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TheOnionKnight posted...

MabusIncarnate posted...

heroin, cocaine, meth, LSD, should remain illegal

One of these things is not like the others.

yeah I agree meth should never be legal

Not what I meant, but if you gotta pick one to villainize outta that list, may as well be that one.
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MabusIncarnate posted...

heroin, cocaine, meth, LSD, should remain illegal

One of these things is not like the others.
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I'm not gonna pay to see this in theaters. Maybe I'll catch it on Netflix or something if people say it's actually decent.
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The fact they're just walking through a generic jungle is worse than anything else about that clip. Really could've used more imagination.
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Man I came in here expecting to be sympathetic, but this quickly turned from "my cat isn't killing animals, stop complaining" to "yeah my cat kills animals, so what, I LIKE it to kill animals." The problem is this attitude, not the cat.
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There are exceptions where "packed with people" can be fun, but usually it's a massive headache. Like going to the Trader Joe's in Union Square on a busy day and having to wait 20-30 minutes in the checkout line, which snakes around the whole store to the front door, through the aisles, with everyone pushing and shoving to get to the shelves. Yeah no thanks.
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Nikra posted...

LOL. I have never heard about anybody that died from being trapped in an elevator.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/world/asia/china-woman-elevator-death.html

There you go. First hit on Google.
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100% bald-faced propaganda.
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Hairistotle posted...

Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/heatherscope/status/1148659144829915136

Useless

at this point she's complicit afaic

Seriously. This is getting ridiculous. People need to be held accountable goddammit.
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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No it's not weird ffs
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spanky you're better than this
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This stuff helped me a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doogh

I'd buy gallons and drink a few glasses a day. Also helps to cut out coffee if you drink any (I used to drink a ton of coffee). And yeah, Omeprazole helps too. You can just buy that at a pharmacy without a prescription.
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Weed can be harder to handle for me than psychedelics, and I'm not the only person I know who feels that way. I really, really, really would not rule out psilocybin as a treatment for depression and substance abuse, if you ever find yourself in a bad place.
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Most people come into this world with their mother around, at least.
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@spanky1
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The TC doth protest too much, methinks.
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9
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SSJCAT posted...

weed makes my headaches go away lol

People have different reactions to drugs.
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Axiom posted...

Lol what. Stop smoking weed laced with other drugs

I'm not smoking weed laced with anything.
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Yes they are. Probably depends on your tolerance level. But sometimes I feel like shit afterward. Headache and everything.
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Supreme Court needs reform but I don't like the idea of giving the Republican and Democratic parties permanent seats at the table. Do not entrench these parties any more than they already are.
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The Grinch
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Ketamine is riskier than other psychedelics, but it's getting a bigger push atm. That nasal spray is also obscenely, unjustly, criminally expensive. Not saying it doesn't work for people, but I'd suggest psilocybin instead if you have the choice.
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Psychedelics. Seriously.
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SuperShake666 posted...

The Satanic Temple literally exists to counter Christians trying to weasel around the separation of Church and State. Watching Christians lose their shit at them is great.

Exactly. The Satanic Temple is a political activist group. People often confuse them with the Church of Satan.
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Nah. It goes downhill halfway through season one.
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My Dad Wrote A Porno
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It is literally a kind of sickness, but it's a coping mechanism. It allowed her to survive, and eventually to seize power.

What's bad is how so many fans think it's a romantic relationship. It's incredibly abusive.
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Stockholm Syndrome.
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Deedice posted...

An altered reality wouldnt be reality; because it had been altered

Reality as you currently perceive it is already altered by your brain. Massively altered. Psychedelics allow you to actually see your brain's processes at work in a way that most people won't achieve in a sober state; although you can do it soberly through something like meditation. There's a reason meditation is commonly associated with religious practices too!
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Yeah that would be pretty awesome.
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Dragonblade01 posted...

It alters how your brain perceives the world around you. This is different from a method of ascertaining reality.

Just to be clear, I'm not talking about having a random hallucination and coming away from the experience saying, "That hallucination was real." I'm talking about gaining a better understanding of how your own mind operates, and what filters exist between the world and your perception of it.
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That's exactly what they are. An altered reality, to be sure, but still a reality.
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Machete posted...

