☮ Social ☮ [PD Social General Talk Thread] Observation Tank for Fractallized Redundancy Modules

[vortech]

I just had a really random thought....it makes me wonder, and I'll probably do some sleuthing for statistics, but I notice a lot of dips and peaks among the ages of people involved in various scenes and or industries. In my case I meet people involved in electronic music scene and also in drug culture, often overlapping. Its probably just the natural ebbs and flows of everything, but what I mean is that for instance I meet a lot of people born in like 88-92, and a lot of people born between 80-84. To be fair I am also starting to meet the promising lot of the even newer generation of millennials, the guys that are 20-21 now, and there are some really turned-on kids despite the overall climate of increasing amounts of these kids killing themselves off from heroin addiction etc. It's really an epidemic around here, and from what I understand all around the US. I don't know what my point is of this post but just wondering if ya'll notice patterns in the micro-generations in the broader circles.

A side thought is that maybe there's some astrological significance in the people that attract each other, like because of my age I'm more bound to meet people that are either near my age or some specific multiple/range of years older or younger than me. That's a stretch but this whole post is.

 

[Img_9999]

Really liked the video, jamming ! That geometric fractal art made me think of a disso hole for some reason haha

 

[+96+]

In a 3-MeO-PCP afterglow I decided to go fishing today. Great decision! I didn't go long, it was just from about 6:30 til 7:50 but it was a nice hour spent alone as the sun went down. I only ended up catching a really small bass and getting another bite but wow, the adrenaline rush from the first fish was insane! I cast a spinner bait a few times and was just getting comfortable when out of nowhere the fish bit.

Pretty random to share with you guys but I've been pretty depressed lately and sometimes being social like this helps. I miss the days where I was active on various forums.

 

[Help?!?!]

That's awesome man! I'm defintely going fishing this summer, it's been way to long!

 

[Bagseed]

In a 3-MeO-PCP afterglow I decided to go fishing today. Great decision! I didn't go long, it was just from about 6:30 til 7:50 but it was a nice hour spent alone as the sun went down. I only ended up catching a really small bass and getting another bite but wow, the adrenaline rush from the first fish was insane! I cast a spinner bait a few times and was just getting comfortable when out of nowhere the fish bit.

Pretty random to share with you guys but I've been pretty depressed lately and sometimes being social like this helps. I miss the days where I was active on various forums.

I wish that I could live in a place where things like this are possible anytime

 

[Xorkoth]

In a 3-MeO-PCP afterglow I decided to go fishing today. Great decision! I didn't go long, it was just from about 6:30 til 7:50 but it was a nice hour spent alone as the sun went down. I only ended up catching a really small bass and getting another bite but wow, the adrenaline rush from the first fish was insane! I cast a spinner bait a few times and was just getting comfortable when out of nowhere the fish bit.

Pretty random to share with you guys but I've been pretty depressed lately and sometimes being social like this helps. I miss the days where I was active on various forums.

Hey man, welcome. Stick around, I've often found this place very therapeutic.

That's awesome man! I'm defintely going fishing this summer, it's been way to long!

Yeah me too, I'm hopefully going on a fishing trip soon with my friend to catch trout in the mountain streams. Can't wait to have fresh trout and a bunch of fresh frozen in my freezer so I can eat fish more often without paying too much for it at the store. I'd love to eat more fish, but it costs so much more than land meats. And so much of it is contaminated by mercury and other toxins, but high mountain streams are above the level of any industrial dumping and are untouched by the ocean.

 

[Bagseed]

I dream of having my own fish pond once.

 

[Help?!?!]

That's really cool Xork! I love fishing bigger fish. Muskee, pike, walleye, catfish, and sharks are all bigger fish I've bagged that were so fun to reel in! For the best sports fishing though, you can't want more than the ocean can provide! Such a variety you can catch like twenty different kinds of fish in the span of hours. I really want to go fishing for salmon and steelhead trout as well. Have fun Xork and make sure to give us a good briefing when your back as I'd love to hear all about it! Just from the sounds of it, it's sounds alluring, tranquil, and peaceful as hell!

Bagseed, you and me both! That's like a dream I have. One of those, "if I won the lottery or got a good chunk of money I would surely", sort of things!

 

[Cream Gravy?]

240s go easy on the booze and partying man. alcohol can fuck everything up and sometimes turn you gay. I know you are young but getting plastered usually leads nowhere good. try to limit the alcohol to a few if you can.

I know I need to slow down. My hangovers have been getting worse, and more and more often I wake up with wounds I don't remember receiving. It just sucks, I'm back in the "I can't find pot anywhere" phase and none of my friends toke either so we can't share that anyways.

Been outa town for the weekend, had a shitty time visiting extended family. So happy to be back to my comfy bed, and away from the ridicule I was subjected to the past few days.

