Michael McMahon

Maybe apples and oranges don’t taste hedonistic because they require apathy to eat in large quantities. So the way sweets taste hedonistic can relate to the sweets being possessive. It appears as if the apples don’t really taste nicer as you age but that you can become more relaxed about the lack of taste from apples and oranges. Apple juice emphasises how dilute a solid apple is while the sweetness of mandarins contrast with the blandness of an orange. As such healthy eating cannot only fill you up but can also replace hedonism with meditation.

It might seem strange to ban sweets when healthy food simply can’t match chocolate. The way sweets can taste better than healthy food might relate to surrealism in how we’re never focused enough on nutrition. For example I was handed a stale glass of milk today in a cafe in Portugal where it tasted violent simply because I wasn’t even very accustomed to fresh Mediterranean milk. I didn’t drink most of it to avoid feeling sick yet I opted to take an extra sip only to help desensitise me to fresh foreign milk. So sweets might relate to how we don’t sufficiently dilute an over-ripe fruit or stale food piece to extract rarer nutrients in a way that appears unnatural. It’s possible that Asian spices relates to a conscious rather than physical form of nutrition where each spice is added holistically relative to previously well-known spices. So even though it’s possible to live life without ever eating spices it’s still the case that spices can prevent over-eating by requiring too much mental focus.

I often avoided drinking smoothies when I was thirsty in favour of lighter juices. Smoothies for me used to be something I’d drink recreationally when I wasn’t thirsty. Yet lately after tennis I drank a load of smoothies when I was thirsty which took longer to quench my thirst. I thought drinking smoothies while thirsty would help me to eat more raw fruit in general.

Mint chocolate symbolises the temptations of overeating because the alkaline taste feels as healthy as toothpaste in contrast to the acidic vibe of other sweets. Eating mint chocolate is almost a perversion of healthy eating because it allows you to cut back on acidic sweets. Yet mints have a flaw in filling you too much when you could have ate even healthier food instead. The same is true for health bars like oat and honey where it’s healthier than other sweets but isn’t as nourishing as the raw oats and honey without the sugar and syrup attachments. Metaphysically the dilemma with all sweets is that they can all be healthy if you were devout about a similar form of healthy food. So eating lots of crisps would be really healthy if you also ate potatoes every day. Obesity used to be admired as a sign of wealth in medieval times. There’s a lesser evil in that food could always be a primary source of hedonism were society fully functioning. Yet it’s because there so many problems in life that virtuous overeating often gets relegated as a source of ethics. Chocolate Room - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

My new resolution is to simply get every salad type on a meat sub where there’s no excuses!

It might be the case where fruit and vegetables aren’t made equally healthy when everyone has a distinct physique. For example an overweight person could benefit by eating lots of watery fruits like grapes and melons because the water content would fill you up to prevent overeating. By contrast raspberries are so sweet and easy to digest for an overweight person that they might be more of a dessert food. As such blackcurrents and blackberries might be more challenging for an overweight person in order to make you more resilient to diverse foods.

Tall and skinny people or so-called “lanky” people aren’t always physically strong but might be informative in how they still have an extreme mindset throughout their lifespan. As such obesity might occasionally be a result of competition between smaller and taller people where small people could match the tall and muscular people in terms of diet. Yet “lanky” people are a disproof that a high diet would lead to a more extreme mindset. So even if the super tall bodybuilders and basketball players all starved their diets they’d still be way more devout in their existence than overweight, smaller people. In other words taller people won’t shorten in stature if they become food deprived.

Creativity can be important for healthy eating where we’ve to tailor our diet for our own unique body. I was in a restaurant near St. Stephen’s green in Dublin where I ordered a blood orange tea and I was surprised that it came with a jug of milk. I was so accustomed to drinking plain green teas that it never dawned on me that I could adapt to exotic teas with milk. This would allow me to cut down on my hot chocolates and coffees where each of those drinks counteract each other to prevent addiction. Adding milk to a berry tea makes it feel fuller so that you don’t have to drink loads of tea! Adding milk to a berry tea merely dilutes the red into pink: In the same restaurant I ordered an alcohol guinness stew where it was more digestible even though I’d try to only use alcohol rarely. I once tried adding honey to milk and tea only to realise that it might be to sweetening!

I bought a pack of rambutan fruit where I thought the peachy-grape taste with its nutty seed interior would help me eat more seeded grapes. Hence eating a diversity fruit can spiral upwards instead of eating too many apples and oranges. Maybe a factor in obesity is that richer people might try to unconsciously appear prouder than poor people by overeating even if they’re not as strong as poor people due to an accident in social hierarchies. In other words no one should individually try to defend capitalism where rationalising yourself as stronger for being richer can lead to a downward spiral. Perhaps a risk factor in introversion is that proud people can ironically be tempted to be speak more humbly than others even if they too are humble simply to overcompensate against a tendency for violent thoughts. As such speaking in an egalitarian way can be more appropriate than speaking in a vaguely humble way. A dilemma is that other people are so unique that to speak to them entails adjusting your personality to theirs in such a way that you exaggerate a certain trait in you that matches them. Yet this immediately risks overconfidence in your own trait such that speaking equally to others can be much harder than it first appears.

