Carl-Richard

Never been to a place like Erowid?

It's too much if you think it's causing things like brain fog, low energy and motivation, and it's too little if you think it's negatively affecting your life in other ways (e.g. sleep quality).

It's an inside joke.

It could, if the person is a geek about sex (a la Leo "how to make a girl squirt"). But as a passive effect, I don't think it matters much at all. The main thing is practice and passion. In terms of complexity, it's probably somewhere between learning to ride a bike and going to the toilet. Not much more to do than to get on top ?

*fulfills natural bodily function* "hedonist scum!"

You can probably experience some crazy things too if you trip enough times.

You literally said nofap is bs.

I'm was not responding to anyone.

OMG he played it live

LOL

I have an idea.

Do I need to say more?

https://slate.com/culture/2003/06/why-jews-don-t-farm.html It basically all boils down to the literacy obligation in Judaism.

Lol

It's not completely bs. There is such a thing as fapping too much. The mistake would be to blow this insight out of proportion and create some kind of ideology around it. If you think you're fapping too much, that doesn't mean you should stop fapping. Just fap less.

You only choose to get high together with your friends.

You only get high together with your friends.

Never buying just for your own use is actually a good rule, unless you live with stoners, or you're friends with unemployed stoners and you're also unemployed. The problem is just: can you stick to that rule? Drugs are a slippery slope. All you need is one bad life event.

You know it's a comedy skit, right?

Where does heroin exist on that line? Salvia Divinorum? Ketamine? Cocaine? Caffeine? If states and growth are on the same line, why can you not integrate these states into your baseline?

Again, let me suggest that you're talking about the overlap. They're still different states, by the obvious fact that psychedelics cause visuals and meditation don't.

No. My sleep was shit, I felt constantly uptight, tense, restless, emotionally numb, easily overwhelmed by sounds and sensations, lacking in subtlety.

Have you ever tried drugs before?

I don't see the utility in framing it that way. Psychedelic states are different from meditative states. Both can help you grow your baseline ("growth"), and both can help you reach higher temporary peaks ("states"). There are differences and there are overlaps. Recognize the differences and recognize the overlaps. I feel like I'm in a really unfair situation, because something that is so obvious in other spiritual communities feels so difficult to explain here. I don't understand how this is so foreign to people.