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Spent a lovely few days at my coastal cabin with Miss Willow. Its basically in the middle of nowhere, pretty minial interior and not a lot of creature comforts but is so relaxing. Mainly the paucity of humans around. I have never been satisfied in cities, I need to be near the real world of trees and chaos.

Took some GHB and a few grams of weed with me. A touch of AMT to enhance the bondage sex ;) Spent a large portion of the holiday reading- I finished 'Death by Black Hole' by Neil deGrasse-Tyson- brilliant read, great writer, logical, reasonable, informative. I read 'This House is Haunted' by John Boyne; a nice, Victorian era ghost story without being too predictable. I also completed reading the short but fucking brilliant book "The Dragons of Eden" by Carl Sagan. Has anyone here read it? It is a fascinating look into evolutionary psychology. Why are we as we are as determined by our evolutionary progression. Highly recommend this novel.

What are you planning on taking for the family meeting?

In a normal world, to normal people, a normal answer would be like 'oh a salad, maybe a pie or something for dessert'.

We are not normal. :D

I took- well, it was so long ago to be frank, but I took some drugs I guess. ;)

Nix said:
I'm in a mid life crisis at 15 fellas.

Not an entirely alien concept. Its that age where the blinkers of childhood have pretty much been immolated by the blazing sun of reality. You are becoming more self aware and experiencing the pressures that comes from being an adult but you still live under the auspices of the family. Perhaps you do need to look at trying to find somewhere else to stay. Do you have any other family? I had an aunt and uncle who were surrogate parents for me when my biological parents couldn't be bothered.

But, I feel you, 15 is a difficult age. I recall things that happened when I was that age; I had an incident that threw my whole family into the abyss when a few of my cousins and I started discussing odd/frightening experiences at the hands of our shared grandfather and it all spiralled into this epic tailspin of familial destruction, with silence being bought and paid for, with my father wanting to kill people including me and himself, my mother consumed by guilt (as ever). In the space of a year, all the cliches that bound our family turned to dust. I felt insanely responsible for this.

It really never recovered until my father died; he was a looming monolith of aggression in my life and after he passed, it was like the sun coming back out.

I guess I am sharing this to say I can relate to your confusion. The Recovery forums may be helpful to you, but I also think P&S may be moreso. We're essentially all friends here and sharing with friends is often easier and more rewarding than sharing with strangers. Please continue to share your experiences here; who knows, someone may have the answer or the answer may be in simply sharing.

Peace <3
 
yo! so i recommended starting a thread for philosophical journal articles and now i find myself feeling as if i must deliver. at the moment i am digging through the archives of my pubmed account trying to find a quality paper. here are a few titles..

  • Why clowns taste funny: the relationship between humor and semantic ambiguity.
  • Does Viewing Pornography Diminish Religiosity Over Time? Evidence From Two-Wave Panel Data.
  • Why Do You Believe in God? Relationships between Religious Belief, Analytic Thinking, Mentalizing and Moral Concern.
  • Scrupulosity disorder: an overview and introductory analysis.
 
Spent a lovely few days at my coastal cabin with Miss Willow. Its basically in the middle of nowhere, pretty minial interior and not a lot of creature comforts but is so relaxing. Mainly the paucity of humans around. I have never been satisfied in cities, I need to be near the real world of trees and chaos.

Took some GHB and a few grams of weed with me. A touch of AMT to enhance the bondage sex ;) Spent a large portion of the holiday reading- I finished 'Death by Black Hole' by Neil deGrasse-Tyson- brilliant read, great writer, logical, reasonable, informative. I read 'This House is Haunted' by John Boyne; a nice, Victorian era ghost story without being too predictable. I also completed reading the short but fucking brilliant book "The Dragons of Eden" by Carl Sagan. Has anyone here read it? It is a fascinating look into evolutionary psychology. Why are we as we are as determined by our evolutionary progression. Highly recommend this novel.



In a normal world, to normal people, a normal answer would be like 'oh a salad, maybe a pie or something for dessert'.

We are not normal. :D

I took- well, it was so long ago to be frank, but I took some drugs I guess. ;)



Not an entirely alien concept. Its that age where the blinkers of childhood have pretty much been immolated by the blazing sun of reality. You are becoming more self aware and experiencing the pressures that comes from being an adult but you still live under the auspices of the family. Perhaps you do need to look at trying to find somewhere else to stay. Do you have any other family? I had an aunt and uncle who were surrogate parents for me when my biological parents couldn't be bothered.

But, I feel you, 15 is a difficult age. I recall things that happened when I was that age; I had an incident that threw my whole family into the abyss when a few of my cousins and I started discussing odd/frightening experiences at the hands of our shared grandfather and it all spiralled into this epic tailspin of familial destruction, with silence being bought and paid for, with my father wanting to kill people including me and himself, my mother consumed by guilt (as ever). In the space of a year, all the cliches that bound our family turned to dust. I felt insanely responsible for this.

It really never recovered until my father died; he was a looming monolith of aggression in my life and after he passed, it was like the sun coming back out.

I guess I am sharing this to say I can relate to your confusion. The Recovery forums may be helpful to you, but I also think P&S may be moreso. We're essentially all friends here and sharing with friends is often easier and more rewarding than sharing with strangers. Please continue to share your experiences here; who knows, someone may have the answer or the answer may be in simply sharing.

Peace <3

Hehe, thanks Willow. Glad to hear you got to get away. When I was in New Zealand I was the happiest I had been in years.

