If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?

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Regular fasting has been shone to increase the life spans of mice. In humans fasting triples HGH concentration and boosts brain power.


So you'll have more time and more mental capacity to grok your life's meaning....with the potential to make it mean more.

I'm aware of the research, lol.  I didn't realize we were extrapolating it to the possible extension of human life in this particular discussion.  Might it be more suited for a thread of its own, perhaps?  I was merely cautioning you about making nutrition recommendations to strangers.  You should know by now that whenever the topic comes up, I'm usually not far behind.  [emoji41]

I'm thankful that you are.

If it's a simple quantitative function, more life = more meaning of life. But I don't think linear accumulation is the only variable in one's feeling of meaning of life nor the only variable affected by fasting.

If we want lasting depth of experience we need to dig that space within our selves. The spiritual function of fasting is not in caloric restriction (however helpful it may be) but in fasting from the informational world of Man and taking time out for "God"/spiritual exploration/discipline/application.

"I" is the ground of personal experience. Dig a well, plant good seed, tend the garden and reap the benefits.