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When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that’s all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.

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How selfish is the human

How selfish is the human being that wonders in depression with no life threatening reason. And we have millions in true distress surviving everyday. Why is the human mind so disgusting?

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I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

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People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

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Biological fat with a sugar attached essential to maintaining the brain’s supply of stem cells

Fat and sugar aren’t usually considered healthy staples, but scientists have found that a biological fat with a sugar attached is essential for maintaining the brain’s store of stem cells.

Neural stem cells help the brain develop initially, then repopulate brain cells lost to usual cell turnover as well as to a trauma or malady, such as a head injury or stroke.

While the cell population and activity decrease as a natural part of aging, scientists at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University are studying how neural stem cells are normally maintained with the long-term goal of helping the supply stay robust despite aging as well as infirmity.

They have discovered that in mice missing the sugar containing lipid ganglioside GD3, neural stem cells have a dramatically impaired ability to self-renew, said Dr. Robert K. Yu, MCG neuroscientist and corresponding author of the study in The Journal of Neuroscience.

The scientists focused on brain areas with typically the largest supply of neural stem cells: an area just below several midbrain cavities filled with cerebrospinal fluid, called the subventricular zone, as well as the hippocampus, a major center for learning and memory.

Mice missing ganglioside GD3 on the membranes of neural stem cells had much smaller supplies of the cells in these key areas throughout life and expressed signs of lost hope with behaviors such as not actively seeking dry land when placed in water, Yu said. Additionally, the mice had impaired maintenance of the area of the brain involved in the sense of smell as well as the portion of the hippocampus that enables formation of new memories.

The changes, which correlate with aging or illness, were corrected when GD3 was restored.

"If GD3 is missing, we found these neural stem cells cannot be maintained throughout life; they are reduced by a big percentage even in a one-month-old mouse," said Dr. Jing Wang, MCG postdoctoral fellow and the study’s first author. In fact, by one month of life, there was about a 60 percent reduction in the supply and by six months, which is considered aged in a mouse, there were only a handful of neural stem cells remaining, Wang said.

The scientists note that in healthy young mice, GD3 is abundant but seems to naturally decrease with age.

A Yu and Wang paper published in the journal PNAS in 2013 showed that GD3 is the predominant ganglioside in mouse neural stem cells where it interacts with epidermal growth factor receptors, also found on the cell surface. GD3 plays an important role in growth factor signaling, which, in turn, tells neural stem cells to proliferate or die.

"In a normal situation, that growth factor enables the neural stem cells to reproduce more stem cells," Wang said. "This gives us a better idea about how our neural stem cell population is maintained over our life. Our long-term goal is to use endogenous neural stem cells for repair of brain or spinal cord damage, so we need to learn how they proliferate, how to keep them inside the brain."

The two are optimistic that one day manipulating levels of growth factors and sugar-containing lipids will enable a more steadfast supply of neural stem cells throughout life, although getting the substances into the brain is a challenge. It’s already known that, at least in rats, exercise can also help.

Neural stem cells are able to self-renew, in theory at least, forever. Their ability to maintain a steady supply of themselves and to differentiate into different types of brain cells are their most important properties, Yu said.

Next steps include examining the role of other growth factors and gangliosides.

Weed.

Today is my last day smoking weed, yes. Im cutting off cold turkey. In the beginning of the year I said Id be who I planned to be. Ive gotten only 5% there, mainly because every time I smoke a spliff I become content with my situation, and there is nothing in my situation to be content about. So I am done. I am forcing myself to not think about weed. I'm buying detox remedies, completely organic to get my body cannabinoid free, that way I can really start doing what I want to do with my life and then when Im there, along the lines, mary jane can pop back in, because I dont think weed is bad for you, its so good you abuse of it. and thats what Ive been doing. so no more for me, for now :)

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When someone is searching,” said Siddhartha, “then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable one, are perhaps indeed a searcher, because, striving for your goal, there are many things you don’t see, which are directly in front of your eyes.

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God, Why?

that's the only question I'd ask God. but since I am human, I either invent his answer or follow others who have invented his response.

Religiously he'd probably say: Have you Prayed enough? Have you gone to church? You haven't given 10% out of your income to help your fellow church, I'll have a place for you in heaven, after all your unreasonable suffering i made you go through, God sees it all, God judges you.

Spiritually he might say: Everything has no reason to happen, it just happens whether you like it or not, whether your physical or mentally-thought heart is broken or not, Nature and I are one, Nature and you are one, you will only realize this when you become one and know in your soul that we're just moving to the beat of the beat.

Mathematically he might say: There is a variable that's always there, zero, its nothing, it means nothing but its the start, and whatever is created after zero will go on infinitely.. even though you can subtract variables for a less value, its still a value and whatever is added afterwards to that value equals a different outcome away from zero but even when the outcome is unknown because your missing one of the variables, you leave it all to zero.

Scientifically he'd say: I left it all to the laws of physics.