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by 09bjb 5y ago
The sarcastic question that popped into my head was, OK, then what are the preconditions for becoming open to being persuaded? How do people develop a higher degree of openness? Then I thought...maybe if you're not being bombarded with
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by 09bjb 5y ago
There seems to be something about modern art specifically where collectors value something more highly when it's palpably inane--the $58M for Jeff Koons' balloon dog springs to mind. It puts more focus on the fact that the collect
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by 09bjb 5y ago
What are you referring to? That Intuit killed the product? I use Mint and don't particularly like it but am not yet aware of data abuses or breaches.
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Yes and...crucially, assets are 25% more expensive to buy. I.e. if assets are things that are "bought by everyone" and not just by the 1% or .0001%, then the dollar is worth 20% less for that purpose.
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by 09bjb 6y ago
I would love to have this conversation with my dentist but don't have much data to back it up at the moment. Do you have any good sources?
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by 09bjb 6y ago
> A materialistic interpretation may be that spirituality is nothing but a personal physical experience. "This very place the Lotus paradise, This very body the Buddha." > However, a non-materialistic interpretation could be
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by 09bjb 6y ago
https://twitter.com/jaboukie/status/1346888652216037376?s=21
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by 09bjb 6y ago
Thanks for your anecdote. Just came here to say that I'm enjoying similar benefits in the relationship with myself, so to speak. I go strictly by the book (the book being "Trust, Surrender, Receive" in this case) with exact d
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by 09bjb 6y ago
I don't entirely disagree with you, but if we're comparing to SSRIs, anything beyond one day can be considered "sustained." The fact that there are lasting changes beyond the immediate pharmacological effects seems signi
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by 09bjb 6y ago
> Before the advent of the pharmacological revolution, it was widely understood that brain activity depends on both chemical and electrical signals. The subsequent dominance of pharmacology almost obliterated interest in the electrophysi
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by 09bjb 6y ago
Just popping in to say...that sounds hard, brother (or sister). I feel you and keep going. This time too shall pass, and keep investing in the things you know are important even if they feel for now like they're not working.
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by 09bjb 6y ago
It's true; this yin-yang of "What if there's a better way?" / "Don't tell me what to do" is inseparable in America, and is at the root of so much of what makes it both great and terrible.
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by 09bjb 6y ago
> The workers are well represented by a strong union, have good healthcare and reasonable wages. My spouse and sister are both schoolteachers. Sister's situation: laid off from a private school where enrollment will drop significant
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by 09bjb 6y ago
I've been through some very similar stuff. It was two years after "I" was blown to pieces before I had really integrated these strong pangs of anxiety, memories that I was nothing at all and that ultimately reality is terrify
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by 09bjb 6y ago
Seconded.
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by 09bjb 7y ago
> It's like there is this thirst for disaster or some global drama everywhere People like to pretend like the world is causing their internal state, that their mood is an inevitable product of the environment they're in. I fee
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by 09bjb 7y ago
> There is a philosophical conundrum at the root of all this: morality requires we maintain a safety net at the bottom that catches everyone—the alternative is simply inhumane—but we also need an aspirational target at the top, so as to
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by 09bjb 7y ago
Haha, well, when it starts with "oppressing racial minorities, especially via voter suppression through felony disenfranchisement" ...just follow the data ;)
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by 09bjb 7y ago
Nonsense. The number of potential marijuana users that would stand to benefit vastly outnumbers the number of potential users who have a psychotic break in their future that could be accelerated by marijuana or another psychotropic drug. Wh
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by 09bjb 7y ago
"Those" have admitted it publicly too: https://qz.com/645990/nixon-advisor-we-created-the-war-on-dr...
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by 09bjb 7y ago
No, your Portugal-model belief isn't that "out there." In my (subjective) opinion, once you do your homework on the issue you come away assuming that the continued scheduling of drugs with low addictive potential and high pot
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by 09bjb 7y ago
You might also check out Kentucky Ayahuasca from Vice Media.
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by 09bjb 7y ago
Well said...thank you.
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by 09bjb 7y ago
Unfortunately there is no straightforward way to do this, unless you're willing to travel abroad where Ayahuasca/Psilocybin Mushrooms/5-MeO are legal and do your trip there. My recommendation would be to read How to Change Y
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by 09bjb 7y ago
+1: similar experience and same book recommendation. I've had one high-dose psychedelic session in each of the last three years and while the experiences themselves were sometimes difficult, the positive changes are hard to overstate.
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by 09bjb 7y ago
Yes. I've done a lot of reading on the subject trying to explain and begin to understand how the incredibly positive changes I've experienced come about...and "reverse PTSD" seems remarkably close. A guided, safe psyched
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by 09bjb 7y ago
Reversing the 2010 Citizens United decision would be a good start. Campaign finance reform (the flavor espoused by Bernie Sanders, perhaps) would be another great step. Unfortunately the recent history in this realm is one of dismantling th
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by 09bjb 7y ago
Or with Afghanistan the first time around, or Iran, or South Vietnam, or Cuba, or Nicaragua, or...
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by 09bjb 7y ago
Welcome to retail. Companies recognize that the best way to get a lead is to advertise the lowest base price out there, and the best way to make money is to have the most leads and then use every tactic in the book to extract revenue from t
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by 09bjb 7y ago
n=2 now. My wife works a 1.0 FTE that the district rates as 1.6 to 1.8 FTE (seven classes per day). She works 50h / week at the absolute minimum.

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