Ray Peat Email Advice Depository Discussion/Comment Thread

[windinthepines]

@Peatress Sure. I'm including the questions and references when I have them, but for a lot of these I just have the answers. I think a lot were posted to facebook groups around 2014, 2015, and 2016, but others are from other places, and I didn't takes notes on where I got them from. For some, I have the questions, but don't have permission to post them.

 

[Peatress]

@Peatress Sure. I'm including the questions and references when I have them, but for a lot of these I just have the answers. I think a lot were posted to facebook groups around 2014, 2015, and 2016, but others are from other places, and I didn't takes notes on where I got them from. For some, I have the questions, but don't have permission to post them.

Ok thank you.

 

[Lejeboca]

@windinthepines , seconding others, thanks a lot for compiling posting such a wealth of Dr. Peat's responses

 

[windinthepines]

I haven't been in the facebook groups for a number of years. I imagine there are still a lot of quotes there, and maybe in other forums, that still need to be mined, compiled, and posted. If we can gather the quotes and put them in a single location, where they can be easily copied and republished, it seems they'll be less likely to be lost.

I'm very happy to share them and should have done so sooner. I also regret not having gathered more of them.

 

[Lejeboca]

I haven't been in the facebook groups for a number of years. I imagine there are still a lot of quotes there, and maybe in other forums, that still need to be mined, compiled, and posted. If we can gather the quotes and put them in a single location, where they can be easily copied and republished, it seems they'll be less likely to be lost.

I'm very happy to share them and should have done so sooner. I also regret not having gathered more of them.

Thanks much!
The 'Email Depository' (ED) thread sounds like a good place to place the quotes especially since we do not seem to have a separate 'quote store' thread anymore as we use to have. @charlie, could you point out where the already deposited quotes (before the RPF software upgrade) may be found? Thank you.

I am not on FB but if I see the quotes somewhere, I will put them in the (ED) thread.

 

[CJ_87]

You have saved the best until last. A sign of true delicacy!

 

[reality]

Appreciate everyone who is posting

@CJ_87
I agree that last one about being in an enriched environment is fantastic information

Keeping your brain stimulated with novel experiences is super important

 

[windinthepines]

Not sure how you all want to handle this -- should these go in the email depository thread? Peat wrote a few emails to a William Blake discussion group around 1999. Blake List Archive -- Albion.com That's just one page. There are more.

"
>The ratio of Blake to Swedenborg would be somewhat
>equivalent to that of Merleau-Ponty to Sechenov."

"
Around 1860, Sechenov formulated in a detailed way the idea that the brain
and consciousness operate on the basis of reflexes {though Swedenborg seems
to have anticipated the whole idea of the cortex of the brain and its
(nerve cell) elements as the seat of consciousness with its varied
faculties; all apparently for overcoming the dualism of Descartes}. And
then Merleau-Ponty showed why we shouldn't even believe in the literal
reality of reflexes. (P.K. Anokhin worked out the more detailed and modern
reasons for rejecting the simplistic idea of "the reflex arc," almost
literally expressing the idea that we see, actively, through the eyes, not
passively "with" them. In the Russian tradition, the active consciousness
has been taken seriously, unlike those in the west, who with Eccles, have
insisted on separating the body from the (soul or) mind. One of my
professors of neurology, for example, used to sarcastically ask me which I
was going to study, the brain or the mind; he thought Pavlov had rejected
the thought that neurologists could study the mind."

"
In his time (as in the present time), terrible things were used as
medications, and probably were more deadly than what they were supposed to
cure. Paracelsus invented a magical approach to medicine, in which the
official medical crap would be applied to the sword that made the wound,
leaving the lucky patient unmedicated. When I used to teach naturopathic
physicians, they generally didn't appreciate my suggestion that this
principle could account for the relative success of homeopathy when
compared with 20th century medicine.

The great biochemist, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, used to observe that humor was
closely allied with the perception of important truth. I think Blake's
humor is generally under-appreciated."

 

[windinthepines]

A funny example:

"


Since I will assume that you have led a remarkably sheltered existence, or
else are very young, and so might not be representative of the people in
the Blake discussion, I will answer this privately.

I spent many years as a graduate student in several humanities departments
of several universities, before I decided that in this country only the
sciences tolerate anything like rational dialog. In English, philosophy,
linguistics, art history, uniformly the professors mouthed that moronic
party line, "there are no classes in the United States," and my fellow
students were if anything even more strident. Later, I had friends in
departments of sociology who used elaborate rationalizations to justify the
same assertions. The sociological literature is full of their crap; the
reaction to G. William Domhoff's work was essentially one of hysterical
denial. One of the variations on the theme extends into psychology and
biology, arguing that since everyone has the same opportunity in this
classless society, social differences are really just a natural expression
of innate inferiority and superiority. For my entertainment, I would
occasionally insert into my seminar papers things that could be taken as
defense of such elitism, and these were always the occasion for glowing
approval by the ***hole professors.

