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My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response * 9
    #19046597 - 10/28/13 03:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Hey EM,

No need to apologize for anything! Sorry you haven't been in a great mood. Not to be flippant, but as I have said before I highly recommend ordering yourself some kratom. For me it is an absolute miracle drug/wonder plant for all mood problems. Its like a few teaspoons of kratom dispels any morning gloom and shadow and replaces it with gentle, warm sunshine. Its legal, and its safe (as legal as alcohol and much safer).

I always enjoy and appreciate your perspectives and advice. Stop doing drugs, get sober and stay clean is usually recognized as good advice, and I take it as such without intending to actually follow it in the immediate future.

I think the idea of not taking any drugs is appealing in exactly the same way that celibacy is appealing. I like the idea of not having sex or masturbating, to conserve vital chi energy and channel that male power into enlightenment rather than dissipating it through ejaculation.

And yet, in practice, I have never had any success in practicing celibacy or abstaining from ejaculation. Likewise, the idea of practicing total sobriety (no alcohol, tobacco, weed, sugar, caffeine or drugs) in order to master consciousness through the "pure" practices of yoga and meditation is very appealing to me.

But in practice, I have never had any success in curtailing my drug usage.

I would like to talk about drugs a bit with you, and I don't want to be construed as simply "pro-drug". I think the first thing to recognize is that there are a wide variety of drugs, with totally different psychoactive effects, physical consequences, addictiveness, attached stigma, legality, harms and benefits.


In other words to me saying "don't do drugs " is a bit like saying "don't eat food". There is a big difference between eating a frosted donut and a spinach salad. The former is very bad for you, the latter is very good.

I have actually spent my life experimenting and researching in order to sort drugs into  "worth doing" and "never even try" categories.

In my "never even try once/Never do" category I place tobacco and nicotine, methamphetamine and amphetamines, cocaine and stimulants stronger than coffee, APVP, MDPV, PCP, datura, cough syrup (DXM), gravol (dramamine), anything intravenous or intramuscular, true opiates (heroin, morphine, fentanyl etc), synthetic marijuana, true benzodiazepines (xanax), hard alcohol (alcohol other than beer or wine), inhalants other than nitrous oxide, deliriants of any kind (scopolamine, etc) and most research chemicals (fake MDMA like 5 apbp, methylone, 4 mec etc, the 2c and NBOME families).


So those are all drugs I never do (some I have tried but I will never do them again and advise others not to do them).

But on the other hand I have a list of drugs I feel are extremely useful, beneficial, therapeutic, enlightening, medicinal, valuable etc.

At the very top of that list is ayahuasca. I believe taking ayahuasca is one of the most important and worthwhile experiences any human being can have in life. Taking ayahuasca is a true religion. It is worth more than ten therapy sessions, ten church services and ten meditations all rolled into one. I believe taking ayahuasca with a shaman can cure a persons deepest psychic ailments, and open there eyes to the wonder and the true meaning of life in a way that nothing else (not even meditation, poetry, art or anything else) can ever really do.

Related closely to ayahuasca is DMT. I believe DMT is likewise something that should be on everyones "bucket list". To me going through life without experiencing DMT is a bit like going through life without traveling, without being in wilderness or without falling in love. In fact those analogies are really not very good for what I am trying to say. When you experience DMT you experience yourself as a multidimensional being. You realize that within your brain is the wetware for interface with hyperspace. You discover your passport to the cosmos. And you can meet aliens or completely non human entities. The psychological, emotional, cosmological, theological etc implications of that experience can not be exaggerated.

Then you have ketamine. Ketamine is not a psychedelic in the normal sense but rather a dissociative. However it IS a psychedelic, it is a completely atypical psychedelic, inducing psychedelic effects through totally different mechanisms. As a dissociative,  it dissociates you from yourself, or rather it seperates two distinct parts of you from one another. The best example of this is an out of body experience, where you hover outside your body and look down at your physical body lying in bed, while inhabiting your astral body or etheric body.

