What Am I

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  2. Posted

    19 minutes ago, Loveeee said:

    There is no way government simply doesn't know, so they're lying, so one way or another something is going on here 

    Yes, that much is certain. With the type of surveillance technology we have, in addition to this being the third or fourth week of nightly occurrences, there's no way the US government doesn't know where these things go when they're not flying overhead. It greatly adds to the mystery that they deem it necessary to not tell the public.

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    34 minutes ago, kamwalker said:

     

    It really is semantics because if you take the definition of murder as killing unjustly or without reason then one can always find a reason to justify it based on their set of beliefs. And depending on the context you will find that many people will be OK with murder. A person who just raped a child and proceeds to walk away and gets gunned down by someone who saw it happen would garner a lot of sympathy in the public eye and I wager would not want them prosecuted. I'm not here to debate what is worse, a healthcare CEO getting rich off killing people vs some other evil act, but the point is that everyone has a tipping point. It's easy to sit here and try to straddle the line during internet post discussions because it makes you come across as less biased (when in reality all humans are biased no matter how hard you try), but when shit hits the fan and one of these situations applies to your life I guarantee every single one of you will be a lot less confident with your declarations.

    It is semantics, but it still seems worth it to be aware of the precise definitions of the words in question. It's my understanding that the label of "murder" implies amorality by default. Killing, on the other hand, can be justified in many different scenarios.

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    7 minutes ago, Hardkill said:

    I just found out that it was because his body has been out of commission for weightlifting. He has been suffering from very serious back problems including having had back surgery and frequent moments of moderate to severe back-related pain.

    Yeah, that certainly makes sense. People aren't prone to heavy weight lifting in the midst of severe back issues. That one pic where he was larger is probably from further in the past.

    Either that or it's not the same guy, lol. :ph34r:

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    15 minutes ago, kamwalker said:

    How can you say there is no just cause for murder? There are plenty of situations where we murder people either through the death penalty, self defense, or emotional retaliation. To say there is no just cause for murder is some sort of holier than thou attitude where you want to come across as enlightened when the truly enlightened answer is that some things simply are binary as a human. Otherwise civilization would not exist as it does.  If someone murdered your new born son or daughter in front of you you would be singing a different tune. 

    By definition, murder is the unjust killing of one person by another. The word you're probably looking for is "killing."

  8. Posted

    49 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    It's really a Wall Street problem. The incentives of every public company is to maximize profits for shraeholders. This is always done at the expense of customers. Until that is changed this will continue.

    Yes, I was thinking the same thing. This CEO's main responsibility was to the shareholders, which likely guided many of his and the company's actions.

    Though it's not clear to me that a replacement to this system would be overall better. An overhaul of the whole thing could accidentally produce another communist slaughtering.

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    4 minutes ago, Raze said:

    Like I said, they already normalized government spying and no knock warrants, imagine what they’ll do if the elite actually feel like the masses are a threat. 

    I would imagine there's various plans laid out for that eventuality. It'd almost be negligent if that wasn't the case. It's scary to think about said plans' contents.

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    1 minute ago, Inliytened1 said:

    Yeah I mean don't give up on society yet.  You're right from the standpoint of wisdom and morality but that's not any fun.

    Batman and the city of Gotham is much more popular.  For that we need the Riddler.  Would say Pentuin but I watched it and it's great but I can't wait for Riddler to come out.  Penguin was a one dimensional gangster. 

    lol, for sure. A real life vigilante with the resources and purity of Batman would be badass indeed.

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    21 minutes ago, Frylock said:

    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

    Perhaps, but it'd be worth remembering that rampant vigilantism allows someone to judge you under this same criteria. Without law and order as an equalizer, you could find yourself on the receiving end of a stupid prize after someone determines you played a stupid game.

    But I overall get what you're saying. Let's hope things move in a positive direction from here.

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    14 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    What type of medical issues?

    An old injury that sat semi-dormant for ~15 years and then dramatically escalated in severity. No modern scans can detect any abnormalities, so I'm left to my own devices to heal. Whenever I push the issue and insist I have a debilitating injury, the medical system offers psychiatric help to quell my obvious fantasies. That was sarcasm, lol.

    14 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    Again I'm not justifying what was done but also you have to empathize with the level of disregard and the passiveness with which these companies just let people die and collect their revenue every month.  If I had a family memeber die because they were denied health insurance I'd be pretty pissed off.  And now throw in things like PTSD and other illnesses and you really have a concoction, a potion full of evil ready to explode.  These companies aren't stupid.  They have to know that there will be outbursts against them.  So you would think that there would be better preventative measures taken.  But there isn't because they just don't care.  So I don't have a ton of sympathy for this guy.   He bought into Orange and paid by apples 🍎 

    I definitely don't like it. Hell, I firmly believe there are hidden factions of world governments and private contractors who are withholding free energy and anti-gravity technology. But even in a case of wrongdoing to that proportion, I'm still not sure if the perpetrators should be killed via vigilante justice.

