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About 15 g per day for 3-4 months. It completely numbed my emotions and it was extremely uncomfortable and difficult to taper off. That was over 7 years ago. I took some again last year, but in moderation. I still like it, but you should never underestimate it.

It is able to completely fuck with your life, your spirit, your emotions, etc. Don't ever underestimate such a thing. I'm speaking from personal experience here, and I know cases that were far worse than mine.

People really disliked Van Goghs early works back then I find this whole question extremely fascinating, it resurfaces again and again for me: What makes bad Art bad Art? Who can even really judge that? "You just know it" isn't a very good argument. I think, again, this graph gives at least a hint in some direction:

Kratom is nice, but addictive. But one thing I definitely wouldn't call it – and that's psychedelic.

Appreciate it. I like it a lot. In my view there are paradigm shifts waiting to happen in every field, including music. One day we will recognize that art has more significance than even physics.

That would be the other dimension I talked about: Good craftsmanship. Being quick to judge a piece of art as good or crap also makes it likely to err sooner or later. If that was easy to decide my life would be a lot less complicated... but also a lot less interesting

What even is art? In the broad sense, of course there's a lot of uninspired or downright "bad" art. But it's at the same time easy to overlook really good art. There's a reason why so much of art is pretty much copying already existing things. It just works. Let's look at it that way: There's a spectrum of good vs bad craftsmanship and there's a spectrum of true art vs. uninspired cookie cutter art. Like a 2D graph. A lot of the music that gets played in the radio is extremely well produced, but often lacks originality and depth. The struggle for an artist is to develop the toolset needed to bring that spark of inspiration to life before it fades away. And even then it happens again and again that the best art is only appreciated much later. Best examples are Van Gogh, J.S. Bach (he made a living out of his music but it wasn't nearly as celebrated as it is today, it was seen as outdated because it didn't follow the trends of its time at all) and a lot more of course. There are artists who are naturally gifted at what they do, but it is not always the case. My point being.. it's not always so easy to separate good from bad art. In my view the crucial criterion is if it stems from a place of True Creativity or if it just aims to be useful in one way or the other.

You're absolutely right. But I wouldn't call that art in my books, it's mundane repetition, reproduction. Art is alive, what you described is lifeless, often done because "it works", or sells, or whatever. It's what AI does. It takes the input and combines the patterns in a different way. But real art goes beyond that. Real art creates something completely fresh and NEW. It comes directly from the source of all Life itself. Real art challenges the artist as well as the audience. There's a reason why real art is so seldom achieved. It is extremely difficult to make a living out of it, as a real artist is often ahead of their time.

What is bad art? Art and bad exclude one another. Art is always an expression of the Divine. The artist becomes a funnel through which Creativity with a capital C is channelled. The job of the artist is to develop the needed technical skills to be able to produce what is given to them, and on the other hand deepen their connection to that creative Intelligence that goes way beyond the personal human level. When you say bad you may mean that they're not good ad their craft. As I said, it's their job to develop that craftsmanship. I would go as far as to call it their duty! What makes an artist an artist is having that connection I've talked about and then acting on it.

That's completely wrong. If fun is your priority while doing art that makes it a hobby (nothing wrong with having fun though, don't get me wrong). Art goes way beyond that. Art means you have something in you that wants to be expressed. Art is a process of giving birth and that can be immensely painful. You're not necessarily an artist in the field of music if you're good at, say, playing the piano. What makes you an artist is the fact that there is music in you.