Ketamine was originally used as an anesthetic for surgery because it is completely safe and a supremely effective painkiller. It is still used as a battlefield anaesthetic. If you get your legs blown off in Afghanistan, you will receive a shot of ketamine.

However, they no longer use it in hospitals for regular surgeries despite the fact it is safe and effective. Why? Because it induces out of body experiences.

People who were being put under with ketamine for surgery would float out of their bodies and witness the surgery taking place from a disembodied third person perspective.

Naturally this was disturbing to people and for that reason ketamine is now thought of as an "animal tranquilizer" because no one cares if animals have out of body experiences.

But the fact that ketamine induces this kind of astral travel/out of body experience has profound implications for the meaning of life and the nature of reality. It answers the question of "is the mind separate from the body" and the question of "do we have a soul".

Ketamine dissociates the mind from the body and the soul from the flesh, and by doing so it proves that we are not purely physical. It allows the direct experience of the spiritual body existing independently from the flesh. It therefore guarantees the possibility of life after death, and refreshes ones perspective on life.

If you have ever played a video game where you can "scroll out" and the camera angle withdraws from a first person perspective (seeing through the eyes of the avatar or game character) to a third person perspective (seeing the character from behind, looking over his shoulder, no longer embodied in the character but seeing it from without) - this is a good metaphor or direct analogy for the experience of disassociation that ketamine provides.

The organic psychedelics such as mushrooms (psilocybin mushrooms), ibogaine root, peyote and salvia - all provide access to and communion with non-human plant intelligences that are immanent in nature. For the human brain to have contact with these non-human natural intelligences and to interact with them is a major component of shamanism and helps us to understand our connection with the natural web of life and also to learn the true wisdom of plants that supersedes and rectifies the poisonous hypnotism of cultural and social (human-centric) ideas. Shamans were the first to establish contact with these plant intelligences and to bring back something of their knowledge to their human tribes and cultures. The shaman is in part a diplomat to the other world and a translator, bringing messages back to humans from these other nature-spirits who amazingly, communicate with and teach us.

It is worth noting that psychedelic means "mind manifesting", and the ability to manifest your mind and thoughts as external images and objects is of immense therapeutic value. Many people say that one psychedelic trip is like a year in therapy, because the mind manifests its internal baggage and allows you to see and process what was otherwise locked away and unconscious.

Another name for psychedelics is "entheogens" meaning "generating God within". Ayahuasca deserves this title because it actually introduces a goddess (mother ayahuasca) in to you, and it is therefore a true religion. The ayahuasca ceremony fulfills all the promises religion fails to keep. Unlike the christian priest, the shaman is truly an intermediary between you and a higher power, and unlike the "holy spirit" mother ayahuasca actually enters into you and transforms you.

Next I admire the empathogens. These drugs generate empathy/love. The most important ones are MDMA and MDA, what some have called ecstasy or molly. It is important to seperate MDMA/MDA from ecstasy, which can be and usually is cut with other substances like amphetamines that are negative in nature. But MDMA/MDA are divine. They are an ideal, peerless corrective to the ills and poisons of modern life. They can allow you to love yourself, to love others, to dissolve the walls between Self and Other than have ruined the human condition since the first division of Us and Them. MDMA can heal broken relationships, and dried up wells of love can gush to overflowing. A group of friends can bond more in one MDMA session than a hundred regular nights of interaction. MDMA facilitates honesty, compassion, sympathy, communication, openness, love, unconditional support and kindness, generosity and the felt experience that "we are all one".

Etizolam is a benzodiazipine analogue that preserves the valuable qualities of benzos while removing the negatives. Etizolam is powerfully effective at relieving anxiety, inducing sleep, stopping panic attacks, eliminating stress and making a hard day fly by with ease, but it has been changed in a way that makes it much less addictive than conventional benzos like xanax. The conventional benzos are too addictive, and the withdrawals too dangerous , to be worth using, but etizolam is a quantum leap forward in anxiolytic drugs, just as effective for insomnia and anxiety as xanax but much less dangerous and addictive.