I think b_d hit the mark when he said Bluelight/P&S is like a second home.

Also GHB so much respect. That is my drink.

:)
 
Congrats b_d. You'd make a good husband for a wife. :)

Where is my coffee?

Thanks swilow, mate. I'm not as optimistic about that as you are, but I'm very critical towards myself, as I only want the best of the best for people or other objects/subjects I care about. I hope I have it in me to be good to them. I've been successful at being a good pre-marital partner, but I'm not sure about the daddy part :c but we'll see! Dad of the millenium or die tryin' as far as I'm concerned.

I'm doing well, Nixiam. End of the work week for me. Summer is pretty lax in the institute, me and my lab partner are among the only souls working there on the regular. It's very nice - quiet, slow, spacious. Anyway, since we accomplished a lot of work this week, I decided to "reward" myself a little. So 30 mg diazepam, one cherry beer (call me weird, but goddamn this new cherry-flavored beer is damn good!), and 1000 mg codeine. As always, don't do this at home kids. This mix is nothing to for an example, but some of us are stupid enough to do such. Feeling righteous, though, as to be expected.

Hope everyone's having a great time, and remember to stay safe!
 
Stay safe? Ha, safety is my 14th name. I am always cautious when I mix copious quantities sedatives with overwhelming doses opiates. As soon as I find myself blacking out, or finding it hard to breath, that's when I inject meth directly into my eyeballs. This usually results in me still blacking out but being on autopilot while my physical body charges around the world, driving cars, using machinery and engaging in risky business ventures. Safety first unless something shiny/boob-like catches my eye.
 
Stay safe? Ha, safety is my 14th name. I am always cautious when I mix copious quantities sedatives with overwhelming doses opiates. As soon as I find myself blacking out, or finding it hard to breath, that's when I inject meth directly into my eyeballs. This usually results in me still blacking out but being on autopilot while my physical body charges around the world, driving cars, using machinery and engaging in risky business ventures. Safety first unless something shiny/boob-like catches my eye.

I like your style. Would you accept my proposition for you to be my mentor, a... wait for it... drug_mentor. Oh, I'm so punny.
 
I can't really understand what I don't. I don't know. tHe only thing that comes to me is the f bomb.

I'm fucking the worst pan attack of my fucking existence.

can'tb even anger. I don't know. Like this is really shit.

2 weeks and NOTHING. I have notbhad anythin.

School and parents and kill me and undermedicated and bull.
 
What are you trying to say, Nixiam? I'm a bit cloudy. Saturday is a complete blank, because I consumed a little over 100 mg diazepam Friday evening. But I'm feeling mentally dead. Because of the realization of how psychologically dependent on substances I am.

But enough of that for now. 1000 mg codeine, and (since I don't have diazepam anymore) 1.5 L beer. Hell, I was chugging isopropanol yesterday night because I couldn't find any other GABAergic at midnight at home. How I'm able to moderate this place in a suitable manner is beyond me.
 
posted new article about Carl Jung and Quantum mysticism. FWIW i do not endorse Quantum mysticism.

hope everyone is doing well, carry on..

I think the article is slightly misleading by claiming that Max Planck (the founding father of QM) objected to the view that consciousness plays a role in QM. Just by clicking his hyperlink you can clearly see he thinks mind or consciousness is behind QM.


"We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter."

He also says this, which is not on his wiki page

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
(From The Observer 1940)

The source wiki gives for Planck's views appears to be a Ken Wilber book which I find surprising. I like Wilber and I'b be interested to see why he takes this stance on Planck, as Wilber himself is a mystic. Looks like an interesting book though. It's possible Wilber is claiming Planck thinks that human consciousness plays no role in collapse of the wave function specifically (which in my view is possible, likely even), but even then, Planck clearly believes everything is derived from consciousness. So the article is misleading in that respect.
 
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Hello swilow!

It is almost midnight and my first day as a sophmore starts tomorrow.

I am so tired/nervous.

New school and all.

I feel prepared for the most part.

Just a little update here. I have been doing pretty good. I picked up hobby drawing again, which is something I haven't done for a few years now.

Oddly enough I am way better than before. In drawing that is.

My mind is tired. Don't mean to sound all over the place.

I dunno when I'll sleep.
 
^ that sounds great, Nixiam. Keep up the good work!

School starting in early August? Hmm, didn't know USA had that system (that's where you live, eh?).

As for me, got myself into orders of magnitude more of mental turmoil last night, so I didn't go to work today. Doesn't matter, I'll get it done tomorrow. But shit, I've been doing so much shit in real life lately it's absolutely bonkers. Some may say cyanide is tasty.
 
Oh holy shit Nixiam, you just sent me down memory lane... remembering the school daze. So much more life ahead... you plan to go to college? You should, you're a smart kid. More aware than I was at your age. College was fucking awesome for me, I highly recommend it.
 
^Yes sir, I do plan on it. Going to try and get basics done online and then go to a school for my actual major.

In the meantime I'm training under the supervision of my teacher to become a welder. They can make quite a bit of money for their proficiency and currently the trades are in higher demand, so I figure I would do that to support myself, plus if something ever happens I have that skill to fall back on.

I'm looking towards getting a science major, but I haven't made uo my mind about what I would do with it. Maybe I'd go into Pharm School.

Anyhow I hope you're doing alright as well Xorkoth.
 
^Good for you with many feathers and balloons. :) My head was a formless cloud of mush at 15. The very thought of "work" and "discipline" was entirely fucking alien.
 
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