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.

[Update 7/19/2024: I recently came across the "anomalous Nernst effect" (ANE) which might be a partial explanation for how magnetic fields could be used to affect our nervous system in an unnoticeable way. Basically, it says that an electric current can be induced in non-ferromagnetic materials (i.e., our axons in our neurons) where there is a perpendicular heat current (such as in our bodies with blood cooling in the extremities and warming in the torso) and a perpendicular magnetization. I don't understand all the details, for I never took quantum mechanics, and that is involved. But it looks like a promising research topic. Besides, I've always thought it would be good to understand quantum physics better, seeing as it help describes the world we live in.]

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.

[Update 6/6/2024: I think I missed an important ingredient in all my different food preparation combinations. It might be consumption of erucic acid (in brassica seeds and peanut skins) in light of how consistently I see tiny downward trends when I consume it versus when I don't it.]

[Update 6/7/2024: I mixed some ground mustard seed, which I ground myself at home using a mortar and pestle, into my butter and chilled it before using it in the puree yesterday. Today I'm down a little over a pound. I'm looking forward to seeing if there's a continued downward trend tomorrow! If so, I'll have to learn a lot more about erucic acid and benhenic acid.]

[Update 6/19/2024: Never mind about the erucic acid. That didn't seem to work. What does seem to make a difference is how recently I have microwaved the juniper berries. 

When I microwave the juniper berries with just some dried parsley (which creates both ozone and fluorine gas in minute amounts), I think I am making a +3 cobalt ion which quickly degrades to a +2 cobalt ion if not trapped in something like a saturated fat triglyceride such as butter provides, and I am more likely to see a little weight loss occur. 

I now do two treatments on juniper berries and place the resulting juniper berries in butter right afterwards to make the puree. 

The second treatment I do is microwaving beer salt (for its silicon dioxide and chloride ions) with juniper berries and freshly ground cinnamon and then stirring the heated mix with a tarnished silver-plated fork. I think I am likely making a +3 ion of chromium when I do this.

I'm sorry this is all so complicated. For anyone thinking that science is easy..... :) ]

[Update 6/24/2024: I think it's helpful to microwave some powdered dried onion/eggshell on the dill/cocoa mix in the Mason jar. Perhaps I'm making strontium ions that can then pull rubidium or lithium ions out of the tomato when I stir it in....]

[Update 6/25/2024: I just saw a drop on the scale after doing versions of the above experiment in which I microwaved a little powdered eggshell under the layer of Hershey's cocoa in the cocoa/toasted banana leaf powder/powdered dried onion/red raspberry seed powder-layered mug into which I afterward pour the juniper berry/salted butter/distilled water puree. I think I'm making strontium oxide (SrO) or barium oxide (BaO). It'll will be interesting to see if that keeps being helpful.]

[Update 7/2/2024: I've been thinking about why microwaving just cocoa and letting it sit for a while seems to be helpful; perhaps it's because the layer of cocoa is acting as a lid to some sort of chemical process that needs to have a sealed container. I came across a cryptic mention of combining lithium, gold, and CN (carbon nitride) with what appears to be phospholipids, and I think that microwaving the cocoa might be making the carbon nitride. The tomato is a source of lithium. Gold is tricky to isolate in a reactive form but is likely present in my juniper berries in tiny amounts. Soy is a source of phospholipids. I'll have to do some more studying to understand the underlying chemistry, but this seems like a very interesting lead. Especially since I got it from looking more closely at D&C 89.]

[Update 7/3/2024: I tried applying the information in the 7/2/2024 and went down a pound on the scale this morning. Gold seems to be important to weight loss somehow. That would go far to explain its staying power as a precious metal even among people who don't wear much jewelry.]