Fiery said:

Even if it were a violent death I’d be okay with it. Did Jesus die peacefully? No! He was a martyr.

I don’t want to die right now, but if I did it would be my time to go.

Why fight the inevitable? You’d only be creating more suffering for yourself.

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MadHatter333 said:

I’m just trying to say.. fuck death! I’ll be returning somewhere else when I pass anyway.

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Fiery said:

MadHatter333 said:

I’m just trying to say.. fuck death! I’ll be returning somewhere else when I pass anyway.

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Oh yeah!> ?

WHere>?


I too myself think then when I die my body will return to some giant microcosm of the earth, with all it's poisons intact.

But my Soul...


SOuls.


Souls.... this is a dangerous territory.

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Enjoywho said:

foragedfungus said:

I randomly met one of our trusted identifiers from the hunting/ID board in the middle of the woods.

foragedfungus said:

We had recently moved to rural upstate NY. I found a very unique and diverse forest to hike in and look for mushrooms.
From the first snow melt in may until mid july, I went hunting at least two and sometimes as often as six days a week. Never saw another person there.

One day I was crouched in the bushes, picking a huge patch of Lactarius hygrophoroides.
Someone yells from way down the trail "I thought there was someone here looking at my mushrooms"

We start talking mushrooms. He brings up the shroomery. Turns out he's BobZimmer. The only person I encounter in the woods in months and he's a trusted identifier here on the shroomery.
We went hiking together a bunch after that.
I learned more on those hikes than I did in years of reading about mushrooms.

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Did you guys kiss?

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MadHatter333 said:

I don’t believe everything just goes black and you’re done for. That shit just depresses me.. how could we explain the DMT experience, or Near death experience? There’s more to death than just total blackness.

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MadValley said:

MadHatter333 said:

I don’t believe everything just goes black and you’re done for. That shit just depresses me.. how could we explain the DMT experience, or Near death experience? There’s more to death than just total blackness.

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You have to consider that all psychedelics work by adjusting your brain chemistry. Without that physical brain there isn't really a place for the "experience" to happen. Anything explaining how that experience can occur without a brain is skating on thin ice. There are beliefs and arguments - from a spiritual or philosophical viewpoint - that attempt to explain it but, on this side of the curtain anyway, all that is just smoke.

I prefer to go the physics route and follow the energy. I choose not to believe that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon but a form of energy. So, it can be neither created or destroyed, only changed. The dark side of that way of thinking is that there might not be much energy there.

We'll all find out soon enough.

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