Kratom is an opiate that is totally different from other opiates. All other opiates derive in one way or another from the opium poppy (papaver somniferum) and all are intensely addictive producing severe withdrawal and cravings. However, kratom does not derive from the opium poppy. It is the leaf of a south east asian tree that is part of the coffee family. It produces feelings of euphoria, pain relief, anxiety relief, pleasure, anti-depressant effects, energy and relaxation and happiness, but it is not even remotely as addictive as opium derived drugs and produces virtually no withdrawal. It acts on a different set of opiate receptors (opium acts on the beta opiod receptors, kratom on the Mu opiod receptors). In otherwords kratom is to opium what etizolam is to xanax- a safer, less addictive alternative that offers many of the same (wonderful) benefits with virtually none of the risks or consequences (although some restraint needs to be used with both etizolam and kratom. Etizolam should be done no more than 3 times a week, kratom no more than 5).

Kratom and etizolam are 100% legal. So is phenibut. Phenibut was invented by russians as an anxiety relief drug to be given to cosmonauts, in order to help them relieve stress without impeding their cognition in any way. Therefore, phenibut has two functions- it is an anxiolytic (reduces anxiety) and a nootropic (enhances cognition). Phenibut facilitates communication between the two hemispheres of the brain and improves thought clarity. It is also neuroprotective (protects the brain from damage) and cardioprotective (protects the heart from damage). It also enhances physical strength. However, it can only be used once a week or else addiction and withdrawal can develop.

Nootropic drugs enhance cognition and help one think better, faster and clearer. They enhance memory, creativity, productivity, problem solving and logic. Usually a person will take a nootropic "stack" which includes a piracetam variant and a choline variant. Examples of piracetam variants include aniracetam, oxiracetam, phenylpiracetam and noopept. Excamples of cholines include citicoline and p2p choline.

The piractam variants are peptides, and they improve cognition while reducing brain damage from oxidation, drugs, alcohol, aging or trauma. The cholines help the piracetam peptides to work better and be absorbed properly (or something). Combining the two results in clearer, more color saturated vision and sharper thinking. I take noopept and citicoline.

Natural nootropics include ginseng and ginko biloba.

Marijuana is also a nootropic (it facilitates the growth of new brain cells), it also prevents and treats cancer, prevents and treats MS, cures loneliness , relieves pain and nausea, and has one of the best benefit to risk ratios of any drug  , legal or illegal. Marijuana has a huge number of benefits and is virtually harmless. It can have a huge positive effect on quality of life for many people and poses virtually no health risks. Some religions consider it sacred, the Rastafarians call it the "staff of life", Hindus consecrate it to Shiva, and it has been called "the healing of the nation" and the universal medicine.

Sorry this email is so long. A few more points

1. it is completely natural for humans to seek out and use psychoactive drugs. Birds, insects and animals also do this, so that some biologists have declared drug taking to be a biological imperative, just like eating, drinking and copulating, seeking out and using drugs is part of what makes us living beings, it is fundamental to our nature.

2. Shamanism is the original, primordial religion. A shaman is one who practices the techniques of ecstasy. Ecstasy is an altered state of consciousness. Therefore the shaman is one who knows and practices the techniques for achieving altered states of consciousness. Drugs have always been the most prized and valued means of doing this. Drug use makes it possible to access other realms of existence that are otherwise ineffable to human beings, and makes possible contact with non-human intelligences who are otherwise obscure to us, but who can teach us and impart wisdom and knowledge.

3. Drug taking is sovereign medicine. Doctors, pharmaceutical companies and mainstream medicine can not be trusted. They peddle drugs that are ineffective, unnecessary, dangerous and loaded with noxious side effects. It is essential to be your own doctor, to empower yourself to self-medicate in order to relieve your depression, pain, anxiety, loneliness, lethargy etc, in a way that is beneficial and achieves the desired ends without incurring unacceptable side effects. Drug use is neither inherently good nor bad, it is a skill and a knowledge set, and the results obtained depend on the quality of ones research, preparation and execution.

