is being overweight a sin?

[Vort]

8 minutes ago, David13 said:

 My real concern was the lateral force.  Which could break the joints and then jeopardize the entire structure.  You will have lateral force.  For one thing, you will be top heavy which will cause lateral force just standing still.  But any movement ...

dc

A diagonal crosspiece, top to bottom, across the back and one side, should take care of that. Do it on three or all four sides if you're concerned about twisting.

[unixknight]

8 minutes ago, David13 said:

 My real concern was the lateral force.  Which could break the joints and then jeopardize the entire structure.  You will have lateral force.  For one thing, you will be top heavy which will cause lateral force just standing still.  But any movement ...

dc

I hear ya.

Since my knees will actually be up in the thigh plates, walking will be more like marching than a natural gait, and when standing still my feet will be at about a 45 degree angle.  The lateral forces that remain after that won't be enough to compromise the PVC and wood structure as it's currently configured.  (Checked that with my son too.)

[Guest MormonGator]

30 minutes ago, Vort said:

Just responding to this narrow point:

Intellectual laziness has almost nothing to do with being well-read. An unlettered, even illiterate, man can be rigorously intellectually honest, and a highly read man can certainly be intellectually lazy. Too often, this is just what I find.

 So, so true Vort. You (you meaning Vort) would not beleive (actually, you probably would) how often I saw this in grad school. People who were well read would just regurgitate whatever the professors wanted to hear-or sadly, what their friends said. 

[unixknight]

8 minutes ago, MormonGator said:

 So, so true Vort. You (you meaning Vort) would not beleive (actually, you probably would) how often I saw this in grad school. People who were well read would just regurgitate whatever the professors wanted to hear-or sadly, what their friends said. 

I've seen that too, and you guys are completely right.  Sometimes we achieve a certain opinion of point of view on something with only a small amount of thought put into it.  It's comfortable, so we run with it.  The problem is issues are rarely so simple, and we need to make an effort to spend a little time and attention to think it through and see the details.  To use the example here, to just write obesity (in a non-medical cause) as a result of gluttony is simple and emotionally satisfying to those who don't have to worry about it, but there's a lot more to it than that.  Eowyn was the first to mention (I believe) the fact that different people gain weight at different rates.  Other people also expanded that by pointing out that one person can eat a half a pizza and gain no weight while another has a single slice and it all goes straight to their butt.  Which one's the glutton?  Which one is further from living spiritually? 

So the more you think about it, the more absurd it is to make sweeping statements because it's truly a case by case issue.  Some people ARE separating themselves from God by turning to too much food.  Some aren't.  You just can't tell by looking.  It takes mental effort to recognize this, and so when people haven't done it but are quick with an opinion, then I say that's an intellectually lazy thing to do.  It makes no difference whatsoever how intelligent or well read that person is.  It doesn't make them dumb, or sloppy, or a bad person. 

[theSQUIDSTER]

All this talk about carbs and obesity and sin and intellectual laziness is depressing me.  I think I'm going to go watch Jerry Springer reruns for a bit while I eat a large double-batch of chocolate chip cookies and then take a nap.

yikes!  I just caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror.  Is it a sin to be ugly?  More specifically, are warts a physical manifestation of sin?  What about cavities?

what about being snarky?

 

....

wow... Looking back on everything I'm beginning to realize I'm doomed.  Pray for me people!

[Guest MormonGator]

23 minutes ago, unixknight said:

I've seen that too, and you guys are completely right.  Sometimes we achieve a certain opinion of point of view on something with only a small amount of thought put into it.  It's comfortable, so we run with it.  

Exactly. it's called cognitive dissonance. I see it all the time with people. IE-Guns. They don't like them, so they believe every negative story and ignore their use in self defense.  

[Guest]

So carbs are sins.  So I'm a sin.  (kidding)

[Guest MormonGator]

14 minutes ago, Carborendum said:

So carbs are sins.  So I'm a sin.  (kidding)

Lol. That's awesome. 

[theSQUIDSTER]

16 minutes ago, Carborendum said:

So carbs are sins.  So I'm a sin.  (kidding)

Wow, Carb.. It's like I'm seeing you for the first time.. Is it ok if I blame you for my addiction to cheap processed foods?  I'm really looking for an out on this one...  

Hey, if you ever start to grow tentacles you can blame me...

