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Re: Feeling deep empathy for the severely addicted torn apart by famines and binges [Re: spirit_shadow] 1
#28364160 - 06/18/23 09:02 AM (8 months, 1 day ago) |
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spirit_shadow said: Some people like my mother HAVE to be around people. I imagine isolation is fairly traumatic to those kinds of people.....I on the other hand loved it. I had the majority of humans keep their distance from me for like a solid year straight....one of the best years of my life.(in that regard, worst year in other ways)
Lol same i loved 2020. I understand it wasn't the same experience for everyone but when they came up with the term "social distancing" I was like damn, ive been doing this my whole life. I didn't know there was a term for it 🤣. That was my happiest year. I was up in jonesport Maine working on a bridge the whole time and the community was largely unaffected by covid. Soon as the lock down happened we were all bartering and helping each other out. I pretty much caught my meals everyday from the wharf right next to my house. Just endless pollock and mackerel. I got into squid jigging there for a bit too.
You could forage damn near anything from your back yard. I remember making hedgehog mushroom soup with my landlords partner quite a bit because they grew endlessly up there and were incredible lots of other things to forage but that was my main one. Periwinkles were always a meal if you couldn't catch anything (little sea snails that live all year long and are actually really good and good for you) and the seaweed was edible. You could set out crab traps and lobster traps of your own if you felt like it.
We had fresh water springs all Over the woods in that area. It didn't take long hiking through the woods to find some fresh water. I mean literally anything you could need was right there in jonesport.
I took a break from the bridge for a couple weeks to go on the rails for a bit cause I got itchy feet. I started touring the hi-line on my way back to Montana in the aftermath of the protests and riots. It was something else.
The trains were running extra shifts and twice as long so Instead of an 8 hour crew change it'd be a 16 hour crew change. I went all the way from Worcester Massachusetts to east Syracuse in 1 ride. Then from easy Syracuse blasted right to Chicago. It was the fastest I had ever traveled by rail. 3 days from Worcester to chi.
You could pretty much sleep anywhere you wanted cause everything was shut down and you could drink a half gallon out in the open if you wanted and cops didn't pursue the homeless at all. In fact all misdemeanors for awhile there weren't arrestable offenses and police would just sit there. It was a trip. I was always used to having to talk to cops all the time being homeless cause people are always calling on ya and cops can be assholes.
The railroad cops would pretty much just wave at me and do nothing. They didn't care. Walking through empty cities like Chicago was an absolute trip seeing Michigan ave completely empty. You could still buy booze and pot and got free covid money and required to stay away from people?. I never wanted it to end. I was actually sad when it did. Needless to say I realized it was dumb I had left the bridge crew because of itchy feet so I called an apologized and they had me come back to start demolition on the old bridge.
2020 was a great year for me. I understand this was not the same for everyone else and my heart goes out to the people that were affected by it.
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Re: Feeling deep empathy for the severely addicted torn apart by famines and binges [Re: trees] 1
#28364173 - 06/18/23 09:21 AM (8 months, 1 day ago) |
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trees said: Except weed. I never had any withdrawl symptoms from weed, its incredible how non-addictive it is compared to coffee for example. Miraculous even. Perhaps increased dream vividness is a symptom, but thats a bonus good symptom.
That's not true of everyone. First off I always get physical symptoms in the form of worsening nausea for two weeks; weed helps me eat so without it, eating is much harder and my symptoms 'rebound'. Second, psychologically I experience a lack of motivation and increased anxiety about 1-4 weeks after and takes a month to feel fully reset.
Insofar as people rely on weed for their life, to feel right, it has a big potential to be addictive. Less so than heroin, doesn't mean it's benign. And for me, it's far more addictive than coffee.
Ive been an everyday weedsman for a long time. Right now in this moment, its 10:37am and i havent had any weed yet, and im feeling perfectly fine. Ive had coffee but zero THC. Right now i feel zero problems or withdrawl from THC, just perfectly fine and functional, im on my way to the store to get some shit done and i could have ripped the bong before, but i didnt because there was no urgency to do so. Thats proof that weed isnt addictive.
This post makes me want to smoke some weed
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Re: Feeling deep empathy for the severely addicted torn apart by famines and binges [Re: spirit_shadow]
#28364174 - 06/18/23 09:25 AM (8 months, 1 day ago) |
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trees said: Except weed. I never had any withdrawl symptoms from weed, its incredible how non-addictive it is compared to coffee for example. Miraculous even. Perhaps increased dream vividness is a symptom, but thats a bonus good symptom.
