It’s silly, ok. I know it’s silly. I’m a grown-ass man, but somehow I’m just putting this thing together. Leaving carbs out (be they complex or simple) makes me obsessively crave them. Period.
You know when you start listening to a lecture by someone you’re a bit dubious about, but whom you decide to give the benefit of the doubt. You listen as open mindedly as you can and realise that they’re making a lot of good points, not only that, they’ve yet to make one that you really disagree with. You know how you spend that entire lecture/podcast waiting for the other shoe to drop?
Yeah.
I’ve been listening to an 8-hour seminar by Mark Passio, and I was actually really impressed. He made it all the way to the top of hour six before he parked the Brinks truck of righteous rationalisation across the train line of honesty.
In a nutshell, he talks a lot about the fact that when someone (anyone) exerts control over you against your will, they are effectively forcing you into the position of slavery. Which is not implausible, even in his very split way of putting it (any amount of control is slavery).
What he then goes on to argue, is that while the condition of being owned by someone else is slavery, the condition of owning yourself is not, and in fact this “self-ownership” is the “natural law” which immoral behaviour violates. From what I’ve heard, then, his entire belief system rests on this point of self ownership. Which is unfortunate.
Because if:
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