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You've never taken a psychedelic and felt you understood the meaning of life? I have personally solved all major conflicts and the middle east crisis multiple t

You've never taken a psychedelic and felt you understood the meaning of life? I have personally solved all major conflicts and the middle east crisis multiple times. None of it stuck though... With some technical problems I have certainly felt that I have solved them and come out with nothing but undecipherable scribble at the end. Once or twice something useful in the afterglow, but much of it is lost (or was never real to begin with)

sitkack 3y ago
The whole world should drop acid for 72 hours. Then I think the major conflicts will have evaporated.
ethanbond 3y ago
“Understood the meaning of life” != solved everyone’s problems Did you actually feel that you had solved all major conflicts, or are you 1) parodying your own ambition of insight or 2) making the separate claim that “if the primary agents in the conflict could have the experience that I’m having, they maybe would not be so conflicted?” (2) for example is a much, much more believable claim than “I solved all the problems” despite their superficial similarity.
- robbiep 3y ago
  You didn’t give a numerical option for having personally solved all the world’s problems, but I’ll call it 0), and I felt 0) but am also claiming 1). Others have made 2) but that wasn’t part of my comment. I’m not really interested in what you believe, it’s clear you haven’t had psychedelic experiences, which is fine, but it’s a bit rich for you to be claiming what I could have experienced if you’ve never had your wetwear run that particular program. Psychedelic experiences are unbelievable by their very nature. At their worst (as was repeated elsewhere in the thread, and actually in the article as well) you are literally entering the state of a schizophrenic. It isn’t very nice. And at its best you can think that you have deep insight into major world problems, the cause of conflicts and how to solve them. In a more personal middle ground it can also be a highly fertile environment for self reflection and introspection with lasting benefits

sitkack 3y ago

The whole world should drop acid for 72 hours. Then I think the major conflicts will have evaporated.

ethanbond 3y ago

“Understood the meaning of life” != solved everyone’s problems Did you actually feel that you had solved all major conflicts, or are you 1) parodying your own ambition of insight or 2) making the separate claim that “if the primary agents in the conflict could have the experience that I’m having, they maybe would not be so conflicted?” (2) for example is a much, much more believable claim than “I solved all the problems” despite their superficial similarity.

robbiep 3y ago
You didn’t give a numerical option for having personally solved all the world’s problems, but I’ll call it 0), and I felt 0) but am also claiming 1). Others have made 2) but that wasn’t part of my comment. I’m not really interested in what you believe, it’s clear you haven’t had psychedelic experiences, which is fine, but it’s a bit rich for you to be claiming what I could have experienced if you’ve never had your wetwear run that particular program. Psychedelic experiences are unbelievable by their very nature. At their worst (as was repeated elsewhere in the thread, and actually in the article as well) you are literally entering the state of a schizophrenic. It isn’t very nice. And at its best you can think that you have deep insight into major world problems, the cause of conflicts and how to solve them. In a more personal middle ground it can also be a highly fertile environment for self reflection and introspection with lasting benefits