Drugs can ruin lives or save them. They can inflict addictions or treat them. They can lead to an early death or they can help on prepare for an inevitable death with grace, dignity and wisdom.

Drugs can cause insanity or restore sanity.

A note on insanity- For the most part, drugs do not cause madness. Some powerful drugs like PCP and LSD can induce madness like symptoms for the duration of the high, and some say in some rare cases LSD can cause lasting psychosis.

The notion that marijuana causes schizophrenia or psychosis is a myth.

The primary culprit in drug induced psychosis is not the drugs themselves but sleep deprivation. This is why amphetamine and methamphetamine psychosis is very common- because those drugs prevent sleep for days on end. Missing a night of sleep is enormously hard on the body and brain. After a few days without sleep psychosis WILL set in, inevitably, and prolonged sleep deprivation can cause serious psychological harm.

In my own case of drug induced psychosis, the factor was not so much the drugs I was doing but my decision not to sleep for a prolonged time. At the time I was not aware of how disastrous the effects of sleep deprivation are, and I had resolved not to miss the meditation class on the first morning of the new year, so instead of sleeping like all my friends did, I forced myself to go to Dharma center on zero sleep, and my mind cracked.

I am certain that had I simply gone to sleep when my friends did, I would not have spiraled into psychosis. That said my experience of psychosis was extremely spiritual, exciting, euphoric, illuminating and amazing, as well as being frightening and having many negative consequences.

Fortunately I now have etizolam, and if I ever find myself at risk of missing a night of sleep I can knock myself out with etizolam and avoid any sleep deprivation problems.

I do not consider myself a true shaman (as I have not been initiated into a lineage or taught by a master) but rather as a neo-shaman.

At some point the fist shamans had to "figure it out as they went" when they first discovered plants like mushrooms, ayahuasca and peyote.

Today we are part of a cutting edge of human experience. Never before in history has the human mind come into contact with the spirit, intelligence and power of ketamine or MDMA. These drugs have lessons that humanity must learn and desperately needs. Those of us who use these drugs are participating in the cutting edge of neo-shamanism, and these drugs are changing our evolutionary course, and we go into the other space of these drugs and bring back new knowledge, understanding and lessons. The challenge is then to integrate those insights into your life in a meaningful way, and share them with society. Writing these experiences down and sharing them and recording podcasts while under the influence are two ways to do this.

And also they are just insane amounts of fun, and can allow bliss, euphoria and ecstasy that is rarely or ever matched without these drugs.

Life is short, and often full of shit and suffering. We cant avoid the shit and suffering, so why shouldnt we embrace the bliss? If God exists, MDMA, kratom, DMT and marijuana are among his most extravagant gifts to human kind, and if god does not exist then these drugs are the best possible substitute for a false religion and a non-existent deity.

Alcohol and tobacco are addictive, cancer causing, toxic, life-destroying poisons with no redeeming value, but they are legal. MDMA teaches universal love and brotherhood, DMT gives us access to superhuman intelligences, ibogaine root cures addictions and kratom works better for depression than any SSRI or Prozac, with none of the side effects, yet these helpful and largely harmless drugs are illegal and persecuted by the evil government, while the most noxious and toxic drugs are peddles on every street corner.

You shall know the tree by its fruits. The government persecutes marijuana, mushrooms and ayahuasca not because they are bad, but because they are so good they challenge the entire edifice of corruption, inhumanity and evil upon which modern society is built.

Marijuana is a flower. The united states has waged a ruthless, multitrillion dollar WAR against this flower that has resulted in thousands of deaths and thousands of innocent people being locked in cages. And yet the use of this flower has never decreased. Its potency, availability and social acceptance has only grown.

All the military-police tanks, helicopters and guns, bribery, torture, imprisonment and extortion have not been sufficient to thwart the simple truth of a medicinal flower.

