Carl-Richard

Again, if you want to use it effectively, do it at the peak of a LSD trip or something. Using nitrous oxide in large amounts in a short time period or frequently over prolonged periods might be unhealthy for your brain. You should in that case take precautions around getting enough oxygen between attempts and also supplement with vitamin B12 if you want to preserve your myelinated neurons (nitrous depletes your B12 which interferes with myelin synthesis). B12 deficiency is really not something you'd ever want to experience.

LOL if nitrous oxide gave you enlightenment experiences, then surely Steve-O would've achieved sainthood by now On a more serious note, I haven't tried it post-awakening, so I can't say much. It doesn't do much on its own, but when taken with other psychedelics, I've heard it can produce interesting synergistic effects. That would be your best shot. Here is a hilarious video of Hamilton Morris trying xenon (same mechanism of action as nitrous): He describes it as a primarily hedonic drug rather than a psychedelic drug (when it's taken on its own without any other substances).

Well duh - it's not a part of their values/principles. That's Orange's principles (that being rational is something of value)

Rationality IS a value system. Yes, Blue is "more" concerned about values and principles, but Orange is still heavily within that realm - that's all

Of course, I wasn't disputing that ("different ends"). I only wanted to highlight the tendency for Orange to want to base everything in something objective, rational, tangible.

Orange is a very principle-oriented stage, but it's used for a different end. You could say Blue is principled almost for principles' sake

Red isn't averse to wealth either. Blue is also concerned with wealth in its own ways. Be careful trying to view SD through a monofactorial lens.

That would just be more doing. Being is cultivated, like a flower.

Stoners who say "it's not a drug, it's a plant" or "it's not physically addictive" or "it's medicine" or "it cures cancer" or "it's not as bad as tobacco smoke". All of them are shallow and virtually always fallacious arguments that serve to protect the stoner identity.

Go into the thing you dislike and see it for what it is. That is love. Bad taste, jarring sounds, confused people, pain in its rawest form: all of it is lovely in its own way. Don't feel bad for having preferences. That is still love.

I can play the chorus riff but that's it

Back at ya Any concrete points you have on that? (btw I fixed some clumsy formulation in my previous comment).

Social construction is essentially about what society tells you. There are different levels of social construction. For example, all words and symbols, all concepts, are socially constructed. That includes words like biology, genes, genitalia, chromosomes etc.. You got all of those from society. Another form of social construction is more about how you relate to a certain concept. For example, society tells you that a person of a certain gender expresses themselves a certain way (looks, expressions, dress etc.). This causes confusion because society also tells you that gender is based on sex. But notice how that is also something that society tells you, hence it's a social construct. Gender expression can sometimes be in conflict with society's perceived relationship between gender and sex (after all, sex does not actually equal gender).

What happens when you stop thinking?

I had a thought today: "How confused was Plato?", then I read the comments here and realized that we haven't gotten very far afterall

Unfortunately no

@Evil Raccoon It was truly a phenomena. Frank Zappa made a song about it in 1981: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinsel_Town_Rebellion

Mental olympic swimmer, apparently

Again, you can get far in the world by being stiff as a stick.

Without invoking any cognitive developmental terminology, I would say what he lacks is a flexible mind. You can get relatively far in the world by being stiff as a stick, but I believe intelligence is a measurement of something else.

"Intelligent" is a loaded term

And at the same time he's like "Hollywood keeps politicizing their movies with left-wing propaganda! This has to stop! "

Less and less.