Carl-Richard

"Trump is a computer" 😂

Tom Campbell actually reminds me of Chris Langan, just a more mystical version: They both have heavily intellectualized non-physicalist ToEs that they claim can be reconciled with modern physics. They speak very fluently and not very pedagogically/apologetically. They're well-aged men. Independent researchers, against the mainstream. Deep voice.

I believe people report past lives.

Oh yes, that's true. Materialism always finds a way to protect itself.

I really like how psychic phenomena is getting more mainstream attention lately: Tom Campbell on JRE, Essentia Foundation's YouTube channel growing quickly, Rupert Sheldrake's mainstream university debate panel from a year ago hitting 5 million views. And I just realized how much more effective Tom's computer/avatar analogy is for a zoomer audience than for example Rupert Spira's King Lear or Mary's dream analogy.

Weaker opiates and opioids like codeine (I can't speak for e.g. morphine or heroin) are basically like taking your state 10-15 seconds post-nut and extending it for a few hours. It's very calm and mellow, but it doesn't exactly blow your socks off (not that you should take a lot of it for that reason though). Let me also say I don't condone drug use, be it alcohol or "real drugs". I'm just speaking about my experiences. It "works" if you're a stoner with nothing better to do. What I took was pharmaceutical grade codeine tablets with tons of paracetamol in them (which is not exactly good either). I also tried tramadol which has probably one of the most interesting pharmacological profiles: Of course, we're talking about drug's drugs here, something you take mostly for hedonic pleasure (but also psychonautics in its own right), so let's not forget that. But it's essentially how most people use alcohol, just they also get free organ damage (which actually very few drugs do to any comparable extent, except ironically the common ones like paracetamol and ibuprofen).

A big part of being openminded is just being able to understand and reconcile somebody's point of view within your own point of view, which increases as your point of view becomes larger and more complex (cognitive complexity). "Oh you hate immigrants? That makes sense based on your background and cultural influences and psychological dispositions, etc.". "Oh you got a parking fine and you think it's somehow my fault? That makes sense because we were in a hurry and I said "oh nooo, we don't have time... ☹️" and you had to pull up the parking app where you didn't expect to have to register the car that you're not used to driving, and you also thought "it's the day before Christmas so who are out giving parking tickets anyway?", so you took the chance without telling me, and now you're drunk and I'm the one driving home and you're misrepresenting what I said earlier which was "oh nooo, we don't have time... ☹️" as "NO, we don't have time to buy the ticket! 😡" and you have a lot of pent up aggression from the conversation you had earlier and you barely even ate anything and almost only had drinks" (true story). It's not that you actually "consider" their point of view as if it's potentially "the only true point of view" (although this too can be openmindedness). It's that you "understand" their point of view, and of course that you're willing to listen (another big one). It's actually the opposite of being pushover and not saying your point of view. It's actually exactly saying your point of view. I did not say "maybe you're right, maybe I should pay the parking fine". I said (after thinking for a while) "I understand why you think that".

I guess you blacked out? Yup, unless you're consuming very tiny amounts that you know for 100% certainty have barely any effect on their own, never mix depressant drugs with other depressant drugs (which includes alcohol). I say that because I used to drink around one beer back when I got high on codeine a few times (while also smoking weed; holy shit that's an uncomfortable combo). Opiates + weed is kinda weirdly psychedelic, but you just feel so numb it's icky.

There are factors like tolerance and time. I'm sorry, I don't think you're equipped to give advice about lethal substances.

Yes, 15 beers.

"You need this to get drunk, you need this to black out", implying if you drink that amount, you will get drunk or black out but not die, and thus if you want to get drunk or black out, those are your recommended dosages. If you are a tiny 90 lb woman, you can die from drinking just a little more than five 0.33L beers. If you are a tiny 120 lb man (which is what my brother is), it's a little more than nine.

*Recommends drinking lethal doses of alcohol* "The minute details don't matter"

You were actually talking about consuming 15-18 beers to get drunk, 27-36 to black out, which with 0.33L cans is definitely in death territory for most people if excluding tolerance and time. It of course takes some effort to consume that much beer, but once you're in that territory, all it takes is a few shots or mixing the wrong drug. And of course, the risk of dying from other sources also increases a lot (hence my front flip down the stairs). I said six 0.33L beers. 6*0.33L*4.5 = 8.91 3*0.33L*4.5 = 4.455 1L*8 = 8. My estimate was 111.4% of the actual value, yours was 55.7% You definitely can. The question is just about effort. And again, even if it's harder to take it all the way with just cider or beer, it's easier to take it a significant part of the way while finishing it with other things.

Careful, he said it was 8%. 1L of 8% for someone with zero tolerance is actually quite rough. That's about six 0.33L cans of normal beer or eight 0.25L bottles.

I've probably tried both in the same drink. I made this horrible drink (Corona Sunrise) a few times at some parties and I just loved the concept but the taste was like you want to cry (meh, it wasn't actually that bad, it was just this one girl that couldn't handle it and I can't wipe the memory of her frowning while tasting it 😂). The most pukeworthy drink I've ever had would be pure Hennessey cognac on an empty stomach (but it hit). Aquavit comes second.