The legalization of marijuana is at hand, and represents an evolutionary threshold for humanity as significant as the abolishment of slavery and granting women the right to vote.

Our society is deeply, profoundly sick, and ayahuasca is the medicine that can save us and heal our relationship to mother Earth.

The jungle is being destroyed, and ayahuasca shamans are her emissary, spreading out into our diseased world to change our hearts and minds one ceremony at a time- the Jaguar, the serpent and the condor are alive in the vine, and we truly are spiritual beings having a human experience.

And if getting high and feeling good is all it is, then that alone is enough, and more than enough.

However, I do not deny the "you have a drug problem " level of interpretation either !

Love you,

Moonshoe


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: nicechrisman]
    #19047345 - 10/28/13 05:22 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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nicechrisman said:
I'd be curious to hear the letter from him that you are responding to





Fair enough. But why this sudden surge in marijuana literature?  I don't actually enjoy pot and so won't pick it up again.
I know from my own experience that quitting weed was crucial to my emotional and intellectual development. You have to consider that if you've been smoking since early adolescence you've essentially been emotionally modulated since childhood.  Getting clear of that cloud is essential to your progress as a thinking/feeling entity.

I'm not fucking around. Quit drugs if you have the balls to.  Go a full year without them, and then decide how necessary they are. I include ketamine, dmt, ayahuasca, whatever in this challenge.  Stop fucking around. Try reality on. 

The irony here being that I'm moderately drunk and therefore a total hypocrite.
However. I maintain that there is a fundamental diff between the social vices and these alleged psychedelics.  Booze is certainly bad for you, but in predictable ways.  You never know when you're going to lose your shit if you're fucking around with all these other drugs. But u already know that.

In any case u don't have to justify getting high with all these papers etc. get high if you want to.  It's your right. I certainly don't have any moral objections. But it's foolish to think there's no risk. 

Anyway that's my  2 cents

And :


hey maybe you're right.  the only thing i know for sure is that the persistent emotional modulation caused by chronic weed smoking can be detrimental to mental health.  i imagine all these other drugs you use 'regularly' could be too. I suspect you know that you're playing with fire and that is part of the allure.  but then again what's worthwhile in life that isn't risky?  it's hard not to suspect in all of this the rationalizations of a highly intelligent drug problem, however.

(getting high doesn't make you a shaman, by the way.  i am pretty sure aboriginal tribes the world over object to the fast and loose use of that term by white middle class drug aficionados.((I know you think you are getting fucked up with a purpose but come on... you're doing rave drugs at a birthday party.  you're just getting high.  it is what it is.)))

I think the main problem with using drugs the way you do is that you have no baseline of normative reality from which to perceive and judge information that is not clouded by recent or present drug use.  everything is filtered through drug lenses. you might counter by saying that drug lenses in fact focus reality and take you out of the bourgeois super ego that keeps us all enslaved to a 'normative' reality that itself is based on preconceptions, prejudices, power structures, etc...  but actually the non-drug-addled brain of a critical and imaginative thinker is more than enough to see through bullshit, and to appreciate the incredible miraculous weirdness of life on earth.  In fact I would posit that its better suited to do that, and also to see through the bullshit of the pseudo-counter culture which is itself only seeking the same novelty and kicks that the wider consumer culture seeks (albeit it in more rarefied forms) because of the clarity and repeatability of the baseline conscious condition.  It may be more boring not to get high all the time, but that is a whole other can of worms...

i think often that ceremonial drug use might be psychically useful.  but maybe only once a year or once a season.  anything else is excessive.  once a moon at most...

well, whatever. people do what they do.

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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: Moonshoe]
    #19047421 - 10/28/13 05:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

A few points to responders :

I am not trying to come across as normal , convince my brother to do drugs or make him not worry about me .

I am just sharing my thoughts , ideas and experiences with someone I consider an intellectual peer .

I am A very eccentric person in many ways and I embrace that , I try neither to hide it or change it .


