegouge
It’s contrasted against just a program or a process that is basically unliving. We’ve accepted the pop notion that our brains are just big supercomputers which they are not.
A sub-personality is something that is alive. It has “a personality”, changeable within certain parameters, with a unique set of perspectives, meanings, reactions, moralities — all as subsets of your grand overarching personality.
They can and often do hold some of the darker more primitive aspects of your nature than you might want to own.
@griz
It sounds like you put a sock puppet on the id.
@luftballooneyegouge
Freud was more into behavioral patterns than brain structures.
Modern science currently accepts as fact that these primitive essential “circuits” (but more than just unliving circuits or programs) are initiated in the hypothalamus. Or roughly just half of it; with the other half apparently dedicated to exploration unto satiating these primitive sub-personalities. (Nietzsche visualize them as “critters”. “Minions” is also a workable analogy). Sock puppet is not a good analogy because it presumes total conscious (ego) control.
Scientists have experimented by removing the cortex of cats and leaving them just their hypothalamus. They become very much like a two year old child: hyper exploratory, with thought and action flitting from the control of one primitive sub-personality to another.
@griz you can’t have things both ways: science and those who follow its methodologies as nothing more than a religion/ religious leaders and accepting what it says/ its insights into how we tick!
@Jear77
Do you remember how I mentioned several times that you’ve never set aside religious thinking, and that you’ve just swapped religions?
“Thus saith “The Study””, and you’d best just take it on faith?
All ideologies, whether nested in something Transcendent or secular, can and most frequently are taken as religions. People find some element of them “salvational”. And from there it is just a short step to something akin to “worship”. The ideologies becomes sacred; something to be defended and perhaps even preached. Heresy against accepted doctrine, tumbles the whole house of cards. One is a trapped ideologue.
Jear, you know and understand this process I speak of.
But if one is not an ideologue, they can be a free thinker. Not being trapped within an ideology means one is free to explore and ponder ALL things.
For rare is the thing that has absolutely no meaning.
Not one. Multiple. Dozens. Things able to be repeated ad nauseum and getting within one standard deviation the same results.
@griz
Of course they’re gonna be exploring! They’re looking for their cortex!
HOW MANY CATS HAVE HAD TO SUFFER FOR YOUR SELF-HELP-PSEUDO-SCIENCE?!?!?!?!?
@luftballooneyegouge
Lol!
Probably more than we realize. Just as we probably don’t realize the benefits we enjoy from it.
A Phineus Gage doesn’t come along that often. We can’t rely just on random accidents for insights.
@griz And what is your profession?
@Yoshikawa
OTR trucker.
Yours?