Knowledge: When Less Is More...

Heather and Kara...

Mindy and Jen...

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”

The conversation began, as many others do. "Have you read X (plug in generic title)". "Yes, it's currently #1 on the times best seller list and".....Before I can finish I'm interrupted with. "He eats X (plug in random non-Paleo food") with eyes that seem to say, If he says I can, and you-who are not a New York Times best selling author (YET), why should I listen to you?

Anyone who knows me knows I dig to read. I usually have several titles going at once from philosophy, diet of course, fiction, even anthropology. I am consumed with a quest for more knowledge. But does that knowledge make me more intelligent, or just know more?

The story above is one of like several I will be confronted with in a week, sometimes days even. Such is the price you pay for the business I'm in. But all that philosophy leads me to philosophize. Is the reason we are gaining knowledge to help others, be better, impart more to society, and ultimately gain wisdom, or so we can find something somewhere that reads the way we want it to-reinforcing our bad behavior.

With such conflicting information available to us today there is no doubt we attain worthless information form time to time. Information which may cloud our judgement, and send us down the wrong paths, but if the reason we were attaining that knowledge in the first place was pure, most of this should pass like the worthless piece of shit it is.

If I sit down to be enlightened by the Pali Canon (kinda like a Buddhist bible) with the main goal being to become more comfortable with the current bad behavior I am committing, as opposed to changing the behavior entirely. You are not only molesting a beautiful text, but you are negating all possibility of wisdom gained simply because you began the journey with only the easy way out in mind.

If you search diets all over the internet until you stumble on the Twinkie Diet (its real) then you bring it to guys like me in hopes I can validate what they do, or at least argue against it poetically, your reason for gaining that Mis-knowledge is jaded as are you, and you may be sitting deep in the waters of too much. This is one of those times you need to detach from the input, and just read between the lines, and use common sense.

RBL (reading between the lines):

For instance "Studies Show" is the biggest load of shit ever. Everyone has a study up their ass, and just about everything was "studied" so somebody could profit. If you do not read the original abstract, and attain the data, it is worthless. Here is an example;

-Studies show three milligrams of Nicotine increases fat burning by 20%- 

Ok, but what if the control group lost .25 pounds, and the nicotine group lost .30 pounds (20% more) is that really worth downing nicotine at all. Which has been proven to be addictive at over 2mg. Nope.

Are you picking up what I'm putting down. 

Another version below is a far fetched specious reasoning of a study not reliant on percentages may say something observational, that takes into account no variables.

Tigers are not in the ocean. The ocean has salt- therefore tigers must hate salt.

That sound %$#%ing ridiculous, and we are feed bullshit like that in much subtler ways all the time, while on a quest for knowledge.

Everything Is A %$#&ing Lie:

The solution to all this jargon is to disbelieve everything you read, and experiment with everything you want to work, or that sounds reasonable. Or simply, find someone who has-like me. It damn sure isn't to scour the ends of the earth in hopes of finding the holy grail of shit eating fantastics, or shake weight certifications-bring it to me, and have me put some kind of blessing on it so you feel justified in making such bad decisions. 

The next time something goes against the grain, but you love it, try it and document your results. The next time something looks to good to be true, it is. The next time studies show....$#%@ off.

Strength:

Rest

For Score:

-Dips

-Box Jumps

-Db Squat Cleans 35/55

1 minute each station

5 Rounds

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Comments

[JN]

Great post!
I'll be on the dl for a few days with a bum shoulder.

[holly]

138

[vicki]

143m
First regular box jump. Yeaa!

[Ry]

"this rock keeps away tigers, hmmm how does it work? IT DOESN'T!! But i dont see any tigers around here do you? Lisa i would like to buy your rock."

[Dana]

189 (m) @ 2 x 25 lbs + red band 4 dips

[NP]

210

[Mo]

160

[jb]

Let the bears paynthe bear tax, I pay the Homer tax-thats Home Owner Tax...

[Mindy]

127m

[runmelrun]

165

[Chuck T]

139 + big box

[Jen]

161 m (purple banded dips) + 24" box