monomyth

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by monomyth 7y ago
Psychedelics are clearly "doors of perception" as Huxley noted. I think it's up to an individual to decide on personal course of action and need for such doors to be opened with or without external tools.
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by monomyth 7y ago
Or not if someone would read this https://www.rrjournal.org/doi/abs/10.1667/RR3251
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by monomyth 7y ago
the inverse square law always applies, hence the law part.
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by monomyth 7y ago
> Eventually we'll know of all the potential threats with enough advanced warning We have no idea what Type II or III adversarial civilization will be able to do to us, and how fast.
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by monomyth 7y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, he does fit the description: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/journalist 1.b: a writer who aims at a mass audience
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by monomyth 7y ago
I am not sure what's more exciting: passage through an unstable Lagrange point, or effects of a solar wind on the massive area of such cable.
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by monomyth 7y ago
Remained with the name. AK-74 5.45mm cartridge AKM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKM ) - 7.62mm
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by monomyth 7y ago
I think we were at the rock bottom of Psychedelic Medical Research, research (search?) in Psychedelics never really stopped.
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by monomyth 7y ago
True, but could be millions more.
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by monomyth 7y ago
>This is a striking metaphor of life under communism, and what it takes for a human being to survive in it Or any large capitalist corporation. Survival is a stretched term in both cases. (We should not confuse the general idea of commun
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by monomyth 7y ago
Are you sure about the first point? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... Neither Shanghai or Beijing would make top 20 on this list
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by monomyth 7y ago
Assuming we have technology to reach a new planet 12 ly away, is going to a red dwarf star a good investment strategy?
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by monomyth 7y ago
> Harder, I think. We have the technology to live on Mars (not to terraform it, just to survive on it). There is a chance that nuking the polar caps would terraform Mars, I think we already have the technology for basic terraforming. edi
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by monomyth 7y ago
We are about to eradicate mosquitos.
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by monomyth 7y ago
That’s until you hit trance states of consciousness. Then perception of “reality” changes quite a bit.
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by monomyth 8y ago
Sounds a bit like Nuremberg defense, don't you think? "The System ordered us to rob people."
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by monomyth 8y ago
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fish-rot-from-the-head-d...
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by monomyth 8y ago
>some parents would probably go to prison Not in Eastern Europe
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by monomyth 8y ago
any/all of Joseph Campbell Works by Robert Monroe https://www.amazon.com/Robert-A.-Monroe/e/B000AQ8V5A Works by Dr. Lilly https://www.amazon.com/Center-Cyclone-Looking-Inner-Space/dp...
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by monomyth 9y ago
leave it to the dogs
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by monomyth 9y ago
interestingly enough this bill does not yet exist: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billSearchClient.xh...
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by monomyth 9y ago
Just remember this was at least partly due to the high cost, scarce availability of such appliances and a long queue to get a new one.
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by monomyth 9y ago
Your argument is a contradiction to itself. Ukraine was invaided after it gave up its stockpile of nuclear weapons. https://en.m..org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine
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by monomyth 9y ago
On a positive side, space polluted with micro-sateliets will deter an alien invasion. No generation ships parked in a near orbit.
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by monomyth 10y ago
Donald and Vladimir?
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by monomyth 10y ago
Or perhaps different people in different places react differently.
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by monomyth 10y ago
To deprive yourself of future confusion you can separate this further into: feelings, emotions and "bodily effects". I present you a slightly less morbid example: you feel happy and you smile. Act of smiling is an expression of em
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by monomyth 10y ago
While it's awesome, where is Beaglebone Blue?
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by monomyth 10y ago
There is nothing in the data that says that participation is exclusive, "other" bucket is larger than "performing arts". So the whole thing is invalid. But most importantly participation doesn't mean ability. There
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by monomyth 11y ago
If you break your leg, you will change the way your walk, but not the brain (of course it will change adapting to what has happened, but that's not he point here). Going up a level: if you change your brain you will change the way you

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