From: oldernow@dev.null
On 2024-09-24, D 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.
>>> 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.
>>> 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.
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Oh, for the love of signature silliness....
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