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Just read this and tell me what you think.
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RE: Just read this and tell me what you think.
June 3, 2015 at 3:35 pm
(June 3, 2015 at 9:58 am)rary Wrote: I am not saying that the drug transports yourself to a whole new world. I am trying to say it causes your brain to understand in a new way, and this new way creates a 'new world', which doesn't follow the same rules and laws Physics as in the 'real' world.

And then you go for a walk out of a ten-storey window and find out, briefly, that gravity still applies to your 'new world' just as strictly as it does in the real one, even if your brain thinks it's flying. Well, in a very direct way, it is.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Just read this and tell me what you think.
June 3, 2015 at 3:42 pm
The other thing we can learn from mind-altering hallucinogens, as this thread makes clear, is that they are not for everyone.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Just read this and tell me what you think.
June 3, 2015 at 4:46 pm (This post was last modified: June 3, 2015 at 4:52 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(June 3, 2015 at 10:36 am)rary Wrote: I have determined that this new world does not follow the laws of physics because of the way things move the way you travel communicate telepathically and so on. 

Feel free to supply evidence.
(June 3, 2015 at 10:57 am)rary Wrote: Of course they were, if the human brain were to naturally produce DMT constantly everyday of our lives of every single human being on this planet, the our laws of physics would be completely different to what they are now.

Yeah, no. You're confusing perception and reality.
(June 3, 2015 at 11:06 am)rary Wrote: Did you know when people use the substance to increase their levels of DMT, the places they go to and the 'beings' they see and interact with are very similar, so similar that actual names have been given to these 'beings' people see when they are in the altered state. It doesn't matter what corner of the world you were brought up with these 'beings' you see and interact with can be identified.

Nonsense.

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June 3, 2015 at 4:53 pm
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June 3, 2015 at 7:12 pm (This post was last modified: June 3, 2015 at 7:14 pm by Whateverist.)
(June 3, 2015 at 12:15 pm)Cato Wrote: Natural selection has a nifty way of taking care of organisms that don't interact well with their environment. How long do you think someone is going to last if they are in a perpetual dream state?

Let me take this one Rarely.

Cato, you tool, aren't you assuming a lot about the environment in which we evolved?  How do you know the environment wasn't carefully manipulated to bring about our 'normal' brain states.  Maybe who or what ever did the manipulation doesn't want us to know the truth about our drug enhanceable selves?  It could be a conspiracy which getting high alone can help you out of.  Try not to play into their hands.  (You're welcome.)
(June 3, 2015 at 1:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: [Image: useless-degrees-philosophy.jpg]

Wow, thanks.  I never knew my options were so wide.
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June 3, 2015 at 8:48 pm
I agree with Cato.
But in the end mother nature will take us all back anyway.
Why do we act like the forces of nature don't apply to us just because we can invent concepts like "afterlife".
Everything we are and do will only ever be performed in nature's sandbox.
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