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TL;DR is the last paragraph: Most of all, I don’t want my priorities re-ordered. And that is why I don’t use psychedelics. OP is afraid using psychedelic
by cassianoleal 3y ago
TL;DR is the last paragraph:
Most of all, I don’t want my priorities re-ordered. And that is why I don’t use psychedelics.
OP is afraid using psychedelics will give them insight into something so important that it affects their status quo.
Fair enough. To each their own, I guess.
- sshine 3y agoThis is a perfect reason. Psychedelics may well reorder priorities. This advice can be extended beyond drug intake: if you like doing what you’re doing, don’t change it.
- Merilelife 3y agoWhen to know you are content or happy?
- j16sdiz 3y agoThere is nothing wrong to be content, I guess.
- orwin 3y agoTo me: I'm proud of what I do, I'm enjoying my life, both at work and outside. I'm happy with how I react to adversity or outside events (I'm a bit slow to react to break down fights in public areas, but I do react). I have interesting conversation with my friends and family, I have multiple communities I can interact with. I wouldn't be anyone else or change a thing in my life, even my mistakes or the time I was homeless I do not regret.
- sshine 3y agoIt’s a feeling.
- ryandvm 3y agoTrue, but the same can be said of almost anything. There are a lot of ways to be influenced and to have your priorities changed. The original post reads like someone explaining why they don't read books.
- blitzar 3y agoI dont do heroin for the same reason.
- jasonvorhe 3y agoReally? Not because its highly addictive and toxic to your body or because it's so illegal that you basically can't get it in a verifiable pure form? Not trying to be insulting here, but heroin is possibly the last drug I would've associated with getting my "priorities re-ordered". I wouldn't even think of brining it up when talking about about naturally occuring psychelic drugs such as psilocybin, DMT or ayahuasca.
- hutzlibu 3y agoDon't you think, it is also possible that psychedelics can make your focus shift on something weird and not beneficial? Or are psychedelics guaranteed to give always correct and sacred answers? That would be news to me.
- cassianoleal 3y agoSure, but why would you shift focus for those reasons? Psychedelics in this context are just a tool to get new insights. Same as reading a book, watching a movie, having a deep conversation with someone, doing therapy, etc... Insights are neither good nor bad on their own. They need to be evaluated before you act on them.
- hutzlibu 3y agoWell, unlike a book, psychedelics are altering your way of thinking directly through chemical means. That's a big difference I think.
- cassianoleal 3y agoYou mean when you read a book and it changes your way of thinking or challenges currently held beliefs, makes you sad or happy, makes you laugh, etc. all of that happens through no chemical means?
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- ZephyrBlu 3y agoWhat if you already have enough important things to think about? Really weird to frame this as being afraid instead of content.