What Is True?? - Harris & Peterson Debate Realism

[WaveInTheOcean]

7 hours ago, LateBloomer said:

@Leo Gura

@Leo Gura Wow that would be something! You should definitely contact Sam and make an offer. Decent chance he'd take it I think. He's done some psychedelics before, practices meditation etc.

 

 

 

99% he wont take it. AFAIK, his last psychedelic trip was 300 ug LSD on a boat on a river, and he described it as absolute nightmare. :->

[Leo Gura]

@WaveInTheOcean For someone as smart as Sam Harris, doing psychedelics on a row boat, by himself, in the middle of lake, has got to be one of the dumbest things conceived by man.

[jse]

Could've been worse - doing psychedelics on a row boat, down some rapids.

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.

[Hunter Arrington]

1 hour ago, jse said:

Could've been worse - doing psychedelics on a row boat, down some rapids.

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.

Wild. That'd be one hell of death. 

[WaveInTheOcean]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

@WaveInTheOcean For someone as smart as Sam Harris, doing psychedelics on a row boat, by himself, in the middle of lake, has got to be one of the dumbest things conceived by man.

Yeah, it's just plain stupid and it was 400 ug actually, just looked it up.
And even on a fucking rowboat (ALONE!) yeah, forgot that, that's just insane. He could easily have drowned himself.

But he survived and I guess the experienced humbled him a lot. He was only 20 years old, I never think he has taken any psychedelic since then.

Today he is (for the most part) a very reasonable dude, though. His thoughts about psychedelics and their potential seems pretty accurate to me (video below). Although I think he underestimates how 'deep down the rabbit hole' he himself has yet to go (if he will ever go). Sam Harris seems to have only taken his head 1 meter down the hole and now believes "ah okay, amazing, that's it" ..., but he hasn't realized that the rabbit hole is infinitely deep.

 

Edited January 27, 2017 by WaveInTheOcean

[Ramu]

@Leo Gura so therefore as Being, there is no point to debate, because there is no Ego to hold a position TO debate.