A tale of two Sundays at church

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints often wear underwear with a special significance:

“The garment of the holy priesthood reminds us of the veil in the temple, and that veil is symbolic of Jesus Christ. When you put on your garment, you put on a sacred symbol of Jesus Christ. Wearing it is an outward expression of your inner commitment to follow Him. The garment is also a reminder of your temple covenants. You should wear the garment day and night throughout your life. When it must be removed for activities that cannot reasonably be done while wearing the garment, seek to restore it as soon as possible. As you keep your covenants, including the sacred privilege to wear the garment as instructed in the initiatory ordinances, you will have greater access to the Savior’s mercy, protection, strength and power.”

https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders/2024/04/14/first-presidency-letter-garmet-of-the-holy-priesthood-temple-recommend-statement/

Two or three years ago, I used an ammeter to test one of my specially-produced undergarments and found that when slightly damp (such as would result from a person being a bit sweaty), the fabric carried an electric current.

Two Sundays ago, I noticed that when I was in our church building and wearing the garment, I kept feeling an unnatural feeling that everything was "normal" and "OK." I had to consciously strive to remember things I knew of a negative nature because of the strength of this normalcy bias, a feeling that appears to have been outwardly imposed on me. ("Normalcy bias is the tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a negative event. Normalcy bias prevents us from understanding the possibility or the seriousness of a crisis or a natural disaster." https://www.scribbr.com/research-bias/normalcy-bias/)

Last Sunday, I decided to test whether my garment could be involved in creating that odd normalcy bias. The only way to reasonably test that hypothesis was to wear the garment inside-out to church for the duration of our two hours of worship meetings. I was surprised to notice the near-complete lack of the normalcy bias I had felt the previous Sunday. I felt like my thoughts were more my own and that my prayers were more genuine.

College fundraising help via undisclosed technology?

 A few months ago, I was on a local college campus during its homecoming weekend. I happened to be wearing one of their official college sweatshirts, a rather heavy sweatshirt.

While in the parking lot, I saw three young men greet each other happily and in high spirits, and I smiled at their happiness. Hours later back at home, I realized that I continued to feel very happy; in fact, I was euphoric. Nothing had happened in my life since being in the college parking lot that would account for the euphoria I was experiencing. 

As I've contemplated that experience and considered the difference in my mental state that came from ceasing to wear my habitual rings around three years ago, I have come to wonder whether there wasn't some sort of technology being quietly put to use on the college campus, technology used to promote the persistence of happy feelings in the student body and visiting alumni and parents during the homecoming weekend. Perhaps the unusual weight of my "school spirit" sweatshirt was because it contained something that enhanced the effectiveness of such a technology.

Colleges nowadays put a lot of effort into fundraising, and it seems that their fundraising would be more likely to be successful when visiting alumni and parents have strong, persistent happy feelings upon visiting a college in person.

I can hear people debating as they read this, "But surely such technology can't exist. We would know about it!" But such technology would be a lot more effective if not disclosed as no one likes to feel manipulated. If such technology exists and is in use, you can expect it to be a closely-held secret.

Still losing weight healthily--definitely need to reduce the complexity of what I'm doing, though!

As mentioned in the post before this, I think I've figured out how to lose weight healthily without relying on iffy beverages and supplements. I'm down ten pounds in about ten weeks, and according to my records, the good results come from using juniper berries that I first microwave in plastic for 60 seconds with silicon dioxide (I use "beer salt" for this) and grated cinnamon bark, then stir in (again, with plastic) ground eggshell (my current eggshell powder also has some onion in it, but when it runs out I will try the experiment with plain ground eggshell) and roasted plantain/banana leaf (made by soaking frozen-thawed banana/plantain leaves in epsom salt water (MgSO4 and H2O) before toasting black and crushing into powder), then microwave again 30-60 seconds. While they are still warm, I place the juniper berries on plain salted butter and make a puree out of that and plain distilled H2O.

I then use that puree as described in preceding posts. I really want to reduce some steps now that I have something that works, for the current process is too complicated to be easily replicated. My teenage daughter is going to help me with that, which is fitting because she first showed me years ago that this sort of process could have good results when she microwaved silicon dioxide-containing stevia sweetener with cinnamon and stirred it into artificial vanilla, cocoa, and yogurt. That stevia sweetener has apparently since changed its formulation, but I think the inulin in it was a source of strontium or barium and that I am now finding that needed strontium or barium in the eggshell powder.

Weight loss without energy drinks, coffee, tea, etc.

I found a way to process juniper berries in my microwave such that I can achieve noticeable healthy-feeling weight loss fairly quickly. 

I start out by eating a little freshly sliced green cabbage plain.

Here's what I do to the juniper berries:

1) pluck some juniper berries from a bush

2) microwave them for 60 seconds in a plastic cup with a dry mixture of a source of silicon dioxide (it used in foods to help them flow better), powdered toasted banana/plantain leaf that has been soaked in Epsom salt (MgSO4) water (H2O) for a few hours before toasting, and freshly ground cinnamon bark 

3) right after removing from the microwave, stir in a mixture of powdered dried onion/powdered washed-and-cleaned (of membrane, etc.) eggshell using a plastic stirrer

Avoid using metal during this processing.

Then I put some of the juniper berries on a little plain salted butter and blend that with some H2O to make a puree.

I use a mug to microwave for 60 seconds layered cocoa powder topped by dried onion power, some more powdered toasted banana/plantain leaf, and lastly red raspberry seed powder. I mix some of the juniper berry puree into that right afterwards.

 

I also microwave cocoa powder topped by dill weed for 60 seconds in a glass jar then stir in some freshly sliced Roma tomato with a plastic stirrer.

I then pour the contents of the mug into the glass jar, stir that and consume about half of it. Then I put in some freshly sliced green cabbage. and some soaking water that has had dry soybeans and H2O combined for a few hours; I consume the rest.

I've been keeping careful track of what I eat and what happens to my weight, and the above has caused my weight to go down two pounds in two days from what had been a very stubborn plateau.

Now I get to figure out which of these steps and ingredients are really necessary and which aren't. The crucial addition two days ago which seems to have made the biggest difference was the addition the mixture of powdered dried onion/powdered washed-and-cleaned (of membrane, etc.) eggshell to the just-heated juniper berries. That makes me think that alkaline earth metals, which in similar in behavior to calcium, could be involved. The sulfur in the onion and banana/plantain leaves makes me wonder whether there is some strontium sulfite or barium sulfite involved. On to discover! (In the meantime, I'm appreciative of feeling slimmer. :) )

[Note: I precede this newest mixture by an hour or two with consumption of a cup of (nylon mesh-strained) distilled water/super toasted banana leaf/cut celery leaf beverage. The celery leaf enzymes are needed, but they are counterproductive if taken at the same time as the mixture; those enzymes need to be consumed an hour or two earlier.]