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Ah! So the whole premise of this thread is undermined lol.. I think the way you're using the psychedelics is probably more relevant than the specific substances, but I'm still curious about the identity if/when you want to reveal them.

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Deliciously exotic.. I'd love to try that, but the only mention I've heard of that one is that it was synthed for a study on how the compounds are metabolized in rats. I bet the scientists made sure there was a little extra to sample for themselves. I don't think this one is commercially available, is it?

I've been procrastinating on reading this. My favourite bit was in the closing, edited down a bit here to focus on the most resonant words for me: I feel I could focus on this alone for the next year..

@8Ball 2C-T-7 is a good guess, but it fails to pass the criteria that it's uncontrolled in most countries, and it's definitely scheduled in the USA where Leo lives. Same problem for 2C-E and 2C-P (or any other 2C-x phenethylamines).

I agree with @Meditationdude - stay away from drugs right now, give yourself time to recenter and balance out au naturel.

Best movie. Unfortunately, prophetic.

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Drinking distilled water all the time is dangerous because it will leach minerals from your body. Avoid drinking distilled water. As a rule of thumb, extreme purity is toxic. Where I live, the tap water is fantastic and clean, but there are some good filters out there that will remove particulates and heavy metals if that's needed where you live. I don't have any that I'd recommend because I've never owned one.

Yes of course brushing your teeth is healthy, so is flossing. If you don't like or don't trust toothpaste, it's fine to skip it. It always surprises me how people make such a big deal out of fluoride but not chlorine. If you don't swallow your toothpaste you will be exposed to such a vanishingly small amount of fluoride that it's a non-issue. Just spit it out after. Your teeth benefit. Fluoride in the water is another issue.. not a good idea IMO.

That's rad. What we be really weird and dangerous is when yeasts or bacteria start getting into the public hands that can produce drugs like fentanyl or cocaine. It's going to be a pretty nuts future, those strains will be uncontrollable. Society will be forced to deal with addiction as a disease rather than trying to control it with law, and there will be many wasted lives along the way I'm afraid.

I can't put my finger on why, but I have the gut feeling that DPT isn't a good choice for microdosing. You should try it though and let us know, sometimes a gut feeling is just gas @Psychonaut

I can't personally attest to this; sadly I've never ID'd wild magic mushrooms. My only experience with fresh is from growing cubensis. It would be an amazing trip to eat them whilst picking whilst eating whilst tripping!... just be safe and mindful of your space, species and surroundings.

Fresh have a lot of water in them, when you dry them they go down to around 1/10th the weight, depending on how wet the mushroom was. However, because some degradation occurs during the drying process, fresh ones will be a bit stronger than the equivalent dried. I've had my assed handed to me from fresh mushrooms, I find them really hard to dose correctly. Just be careful haha! I like fresh because it's a bit more special, just harder to get the dose right.

Edward Snowden will go down in the history books as a hero. He really is an amazing speaker and intellectual.

@Shadowraix I don't even agree, but say he was, there are plenty of fine examples of public speaking coming from inspiring people who made the world a better place. You don't need to invoke demons to speak to a crowd effectively.

Wow that poor guy, probably so repressed that he ended up behaving completely inappropriately with you. I can definitely understand why that traumatized you. It's really crazy to me to imagine that your parents would potentially beat you up for telling them the story. You're lucky to have a cool brother you can confide in, I think that will be really helpful to get over it. Your brother sounds super cool. You live in a society that really represses homosexuality, obviously. I think the next step is to try to understand how hard that must be for someone who is gay, and how that might result in acts of desperation like you describe. When you live in a society where homosexuality is open and accepted you find that these sorts of things don't really happen, because gays are free to find each other and form healthy relationships. It's just too bad your society isn't there yet. It takes people like you who are willing to grow and accept these different kinds of people that ends up slowly changing society. At some point you will probably meet someone is gay, or who comes out to you as gay, and it will be a good opportunity to practice acceptance. It's ok to accept homosexuality, and not be homosexual. Most homophobia actually stems from people's fears of themselves being gay. Thats actually a really easy problem to solve - ask yourself, am I attracted to men? Once you really face that question and find the answer, the fear and the homophobia tend to melt away. There's no reason you should feel like you ought to be able to watch gay porn or anything like that. It's not to your taste and that's fine.

It's not a good thing that Trump has been cozying up to Dictators like Kim Jong-un. It gives the state and leadership of N Korea an air of legitimacy and acceptance on the world stage that they have been seeking for decades, and for no progress on the human rights, liberties, or world security front. He's essentially patting them on the head and saying good job, I like you. Meanwhile he distances himself from democracy, the media, and international discourse on global challenges. edit: I agree that Trump 2020 is a real possibility. The opposition is going to have to work their ass off, fight hard, mobilize, and unite like never before if they want to win the next election.

WTF you definitely need to find a better role model. Stick to higher ground.