 

[vortech]

Hope ya'll in the States had a proper Memorial Day weekend..

I spent it at the beach with all my direct family including my 6 month old nephew who is just the coolest freaking thing in the world....i think he likes me- he always gives me this warm smile of acknowledgement like 'Heyyy, wassup my funny dude! ' and we just beam that smile back and forth between us till we're stupid with giggles. He definitely loves music, super interested by anything that carries a tune, and he is already saying all kinds of baba goobah type vocalisations.
He just started eating real food and he loves it. He gives off a face when he has food smattered all over his mouth, like 'What is this magical expwosion of dewicious in muh nipple sucker!?'

Anyway since I was with my family I kept the substance use tempered. Just a bit of tianeptine in the day and a little alcohol a couple nights. I started taking a supplement that supposedly helps liver function called 'damage control'and it also containd SAM-e which is a nice mood booster.

 

[Xorkoth]

Oh man, aren't little kids the best? I love being around little kids, I think 6 years old is my favorite in a way because by that time they're full people, totally aware and smart, but still so young and innocent and full of wonder.

I know I need to slow down. My hangovers have been getting worse, and more and more often I wake up with wounds I don't remember receiving. It just sucks, I'm back in the "I can't find pot anywhere" phase and none of my friends toke either so we can't share that anyways.

Been outa town for the weekend, had a shitty time visiting extended family. So happy to be back to my comfy bed, and away from the ridicule I was subjected to the past few days.

Man, that's so sad and terrible when family makes you feel low. I'm sorry.

 

[Cream Gravy?]

^My girlfriend's nephew is 6 years old right now, and I couldn't agree more. He's such a ham, always saying silly crap and running around. He entertains himself so easily, I wish I had his energy and imagination these days.

It wasn't all bad, visiting the family... it's just they get onto me so much about having babies and getting on with my life and telling me how I should live my life. It's my mom's side, my dad's side is almost completely opposite, laid back, accepting, understanding. Idk what's gotten up my mom's side's butts

One of my cousins though who we were visiting with just came out as gay a year or two ago, and him and I had a long chat about life. I feel so sorry for him yet not so too. He's a very privileged kid, his parents are divorced but his mom/step dad are absolutely flush with cash and he's gotten to go anywhere and do anything he wanted most of his life, and now he's about to go to college out in Cali; however, that same mom/step dad are so terrible to him now that he's come out as gay, and he really hates them... He was telling me about how depressed he was in high school when another kid outed him as gay and the whole private school knew about him then. They ridiculed him, made a fake grinder account with his name, all sorts of extremely harsh shit, and he sorta turned to alcohol abuse at the age of 16. It was all very sad to hear and it makes me so upset that kids are like that. Anyways, he seems much happier now, he tokes herb and he's got the best four years of his life laid out ahead of him out in Cali, away from this God awful devil state of Texas. I think he's got a happy life ahead of him now that he's gotten through the teenage years. I sure can identify with that.

 

[Xorkoth]

Damn, people can be so horrible. I have a cousin who came out as gay years back too. Before he did, another cousin, who is in general a bigoted asshole (hates black people, "muslims" and mexicans, and gay people (manifesting as homophobia)) was cleaning our grandma's house and found a video camera of my gay cousin's (because he lived with my grandma at the time). on it were some relatively explicit videos of him and another dude. Well my cousin acted like my gay cousin was some sort of perverted freak, and told a bunch of family members. After that he came out but it was sort of forced by my cousin. Then my gay cousin's dad was really mean to him about it, and it temporarily destroyed their relationship. My cousin who outed him would constantly be an incredible asshole to him and make the worst comments, all the while pretending he was just joking and getting mad at my cousin when he got offended. To this day my cousin is still an asshole to him, but my gay cousin's dad had a sort of late-life awakening as a result of his son hating him, and they reconciled and he supports him fully now, and it's actually been a great experience for my uncle who basically shed all of his bigotry and is way more open-minded and kind.

Fortunately for my gay cousin, the rest of the family supported him, but he was so hurt and put off my his dad and cousin being assholes that he stayed away from every member of the family besides his sisters and mom for a couple of years, and he seemed to think we all felt that way.

 

[Just A Guy]

I'm happy to hear that father and son were able to heal together and maintain a good relationship. It's not easy to deal with such a thing.

 

[Img_9999]

I think he's got a happy life ahead of him now that he's gotten through the teenage years. I sure can identify with that.

Yeah, being a teenager is hell to everyone who is even a little bit outside of the norm. Worst years of my life so far, lol.

