From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Thu, 26 Sep 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   >> Detachment is a skill! Trolling can be great fun, until   
   >> you get emotionally involved. Then it stops being fun.   
   >   
   > *Trolling*?!?!! Oh my! :-)   
      
   )   
      
   >>> No surprise there, as words can, at best, barely indicate   
   >>> a general direction toward the absence of conceptuality   
   >>> that is a hallmark of that big word you just used.   
   >>   
   >> I'm just waiting for the day when your koans "break   
   >> through" and open up an entirely new world to me! Surely   
   >> it must just be a matter of time? =)   
   >   
   > It's actually a matter of there no longer seeming to be   
   > a thing (i.e. time). Like that famous tree that fell in   
   > the woods, it doesn't seem to be save in the alleged   
   > presence of an allegedy individual/self/person to   
   > ex-perience it.   
      
   Well, let me throw some good old Omar K. on you!   
      
   But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor,   
   of earth, and up to heavens unopening door,   
   you gaze today, while you are you-how then   
   tomorrow, you when shall be you no more?   
      
   >>>> Those beatles guys sure had a song for every occasion!   
   >>>   
   >>> "Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream!"   
   >>   
   >> Never heard that one...?   
   >   
   > From "Tomorrow Never Knows".   
   >   
   >>>> THC? Not for me. I have madness in the family and I don't   
   >>>> want to wake up any demons. But my brain and philosophy   
   >>>> usually gives me the highest highs without such aids. ;)   
   >>>   
   >>> For me it's small doses en route to guaranteed sleep.   
   >>   
   >> Ahhh! Does it affect the content of your dreams?   
   >   
   > It seems to increase their number, as well as their weirdness.   
      
   Ahh.. weirdness? Couldn't it be that it increases their truthness?   
      
   >>>> I do have to say though, that I am enormously curious   
   >>>> about psylocybin induced experiences and the effects and   
   >>>> potential of them.   
   >>>   
   >>> They have (well, for me, *had*...) their place in loosening   
   >>> the grip of the notion of being an individual/self/person.   
   >>   
   >> Why did you stop?   
   >   
   > Mostly for it being too big a time commitment.   
   >   
   >>> There's something to be said for "priority, male".   
   >>>   
   >>> (NOTE: not sure if that'll make sense to a non-American)   
   >>   
   >> Hmm, not quite sure it does. What do you mean?   
   >   
   > The US Postal Service had (have?) a product called   
   > "Priority Mail", so I was riffing on that.   
      
   Ahhh.... got it!   
      
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