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Just watched a Youtube video yesterday where a guy points out to his audience that eggs are nothing but hen periods. We go to the store and buy a pack of 12 hen periods but we'd all likely find it disturbing if offered to eat the period of any other animal.

I can't believe I ever desired eggs for breakfast. Ew, even just saying that right now is disturbing!

The power that reframing arguments can have on your perception is profound. Please keep doing the work you guys are doing!

I just finished watching a 45 min documentary called The Boy Who Lived Before, about a boy who remembered living a different life before being with his current family.

After that, I watched this 10 minute clip of a guy explaining a few different examples of various kids and the kinds of past lives they had.

A few things I noticed were that for the kid in the first clip, not all the details he remembered were true, although some definitely were.

Secondly, I noticed there was a difference between some kids recalling that they were their previous grandfather (or someone in the family) and other kids recalling that they were per

I've been studying Eastern ideas related to consciousness and the self (specifically Indian and Buddhist philosophy) and, from what I understand, this is how it describes reality: think back to the movie the Nutty Professor, where Eddie Murphy plays Professor Klump as well as all of the other characters in the family. When you experience from Klump's point of view, you are some professor in a world where you're really fat and you're trying to find true love. You think you're Klump and you think you really have all of these people in your life, but in reality, you just need to remember who you are. You aren't Professor Klump, you're really Eddie Murphy, the actor, and it just so happens that

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