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Mr Person



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The Best of PS&P
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As a newer member, I think it's easy get the feeling that I've missed all the really good discussions in this forum. For 12 years you guys have been slipping some really profound insights in between all the banter and joking around.
So I am curious, especially from you earlier members, what are your favorite threads from the past that you would recommend to a discouraged new member looking to catch up? I'm looking for anything that changed your way of thinking, or shows PS&P at it's most piercingly intelligent best.
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: Mr Person]
#19244792 - 12/08/13 12:38 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Don't be discouraged. People will always be online to discuss their latest insights with you
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: Mr Person]
#19244876 - 12/08/13 12:58 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mr Person said: As a newer member, I think it's easy get the feeling that I've missed all the really good discussions in this forum. For 12 years you guys have been slipping some really profound insights in between all the banter and joking around.
So I am curious, especially from you earlier members, what are your favorite threads from the past that you would recommend to a discouraged new member looking to catch up? I'm looking for anything that changed your way of thinking, or shows PS&P at it's most piercingly intelligent best.
You will never "catch up". This place, while entertaining at times, has slipped over the years. There was banter, some silly one liners, some great music videos by me, some insightful observations by me, and the rest of it.
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: Mr Person]
#19244922 - 12/08/13 01:08 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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use the search engine and explore. follow what you are interested in. Some threads I never look at but should. oh well. none of us know everything about this place.
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Mr Person



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I should've known this would be like herding cats.
I do use the search feature, and I read some of the post histories of people who catch my eye. But I am curious about what YOU found most interesting and important. I respect the combined wisdom and memory in this group, and I think we are really lucky to have you all still in the community. I'm sure you must have some favorites after all this time.
I can start with a couple of mine.
My Favorite: Is breeding outside your race inherently bad?- This was the first and so far only extended debate I've participated in on this forum. I felt like it was a really far reaching discussion that forced me to deeply analyze a lot of my own beliefs in order to defend them, and it was just a really interesting argument with a lot of twists and turns.
One of my favorites that I was not around for: Icelander's My Death Anxiety I hadn't heard of death anxiety as a concept before coming here. When I kept hearing it discussed as a thing I did a search and found this thread and it really laid it all out for me. Still trying to wrap my head around this today.
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: Mr Person]
#19245079 - 12/08/13 01:38 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think the first threads on death anxiety when Veritas was still posting were pretty good.
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: Mr Person]
#19245089 - 12/08/13 01:40 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I should've known this would be like herding cats.
thats a good way to talk to your new friends. 
We took the time to answer your little thread. Show some respect
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Mr Person



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It was meant with humor. I like cats.
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This place gets more and more like a popularity contest or a Homecoming Queen selection at a High School Dance.
Oooh oooh vote for my 10 year old thread it was really the best.
WTF.
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: Icelander]
#19245227 - 12/08/13 02:10 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Icelander said: I think the first threads on death anxiety when Veritas was still posting were pretty good.
Thanks. Veritas is one of those people I've seen mentioned often enough and with such reverence that I checked out her post history. That's exactly the kind of stuff that makes me sad I didn't find the shroomery sooner.
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: Icelander]
#19245368 - 12/08/13 02:44 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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ahh... Veritas!
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: Mr Person]
#19245375 - 12/08/13 02:46 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Well I miss her too sometimes. She never really belonged here though according to her and only posted here because of me. Now we are no longer partners I almost never see her even though I can see her house from my back door. Such is the fickleness of romance. It's a good thing though. Who wants to be taking care of an old man when you're still in your middle age. There was twenty years between us but I always considered her way more mature and psychologically savvy and aware.
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: Icelander]
#19245612 - 12/08/13 03:36 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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SneezingPenis
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http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6284085/fpart/1/vc/1
this thread made me peruse a lot of my older threads. Some of them are like 10 years old and definitely cringeworthy. I don't even remember making half of the threads i did, but this one stood out and i remembered it vividly. it even spawned a few other threads later on, but it was a good slice of how it used to be.
back then there were really only 10-12 reg posters that made 90% of the posts.
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Mr Person



