Carl-Richard

And the degree is in the dose generally, as far as momentary effects and side effects go. If you are completely pharmacologically naive (not desensitivized) to caffeine and you take a mega dose, you will feel like you're on a serious narcotic substance. It's selectively dopaminergic and that's about it. Too much dopamine might make you on edge. I cut back my zinc supplementation because it did that to me (it has dopamine reuptake inhibitor functions). If you are spiritually inclined, consider that your strength lies outside normal brain activity (the "beta band", noisy, mediocre brain waves). In fact, I would suggest the less baseline brain activity you have, the more efficient your thinking will be, as much of the thinking is outsourced to the offline, subconscious processing, and the more able you will be to jump up to gamma when it's needed (the truly high-octane, flow-based thinking). You can't lift super heavy squats if you maintain a light jog between sets. Ideally you should just walk around and breathe a little. What you ideally want as a baseline is deep rest, and activity only occurs as a response. There is little need in being chronically elevated unless you truly have no time to rest (like during a marathon, or you're a military person marching at night). If you're working a 9-5 or really any kind of normal job, every moment has moments of rest, and keeping yourself elevated instead of resting for those moments detracts from that rest. When I used to supplement with more things, I felt I was in a constant "beta" state, and I couldn't enter deep rest, and my finesse and refinement of thought suffered. I had probably higher "raw IQ" in terms of spewing out information at a more rapid pace, but the quality, precision and groundedness suffered.

That you can take a benzodiazepine like Xanax and substitute a carbon with a nitrogen and a chloride with a bromine and call it a "nootropic" tells you everything you need to know about the label. It's a marketing trick.

"Stimulant" is a meaningless label unless you are referring to a specific process like "stimulation" or a pharmacological mechanism like dopamine reuptake inhibition or general upregulation of such neurochemicals. If you use it to refer to any of the former, these (and probably much more of your list) would be considered "stimulants": Armodafinil Caffeine Rhodiola rosea Ginseng L-Tyrosine Cordyceps B-vitamins, zinc, iron, iodine (likely in your multivitamin).

Might as well jump on Adderall.

Eat yo veggies.

Mogged. What am I supposed to say? "I like beautiful things"?

It's not an exercise. It's spiritual growth.

When I see these videos, of these young people and their limited understanding, I know that I'm getting old:

I rarely share videos just to share it, but here it is:

You just gotta get to know the right teachers. 5:14

Framing "world history" as lines on a map, only zooming out to the Americas at 1450 AD.

@Sandroew When I watch the videos above, I quite specifically register it as "young perspective". Young as in partial, limited, inexperienced.

When I started doing substances, I compulsively and obsessively researched how they work (the pharmacology, potency, chemistry, etc.). Then one time one of my friends who also did these substances asked me "can I mix this drug with this drug?". And I was like (internally) "what?? Do you not already know this? Is this not a crucial thing to know? Is it also not merely interesting?" That is when I truly learned there are different personality types/traits. Some people just have no care or curiosity or risk aversion to learn virtually anything about anything. They will go by either what merely works or by what others are doing as long as it works (or they just have completely different interests). Your date sounds like she's a sensor type, less concerned about intellectual understanding, less concerned about creativity, about personal values, more about what is going on around them, socially, sense-ly.

The first guy wants to teach you how to increase your IQ, showing how he increased his through an unofficial online test, and he sells an e-book with the methods he used which supposedly contains information from 50 studies (which he definitely found on ChatGPT). The second guy tries to paint a picture of a 20-year-old online celebrity through a lens of a famous philosopher. It's educational.

What you do once will be likely done twice, and the more you do a thing, the more likely it is you will see consequences of that thing. And consequences are overall proportional and just. Do bad, create bad, do bad to others, surround yourself with bad, bad comes back to you.

Yes. Attachment means you don't accept were you to be without something, or are not ok, complete, without something, such that you torture yourself mentally with feelings and thoughts. To release an attachment, simply imagine being without something or something happening and then telling yourself "I'm ok with this". I have had a sort of automatic habit that before a test or exam, I tell myself "I don't care about what happens". And it removes all anxiety, and it makes me able to perform only the way that is needed, and it makes you more objective, less needy, less desperate, less biased, clearer in your perception. The same thing happens with any attachment you have. You become less partial, less corrupted, less emotionally unstable. You can still have preferences without attachments. If you get a cake, you will prefer that over a piece of camel dung. But if you don't get a cake, you'll be just as fine as if you did get it. You are essentially independent from your preferences, you only take them as they are, and you accept reality as it is. Attachment means not accepting reality as it is. Now, can you accept literally everything as it is? That is what it means to be without attachment.

I was called an angel exactly 15 days and 19 hours ago. I saw something like that in a YouTube post. I knew the mushrooms would do some work on Bryan's brain nodules.

Rrrrrr no spoilers

They seem like they do some pharmacology let's put it that way. I like their music. Sounds like 2000/2001 Porcupine Tree with a more indie edge 🤓

@Natasha Tori Maru I'm psychic, ya know. The not betting on the Bryan-Kate relationship was just denial :,)

Wuh- why are they confused about evil not existing? Moral anti-realism is such a basic concept, even if you don't agree with it. Maybe I'm too indoctrinated by the political YouTuber sphere, maybe millennial PhDs have lives.

Bruh who are these people?

Why are you asking wrong questions?

Did you not see that was an analogy illucidating a larger point?