I am trying to present a view of drugs that most people have not heard before , a suppressed and marginalized narrative that has been covered up by the war on drugs propaganda and rhetoric .

I am not concerned with the length of the email As my brother is a big reader and a deep thinker who does not suffer from TL:DR attention deficit syndrome . Those who do filter themselves out from conversations they are not qualified for anyways , as a result of short attention span and unwillingness to engage with the material.


His response made it clear he is only really concerned with my marijuana use , which is ironic because he consider a alcohol ok, which is much more harmful .

His responses:

"Well I'm not denying the therapeutic or mind-manifesting qualities of any of these drugs either. Some I have experience with, some not. I know some have mystical properties and some (including mushrooms) have the capacity to send you off the deep end under the wrong circumstances.

My main point of contention is that i don't think any of them should be consumed habitually or really with any regularity at all. 

So yeah, the degree/frequency to which you seem compelled to do them does seem indicative of a problem.  You and Shadow  will have to be the ultimate judges of that tho. "

And

"Alright.  Sounds good. Maybe try kicking the weed tho.  I do really recommend it. I was formerly on the same weed regimen and u don't really notice the effect it's having on you until you've stopped for like 6 months/year. Esp if you've been at it since junior high. Weed is actually the only one of those drugs I wholeheartedly endorse getting clear of. After this long smoking, you are not deriving any benefit. Only unnoticed negatives which you can't even ascertain since you've been doing it since before the very threshold of adulthood. Ponder that. This one substance has been acting on your brain constantly since childhood.  Get off it for awhile. Like a year.  All the other shit, if you are using it responsibly, whatever.  Beer is fine I think. For now. Weed should be your kicking priority.

I can't recommend that highly enough. "


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: TheMule73]
    #19047472 - 10/28/13 05:39 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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His response made it clear he is only really concerned with my marijuana use , which is ironic because he consider a alcohol ok, which is much more harmful .

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In my case, weed has more negative side effects then alcohol.




That may be , but the statistical data makes it very clear that marijuana is much less harmful on average .


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: mr sniffles]
    #19047582 - 10/28/13 05:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

A few notes about me :

I work full time , 40
Hours a week, at a job I enjoy , with health benefits . I just got a raise, a bonus and an excellent performance review .

I am happily married to a beautiful woman who loves me . She just sent me this text:

"You are the absolute love of my life. I love your laugh and I love your smile. I really really love your bum. I love the way you feel when you hug me. I am floored by your intelligence and again by your sensitivity. You treat me like a queen and I love you so much. Thanks for being mine your gorgeous creature"

I have three university degrees , a college diploma , a masters degree, a 4.0 GPA, several prestigious and competitive full ride scholarships , two theses written , research and teaching experience , zero debt and a fully paid off mortgage free 300 000 dollar house.

I am also an athlete in excellent physical shape. I am 26 .

I say this to indicate I am a very high functioning and well integrated member of society with a healthy social life and diverse interests other than drugs .


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: T-Rex] * 1
    #19047791 - 10/28/13 06:26 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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T-Rex said:
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Moonshoe said:
A few notes about me :

I work full time , 40
Hours a week, at a job I enjoy , with health benefits . I just got a raise, a bonus and an excellent performance review .

I am happily married to a beautiful woman who loves me . She just sent me this text:

"You are the absolute love of my life. I love your laugh and I love your smile. I really really love your bum. I love the way you feel when you hug me. I am floored by your intelligence and again by your sensitivity. You treat me like a queen and I love you so much. Thanks for being mine your gorgeous creature"

I have three university degrees , a college diploma , a maters degree, a 4.0 GPA, several prestigious and competitive full ride scholarships , two theses written , research and teaching experience , zero debt and a fully paid off mortgage free 300 000 dollar house.

I am also an athlete in excellent physical shape. I am 26 .

I say this to indicate I am a very high functioning and well integrated member of society with a healthy social life and diverse interests other than drugs .




