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Vaping what?

I have scammed quite a few people as a kid and teenager. I have always been looking for something that people wanted, but I knew was impossible to deliver. The first scam I had ever pulled was "Paypal Money Adder", for real, I had been 11 years old, uploaded a video to youtube with some shitty Visual Basic app and scammed my first dollar. I couldn't believe at first that there were people as stupid as to believe in Paypal Money Adder stitched togerher in VB by some kid and recorded with Camtasia. There were. I have been the first to come up with the idea of CS:GO Case Hack and put a scam website about it, had also some esoteric technical scams with fake mobile game patches to allow playing games written for ARMv7 processors on older hardware, very niche. I have never been scammed on a scale I have been scamming other people, but I am not immune, even though I know most of the trade tricks. I have always rationalized it as doing a favor for the scammed people, as I have been only taking their time and not money and maybe getting scammed by me would open their eyes and help avoid getting scammed by more serious scammers. But I know it doesn't work that way. Some people just are believers, they can get scammed 15 times in a row and not change anything in their epistemology.

@Endangered-EGO Big figures like Sadhguru, etc. are claiming siddhis are a thing and that they have experienced them. You would have to categorize a lot of mystics as partially deluded if you don't want to accept their claims. Enlightenment teachers, when you dig info on them or watch lots of their videos, will sometimes affirm siddhis as valid and something that has happened to them, but as it is not Enlightenment they deliberately avoid this topic. I won't throw examples from the top of my head as it's a topic I have zero interest of and always have had none, but I remember encoutering such affirmative accounts of "magic powers".

@vindicated erudite PsychedSubstance has been addicted to a lot of stuff through his life, amphetamines for example. I don't remember details.

@trenton Read "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux or "Corporate Rebels" by Joost Minnar, Pim de Morree. "Let My People Go Surfing" by Yvon Chouinard is a great read, too. Don't get into gaslighted into thinking better business is not possible. It is, and there are already concrete examples of corporations that have gone that way. Someone just have to scale those solutions, reinvent them in new sectors, it could be you.

We are all responsible, there's no-one to blame but oneself. And I don't think we have yet the technology or organizational solutions to fix the environmental issues/climate change. If we did, they would have been already solved, but they are not. We have to develop the technology and come up with new ideas that can spread through society. Everything we have come up to his moment is not enough. It's not as simple as to say "get rid of plastic wraps", because that would interfere with food supply chains, which in turn could result in more food getting wasted, which could mean more fossil fuels burned per nutrition produced than simply using a plastic wrap. Maybe, maybe not. The thing is, it's complicated and there are no simple answers. Also if you would want to get rid of single-use packaging, you have to equip people with their own durable containers, which is an initial investment, it's worth it, but still an investment. And the biggest problem when you get rid of individual packaging I think would be pests in the store, infesting the flour, beans, etc. It would require effort from merchants to protect from it. Every single issue is complicated like that and someone has to make improvments to the whole process so it can be accepted by mainstream. It's so hard to change people's habits, especially related to food, sex and comfort.

Yes, because in systems there are tipping points and chain reactions. After you introduce change to some variable, like CO2, you throw the system off the balance, it takes time to regain that balance and until it happens there are disturbances in how life processes happen, and those disturbances result in needless suffering of hundreds of millions of living beings. You have got a point in saying that climate change is not important, it's true. What's important is the environmental crisis, all the other shit we do apart from burning fossils, like releasing toxins to the atmosphere, introducing invasive species on purpose or by accident, destroying rivers, forests, farming monocultures, etc. It all reduces humanity's ability to respond to changes in environment, which results in more disturbances, which are hundreds of millions of lifes destroyed, even if you assume some scenario like "at most 5% of humanity will suffer". That 5% is already hundreds of millions. And really, I think that a billion will suffer the progressing destruction of environment. There is little alternative in a current socio-techno-political landscape, so we, this young generation, have to be the be the ones who will come up with clever solutions.

I vouch for yoga. The combination of breathing and movement works the best. After some time you can cut down on yoga and just meditate or do pranayama more, but first you have to build a foundation for a few years. The classic Hatha yoga or something similar not modified too much and not too fast will be the best.

I think, get a hold of some breathing technique, like Wim Hof, or Holotropic Breathwork, or yogic Pranayama, then learn some instrument, like didgeridoo or drums, get some boho style or hemp clothes. This plus mushrooms, you can call yourself a shaman for me Breathing + music + psychedelics, it's all you ever need.

