When i tried it i found the snowboard to be far smoother and way easier on the ankles, but the skis could get faster far more easily, as PepperSocks said above. I so want to go to the snow again, but being in Australia there is next to none here, and it costs a small fortune to get there.
Ya know I was thinking of Aus earlier; I'm actually quite surprised for your prescence at the winter olympics in outdoor alpine events. I didn;t think there was much snow or mountains in Aus. I guess most of your athletes train in NZ?
I don't remember aches from skiing, but I was a limber kid the last I was on them. I find with the board, because it's such a whole body swinging motion workout I feel it at the end of the day. Not so much in legs or ankles, but definitely in my shoulders. I think that's a big difference, to switch edges and turn on a board you use your whole body.
I remember most of you guys from back in the day when i first started lurking for info, and i would like to say that all of you here have greatly influenced me to go about all drug research/drug experimentation in a way that is far more resposible than anyone i know irl. I think Chuch was modding around then, and him, Roger, Peppersocks, Willow, SKL, and countless others had shown me that drug use does not have to be a stigmatized act. For this I am greatly appreciative and I thank you. :D You guys are the definition of awesome. Who knows where i would have been if this site had not existed.
Ya Church was great. I didn't know him much, he was on his way out when I started to get involved, but his legacy of posts was an amazing guide for me. Out of all the posts that were in line with the way I viewed psychedelics and spoke to me, his really stand out. His view of MDMA paved the way for the experiences I had and continue to have every once in a while.
I think it's hard to 'get' how posts help people. I can't recall posting anything that stands out to me as benefiting others greatly, but this isn't the first time I've received thanks for old posts. I think I need to work at accepting thanks, and understand that I've done the same for others that Church, MGS, and Xorky (to name a few) did for me. While I'm still here I suppose it can't hurt to continue the trend.
When I think of it in terms of "what if's" I feel that if it weren't for BL (or erowid), I would have used drugs the way my IRL friends did. No one ever looked up what dose to take or set/setting concerns, and always with the simple desire to get 'fucked up'.
Awesome; adjective. 1. That which inspires awe 2. PD mods. :D
edit: dug up cause I knew it described my feelings. From the poll started by Church; "Your favorite psychedelic and why"
Church said:
This will come as a shocker to many of you, because most people who know me would think I would say LSD, but in actuality, it would have to be...
MDMA! It's the most magical of all of them, where I hardly even feel (mentally, that is) that I'm in an altered-state, which means that all the revelations and epiphanies I have REALLY sink in and stick. It's always been treated by me as being one of the holy grails of therapeutic psychedelics, and it's pretty much the only way I've ever used it (save for a coupla times I took it at raves/clubs). In fact, this is probably the one drug I've done the least amount of times, because it's just so powerful to me when I do.
Alright, guys, this is the thread where we get to compare which psychedelics we like, and which we don't, and why "my drug is better than yours."
Thank you drive through.
Bolded by me. That's the part that's invaluable to me, but it all rings true. Back when I was tripping it was the one I saved for the special time. Now it's the one I use "most often" because I never use anything else within the year gap between experiences. I think that similarity to normal consciousness is what makes revelations adaptable to everyday life, and doesn't discombobulate you in a way that makes the experience incompatible and isolating.
It was just something special to see someone say something that made sense to me and I felt to be true. As much as I liked dosing LSD and fun phens, without doubt it's MDMA that changed my life for the better in a way nothing else has.
I owe Church a lot.
Thanks for reminding me of him elucidator.
edit again: Looking again down the thread after someone comes out and says that "MDMA is not a psychedelic" stuff:
How dare you attempt to negate the powerful, mind-manifesting experiences that MDMA have given me. It's kind of insulting, really. But whatever, that's why there's a whole 'nother thread devoted to the topic, and for now, since it IS, we're gonna call it psychedelic here.
Not all of us take it at raves and suck on pacifiers while looking at swirling glowsticks and inhaling vicks vaporub while swapping sweat with strangers.
Not that that's what you were suggesting.
Anyway,
Fuck Yeah! Everything he said just rings so true with me.
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