lylastar
Greenlighter
1 day old to bluelight, 45.5 yrs old to drugs & pharmacology; Hey all from New Jersey
I encountered bluelight while tracking down personal stories of those who have used the potent investigational research opioid U-47700. Up to yesterday it was my policy to avoid drug discussion sites as a matter of privacy protection, a very serious policy I have always attempted to follow.
I decided to join bluelight because it reminded me of the mostly lost-to-history IRC & Usenet discussion systems I was an active member of during the 1984-1998 era long before there was a hyperlinked world wide web. Before the web became popular the Internet itself was alive & well and was populated by very smart and/or really lucky persons who knew what a treasure this new network gave them, and were in general respectful, highly educated, and not into putting people down or engaging in hurtful interactions. There was both a live chat capability and 100s of subject-dedicated discussion forums, plus email and the ability to remotely login to other computer systems. Now that we have as many Internet users as we have, and, as one would predict, the way that people so undervalue and take the net for granted, there now are all too few websites that still preserve the "original way" that very old users of the net treated each other. Because, for the most part, of the endless hard work of bluelight's moderators, administrators, and staff, they seem to have here a rare jewel: a site based on mutual respect, the opportunity to learn from both everyday people and experts of various kinds and degrees, and to then channel this toward learning a very intricate and obviously controversial subject: the use and knowledge of psychoactive drugs.
When I was in my teens at age 15 I fell in love with the study of all drugs, pharmacology. This has remained my core interest all of my life to now. I don't feel old in my mind, but my joints and hair color are starting to clue me in to the fact that I am 60 this year. Comparing myself to others at this age I believe myself to be a "young 60" but make no mistake: the infinitely precious time I have yet to be alive has become reduced to approx. 13-34 years maximum. Fortunately, I am a rare individual who obtains his happiness irrespective of what my external world is doing. Indeed I can be just as happy staring at a wall for 2 hrs. I have an additional gift for bluelight down the road: since my knowledge of drugs, as science-based as it is, is split 50-50 between book knowledge and experience knowledge of drugs, the 45 1/2 years I have studied drugs very much intermixes both points of view, together.
Right now I will take the extremely good advise of bluelight staff and remain humble and keep my mouth shut and to *listen* and not make a fool of myself, playing the expert (even tho I am one!
. But just let me say: Greetings! I think and hope it'll be a really good thing joining bluelight. I hope to learn a lot here. All of life, for me, is about learning more and more. I know so very little. And the time to improve that remains short, and sure zips by awful fast.
I get a good feeling here. I look forward to more...
(all messages really from me end in a double ampersand which means "authorized end-of-message")
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I encountered bluelight while tracking down personal stories of those who have used the potent investigational research opioid U-47700. Up to yesterday it was my policy to avoid drug discussion sites as a matter of privacy protection, a very serious policy I have always attempted to follow.
I decided to join bluelight because it reminded me of the mostly lost-to-history IRC & Usenet discussion systems I was an active member of during the 1984-1998 era long before there was a hyperlinked world wide web. Before the web became popular the Internet itself was alive & well and was populated by very smart and/or really lucky persons who knew what a treasure this new network gave them, and were in general respectful, highly educated, and not into putting people down or engaging in hurtful interactions. There was both a live chat capability and 100s of subject-dedicated discussion forums, plus email and the ability to remotely login to other computer systems. Now that we have as many Internet users as we have, and, as one would predict, the way that people so undervalue and take the net for granted, there now are all too few websites that still preserve the "original way" that very old users of the net treated each other. Because, for the most part, of the endless hard work of bluelight's moderators, administrators, and staff, they seem to have here a rare jewel: a site based on mutual respect, the opportunity to learn from both everyday people and experts of various kinds and degrees, and to then channel this toward learning a very intricate and obviously controversial subject: the use and knowledge of psychoactive drugs.
When I was in my teens at age 15 I fell in love with the study of all drugs, pharmacology. This has remained my core interest all of my life to now. I don't feel old in my mind, but my joints and hair color are starting to clue me in to the fact that I am 60 this year. Comparing myself to others at this age I believe myself to be a "young 60" but make no mistake: the infinitely precious time I have yet to be alive has become reduced to approx. 13-34 years maximum. Fortunately, I am a rare individual who obtains his happiness irrespective of what my external world is doing. Indeed I can be just as happy staring at a wall for 2 hrs. I have an additional gift for bluelight down the road: since my knowledge of drugs, as science-based as it is, is split 50-50 between book knowledge and experience knowledge of drugs, the 45 1/2 years I have studied drugs very much intermixes both points of view, together.
Right now I will take the extremely good advise of bluelight staff and remain humble and keep my mouth shut and to *listen* and not make a fool of myself, playing the expert (even tho I am one!
. But just let me say: Greetings! I think and hope it'll be a really good thing joining bluelight. I hope to learn a lot here. All of life, for me, is about learning more and more. I know so very little. And the time to improve that remains short, and sure zips by awful fast.I get a good feeling here. I look forward to more...
(all messages really from me end in a double ampersand which means "authorized end-of-message")
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