Posts by Scott

Welcome, stevia81

You will do well to tarry here. Here pleasure is the highest good. Glad to have you with us!

Welcome, ayraj!

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I can't even find an example when mindfulness is bad or has harmful effects

I agree @smoothiekiwi, Mindfulness is used for what most folks would consider "positive" purposes - generally. I have it as a technique I keep in my back pocket & I employ it often. It can be a positive tool And being "mindless" all the time is not a great option, IMHO. But, just to make a point ...Mindfulness as a technique can and has been used for about anything. On the extreme end, there is no reason a serial killer or assassin couldn't use it to better focus, control tension and anxiety when attempting a kill, etc. As a concrete example along these lines, Mindfulness is being used for training elite US (and other countries) military personnel - and not just for things like recovery from PTSD, but even for them to be better able to perform in high tension combat situations.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mindfu…-special-forces

Mindfulness training as cognitive training in high-demand cohorts: An initial study in elite military servicemembers

Cognitive ability is a key selection criterion for entry into many elite professions. Herein, we investigate whether mindfulness training (MT) can enh…

www.sciencedirect.com

https://www.army.mod.uk/people/join-well/managing-stress/mindfulness-course/

Happy Birthday @EricR and congrats on being the FIRST birthday entry in the forum! That's prestigious enough, but even better is to find out what birthday gift Cassius is planning to give you!

How far north are you anyway, Eric? Beyond Grand Marais Minnesota? That's where my little sister lives.

Peace,

Scott

That's 2-5pm start time for those of us in AZ. I should be able to make that.

"food participation"?

I am interested in attending.

Haha! Wow! That's good stuff. So easy even *I* might be able to do it. (I'm the one of the world's WORST small talkers. I've never been comfortable with it.)

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Is that a *Philadelphia* Eagles reference?

Actually, Don, no. I'm afraid I know nothing about that sports team (or any sports team, basically). I was just giving the VS# that I thought related to the Eagles song - where Cassius was asking:

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what Vatican Saying needs a particular type of song that fits Already Gone?

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Of Course!

Awesome! How do I collect my prize?

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...oh wait. I got PLEASURE from that! 🙂🙃🙂

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"Epicurean calculus"

OMG that's the first I've heard this term. Perfect! I'm using that instead of hedonic calculus from now on! "Hedonic calculus" is sooo loaded with baggage which is not in line with what we know of Epicurean thinking! It is a term that will just continually cause misunderstanding. Thanks for that one Cassius!

Welcome, nixmercury!

It was great chatting with you. Nice to have an informal, relaxed opportunity to discuss ideas and questions. I hope this continues.

I plan to attend. Discussing personal outlines is a fine topic IMO. We could also have "Q&A" time, in which anyone can pose a question on their minds about EP and everyone can discuss. I'm pretty sure everyone has questions they could ask, and there would be plenty of discussion, and hopefully some answers to questions posed. Cassius, I have no doubts you would be able to gracefully facilitate and keep things within the EF forum guidelines if things strayed off course. (If no one really knows the answer to a posed question or there is no consensus on the "answer", someone could be assigned to try to go after finding out more and bring that back to the group next week?)

I haven't looked into the discussions on KBs on these applications so I can't speak to that, but I have used tools similar to the Geo mapping and those can sometimes be helpful in brainstorming and information/knowledge design.

And hyperlinking between documents is a great feature. Outlines like Epicurus employed are good, but he of course didn't have hyperlinking capability - like what we have built-in to this forum, allowing jumps between relevant material that would otherwise either not be known about, or when it was, be cumbersome to locate and travel to.

*Obsidian and Logseq also provide other capabilities beyond what Markdown does. They help organize and structure the files that are created in Markdown. Think like outlines and hyperlinks and creating knowledge bases

I'll just echo most of the above thoughts. I use a breathe and focus technique many times a day. It relaxes tension, breaks me out of automatic mode and reminds me how pretty much every single moment is an opportunity to enjoy being here. What could be more wonderful than being here? Without "being here", life would be rather less interesting!

Makes sense, Cassius, thanks.

Pacatus , I think you will find Zoom pretty easy to use. It is designed to be user-friendly. I hope you are able to join in.