 

[Xorkoth]

Yeah being a teenager was awkward for me, I had a great time also because I always had a really close group of friends but the majority of my schoolmates were adversaries. I'd say my mid to late twenties were my worst years but it was situational, I managed to find myself addicted to opiates and in an abusive long-term relationship. But yeah, kids can be really mean to each other, as a group they seem to pounce on differences or "weirdness" with an eagle eye. Everyone is either trying to be "normal" or is getting picked on (or both).

Last night we played a show at this silent (loud actually :D) auction motorcycle event. It was my favorite show yet, there weren't a lot of people because they didn't promote it very well, thinking they could ride off the past 2 months (it's a monthly event - the past 2 months they've been packed with hundreds of people but this month they had like 30 people), but the people that were there were SO into it, and I got the best personal compliment ever from one of the guys in the second band. We played so well, we learned Fire on the Mountain a few days before so we could add a new cover, and we killed it so hard, it was awesome. We stayed for the rest of the event, found out that one of the owners of the place lives across the street from the band house, and she wants to come over and jam (she plays guitar). And the other owner loved our set so much. Both of them were apologizing left and right for the lack of promotion and asked if we would come back in July, and were shocked when we said yes. We chilled and talked about spirituality and all kinds of things, and he told us that if we have any other shows he'd help us promote it for free, and tell all his people to go see us, and he wants to come to any and all of our future shows.

Also the person who was the most into the show was this older lady who was clearly on something, I kept thinking something psychedelic. She was something else, she and I had 3 different long conversations afterwards, about everything from how the sky was beautiful, to how she's going to move out west and build an underground home out of used tires, to how men have ruined the world. I told her to be careful of thinking that all men are like that because people of both genders have that thing that makes them fuck the world up for power and money, not just men, though I agreed it's probably disproportionately men. She really liked me though (a man!) so that's something.

After that I went to my friend's band's house (one of the guys ran sound for us and we got him a gig running sound for their even for money every month) and we jammed for a few hours, which was also great. All in all, a great night.

 

[TheAppleCore]

I just had a really random thought....it makes me wonder, and I'll probably do some sleuthing for statistics, but I notice a lot of dips and peaks among the ages of people involved in various scenes and or industries. In my case I meet people involved in electronic music scene and also in drug culture, often overlapping. Its probably just the natural ebbs and flows of everything, but what I mean is that for instance I meet a lot of people born in like 88-92, and a lot of people born between 80-84. To be fair I am also starting to meet the promising lot of the even newer generation of millennials, the guys that are 20-21 now, and there are some really turned-on kids despite the overall climate of increasing amounts of these kids killing themselves off from heroin addiction etc. It's really an epidemic around here, and from what I understand all around the US. I don't know what my point is of this post but just wondering if ya'll notice patterns in the micro-generations in the broader circles.

A side thought is that maybe there's some astrological significance in the people that attract each other, like because of my age I'm more bound to meet people that are either near my age or some specific multiple/range of years older or younger than me. That's a stretch but this whole post is.

Haha... that sounds like something I would post. It's an interesting thought to entertain. But if I'm totally honest, I think it's probably just confirmation bias or some other quirk of human perception. For example, there's a 99.9% chance that two people share the same birthday in a group of only 70, which is initially surprising to most people.

My girlfriend's nephew is 6 years old right now, and I couldn't agree more. He's such a ham, always saying silly crap and running around. He entertains himself so easily, I wish I had his energy and imagination these days.

I think it's a worthy ideal to become childlike in attitude, but mature in wisdom.

Yeah, being a teenager is hell to everyone who is even a little bit outside of the norm. Worst years of my life so far, lol.

Aye. I think my teenage years were mostly pretty awkward, peppered with a few mindblowingly awesome highlights. I love the feeling of maturing, and you get to do a lot of that in your teenage years. But I think you get to do that till the day you die. (We've had that discussion here before.)

 

[Help?!?!]

Yeah I feel that was last couple of pages! I was really lucky and still am. I'm super laid back and except when I was really angry as a young guy. Even then I was still good. It's just I had black out rage and if I wasn't a fan of you and you fucked around, shit could get real, really quick! Still though I could really give two fucks less what others think and still do. It doesn't matter to me what you think I should I should be like as long I'm happy where I'm at!

 

[Img_9999]

I think it's a worthy ideal to become childlike in attitude, but mature in wisdom.

Like Nietzsche said; Man must turn from a camel with a back strong enough to carry the weight of life and culture ... to a lion to face the mistery of fate with ferocious courage. In the end we must become a Child, to whom everything is new, and the world is but a game.

 

[Just A Guy]

Just watched a bunch of old videos taken while on solo trips on various psychedelics... Known then and verified now: when I'm so high that I cough and spit bile and phlegm (gross, I know) and expel that stuff from my throat, there is an active noise a crackling in the audio that follows. The cats are always going nuts when it happens. It's like a conduit to another world.