That's not true of everyone. First off I always get physical symptoms in the form of worsening nausea for two weeks; weed helps me eat so without it, eating is much harder and my symptoms 'rebound'. Second, psychologically I experience a lack of motivation and increased anxiety about 1-4 weeks after and takes a month to feel fully reset.
Insofar as people rely on weed for their life, to feel right, it has a big potential to be addictive. Less so than heroin, doesn't mean it's benign. And for me, it's far more addictive than coffee.
Ive been an everyday weedsman for a long time. Right now in this moment, its 10:37am and i havent had any weed yet, and im feeling perfectly fine. Ive had coffee but zero THC. Right now i feel zero problems or withdrawl from THC, just perfectly fine and functional, im on my way to the store to get some shit done and i could have ripped the bong before, but i didnt because there was no urgency to do so. Thats proof that weed isnt addictive.
This post makes me want to smoke some weed 
Way ahead of ya
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Re: Feeling deep empathy for the severely addicted torn apart by famines and binges [Re: Powdered_Toastman] 1
#28364175 - 06/18/23 09:27 AM (8 months, 1 day ago) |
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I'm so ahead of you I smoked weed yesterday
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Re: Feeling deep empathy for the severely addicted torn apart by famines and binges [Re: spirit_shadow]
#28364178 - 06/18/23 09:33 AM (8 months, 1 day ago) |
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-------------------- "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." You are God and I am You
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Re: Feeling deep empathy for the severely addicted torn apart by famines and binges [Re: Tulipslave]
#28364202 - 06/18/23 10:06 AM (8 months, 1 day ago) |
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Tulipslave said: People make choices and priorities. Choices over time add up.
I've no sympathy or empathy unless one is "drugged" against their will.

I've lived with carnies and seen all the after affects.
I have preached moderation, which should be good enough to get along with everybody.
Thank God, I have strong genes, access to good food, and eyes in the back of my head.
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Re: Feeling deep empathy for the severely addicted torn apart by famines and binges [Re: Asante] 1
#28364224 - 06/18/23 10:30 AM (8 months, 1 day ago) |
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fentanyl..... its sooooooooo bad
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Re: Feeling deep empathy for the severely addicted torn apart by famines and binges [Re: trees]
#28364390 - 06/18/23 01:22 PM (8 months, 1 day ago) |
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viraldrome said: Ive been an everyday weedsman for a long time. Right now in this moment, its 10:37am and i havent had any weed yet, and im feeling perfectly fine. Ive had coffee but zero THC. Right now i feel zero problems or withdrawl from THC, just perfectly fine and functional, im on my way to the store to get some shit done and i could have ripped the bong before, but i didnt because there was no urgency to do so. Thats proof that weed isnt addictive.
This post is patently absurd... first off just because you aren't addicted it doesn't mean others can't be. Imagine if someone who used heroin a few times, but didn't get hooked, went and then told someone else 'see, I don't desire more- therefore it isn't addictive.' It is dangerous and irresponsible to infer that your experience proves it can't be that way for OTHERS.
And you not desiring weed yet at 10:37 isn't proof it isn't addictive either. Most withdrawal symptoms take at least a day to manifest at any rate. Try to not use it for one week and then come back into this post and roast me. If you're 'not addicted' as you claim, one week no weed should be no breeze. Do it. But you won't, because you have a habit - not neccesarily an addiction, but a habit can be bad all its own.
Most THC addiction is largely mental - the compulsive need to use more. One can get mentally addiced to even non-drugs, but THC's intense euphoria makes it more likely to cause addiction. THC also causes a sort of dependence in some users with physical effects on withdrawal, such as lost sleep or nausea. It is a rising and well-documented problem because of dispensaries offering cheap, high-THC products that are readily available, and more potent than traditional weed. Some people constantly use high-thc products and don't stop despite frequent social problems or physical problems (hyperemsis). Cannabis causes dose-dependent, intense euphoria so it obviously can get you hooked.
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Re: Feeling deep empathy for the severely addicted torn apart by famines and binges [Re: Asante] 2
#28364407 - 06/18/23 01:46 PM (8 months, 1 day ago) |
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I have someone close to me deep in fentanyl addiction.. Its painful
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Re: Feeling deep empathy for the severely addicted torn apart by famines and binges [Re: theRealrollforever] 1
#28364945 - 06/19/23 12:11 AM (8 months, 18 hours ago) |
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theRealrollforever said: No one has ever sucked dick for marijuana
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Re: Feeling deep empathy for the severely addicted torn apart by famines and binges [Re: PatrickKn] 1
#28364997 - 06/19/23 02:40 AM (8 months, 16 hours ago) |
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theRealrollforever said: No one has ever sucked dick for marijuana
Objectively false
I heard a story of a woman who would sleep with her weed dealer to not pay.
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