Carl-Richard

Drink every time he says "LOGIC"

Where is my body when I dream?

Transpersonal experiences exist on a continuum and do not protect you from delusion.

What does "how" mean?

How many older brothers do you have?

"In mental health recovery" would be sufficient ?

Lol it's like I'm Jordan Peterson or something ? When I think about it, there is a part of my own life that can be described as a regression that is consistent with this interpretation. In fact, during that time I actually saw myself in the bad Walter White . I was more "on his side" and identified with his reasoning. Today I more agree with my Green stepmom who was put off by how much of an asshole he is. Then again, you never get far with a single case study, real or fictional.

Yeah. For example, Walter White was supposed to exhaust his Orange at Gray Matter but was cut short and developed it into a wound. (I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes here ?). What also strikes me about BB is that it's a really good study of ego, of how it gets hurt, rationalizes and lies in order to perpetuate its biases.

I see this misconception way too often (conflating dependence and addiction). You have dependence, which can be either physical or psychological in nature, and you have addiction, which is psychological in nature. Dependence is simply a range of symptoms that occur as result of withdrawing from a drug, either from coming down from a single drug experience or from discontinuing frequent use or abuse. The physical symptoms relate to vital physiological functions and can be life threatening, while the psychological ones relate to physiological feelings like low mood and dysphoria. Being drug dependent simply means that your body, in order to maintain optimal functioning, has tuned its adaptation mechanisms to accommodate the drug-mediated change in activity, which involves decreasing the activity that the drug is elevating (downregulation). Roughly speaking, dependence happens on the level of receptors. For example with cannabis, it happens at the level of CB1 receptors. On the other hand, the mechanism associated with addiction is what initiates drug-taking behavior, produces drug cravings, and is for all intents and purposes psychological in nature. Addiction operates technically adjacent to drug-specific receptor activity and more on the level of networks (specific dopaminergic pathways). In other words, it doesn't really matter whether or not you feel dysphoria from drug withdrawal (e.g. low CB1 activity): if you're addicted, it's possible to feel drug cravings despite having been off drugs for a while and having stabilized your drug-related systems (normalized CB1 activity). So when people say "weed isn't that bad, you can only get psychologically addicted", it's firstly a conflation of dependence and addiction, and secondly it's a misunderstanding of the mechanisms that lead to compulsive drug-taking. While it's true that cannabis doesn't produce physical dependence at the same level as say heroin, it's not the dependence aspect that technically initiates the compulsive drug-taking behavior in the first place. The conceptualization of physical dependence should not be one of "intense, dangerous cravings" but rather "the presence of usually innocuous but potentially life-threatening physical symptoms, ranging from a light cold to intense, seizure-inducing over-activation". An useful analogy is how a diabetic is dependent on exogenous insulin to survive. The diabetic doesn't feel cravings because of the lack of insulin (he isn't "addicted"), but his body is dependent on insulin for optimal functioning. That is what heroin is to a heroin dependent person. Now, meanwhile it's certainly true that a heroin dependent person is also probably plagued with addiction, it's not actually the physical symptoms that makes you take the drug. A way to make this abundantly clear is to consider the fact that cocaine is not considered to produce physical dependence ("wow?"). Although it's certainly the case that dependence and addiction interact to produce what is normally associated with compulsive drug-taking behavior, the two are to be treated as separate concepts, and it's the activity in dopaminergic pathways that initiates the motivation, movement and reward-seeking behavior that leads to drug-taking behavior, not the downregulation of drug-specific receptors. Repeated administration of such dopamine-elevating drug will strengthen these pathways, increase cravings and reward-seeking behavior, and potentially lead to addiction. This is what is mean by a reinforcing drug (strengthening reward-seeking activity). So to take this back to cannabis, it's perfectly possible to become addicted to cannabis as it increases dopaminergic activity in major reward circuitry in the brain. Being addicted to cannabis is not the same as being dependent on cannabis (although they certainly correlate). Addiction is a mental phenomena, but this does not detract from its seriousness. Addiction to cannabis, alcohol, cocaine, heroin are all mental phenomenas.

I mean if you got nutting better to do... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

...diving DEEEP!

So that's why it's called a White Christmas.

"I" is a thought. It arises and falls. What doesn't arise or fall?

You need a burning desire to stop burning weed, or you might just burn out

Without pointing to another thought, how do you know that?

That's a thought. That's another thought. Am I a thought? Are you a thought?

That's a thought.

Where am I?

There is no you or me thinking anything

It's a false dichotomy. It's attachment vs letting go. As long as you have attachments, you'll remain thought-identified.

Sex, drugs and rock and roll.

HR Consultant?

What happens to your mind during an awakening?

Being Green is easy when you're an ordinary citizen who is operating within the confines of a Green country. Being Green is a bit harder when you're a president dealing with the mess that is geopolitics. Is sexual education harmful?

Listen to how they speak.