Self-Improvement Meetups

What do you love?  Do more of it with Meet-Up.

The key is that you have to love it first before you look for it on meetups.

Love includes belief.

Since I am crazy in love with my husband, I am convinced he is the greatest guy in the world and would absolutely back anything he tried to do, whether I understood it or not.

I once tried — with my husband, of course — to start a weight loss group.

I am a veteran of the diet wars, now a consistently normal weight person, and a researcher doctor-type — both of which seem to carry little weight in today’s open market.

You can follow the Meet-Up page links to a seeming infinity of “health and wellness” groups. Many of them seem linked to for-profit concerns with dues paid to an owner of a going concern.

The latter is interesting because my own short-lived meetup group was forced to prove that it had no intention of asking anyone for money.

Most of them look to me as if they are indeed shown to assist at some level with health and wellness.

The gold-standard double-blind placebo-controlled study does not seem to exist in this world and would be pretty near impossible to try. I mean, how on earth would anyone set up a reliable and consistent “fake “yoga that could be compared with “real” yoga?

“Belief” is something that exists on another level. It seems to be hard, if not impossible, to change somebody’s beliefs.

Just think how hard it is to get somebody to change their religion. Even if it seems possible, the change is more often from cloudy thoughts or doubting to a set of dogma. I can think of but few examples where it is from one dogma to another.

Sometimes motive is suspect, being unclear at best.

I always liked the Jewish tradition that anyone who wanted to become a Jew should be refused three times.

My grandmother of blessed memory always said this rule made perfect sense to her. She thought we had to make sure such folks were serious because they might be crazy. They needed to know going in that Jews tend to get persecuted a lot.

It is pretty obvious to note that people who make any part of their living from a set of beliefs will tend to hold these beliefs.

The wisest word on this meetup page is “explore.”