[unixknight]

22 minutes ago, Carborendum said:

So carbs are sins.  So I'm a sin.  (kidding)

Yes you are.

[Guest]

Yikes.

[Vort]

24 minutes ago, theSQUIDSTER said:

Wow, Carb.. It's like I'm seeing you for the first time.. Is it ok if I blame you for my addiction to cheap processed foods?  I'm really looking for an out on this one...  

Hey, if you ever start to grow tentacles you can blame me...

In squidula squidulorum "In the squidliness of the squidly"

[theSQUIDSTER]

Amen.

[Guest]

OK.  I just spent the last two months eating almost nothing throughout the day.  I had one meal (dinner) no more or less than normal.  However, I noticed my appetite diminishing for the past two weeks.  And I've been keeping pretty much the same activity level as the past year.

I just weighed myself.  I just gained 5 lbs. <shakes head in disbelief and despair>.

[LeSellers]

13 minutes ago, Carborendum said:

OK.  I just spent the last two months eating almost nothing throughout the day.  I had one meal (dinner) no more or less than normal.  However, I noticed my appetite diminishing for the past two weeks.  And I've been keeping pretty much the same activity level as the past year.

I just weighed myself.  I just gained 5 lbs. <shakes head in disbelief and despair>.

Welcome to geezerhood.

Weight control is more than calories in, calories out. It's hormones, it's timing, it's glycemic loading.

Lehi

[Guest]

2 hours ago, LeSellers said:

Welcome to geezerhood.

Weight control is more than calories in, calories out. It's hormones, it's timing, it's glycemic loading.

Lehi

Sounds an awful lot like womanhood. 

[The Folk Prophet]

4 hours ago, LeSellers said:

Welcome to geezerhood.

Weight control is more than calories in, calories out. It's hormones, it's timing, it's glycemic loading.

Lehi

Hormones, timing, glycemic loading, etc., all play into calories out.

[mrmarklin]

Of course Gluttony is the sin.

 

I will also stat categorically that if you eat more calories than your body will burn, you will gain weight.  No excuse will mitigate this reality.

[Ironhold]

12 hours ago, Eowyn said:

Yikes.

Welcome to the universe of Warhammer 40K. 

1,000 human lives are sacrificed each day to provide the God Emperor with the energy he needs to continue spreading his power and influence across the galaxy. 

Soldiers with the Imperium can spend years, if not a full decade, at a hitch travelling from planet to planet responding to whatever the crisis of the day is... and once on-planet, they can spend years or even a full decade there resolving the matter. Of course, "high body counts" are practically par for the course, meaning that these units are often under-strength. Granted, the Commissar assigned to each unit *can* help out with the fighting if they so choose, but you have to be careful lest your Commissar decide that *you* are now a threat to the Imperium as well and have you thrown in prison, if not summarily executed. 

Oh, and did I mention that these are the good guys?

[LeSellers]

12 hours ago, The Folk Prophet said:

Hormones, timing, glycemic loading, etc., all play into calories out.

While true, it's misleading.

"Calories out" is usually understood to be physical exertion ("exercise", when one's life doesn't require it). But it's far more complicated than that. In fact, exercise might make the problem worse.

Lehi

[Faapefuoe]

 

Does this apply to the topic?

 

11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

[NeedleinA]

17 minutes ago, Faapefuoe said:

11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

I will remember this the next time I need to vomit... bummer

[The Folk Prophet]

1 hour ago, LeSellers said:

While true, it's misleading.

"Calories out" is usually understood to be physical exertion ("exercise", when one's life doesn't require it). But it's far more complicated than that. In fact, exercise might make the problem worse.

Lehi

I have problem with the idea that fully understanding a concept and advocating for that fuller understanding is "misleading". The fact that people only understand the shallow idea of calories out is the problem.

[LeSellers]

20 hours ago, The Folk Prophet said:

I have problem with the idea that fully understanding a concept and advocating for that fuller understanding is "misleading". The fact that people only understand the shallow idea of calories out is the problem.

Your words underscore the issue: people do not understand, so merely saying calories in calories out will be misleading.

Lehi

Edited March 6, 2016 by LeSellers

[The Folk Prophet]

20 minutes ago, LeSellers said:

Your words underscore the issue: people do not understand, so merely saying calories in calories out will be misleading.

Lehi

I don't believe I "merely" say anything.