I just posted this answer to a question about the nature of LOVE on another thread. I think it deserves its own thread. Here we go: What is LOVE? LOVE is something completely different from the human emotion of love. LOVE is beyond good and evil. LOVE equals GOODNESS. But it's a greater form of Goodness that has nothing to do with your human fantasies about what's good and what's bad. To realize Absolute Goodness you have to be able to leave the perspective of your ego and consider everything from a holistic standpoint. It's not necessarily good for you as a finite form – which most of the time means good in regards to your survival. But it's Good for the whole in the sense that it maximizes Love. You want an example? Let's take war. War leads to a lot of suffering, so you wouldn't call it good, except if you were the initiator of the war – that already shows how relative your notions of good and bad are. But for the greater Goodness war and all the suffering that comes with it leads to the establishment of True Peace. True Peace is not the absence of the possibility of war. It is us understanding the suffering and consequences of war very deeply, which requires to fully live through it – and then coming together and consciously deciding that we don't want to continue that anymore. The resulting experience of True Peace wouldn't be possible if the opposite - war - would just not exist. It can only be created by deeply and experientally understanding what it means to be fully at war – and then recognizing that it was false and it is not what we fundamentally are. But first you have to go to war. You can't skip that step if you want to really know what you truly are. That's what LOVE is about. It loves itself so deeply that it creates its exact opposite to be able to find out and understand what it is – even fully knowing what that entails.

Karma is just cause and effect. You could also say: Everything you do, you do to yourself, because there's nothing else that exists. Selfishness is the consequence of not knowing that.

Everything Hitler did was war. War was his whole Modus Operandi. There never was the possibility of winning some war, because that would've been the end of Hitler. If he'd won the war he would've found another one to fight.

This is all nothing but a huge assumption with no base in your actual experience. Just admit it.

@Javfly33 On what grounds are you making your claims? Source? Obviously you're still here, aren't you?

This is the classic misconception that cannabis=harmful (in some cases) means that legalization=bad. Legalization is about facing the problem, controlling the disbursement, increasing youth protection and making available a clean product for mature adults that are able to make their own decisions. Making something legal doesn't mean it's not dangerous. It shouldn't be required to make everything dangerous illegal, especially if there are completely valid use cases. Instead the focus should be put more on clarification of the risks and benefits so that people can make their own educated decisions. There are two approaches to drugs that are the worst: Completely unregulated & completely prohibited. We have to find a middle way. Drugs are an amazing part of this reality, but they are also dangerous. It all depends on the circumstances and personality/biology of the user. There never was a civilization that was completely free of drugs and to try to achieve that is not only futile, but not intelligent. We have to strive for a meaningful integration of drugs into society. That also would make them less dangerous because now there'd be a societal framework in which drug use can happen that goes beyond "do it and you'll be homeless or imprisoned", which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, as we can see again and again. There's much development still to be had in this area for humanity.

Sometimes I just want to go out with a huge facepalm... damn. Humans are cringe. Sometimes.

It's about giving the people back their personal responsibility I'm from Germany, too, btw and this is exciting news! Let's hope the Bundesrat doesn't delay it too much. In theory if all Bundesländer in which the Green Party is part of the coalition would vote neither yes or no, it would go through. The Green Party voted unanimously Yes for legalization in Berlin. So it depends on how many deviants there are in their own party, we'll see... The reason why some of them want to delay it, even though their party voted Yes on the bill, is that they fear it could overburden the legal system when they have to open all cases again in which people got jail time or fines for cannabis related crimes - because part of the new bill is also a complete retroactive amnesty. In my opinion this is a terrible reason to delay such an important law change while thousands of people still get charged for cannabis possession today. All in all I'm quite optimistic though. Let's hope the best.

Everything is absolutely perfect. Even that is. It was never and will never not be Perfection. There's nowhere to go, nowhere to arrive, nothing to achieve – but to PLAY.

Now-Here.

@Someone here Being not awake is not possible. Yet here we are.

@Inliytened1 Thanks for reminding me, "dude on a forum" Of course, God is the greatest writer ever – and also the only one. All God does, as long as he did not currently forget himself, is compliment his own genius. Rightly so, I may add!

There's only one thing that God cannot do: Not be himself.

You imagined them. Well, I (and others) have created whole worlds and their inherent rules. It's called writing.

That's bullshit. There's no one to judge but yourself. You're the judge and the convict at the same time. You're all murderers and their victims. You're your own mentor and teacher and you're the disciple of yourself. It's all you, you alone is what is.