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Post by ipaddr »

nostrademons wrote: post #46
lapetitejort wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bill Murray said try being rich before being rich and famous. I'm rethinking the rich part.

Rich is better than famous. Plenty of people are quietly rich and basically just go about their business and live their lives, secure in the knowledge that there's money in the bank if they need it. There's no such thing as quietly famous. Many of pitfalls of being rich & famous, like greedy enablers and a larger-than-life lifestyle, stem from the "famous" part.

You see many examples of quiet famous people from Letterman, Carson, Conan or most politicians or most actors like Nicole Kidman. The ones making the headlines are a small percentage.

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Post by ipaddr »

captainredbeard wrote: post #97
akudha wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have never tried any drugs/alcohol, but I'm curious about Ayahuasca. Don't know anyone personally who has been through the ceremony, but I've listened to a bunch of interviews, read a bunch of articles about it. It mostly seems legit, but I have no clue. Anyone here tried it? What was the experience like?

I know someone who, for all practical purposes, destroyed their life after an Ayahuasca trip. He was a VP at a major international company and is now a new age hippie.

It sounds like he found something and left the rat race. Was his life destroyed?

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Post by agustif »

GDC7 wrote: post #43
narrator wrote: post #3

This Zappos article is like the whole catalog of rich people problems in a nutshell: drugs, parasitic relationships, arrests, and dumb accidents. I know some people who know people who made a lot of money in the 2000s dot com boom. One of them got a "guru" who he paid several thousands of dollars a day to. The "guru" fed him Ayahuasca and people who visited the rich guy at his house said he had removed all furniture…

> They often say that there's no one more hopeless than a rich junky. If they have a very large amount of money, they never hit rock bottom until they're dead. Why doesn't anyone make the argument of quality vs. quantity when discussing such examplers 5 years spent as a rich junkie must be worth a lifetime as a 9-5 cubicle worker

Tell that to your (non-existent) kids

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Post by weq »

narrator wrote: post #3

This Zappos article is like the whole catalog of rich people problems in a nutshell: drugs, parasitic relationships, arrests, and dumb accidents. I know some people who know people who made a lot of money in the 2000s dot com boom. One of them got a "guru" who he paid several thousands of dollars a day to. The "guru" fed him Ayahuasca and people who visited the rich guy at his house said he had removed all furniture…

lol at the money junkies trying to justify there high over the people who use substances to give them delusions of grandeur.

Re: Zappos CEO’s final months describe drug-addicted psychosis in court documents

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Post by ASalazarMX »

ipaddr wrote: post #102
captainredbeard wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know someone who, for all practical purposes, destroyed their life after an Ayahuasca trip. He was a VP at a major international company and is now a new age hippie.

It sounds like he found something and left the rat race. Was his life destroyed?

Our lives in this backwater rock are short, and our acts meaningless in a universal scale. Leaving or staying in the rat race are equally valid life choices.

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Post by dkdk8283 »

jacquesm wrote: post #68
narrator wrote: post #3

This Zappos article is like the whole catalog of rich people problems in a nutshell: drugs, parasitic relationships, arrests, and dumb accidents. I know some people who know people who made a lot of money in the 2000s dot com boom. One of them got a "guru" who he paid several thousands of dollars a day to. The "guru" fed him Ayahuasca and people who visited the rich guy at his house said he had removed all furniture…

> One of them got a "guru" who he paid several thousands of dollars a day to. The "guru" fed him Ayahuasca and people who visited the rich guy at his house said he had removed all furniture from his house, was wearing robes and said he could control the winds with his thoughts. I think we have this acquaintance in common.

Silicon Valley?

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Post by sangnoir »

GDC7 wrote: post #56
Waterluvian wrote: post #47

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"5 years spent as a rich junkie must be worth a lifetime as a 9-5 cubicle worker." This claim demands great evidence.

I don't think there is a measurement who'd satisfy the requirement of statistical evidence. Empirically it seems to me that people nowadays are more scared of death than they are euphoric about life. All sorts of problems happen when this condition presents itself in vast pockets of the population. The fact that nobody makes a quality vs. quantity analysis is further proof of this

> Empirically it seems to me that people nowadays are more scared of death than they are euphoric about life.

Have you not talked to a teenager lately?

Re: Zappos CEO’s final months describe drug-addicted psychosis in court documents

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Post by inawarminister »

sb057 wrote: post #62
GDC7 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They often say that there's no one more hopeless than a rich junky. If they have a very large amount of money, they never hit rock bottom until they're dead. Why doesn't anyone make the argument of quality vs. quantity when discussing such examplers 5 years spent as a rich junkie must be worth a lifetime as a 9-5 cubicle worker

Of course, you're assuming that a quality life is measured by the amount of worldly pleasures experienced.

Hedonists vs Utilitarians in a nutshell.

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Post by katzgrau »

vincentmarle wrote: post #58
akudha wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have never tried any drugs/alcohol, but I'm curious about Ayahuasca. Don't know anyone personally who has been through the ceremony, but I've listened to a bunch of interviews, read a bunch of articles about it. It mostly seems legit, but I have no clue. Anyone here tried it? What was the experience like?

If you’ve never tried any drugs/alcohol then I would strongly recommend not do it. I’ve tried plenty of drugs but ayahuesca is still something that I would have to think about before trying it.

Seconded.

It's a door that's better off not opened.

Of course, it's hard to know really good advice until you're well beyond not having taken it.

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Post by ryandvm »

jacquesm wrote: post #68
narrator wrote: post #3

This Zappos article is like the whole catalog of rich people problems in a nutshell: drugs, parasitic relationships, arrests, and dumb accidents. I know some people who know people who made a lot of money in the 2000s dot com boom. One of them got a "guru" who he paid several thousands of dollars a day to. The "guru" fed him Ayahuasca and people who visited the rich guy at his house said he had removed all furniture…

> One of them got a "guru" who he paid several thousands of dollars a day to. The "guru" fed him Ayahuasca and people who visited the rich guy at his house said he had removed all furniture from his house, was wearing robes and said he could control the winds with his thoughts. I think we have this acquaintance in common.

You're the guru?
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