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  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your best tips for falling asleep?
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    2 days ago

    Don’t think of anything real

    My favorite trick is to think of myself in a movie and play it out. I commonly put myself in Harry Potter. I walk up to the hogwarts castle door…then I just have fun making stuff up and playing it out like a movie in my head. Next thing I know, I’m asleep.

    If I get too far, I just pick a different movie and start over

    The worst thing you can do while falling asleep is thinking about the real world. The present, past, or future. Nope, don’t think about it.

    Clear your mind and jump start a dream

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your stance on "donating" blood plasma?
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    2 months ago

    You can donate blood in 20 minutes. It takes an hour plus to donate plasma

    Am I going to sit in a chair for an hour plus without any compensation? Maybe once or twice here and there. But you can donate plasma at least twice a week.

    It requires two donations for a single unit. If you donate once and don’t donate the second, then your first donation is unusable. You have to get them to donate twice.

    When I was donating plasma, it paid about $75 for each donation. 50 first, 100 for second. The money is pretty good. $300 a month is a lot for a lot of people.

    If you didn’t compensate people for plasma donations, a lot wouldn’t do it. They currently need more people to donate.

    Plasma “donation” is a good thing.

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your thoughts on the concept of having faith in a Higher Power but choosing to distance oneself from established religious doctrines?
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    1 year ago

    Sorry, I don’t know of any good resources off the top of my head

    Agnostic Theist

    Or

    Agnostic Atheist

    Are what the majority of people are.

    Agnostic makes the most sense because there is no “proof” a God or gods exists or doesn’t exist.

    If I walk up to a Theist or Atheist and ask for “proof,” neither side will have any.

    When you ask a Gnostic Theist that practices Christianity (but could be any religion). They will say that the Bible is “proof” and that they know that to be the truth. They claim to have the knowledge that their belief is correct.

    A Gnostic Atheist doesn’t really exist. Because they would have to believe in some knowledge that is “proof” for their belief that no God or gods could ever exist. There is no knowledge out there that proves that.

    It becomes a semantic battle of what do you call the God or gods and that “Anything is possible”

    So you can assume anyone that calls themselves Atheist is an Agnostic Atheist.

    As an example, no Atheist is going to lay down their life to die on a hill that no God or gods has ever existed. They believe that no God or gods existed, but they realize that the knowledge to prove it doesn’t exist yet.

    A Gnostic Theist will die on the hill for what they believe because they truly believe that they have the knowledge to prove it.

    Plato has a lot of good stuff to read up about religion

    But unless you want to pick a religion and roll with it on faith, agnostic is what it is.

    It’s nice to hope for a nice God or gods. That would make you Agnostic Theist.

    But if you feel like a God or gods don’t exist then you’d just be Agnostic Atheist.

    But to become religious, you’d have to read about all the different ones and see what speaks to you and decide yourself if you want to buy in or not.