    I think what rubs me wrong the most is just the widespread wishing for death. It just seems non-conducive to a better world. Like I mentioned, it's as if everyone's development suddenly took a step backwards. Or maybe these tendencies were always there and they were just hidden? I'm not sure.

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    @Raze@Inliytened1@Frylock

    Thanks for the clarification, guys.

    I'm not completely insensitive to what you're saying. I'm speaking as someone who's had serious medical issues and been completely failed by the system. But this newfound and widespread bloodlust simply can't be the answer.

    More so than people feeling genuinely helpless, I think there's some strange bandwagoning going on where it just appears like the popular opinion of the moment. It's as if the collective maturity of the entire nation suddenly dropped, and now we're solving problems with the mindset of children.

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    4 minutes ago, Frylock said:

    He wasn't just any CEO, but the one of a private healthcare company. Likely, there were several thousands of people that were denied coverage that resulted in suffering and deaths, and the executive figures at the company are directly responsible.

    Most murder cases are black and white, but this one has quite a bit more grey area. Even before we knew who the suspect was, the majority of people regardless of political affiliation were either praising him or neutral about it.

    We rarely see that in any murder case. People are straight up tired of the corrupt healthcare system, which led to the CEO becoming a cold blooded murder victim and laughed and mocked for it. It's unfortunate, but also not really that surprising. I feel like we're in a new age of assassination attempts, with the orange idiot almost falling victim as well.

    Do we know if this particular CEO played a pivotal role in excessively denying coverage? I'm out of the loop, so I genuinely don't know his story.

    Even if he was responsible, though, I think it's a massive mistake to welcome this kind of chaos. If we condone the killing of perceived oppressors, it could end up being you who's ripped out of your comfortable home to have your throat slashed. This is not how we should resolve things in a civil society.

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    4 minutes ago, Hardkill said:

    Do you think that Bernie's movement was a big mistake and should the Democratic party just reject the progressives and their ideas and just go back to full-throated centrism like Bill Clinton in the 90s for all practical purposes moving forward?

    That's the idea I've seen from Destiny and a few others. In my opinion, it's forgetting the simple fact of democracy, and the need to garner enough votes to actually win. Trump may have recently taken the opposite approach. Instead of rejection, he widened the scope of the type of person who'd be readily accepted.

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    1 minute ago, Raze said:

    That’s smart, establishment dems are worthless, they should go where the attention is to keep the momentum of the movement 

    Yeah, but it's also possible he's finding genuine alignment with the momentum of Trump's populist potentials. It seems like a bunch of Bernie-like people are slowly switching up their thought process, and I have a feeling they're not all acting.

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    @Tristan12 Gotcha. Your situation may be beyond my abilities to give helpful, applicable advice. I think you're correct to practice extreme caution if your mental health is generally precarious.

    If you do pick up some DMT in its pure form, it could be nice to use pharmahuasca. Just make sure you keep the doses low and only inch higher as you feel comfortable. Here's a thread that goes into some detail. Feel free to ask any questions if it's unclear.

     

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    1 hour ago, Tristan12 said:

    I've heard Leo talk about asking questions about the awakenings he has and things he experiences on those kinds of psychedelics, so I would assume he is still contemplating similar to how you would sober. But I was thinking that maybe I need a different psychedelic for the type of contemplation I want to do. For getting answers about my psychology and emotional issues, I was thinking mushrooms or maybe DMT could be helpful.

    Yes, those would be more effective for diving into your own psyche, in my opinion. Though they come with their own risks, because you may not always like what you find, and things can quickly spiral out of control on a high dose.

    It can be tough to directionally point a psychedelic trip exactly where you want it. You're usually more of a passenger. Or more specifically, a higher form of yourself guides what you experience, and your illusory individuality goes along for the ride. An amazing amount of lessons are learned, but they're not always the ones you intended to investigate. Though it's likely the case that they're the lessons you actually needed.

  23. Posted

    Just now, Schizophonia said:

    The last thing i want to do on psychedelics is to contemplate.

    I just realized we may all be working with a different definition of contemplation here, lol.

    Personally, I consider it the reception of transcendental knowledge via the process of insight while in the midst of a heightened state. Like I mentioned above, it happens mostly by itself on something like DMT.

  24. Posted

    I've had my most profound subtle-level insights on DMT, and more specifically, on pharmahuasca. There's really no trick to the contemplative aspect, at least at a beginner level. As long as you're under the influence and you're relatively relaxed/receptive, transcendental knowledge flows into you all by itself. If you're a meditator and you're able to deliberately deepen your state, that skill can be used within the trip to accelerate the flow of insight.

    For me, 5-MeO-DMT and 5-MeO-MALT essentially blow past the subtle and dip right into the causal, so I've always received fewer insights in terms of raw numbers. But it can also be argued that this class of psychedelics gives you the greatest insight of all, which is your oneness with all things and your true identity as the Self.