I have to say I agree about mushrooms, but each to their own I suppose. Pot is something I have tried and will probably try again, alcohol is something I have always enjoyed, and Like Churchill I can say empathically, I have had far more from alcohol than alcohol has had from me.
I lived and worked in Holland for a year, and ecstasy was everywhere, as well as cocaine, there are pitfalls of course, and just as with alcohol you need to be the kind of person who can walk away from it, and if you’re not then you should never even try it. I don’t know why some people can take a drink or do a line of cocaine, enjoy it and walk away and then forget about it, when others ruin their lives, but luckily I seem to belong to the former type.
I do know that a lot of nonsense is spoken using the word drugs as a generic term, by people who know nothing at all about the subject. I also think the lack of honesty in discussing drug use has caused untold misery, just as prohibition did.
Very true Sheldon, that is one reason why I am opening up, on my experiences from my wild and irresponsible youth. This is not bragging, but a statement, that I have taken almost all of the common illegal drugs available, from pot to LSD to cocaine to heroin. For some fortunate reason the very addictive drugs like cocaine and heroin never got hold of me, and I escaped going down that road of misery and death.
Although my experiences in drugs was fun and interesting, these days I do not bother with it, with the exception of pot. Even then, I partake sparingly.
If I was to offer just one point of advice, never operate a motor vehicle unless you are 100% clean and sober. Everyone has the right to fuck up their own bodies and lives, but no one has the right to kill innocents.
Had pot once, in 1978. My brother was dealing at the time, so it was free.
There were three of us. My brother, my then girlfriend and me. They each got shitfaced. But not Cranky, oh nooooo. First, Cranky threw up on his brother’s rug. Then there were hallucinations, not unpleasant ,just strange. Felt very ill the whole time.
Took me about 12 hours to come down. During that time, I later learned, I had driven my girlfriend home then drove to my place. A round trip of 2 hours. I have never remembered it.
Throwing up then hallucinating not real bad, but losing time bad. So, no more pot for Cranky. Too dangerous, I might kill somebody.
My drugs of choice were alcohol and tobacco.I was a functioning alcoholic for about a decade.Then I wasn’t. THAT is why I retired at 51.
Are you of European descent? I ask because I read an article once about a gene mutation that is present in people who suffer hallucinations from cannabis use (and mutation being associated with European ancestry).
My ethnicity is Irish-Celt, on both sides. The immediate family has been traced back 300 years to County Clare. Before that, Galway. As far as I can tell, the family name is at least 1000 years old.
Go back about 2000 and the Celts came from Gaul. Before that, from that vague area east of the Rhine the Romans called Germania.
From what you’ve said, the claim seems a long way from being proved. Population size of group(s) being studied? Other common factors?. EG to what degree is such sensitivity present in people without the same gene if at all?
In any, it’s a fascinating proposition and certainly worth further study imo.
I watched this twice when you first posted it and tried watching it again before this response but could only get to the 3:30 mark.
What I love about science is its ability to make one reflect. Its why the scientist in the video does not make the error the ‘scientists’ who wrote the Bible made. Unlike them, he states clearly at the beginning and all the way through “what we know for sure”, and says when he’s speculating, which he assures us is about anything 10-13 seconds after time = 0, (“14 hours, after he was born”, he called it), so I can’t see why you’d present this as time = -1, as in prior to the big bang, unless you’ve suddenly gone religious on me and believe the gospel according to the youtube video you posted, which clearly would be a misunderstanding of said gospel since its presenter carefully separates what is known from speculation.
Do note that I am not myself claiming to know what existed prior to time = -1. Just that something tells me bangs do not come out of nothing, and most especially not big ones.
Yes but whatever that something is, science can not identify. Science also can not completely rule out a deity, but hasn’t found any evidence that one exists either. If science does find that a god exists, I doubt it will be any of the gods people believe in today.
Science and physics can not prove a soul exists either, and nothing has proved that consciousness can exist outside the brain. So once the brain dies that’s probably it.
Don’t fully quote me on any of this, as there’s things which science may not be able to prove. But I seriously doubt there’s anything after death, probably one just ceases to exist. I can except that too, as I do not exactly lose anything that I would see hear or remember. Life might just end to nothing.
I agree, but there is evidence that indicates the existence of something.
We may never be able to directly investigate what is on the other side of the event horizon of a black hole. But Einstein’s Theory of Relativity predicted it, the study of the orbits of stars at our galactic center confrm a black hole, and we have recently been able to generate an image of one.
Everything real generates some indication of it’s existence, even though we may never be able to directly observe and test it.
I adopt the default position, in not accepting a proposition without some proof or evidence. That is why I suspend any belief in gods, fairies, and leprechauns until I have been provided by evidence it exists.
Because FievelJ, if you accept without proof, I have a thousand acres of prime Manhattan real estate I will sell to you for ten thousand, cash.
Trying to write a reply, but I pretty much agree so a reply is hardly necessary. If a god and a sou;l exists, I will find that out at death. If not, I will find out nothing and will lose nothing. It’s in a very real way a win win situation.
Science does not work in absolutes. It provides answers based on the best available evidence. EG Newtonian physics is correct as far as I know. It was not disproved by Einsteinian figures, but expanded upon,as far as I’m aware.,
Science has provided tentative anwers to a tiny,tiny amount of all the questions which exist.
I see the claim 'things which science can’t explain on those 'god was an alien ‘clips’ on Youtube. The inference is that claim is meaningful. It is not, it only demonstrates an ignorance of science.There is always the hope that science MIGHT explain X Y or Z, but there is no ‘should’ nor does the lack of answers devalue science.
Science does not concern itself with metaphysics such as the existence of god(s) and free will.
Poor ratty misses the entire point once again. Now run up to your room and practice breathing differently than everyone else as you play “Let’s Go to Nirvana” with your little Buddhist friends. Help yourself to one of Tin Man’s cookies on the way.
I don’t use breath meditation. I use satipathanna as a tool and transcendental dependent origination as my yard stick.
Because you’re a Mahāyāna fucktard type and (possibly?) you assume I am too? - anyway - you won’t know what those terms mean cause you’re a Mahāyāna Nagarjuna Dicktard from the land of limp bananas.
You wouldn’t know how to pay careful attention to the mind if the mind were able to jump up and bite you. When you pay attention to the mind… who is doing the paying attention and how do you know?
God claims in their broadest sense are unfalsifiable, we can’t rule out a capricious Leprechaun as the creator of everything, this doesn’t mean the claim is possible, let alone probable. Put simply, there is nothing to rule out, as the god claim as creator of the universe hasn’t a shred of objective evidence to examine, and has zero explanatory powers.
