Carl-Richard

You're finding excuses to not get laid. Typical case of self-handicapping. Self-handicapping (wiki): "People withdraw effort or create obstacles to successes so they can maintain public and private self-images of competence." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-handicapping

If your goal is to score, be prepared to take any chance you got.

That doesn't necessarily have to be the case unless it constitutes an effective dose. If these endogenous substances only exist in trace amounts at baseline (way below the threshold dose), you could've probably seen a 1000x increase and still nothing would happen. On a related point, as far as I know, the idea that endogenous mystical experiences should be caused by elevated levels of certain substituted tryptamines is just a speculative hypothesis, has no support in any literature, and is a simplification of brain function. There is a lot more going on in the brain other than neurotransmitter production.

Toxic.

That is essentially what intuition is about: being able to gauge how you feel to such an extent that your approach to life becomes effortless, without being crippled by indecision, fear and doubt. If you truly get in touch with your feelings, then you can truly know what you want out of life.

That my friend is called "the now"

How can you experience eternity when that experience would last forever?

Panic.

What if I told you that you trust your logic because it feels good.

Trusting your intuition feels so good.

Mix of avant-garde music performances, tiny, intermittent, supplementing interviews, and overall a lot of musically oriented sociopolitical commentary.

Master of avant-garde music performances (and simultaneous sociopolitical commentary):

Speaking about adapting,

Oh tell me about it. I had to memorize around 20 different species of shorebird when I was studying biology in uni

You're on a killing spree today

Exactly . The problem is that both sides are right to some extent, but how you should approach that is much more nuanced.

Since you're a number's person, to what extent are we talking? 0% reliability? 10%? 20%? Surely there are atleast some cases where you find SD to have some predictive capability (anything else would be dishonest). The question is just how much.

Weird way to interpret "make sense", but ok. Empiricism is one approach, but you can also take your own knowledge of history and culture and compare it to the predictions of SD to see how it holds up.

If you never contradict yourself then you're not growing. It might also be that you're just lacking the perspective to handle the apparent contradiction. Maybe it's not a contradiction at all.

Integrate and transcend it.

Reality is complex and non-linear.

Then where does the solution lie: silence the distress with force (but muh free speech) or actually try to fix the problems (systemic issues)?

What would it take for SD to make sense to you?