I was in Turkey last year where I’d extreme abdominal pain for 3 days. I’d bouts of headaches and leg cramps too where I’d to lie in bed for days. I thought at the time it had to do with the scorching heat. I was also uncertain if I’d the covid virus but the leg cramps would have been atypical symptoms of covid. Yet I remember how painful it was for me to use the toilet too where I often had to squat. Embarrassing as it is I can actually squat in the bathroom very easily these days to assist digestive strength. The irony is that there’s no such thing as a collective pain response for squatting. Hence my brain had somehow initiated pain in Turkey in order to replicate a prior behaviour that I’d taken no notice of. I’m not trying to disgust readers with this story but it goes to show that the pain response can be an adaptive response to automate a previously voluntary action. So who knows how many tummy bugs in society might actually be self-initiated rather than infection based.

Maybe a complacency with obesity is that diet is constantly educational meaning that eating bad food makes you too skilled at eating bad food.

We are sometimes told to eat up all of our dinner in light of people starving in Africa yet we don’t owe such ethics to sweets where we need only eat half a packet of crisps!

Society has lots of social problems from wealth inequality to criminality. Hence mentally ill people can be a reflection of the good and bad qualities of the society they’re in. A dilemma with self-hatred is that those who also have a sarcastic persona are at risk of being unkind to those who’d like them. In other words you’d be liking an imitation of personality traits that they don’t like in either themselves or you. For example whispering or mumbling to others could be a form of self-hatred but it risks parodying those who sincerely have a humble, quiet or rural accent. Likewise asking random questions as a conversational style might be helpful in reducing the fear other shy people have by letting them know that anyone can say silly things by mistake. Yet it could also be a form of ungratefulness to those who are awkward in conversation. Hence a sarcastic persona is open-ended in terms of ethics. Someone who exaggerates how tense they feel through their body language are burdening other nervous people who feel too much empathy for them. On the flip side exaggerating your uptight demeanour could also relieve nervous people from the fear that they’re the most nervous people! Mental illnesses can be subjective meaning that they can be infiltrated by comedians which is I’m both self-critical and supportive of mental health. The thread is a few years old meaning that there might be too much complacency for me to give fast replies!

Sometimes it takes people being too sentimental about mental health and suicide to disprove the idea that all mentally ill and suicidal people are sentimental or romantic about their situation. Suicidal might not be very beautiful when they're ill but they'll be more beautiful when they recover! Suicidal people can spiritually weak but that doesn't always mean their mentally weak when they can still be strong in their physicality. Christina Aguilera's song might be a well-intentioned lesser evil to contrast with the neutrality of many mentally ill people. Christina Aguilera - Beautiful:

Food not only serves a metabolic function but also a neurological function in recreation. Our choice of food has an artistic quality that can aid our creativity. Hence the way taste can change for the same food type relates to the function of consciousness. Our psyches are distinct from one another meaning some people will disagree about when a fruit is most ripe. Some people find old milk nice and creamy whereas others find milk close to the sell-by date to be stale. Another factor is that to consume a lot of a food type means that it has to be in optimal condition. Hence to drink a lot of milk on a daily basis might mean that it has to be fresh. Perhaps your subconscious gives you more leeway to eat poorer quality food if you don’t eat it too often. For instance I always find cardboard containers of milk taste slightly nicer than plastic containers. I can drink from the odd plastic carton but if I drank it constantly then I might consume too many toxins. Hence each of our conscious minds is a specialist at our own diet. There’s no objective way to rate chefs where the taste of food relates to our own beliefs in asceticism and indulgence. A well-baked pain-aux-raison is nice only relative to someone who didn’t want to meditate on healthier ingredients or who didn’t want to glorify the dish with a sweeter taste! The value of expensive wines or of michelen star restaurants depends on the state-of-mind you seek to achieve. For example tea in a café might taste better than tea at home simply because you’re surrounded by so many acquaintances.

Maybe once you reach older adulthood then the older you become the more greasy foods can leave a harsher aftertaste. In other words an elderly person’s stomach isn’t as effective as a young person’s stomach. Hence healthy eating as a child is great preparation for older adulthood when by that age you might not have a choice but to eat more healthily!

