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How is this different from escaping problems through drug use?
Simple answer, It's not. Approaching a horrible situation with calm acceptance and resignation is pathological insanity. Don't let anyone tell you different. Especially not someone whose mind has been impaired by drugs. Drugs alter your subjective experience, how can you then understand whether your experience is true, and you are not simply operating with a defective brain. In these cases it is the latter. If it was…
"This life is only a prelude to eternity." - Seneca You can mostly avoid upsetting people with the God language by talking about love of truth instead.
How is this different from escaping problems through drug use?
Simple answer, It's not. Approaching a horrible situation with calm acceptance and resignation is pathological insanity. Don't let anyone tell you different. Especially not someone whose mind has been impaired by drugs. Drugs alter your subjective experience, how can you then understand whether your experience is true, and you are not simply operating with a defective brain. In these cases it is the latter. If it was…
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And how do you solve that
One common solution is the hospice system. There's no silver bullet for any of this and it's a bit irksome see so many comments treating this like a "5 whys" exercise
Psychedelics bring peace to the dying. What harm is that? That's what you're arguing against
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> decides to take MDMA/LSD/shrooms (or whatever) every day. He feels amazing and is living his best life every day Gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you've never taken LSD or shrooms... personally, taking them every day sounds nightmarishly exhausing (can't speak to MDMA). In my experience, these drugs don't mask your problems, they surface/amplify them.
I have taken LSD and Shrooms countless times. I take MDMA multiple times a month as well. I guess the point though, for that example, was more along the lines of: take whatever substance floats your boat as much as you desire to remain in a happy state. >"In my experience, these drugs don't mask your problems, they surface/amplify them." MDMA will defiantly mask your problems. As will heroin, GBH, and a number of oth…
I don't know you're situation, dose, knowledge, safety, etc. But in the off chance you're one of the many people destroying their future minds with this stuff, i have to say something. Google MDMA Supplementation Guide Reddit to find the best ways to reduce toxicity if you intend on continuing.
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I don’t think so. Eternity, by definition, never ends, so this life couldn’t come after the end.
Mmm. That presupposes infinite linear time. By most accounts, "this life" bookends about 13.7 billion years of linear time, but how do we understand the state of things before that? How could we understand the state of things once the heat death of the universe is a distant cosmic memory, and entropy no longer provides an "arrow of time"?
How is this different from escaping problems through drug use?
Simple answer, It's not. Approaching a horrible situation with calm acceptance and resignation is pathological insanity. Don't let anyone tell you different. Especially not someone whose mind has been impaired by drugs. Drugs alter your subjective experience, how can you then understand whether your experience is true, and you are not simply operating with a defective brain. In these cases it is the latter. If it was…
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Depends on the drug. Caffeine? Probably the most used and least worst, could still cause sleep disruptions. Weed? Could be a problem. It's very easy to get mentally addicted to it and turn you into a bowl of mush, but if you're using it in medical doses I imagine it's less so. Microdosing LSD? Depends from person to person. I think using it too often isn't good for the heart. Alcohol? Absolutely a problem, even if th…
Our bodies have the enzymes to process alcohol (as opposed to similar chemicals like isopropyl alcohol) since animals have been ingesting fermented foods since the beginning of time. These rhetorical attacks on Alcohol in an attempt to normalize the use of other chemicals without a similar biological history is asinine.
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And how do you solve that
One common solution is the hospice system. There's no silver bullet for any of this and it's a bit irksome see so many comments treating this like a "5 whys" exercise
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Depends on the drug. Caffeine? Probably the most used and least worst, could still cause sleep disruptions. Weed? Could be a problem. It's very easy to get mentally addicted to it and turn you into a bowl of mush, but if you're using it in medical doses I imagine it's less so. Microdosing LSD? Depends from person to person. I think using it too often isn't good for the heart. Alcohol? Absolutely a problem, even if th…
Our bodies have the enzymes to process alcohol (as opposed to similar chemicals like isopropyl alcohol) since animals have been ingesting fermented foods since the beginning of time. These rhetorical attacks on Alcohol in an attempt to normalize the use of other chemicals without a similar biological history is asinine.