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I'm betting BMW doesn't need people pointing out that he'd flip out about a post. If he's gonna get pissed, I'm sure he'll do it on his own. If you don't like a post, speak for yourself.

Oh look the Scrid brought us beer

Thanks for the feedback, Rev. Zat look better?

Vain as it may be, I'm nominating the following graphics as POTD, courtesy of THE WRATH OF MSPAINT cabal.







Looking back on it, I've used Hunter's head quite a bit today. What about you, Hunter? 

I've just started 'DMT The Spirit Molecule' by Rick Strassman. In relation to taking psychedelics, he talks about 'Set', 'Setting' and 'the drug itself'.

Basically: Set is 'you', setting is the context or situation in which you take the drug, including the people you're hanging out with and then obviously, the effects of whatever it is you're taking. He feels that the outcome of any trip is a mixture of the above.

He gives examples along the lines that, if you're taking LSD as part of a controlled lab experiment, do you feel different than someone who is taking it in a crappy apartment? If you think LSD is only good for treating psychotics, you may feel differently about it to someone who believes it's useful for accessing spiritual states.

If you are an LSD researcher, are you a 'scientist' or a 'shaman'? etc.

Give us a book report on The Spirit Molecule when you're done.

I was always fascinated by the subjective nature of drug experience. Like some people use LSD and psychedelics as a gateway to self discovery. Others use it to giggle at silly things for six hours at a time. Some people can have sex while tripping, some cannot. I find that even the length of the trip is heavily influenced by social context and expectations. (it's hard to tell when you're finally down, you know?)

I get frustrated because I have one friend, who used to trip quite often, and is insistent that its delusional idolatry to think about a drug trip as a path to illumination. Well sure man, that's true for you.


The scientist / shaman question is a good one. I think that scientists and shamans have similar societal roles, (creating a framework for reality, sort of) so I guess it depends on which societal sect they're participating in.

Oh, I thought I saw a UFO that night too.  But it was near Nazca, and there are a lot of bad pilots around there, supplementing their living off tourists by "other means", shall we say?

Ah yeah, abduction and probing. Supplemented my income like that for a while.

[Tangent:]

A few scattered thoughts:

• Llollercaust reminds me of my old Spanish teacher saying TWO Ls LIKE A Y over and over again... like Yoyercaust. Mm, that's fun to pronounce. Maybe  Lawyercaust


• I'd play down the "this is going to make you laugh" angle, which personally makes me go "oh yeah??"


• robot infiltration is a great theme. I have a rant about how the Robot Revolution is going to be the sexxxiest revolution since Women's Lib. I should really pen that down.


• Tangent: I'd love to see more satire on the spelling of Magic with a K. Like a pamphlet advising Wiccans to start spelling it Wikkans or something, to differentiate their true paganism from the pop-pagan fad. Payghanism. Bhroomstix. Blessetbee.

Yeah.  The shamans and like do a lot of ceremonies, dancing around and chanting and stuff while it takes effect, IIRC.  And actually have the beliefs to shape the ideas more.  Being an agnostic like I am, I'm pretty much not going to interpret anything without a degree of doubt, making a self-sustaining loop feeding off my belief impossible.

So do the shamans have deep spiritual experiences, visions of the future, that sort of stuff?

ah I see. It looks like a typo because its the only misspelling I caught. Might want to play it up a bit more.

Wouldn't it be funny if aliens arrived and they spoke in l33t or Tubular Surfer Dudespeak?

You Don't Have to Be Smart to Be Rich, Study Finds

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/529236/

"A nationwide study found that people of below average intelligence were, overall, just about as wealthy as those in similar circumstances but with higher scores on an IQ test."

,ÄúYour IQ has really no relationship to your wealth."

*wipes sweat off brow*

I've always wondered - how do you pronounce "Ayahuasca"?

If you care to talk about it, I'd be very interested in hearing more about all that

Were you surprised because it didn't look like this?




Or because it did?

Yeah dude these keep kicking ass! I love the trippy happy faces


nitpick: spellcheck the word Excellent, last bubble

*smirks*
upon rereading I realized that

...you give the guard your id,

is talking about an ID card, not your id, as in id/ego/superego.

Still fits though.

That's really sad Jenne. And really well written by the way - the description of the heat and the buildings was really vivid.

*hugs*