You have not taken 5 mg and 10 mg, you have taken an unknown amount. Probably less than that. I would guess your spoon holds around 3.5 mg on one side and 7 mg on the second side, but it's just my guess. It depends on how fluffy the powder is. You have to up the dose spoon by spoon, plug two big ones next time, then three, because 100% two won't be enough, because they are not 10 mg. And don't fucking smoke HCl from an aluminium foil, that's a terrible idea. HCl will burn and you will be vaping the foil only. If you want to vape it, convert it to freebase first.

If you want to be more eco choose a bike or e-scooter instead.

@blankisomeone The second one will probably have no effect on you if the first one was so bad, you can take it.

@Javfly33 I don't think it's a problem of values you have (that is your Spiral levels), but more of a human psychology. Most of us are lazy, even if we believe that work ethic is important.

It makes sense to look at it as finding a connection with someone, rather than getting rejected. It's a normal situation not to like someone, the connection is uniqe, so you rather should count that, and ignore the rest. Yes, ignoring it is less useful for getting results, but way better for your mind. Use your intuition to judge if you are doing right numbers-wise, not counting how many times you have been rejected. Love man.

Double recommendation on Marianne Williamson. If I ever met a girl my age like Marianne, I would want her to be my wife.

I find it cool there is no AMA.

He is taking about religious fanatics and this sort of people in general. Not people who pursue yoga or art. Isn't it obvious?

It probably depends on what you count as an approach, Leo probably counts everything, even saying hi and girl not giving a fuck at all, an interaction lasting 5 seconds, while someone claiming 20% success rate might be only counting as an approach situations which have turned into an interesting flirty conversation. 3% is the conversion rate I see everywhere repeating in business, sales and marketing. When I was doing ads it was typical for an ad to get that conversion when comparing sales with the number of people seeimg the ad, but counting only the people who had clicked on the ad the conversion would rise to 20-33%

Was it dates or was it sex? You must be quite attractive and have very good logistics if it was sex. If I recall correctly I have had sex with like 1 in 5 girls who went on a date with me. But I am also a noob and this ratio can be certainly improved. But I don't think if want to improve it, having a girlfriend is nice, why chase after new people?

@Superfluo because in his days people were probably saying shit like "My intuition tells me the Bible is 100% right and Jesus Christ is our only savior." The terms change their meaning slightly over the decades, centuries, as the context they are used in changes too.

@herghly I second that. 100 ug of 1P-LSD is like 2 g shrooms.

I meant Maupin being less developed than even the youtubers he criticizes and you opposing this opinion, not him criticising SD. 1. Most of the stuff you have cited is not arguments, just smearing people. If one wants to be liked, if one wants to mean something in the political game, the worst thing to do is to start throwing shit at others. 2. The stuff that could be taken as arguments is so off, to correct it you would have to start from the basics they teach at college. He doesn't construe quality arguments. Not book-quality for sure. Also, why would I put an effort? He is not gonna read it. You are probably the only person on this forum reading him and you are not gonna change your mind. Just a big waste of time to put that effort. Replying to this thread already borders on too much effort.

Jeez, this Caleb Maupin guy is an idiot. The book reminds me of "works" of Dinesh Souza or some other bullshit writing right-winger, but instead of being ultra-American, it's ultra-Soviet-style communism. Both are bullshit ideologies. That level of discourse does not demand a serious response. I wouldn't argue with a kid over politics, and I would neither do so with this guy. No, it's not used towards anyone more left than Bernie Sanders. It's used towards anyone on the left who is less developed than the liberals. I mean less developed in terms of a values set one deems important, exactly the thing that Spiral Dynamics describes. People don't know that model but they can intuitively smell someone less developed than them on that axis. And if you want to oppose that opinion, then is really writing such a slanderous book in an attacking tone a sign of high development? That's not how you do quality reporting.

@Vision use the antihistamines during the summer or get immunity shots this winter for the next season. Why reinvent the wheel, the conventional ways of easing seasonal allergies are quite ok.

Edit: @_Archangel_ I have made a post before checking out yours, this is the shit I am looking for! Any recommendations of other bands? This is a little bit like Tool. If you want non-dual metal, the best way to achieve that is to choose something without lyrics, like music by bands God is an Astronaut or I Am Waiting for You Last Summer, and just smoke DMT listening to it, the DMT being your provider of non-duality in that equation, haha. SD is a very good model to judge the message embodied in an artwork. And I think it's true that a lot of metal has primitive insights to tell, like coming from around stage Blue/Orange. Doesn't mean it's bad, just nothing new. I crave a trendy metal band that has lyrics embodying stage Green or Yellow values, if there really is such a plentiful of them then share it, please. Something with a message like this song, You Me at Six - Our House, but more metal sounding. Bring Me the Horizon is Greenish. grandson is more of a rapper than a metal band but has a harsh sound and still conveys quite a developed worldview in his songs. I would happily hear about more stage Green, Yellow or non-duality-focused metal bands.