I usually run out of milk for the last cup so I decided to even it out by pouring the whole jug of milk into the teapot(!): Tea is good for diluting milk because pure milk can become too heavy over time. For example I might have over-drank milk in the past few months by having too many whole litre sessions! For example when I used to eat lots of cream I eventually tried to eat a carton of cream only to realise that it can be stale by itself. It takes a lot longer to realise that ingesting lots of calcium in milk won’t reverse the ageing process. Perhaps a combination of my recent pain from emerging wisdom teeth followed by a wild diet and an older age of 28 made me feel an almost alkaline taste from excessive milk quantities that deterred me drinking more. Hence overeating can actually help you eat less when stomach aches can be a deterrent much as hangovers would be for binge drinking. Yet eating a food source to exhaustion can be a big gamble if you fail to feel stressed.

I’m often stuck for time where boiling whole potatoes can take too long. So I decided to peel my potatoes like wedges instead. Potatoes can often feel too hard so I created the opposite problem of overly watery potatoes as if they were greasy chips!

(Ok I understand. I’ll try just to mention the spiders and snakes seeing as other posters referenced snakes too. Other creatures can be observed on my YouTube channels including @michaelmcmahon5523.) Virtual Snake Touches Observing a harmless turtle can prepare you for a snake. Thankfully the first snake was asleep or played dead where I didn’t have to fear sudden movements.

Communist Ants Taking on the red army of ants! The only way ants are creepy is that they’re actually friendlier than you!

Irish Eel Perhaps anyone afraid of spiders might have to accustomise themselves to crabs! Fearless Ducks Are you more afraid than the ducks of the eel?!

Mental illnesses tend to occur in people under extreme circumstances where mentally ill people could easily include the most extreme evil people, the most extreme ethical people and the most apathetic people ever. This is one reason why suicide is an individualistic phenomenon rather than a reflection of a single ethical system.

Fox Sighting Carnivorous foxes are objectively more dangerous to humans where our fear of spiders is a form of mammalian discrimination! The dilemma is that we tend to admire foxes in spite of their slightly evil vibe! Our only common ancestor with spiders are fishes 100s of millions of years ago! However we simply don’t fear fishes enough to relate their minimalist psyche to spiders or snakes. Perhaps the reptile and arachnid collection should be at an aquarium rather than a zoo to tame our fears! Maybe we just need to psychoanalyse more fish to prevent spider and snake phobias! The fact that creatures can die of natural causes means that we need not kill them to prove that they’re not a supernatural threat. The fact that people can look charitable to those who fear snakes by wearing snakeskin shoes is a sign that the ethics of a phobia can be manipulable. In other words you shouldn’t view yourself as redeemable as a criminal just by hating scary creatures! As such we need to tame phobias to prevent amorality. Random dead mouse I found on footpath to exonerate me from terrorism charges(!):

The way developed countries have access to an unlimited diet can reveal their ethics. For example obesity isn’t evil but it’s not always very ethical either. So our food choice might betray limitations in our ethical system. For example honey is an old-fashioned treat that makes you feel slightly healthy from its nutrients in spite of blatant indulgence in its sugar content. Hence honey is an amoral food source. I remember a child’s book about God making bees and the devil making wasps. As such honey is really ethical only if you were really devout about lesser evils in a food chain. Yet few people who pour honey onto their cereal are spiritual enough to thank the bees indicating that they’re not as ethical as they might believe themselves to be. Honey is so complicated in its texture that no artificial sweet could ever match it without requiring lots of artificially intelligent insects. Likewise a resistance to eating sweetcorn can betray an obsession about food. Sweetcorn is so passive and repetitive that it doesn’t distract you when you’re eating it. As such you can read the newspaper while eating sweetcorn and maintain the same focus. By contrast chocolate is too possessive of your attention no matter how delicious the taste is. So the way food can reflect hedonism in an ethical system is indirect. For example slightly overweight people can appear indulgent to thin people while obese people in turn can appear very indulgent to slightly overweight people. As such the differences in mindsets has to be understood in relative terms. Overweight people can try to normalise their heavy diet whereas obese people can try to exaggerate their diet as a form of self-deprecation. As such some physiques aren’t romantically attractive to other physiques when one could be an absurdist disproof of the other. The way obese people can sometimes lose all of their weight in a diet means it can be all or nothing. Turkish delight mimics honey in allowing you to feel tolerable for a slightly fruity taste in spite of a sweet tooth. By contrast buying a big bar of chocolate means you don’t want to conceal any bad habits as a form of humility. A classic oversight is to eat a lot of meat for protein in spite of not being very muscular. By rights you should grow muscle in the gym first and only afterwards should you worry about maintaining your muscle size with more protein. Hence a healthy diet needs to be in proportion to your muscularity. For example Chinese people are very thin and industrious where eating syrupy Chinese food very frequently would only work for a thin European who exercises a lot.

Baby Dragonfly Once they go under your hand they’re invisible and feel as light as a feather where you need not fear. I dropped the letter out the window too!