The cover of Emanations from Blake College was enclosed as first class
mail, and it was therefore inappropriate for the postmaster to open it, but
the image, faintly detected through the envelope, was apparently an excuse
to examine the contents of the book. The text that was forbidden was by
Gregory Corso, a dialog with Alan Ginsberg. The postmaster, a Republican,
was nevertheless a kind man, who returned the 300 copies to me for
correction, rather than destroying them. I mentioned that, not because it
was unusual as an illegal act of censorship, but because the Blake
engraving was the trigger. Two of my uncles were postmasters, so I heard
inside stories of postal service behavior, but the periodicals of the 20th
century give many more famous examples."

(Blake List Archive -- Albion.com)

 

[Blossom]

William Blake discussion group

Perhaps a dedicated thread for these?

 

[Mauritio]

Thanks to everybody who's posting email exchanges with Ray post mortem! Very much appreciated.

 

[Giraffe]

Thanks much!
The 'Email Depository' (ED) thread sounds like a good place to place the quotes especially since we do not seem to have a separate 'quote store' thread anymore as we use to have. @charlie, could you point out where the already deposited quotes (before the RPF software upgrade) may be found? Thank you.

I am not on FB but if I see the quotes somewhere, I will put them in the (ED) thread.

By 'quote store' do you mean something like the threads here?

Ray Peat Quotes

raypeatforum.com

 

[charlie]

@charlie, could you point out where the already deposited quotes (before the RPF software upgrade) may be found? Thank you.

The quotes that showed up at the top of the forum are sitting in the database right now. Just waiting for someone to make a new "quote system" so I can deploy them. @Giraffe posted a link above to the quotes forum.

 

[David PS]

@Lejeboca - There are also quotes at:

Ray Peat Humor

I was reading this this morning and laughed. Bone-dry humor. "Many people see coconut oil in its hard, white state, and--as a result of their training watching television or going to medical school--associate it with the cholesterol-rich plaques in blood vessels."

raypeatforum.com

 

[Lejeboca]

Thanks @Giraffe , @charlie , and @David PS !
It was good to 'discover' the quotes forum :-D .
I was looking for quotes that 'popped up' and now as charlie said are sitting in a database.

 

[David PS]

Thanks @Giraffe , @charlie , and @David PS !
It was good to 'discover' the quotes forum :-D .
I was looking for quotes that 'popped up' and now as charlie said are sitting in a database.

I just rediscovered this thread as well. I find these humorus threads to be helpful.

Ray Peat The Comedian

Opening up the thread posted on Peatarian many years ago, showcasing the more light hearted and comedy quotes of Ray Peat. Feel free to post any others you've found. Ray Peat The Comedian - Ray Peat Q&A ". . . Rather than showing that salt causes stomach cancer, the experiments showed that a...

raypeatforum.com

 

[windinthepines]

@exile I saved it in 2014. Could you move your question to this thread? The other one is just for quotes.

 

[exile]

@exile I saved it in 2014. Could you move your question to this thread? The other one is just for quotes.

Whoops. I tried to delete it in there, but could only edit it to nothing.

 

[windinthepines]

After I get done posting the Peat quotes I have to the depository thread, I'll go through that same thread and start adding them to the wiki. I'm coming across some quotes that are posted here in the forum, but not in the depository thread. If you find quotes scattered here on the forum, if you post them to the depository thread, then they'll get added to the wiki page, which will make all sorts of things much easier in the future.

Is anyone here in any of the Facebook Peat groups? Are there are a lot of emails posted there?

 

[David PS]

After I get done posting the Peat quotes I have to the depository thread, I'll go through that same thread and start adding them to the wiki. I'm coming across some quotes that are posted here in the forum, but not in the depository thread. If you find quotes scattered here on the forum, if you post them to the depository thread, then they'll get added to the wiki page, which will make all sorts of things much easier in the future.

Is anyone here in any of the Facebook Peat groups? Are there are a lot of emails posted there?

Thanks in advance for all of your efforts. Here is a link to a relatively unknown patent of Ray's. It is not email advice but it is still Ray's advice.

US4628052A​

Pharmaceutical compositions containing dehydroepiandrosterone and other anesthetic steroids in the treatment of arthritis and other joint disabilities​

A preferred composition for oral use comprises about
10 mg of the active material, preferably DHEA,
about 50 mg pregenolone,
about 5 mg. progesterone
in 1200 mg tocopherol.