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Counterpoint: The YouTube engineer who, over the summer, took LSD and went on a stabbing rampage. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/youtube-engine

by tempsy 7y ago

Counterpoint: The YouTube engineer who, over the summer, took LSD and went on a stabbing rampage. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/youtube-engineer-lsd-rampage-arrested https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/youtube-engin...

sova 7y ago
That's probably more related to working for YouTube where the comments are absolute vitriol. Actually reading this article this person was clearly not mentally equipped for a trip, ended up taking 2 additional doses after already "becoming delusional" and then going on a rampage when his friends tried to get him to stop. All because they rented a house on the fourth of July and thought what better thing to use to party with loud explosions than the most introspective and revelatory substance ever discovered by mankind. What? How about a little respect for the aperture in the navel of the Universe? I wouldn't chug a liter of Ayahuasca and go mow the lawn, what sort of world do people think this is? No consequences is the lie that got us here if you ask me. Of course there are consequences. Nurture altruistic intentions.
- blotter_paper 7y ago
  My worst trip (which I still don't regret) was when I took a strip of acid, and then a friend who was 4 tabs in pulled out some tannerite that he hadn't mentioned beforehand and started shooting at exploding targets. I was totally lost in the swirl of drugs, vaguely aware of the explosions and worrying about the safety of my friends. I think I could've handled it a lot better if I had known about the exploding targets before the entheogens kicked in, but still, the 4th of July probably isn't the best time for those particular drugs :/
  - kaybe 7y ago
    Most kinds of drugs, really. Alcohol and explosives are a legal but often unfortunate combination.
aphextim 7y ago
As one guru at a random festival once said regarding someone having a bad trip, >"That is what happens when you try to put a 6 cylinder drug into a 4 cylinder brain." Some people just aren't ready for what they are about to experience and if you are not in a good place, it isn't like alcohol which masks your feelings and makes you numb. From what I gather it forces you to confront your inner demons and come to terms with the meaning of your existence itself, which not everyone is suitable to handle.

by tempsy 7y ago

sova 7y ago

That's probably more related to working for YouTube where the comments are absolute vitriol. Actually reading this article this person was clearly not mentally equipped for a trip, ended up taking 2 additional doses after already "becoming delusional" and then going on a rampage when his friends tried to get him to stop. All because they rented a house on the fourth of July and thought what better thing to use to party with loud explosions than the most introspective and revelatory substance ever discovered by mankind. What? How about a little respect for the aperture in the navel of the Universe? I wouldn't chug a liter of Ayahuasca and go mow the lawn, what sort of world do people think this is? No consequences is the lie that got us here if you ask me. Of course there are consequences. Nurture altruistic intentions.

blotter_paper 7y ago
My worst trip (which I still don't regret) was when I took a strip of acid, and then a friend who was 4 tabs in pulled out some tannerite that he hadn't mentioned beforehand and started shooting at exploding targets. I was totally lost in the swirl of drugs, vaguely aware of the explosions and worrying about the safety of my friends. I think I could've handled it a lot better if I had known about the exploding targets before the entheogens kicked in, but still, the 4th of July probably isn't the best time for those particular drugs :/
- kaybe 7y ago
  Most kinds of drugs, really. Alcohol and explosives are a legal but often unfortunate combination.

aphextim 7y ago

As one guru at a random festival once said regarding someone having a bad trip, >"That is what happens when you try to put a 6 cylinder drug into a 4 cylinder brain." Some people just aren't ready for what they are about to experience and if you are not in a good place, it isn't like alcohol which masks your feelings and makes you numb. From what I gather it forces you to confront your inner demons and come to terms with the meaning of your existence itself, which not everyone is suitable to handle.