I've benefitted in different ways from all kinds of psychedelics, but if I had to pick which was the most spiritually enlightening, I'd single out LSD and 5-MeO-DMT. LSD is the numinous base, 5-MeO-DMT the pinnacle IMO. Mescaline and it's 2C-x offspring have a special place, enlightening isn't the right word for them though IMO. DXM is dangerous and unhealthy, stay away from it kiddos

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@Bodigger the researchers generally work for universities, but some work for governmental orgs like NASA or publicly funded research institutions, and other non-governmental organizations. But let's do a thought experiment and suppose they did all work for the government. Does it look to you like "the government" wants to do anything about fixing climate change right now? Keep in mind that "the government", like any very large system, is not a monolithic organization with a single devious mind in control of the whole body. It's composed of thousands and thousands of individuals with individual motives, influences, lives, perspectives. Now let's apply Occam's Razor here: what's the more likely scenario, that 97% of climate scientists have been successfully manipulated by some nebulous environmentalist entity, or that they are looking at the evidence and zeroing in on the same conclusions? edit: more regarding the consensus on this topic. Here is a list of 200 worldwide scientific organizations that climate change is caused by human action: http://www.opr.ca.gov/facts/list-of-scientific-organizations.html If you're American, you might appreciate this list of institutions: https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/

@Bodigger That's because there's a great deal of money at stake here, and there is a huge incentive for many of the most powerful and monied institutions to spread misinformation about the climate situation. However if you talk to the experts in the field, climate scientists, there is 97% consensus on the facts of climate change. These are the people whose job it is to study and understand the climate to the best of our ability. If there is something wrong with your car, do you listen to the mechanic, or the talk show radio host? If a doctor told you that you had a 97% chance of dying if you didn't quit smoking, would you look at the 3% and say I think I'll play it safe and keep smoking?

@Hansu No apologies! It's an honour to discuss with someone who has an open mind ??

That mixed case jab there makes it sound like you're really not interested in discussion, that you're just looking for a reaction. But I'm going to assume that a part of you actually does want to discuss this, or else why would you be here? You raise a lot of points here, and for the most part these have been addressed over and over in this endless conversation and heel-dragging that's been going on for years now. This is what I mean by there not really being a "climate debate". When the opposition continues to raise the same objections over and over, and those objections are addressed irrefutably and with consensus amongst the experts in the field, and then the opposition continues to ignore these facts and simply restate the same objections, it's not really a debate any more. It's just "nanny-nanny-boo-boo" in the schoolyard. I'm going to try to take the time to address some of your objections. I hope this is an actual discussion, and that you will take the time to contemplate these refutations. There are so many great resources on the web where you can learn about these things and get answers to your questions, but I'll put down some quick notes here. How fast and by how much is the climate changing? Check out the graph and map here. Global Mean Temperature is a good proxy or meta-measurement on climate change, and it's risen by 1C so far since preindustrial times. How fast and by how much will the climate change in the future That depends on how quickly we can transition off of fossil fuels and reduce GHG emissions in general. Projections vary depending on the scenario that humanity follows. In the absence of policy change, we can expect 4-5C warming by the end of the century. If we plateau our emissions at current rates we can expect about 3C. If we aggressively reduce emissions to below today's rate, it could be constrained to about 1.5C of warming. Check out NASA's report on 21st Century Temperature Scenarios or the global Climate Action Tracker If you are feeling very scholarly, this paper is detailed How much of an impact do humans have on climate change? / How different would the climate be if humans didn't exist We have raised the temperature approximately 1C above preindustrial levels due to human-caused GHG emissions. The last time CO2 concentrations were this high, around 3 million years ago, the sea was 10-30m higher than it is today, and the global mean temperature was 2-3.5C above our preindustrial temps. A common objection here is that "well why isn't it that high now then?" Well, the planet is a very large object, and there is a lot of momentum in the system. We have only recently kicked the CO2 concentrations up high into the current levels, and there is a lag period as the ice melts and the seas rise, and the Global Mean Temperature rises. Even if we vanished, global temperatures would continue rising for a some time because of all the momentum in the system. It takes a while for the planet to heat up from this big change in CO2 concentration, and we're only seeing the beginnings of this change right now. How much of an impact does CO2 in particular have on climate change? "CO2 has caused most of the global warming, and it's influence is expected to continue" There are other potent GHGs that also need to be addressed however, including refrigerants and methane. How much are we as a species in control of the climate and how can we control or influence it I think this is already answered above. We've already caused 1C of warming, and we're looking at another 1.5C to 5C depending what we do about it. ******* This is taking me longer than I expected to go through these details. I'll try to keep going later when I have the time. Anyways, better than my words would probably be to digest the well-vetted, and graphically rich content at NASA's site: https://climate.nasa.gov/ NASA is pretty good at science, I think we can all agree.