Carl-Richard

Tramadol is such a weird drug. I combined it with weed a few times many years ago and it's like being on every drug at once.

Not necessarily "doomed", but you will experience at least some of the effects I listed earlier at all times to some degree (cognitive narrowing, impaired learning, elevated cortisol and lowered stress tolerance, health damage and carcinogenic effects of smoking, numbing of emotions, disorganization of thought and behavior). If it's something you do every weekend, there is of course also the tendency to cause a dependency on weed to "have fun", but it's not quite at the level of depending on it to "function" (which is more if you smoke every day and when you stop smoking, you can't sleep or eat very well and your mood is severely disrupted). See what happens if you smoke every other weekend instead of every weekend. Maybe you will be forced to find out other ways to enjoy yourself and you will also feel an additional sense of freedom that you don't have to smoke every weekend in order to have fun.

I just think it's useful for people to know what thoughts and ideas people have about weed that smoke a little more than they are willing to admit. It's a seeming trend for weed users to paint this idealistic picture of weed that they aspire to inhabit but which remains mostly that; an aspiration, a dream, and a way to keep smoking while aiming at something higher and promising yourself that one day, you will be there. But as a stoner, your promises aren't often kept. It tends to remain an ideal, a dream, and the rubber never quite meets the road. The eternal curse of the stoner is the potential that could have been but never became. You know who talked about how the best way to use weed is to take long and good breaks and then smoke as much as you can in one sitting and treat it as a shamanic/psychedelic ritual? Terrence McKenna. He smoked weed every day.

Please state when you are using AI in your post. https://www.actualized.org/forum/guidelines/

Are you literally just posting ChatGPT responses all the time? Life is not food, but food is good.

So every day?

How many times the last week?

Actual numbers.

The more consistent you are, the more sensitive you become to slight changes. You can be the healthiest person in the world and be overwhelmed by something that other people are used to. Take Bryan Johnson's trip to India for example:

@AION @Mannyb How often do you smoke?

Do you actually not have any answers or are you just venting?

Probably the most concerning effect is that it dissociates you from parts of your memory (not just short term memory, but long term memory). It limits your cognitive field of vision, narrows it down, and interferes with your ability to connect new information to existing knowledge, to see and feel parts of yourself that you might be hiding from (often the more uncomfortable parts), and generally to be responsive to inner and outer signals that may help you move in the direction you want to go. It can be a great hindrance for personal development. Other than that (and also connected to that), it interferes with your ability to learn messes with sleep hormones and sleep cycles elevates cortisol which can lower stress tolerance is often smoked which is bad for your overall health and causes cancer makes you numb to certain emotions and might diminish empathy (while also heightening it in some cases) teaches your mind to rely on outside sources for your joy rather than creating it from the inside through meaning, natural presence and good health makes your body and mind dependent on a fluctuating and unstable state (that lasts for a few hours) which destabilizes your mood and general functioning lowers your ability to organize your thoughts and behavior What is the best way to use cannabis (if you don't have a better alternative, which there are many candidates for, e.g. serotonergic psychedelics)? Once in a blue moon. It can increase creativity by a lot, it can help you break with stuck patterns and get a new perspective on things. But beware that even when used infrequently, it has a lasting effect on your system, as it contains lipophilic substances which go into all your cell membranes and all your lipophilic cell organelles and stay there for quite a bit of time longer than the supposed "duration of action" or even biological half-life. As a rule, you will feel the effects for at least a week after consuming it.

@Osaid "We're fucked" 😂

Balance is largely synonymous with holism: you want to not just focus on one thing, but many things, and you want them to exist in proportion to each other so they serve a greater whole. What the balance should be is dictated by the whole. What is a human? What does a human need? What I might add is that humans "need" or are capable of focus, so that some things take more space or serve you more than others. That could for example be what life purpose is, or pursuing your passions. So balance doesn't have to be rigidly egalitarian, but again serving a higher telos, the whole.

I think food video shorts that have quick jump cuts in them make the food look more delicious than it actually is because of the dopamine rush from the high-speed presentation. That's something I noticed when I compared one of his long format videos with his shorts.

"Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient" - J. B. Peterson

What's this for some recontextualization? 😆:

Please go like my comment suggesting Alex O'Connor to have Bernardo Kastrup on his podcast! (Scroll and look for @razorcarich99 in the comments, I can't link it here). It is currently gaining traction with 73 likes and we need all the likes we can get. This is an important oppurtunity for spreading idealism and non-duality to the masses! I have been leaving a comment about Bernardo Kastrup every time he has had on somebody who touches on the same topics, and now we are finally getting some more attention. And this would be right in the bullseye for both Bernardo and Alex, as both are philosophically minded people and will be able to speak each other's language very fluently. This would be a fantastic talk if it happens:

I trust them on one level but not another. Look, you understand what I mean by "it's naive" in the context of what I said. It's not like "naive" in an absolute sense. This is more Blue 😂 If you want a lesson for "self-identifying" where you are on SD, see how often you interpret things as "either/or", or treat things as absolutes, or say that things must be done just one way and not another, or whether you can hold two different things at the same time, or whether you tend to use one approach for all things or tailor the approach to the specific situation, etc.

Yes, this is what most people do, and it's perfectly ok to have this naive approach to it. But I also like to ask questions about epistemology and criticize the limitations of our assumptions, etc. And they're not mutually exclusive. If you can't carry both, that's on you. I do this with everything: MBTI, SD, Cook-Greuter's 9SEDT, science, spirituality, yet I also partake in all of them. That's very Blue. But I generally don't label someone with a SD stage unless it's as a joke or unless in the abstract while I'm making a point while both are talking about SD. But I will also say that people on this forum are actually more Blue than they think.

Yes, it's hard to evaluate someone's stage. That is my point.

We'll divide this sentence into three sentences and we'll see if you yourself can understand it: Numbers are units representing a generalised idea derived from the real distinction between experienced things. These occur spontaneously due to how the ability to identify things presupposes an agency. The agency holds that identity independently of the thing that bears it. The first sentence is ok but can apply to many things, not just numbers. The last two, what the fuck.

A letter or word corresponding to something you can count (a quantity) which often exists in relationship to a system of letters or words (a number system) that can be used to make "sentences" about quantities (calculations).