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LunarEclipse said: This place gets more and more like a popularity contest or a Homecoming Queen selection at a High School Dance.
Oooh oooh vote for my 10 year old thread it was really the best.
WTF.
It's not a contest. I'm genuinely interested in everyone's favorite threads, old or new. It doesn't have to be a thread you wrote or participated in. I will read any thread that's posted here. I'm just trying to find good content, and I know there's quite a bit that a lot of us have missed.
Come on, Lunar. I thought guys your age liked to reminisce, and I'd like to hear it.
Edited by Mr Person (12/08/13 05:21 PM)
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: Mr Person] 1
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: Mr Person]
#19246425 - 12/08/13 06:15 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers." - Heraclitus
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PSP has been at its best when A) clever talented debaters were forcing everyone to step up their game and really push themselves to think rationally and also abstractly. I would take a look at some of MushroomTrips posts and fireworksgod.. There were some really intellectual threads going around back then.
And B) when very powerful personalities expressed unique thoughts and ideas. Some people did this through poetry like backfromthedead I think his name was, or joselibrado, alphafalfa, or redgreenvines who still posts here.
The silly jokes and not too serious threads and off the cuff banter used to piss me off because I was really looking for some truth and profundity when I first came here after starting experimenting with psychedelics, now it's probably the most redeeming thing here. All the crazies and mystics have been scared away, the babbling and incoherent silenced and defeated.
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: Mr Person]
#19248909 - 12/09/13 06:28 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mr Person said:
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LunarEclipse said: This place gets more and more like a popularity contest or a Homecoming Queen selection at a High School Dance.
Oooh oooh vote for my 10 year old thread it was really the best.
WTF.
It's not a contest. I'm genuinely interested in everyone's favorite threads, old or new. It doesn't have to be a thread you wrote or participated in. I will read any thread that's posted here. I'm just trying to find good content, and I know there's quite a bit that a lot of us have missed.
Come on, Lunar. I thought guys your age liked to reminisce, and I'd like to hear it.
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The highlights of PSP were definitely either:
A) Poid vs. MushroomTrip in gloriously epic verbal battle,
B) Token Mystic Fluffernaut wielding the Ego Shield of Impermanence and Longsword of Fallacious Reasoning +3 vs. the salty forum vets banded together under the feared & bloody sigil of Death Anxiety, or
C) Random Noob taking hours of their time to painstakingly craft a multi-page argument of brilliant reasoning and logical coherence, only to have the entire point of their post instantly devastated and the rest of their thread degenerated into abject mockery by a needle-sharp one liner by OrgoneConclusion.
Or, ya know, D) any post by yours truly.
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Re: The Best of PS&P [Re: deCypher] 1
#19251827 - 12/09/13 06:42 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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deCypher said: The highlights of PSP were definitely either:
A) Poid vs. MushroomTrip in gloriously epic verbal battle,
B) Token Mystic Fluffernaut wielding the Ego Shield of Impermanence and Longsword of Fallacious Reasoning +3 vs. the salty forum vets banded together under the feared & bloody sigil of Death Anxiety, or
C) Random Noob taking hours of their time to painstakingly craft a multi-page argument of brilliant reasoning and logical coherence, only to have the entire point of their post instantly devastated and the rest of their thread degenerated into abject mockery by a needle-sharp one liner by OrgoneConclusion.
Or, ya know, D) any post by yours truly. 
I want to see this 'post C' by random noob. Sounds satisfying
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Haha. There was a time when most of the posts here were like that. It made for some pretty fun reading. Decypher described it exactly too - they would get so flustered and pissed when OrgoneConclusion mocked them.
Also, the many uphill battles against Icelander and his death anxiety theory.
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Mr Person



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SneezingPenis said: http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6284085/fpart/1/vc/1
this thread made me peruse a lot of my older threads. Some of them are like 10 years old and definitely cringeworthy. I don't even remember making half of the threads i did, but this one stood out and i remembered it vividly. it even spawned a few other threads later on, but it was a good slice of how it used to be.
back then there were really only 10-12 reg posters that made 90% of the posts.
Thanks this was a great thread! It's funny but as you point out in the thread, the things that people think make them unique are really just signifiers of the "unique" subcategory. When I was in high school and college I had a lot of piercings, mostly on my face. I thought I was truly hot shit for having my nipples pierced at 15. I didn't even really see them when I looked in the mirror because I was so used to them, but often my first conversations with people would begin along the lines of, "Hey I like your piercing..." or "Did that hurt?".
I think I really underestimated the effect they had on peoples' perceptions of me. As I've gotten older I have removed some and others fell out on their own, but I think it has really effected how people view me. My piercings were like an outward signifier to other rebellious types that I was down for the stuff they were into. Without them I think I look like a boring middle aged dude that no one would suspect was into drugs and thinking about the universe. Who knows?
I think most of our modern drive for "uniqueness" is a result of overpopulation to be honest. Historically people are much more open about wanting to belong. It's a symptom, one of many, that people are living in much too large of communities these days. Add to that the homogenizing effects of internet culture and smartphones and it feels like large parts of our individuality (the character of our hometowns, and where we come from) are being overwritten.
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