You paid back a $300,000 mortage by 26!!
And went to 3 different universities and acquired a masters degree.
:goodluckwiththat2:




The 300 000 mortgage free house was an unexpected and extraordinary gift from my
Mother in law, it's a cultural thing , my wife is Indian and Indian families give houses to their children as Wedding gifts , her older sister got one too. I still can't believe my good luck .

But the three degrees from three universities abs masters degree on full ride scholarships and the college diploma and no
Student or consumer debt I accomplished with my own talent and hard work.


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: Chowder963]
    #19048000 - 10/28/13 07:00 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Lying and making people think your normal and successful wont change any of this. You need to grow up or maybe see a therapist.

Lol a cultural thing? I'm half Indian and I haven't seen anyone get a house after a wedding.




I didn't lie about anything in this thread. Obviously not all Indian families are wealthy enough to buy houses for their children, but my wife's grandfather was an extremely wealthy , prominent and influential man (a judge) in Trinidad and Tobago, and he has been the benefactor for his entire extended family including buying a house for my sister in law and my wife and I (And my mother in law).

People made a lot of assumptions about what my life must be like based on my email to my brother, I have provided the basic truths: debt free, married , full time job , home owner , great credit rating ,three university degrees , college diploma , full ride scholarships (I actually turned a huge profit off going to school making several times more in scholarships than I ever paid in tuition ) , my wife and I convocated from our masters together last week, same day convocation, her masters is in business and public administration , mine in social science . She is also employed full time so we enjoy a dual Income no kids lifestyle And travel the world every year .

It doesn't concern me if anyone believes any of this or not, this is the life I am living .

For the most part my drug use consists only of weed , coffee, Kratom , etizolam and beer .


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: Bitter Cactus]
    #19048109 - 10/28/13 07:14 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Addiction doesn't give a fuck about any of that.




I have no addictions and have never experienced a withdrawal of any kind . I smoke weed daily but when I have stopped for weeks at a time I experienced zero withdrawal.

I am not addicted to any substance , nor have I ever been . I love Kratom most of all and would be most hesitant to give it up but when I don't take it I have zero withdrawals .


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: Chowder963]
    #19048126 - 10/28/13 07:16 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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You should see a therapist asap.




I have never seen a therapist and enjoy an excellent quality of life.

Have you seen a therapist ? How did it help you?

Why do you feel I should see one ?


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: Bitter Cactus]
    #19048199 - 10/28/13 07:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Your post you sound addicted tho




Enthusiasm and addiction are not synonymous. The experience of withdrawal defines drug addiction. No withdrawals , no addiction . I have no withdrawals, thus I am not addicted.

Another way to define addiction is that addiction is when use is so excessive it causes an imbalance in life and serious social , financial , physical and mental problems . In my case, again , this has not been my experience .

I attribute my success in avoiding addiction to careful research , avoiding the most addictive drugs and scheduling my use in such a way as to avoid dependence (breaks between use and alternating drugs that target different receptors in the brain ).


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19048233 - 10/28/13 07:28 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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You should see a therapist asap.



this.


A wife, a 4.0 GPA, drug use, a full time job, and massive shroomery TL;DR's?

You're either lying or a savant.

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hahahaha




I am often astounded by my own success and good luck . I never expected to have such meteoric academic success, to have a brilliant and gorgeous woman fall in love with me or to be gifted a fully paid off house.

And yet these things happened to me, as they have to others. There are other people who are much more succesful and fortunate than I am (millionaires, billionaires, Rhodes scholars , Harvard and Yale graduates ).

Does my level of success make you uncomfortable ?

If so I understand why you would want to assume I am lying .

Take comfort in that if you can .


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: Bitter Cactus]
    #19048262 - 10/28/13 07:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Remember the story of the boy who cried wolf?




I do!

Is it relevant to this thread ?


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19048275 - 10/28/13 07:33 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Can you honestly answer my question about your mental health?

I can tell you're mentally handicapped, I just can't pinpoint the disorder.

