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Post by JacobSuperslav »

AntiImperialist wrote: post #66
dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you eat then? Not being funny, but practically all food stuffs are GMO. Over centuries, farmers have selected the "best" crops (whether that be for hardiness, fast-growing, large fruit bearing, etc).

"Artificial selection" (which is just a terrible name for coevolution with humans) is different. It happens in a longer time period of time so the rest of the eco-system (including humans) gets to coevolve with it. I know there is a lot of propaganda that goes into it, mostly to paint the opposition as uneducated irrational village idiots so you can dismiss anyone who brings this up... or you feel the urge to educate…

We are way, way past the point where anything that you're talking about has any relevance to the real world. How would you feed 10 billion people without these tools and GMOs? Are there any alternatives?

We can feel cool and eat grass-finished beef or whatever we fancy, but the reality is we can't feed the whole planet on it.

Re: Psiloscoby: Psilocybin Brewed by Kombucha

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Post by hummusandsushi »

Uptrenda wrote: post #83
blodkorv wrote: post #45

I have three friends who all have or have had hppd. I find this lax attitude of psilocybin worrying especially when nobody seems to warn about the dangers of hppd. One friend of mine had it for 6months and was lucky that it passed away, the two others are in a living hell and will never have a normal life again. I know its supposed to be rare, but the amount of people i read of having some form of it is too many for…

This is a really good point. I had a friend who was interested in psychedelics who told me about similar neutral to negative changes in perception. He observed a number of changes: - Night vision changed and became impaired by 'visual noise' - 'Auras' or 'halos' around lights became extremely exaggerated - Letters were occasionally harder to read as switching to a new sentence would leave a burned-in impression of th…

I have the visual noise as well, seems to be by far the most common HPPD symptom. I sometimes get burned-in impressions of things I look at, but thankly not with text. However, I can sometimes see faint but complex patterns on walls that are not there.

The intensity oscillates, and I definitely have the thoughts that I am stuck in an endless trip and have definitely considered the possibility of having caused irreparable harm to myself to the tune of being 'permanently broken'.

The cheerier side of this is that the anxiety caused by most of these effects improved considerably simply by improving my diet. One important thing to keep in mind is that the perceptive changes themselves are absolutely harmless and only serve to exacerbate existing anxieties, if allowed to do so. If I am feeling good, they only serve as additional spice to my daily experience.

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Post by roguesherlock »

therealx wrote: post #74
noneeeed wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's one of my low-key worries in life. People go through life apparantly happy and healthy, and then bam some event unlocks or triggers something and they spend the rest of their life with crippling, life changing mental illness.

I think you can alleviate a lot of your anxiety (as far as you can without hacking the anxiety itself with, say, cbt) by being in tune with your body and not ignoring potential early symptoms of conditions that leave these lasting effects. Combine that with only doing "allergy" doses first (think, peanut dust that would trigger your throat to swell, but not close as if you had taken a spoonfull of peanut butter), and…

can you tell me more about "benzo" ?

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Post by [deleted] »

agumonkey wrote: post #17
aficiomaquinas wrote: post #14

As a cancer survivor, I can confirm the absolutely amazing, life-changing effect that psilocybin had on my depression. After cancer, it gets really difficult to "reintegrate" with society. Most conversations sound absolutely pointless, I felt like there was less grip surface between the concept of me and almost everyone. The depressions after cancer are commonplace, and mine were strong, too. The difference in depres…

Hey there, happy about your recovery both physical and psychological. How did you come across psylo and Could you share how you learned and planned your dosing ?

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Post by toomuchtodo »

bfgoodrich wrote: post #26
agumonkey wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey there, happy about your recovery both physical and psychological. How did you come across psylo and Could you share how you learned and planned your dosing ?

I am not the person you replied to, however spores are readily available online in many nations (they are absent psilocybin/psilocin, and thus are often unregulated and lawfully sold as syringes or prints), and techniques like "PF Tek" are simple, well documented, and speedy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unclebens/comments/el1da3/part_1_ho...

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Post by petemir »

roguesherlock wrote: post #103
therealx wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you can alleviate a lot of your anxiety (as far as you can without hacking the anxiety itself with, say, cbt) by being in tune with your body and not ignoring potential early symptoms of conditions that leave these lasting effects. Combine that with only doing "allergy" doses first (think, peanut dust that would trigger your throat to swell, but not close as if you had taken a spoonfull of peanut butter), and…

can you tell me more about "benzo" ?

Benzodiazepines, a type of (mostly) tranquilizers

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Post by javbit »

Uptrenda wrote: post #83
blodkorv wrote: post #45

I have three friends who all have or have had hppd. I find this lax attitude of psilocybin worrying especially when nobody seems to warn about the dangers of hppd. One friend of mine had it for 6months and was lucky that it passed away, the two others are in a living hell and will never have a normal life again. I know its supposed to be rare, but the amount of people i read of having some form of it is too many for…

This is a really good point. I had a friend who was interested in psychedelics who told me about similar neutral to negative changes in perception. He observed a number of changes: - Night vision changed and became impaired by 'visual noise' - 'Auras' or 'halos' around lights became extremely exaggerated - Letters were occasionally harder to read as switching to a new sentence would leave a burned-in impression of th…

I've had these symptoms my whole life (and still do), so it makes me wonder if already having chronic visual disturbances can play a role in developing or "preventing " [1] HPPD.

[1] If you already have the symptoms can you get HPPD?

Re: Psiloscoby: Psilocybin Brewed by Kombucha

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Post by tolbish »

hutzlibu wrote: post #98
tolbish wrote: post #42

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I don't think anti-GMO is really a thing anymore.

Then you probaly should change your bubble. At least here in germany, there are lots of products proudly claiming to be GMO free. (which they actually are not, as a certain percentage is allowed by law but to still have that label)

I should clarify: being vocally anti-GMO isn't really a movement anymore. That's not to say GMO-free products aren't ubiquitous.
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