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Merkel & Laschet: Mostly orange, a good chunk of blue and maybe a hint of green in Merkel. Scholz: Mostly orange with a little bit of green. Baerbock: Mostly green with some orange. I don't think there is a single influential politician with any notable amount of yellow. Highest we have is green in Die Grünen und Die Linke. I think there is almost no green within the AfD. There's some green in the FDP, but it's mostly orange with still some notable blue underbelly. I'm sure there are politicians who have a leg in yellow, but that's no more than 3-4%.

The more you surrender, the less you suffer. Zero suffering therefore means total surrendering. Total surrendering means death, at which point there is no surrendering anymore. So long as there is someone who surrenders to something/-one else, there is suffering. Because what surrenders is "you". What suffers is always and only "you". When there is pain, but no one who is in pain, then there is no suffering. That's the story of Jesus on the cross. Unbearable, excruciating pain, physical and emotional. All you gave to people was Love, and in return, your closest friends betray and deny you, and they thrust 0,5 inch thick rusty metal nails through your hands and feet and let you hang and rot on a 10 ft tall wooden cross in the desert sun, while your loved ones are watching, helpless and in maddening despair.

Damn! That's what I call proper journalism.

@supremeyingyang Which ones do you mean?

@SQAAD I have to disagree. It is possible to accept or love that which previously seemed impossible to love. Pain for example, is not inherently bad. Masochists love pain (to a certain degree). Excruciating pain is simply the next level of this, but there is nothing inherently bad about it. In torture, the beginning is the worst. When you are still full of all your attachments and fears etc. But then, as the torture proceeds, it has been reported by those who have undergone it, that when they gave up/in, they entered a kind of masochistic state of cooperation with the pain. When you give up your attachments and biases, there is nothing that could harm you and you are therefore able to accept whatever you previously thought was unacceptable. Or think of the survivors of the Japanese Kamikaze in WW2, who steered their airplanes into ships. Not all Kamikaze pilots died and some came back to report what it was like; and some said, that in the moment right before the impact, they felt indescribable freedom and joy. This ultimate certainty of knowing that this is it and that there is nothing you can do, you're dead. Or people who survived the concentration camps. The suffering of having to go through this must be hellish beyond comprehension... But some reported that when they completely accepted their situation, they suddenly realized that there was no problem. When they realized that there was nothing, nothing, nothing they could do. And they simply gave up resisting in the face of the futility of fighting against this. And suddenly, with the acceptance of what is, there were no more problems. All suffering stems from attachment. Without attachment, there is no suffering.

@JosephKnecht A whole book in just ten days??? How many words in total? What is it about?

You haven't even explored survival yet... Do you live on your own? Are you responsible for your own income? Are you standing on your own two feet? I dare to assume you don't. Don't worry about getting "lost" in survival. You seem to be more developed than most 16 year olds and you know that there is more to life than just survival. You have a leg up and as far as I can tell, a bright future. As I said, you don't have to worry on missing out on anything if you experiment with psychedelics later rather than earlier. When I was 18 years old, I got into spirituality. I sounded exactly like you; I want to explore more than survival, I want to open my mind, I want to find the truth, etc. And sure enough, I got my hands on some mushrooms. And guess who deconstructed his mind way to quickly without having any proper grounding in survival?? I had to get back into survival just to not lose my sh*t on an almost daily basis and only then learned to appreciate how valuable survival is and that at my age, I didn't have to worry about missing out on "finding truth". To be honest, no. At least not to the degree that would justify doing LSD or DMT. Meditation is great, Yoga is great, contemplation is great. Do that. Explore that. And for god's sake, take it easy. You can't properly deconstruct something which you haven't even fully constructed to begin with.

I knew you weren't enlightened!

Great! What color is the wind?

And how can we "test your enlightenment"?

Yes.

@Javfly33 Point at the "physical difference" between your five fingers.

@Insightful27 It seems to me that it doesn't really matter to you what advice the people here give to you. Whether it's about your brain development or maturity, you come up with some reason why it's a good idea for you to do psychedelics. The majority of comments in this thread suggested to you that you wait until you're a bit older, but if you have already made up your mind, there is of course nothing we could say to stop you. If you're going to do them anyway (which I don't condone!), then at least stick to all the rules of safety. Set, setting, dosage. This definitely includes a trip sitter. A trip sitter must be responsible and knowledgeable when it comes to psychedelics. Do not employ someone as a trip sitter who you don't know or trust fully, or who doesn't know how to properly trip sit!! If you don't have such a person, I would think all the harder about whether it's a good idea to do this.

Locked for low quality. We will not be discussing here whether Jews are more or less special than other people.

@SQAAD But that's the point. You saying "this is absolutely awful" is the result of yourself having abandoned yourself into horror. It's not like I enjoy sh*t like funkytown or even that I know to love this stuff, I don't. But I do understand that me being repulsed and horrified by certain aspects of reality is just my limited bias and that ultimately, there is no reason whatsoever why I should prefer eating ice cream over being slaughtered with a rusty blade. You are projecting selfishness onto reality and then pretend that you didn't and that there is actually something wrong with it.

Imagine for a second that you have been dwelling in infinite bliss for eternity, knowing that you are God and that nothing, nothing, nothing could ever hurt you. Why not forgetfully abandon yourself into horror?

Because neutrality has an opposite. Love doesn't. Love is both neutrality and bias. Love = Nonduality Edit: depends on what you mean by "neutral". If you mean "total non-discrimination", then that is the Love!?

Trust me, you don't miss out on anything if you do psychedelics later rather than earlier. You have a lot more years in your life with a stable and developed brain than with a teenager brain.

Oh but yes!! That's exactly what makes the cup Love Haha oh boy, I'll celebrate the day you post "holy f*ck it's love" That's exactly right again, you got it. Not-Loving is not even an option. That's why Love is the Absolute and without any opposite.

@SQAAD There is no need to call it any of that. All of these are of course identical. And Love isn't some new feature besides Being, Truth, God, Consciousness, etc. You simply discover that "Love" is just as accurate of a description as for example "Truth" or "Being", etc. But that is the Love!? Consciousness doesn't struggle to accept / love anything, but identification does. What is all-inclusive is all-loving. What is all-inclusive? Existence! Have you ever seen existence reject anything from itself? How could it? It's not that reality "does" the acceptance of itself. It is the acceptance of itself (Love) by virtue of simply being. Not at all. Ironically enough, "the horrors of existence" is an expression born from a (seeming) lack of Love.

The question isn't whether thinking is a duality, but whether duality is a thought. Thought makes it seem that there are dualities. And therefore it can also seem that thinking is a a duality. However, this is itself is just a thought. That's how the illusion of mind "sustains itself". Because "duality" is just a thought itself, thought isn't a duality.

I'm sorry what is this thread about again?

@Gregory1 What you make of it is simply what you want to make of it. If you wanted to say hello and see what psychedelics can do, now you've had a glimpse into perfection, beauty, the ineffable and into the fluidity of consciousness. If you want to derive some metaphysical implication from the psychedelic state, you can do that too. And it's perfectly valid to not "make much" of your first trip. You can just sit there and marvel at it, if that's what you want to do. There's nothing you ought to do.

I strongly advise you not to take psychedelics at all. Your mind isn't mature enough yet (even though you might think otherwise) and at age 16, your brain is literally under construction. This is not the right time to interfere with LSD or DMT. You have many years ahead of you. Wait until your brain is stable enough to handle such potent substances.