mostly shit. but i don't really do them any more. i've done the full crack/smack addiction and now i only drink and occasionally take xanax or something similar.
i would love to read in the original language, but think i'm past my language learning prime. i can read french but only did german for a year and didn't get on well with it. i think reading german philosophy in german would be infinitely preferable so if you have that ability i am quite jealous!!
i suspect for an object without colour, it would essentially be a hole, but our brains would probably 'fill in the gap' given i don't think they are equipped to cope with objects without colour, as the cells in our eyes only detect different properties of light. so it would look like whatever your brain infers. if the object doesn't interact with light at all, it would be completely transparent as the light would go through it, so we wouldn't know it was there until we interacted with it with another of our senses.
the difference between our views re psychedelics is, i believe, due to a difference in opinion about the extent to which our perceptions or reality are real. it seems that you think they are, whereas i think that so much processing is done between sensory input and our perception of that input that we can't really claim that our perceptions do reflect reality. obviously they reflect it to some degree, because we are able to build models based on them that predict events accurately. though really how will we ever be able to tell, because we only have our perceptions.
i did read your other post re IQ and the piano. losing that must have been awful for you to have worked so hard and done so well and have it ruined for reasons beyond your control. i'm not surprised that caused you to spiral. i'm glad you found a way to make a decent living in the end. regarding IQ tests, i had one when i was a kid. for some reason the child scale only went to 130, and i got 130. too scared to do one now. would probably do really well in bits similar to what i have to do day in day out for my job, and awfully at the rest. it doesn't matter too much now though, i can make a good living and i shouldn't dwell too much on how i've ruined my intellect, it doesn't get me anywhere.
Over here the quality of drugs can range from crap to perfect, coke is generally really crap lately but used to be top quality, we have lots of perfect drugs, i refer with this to the many drugs sold here in smartshops and coffeeshops...
Weed is generally accepted to be nowhere else As good as in Holland, i believe our coffeeshops can offer the greatest variety and offer up to the strongest weed that exists, i think in Holland is done the most extensive research and many of the progress and developments being done is done in Holland, even if im wrong in saying this, im sure that our weed would be equally good to what would be the best weed in the world...
And smartshops sell many different drugs and you can be sure that is uncut, top quality, consistent in effects,...
Heroin i know is in general not that good quality tho i never needed big doses of heroin to have serious effect...
For most other drugs you have real crap that is cheaper and only sold by street dealers mostly for homeless ppl and tourists that are not able to find a better source, moving away from the street we have.these most other drugs a bit more expensive and the quality is okay, not really bad, also not especially good, and last you can find these drugs again cheaper for really good quality if you are really someone that has moved about in the drug.scene...
For me its not difficult to understand english, french and german as i originally An from belgium And later on moved to NL, and as you probably know belgium had 3 national languages, french, german and dutch, so we learned these languages from a very Young age on in school for quite some yrs, and english you already know very well as a kid before you go to school from simply watching tv but of course is teached in school too...
I really like the notion that when no light hits An object It would be transparant, however i feel like this notion Could in some ways possibly be problematic, ill maybe come back to this later on...
Interludium: i still didn't sleep, still binging, so i have even less capabilities to think about these things and dat something meaningful about IT, so for now im going to try to not say too much for the time being...
Concerning psychedelics and reality i believe we actually mean the same thing but we Both have a different way of explaining this, i really think our view of reality is quite similar, this is what i meant that reality is variable depending on how the brain processen information means that reality is in a way not actually real, also this is more or less implied by that das ding An sich ist ein unbekantenes ...
I understand you are now afraid to do An IQ test, i dont simply want know how low my IQ is at the moment...
If you really suffer damage that limits your intellect, you cope very well, you seem like An intellectual person to me...
