AmrikeeAkbar
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AmrikeeAkbar
29d ago
I do in fact have a friend who got pretty erratic and impulsive after losing a bunch of weight on GLP-1. We always joke that GLP-1 made her crazy in a "ha-ha but no seriously" sort of way.
As someone who's developed an interest in the topic recently, I suspect most belief systems have developed something that could be described as meditation. For that matter, I suspect there are non-religious practices that resemble contemplation. I'd be really interested to compare brain-scans of say, a sniper spending hours in a hide site with someone sitting in meditation for the same period. I do think with Protestantism specifically these contemplative practices were devalued because of a) as you say the collapse of the monastic tradition and b) the industrial revolution. Protestantism really took off right as the western world was entering a period where we focused on quantified ROIs for every activity. How does one quantify the value of sitting still? There's no easily-measured productivity associated with it, and it doesn't appear that you're "doing something" in the same way going to Church or memorizing scripture is doing something.
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