I mean yes and no. There is an element of control that is there but it is limited. My lucid dreams often involve me arguing with dream people over whether or not I am dreaming, with time being equal to about 30-45 minutes in dream to 5-15 minutes of real time (alarm tested). Even so, my experiences can't compare really to reality and I can only imagine dmt being that much more intense and profound from what I've heard. I'd like to try it, but the closest I've done is shrooms and those times were bad :(

Time dilation can definitely occur.

What happened with mushrooms? At a high enough dose, they can brush against DMT. Maybe they can even do more than brush, if the dose is really high, but I've never taken more than roughly 6 dried grams myself.

Dragonblade01 posted...

Wasn't expecting this topic to end up at promoting hallucinogenics.

When you're discussing whether a higher power like God exists, it's the same territory. Ayahuasca, which contains DMT as its active ingredient, has been used for centuries in ceremonial rites for a reason. I've also heard people try to argue that Moses's burning bush was an acacia tree, containing DMT, but that sounds VERY far-fetched to me. Maybe if it was a burning forest, not a single bush!
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I've never had a lucid dream, so I'm not really sure! But lucid dreams, from what I understand, involve a certain sense of control over what's happening? You can't control DMT, in my experience. No more than a mountain-climber can control Mt Everest. And dreams are still dreams. They feel dream-like. DMT is so supremely alien that you can't describe it to someone who hasn't felt it. Our language isn't there yet. It may never be.

I'd say, though, that it's more like exponentially heightened waking than exponentially heightened dreaming.
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Every consciousness being a component of one singular and larger framework isn't something that sounds crazy after DMT. But the experience is so extraordinary that I'm not sure any concrete understanding of reality can be derived from it. Almost the opposite: it makes you realize "concreteness" may not exist. That's why, even though it won't prove or disprove God, I think it would be invaluable for anyone discussing the importance of material evidence for a higher power.

More valuable than debating the accuracy of religious texts written (and edited!) by humans, at least.
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ThyCorndog posted...

how can what goes on in your brain (which is a closed system) offer you some sort of insight into the mysteries of the universe? to attain additional information about something it needs to come from outside of you

Everything you know is going on inside your brain. Even things coming from outside, so to speak, you are experiencing in your brain. If you're asking how a substance you consume can give you a different perspective on, well, on perspective: the same way anything does. You don't know what a carrot tastes like, you don't know what that experience entails, until you put it in your body and your brain interprets it. Then you take the new information and use it to help build up your understanding of reality.

Of course consciousness itself, which is channeled via the brain, is a mystery of the universe. You don't need to leave your brain to explore that.
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I think everyone should have the choice to try DMT if they want to. I consider it profound enough to be a human rights issue. But it's certainly not necessary to try it to come to the understanding that the fallibility of religion is a separate issue from the potential existence of a higher, potentially very alien, universal power.
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KoolLaidMan posted...

Even if true, is anyone supposed to just be expected to believe in and trust what Moses wrote?

No. All human religion could be 100% false, and that would have no bearing on whether a higher power exists.
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KoolLaidMan posted...

Again, religion never has a logical idea of how a God would be because he doesn't exist.

Religion is no authority. It's not necessary to reconcile the idea of higher powers with the way they're represented by religion, because whether they exist wouldn't depend on how religion represents them.

People arguing about proof should try DMT. It won't prove there's a God. It will prove the human brain is ill prepared to pass hard judgments on the nature of reality.
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I've had steak tartare. It's good. I'd eat it again.
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KoolLaidMan posted...

Then why would God have such human logic so many times in almost every religion?

Because religions were created by humans. Whether or not higher powers exist really has nothing to do with religion.
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KoolLaidMan posted...

And don't start with that "we don't know the mind of God" shit either. I highly doubt that God would do something in a way that nobody except for him could understand the reasons as to why he did.

Humans have an incredibly flimsy grasp on reality. If there are higher powers, it's probable, almost guaranteed, that we have a limited ability to fathom such a thing. Religions are a big man-made mess of contradictions in many cases, but religions aren't anywhere close to the last word on the universe.
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That's at least true for amanita muscaria. Which is also toxic.
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