Carl-Richard

Weed, energy drinks, soda, potato chips, chocolate, junk food. I haven't bought any of these things for the last 3 years (unless there were no other alternatives). My body consumes food and water when it needs to

Russia is Russia. It links most of the world's continents together.

Your knowledge of absolute reality is the knowledge of God's nature; the knowing of yourself as God. Since God is absolutely infinite, there is nothing outside of God, and thus there is no separation between you and God. Any apparent separation (of form; body, mind, soul) is merely secondary. God as The Absolute is not separate, not-two: One.

It's Orange on crack.

@mememe I'm having trouble distilling the point you're trying to make

Pretty sure 99% of famous musical artists never intended to become famous. They were simply chosen. It's a bit of a funny story. I went to the same high school as Alan Walker (born in 1997) and Aurora Aksnes (1996), and both are now super famous artists. I took the same music classes as Aurora (only one year older than me), I had played guitar every day for 6 years, but I never sat down to make a song. Both Alan and Aurora had become famous by the end of high school (at around 18 years old). I've thought many times: "what if I had bought some recording equipment, took all the best of my guitar riff ideas that I had recorded at the time (maybe 500 recordings) and just made them all into songs. Maybe I would've become famous as well?". Then again, maybe I didn't have that musical vision like Alan Walker or raw talent like Aurora. There are also thousands of other factors at play. After all, my friend in music class had his own studio in his garage, and the only times his songs have been played was at his own parties

Do anything. Just don't sit in your basement and smoke weed for a year

Literally just live your life.

No crypto-sexist bait threads.

It's different flavors of the same thing: a contracted worldview.

For Western atheists, this looks ridiculous, but this is exactly how an atheist TV show host would talk to a mystic. "You're not making any convincing points" "You're using big woo-woo terms" "You need psychiatric evaluation".

Spliffs are probably more habit forming than any other drug combo.

I'll take that as a yes. I don't see there is much left to say.

@Epikur But do you have many older brothers?

Do you have some interesting information about that? I've always wondered what polyphenols are capable of.

"How is this useful?"

Drink every time he says "LOGIC"

Where is my body when I dream?

Transpersonal experiences exist on a continuum and do not protect you from delusion.

What does "how" mean?

How many older brothers do you have?

"In mental health recovery" would be sufficient ?

Lol it's like I'm Jordan Peterson or something ? When I think about it, there is a part of my own life that can be described as a regression that is consistent with this interpretation. In fact, during that time I actually saw myself in the bad Walter White . I was more "on his side" and identified with his reasoning. Today I more agree with my Green stepmom who was put off by how much of an asshole he is. Then again, you never get far with a single case study, real or fictional.

Yeah. For example, Walter White was supposed to exhaust his Orange at Gray Matter but was cut short and developed it into a wound. (I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes here ?). What also strikes me about BB is that it's a really good study of ego, of how it gets hurt, rationalizes and lies in order to perpetuate its biases.

I see this misconception way too often (conflating dependence and addiction). You have dependence, which can be either physical or psychological in nature, and you have addiction, which is psychological in nature. Dependence is simply a range of symptoms that occur as result of withdrawing from a drug, either from coming down from a single drug experience or from discontinuing frequent use or abuse. The physical symptoms relate to vital physiological functions and can be life threatening, while the psychological ones relate to physiological feelings like low mood and dysphoria. Being drug dependent simply means that your body, in order to maintain optimal functioning, has tuned its adaptation mechanisms to accommodate the drug-mediated change in activity, which involves decreasing the activity that the drug is elevating (downregulation). Roughly speaking, dependence happens on the level of receptors. For example with cannabis, it happens at the level of CB1 receptors. On the other hand, the mechanism associated with addiction is what initiates drug-taking behavior, produces drug cravings, and is for all intents and purposes psychological in nature. Addiction operates technically adjacent to drug-specific receptor activity and more on the level of networks (specific dopaminergic pathways). In other words, it doesn't really matter whether or not you feel dysphoria from drug withdrawal (e.g. low CB1 activity): if you're addicted, it's possible to feel drug cravings despite having been off drugs for a while and having stabilized your drug-related systems (normalized CB1 activity). So when people say "weed isn't that bad, you can only get psychologically addicted", it's firstly a conflation of dependence and addiction, and secondly it's a misunderstanding of the mechanisms that lead to compulsive drug-taking. While it's true that cannabis doesn't produce physical dependence at the same level as say heroin, it's not the dependence aspect that technically initiates the compulsive drug-taking behavior in the first place. The conceptualization of physical dependence should not be one of "intense, dangerous cravings" but rather "the presence of usually innocuous but potentially life-threatening physical symptoms, ranging from a light cold to intense, seizure-inducing over-activation". An useful analogy is how a diabetic is dependent on exogenous insulin to survive. The diabetic doesn't feel cravings because of the lack of insulin (he isn't "addicted"), but his body is dependent on insulin for optimal functioning. That is what heroin is to a heroin dependent person. Now, meanwhile it's certainly true that a heroin dependent person is also probably plagued with addiction, it's not actually the physical symptoms that makes you take the drug. A way to make this abundantly clear is to consider the fact that cocaine is not considered to produce physical dependence ("wow?"). Although it's certainly the case that dependence and addiction interact to produce what is normally associated with compulsive drug-taking behavior, the two are to be treated as separate concepts, and it's the activity in dopaminergic pathways that initiates the motivation, movement and reward-seeking behavior that leads to drug-taking behavior, not the downregulation of drug-specific receptors. Repeated administration of such dopamine-elevating drug will strengthen these pathways, increase cravings and reward-seeking behavior, and potentially lead to addiction. This is what is mean by a reinforcing drug (strengthening reward-seeking activity). So to take this back to cannabis, it's perfectly possible to become addicted to cannabis as it increases dopaminergic activity in major reward circuitry in the brain. Being addicted to cannabis is not the same as being dependent on cannabis (although they certainly correlate). Addiction is a mental phenomena, but this does not detract from its seriousness. Addiction to cannabis, alcohol, cocaine, heroin are all mental phenomenas.