Nemra

Belief is a nasty thing; it corrupts your experience if you stop or don't start deconstructing it.

Dirty Pictures - Alexander Shulgin:

When I get a physical pain that I cannot endure, maybe then I'll consider it, I don't know. Though, that is different than thinking for a long amount of time of doing it. I realized a long time ago that doing it is a foolish idea. Why shouldn't I ever understand how much I can endure? Especially when it's emotional pain, as emotions make it more twisted. I have had serious illnesses that made me aware of the fragility of my life and try to understand and accept what happens at that moment.

@Leo Gura, that Nigerian Christian cult is truly crazy!!! 😶 Thanks for sharing.

@Daniel Balan, moderating stuff is not my cup of tea. It is tedious work.

Mod life:

That alien looked like a human and was talking in English.

It's kind of exciting to even entertain that thought. Lol.

Perhaps it was wrong of me to say that I quit after a few tries; however, I wanted to share that it was starting to impair my memory in my normal state, especially when I didn't smoke that much.

@Leo Gura, I also don't want to complicate things. I have been using a glass oil burner pipe. It seems you were referring to the smoking method. Sorry for the confusion. I thought you referring to the human body, because I superficially read your post.

Religion, as I see it, was never actually about making people awaken. It has been about making people adhere to a set of moral codes, which was believed to be a shortcut to awakening. If all you were taught is to adhere to a certain set of rules in order to be spiritual, then those rules will seem absolute to you, which is what prevents religious people from deconstructing their beliefs. It is delusion and it makes the process way less immediate than it already is. What makes this so tragic is that religious people are so humbly arrogant about it. If religious people truly deconstructed their beliefs, they would have no reason to stay religious, except for fear of being ostracized.

That's the attitude! And if you have some time and energy, and if finding the equipment and the materials don't become too complicated, then you can extract some DMT. It's really worth it. The extraction process is really rewarding.

Aren't they illegal in India?

I haven't said I don't want to know. However, there seems to be a never-ending mystery. It would be wise of you to take psychedelics, then talk. Your macho attitude will melt away.

All I can say for now is that after a few mild experiences, I remain amazed at the existence of anything. It brings tears to my eyes.

@Leo Gura, is that a thing I need to worry about?

That is a literal hell for me. Way too much unconsciousness.

Hasan is on fire!

I think it is better to consider multiple options for oneself rather than assuming the military is the solution for your lack of responsibility when you do not even understand the consequences of joining the military. Yeah, people can find value in the military. People can also find value in religion. Imagine that someone tells you that they want to join a religious community because they feel lonely and want to be with others but don't put in an effort to find others to communicate with.

@Basman, the AI is doing some trashy analysis on Guy C.

Understood. Sure.

@Leo Gura, I think you just gave away one of the answers in the above post on what differentiates fake from real spirituality.

@Basman, this is not the same thing as education. The OP has many problems and responsibilities, and he finds it hard to commit to them. Learning responsibility should have been before joining the military. The military is about learning how to survive in war-like situations. If you do that only to learn to be responsible, then you already failed. The OP's intention is not good enough to join the military. He either has to go to therapy or contemplate his issues and work on himself. Of course, if you aren't working on yourself, then automatically the military might help you. But if you have a brain, then it is unnecessary in this case. Joining the military has to be more than wanting to have structure. You have to love the military lifestyle, or there is a genuine need for defending, so you train for that. Also, you have to factor in that he does not live in a Scandinavian country. He lives in India.

That's why no one should casually join it unless it is involuntary. Joining the military should be first and foremost treated as a need and not as a way to grow up as a person unless you love the military lifestyle. Training to survive in harsh or war-like conditions wouldn't necessarily make you mature, although it can sober you up, but that's it. Life is already full of responsibilities, which may be necessary or unnecessary, and you can make yourself more responsible if you think you lack responsibility. Actually, by joining the military, you are giving away your responsibility to consciously make yourself more responsible if you feel you can't do it yourself. In this case, the intention mentioned is not a good enough reason to join the military.

Debating stuff doesn't make people open-minded automatically. It is not a good enough method for truth-seeking because people mostly debate to convince others why their beliefs are true. There are few religious people that are intellectual; however, they still deceive themselves in more sophisticated ways to cling to their religion. I'm not specifically talking about extremists. I'm being critical of the mindset that all religious people have. Religion is supposed to be a method of delivery, albeit a very bad one, and not about realizing some truth, which is the fundamental confusion among religious people that makes them believe that their religion is absolute. Yes, New Age people are similar to religious people in some ways. However, there are structural differences in how they perceive reality. E.g., New Age people don't cling to the mythology of one religion. They may cling to many because they're more open-minded. I'm for organizing people in such a way that it doesn't become a religion, and I would throw out the spiritual language as it's being used to effectively deceive oneself because of how spiritual words are interpreted.