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☮ Social ☮ PD Social Talk Thread: If 2020 Was the Dumpster, Can 2021 Be the Fire?

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Buzz Lightbeer said:
Agreed! People seem to be getting tattoos en mass in some of my circles, I cannot think of anything, literally anything, that I'd be confident in to have on my body and not cringe over in say 5 years. Maybe that says enough about how my life has gone up until now

Never like people asking me about their tattoos tbh, sometimes (but rarely) they look really sick and then they'll get a genuine reaction from me, whatever that entails... but otherwise, especially after the tattoo is just placed, mostly true for young people that seemingly didn't think it all too well through, you feel hints of insecurity and you're forced to lie through your teeth lol. Ahh the minutia of interactions with acquaintances, I would even say I miss it (... COVID)....
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I'm the same way, I have never felt called to get anything tattoed. I thought maybe I would when my dad passed, but still, nothing has called to me.

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I apologize for the use of the word "cringe" I'm not at all up to date on the current internet meta regarding it, but there's no other word that so can so accurately describe such a very specific feeling, I think?
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Cringe seems like the appropriate word to me
 
I want to get a 2D LSD molecule tattooed on my left shoulder, a Scorpio sign in Greek on my chest under an old tattoo (don't ask) plus perhaps the Texas flag flying forward into battle on my upper left or right arm, and Pluto (the celestial body) on my right shoulder, and Mars in the center of my back (both those in color). They all have meaning behind them. Given this many years of thought, just never wanted to pay for it lol.

Wife just got an octopus tattooed on her thigh, it goes all the way from around her knee to up past her panty-line. She said she had a dream about it, then when she got a bonus at work... well boom, she went and got it, dropped about $1k on it so far... but damn is it a good lookin' tattoo. I find myself looking at the octopus' eye sometimes when we're... fooling around. It's trippy lol.
 
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time to try be productive. Only gonna be on nicotine and caffeine. Its about time i try make my way back to some baseline soberness especially for the future
 
TripSitterNZ said:
time to try be productive. Only gonna be on nicotine and caffeine. Its about time i try make my way back to some baseline soberness especially for the future
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I really need to cut out nicotine, I feel like it makes me less productive. Ever since I started getting the flavored disposable vapes I've been hitting it way too often. I really want to try modafinil as a caffeine replacement, cause I really need to take a long-term coffee break and see if it will help my stomach issues.

Been using tianeptine for the past week and a half, although I had a few days off in there. I don't think I've gone above 20mg in a day, but it's a really nice enhancer. Makes me feel a lot more socially confident and relaxed, helps my stomach pain, and doesn't have the level of drowsiness or brain fog that say, F-phenibut has. It definitely has a bit of brain fog though, so I'm gonna start saving it for the weekends only.
 
Xorkoth said:
Nope, he's not my boss anymore, though we still work closely together. He's my best actual friend at the company though, for sure. But I have found that everyone is just as supportive of the music as he is. :) But not sure if anyone else would have reacted as well to the ibogaine email, lol. He hasn't ever told anyone else about that little adventure of mine.

I will reply to your latest PM shortly, perhaps tonight. Sorry, I'm not ignoring you, just been busy and pretty down/burnst out, until today that is, I feel pretty recharged for the moment. :)
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Hey no worries I've had the week from hell this week anyway. I know you'd never intentionally ignore me brother. :)
 
Re: tattoos

I feel the same way as many of you guys, that I have never been too sure what I would want to put on me forever. But a few years ago I came up with what I think will be my first tattoo should I ever actually get one.

Back in the 1800s, chemists used fractional separation methods to isolate all of the chemical components of petroleum. They went about using stoichiometry to determine the atomic/molecular structure of the components. I.e. "okay, this portion of petroleum seems to be composed of molecules with three carbon atoms and eight hydrogen atoms, so therefore we figure this must be propane."

They were able to figure out all of the straight and branched chain alkanes this way fairly easily. But scientists did not yet understand cyclical molecules that well, nor molecules with hybrid bonds. So when they got to the component of petroleum that had just six carbon atoms and six hydrogen atoms, they were confused. How could such a molecule exist? It was a puzzle for a long time.

The chemist August Kekulé was the first to elucidate the structure of C6H6. He was the sort of Renaissance man who was just as interested in esoteric religions as he was interested in chemistry. One night, as he was sitting in front of the fire enjoying his evening smoke, he was puzzling over the structure of C6H6 and ended up drifting off into a hypnagogic state. In this hypnagogic state, he imagined the other alkanes like octane and pentane as long wiggly snakes. In his mind's eye, one of the alkane snakes circled around and started to eat its own tail, much like the classic image of the Ouroboros he had seen in many ancient texts. Immediately he snapped awake. Aha! That's it! That's how C6H6 is able to be stable! It is not a chain, but rather it circles around and forms a ring of carbon atoms, with a single hydrogen atom attached to each carbon atom.

Today, we know C6H6 as Benzene.

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I want a tattoo sort of like this, but of the Ouroboros *entwined around* a benzene ring, and the benzene depicted with the modern circle-in-a-hexagon notation that shows it's true hybrid bond structure.

Benzene is a beautiful molecule/functional group that is essential to life as we know it. The similarities between it and old alchemical works are crazy to consider.

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This^ is from long before Kekulé realized the structure of benzene :)

Circles are a classic icon representing infinity, and benzene is the simplest molecular circle that can be made, I believe. (Other smaller cyclical alkanes aren't planar like benzene)
 
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New study links intrinsic religious motivation to higher-level patterns of thought

New research provides evidence that specific forms of religious motivation are associated with higher-level patterns of thought. The findings, which
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New study links intrinsic religious motivation to higher-level patterns of thought

by Eric W. Dolan May 22, 2021

New research provides evidence that specific forms of religious motivation are associated with higher-level patterns of thought. The findings, which appear in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of the relationship between religion and meaning in life.

