Some animals do have language and animals that are around people a lot likely have an inner voice that is their owner’s voice.
They likely don’t plan using this voice, the way people do. But it certainly influences their behavior.
A dog that’s been yelled at for getting in the garbage might hear a no in their head even if their owners at work.
I’m sure it depends on the animal. In fact humans think in at least two inner voices.
The ear consciousness is receptive, and the speech consciousness is active.
What I mean by this is a dog or another animal that spends a lot of time with people likely has a passive inner voice of their owner. A dog might hear an owner yell no when they go to do something the owner doesn’t like, even if their owner isn’t around.
Animals that are capable of speech such as a parrot, will likely have an active speech consciousness. Which is more somatic in tone.
For example, when I am in active speech consciousness I can feel my jaw and tongue muscles move. When in passive listening consciousness, my ears might move or strain to try to hear the inner speech.
With practice these somatic sensations can be decoupled from their internal sense consciousnesses. Which tends to help them quiet down and deepen meditation.
This is one of my favorite practices that’s accessible for people who don’t really meditate. The guided meditation is the first fifteen minutes of the video, so you don’t have to listen for the whole hour to get an inkling of what I’m pointing at.
Also an experienced meditator.
Not everyone thinks in words. Some people think in pictures. Or in other sense consciousnesses. As an experienced cook, I can think in taste and smell without any auditory component of ‘what should I put in this dish’. For example.
As for word thinking, passive thoughts are more auditory and active thoughts more somatic (throat and jaw muscles will move). These can be decoupled from the sense of I making, especially passive thoughts.
At which point you get thoughts think themselves, to quote Jack Kornfield. A sort of bubbling up of passive thoughts in voices that aren’t mine.
It’s likely animals that live close to people experience this. The owners voice yelling no when they do something the owner wouldn’t like, even if the owner isn’t around.
Anyway, trying to not think can be like holding your breath. I can do that for awhile. But it’s not right effort. Letting thoughts settle, like sand in a glass of water. And letting go of the sense of I making. The mind will rest quite naturally. That’s calm abiding.
In other words, it’s attachment to the inner voice that’s making it difficult for you to imagine that a lot of people think in pictures or other ways. And noticing this sense of attachment in your practice with the intention of letting it go, might deepen your insight into yourself and what others may or may not experience.
Edit: this listening meditation is helpful for me in letting go of attachment to the inner voice. As is annapanasati, especially the third tetrad.
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Based on the available evidence, the concerns about cancer in transgender populations, albeit biologically plausible, are neither adequately supported nor convincingly alleviated because of a lack of well-designed epidemiologic studies.
From this paper.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5868281/
The biggest risk seems to be HPV causing cancer, which may not be related to hormones at all, but the fact that trans people may be more likely to have HPV to begin with. And how HPV will interact with gender affirming surgery, rather than with hormones.
In other words, the jury is still out and what you are repeating is not science but likely transphobic propaganda.
And on the other side of the equation you have to consider that gender incongruence causes severe suicidal ideation in a lot of transgender people.
So, if it was your loved one struggling for decades with suicidal ideation and attempts, would you want them denied life-saving medication because it might increase the risk of cancer? Because that’s what your argument boils down too. Denying adults life-saving medicine because it’s plausible that it could increase the risk of cancer.
And just to nail my point home, here’s an article on how common medications used to treat depression increase the risk of cancer. Should we stop prescribing those too?
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That’s quite possible and something I hadn’t considered. Thanks.
I love rogue likes, love ninja turtles, and find straight forward beat em ups not that fun.
So I’m really looking forward to this one.
I appreciate the information!
No other democrat is campaigning though…
Okay, in which case the flu pandemic is also not over. (According to the WHO article). And comparing deaths in less than a year (400k) with deaths over three and a half (700k) is a fun way to manipulate statistics
And, I’m going to watch the Harrisburg speech. Because I can’t find a transcript and I suspect the twitter quote is as bullshit as your COVID one (which is bullshit because if you use quotation marks, you need to quote somebody, not put words in their mouth and take it out of context). I’ll report back in an hour.
Edit: He did say he ended the pandemic. That is some serious hubris I admit. Not like Trump doesn’t have hubris in spades but you do you.
Do accute infections give false negatives on home tests? Partner just got over it and I have no idea how I didn’t catch it.
I’m vaccinated and boosted, but so is she. And the first day or two of symptoms we didn’t realize it was COVID. So, I had a lot of exposure.
Any advice would be appreciated. Long COVID would suck!
My partner just had it. The spin on this is funny though. Testing yourself after an exposure to be sure you don’t spread it isn’t an abundance of caution. It’s just par for the course for anyone that’s not an asshole.
Acevedo said Harris was tested for Covid-19 on Saturday “out of an abundance of caution” and the result was negative.
The quotes make me think this is a sarcastic comment about Trump supporters rather than an attack on the president. But if I’m wrong, here’s the quote.
“The pandemic is over,” he said. “We still have a problem with COVID.”
Emphasis mine.
I do the excited info dump myself.
Was nice reading this exchange and not feeling like such a freak!
And capitalists profit off of both because phone calls and commissary are monopolostic contracts awarded by the state. Often to corporations who in turn lobby for harsher jail and prison sentences.
Plus, prisons and jails don’t build themselves. And often the medical services are outsourced to corporations, rather than being county or state employees.
Incarceration is big business. It doesn’t really matter who owns the prison or jail.
If you resist our violence, there will be more violence.
I appreciate the heads-up. I’m actually a Buddhist, so not really looking for a new religion. I mostly admire the work TST has done for religious pluralism.
I watched Hail Satan? They went into some of the schisms in the TST, but it was framed as the chapter head not following the principles and damaging TST’s overall goals (encouraging people to kill Trump). Are there other examples? I’m curious, but not curious enough to go on reddit.
There’s pretty big burns in most countries. But yeah, not sure on China. Would be one of the last places I would expect to find one.
It sounds like she’s skeptical of you being trans and was hoping it was a phase. Bringing up HRT has made her understand that it’s not.
The rest is her fear. Rather it’s transphobia or fear of you having to live as a trans person and face bogotry is an important consideration.
Having her sit in on therapy, as someone else suggested, sounds like a good path forward. Address her fears and the fact that HRT is health care. If she can’t support your health after that, she’s not supportiv.