Yeah you come with baggage but the point is that you transcend that shit and are a hot buy anyways on account of other things that are totally within your ability to improve.
sorry iaafr i jacked ur shit lol
thanks for the response
something’s been nagging me to ask about that for awhile now
anyway on some level i agree psychoactive drugs are all vice-like and distractions, i just still (maybe out of some rationalization) think of lsd and shrooms in particular as drugs that have potential to improve some mindset stuff and habit stuff. i am fully aware that all the spirituality bullshit is delusional and an unwanted side effect that makes people more disconnected socially (part of why i don’t advocate heavier doses), but i still can’t help but feel like lsd for me personally helped me shake up a lot of negative thought patterns and get out of certain emotionally self-destructive habits. i’m pretty sure at this point lsd use is what helped me cut down on my gaming time by quite a significant amount. again, experimental evidence exists suggesting psychedelics can help cut down on different types of addictive behaviors.
also i’m suggesting this to jdance, somebody who’s already been experimenting with this stuff. at this point i would be much more hesitant to suggest this kinda stuff to people who aren’t in similarly mentally desperate situations as jdance. these are the types of people who often already know and understand the conventional life improvement advice (healthy habits, find something to work for, etc) and still struggle. acid/shrooms can help with motivation for those things, if only for a few weeks / few months, sometimes sticking to those habits for that long is over half the battle for developing the discipline.
idk to me the situation is analogous to ssris / other anti depressants themselves. they seem like poorly-conceived bullshit that sometimes help by chance and sometimes hurt by chance (chance because we still understand way too little of the mechanisms even if we make shitty models about serotonin), but some people in desperate situations end up feeling like they’ve benefited greatly through their use, and this isn’t an insignificant proportion. i lurk drug boards a lot and a significant amount of of success stories of getting off of polydrug addiction involve a particularly dramatic shroom or acid trip. also they’re way more fun (which i guess is an aspect that turns you off).
no its fine i wasnt going anywhere in particular with that query
Probably I’ve been in kind of a funk since getting this job and working full time+overtime not really socializing or doing as much as I was this time last year for sure
its definitely not a coincidence that california has a disproportionate amount of people who believe in stupid bullshit like horoscopes and crystal energy
and that california was the epicenter of lsd abuse in the 60s and 70s lol
Yeah but it also sounded like the people you were hanging out with weren’t really interested in building bonds or doing anything together that amounted to personal growth
They sound like nice people (wish someone else bought me clothes besides My Mother) but they maybe aren’t socially mature
Whoa
Probably not I mean my friend group back then was like a weird crazy bitch a couple chronic relapsing alcoholics and a finance guy that got me involved in some extortion scheme on some venture capatialist CEO
you gotta tell the last 1 in the blog thread thats ridiculous
ya maybe I’m at work now I’ll be posting less sparsely
More sparsely
lsd is a lot of fun though
kind of a draining experience overall though which is good. helps me to not do it too often
I don’t have much problem with the comedown. It’s annoying at worst
Ian can testify
yea personally i really like the fact that lsd/shrooms are draining and exhausting in a way and not really tempting to abuse with high frequency unless you’re already totally degenerate (not unheard of)
I thought you can’t even really abuse it because you develop tolerance so quickly anyways.
Yeah you gotta wait like 4 days absolute minimum