“I became interested in the psychology of religion after having taught it at a small liberal arts college I previously worked at,” said study author Jay L. Michaels, an assistant professor at the University of South Florida at Sarasota-Manatee.

“In preparing the course, I learned how hundreds of psychology and medical studies identified that people who are religious tend to have lower rates of heart disease, better outcomes following surgical procedures, and live longer. To me, this was interesting, as at the time it was unclear what exactly contributed to these health benefits.”

“So, I theorized that perhaps religion alters how people think,” Michaels said. “I specifically began testing Dr. Crystal Park’s (University of Connecticut) theory that religion enhances meaning in life, where sense of meaning is known to help people cope with stress. I theorized that if this is accurate, then religion should alter the underlying mental processes that contribute to perceived meaning. This particular article is based on this logic.”

In the study, 630 adults from from 48 countries completed a cognitive assessment in which they were asked to pick a phrase that best described a given behavior. They had the choice of picking a high-level description (which focused on why the action was performed) or a low-level description (which focused on mechanistic aspects of the action.) For example, one item asked whether “reading” was better described as “Gaining knowledge” or “Following lines of print.”

The participants also provided demographic information and completed surveys regarding their religious motivations and spiritual beliefs.

The researchers found that religious people with stronger intrinsic religious motivation and stronger extrinsic-personal religious motivation tended to also have stronger spiritual beliefs, which in turn was associated with thinking according to higher-level actions.

In other words, participants who agreed with statements such as “I have often had a strong sense of God’s presence” (intrinsic religiosity) and “Prayer is for peace and happiness” (extrinsic-personal religiosity) were more likely to describe reading as “Gaining knowledge,” and this relationship was mediated by the strength of spiritual beliefs, such as the belief that God is an all-pervading presence.

But extrinsic-social religiosity (“I go to church mainly because I enjoy seeing people I know there”) was unrelated to these patterns of thought. Moreover, among non-religious participants, there was no link between religious motivations and higher-order thought patterns.

“The main takeaway from this study is that people who are motivated to pursue religion or spirituality and integrate it fully into their life while finding it contributing to what they experience tend to think in more meaningful ways,” Michaels told PsyPost. “That is, religious as well as spiritual people tend to experience thought patterns that are more organized and provide deeper sense of meaning. This meaning can help be a sort of mental anchor during times of distress.”

The study, however, used a cross-sectional methodology, which prevents the researchers from drawing any strong conclusions about causality.

“As with any research, my study has flaws,” Michaels explained. “It used a survey method, which means we cannot conclude religion and spirituality cause people to think in a more meaningful way. It’s merely a relationship. Future work that uses experimental techniques are needed to identify if there is a cause-effect relationship.”

Approximately 62% of the participants reported following some form of religion, with Christianity being the most common.

“My study used people from Western Cultures,” Michaels said. “This means the data is from people who, if religious, are primarily Judeo-Christian. We need more research about people from other faiths. This is a big hurdle in the psychology of religion subfield.”

“My two coauthors were both undergraduate students at the time we worked on this study,” Michaels added. “I love having undergraduate students assist with my research. It provides them with a rewarding experience and often generates novel new ideas for my studies. I’m glad to note that my coauthors, Tiffany and John, have gone on to new success. Tiffany is now completing a graduate degree with Florida State University in Speech and Language science. John is now pursuing a career with our local school district.”

The study, “Individual Differences in Religious Motivation Influence How People Think“, was authored by Jay L. Michaels, John Petrino, and Tiffany Pitre-Zampol.

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Back to phamakizing:

Note, of course, that being "spiritual" was the same as being "religious," as long as there was actually a focus on higher order thought that went along with it. And this part is imo the most important takeaway, for how this might affect public health if people actually ran away with the idea:

But extrinsic-social religiosity (“I go to church mainly because I enjoy seeing people I know there”) was unrelated to these patterns of thought. Moreover, among non-religious participants, there was no link between religious motivations and higher-order thought patterns.
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You can't just "go through the motions" and expect it to work. You've gotta actually put in the mental effort.
 
I think I should be fine but it's getting close to 70 hours now and like 300mg of 3-FPM really isn't that obscene. I have Abilify if it's still impossible tomorrow but that is the one thing I really want to avoid. Sorry for the multi posts, I'm on at least 7mg of etiz, wide awake ofc
 
Buzz Lightbeer said:
I almost haven't slept in three days..... mania, and over that time I also did a couple 100mgs of 3-FPM, fml man. I've been dosing benzos to no avail....
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Wow, benzos and you still can't sleep? Good luck man. That's intense. 3mg of etizolam will knock me out no matter what. Even 1mg for regular insomnia, if I lay down after I take it and try to sleep. 2mg will nearly always do the trick, even with DOC sometimes (which is insanely good at preventing me from sleeping for a long time).
 
Yeah I rarely cross the 24 hour border, even when hypomanic I can fairly easily sleep a couple hours eventually.

These stims man, I get fucked every time 🙄
 
Buzz Lightbeer said:
I almost haven't slept in three days..... mania, and over that time I also did a couple 100mgs of 3-FPM, fml man. I've been dosing benzos to no avail....
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Lately I get the same way, where a single dose of a stim can cause me to start a manic swing and be up for several days.

Be careful broski. Sounds like you might have Bipolar II?
 
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