I mean absolutely no offense by this, i'm just curious.
Don't take it to heart if i'm wrong.




What question about my mental health did you ask ?

Why do you think I am mentally handicapped ?


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: Bitter Cactus] * 1
    #19048289 - 10/28/13 07:36 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

You are new compared to me , he is new compared to you.

New to the shroomery or old timer , does it matter ?

Perspectives should be judged on their merit , not the seniority of the poster .


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: ModestMouse] * 4
    #19048360 - 10/28/13 07:48 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Well, for starters:
  • You wrote an essay to your brother
  • Every time you ask a question it is proceeded by a space and then a question mark.
  • Despite the vast majority of users ignoring your ramblings, you continue to write ungodly amounts of text in your OP's
  • You are concerned the world will end because radiation from Japan will kill everyone.
  • You wrote an ESSAY to your BROTHER





My brother is an intellectual . He reads huge and demanding academic tomes like Hegel , Plato , Heidegger etc. for him reading an essay is neither difficult nor unusual . We have an ongoing intellectual exchange in which he sends me essays and I send him essays . He read my masters thesis which was 150 pages . This email was not a challenge for him.

This OP was simply cut and pasted from my email , so it took no effort to post it .

You say people ignore my posts but as you can see in this thread, many people read and respond to them.

The ones who can't or don't because of the length are not missed , they simply aren't qualified to participate in the discussion and that is fine (short attention span , poor reading capability or lack of interest, whatever the case I don't want or miss there participation in my threads ).


The potential ramifications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster concern me and many other informed individuals .

I fail to see how any of that amounts to a mental handicap , or how a mentally handicapped person could achieve a 4.0 GPA , three degrees and a masters .

The question mark thing is probably a result of typing one handed on my iPhone in cold weather while doing other tasks.


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: Sheekle]
    #19048406 - 10/28/13 07:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I do appreciate shroomism and the other posters who resisted the temptation to make baseless flame and troll posts in this thread. Thanks guys . You keep the shroomery alive . :heart:


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: dontknow]
    #19048439 - 10/28/13 07:59 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Moonshoe said:You say people ignore my posts but as you can see in this thread, many people read and respond to them.

The ones who can't or don't because of the length are not missed , they simply aren't qualified to participate in the discussion and that is fine (short attention span , poor reading capability or lack of interest, whatever the case I don't want or miss there participation in my threads ).




Just saying it's lack of interest 9.9 times out of 10.

And that doesn't make someone not 'qualified' :lol:




Well, if people are not  interested there are many other threads for them to choose from . Many people were interested enough to reply to this thread. I think some modicum of interest is required to make a meaningful contribution to a topic. If you aren't interested enough to read the material you are not qualified to express an informed opinion on something you couldn't be bothered to read.


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: dontknow]
    #19048882 - 10/28/13 09:06 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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I do appreciate shroomism and the other posters who resisted the temptation to make baseless flame and troll posts in this thread. Thanks guys . You keep the shroomery alive . :heart:



Everyone who agrees with me is who is good in the world :love:




I don't mind if people disagree with me , but baseless flaming and trolling lowers the quality of the community as a whole . Therefore I think those who refuse to stoop to that level of discourse deserve gratitude .

Thank you to all those who prefer to post authentically rather than flame or troll, whether they agree or disagree with what I suggest .


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: V1rusH0st]
    #19048890 - 10/28/13 09:08 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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HFS that was long. You articulated your response extremely well, but if someone sends me a letter that long using multiple paragraphs for each point and extolling the history and virtues of every single thing used in making that point I don't know if I'd actually read the whole thing. The first 10 or so paragraphs really summed up your point pretty well though. Nice work.




Thank you :japsmile:

It was long , partly because I know my brother doesn't mind a bit of reading and partly because I was writing for my own benefit and taking an inventory of what I have learned from and about drugs .


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Re: My brother wrote me a letter telling me to quit drugs - here is my response [Re: Sheekle]
    #19048898 - 10/28/13 09:09 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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