People have an amazing capacity to suspend logic while maintaining that life makes sense.<\/p>\n\t
Sundays for instance.\u00a0 All week everyone requires proof….receipts, contracts, documentation, follow ups, passwords, meetings, blah, blah, blah….but then on Sunday they go to Church and praise somebody that is plainly not there.\u00a0 They sing songs about the justice, love, and compassion while ignoring the death, disease, war, destruction and plain bad luck that makes up most people’s lives.\u00a0 I’m not saying they’re wrong on Sundays…..I’m just saying it doesn’t make sense.<\/p>\n\t
Which brings me to my first point:\u00a0 There is no superfood that will keep you young. \u00a0 All these people are drinking 40 dollar concentrated acai juice, eating wild salmon for omega-3s, touting blueberries, and free-range beef or whatever.\u00a0 It doesn’t help.\u00a0 How do I know?<\/p>\n\t
Japanese women are the longest lived group on the planet at slightly over 85 years.\u00a0 Vilcabamba Valley in Ecuador is said to be the healthiest environment on the planet with people regularly living over 100.\u00a0 Barbados (along with Japan) boasts the most Centenarians per capita.<\/p>\n\t
What do these places have in common?\u00a0 Honestly, other than perhaps generally healthy lifestyles and maybe a diet rich in seafood…..nothing.<\/p>\n\t
The point isn’t that something isn’t making them live longer…its that Japanese women at 85 are not THAT much different than the USA at 77.<\/p>\n\t
If there were some lifestyle\/diet change that would make us live significantly<\/em> longer, someone would’ve adopted it, and it would be so apparent that soon everyone would be doing it, and then we’d be back to the same situation:\u00a0 Everyone living approximately the same life span.<\/p>\n\t In fact, there WERE lifestyle\/diet changes that made people healthier and presumably live longer.\u00a0 We are the descendants of those people.<\/p>\n\t In short, if you like the amazonian fruits, eat them.\u00a0 But they aren’t going to make you live longer.\u00a0 If they did, the jungle people eating them naturally would have abnormally long life spans.\u00a0 They don’t.\u00a0 They die sooner than we do.<\/p>\n\t Next point:\u00a0 ESP.\u00a0 It doesn’t exist.\u00a0 Not in anyone.\u00a0 You know why?\u00a0 Easy.<\/p>\n\t It would be SO advantageous to be able to know other people’s thoughts or tell the future or any other ESP-like skill, that whoever had the skill would get so rich and bang so many women, that their descendents would soon outnumber everyone else…..then everyone would have ESP.\u00a0 The fact that everyone doesn’t have ESP strongly suggests that it doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n\t So…go to church, drink Acai juice, and try to bend spoons….it can’t hurt.\u00a0 You never know these days.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People have an amazing capacity to suspend logic while maintaining that life makes sense. 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